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Matthew was inspired to explain the kingdom of God to the Jews and the Parthians so that they might repent of the ways of error^[1] which were spots in their religion.^[2] They needed to repent of systems of social welfare of the cities of blood and seek the way of His righteousness.

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V1 Jesus understood the purpose of the altars of clay and stone, the tabernacle, the Church in the wilderness, He understood why the system of Corban of Herod athe Pharisees was making the word of God to none effect.
V2 *"shall not be left here one stone(lithos)^[3] upon stone(lithon)^[3] , that shall not be thrown down.(katalythēsetai)^[4]* The Greek term katalythēsetai is seen in Luke 21 where some thought that their dead stone temple was made of "with goodly stones". And Theudas, mentioned in Gamaliel’s speech before the Jewish council, Acts 5:35-39^[5] the word is translated Acts 5:38 "it will come to nought:" Jesus understood the temple of God is made without hands^[6] out of living stone. Those stones of the altars were to be unhewn which meant neither the other stones exercise authority one over the other.^[7]
V3 When shall the "end^[8] of the world<age>" be completed?
V4,5 He warns of a great danger of being deceived.^[9]
V6 the end (telos)^[10] is not yet. is not the same as the word end we see in V3 "end" (synteleias)^[8]
V7 is about nation and kingdoms against against each other but also famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places which did take place and will take place again.
V8 ōdinōn^[11] is specifically "birth pains" but can be considered a reference to the dire calamities depending on your point of view.
V9 The term "deliver" is paradidomi^[12] and can mean "to give over into (one’s) power or use" or "to deliver up one to custody, to be judged." To be afflicted^[13] which most often is translated tribulation but as a metaphor means "oppression, affliction, tribulation, or distress..." and paradidomi^[12] can mean "to deliver to one something to keep, use, take care of, manage" this could been you are not going to get any more benefits but have to care for yourself like the Pharaoh did in Egypt where we saw the birth of a nation. This cutting of large numbers of people from the dainties of the tables of the rulers of the State could kill many people or at least cause their death but if they had been seeking the kingdom of God and His righteousness they would be better prepared and God would be there for them.
V10 Socialists typically hate those who do not follow their covetous way and are easily offended.
V11 And there are many false prophets who say it is okay to covet what is your neighbors to get benefits from men who exercise authority^[7] which is biting one another^[14]. They tell you that is okay to pray to the Benefactors of the world and the Fathers of the earth and their Modern Churches no longer have a daily ministration of Pure Religion that rightly divides the daily bread from house to house. These blind guides^[15] want your tithe but if you need anything they send their people to the tables^[16] of the Welfare State.

V12 the term iniquity is from the Greek word anomia^[17] meaning "no law" or lawlessness or even unrighteous. The Greek term polus πολλῶν ^[18] – many (high in number); multitudinous, plenteous, [https://biblehub.com/greek/pollo_n_4183.htm appearing dozens of times. Such a polis can become one of the cities of blood warned about in the Bible id we follow the political policies of Cain, Nimrod, Pharaoh, and the Pharisees or FDR, LBJ, and others.
This lawlessness is acerbated by the false doctrine that the law of God explained in the Ten Commandments has been done away with when Paul was only talking about the handwritten ordinances. And of course the flagrant abuse and pervasiveness of their covetous practices where they bite one another until the whole world is devoured through the Corban type Social welfare systems of the State that depend upon legal charity.
V15 Ellicott's Commentary "The abomination of desolation.—The words, as they stand in Daniel 12:11,^[19] seem to refer to the desecration of the sanctuary by the mad attempt of Antiochus Epiphanes to stop the “daily sacrifice,” and to substitute an idolatrous^[20] worship in its place (2 Maccabees 6:1-9)."
Questions
Are you a part of the "The Abomination of Desolation"?
Are you going to flee to the Benefactors of the world and the Fathers of the earth and their Modern Churches no longer have a daily ministration of Pure Religion?
Will your repent and seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness or make more excuses like the sluggard?
V26 The Greek word tameiois(ταμείοις) translated "in the secret chambers"^[21] 1) means "a storage chamber, storeroom"
V27 τοῦ Υἱοῦʼ Ανθρώπον (huios tou anthrōpos), of the Son of man Is he really coming like lightening? [27] For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. astrape (ἀστραπή)^[22] can just mean a light shining from the east like the sun rising. The Coming of the Son of man may have to do more with the coming of the light of the Holy Spirit since in these verses he is talking about false Christs who are not anointed with that Holy Spirit but another spirit.
V28 What is the meaning of "carcase" and "the eagles be gathered together".
Is The Lesson of the Fig Tree about the gradual budding of the Holy Spirit?
We do not Know That Day and Hour but neither did they in the Days of Noah
We should Watch and be ready and seek to find out if we may be counted among those Who are faithful and wise?
Or are we counted among those Who are the evil servant?
Simon the Just and Alexander the Great According to the story told by Josephus Flavius, when Alexander the Great reached Jerusalem in 332 B.C. (The Talmud Yoma 69a places his arrival at Jerusalem in 329 B.C.) it was the time of when Simon the Just^[23] was residing as High Priest of the Great Assembly. When Alexander the Great, rode into Judea wearing his plumed helmet on his giant white horse, he approached Simon the Just who was the high priest who had come out to meet him he did something that astonished his troop and officers. From his lofty position of dominance and power he suddenly dismounted and bowed. Some reported that he even took a knee while others claimed he "prostrated" himself when he saw Simon the Just approaching. Historians of that era have reported that, when Alexander was questioned by his his loyal commanders about this extraordinary act of humility and obeisance, he related that before going into battle his dreams were of an angel proclaiming his victory to come. He claimed that the face of that angel was the face of Simon the Just, the Jewish High Priest who appears to be the last of the truly righteous priests.

