while Paul waited in Athens, his spirit was provoked within him seeing the city wholly given to idolatry.
So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and pious, and in the street every day with those who concurred.
And certain philosophers of the Epicurean and Stoic with him, and some said, What will this babbler want to say? And another, seems to be advocating for new gods, because he was preaching the gospel of Jesus, and resurrection.
And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "We know what this new teaching that mean? For
bring our hearing strange things. We therefore know what this means.
(For all the Athenians and the foreigners living there, nothing else is interested but telling or hearing something new.) Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said: Men of Athens, ye see that in every very religious, for going on and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. When you worship, then, without knowing, Him I proclaim.
Jesus answered and said unto him Seest thou these great buildings? No stone will remain unturned, not be thrown down.
heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and shall deceive many. But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed, because it needs be, but still not the end. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom There will be earthquakes in many places , and there shall be famines and troubles: pains are early them.
But see for yourselves, for they will deliver you to councils and flog you in their synagogues, and before governors and kings because you take me, a testimony to them.
And the gospel must be preached to all nations.
But when they bring you to give over, do not worry about what you say, nor think, but what has been granted to you in that hour, that speak, it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Spirit.
Now brother will betray brother to death, and the father the child: and children shall rise up against parents, and kill.
will be hated by all because of my name, but he who endures to the end shall be saved.
But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought to be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea flee to the mountains.
who is on the housetop not come down to the house, not in to take some home;
and that is in the field return back to take his coat.
But woe to those who are pregnant, and that give suck in those days!
But pray ye that your flight be not in winter because
those days shall be affliction, never has been since the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
And if the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh be saved: but for the sake of the elect whom He chose, He shortened the days.
Then if anyone says, 'Look, here is Christ, or, behold, there it is, believe it not.
For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. But you look, I have told you all before.
But in those days after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened and the moon shall not give her light,
the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
Then see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.
And then send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the ends of heaven.
of the fig tree learn its lesson: When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, ye know that summer is near. So likewise ye, when ye see these things happening, know that it is close to the doors.
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away until all these things.
Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass.
But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son except the Father.
heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time.
is like the man going away, he left his house and gave authority to his servants, and every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house is the evening, at midnight, or the cock crowing, or in the morning, so that coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
