Chapter 7 Scriptures

Matt 4.17
From that time on Jesus commenced preaching and saying: "Repent, you people, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near."

Matthew 10:7
As you go, preach, saying, 'The kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.'

Luke 10:9
Cure the sick ones in it, and go on telling them, 'The kingdom of God has come near to you.'

Matt 24.1, 2
Departing now, Jesus was on his way from the temple, but his disciples approached to show him the buildings of the temple. In response he said to them: "Do you not behold all these things? Truly I say to you, by no means will a stone be left here upon a stone and not be thrown down."

Lu 19:11
While they were listening to these things he spoke in addition an illustration, because he was near Jerusalem and they were imagining that the kingdom of God was going to display itself immediately.

18.32-34
[Jesus told them: "The Son of man] will be handed over to the nations and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon; and after scourging him they will kill him, but on the third day he will rise." However, they did not grasp the significance of his words; the saying was as if hidden from them, for they did not understand what he meant.

Matt 24.4-14
In answer Jesus said to them: "Look out that nobody misleads you; for many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many. And you will hear of wars [nearby] and reports of wars [far away]; do not be alarmed, for these things must happen, but it is not yet the end. For nation will be roused up against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another. All these things are just a beginning of the pangs of distress. Then people will hand you over to tribulation and will kill you. You will be objects of hatred by all the nations, on account of my name. [Because of this] many will fall away and will betray one another and will hate one another. Also many false prophets will arise and mislead many people, and because of the increasing lawlessness the love of most people will cool off. But he that has endured to the end is the one that will be saved. And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come."

Matt 24:33-35
Now learn this from the fig tree as an illustration: Just as you know that summer is near when you see its young branch grow tender and put forth leaves, likewise know that [the Son of man] is near, right at the door, when you see all these things happening. Truly I say to you that this generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur.

Matt 24:15-22
"Therefore, when you see the disgusting thing that causes desolation, as spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in a holy place, (let the reader use discernment,) then let those in Judea begin fleeing to the mountains. Let the man on the housetop not come down to take the goods out of his house; and let the man in the field not return to the house to pick up his outer garment. Woe to the pregnant women and those suckling a baby in those days! Keep praying that your flight may not occur in wintertime, nor on the sabbath day; for then there will be great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world's beginning until now, no, nor will occur again. In fact, unless those days were cut short, no flesh would be saved; but on account of the chosen ones those days will be cut short.

Luke 19.41-44
And when he got nearby, he viewed the city [Jerusalem] and wept over it, saying: "If only you had discerned in this day the things having to do with peace— but now they have been hidden from your eyes. Because the days will come upon you when your enemies will build around you a fortification with pointed stakes and will encircle you and distress you from every side, and they will dash you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave a stone upon a stone in you, because you did not discern the time of your being inspected."

Luke 21.20-24
When you see Jerusalem surrounded by encamped armies, then know that the desolating of her has drawn near. Then let those in Judea begin fleeing to the mountains, and let those in the midst of her withdraw, and let those in the country places not enter into her; because these are days for meting out justice, that all the things written may be fulfilled. Woe to the pregnant women and the ones suckling a baby in those days! For there will be great necessity upon the land and wrath on this people; and they will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations, and the nations will trample Jerusalem underfoot until the time appointed to the nations comes to its end.

Col 1.23
. . . that good news which you heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven.

Matt 28.20
Look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.

Col 1.13
[The Father] delivered us from the authority of the darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love.

Matt 24.30
Then the sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will beat themselves in lamentation, as they see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
[This cannot have been fully fulfilled in 70 C.E., since the great tribulation of that time involved only the Jewish nation. However, a "minor" or miniature fulfillment can be said to have occurred, as Jesus indicated in Matt 26.63, 64:]
So the high priest said to him: "By the living God I put you under oath to tell us whether you are the Christ the Son of God!" Jesus said to him: "[It is] just as you say. Yet I say to you men, From henceforth you will see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of power and coming on the clouds of heaven."
[They had to have admitted privately (never publicly) that Jesus had been of supernatural origin, when they saw the darkness and the earthquake and the tearing of the great curtain in the temple when he died, and continuing after that when other signs occurred in support of his disciples, culminating in the most pointed "sign" of all, when they saw their system being crushed by the Romans, exactly as Jesus foretold.]

