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For false Christs will arise, and false prophets, and will show great signs and wonders; so that, if [it were] possible, they would deceive the very elect.
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Behold, I have told you before.
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Wherefore, if they shall say to you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, [he is] in the secret chambers; believe [it] not.
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For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even to the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
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For wherever the carcass is, there will the eagles be collected.
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Immediately after the tribulation of those days, shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
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And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
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And he will send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
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Now learn a parable of the fig-tree; When its branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer [is] nigh:
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So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, [even at] the doors.
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Verily I say to you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things shall be fulfilled.