Yeshayahu (Isaiah)
2:12-21 HaShem Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and
lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled), For all the cedars
of Lebanon, tall and lofty, and all the oaks of Bashan, For all the towering
mountains and all the high hills, For every lofty tower and every fortified
wall, For every trading ship and every stately vessel. The arrogance of man
will be brought low and the pride of men humbled; HaShem alone will be exalted
in that day, And the idols will totally disappear. Men will flee to caves in
the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of HaShem and the splendor of
his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth. In that day men will throw away
to the rodents and bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they
made to worship. They will flee to caverns in the rocks and to the overhanging
crags from dread of HaShem and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to
shake the earth.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)
13:1-13 An oracle concerning Babylon
that Isaiah son of Amoz saw: Raise a banner on a bare hilltop, shout to them;
beckon to them to enter the gates of the nobles. I have commanded my holy ones;
I have summoned my warriors to carry out my wrath--those who rejoice in my
triumph. Listen, a noise on the mountains, like that of a great multitude!
Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations massing together! HaShem
Almighty is mustering an army for war. They come from faraway lands, from the ends
of the heavens--HaShem and the weapons of his
wrath--to destroy the whole country. Wail, for the day of HaShem is near;
it will come like destruction from the Almighty. Because of this, all hands
will go limp, every man's heart will melt. Terror will seize them, pain and
anguish will grip them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look
aghast at each other, their faces aflame. See, the day of HaShem is coming--a
cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger--to make the land desolate and destroy
the sinners within it. The stars of heaven and their constellations will not
show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give
its light. I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked
for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of
the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless. I will make man scarcer
than pure gold, more rare than the gold of Ophir. Therefore I will make the
heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of HaShem
Almighty, in the day of his burning anger.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah)
34:1-10 Come
near, you nations, and listen; pay attention, you peoples! Let the earth hear,
and all that is in it, the world, and all that comes out of it! HaShem is angry
with all nations; his wrath is upon all their armies. He will totally destroy
them, he will give them over to slaughter. Their slain will be thrown out,
their dead bodies will send up a stench; the mountains
will be soaked with their blood. All the stars of
the heavens will be dissolved and the sky rolled up
like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the
vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree. My
sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; see, it descends in judgment on Edom, the people I have totally destroyed. The sword of
HaShem is bathed in blood, it is covered with fat--the blood of lambs and
goats, fat from the kidneys of rams. For HaShem has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a
great slaughter in Edom.
And the wild oxen will fall with them, the bull calves and the great bulls.
Their land will be drenched with blood, and the dust will be soaked with fat.
For HaShem has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion's cause. Edom's
streams will be turned into pitch, her dust into burning sulfur; her land will
become blazing pitch! It will not be quenched night and day; its smoke will
rise forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will
ever pass through it again.
Yeremyahu
(Jeremiah) 30:4-11
These are the words HaShem spoke concerning Israel and Judah: "This is what HaShem
says: "'Cries of fear are heard--terror, not peace. Ask and see: Can a man
bear children? Then why do I see every strong man with his hands on his stomach
like a woman in labor, every face turned deathly pale? How awful that day will
be! None will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it. "'In
that day,' declares HaShem Almighty, 'I will break the yoke off their necks and will tear off their bonds; no longer will
foreigners enslave them. Instead, they will serve HaShem their God and David
their king, whom I will raise up for them. "'So do not fear, O Jacob my
servant; do not be dismayed, O Israel,' declares HaShem. 'I will surely save
you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their exile. Jacob will again have peace and security, and no
one will make him afraid. I am with you and will save you,' declares HaShem.
'Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will
not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only with justice; I will
not let you go entirely unpunished.'
Yehezechel
(Ezekiel) 30:2-5
"Son of man, prophesy and say: 'This is what the Sovereign HaShem says:
"'Wail and say, "Alas for that day! For the day is near, the day
of HaShem is near--a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations A sword
will come against Egypt, and anguish will come upon Cush. When the slain fall
in Egypt,
her wealth will be carried away and her foundations torn down. Cush and Put, Lydia and all Arabia,
Libya and the people of the
covenant land will fall by the sword along with Egypt.
