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

One nation crushed another nation. One city crushed another. God tormented them with every kind of trouble.

The land is blackened by the fury of Jehovah of Hosts. The people are fuel for the fire, and no one spares anyone else.

I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian. Brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

A ruin, a ruin, a ruin! Yes, I will make the city a ruin. But this will not happen until the one comes whom I have chosen and who has the legal right to punish the city. To him I will give it.

Say to Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah: I will shake heaven and earth!

I will gather all nations to battle against Jerusalem! The city will be defeated. The houses will be plundered and the women raped! Half of the city will be taken into captivity. The remainder of the people will not be removed from the city.

The words once more plainly show that the created things will be shaken and removed, so that the things that cannot be shaken will remain.

Famines

The earth is broken and destroyed and it is split into pieces. The earth is shaken violently.

This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'I will surely send four terrible punishments against Jerusalem. I will send wars, famines, wild animals, and plagues. They will destroy people and animals.

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

His feet will stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be split in half toward the east and toward the west. There will be a very large valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

There will be great earthquakes. There will be famines and pestilences in various places. There shall be terrors and great signs from heaven.

I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath: blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke.

One of them was named Agabus. He indicated through the Spirit that a great famine was about to come on the entire earth. He said it would come to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.

General references

Jehovah of Hosts will visit you with a thundering earthquake. A huge whirlwind will bring loud noise and a devouring fire.

Do you think I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, No, instead division.