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| | Mat 24:1 | Jesus had left the Temple and was going on His way, when His disciples came and called His attention to the Temple buildings.
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| | Mat 24:2 | "You see all these?" He replied; "in solemn truth I tell you that there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be pulled down."
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| | Mat 24:3 | Afterwards He was on the Mount of Olives and was seated there when the disciples came to Him, apart from the others, and said, "Tell us when this will be; and what will be the sign of your Coming and of the Close of the Age?"
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| | Mat 24:4 | "Take care that no one misleads you," answered Jesus;
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| | Mat 24:5 | "for many will come assuming my name and saying `I am the Christ;' and they will mislead many.
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| | Mat 24:6 | And before long you will hear of wars and rumours of wars. Do not be alarmed, for such things must be; but the End is not yet.
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| | Mat 24:7 | and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places;
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| | Mat 24:8 | but all these miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth.
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| | Mat 24:9 | "At that time they will deliver you up to punishment and will put you to death; and you will be objects of hatred to all the nations because you are called by my name.
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| | Mat 24:10 | Then and they will betray one another and hate one another.
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| | Mat 24:11 | Many false prophets will rise up and lead multitudes astray;
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| | Mat 24:12 | and because of the prevalent disregard of God's law the love of the great majority will grow cold;
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| | Mat 24:13 | but those who stand firm to the End shall be saved.
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| | Mat 24:14 | And this Good News of the Kingdom shall be proclaimed throughout the whole world to set the evidence before all the Gentiles; and then the End will come.
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| | Mat 24:15 | "When you have seen (to use the language of the Prophet Daniel) the <`Abomination of Desolation',> standing in the Holy Place" --let the reader observe those words--
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| | Mat 24:16 | "then let those who are in Judaea escape to the hills;
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| | Mat 24:17 | let him who is on the roof not go down to fetch what is in his house;
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| | Mat 24:18 | nor let him who is outside the city stay to pick up his outer garment.
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| | Mat 24:19 | And alas for the women who at that time are with child or have infants!
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| | Mat 24:20 | "But pray that your flight may not be in winter, nor on the Sabbath;
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| | Mat 24:21 | for it a time of great and assuredly never will be again.
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| | Mat 24:22 | And if those days had not been cut short, no one would escape; but for the sake of God's own People those days will be cut short.
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| | Mat 24:23 | "If at that time any one should say to you, `See, here is the Christ!' or `Here!' give no credence to it.
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| | Mat 24:24 | For there will rise up false Christs and false prophets, displaying wonderful signs and prodigies, so as to deceive, were it possible, even God's own People.
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| | Mat 24:25 | Remember, I have forewarned you.
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| | Mat 24:26 | If therefore they should say to you, `See, He is in the Desert!' do not go out there: or `See, He is indoors in the room!' do not believe it.
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| | Mat 24:27 | For just as the lightning flashes in the east and is seen to the very west, so will be the Coming of the Son of Man.
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| | Mat 24:28 | Wherever the dead body is, there will the vultures flock together.
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| | Mat 24:29 | "But immediately after those times of distress
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| | Mat 24:30 | Then will appear the Sign of the Son of Man in the sky; and when they see the Son of Man with great power and glory.
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| | Mat 24:31 | And He will send out His angels and
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| | Mat 24:32 | "Now learn from the fig-tree the lesson it teaches. As soon as its branches have now become soft and it is bursting into leaf, you all know that summer is near.
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| | Mat 24:33 | So you also, when you see all these signs, may be sure that He is near--at your very door.
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| | Mat 24:34 | I tell you in solemn truth that the present generation will certainly not pass away without all these things having first taken place.
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| | Mat 24:35 | Earth and sky will pass away, but it is certain that my words will not pass away.
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| | Mat 24:36 | "But as to that day and the exact time no one knows--not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.
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| | Mat 24:37 | `For as it was in the time of Noah, so it will be at the Coming of the Son of Man.
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| | Mat 24:38 | At that time, before the Deluge, men were busy eating and drinking, taking wives or giving them, up to the very day when Noah entered the Ark,
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| | Mat 24:39 | nor did they realise any danger till the Deluge came and swept them all away; so will it be at the Coming of the Son of Man.
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| | Mat 24:40 | Then will two men be in the open country: one will be taken away, and one left behind.
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| | Mat 24:41 | Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken away, and one left behind.
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| | Mat 24:42 | Be on the alert therefore, for you do not know the day on which your Lord is coming.
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| | Mat 24:43 | But of this be assured, that if the master of the house had known the hour at which the robber was coming, he would have kept awake, and not have allowed his house to be broken into.
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| | Mat 24:44 | Therefore you also must be ready; for it is at a time when you do not expect Him that the Son of Man will come.
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| | Mat 24:45 | "Who therefore is the loyal and intelligent servant to whom his master has entrusted the control of his household to give them their rations at the appointed time?
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| | Mat 24:46 | Blessed is that servant whom his master when he comes shall find so doing!
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| | Mat 24:47 | In solemn truth I tell you that he will give him the management of all his wealth.
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| | Mat 24:48 | But if the man, being a bad servant, should say in his heart, `My master is a long time in coming,'
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| | Mat 24:49 | and should begin to beat his fellow servants, while he eats and drinks with drunkards;
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| | Mat 24:50 | the master of that servant will arrive on a day when he is not expecting him and at an hour of which he has not been informed;
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| | Mat 24:51 | he will treat him with the utmost severity and assign him a place among the hypocrites: there will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
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