Yoel (Joel) 1:15 -
2:21 Alas for
that day! For the day of HaShem is near; it will come like destruction
from the Almighty Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes--joy and
gladness from the house of our God? The seeds are
shriveled beneath the clods. The storehouses are in ruins, the granaries have
been broken down, for the grain has dried up. How the cattle moan! The herds
mill about because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep are
suffering. To you, O HaShem, I call, for fire has
devoured the open pastures and flames have burned up all the trees of the
field. Even the wild animals pant for you; the streams of water have dried up
and fire has devoured the open pastures. Blow the trumpet
in Zion; sound
the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day
of HaShem is coming. It is close at hand-- A day of darkness and gloom, a
day of clouds and blackness. Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large
and mighty army comes, such as never was of old nor ever will be in ages to
come. Before them fire devours, behind them a flame blazes. Before them the
land is like the garden of Eden, behind them, a desert
waste--nothing escapes them. They have the appearance of horses; they gallop
along like cavalry. With a noise like that of chariots they leap over the
mountaintops, like a crackling fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army drawn
up for battle. At the sight of them, nations are in anguish; every face turns
pale. They charge like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. They all march
in line, not swerving from their course. They do not jostle each other; each
marches straight ahead. They plunge through defenses without breaking ranks.
They rush upon the city; they run along the wall. They climb into the houses;
like thieves they enter through the windows. Before them the earth shakes, the
sky trembles, the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars no longer shine.
HaShem thunders at the head of his army; his forces are beyond number, and
mighty are those who obey his command. The day of HaShem is great; it is
dreadful. Who can endure it? 'Even now,' declares HaShem, 'return to me with
all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.' Rend your heart and not
your garments. Return to HaShem your God, for he is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity. Who
knows? He may turn and have pity and leave behind a blessing--grain offerings
and drink offerings for HaShem your God. Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly. Gather the people, consecrate the
assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the breast.
Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her chamber. Let the priests, who minister before HaShem,
weep between the temple porch and the altar. Let them
say, 'Spare your people, O HaShem. Do not make your inheritance
an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the
peoples, 'Where is their God?' Then HaShem will be jealous for his land and
take pity on his people. HaShem will reply to them: 'I am sending you grain,
new wine and oil, enough to satisfy you fully; never again will I make you an
object of scorn to the nations. 'I will drive the northern army far from you,
pushing it into a parched and barren land, with its front columns going into
the eastern sea and those in the rear into the western sea. And its stench will
go up; its smell will rise.' Surely he has done great things.
Yoel (Joel) 2:28- 3:36
'And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and
daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream
dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and
women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of
smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon
to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of HaShem. And
everyone who calls on the name of HaShem will be saved;
for on Mount Zion
and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as HaShem
has said, among the survivors whom HaShem calls. 'In those days and at that
time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah
and Jerusalem, I will gather
all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my
people among the nations and divided up my land. They cast lots for my people
and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine that they might
drink. 'Now what have you against me, O Tyre and Sidon
and all you regions of Philistia? Are you
repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will
swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done. For you took
my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples. You
sold the people of Judah and
Jerusalem to
the Greeks, that you might send them far from their
homeland. 'See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold
them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done. I will sell your
sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to
the Sabeans, a nation far away.' HaShem has spoken. Proclaim this among the
nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw
near and attack. Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into
spears. Let the weakling say, 'I am strong!' Come quickly, all you nations from
every side, and assemble there. Bring down your warriors, O HaShem! 'Let the
nations be roused; let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat,
for there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side. Swing the sickle,
for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full
and the vats overflow--so great is their wickedness!'
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of HaShem is
near in the valley of decision. The sun and moon will be darkened, and the stars no longer shine.
HaShem will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the earth and
the sky will tremble. But HaShem will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold
for the people of Israel.
Amos 5:18-20 Woe to you who long for the
day of HaShem! Why do you long for the day of HaShem? That day will be
darkness, not light It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a
bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to
have a snake bite him. Will not the day of HaShem be darkness, not
light--pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?
Ovadiah (Obadiah)
1:15-17 "The
day of HaShem is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to
you; your deeds will return upon your own head Just as you drank on my holy
hill, so all the nations will drink continually; they will drink and drink and
be as if they had never been. But on Mount
Zion will be deliverance;
it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will
possess its inheritance.
Zephaniah 1:7 - 2:3 Be silent before the Sovereign HaShem, for the day of HaShem is near. HaShem has
prepared a sacrifice; he has consecrated those he has invited On the day of
HaShem's sacrifice I will punish the princes and the king's sons and all those
clad in foreign clothes. On that day I will punish all who avoid stepping on
the threshold, who fill the temple of their gods with violence and deceit.
