Matthew 24:4-28 - LSB - Legacy Standard Bible

Matthew 24:4-28

4 And Jesus answered and said to them, “^aSee to it that no one deceives you. 5 For ^amany will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the ¹Christ,’ and will deceive many. 6 And you are going to hear of ^awars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. 7 For ^anation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be ^bfamines and earthquakes. 8 ^aBut all these things are merely the beginning of birth pains.
9 “^aThen they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and ^byou will be hated by all nations because of My name. 10 And at that time many will ¹^afall away and will ²betray one another and hate one another. 11 Many ^afalse prophets will arise and will deceive many. 12 And because lawlessness is multiplied, ¹most people’s love will grow cold. 13 ^aBut the one who endures to the end, he will be saved. 14 And this ^agospel of the kingdom ^bshall be proclaimed in the whole ¹^cworld as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Abomination of Desolation and the Tribulation

15 “Therefore when you see the ^aabomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in ^bthe holy place (^clet the reader understand), 16 then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. 17 ¹Whoever is on ^athe housetop must not go down to get the things out that are in his house. 18 And ¹whoever is in the field must not turn back to get his garment. 19 But ^awoe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! 20 But pray that your flight will not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath. 21 For then there will be a ^agreat tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will. 22 And unless those days had been cut short, no ¹life would have been saved; but for ^athe sake of the ²elect those days will be cut short. 23 ^aThen if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the ¹Christ,’ or ‘²There He is,’ do not believe him. 24 For false christs and ^afalse prophets will arise and will ¹show great ²^bsigns and wonders, so as to deceive, if possible, even ^cthe ³elect. 25 Behold, I have told you in advance. 26 Therefore, if they say to you, ‘Behold, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or, ‘Behold, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe them. 27 ^aFor just as the lightning comes from the east and appears even to the west, so will the ^bcoming of the ^cSon of Man be. 28 ^aWherever the corpse is, there the ¹vultures will gather.