Matthew 24:21

World English Bible (2000)

for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

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  • Dan 12:1 : 1 "At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book.
  • Joel 2:2 : 2 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
  • Zech 14:2-3 : 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. 3 Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
  • Luke 21:24 : 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
  • Mal 4:1 : 1 "For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says Yahweh of Armies, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
  • Matt 24:29 : 29 But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
  • 1 Thess 2:16 : 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
  • Luke 19:43-44 : 43 For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, 44 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."
  • Isa 66:15-16 : 15 For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be many.
  • Dan 9:26 : 26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
  • Ps 69:22-28 : 22 Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent. 24 Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents. 26 For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt. 27 Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into your righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
  • Isa 65:12-16 : 12 I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight." 13 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be disappointed; 14 behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for anguish of spirit. 15 You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name: 16 so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes.
  • Zech 11:8-9 : 8 I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me. 9 Then I said, "I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other's flesh."
  • Joel 1:2 : 2 Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
  • Mark 13:9 : 9 But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

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  • Mark 13:17-20
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    17 But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days!

    18 Pray that your flight won't be in the winter.

    19 For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.

    20 Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.

  • Matt 24:22-24
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    22 Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.

    23 "Then if any man tells you, 'Behold, here is the Christ,' or, 'There,' don't believe it.

    24 For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

  • Matt 24:13-20
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    13 But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

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    15 "When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

    16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

    17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house.

    18 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.

    19 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!

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  • Matt 24:6-9
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    6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren't troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.

    7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.

    8 But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.

    9 Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.

  • Matt 24:29-31
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    29 But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;

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    31 He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

  • Mark 13:24-25
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    24 But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,

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  • Matt 24:33-35
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    33 Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

    34 Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.

    35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

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    7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

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    9 When you hear of wars and disturbances, don't be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won't come immediately."

    10 Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

    11 There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

    12 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake.

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    21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the midst of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein.

    22 For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

    23 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.

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    25 There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;

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    18 There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men on the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty.

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    35 For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.

  • Luke 21:32-33
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  • Joel 2:2
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    2 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

  • Mark 13:14
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    14 But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,

  • Luke 17:26
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    26 As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.

  • Isa 24:19
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    19 The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.

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    31 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.