"On that day," declares HaShem, "a cry will go up from the Fish
Gate, wailing from the New Quarter, and a loud crash from the hills. Wail, you
who live in the market district; all your merchants will be wiped out, all who
trade with silver will be ruined. At that time I will search Jerusalem
with lamps and punish those who are complacent, who are like wine left on its
dregs, who think, 'HaShem will do nothing, either good or bad.' Their wealth
will be plundered, their houses demolished. They will build houses but not live
in them; they will plant vineyards but not drink the wine. "The great
day of HaShem is near--near and coming quickly. Listen! The cry on the day
of HaShem will be bitter, the shouting of the warrior there. That day will be a
day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day
of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness, A day of trumpet and
battle cry against the fortified cities and against the corner towers. I will
bring distress on the people and they will walk like blind men, because they
have sinned against HaShem. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their
entrails like filth. Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save
them on the day of HaShem's wrath. In the fire of his
jealousy the whole world will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all
who live in the earth." Gather together, gather together, O shameful
nation, Before the appointed time arrives and that
day sweeps on like chaff, before the fierce anger of HaShem comes upon you,
before the day of HaShem's wrath comes upon you. Seek HaShem, all you humble of
the land, you who do what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility;
perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of HaShem'S anger.
Zechariah 14:1-5 A day of HaShem is coming
when your plunder will be divided among you I will gather all the nations to
Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked,
and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile,
but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city. Then HaShem will go
out and fight against those nations, as he fights in the day of battle. On that
day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west,
forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving
south. You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You
will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah.
Then HaShem my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
Malachi 4:1-6 "Surely the day is coming; it
will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble,
and that day that is coming will set them on fire,"
says HaShem Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them. But
for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in
its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall.
Then you will trample down the wicked; they will be
ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I do these things,"
says HaShem Almighty. "Remember the law of my
servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.
"See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day
of HaShem comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children,
and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or
else I will come and strike the land with a curse."
Matityahu (Matthew)
24:1-51 Yeshua left the temple and was
walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its
buildings. "Do you see all these things?" he asked. "I tell you
the truth, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown
down." As Yeshua was sitting on the Mount of Olives,
the disciples came to him privately. "Tell us," they said, "when
will this happen, and what will be the sign of your
coming and of the end of the age?" Yeshua
answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my
name, claiming, 'I am the Mashiach,' and will
deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you
are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation
will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are
the beginning of birth pains. "Then you will be handed over to be
persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of
me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate
each other, And many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because
of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will
grow cold, But he who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole
world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. "So when
you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination that causes desolation,'
spoken of through the prophet Daniel--let the reader understand-- Then let
those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
Let no one on the roof of his house go down to take anything out of the house.
Let no one in the field go back to get his cloak. How dreadful it will be in
those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! Pray that your flight will
not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. For then
there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until
now--and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, no
one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.
At that time if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Mashiach!' or, 'There he
is!' do not believe it. For false Mashiachs and false prophets will appear and
perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect--if that were
possible. See, I have told you ahead of time. "So if anyone tells you,
'There he is, out in the desert,' do not go out; or, 'Here he is, in the inner
rooms,' do not believe it. For as lightning that comes from the east is visible
even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Wherever there is a
carcass, there the vultures will gather. "Immediately after the distress
of those days 'the sun will be darkened, and the
moon will not give its light; the stars will fall
from the sky, and the heavenly
bodies will be shaken.' "At that time the sign of the Son of Man will
appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see
the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. And
he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and
they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens
to the other. "Now learn this lesson from the fig
tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that
summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is
near, right at the door. I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly
not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass
away, but my words will never pass away. "No one knows
about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but
only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of
the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying
and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah
entered the ark; And they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood
came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming
of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one
will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill;
one will be taken and the other left. "Therefore keep watch, because you
do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner
of the house had known at what time of night the
thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be
broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an
hour when you do not expect him. "Who then is the faithful and wise
servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food
at the proper time? It will be good for that servant whose master finds him
doing so when he returns. I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of
all his possessions. But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself,
'My master is staying away a long time,' And he then begins to beat his fellow
servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. The
master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an
hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with
the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and
gnashing of teeth.
Matityahu (Matthew)
25:1-46 "At
that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were
foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take
any oil with them. The wise, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps.
The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep. "At midnight
the cry rang out: 'Here's the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!' "Then all
the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. The foolish ones said to the wise,
'Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.' "'No,' they replied,
'there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil
and buy some for yourselves.' "But while they were on their way to buy the
oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the
wedding banquet. And the door was shut. "Later the others also came. 'Sir!
Sir!' they said. 'Open the door for us!' "But he replied, 'I tell you the
truth, I don't know you.' "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour. "Again, it will be like
a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his property to
them. To one he gave five talents of money, to another two talents, and to
another one talent, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey.
