Matthew 24:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

Nation shall

Hebrews 12:27

Famines

Acts 11:28

General references

Isaiah 29:6

Luke 12:51

Bible References

Nation shall

Nation battled nation, and city fought city, because God was afflicting them all with every kind of distress.

From the wrath of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies the land has been scorched, and the people have become like fuel for the fire; no one will spare his neighbor.

I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians, and everyone will fight against his brother, everyone against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

A ruin! A ruin! I'm bringing about ruin!' But this also will not happen until he who has authority over it arrives, because I'll give it to him."

"Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah. Tell him, "I'm going to shake the heavens and the earth.

I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem, to lay siege against it. The city will be captured, the houses will be ransacked, the women raped, and half of the city will go into exile, but the remaining people will not be cut off from the city.

The expression "once more" signifies the removal of what can be shaken, that is, what he has made, so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

Famines

The earth is utterly shattered, the earth is split apart, the earth is violently shaken.

This is what the Lord GOD says, "I'm sending four of my most destructive judgments military invasion, famine, wild animals, and pestilence into Jerusalem to destroy both human beings and livestock in it.

I will display warnings in the heavens, and on the earth blood, fire, and columns of smoke.

His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. Then the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a very large valley, with half of the mountain moving toward the north and half toward the south.

There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places, and there will be fearful events and awful signs from heaven."

I will display wonders in the sky above and signs on the earth below: blood, fire, and clouds of smoke.

One of them named Agabus got up and predicted by the Spirit that there would be a severe famine all over the world. This happened during the reign of Claudius.

General references

you will be visited by the LORD of the Heavenly Armies with thunder, an earthquake, and great noise, with a windstorm, a tempest, and flames from a devouring fire.

Do you think that I came to bring peace on earth? Not at all, I tell you, but rather division!