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Matthew 24 |
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And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came
to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. |
 (24:3, 7) "What shall be
the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? ... Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and
there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes."
The end of the world will be signaled by wars, famines, disease, and earthquakes.
 The End of the World
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And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto
you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be
thrown down.
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And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him
privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be
the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
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And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
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For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive
many.
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And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not
troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. |
BOM: 1 Nephi 12:2,
12:21, 14:15;
2 Nephi 25:12, Mormon 8:30
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For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and
there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. |
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All these are the beginning of sorrows. |
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Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye
shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. |
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And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall
hate one another. |
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And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. |
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And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. |
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| 24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end,
the same shall be saved. |
 (24:13)
"He that shall endure unto the end,
the same shall be saved."
What must you do to be saved?
BOM: 1 Nephi 22:31; 2 Nephi 31:15,
31:16; Alma 32:13, 15;
3 Nephi 15:9, 27:6;
Mormon 9:29
(24:14) "Then shall the end come"
Jesus says the gospel will be preached to
all nations "and then shall the end come." But in Matthew 10:23, he said the
end would come before the gospel was preached to all the cities of Israel.
In any case, this is a false prophecy since the gospel has been preached throughout the world (as Paul says in
Romans 10:18) yet the world hasn't ended.
When will the world end?
(24:15) "Whoso readeth, let him understand"
If you see the abomination of desolation in the holy place, try to understand. God is trying to say
something.
(24:16) "Let them which be in Judea flee into
the mountains."
Why? Can't God find and kill them there, too?
 (24:19) "Woe unto them that are with child, and
to them that give suck in those days."
Why? Does God especially hate
pregnant and nursing women?
BOM: Helaman 15:2
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And this gospel of the
kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations;
and then shall the end come.
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When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by
Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him
understand:)
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Then let them which be
in Judaea flee into the mountains:
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Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of
his house:
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Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
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And woe unto them that
are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
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But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath
day:
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For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning
of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
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And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved:
but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
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Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe
it not.
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For there shall arise
false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders;
insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. |
"False Christs, false prophets, great signs and wonders"
Jesus says there will be "false
Christs" that will "show great signs and wonders." Well, Jesus
himself, according to Acts 2:22, fits this
description.
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Behold, I have told you before.
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Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not
forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. |
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For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the
west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. |
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For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered
together. |
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Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and
the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven,
and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: |
"The moon shall not give her light, and
the stars shall fall from heaven."
Apparently, Jesus believed that the moon
produces its own light, and that the stars are lights held in place by a
firmament only a few miles above our heads.
And I beheld when the moon became as blood
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And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall
all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming
in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. |
"They shall see the Son of Man."
Will Jesus'
second coming be visible to all?
 A soul brought to heaven
(William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1878)
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And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they
shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven
to the other.
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Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and
putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: |
(24:32-34)
"Learn a parable of the fig tree"
Based on these versese, Hal Linsey's The Late,
Great Planet Earth predicted that the end of the world would occur before 1988. The fig tree represents
Israel, Israel came back to life in 1948, and Jesus said the end would come within one generation (40 years).
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| 24:33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near,
even at the doors.
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Verily I say unto you, This
generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. |
"This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled."
Jesus is a false prophet, since he predicts
that the end of the world will come within the lifetimes of his disciples. [more]
With the earth last forever?
What the Bible says about the end of the world
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Heaven and earth shall
pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
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But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
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(24:36)
"Not the angels of heaven, but my Father only"
The best and earliest Greek manuscripts say, "not the angels of heaven, neither the son, but the Father only." But
apparently it bothered the scribes that there were some things Jesus didn't know, so they fixed it by omitting the phrase,
"neither the son."
(Bart D. Ehrman, Misquoting Jesus (2005),
p.95)
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"As the days of Noe were"
Jesus believed that Noah's flood actually happened and he had no problem with drowning
everyone on earth. It'll be just like that when he returns.
AIG: The Gospel -- Evidence for Creaion
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But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man
be.
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For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered
into the ark,
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And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also
the coming of the Son of man be.
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Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other
left.
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Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the
other left. |
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Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. |
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But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch
the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his
house to be broken up. |
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Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of
man cometh. |
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Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler
over his household, to give them meat in due season? |
"Who then is a faithful and wise servant?"
For JWs,
this is the most important verse in the bible. It is the basis of their central dogma,
that the governing body of the Jehovah's Witnesses is the "faithful and wise servant,"
or as the NWT puts it "the faithful and discrete slave." As such, the governing body
must be obeyed in all matters and all of their teachings must be accepted. Those who do
so will survive Armageddon; those who do not, will not.
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Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
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Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
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But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his
coming; |
The "evil servant" ("evil slave" in NWT) is any of
the 144,000 anointed Jehovah's Witnesses that are (or were) going to heaven, but have since left
the organization. They are collectively called
the evil slave class.
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And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the
drunken;
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The lord of that
servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that
he is not aware of, |
"And shall cut him asunder"
God will come when people least expect
him. Then he'll "cut [them] asunder." And "there shall be
weeping and gnashing of teeth."
What the Bible says about torture
The Bible's
guide to torture
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And shall cut him
asunder, and appoint
him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.
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