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I tell you the truth, not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”</p> <p class="title">Signs of the End of the Age</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privately and said, “Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, “Watch out that no one misleads you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will mislead many. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. Make sure that you are not alarmed, for this must happen, but the end is still to come. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>All these things are the beginning of birth pains.</p> <p class="title">Persecution of Disciples</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And many false prophets will appear and deceive many, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and because lawlessness will increase so much, the love of many will grow cold. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But the person who endures to the end will be saved. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.</p> <p class="title">The Abomination of Desolation</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“So when you see <i>the abomination of desolation</i> – spoken about by Daniel the prophet – standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>then those in Judea must flee to the mountains. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The one on the roof must not come down to take anything out of his house, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and the one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Remember, I have told you ahead of time. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>So then, if someone says to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For just like the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so the coming of the Son of Man will be. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.</p> <p class="title">The Arrival of the Son of Man</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>“Immediately after the suffering of those days, <i>the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken</i>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They will see <i>the Son of Man arriving on the clouds of heaven</i> with power and great glory. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.</p> <p class="title">The Parable of the Fig Tree</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>“Learn this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>So also you, when you see all these things, know that he is near, right at the door. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>I tell you the truth, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.</p> <p class="title">Be Ready!</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>“But as for that day and hour no one knows it – not even the angels in heaven – except the Father alone. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>For just like the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one left. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>There will be two women grinding grain with a mill; one will be taken and one left.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>“Therefore stay alert, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.</p> <p class="title">The Faithful and Wise Slave</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>“Who then is the faithful and wise slave, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves their food at the proper time? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>Blessed is that slave whom the master finds at work when he comes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>I tell you the truth, the master will put him in charge of all his possessions. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>But if that evil slave should say to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>and he begins to beat his fellow slaves and to eat and drink with drunkards, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/24-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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