Jesus Foretells Destruction of the Temple

[1] And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

[2] And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone^[3] upon another^[3] , that shall not be thrown down.(katalythēsetai)^[4]

Signs of the End of the Age

[3] And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end^[8] of the world<age>?

[4] And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.^[9]

[5] For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ (anointed); and shall deceive many.^[9]

Be not troubled

[6] And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled^[24]: for all these things must come to pass, but the end^[10] is not yet.

Kingdm against kingdom

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

[8] All these are the beginning of sorrows.^[11]

Afflictions

[9] Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted^[13], and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

[10] And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

[11] And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

[12] And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

[13] But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

[14] And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world<oikoumenē> for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end^[10] come.

The Abomination of Desolation

[15] When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation,^[20] spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

Flee Desolation

[16] Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

[17] Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

[18] Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

[19] And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

[20] But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

[21] For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

[22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

[23] Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

[24] For there shall arise false Christs (false anointed), and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

Believe not

[25] Behold, I have told you before.

[26] Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers^[21] ; believe it not.

[27] For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

[28] For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

The Coming of the Son of Man

[29] 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:

[30] 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.

[31] And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

[32] Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

[33] So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

[34] Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

[35] Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

No One Knows That Day and Hour

[36] But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Days of Noah

[37] But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

[38] For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

[39] And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

[40] Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

[41] Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Watchand be ready

[42] Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

[43] But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

[44] Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Who is faithful and wise

[45] Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

[46] Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

[47] Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.

Who is the evil servant

[48] But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

[49] And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

[50] The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

[51] And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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The way of error
2 Peter 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

Jude 1:11 "Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. 12 These are spots(not "unspotted" like Pure Religion) in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;"

Revelation 2:14-17 "But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication ("to permit one’s self to be drawn away by another into idolatry"). 15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. 16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. 17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth [it]."

Ezekiel 16:49 "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy."
- The way of the world is the way of Cain and His city-state, the Corban of the Pharisees and the cities of blood, Nimrod and the Nicolaitan, Babylon and Balaam, Sumer and Sodom, Pharaoh and the foolishness of Saul, and more recently FDR and LBJ and all the welfare States who use legal charity which is not The Way of Christ, the Kingdom of God nor the righteousness of God.
↑ Spotted and unspotted
1 Timothy 6:14 "That thou keep [this] commandment without spot <aspilos>, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:"

James 1:27 "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted <aspilos> from the world.

1 Peter 1:19 "But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish <amomos> and without spot <aspilos>:"

2 Peter 3:13 "Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot <aspilos>, and blameless <amometos>. 15 And account [that] the longsuffering of our Lord [is] salvation..."

