‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.’
—Genesis 1:1
‘Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them’
—Ecclesiastes 12:1
‘For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.’
—Mark 13:19