Matthew 24:3-8 - Signs Of The End Of The Age

³ Afterwards He was on the Mount of Olives and was seated there when the disciples came to Him, apart from the others, and said, "Tell us when this will be; and what will be the sign of your Coming and of the Close of the Age?"

⁴ "Take care that no one misleads you," answered Jesus; ⁵ "for many will come assuming my name and saying 'I am the Christ;' and they will mislead many. ⁶ And before long you will hear of wars and rumours of wars. Do not be alarmed, for such things must be; but the End is not yet. ⁷ For nation will rise in arms against nation, kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places; ⁸ but all these miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth.

³ He was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite to the Temple, when Peter, James, John, and Andrew, apart from the others asked Him, ⁴ "Tell us, When will these things be? and what will be the sign when all these predictions are on the point of being fulfilled?"

⁵ So Jesus began to say to them: "Take care that no one misleads you. ⁶ Many will come assuming my name and saying, 'I am He;' and they will mislead many. ⁷ But when you hear of wars and rumours of wars, do not be alarmed: come they must, but the End is not yet. ⁸ For nation will rise in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth.

⁷ "Rabbi, when will this be?" they asked Him, "and what will be the token given when these things are about to take place?"

⁸ "See to it," He replied, "that you are not misled; for many will come assuming my name and professing, 'I am He,' or saying, 'The time is close at hand.' Do not go and follow them. ⁹ But when you hear of wars and turmoils, be not afraid; for these things must happen first, but the end does not come immediately."

¹⁰ Then He said to them, "Nation will rise in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. ¹¹ And there will be great earthquakes, and in places famines and pestilence; and there will be terrible sights and wonderful tokens from Heaven.