The King reveals the future
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📚And Jesus went outside, and was going away from the temple, and his disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.2 📚✭And Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down”.
Signs of the end of the age
3 📚✭And while he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the world?”
4 📚✭And Jesus answered and said to them, “Watch out that no one deceives you. 5 📚✭For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,✭’ and will deceive many. 6 📚✭And you will hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that you are not troubled, for all these things must take place, but the end is not yet. 7 📚For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and plagues and earthquakes in various places. 8 📚✭All these are the beginning of birth pains.
9 📚✭“Then they will hand you over to suffering, and will kill you. And you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake. 10 📚✭And then many will be offended, and will betray one another and hate one another. 11 📚✭And many false prophets will arise and will deceive many. 12 📚✭And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 📚✭But he who endures to the end will be saved.
14 📚✭“And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations. And then the end will come.
The abomination of desolation
15 📚✭“Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand), 16 📚✭then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 📚Let him who is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house, 18 and let him who is in the field not return to take his clothes. 19 📚And woe to those who are with child, and to those who nurse infants in those days! 20 📚But pray that your flight will not be in the winter, or on the Sabbath.
21 📚✭“For then there will be great tribulation,✭ such as has not been since the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be afterwards. 22 📚✭And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the sake of the chosen those days will be shortened.
Possibilities of deception
23 📚“Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ’, or, ‘There’, do not believe it. 24 📚✭For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so that, if it were possible, they would deceive even the chosen. 25 📚Now I have told you beforehand. 26 ✭Therefore if they say to you, ‘Look! He is in the desert’, do not go out; or, ‘Look! He is in the inner rooms’, do not believe it.
27 📚“For just as the lightning comes from the east, and shines as far as the west, so the coming of the Son of man will also be. 28 📚✭For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together.
The second coming of the King
29 📚✭“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 📚And then the sign of the Son of man will appear in the sky. And then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of man coming in the clouds✭ of heaven with power and great glory. 31 📚✭And he will send his angels✭ with a great sound of a trumpet,✭ and they will gather his chosen✭ from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 📚“Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch is still tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 📚So in the same way, when you see all these things,✭ know that he is near, right at the doors.✭
34 📚✭“Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things are fulfilled. 35 📚✭Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
36 📚✭“But as for that day and hour, no man knows, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. 37 📚But just as it was in the days of Noah,✭ so the coming of the Son of man will also be. 38 📚✭For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah went into the ark, 39 📚and did not know what would happen until the flood came, and took them all away, so the coming of the Son of man will also be.
40 📚✭“Then two will be in the field. The one will be taken away, and the other left behind. 41 📚Two people will be grinding at the mill. The one will be taken, and the other left. 42 📚✭So watch, for you do not know what hour your Lord comes.
43 📚“But understand this: If the owner of the house had known what time of the night the thief would come, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 📚✭Therefore, you also be ready, for the Son of man is coming at an hour that you do not expect.
Being ready for His coming
45 📚✭“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has made ruler over his household, to give them food at the proper time? 46 📚When his master comes, blessed is that servant whom he finds doing so. 47 📚✭Truly I say to you, he will make him ruler over all his goods.
48 📚✭“But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is putting off his coming’, 49 📚and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with drunkards, 50 📚the master of that servant will come in a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour of which he is not aware, 51 📚and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with hypocrites. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth✭.