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Pamphlet #4163
My Note: Sign of Christ's return Ref. Scripture Mark 13:3-4, & 13:14 & 2 Thess. 2:1-4
One sure thing must happen yet before Christ returns!
Scripture: Mark 13:3
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and
James and John and Andrew asked him privately,
4 Tell us, when
shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things
shall be fulfilled?
Mark 13:14 ¶But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
Paul said the same thing.
It
ain't gonna happen until Satan, posing as Christ, first comes to earth
performing miracles and claiming to be Christ.
Will
you recognize him for what he is?
Or
will you think it really is Christ?
Complete text: Mark 13:1 ¶And as he
went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see
what manner of stones and what buildings are here!
2 And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest
thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another,
that shall not be thrown down.
3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives
over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him
privately,
4 Tell
us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these
things shall be fulfilled?
5 ¶And Jesus answering them began
to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:
6 For many (preachers)
shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
7 And when ye
shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things
must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
8 For nation shall rise against nation,
and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places,
and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
9 But take heed to yourselves: for they
shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten:
and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony
against them.
10 And the gospel must first be published
among all nations.
11 But when they shall lead you, and deliver
you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate:
but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is
not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
12 Now the
brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and
children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be
put to death.
13 And ye shall be hated of all men for
my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be
saved.
14 ¶But
when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the
prophet, standing where it ought not,(let
him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the
mountains:
2 Thess. 2:3-4
3 ... for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first,
and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself
above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God
sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Mark 13:15
And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither
enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:
16 And let him that is in the field not
turn back again for to take up his garment.
17 But woe to them that are with child,
and to them that give suck in those days!
18 And pray ye that your flight be not
in the winter.
19 For in those days shall be affliction,
such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto
this time, neither shall be.
20 And except that the Lord had shortened
those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he
hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
21 And then if
any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe
him not:
Mark 13:21 And
then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there;
believe him not:
22 For false Christs and false prophets
shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible,
even the elect.
23 But take ye heed: behold,
I have foretold you all things.
24 ¶But in those days, after that
tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her
light,
25 And the stars of heaven shall fall,
and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
26 And then shall they see the Son of man
coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
27 And then shall he send his angels, and
shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost
part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
28 ¶Now
learn a parable of the fig tree; When her
branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is
near:
29 So ye in like manner, when ye shall
see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.
30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation
shall not pass, till all these things be done.
31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but
my words shall not pass away.
32 But of that day and that hour knoweth
no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the
Father.
33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye
know not when the time is.
34 For the Son of man is as a man taking
a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants,
and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not
when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the
cockcrowing, or in the morning:
36 Lest coming
suddenly he find you sleeping.
37 And what I say unto you I say unto all,
Watch.
There are many things brought to light in these passages that it is important you understand (See purple highlights) but, the most important is don't worship Satan thinking he is Christ. As Jesus said in Mark 13:13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. and in Matthew 24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Remember,
the church is the Lord's bride. Don't let him return to find you
have already been wed spiritually and given birth to Satan's spiritual
child. Luke
23:26 ¶And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon,
a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross,
that he might bear it after Jesus. 27 And there followed him a great
company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep
not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. 29
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed
are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never
gave suck. (i.e. spiritually gave
birth to the spurious messiah's baby)
and
Mark
13:14 ¶But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation,
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him
that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
15 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house,
neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house: 16 And
let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.
17 But woe to them that are with child,
and to them that give suck in those days! (Satan's
spiritual child, i.e. didn't wait for the real Christ to return/didn't
endure unto the end!)
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