Habakkuk 1.1-4, 2.3
. The pronouncement that Habakkuk the prophet visioned: How long, O Jehovah, must I cry for help, and you do not hear? How long shall I call to you for aid from violence, and you do not save? Why is it that you make me see what is hurtful, and you keep looking upon mere trouble? And why are despoiling and violence in front of me, and why does quarreling occur, and why is strife carried? Therefore law grows numb, and justice never goes forth. Because the wicked one is surrounding the righteous one, for that reason justice goes forth crooked.
2.3
And Jehovah proceeded to answer me and to say: "Write down the vision, and set it out plainly upon tablets, in order that the one reading aloud from it may do so fluently. For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it keeps panting on to the end, and it will not tell a lie. Even if it should delay, keep in expectation of it; for it will without fail come true. It will not be late."

Micah 4:1-4
And it must occur in the final part of the days that the mountain of the house of Jehovah will become firmly established above the top of the mountains, and it will certainly be lifted up above the hills; and to it peoples must stream. And many nations will certainly go and say: "Come, you people, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will instruct us about his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion law will go forth, and the word of Jehovah out of Jerusalem. And he will certainly render judgment among many peoples, and set matters straight respecting mighty nations far away. And they will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. They will not lift up sword, nation against nation, neither will they learn war anymore. And they will actually sit, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, and there will be no one making them afraid; for the very mouth of Jehovah of armies has spoken it.

Matthew 25:31-46
When the Son of man arrives in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit down on his glorious throne. And all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will put the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left. Then the king will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who have been blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the founding of the world. For I became hungry and you gave me something to eat; I got thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you received me hospitably; naked, and you clothed me. I fell sick and you looked after me. I was in prison and you came to me.' Then the righteous ones will answer him with the words, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty, and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and receive you hospitably, or naked, and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to you?' In reply the king will say to them, 'Truly I say to you, To the extent that you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.' Then he will say, in turn, to those on his left, 'Be on your way from me, you who have been cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his angels. For I became hungry, but you gave me nothing to eat, and I got thirsty, but you gave me nothing to drink. I was a stranger, but you did not receive me hospitably; naked, but you did not clothe me; sick and in prison, but you did not look after me.' Then they also will answer with the words, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister to you?' Then he will answer them with the words, 'Truly I say to you, To the extent that you did not do it to one of these least ones, you did not do it to me.' And these will depart into everlasting cutting-off, but the righteous ones into everlasting life.

Ps 96.10-13
Say among the nations: "Jehovah himself has become king. The productive land also becomes firmly established so that it cannot be made to fall. He will plead the cause of the peoples in uprightness. Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be joyful. Let the sea thunder and that which fills it. Let the open field exult and all that is in it. At the same time let all the trees of the forest break out in joyful song before Jehovah. For he has come; for he has come to judge the earth. He will judge the productive land with righteousness and the peoples with his faithfulness.

Matt 28.18-20
Jesus approached and spoke to them, saying: "All authority has been given me in heaven and on the earth. Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And, look! I am with you all the days until the very end of the age."

Matt 12.47-50
So someone said to him: "Look! Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, seeking to speak to you." In answer he said to the one telling him: "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" And extending his hand toward his disciples, he said: "Look! My mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother."

Matt 24.30, 7.21-23
Then the sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will beat themselves in lamentation, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Matthew 7:21-23
Not everyone saying to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but the one doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will. Many will say to me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name?' And yet then I will confess to them: I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness.'

Prov 1.22-33
How long will you unwise* ones keep loving foolishness, and how long must you ridiculers enjoy your ridiculing, and how long will you stupid ones keep hating knowledge? Turn back at my correction. Then to you I will cause my spirit to bubble forth; I will make my words known to you. Because I have called out but you keep refusing, I have stretched out my hand but there is no one paying attention, and you keep ignoring all my counsel, and my reproof you have not accepted, I also, for my part, shall laugh at your own disaster, I shall mock when what you dread comes, when what you dread comes just like a storm, and your own disaster gets here just like a storm wind, when distress and hard times come upon you. At that time they will keep calling me, but I shall not answer; they will keep looking for me, but they will not find me, for the reason that they hated knowledge, and the fear of Jehovah they did not choose. They did not consent to my counsel; they disrespected all my reproof. So they will eat from the fruitage of their way, and they will be glutted with their own counsels. For the turning away of the unwise* ones is what will kill them, and the easygoingness of the stupid is what will destroy them. As for the one listening to me, he will reside in security and be undisturbed from dread of calamity.
*literally, 'simple-minded', but not in the congenital sense. It refers to those who refuse to consider anything that would educate them in goodness (only wanting to party), or to gullible ones who are easily led astray.