Hebrews 9:14 "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot <amomos> to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"

2 Peter 2:13 "And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots <spilos> [they are] and blemishes<momos>, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:"

Jude 1:16 "These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words], having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage... 21 "Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 22 And of some have compassion, making a difference: 23 And others save with fear, pulling [them] out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted <spiloo> by the flesh. 24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present [you] faultless <amomos> before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,"
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 3037 λίθος lithos [lee’-thos] apparently a primary word; n m; TDNT-4:268,534; [{See TDNT 446 }] AV-stone 49, one stone 4, another 4, stumbling stone + 4348 2, mill stone + 3457 1; 60
1) a stone
1a) of small stones

1b) of building stones

1c) metaph. of Christ
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 2647 ~καταλύω~ kataluo \@kat-al-oo’-o\@ from 2596 and 3089; v AV-destroy 9, throw down 3, lodge 1, guest 1, come to nought 1, overthrow 1, dissolve 1; 17
1) to dissolve, disunite
1a) (what has been joined together), to destroy, demolish

1b) metaph. to overthrow i.e. render vain, deprive of success, bring to naught
1b1) to subvert, overthrow

1b1a) of institutions, forms of government, laws, etc., to deprive of force, annul, abrogate, discard

1c) of travellers, to halt on a journey, to put up, lodge (the figurative expression originating in the circumstance that, to put up for the night, the straps and packs of the beasts of burden are unbound and taken off; or, more correctly from the fact that the traveller’s garments, tied up when he is on the journey, are unloosed at it end)
↑ Acts 5:38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
↑ Without hands
Mark 14:58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.

Acts 7:48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Acts 17]]:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

2 Corinthians 5:1 ¶ For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Colossians 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: and stones?
Deuteronomy 10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

Deuteronomy 30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

Romans 2:29 But he [is] a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision [is that] of the heart, in the spirit, [and] not in the letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of God.

Philippians 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

Hebrews 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

Hebrews 9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, [which are] the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

Daniel 2:34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet [that were] of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

Daniel 2:44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, [but] it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. 45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream [is] certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 Not exercise authority
Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."

Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."

Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 4930 συντέλεια sunteleia [soon-tel’-i-ah] from 4931 sunteleo; n f; TDNT-8:64,1161; [{See TDNT 785 }] AV-end 6; 6
1) completion, consummation, end
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 ^9.2 Many deceived
Matthew 24:5 "For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many... 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

Mark 13:6 "For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many."

Luke 21:8 "And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them."

2 John 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

2 Peter 2:2 "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."
↑ ^10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2
5056 τέλος telos [tel’-os] from a primary tello (to set out for a definite point or goal); n n; TDNT- 8:49,1161; [{See TDNT 785 }] AV-end 35, custom 3, uttermost 1, finally 1, ending 1, by (one’s) continual + 1519 1; 42
1) end
1a) termination, the limit at which a thing ceases to be (always of the end of some act or state, but not of the end of a period of time)

1b) the end
1b1) the last in any succession or series

1b2) eternal

1c) that by which a thing is finished, its close, issue

1d) the end to which all things relate, the aim, purpose

2) toll, custom (i.e. indirect tax on goods)
- For Synonyms see entry 5941
↑ ^11.0 ^11.1 5604 ὠδίν odin [o-deen’] akin to 3601 odune consuming grief; n f; TDNT-9:667,1353; [{See TDNT 855 }] AV-sorrow 2, pain 1, travail 1; 4
1) the pain of childbirth, travail pain, birth pangs

2) intolerable anguish, in reference to the dire calamities precede the advent of the Messiah
↑ ^12.0 ^12.1 3860 ~παραδίδωμι~ paradidomi \@par-ad-id’-o-mee\@ from 3844 and 1325; TDNT-2:169,166; {See TDNT 191} v AV-deliver 53, betray 40, deliver up 10, give 4, give up 4, give over 2, commit 2, misc 6; 121
1) to give into the hands (of another)

2) to give over into (one’s) power or use
2a) to deliver to one something to keep, use, take care of, manage

2b) to deliver up one to custody, to be judged, condemned, punished, scourged, tormented, put to death

2c) to deliver up treacherously
2c1) by betrayal to cause one to be taken

2c2) to deliver one to be taught, moulded

3) to commit, to commend

4) to deliver verbally
4a) commands, rites

4b) to deliver by narrating, to report

5) to permit allow
5a) when the fruit will allow that is the time when its ripeness permits

