Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn and beat their breasts and lament in anguish, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory [in brilliancy and splendor].
And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect (His chosen ones) from the four winds, [even] from one end of the universe to the other.
From the fig tree learn this lesson: as soon as its young shoots become soft and tender and it puts out its leaves, you know of a surety that summer is near.
So also when you see these signs, all taken together, coming to pass, you may know of a surety that He is near, at the very doors.
Truly I tell you, this generation ( the whole multitude of people living at the same time, in a definite, given period) will not pass away till all these things taken together take place.
Sky and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.
But of that [exact] day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Jesus said, If anyone says to you then, Behold, here is the Christ (the Messiah)! or, There He is!--do not believe it.
So when you see the appalling sacrilege [the abomination that astonishes and makes desolate], spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the Holy Place--let the reader take notice and ponder and consider and heed [this]--
Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains;
Let him who is on the housetop not come down and go into the house to take anything;
And let him who is in the field not turn back to get his overcoat.
And alas for the women who are pregnant and for those who have nursing babies in those days!
Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.
For then there will be great tribulation (affliction, distress, and oppression) such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now--no, and never will be [again].
And if those days had not been shortened, no human being would endure and survive, but for the sake of the elect (God's chosen ones) those days will be shortened.
If anyone says to you then, Behold, here is the Christ (the Messiah)! or, There He is!--do not believe it.
For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and they will show great signs and wonders so as to deceive and lead astray, if possible, even the elect (God's chosen ones).
See, I have warned you beforehand.
So if they say to you, Behold, He is in the wilderness (desert)--do not go out there; if they tell you, Behold, He is in the secret places or inner rooms--do not believe it.
For just as the lightning flashes from the east and shines and is seen as far as the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Wherever there is a fallen body (a corpse), there the vultures (or eagles) will flock together.
Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains;
Let him who is on the housetop not come down and go into the house to take anything;
And let him who is in the field not turn back to get his overcoat.
And alas for the women who are pregnant and for those who have nursing babies in those days!
Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.
For then there will be great tribulation (affliction, distress, and oppression) such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now--no, and never will be [again].
And if those days had not been shortened, no human being would endure and survive, but for the sake of the elect (God's chosen ones) those days will be shortened.
If anyone says to you then, Behold, here is the Christ (the Messiah)! or, There He is!--do not believe it.
For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and they will show great signs and wonders so as to deceive and lead astray, if possible, even the elect (God's chosen ones).
See, I have warned you beforehand.
So if they say to you, Behold, He is in the wilderness (desert)--do not go out there; if they tell you, Behold, He is in the secret places or inner rooms--do not believe it.
For just as the lightning flashes from the east and shines and is seen as far as the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Wherever there is a fallen body (a corpse), there the vultures (or eagles) will flock together.
Monday, 11 October 2010
Jesus said, those who believe to the end shall be saved.
JESUS DEPARTED from the temple area and was going on His way when His disciples came up to Him to call His attention to the buildings of the temple and point them out to Him.
But He answered them, Do you see all these? Truly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.
While He was seated on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately and said, Tell us, when will this take place, and what will be the sign of Your coming and of the end (the completion, the consummation) of the age?
Jesus answered them, Be careful that no one misleads you [deceiving you and leading you into error].
For many will come in (on the strength of) My name [ appropriating the name which belongs to Me], saying, I am the Christ (the Messiah), and they will lead many astray.
And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not frightened or troubled, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in place after place;
All this is but the beginning [the early pains] of the birth pangs [of the intolerable anguish].
Then they will hand you over to suffer affliction and tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake.
And then many will be offended and repelled and will begin to distrust and desert [Him Whom they ought to trust and obey] and will stumble and fall away and betray one another and pursue one another with hatred.
And many false prophets will rise up and deceive and lead many into error.
And the love of the great body of people will grow cold because of the multiplied lawlessness and iniquity,
But he who endures to the end will be saved.
And this good news of the kingdom (the Gospel) will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then will come the end.
But He answered them, Do you see all these? Truly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.
While He was seated on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately and said, Tell us, when will this take place, and what will be the sign of Your coming and of the end (the completion, the consummation) of the age?
Jesus answered them, Be careful that no one misleads you [deceiving you and leading you into error].
For many will come in (on the strength of) My name [ appropriating the name which belongs to Me], saying, I am the Christ (the Messiah), and they will lead many astray.
And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not frightened or troubled, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in place after place;
All this is but the beginning [the early pains] of the birth pangs [of the intolerable anguish].
Then they will hand you over to suffer affliction and tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake.
And then many will be offended and repelled and will begin to distrust and desert [Him Whom they ought to trust and obey] and will stumble and fall away and betray one another and pursue one another with hatred.
And many false prophets will rise up and deceive and lead many into error.
And the love of the great body of people will grow cold because of the multiplied lawlessness and iniquity,
But he who endures to the end will be saved.
And this good news of the kingdom (the Gospel) will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then will come the end.
