Luke 12:56

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You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky and the earth, but why do you not know how to interpret this present time?

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  • Matt 16:3 : 3 In the morning, you say, 'There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and overcast.' Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, yet you cannot discern the signs of the times.
  • Matt 24:32-33 : 32 Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its branch becomes tender and its leaves sprout, you know that summer is near. 33 In the same way, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door.
  • Luke 19:42-44 : 42 He said, 'If you had known on this day, even you, the things that would bring you peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.' 43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build a barricade against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side. 44 They will crush you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave one stone on another in you, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.
  • Acts 3:24-26 : 24 Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have foretold these days. 25 You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham: 'Through your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.' 26 When God raised up His servant, Jesus, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.
  • 1 Chr 12:32 : 32 From half the tribe of Manasseh, there were 18,000 chosen by name to go and make David king.
  • Dan 9:24-26 : 24 Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. 25 Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the Prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a moat, but in difficult times. 26 After the sixty-two weeks, the Anointed One will be cut off and have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and desolation has been decreed until the end of the war.
  • Hag 2:7 : 7 I will shake all the nations, and the treasures of all the nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of Hosts.
  • Mal 3:1 : 1 Behold, I am sending my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. Suddenly, the Lord whom you are seeking will come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—behold, he is coming,
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time Jesus said, 'I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.'
  • Gal 4:4 : 4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

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    2He answered them, "When evening comes, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.'

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  • Luke 12:54-55
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    54He also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens.

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    28So too, on the outside you appear righteous to people, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

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