Matthew 24:39

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

“Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.

for as the lightning, when it flashes out of one part under the sky, shines to another part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”

For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.

God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.

I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.

By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth.

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no one cares.

The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

Now I will shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realize it.

The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

When they came near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

“As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down.”

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.

to him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

“Come,” say they, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”

The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary. Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire.

But he answered them, “You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down.”

and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.

Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down.”

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

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

and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

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.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

There will be no remnant to them, for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.’ ”

So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,

Then the disciples came, and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”

“As the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’ ”

For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.

When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them.

“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another.”

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”

For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

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.”

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,