Sunday, 10 October 2010
Jesus condemned the scribes and Pharisees
THEN JESUS said to the multitudes and to His disciples,
The scribes and Pharisees sit on Moses' seat [of authority].
So observe and practice all they tell you; but do not do what they do, for they preach, but do not practice.
They tie up heavy loads, hard to bear, and place them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not lift a finger to help bear them.
They do all their works to be seen of men; for they make wide their phylacteries ( small cases enclosing certain Scripture passages, worn during prayer on the left arm and forehead) and make long their fringes [worn by all male Israelites, according to the command].
And they take pleasure in and [thus] love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues,
And to be greeted with honor in the marketplaces and to have people call them rabbi.
But you are not to be called rabbi (teacher), for you have one Teacher and you are all brothers.
And do not call anyone [in the church] on earth father, for you have one Father, Who is in heaven.
And you must not be called masters (leaders), for you have one Master (Leader), the Christ.
He who is greatest among you shall be your servant.
Whoever exalts himself [ with haughtiness and empty pride] shall be humbled (brought low), and whoever humbles himself [whoever has a modest opinion of himself and behaves accordingly] shall be raised to honor.
But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces; for you neither enter yourselves, nor do you allow those who are about to go in to do so.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you swallow up widows' houses and for a pretense to cover it up make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation and the heavier sentence.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you travel over sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes one [a proselyte], you make him doubly as much a child of hell (Gehenna) as you are.
Woe to you, blind guides, who say, If anyone swears by the sanctuary of the temple, it is nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the sanctuary, he is a debtor [bound by his oath].
You blind fools! For which is greater: the gold, or the sanctuary of the temple that has made the gold sacred?
You say too, Whoever swears by the altar is not duty bound; but whoever swears by the offering on the altar, his oath is binding.
You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar which makes the gift sacred?
So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.
And he who swears by the sanctuary of the temple swears by it and by Him Who dwells in it. [I Kings 8:13; Ps. 26:8.]
And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him Who sits upon it.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you give a tenth of your mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected and omitted the weightier (more important) matters of the Law--right and justice and mercy and fidelity. These you ought [particularly] to have done, without neglecting the others.
You blind guides, filtering out a gnat and gulping down a camel!
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but within they are full of extortion (prey, spoil, plunder) and grasping self-indulgence.
You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may be clean also.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you are like tombs that have been whitewashed, which look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead men's bones and everything impure.
Just so, you also outwardly seem to people to be just and upright but inside you are full of pretense and lawlessness and iniquity.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,
Saying, If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have aided them in shedding the blood of the prophets.
Thus you are testifying against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' sins to the brim [so that nothing may be wanting to a full measure].
You serpents! You spawn of vipers! How can you escape the penalty to be suffered in hell (Gehenna)?
Because of this, take notice: I am sending you prophets and wise men (interpreters and teachers) and scribes (men learned in the Mosaic Law and the Prophets); some of them you will kill, even crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue and persecute from town to town,
So that upon your heads may come all the blood of the righteous ( those who correspond to the divine standard of right) shed on earth, from the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar [of burnt offering].
Truly I declare to you, all these [ evil, calamitous times] will come upon this generation. [II Chron. 36:15, 16.]
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a mother fowl gathers her brood under her wings, and you refused!
Behold, your house is forsaken and desolate (abandoned and left destitute of God's help). [I Kings 9:7; Jer. 22:5.]
For I declare to you, you will not see Me again until you say, Blessed (magnified in worship, adored, and exalted) is He Who comes in the name of the Lord!
The scribes and Pharisees sit on Moses' seat [of authority].
So observe and practice all they tell you; but do not do what they do, for they preach, but do not practice.
They tie up heavy loads, hard to bear, and place them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not lift a finger to help bear them.
They do all their works to be seen of men; for they make wide their phylacteries ( small cases enclosing certain Scripture passages, worn during prayer on the left arm and forehead) and make long their fringes [worn by all male Israelites, according to the command].
And they take pleasure in and [thus] love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues,
And to be greeted with honor in the marketplaces and to have people call them rabbi.
But you are not to be called rabbi (teacher), for you have one Teacher and you are all brothers.
And do not call anyone [in the church] on earth father, for you have one Father, Who is in heaven.
And you must not be called masters (leaders), for you have one Master (Leader), the Christ.
He who is greatest among you shall be your servant.
Whoever exalts himself [ with haughtiness and empty pride] shall be humbled (brought low), and whoever humbles himself [whoever has a modest opinion of himself and behaves accordingly] shall be raised to honor.
But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces; for you neither enter yourselves, nor do you allow those who are about to go in to do so.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you swallow up widows' houses and for a pretense to cover it up make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation and the heavier sentence.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you travel over sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes one [a proselyte], you make him doubly as much a child of hell (Gehenna) as you are.
Woe to you, blind guides, who say, If anyone swears by the sanctuary of the temple, it is nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the sanctuary, he is a debtor [bound by his oath].
