Luke 21:1-4
THE WIDOW'S GIFT.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WIDOW'S GIFT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE LOOKED UP AND SAW THE RICH MEN CASTING THEIR GIFTS INTO THE TREASURY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAW ALSO A CERTAIN POOR WIDOW CASTING IN THITHER TWO MITES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID, OF A TRUTH I SAY UNTO YOU THAT THIS POOR WIDOW HATH CAST IN MORE THAN THEY ALL;... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR ALL THESE HAVE OF THEIR ABUNDANCE CAST IN UNTO THE OFFERINGS OF GOD; BUT SHE OF HER PENURY HATH CAST IN AN THE LIVING THAT SHE HAD. Jesus had probably delivered His last discourse in the Court of Women, where there were situated the thirteen trumpet-shaped treasure-chests, or collection boxes, o... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS SOME SPAKE OF THE TEMPLE, HOW IT WAS ADORNED WITH GOODLY STONES AND GIFTS, HE SAID,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE END OF THE WORLD. The beginning of the discourse:... [ Continue Reading ]
AS FOR THESE THINGS WHICH YE BEHOLD, THE DAYS WILL COME IN THE WHICH THERE SHALL NOT BE LEFT ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER THAT SHALL NOT BE THROWN DOWN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY ASKED HIM, SAYING, MASTER, BUT WHEN SHALL THESE THINGS BE, AND WHAT SIGN WILL THERE BE WHEN THESE THINGS SHALL COME TO PASS? The evening was drawing near, and Jesus was on the point of leaving the Temple for Bethany, where He lodged with friends. But while they were walking out through the... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID, TAKE HEED THAT YE BE NOT DECEIVED; FOR MANY SHALL COME IN MY NAME, SAYING, I AM CHRIST; AND THE TIME DRAWETH NEAR; GO YE NOT THEREFORE AFTER THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
Tokens of the end:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN YE SHALL HEAR OF WARS AND COMMOTIONS, BE NOT TERRIFIED; FOR THESE THINGS MUST FIRST COME TO PASS; BUT THE END IS NOT BY AND BY.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID HE UNTO THEM, NATION SHALL RISE AGAINST NATION, AND KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND GREAT EARTHQUAKES SHALL BE IN DIVERS PLACES, AND FAMINES, AND PESTILENCES; AND FEARFUL SIGHTS AND GREAT SIGNS SHALL THERE BE FROM HEAVEN. It is a characteristic of prophecy that there is rarely an exact division of time according to human standards, for there is no time before the eternal, omnis... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT BEFORE ALL THESE THEY SHALL LAY THEIR HANDS ON YOU, AND PERSECUTE YOU, DELIVERING YOU UP TO THE SYNAGOGUES AND INTO PRISONS, BEING BROUGHT BEFORE KINGS AND RULERS FOR MY NAME'S SAKE.... [ Continue Reading ]
Earlier signs:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT SHALL TURN TO YOU FOR A TESTIMONY.... [ Continue Reading ]
SETTLE IT THEREFORE IN YOUR HEARTS NOT TO MEDITATE BEFORE WHAT YE SHALL ANSWER;... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I WILL GIVE YOU A MOUTH AND WISDOM, WHICH ALL YOUR ADVERSARIES SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO GAINSAY NOR RESIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND YE SHALL BE BETRAYED BOTH BY PARENTS, AND BRETHREN, AND KINSFOLKS, AND FRIENDS; AND SOME OF YOU SHALL THEY CAUSE TO BE PUT TO DEATH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND YE SHALL BE HATED OF ALL MEN FOR MY NAME'S SAKE.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THERE SHALL NOT AN HAIR OF YOUR HEAD PERISH.... [ Continue Reading ]
In your patience possess ye your souls. Here are some of the signs which concern the disciples of Christ in the interval between His ascension and the destruction of Jerusalem in particular, but which find their application to the treatment and fate of the believers of all times. The enemies would l... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN YE SHALL SEE JERUSALEM COMPASSED WITH ARMIES, THEN KNOW THAT THE DESOLATION THEREOF IS NIGH.... [ Continue Reading ]