Rev 12.7-12
War broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels fought, but it did not prevail, neither was a place found for them any longer in heaven. So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him. And I heard a loud voice in heaven say: "Now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our God! And they conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their witnessing, and they did not love their souls even in the face of death. On this account be glad, you heavens and you who reside in them! Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing he has only a short period of time."

1 Pet 5.6-10
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; while you throw all your anxiety upon him, because he cares for you. Keep your senses, be watchful. Your adversary, the Devil, walks about like a roaring lion, seeking to devour someone. But take your stand against him, solid in the faith, knowing that the same things in the way of sufferings are being accomplished in the entire association of your brothers in the world. But, after you have suffered a little while, the God of all undeserved kindness, who called you to his everlasting glory in union with Christ, will himself finish your training, he will make you firm, he will make you strong.

Job 1.6, 7
Now it came to be the day when the sons of the true God entered to take their station before Jehovah, and even Satan proceeded to enter right among them. Then Jehovah said to Satan: "Where do you come from?" At that Satan answered Jehovah and said: "From roving about in the earth and from walking about in it."

Luke 21.29, 30
With that he spoke an illustration to them: "Note the fig tree and all the other trees: When you notice that they are already in the bud, you know for yourselves that now the summer is near."

Psalms 93.1, 2
Jehovah himself has become king! With eminence he is clothed; Jehovah is clothed— with strength he has girded himself. The productive land also becomes firmly established so that it cannot be made to fall. Your throne is firmly established from long ago; You are from time indefinite.

96.10-97.1
Say among the nations: "Jehovah himself has become king! The productive land also becomes firmly established so that it cannot be made to fall. He will plead the cause of the peoples in uprightness." Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be joyful. Let the sea thunder and that which fills it. Let the open field exult and all that is in it. At the same time let all the trees of the forest break out in joyful song before Jehovah. For he has come, for he has come to judge the earth. He will judge the productive land with righteousness, and the peoples with his faithfulness. 97 Jehovah himself has become king! Let the earth be joyful. Let the many islands rejoice.

Hebrews 10.12, 13
But [Christ] offered one sacrifice for sins perpetually and sat down at the right hand of God, from then on awaiting until his enemies should be placed as a stool for his feet.

Psalms 110.1, 2, 5, 6
The word of Jehovah to my Lord is: "Sit at my right hand until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet." The rod of your strength Jehovah will send out of Zion, saying: "Go subduing in the midst of your enemies." . . . Jehovah himself at your right hand will certainly break kings to pieces on the day of his anger. He will execute judgment among the nations; He will cause a fullness of dead bodies. He will certainly break to pieces the head one over a populous land.

Rev 6.1-8
I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice as of thunder: "Come!" And I saw, and, look! a white horse; and the one seated upon it had a bow; and a crown was given him, and he went forth conquering and to complete his conquest. And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say: "Come!" And another came forth, a fiery-colored horse; and to the one seated upon it there was granted to take peace away from the earth so that they should slaughter one another; and a great sword was given him. And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say: "Come!" And I saw, and, look! a black horse; and the one seated upon it had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard a voice as if in the midst of the four living creatures say: "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the olive oil and the wine." And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say: "Come!" And I saw, and, look! a pale horse; and the one seated upon it had the name Death. And Hades was closely following him. And authority was given them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with a long sword and with food shortage and with deadly plague and by the wild beasts of the earth.

[A brief explanation: the whiteness of the first horse and the crown and bow indicates a righteous king waging righteous conquest. The remainder of the horsemen are not his friends; they depict the great suffering on earth due to the war, famine, and disease that coincide with the ride of the righteous king. This lines up with Rev 12, where Michael wages war against the dragon, yet the result is woe on earth.]