You blind fools! For which is greater: the gold, or the sanctuary of the temple that has made the gold sacred?
You say too, Whoever swears by the altar is not duty bound; but whoever swears by the offering on the altar, his oath is binding.
You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar which makes the gift sacred?
So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.
And he who swears by the sanctuary of the temple swears by it and by Him Who dwells in it. [I Kings 8:13; Ps. 26:8.]
And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him Who sits upon it.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you give a tenth of your mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected and omitted the weightier (more important) matters of the Law--right and justice and mercy and fidelity. These you ought [particularly] to have done, without neglecting the others.
You blind guides, filtering out a gnat and gulping down a camel!
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but within they are full of extortion (prey, spoil, plunder) and grasping self-indulgence.
You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may be clean also.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you are like tombs that have been whitewashed, which look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead men's bones and everything impure.
Just so, you also outwardly seem to people to be just and upright but inside you are full of pretense and lawlessness and iniquity.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,
Saying, If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have aided them in shedding the blood of the prophets.
Thus you are testifying against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' sins to the brim [so that nothing may be wanting to a full measure].
You serpents! You spawn of vipers! How can you escape the penalty to be suffered in hell (Gehenna)?
Because of this, take notice: I am sending you prophets and wise men (interpreters and teachers) and scribes (men learned in the Mosaic Law and the Prophets); some of them you will kill, even crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue and persecute from town to town,
So that upon your heads may come all the blood of the righteous ( those who correspond to the divine standard of right) shed on earth, from the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar [of burnt offering].
Truly I declare to you, all these [ evil, calamitous times] will come upon this generation. [II Chron. 36:15, 16.]
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a mother fowl gathers her brood under her wings, and you refused!
Behold, your house is forsaken and desolate (abandoned and left destitute of God's help). [I Kings 9:7; Jer. 22:5.]
For I declare to you, you will not see Me again until you say, Blessed (magnified in worship, adored, and exalted) is He Who comes in the name of the Lord!
Friday, 8 October 2010
The relationship between Jesus and David
While the Pharisees still gathered there, Jesus asked them
What do you think of the Christ? Whose Son is He? They said to Him, The Son of David.
He said to them, How is it then that David, under the influence of the [Holy] Spirit, calls Him Lord, saying,The Lord said to My Lord, Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies under Your feet?
If then David thus calls Him Lord, how is He his Son?
No one can answer Jesus. And ever since that day, no one dared ask anything more to Him.
What do you think of the Christ? Whose Son is He? They said to Him, The Son of David.
He said to them, How is it then that David, under the influence of the [Holy] Spirit, calls Him Lord, saying,The Lord said to My Lord, Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies under Your feet?
If then David thus calls Him Lord, how is He his Son?
No one can answer Jesus. And ever since that day, no one dared ask anything more to Him.
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Jesus answered, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind
When the Pharisees heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they come together.
One of them, a religious teacher, tried to trap Jesus with a question.
he said, "Which commandment in the law of most major religions?"
Jesus answered, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (intellect).
This is the great (most important, principal) and first commandment.
The second command is the same as the first it: Love your neighbor as you love yourself.
All religious laws given by Moses and the teachings of the prophets, based On these two commandments. "
One of them, a religious teacher, tried to trap Jesus with a question.
he said, "Which commandment in the law of most major religions?"
Jesus answered, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (intellect).
This is the great (most important, principal) and first commandment.
The second command is the same as the first it: Love your neighbor as you love yourself.
All religious laws given by Moses and the teachings of the prophets, based On these two commandments. "
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
They are asked jesus a question about the dead will not rise again
some Sadducees came to Jesus. They are asked jesus a question about the dead will not rise again.
Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up a family for his brother.
Now there were seven brothers among us; the first married and died, and, having no children, left his wife to his brother.
The second also died childless, and the third, down to the seventh.
Last of all, the woman died also.
Who among the seven brother who became her husband on the day of resurrection? Because they all had married her. "
Jesus replied, "You're wrong once, because you do not understand the Bible, nor the power of God.
For when the dead will rise again, they will not marry again, but they will live like angels in heaven.
But as to the resurrection of the dead--have you never read what was said to you by God,I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead but of the living!
And when the throng heard it, they were astonished and filled with [ glad] amazement at His teaching.
Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up a family for his brother.
Now there were seven brothers among us; the first married and died, and, having no children, left his wife to his brother.
The second also died childless, and the third, down to the seventh.
Last of all, the woman died also.
Who among the seven brother who became her husband on the day of resurrection? Because they all had married her. "
Jesus replied, "You're wrong once, because you do not understand the Bible, nor the power of God.
For when the dead will rise again, they will not marry again, but they will live like angels in heaven.
But as to the resurrection of the dead--have you never read what was said to you by God,I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead but of the living!
And when the throng heard it, they were astonished and filled with [ glad] amazement at His teaching.
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