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Mark - ch 13 v 21 - 37
- Then if anyone tells you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or, 'Look, there!' don't believe it.
- For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
- But you watch. "Behold, I have told you all things beforehand.
- But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,
- the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.1
- Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.
- Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.
- "Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near;
- even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors.
- Most certainly I say to you, this generation2 will not pass away until all these things happen.
- Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
- But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
- Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is.
- "It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.
- Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;
- lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.
- What I tell you, I tell all: Watch."
- Isaiah 13:10; 34:4
- The word translated "generation" (genea) could also be translated "race," "family," or "people."
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