Luke 21:28

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.

Don’t quench the Spirit.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

He said, “Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong.” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, “Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.”

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

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”

In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

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.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.” ’ ”

Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.

But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?

“Don’t say, ‘A conspiracy!’ concerning all about which this people say, ‘A conspiracy!’ neither fear their threats, nor be terrorized.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.

Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘Yahweh says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices, but you have burdened me with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities.

to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,

“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind.

“ ‘ “Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head,” says the Lord Yahweh: “and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

In those days, Yahweh began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.

Don’t let your heart faint. Don’t fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year, and after that in another year news will come, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.