A special prophecy concerning Jerusalem:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN LET THEM WHICH ARE IN JUDEA FLEE TO THE MOUNTAINS; AND LET THEM WHICH ARE IN THE MIDST OF IT DEPART OUT; AND LET NOT THEM THAT ARE IN THE COUNTRIES ENTER THEREINTO.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THESE BE THE DAYS OF VENGEANCE, THAT ALL THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN MAY BE FULFILLED.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WOE UNTO THEM THAT ARE WITH CHILD, AND TO THEM THAT GIVE SUCK, IN THOSE DAYS! FOR THERE SHALL BE GREAT DISTRESS IN THE LAND AND WRATH UPON THIS PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY SHALL FALL BY THE EDGE OF THE SWORD, AND SHALL BE LED AWAY CAPTIVE INTO ALL NATIONS; AND JERUSALEM SHALL BE TRODDEN DOWN OF THE GENTILES, UNTIL THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES BE FULFILLED. Here is valuable advice for the Christians of Judea at the time of the great catastrophe, which they should... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE SHALL BE SIGNS IN THE SUN AND IN THE MOON AND IN THE STARS; AND UPON THE EARTH DISTRESS OF NATIONS, WITH PERPLEXITY; THE SEA AND THE WAVES ROARING;... [ Continue Reading ]
Signs which will accompany the coming of Christ:... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN'S HEARTS FAILING THEM FOR FEAR, AND FOR LOOKING AFTER THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE COMING ON THE EARTH; FOR THE POWERS OF HEAVEN SHALL BE SHAKEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEN SHALL THEY SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING IN A CLOUD WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY. Here some of,. the signs that will usher in the great Day of Judgment are enumerated. The laws of nature, which have been fixed by the Creator, will be repealed, and in consequence the universe will dissolve in chao... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THESE THINGS BEGIN TO COME TO PASS, THEN LOOK UP AND LIFT UP YOUR HEADS; FOR YOUR REDEMPTION DRAWETH NIGH.... [ Continue Reading ]
The comfort of the believers:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SPAKE TO THEM A PARABLE: BEHOLD THE FIG-TREE AND ALL THE TREES;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THEY NOW SHOOT FORTH, YE SEE AND KNOW OF YOUR OWN SELVES THAT SUMMER IS NOW NIGH AT HAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO LIKEWISE YE, WHEN YE SEE THESE THINGS COME TO PASS, KNOW YE THAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NIGH AT HAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, THIS GENERATION SHALL NOT PASS AWAY TILL ALL BE FULFILLED.... [ Continue Reading ]
Heaven and earth shall pass away; but My words shall not pass away. When there is a beginning of all these things, when these tokens begin to be fulfilled. The events upon which the children of the world will gaze with helpless terror should be for the believers a voice awakening in their hearts the... [ Continue Reading ]
AND TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES, LEST AT ANY TIME YOUR HEARTS BE OVERCHARGED WITH SURFEITING AND DRUNKENNESS AND CARES OF THIS LIFE, AND SO THAT DAY COME UPON YOU UNAWARES.... [ Continue Reading ]
A final warning:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR AS A SNARE SHALL IT COME ON ALL THEM THAT DWELL ON THE FACE OF THE WHOLE EARTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
WATCH YE THEREFORE AND PRAY ALWAYS, THAT YE MAY BE ACCOUNTED WORTHY TO ESCAPE ALL THESE THINGS THAT SHALL COME TO PASS, AND TO STAND BEFORE THE SON OF MAN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THE DAYTIME HE WAS TEACHING IN THE TEMPLE; AND AT NIGHT HE WENT OUT, AND ABODE IN THE MOUNT THAT IS CALLED THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL THE PEOPLE CAME EARLY IN THE MORNING TO HIM IN THE TEMPLE FOR TO HEAR HIM. It is not an easy matter to remain steadfast in the Word and faith under the conditions as pictured here by Christ; in fact, no person could hope to stand firm and brave all dangers to the end. But by following the Lo... [ Continue Reading ]