and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places;
024:008 but all these miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth.
024:009 "At that time they will deliver you up to punishment and will
put you to death; and you will be objects of hatred to all
the nations because you are called by my name.
024:010 Then will many stumble and fall, and they will betray one
another and hate one another.
024:011 Many false prophets will rise up and lead multitudes astray;
024:012 and because of the prevalent disregard of God's law the love
of the great majority will grow cold;
024:013 but those who stand firm to the End shall be saved.
024:014 And this Good News of the Kingdom shall be proclaimed throughout
the whole world to set the evidence before all the Gentiles;
and then the End will come.
024:015 "When you have seen (to use the language of the Prophet Daniel)
the `Abomination of Desolation', standing in the Holy Place"--
let the reader observe those words--
024:016 "then let those who are in Judaea escape to the hills;
024:017 let him who is on the roof not go down to fetch what is
in his house;
024:018 nor let him who is outside the city stay to pick up
his outer garment.
024:019 And alas for the women who at that time are with child
or have infants!
024:020 "But pray that your flight may not be in winter, nor on the Sabbath;
024:021 for it will be a time of great suffering, such as never has
been from the beginning of the world till now, and assuredly
never will be again.
024:022 And if those days had not been cut short, no one would escape;
but for the sake of God's own People those days will be cut short.