The man who had received the five talents went at once and put his money to
work and gained five more. So also, the one with the two
talents gained two more. But the man who had received the one talent went off,
dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money. "After a long time
the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them. The man
who had received the five talents brought the other five. 'Master,' he said,
'you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.' "His
master replied,' Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful
with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your
master's happiness!' "The man with the two talents also came. 'Master,' he
said, 'you entrusted me with two talents; see, I have gained two more.'
"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been
faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and
share your master's happiness!' "Then the man who had received the one
talent came. 'Master,' he said, 'I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting
where you have not sown and gathering where you have
not scattered seed. So I was afraid and went out and
hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.' "His
master replied, 'You wicked, lazy servant! So you
knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered
seed? Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so
that when I returned I would have received it back with interest. "'Take
the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. For
everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever
does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. And throw that
worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' "When the Son of
Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne
in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will
separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the
goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. "Then
the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my
Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared
for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me
something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a
stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick
and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.' "Then
the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you,
or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and
invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or
in prison and go to visit you?' "The King will reply, 'I tell you the
truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did
for me.' "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who
are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I
was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not
invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in
prison and you did not look after me.' "They also will answer, 'Lord, when
did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in
prison, and did not help you?' "He will reply, 'I tell you the truth,
whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'
"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."
II Luqas (Acts)
2:17-21
"'In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your
old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both
men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.
I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on
the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming
of the great and glorious day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the
name of the Lord will be saved.'
I Corinthians 1:8 He will keep you strong to the
end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Yeshua Mashiach
I Corinthians 5:5 Hand this man over to Satan, so
that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of
the Lord.
II Corinthians 1:14 As you have understood us in
part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we
will boast of you in the day of the Lord Yeshua.
I Thessalonians 4:13 - 5:8 Brothers, we do not want you to
be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who
have no hope. We believe that Yeshua died and rose again and so we believe that
God will bring with Yeshua those who have fallen asleep
in him. According to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we who are still
alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede
those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the
archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Mashiach will rise
first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up
together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be
with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words. Now,
brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write
to you, For you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief
in the night. While people are saying, "Peace and safety,"
destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and
they will not escape. But you, brothers, are not in darkness so that this day
should surprise you like a thief. You are all sons of the light and sons of the
day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let us not be
like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled. For those
who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. But
since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and
love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation
as a helmet.
II Thessalonians
2:1-12 Concerning
the coming of our Lord Yeshua Mashiach and our being
gathered to him, we ask you, brothers, Not to become easily unsettled or
alarmed by some prophecy, report or letter supposed to have come from us,
saying that the day of the Lord has already come. Don't let anyone deceive you
in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man
of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and
will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that
he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming
himself to be God. Don't you remember that when I was with you I used to tell
you these things? And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be
revealed at the proper time. For the secret power of lawlessness is already at
work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken
out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Yeshua will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and
destroy by the splendor of his coming. The coming of
the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all
kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs, and wonders, And
in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish
because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe
the lie And so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but
have delighted in wickedness.
II Peter 3:1-13 Dear friends, this is now my
second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you
to wholesome thinking. I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the
holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.
First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come,
scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, "Where is
this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our fathers
died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation." But
they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens
existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. By these waters
also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.
By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction
of ungodly men. But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a
day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is
not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient
with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. But
the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a
roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in
it will be laid bare. Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind
of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives As you look
forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring
about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the
heat. But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven
and a new earth, the home of righteousness.
Jude 1:6 And the angels who did not keep
their positions of authority but abandoned their own home--these he has kept in
darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.
Revelation 1:9-16 I, John, your brother and
companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Yeshua,
was on the island
of Patmos because of the
word of God and the testimony of Yeshua. On the Lord's Day I was in the
Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
Which said: "Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven
churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna,
Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis,
Philadelphia and Laodicea." I turned around to see the
voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven
golden lampstands, And among the lampstands was someone "like a son of man,"
dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his
chest. His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes
were like blazing fire. His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his
voice was like the sound of rushing waters. In his right hand he held seven
stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword. His face was like
the sun shining in all its brilliance.
Revelation 3:1-6 "To the angel of the church
in Sardis
write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the
seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you
are dead. Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not
found your deeds complete in the sight of my God. Remember, therefore, what you
have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will
come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you. Yet
you have a few people in Sardis
who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white,
for they are worthy. He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I
will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his
name before my Father and his angels. He who has an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit says to the churches.
Revelation 16:15 "Behold, I come like a
thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he
may not go naked and be shamefully exposed.
This
study was written by Hillel ben David
(Greg
Killian).
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