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

They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.

Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts, the land is burnt up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

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

I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.'

"Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, 'I will shake the heavens and the earth.

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

Famines

The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.

"For thus says the Lord GOD: 'How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal.

I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.

His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.

One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.

General references

She will be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire.

Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.