5b) gives itself up, presents itself
↑ ^13.0 ^13.1
2347 θλῖψις thlipsis [thlip’-sis] from 2346 thlibo to press (as grapes), press hard upon a metaphor; n f; TDNT-3:139,334; [{See TDNT 311 }] AV-tribulation 21, affliction 17, trouble 3, anguish 1, persecution 1, burdened 1, to be afflicted + 1519 1; 45
1) a pressing, pressing together, pressure

2) metaph. oppression, affliction, tribulation, distress, straits
- For Synonyms see entry 5907 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "thlopsis" defined multiple times with different content
↑ Bite not
Ecclesiastes 4:5 "The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh."

Proverbs 6:10 "[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man."

Proverbs 20:4 "The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing."

Proverbs 24:33 "[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 34 So shall thy poverty come [as] one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man."

Proverbs 11:17 "The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but [he that is] cruel troubleth his own flesh."

Isaiah 9:20 "And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:"

Isaiah 9:20 "And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:"

Ezekiel 11:3 "Which say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the caldron, and we [be] the flesh... 11 This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; [but] I will judge you in the border of Israel:"

Micah 3:3 "Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron."

Galatians 5:14 "For all the law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another."

2 Corinthians 11:20 "For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour [you], if a man take [of you], if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face."

The ultimate bondage is to hate your neighbor through the error of Balaam because we fail to forgive which is the consuming fire of Exodus 33 and the Raca of Matthew 5 that brings the judgement and wrath of God.
↑ False prophets and Guru theories
Isaiah 42:16 "And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. 17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye [are] our gods. 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see."

Isaiah 30:20 "And [though] the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed,..."

Matthew 13:13 "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand."

Matthew 15:14 "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."

Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recoveing of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

John 9:39 ¶ "And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind."

Luke 6:39 "And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? 40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master."

Acts 13:11 "And now, behold, the hand of the Lord [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand."
↑ Two tables
Psalms 69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. 24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents."

Romans 11:8 "(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. 9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway."

1 Corinthians 10:20 "But [I say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils." (See the sacrifice of fools in Ecclesiastes 5:1)

Acts 6:2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples [unto them], and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. (see "portion to seven" Ecclesiastes 11:2 and Acts 6.)

Luke 22:30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Isaiah 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean]. 9 ¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the milk, [and] drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:

Malachi 1:7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] contemptible.

Malachi 1:12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] polluted; and the fruit thereof, [even] his meat, [is] contemptible.

Malachi 2:2 "If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings<01293>: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay [it] to heart." See wages of unrighteousness and snare.

Isaiah 8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

1 Peter 2:8 "And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:" (see merchandise)
↑ 458 ~ἀνομία~ anomia \@an-om-ee’-ah\@ from 459; n f AV-iniquity 12, unrighteousness 1, transgress the law + 4160 1, transgression of the law 1; 15
1) the condition of without law
1a) because ignorant of it

1b) because of violating it

2) contempt and violation of law, iniquity, wickedness
↑ 4183 ~πολύς~ polus \@pol-oos’\@ including the forms from the alternate pollos; TDNT-6:536,910; {See TDNT 650} adj AV-many 210, much 73, great 59, misc 23; 365 1) many, much, large
↑ Daniel 9:27; Daniel 11:31; Daniel 12:11
↑ ^20.0 ^20.1
Covetousness is idolatry
Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"

Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."

1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
- For it is written that the tables of dainties provided by rulers of the world are a snare because they cause the masses to bite one another through government systems of legal charity which are covetous practices which are a form of fornication or adultery where the people are devoured as merchandise, curse children and are "entangled again in the yoke of bondage" with the aid of the false religion of the whore who rides the beast.
↑ ^21.0 ^21.1 5009 ταμεῖον tameion [tam-i’-on] contraction of a presumed derivative of tamias (a dispenser or distributor; n n; AV-closet 2, secret chamber 1, storehouse 1; 4
1) a storage chamber, storeroom

2) a chamber esp. an inner chamber

3) a secret room
↑ 796 ἀστραπή astrape [as-trap-ay’] from 797 astrapto v. to lighten 1a) of dazzling objects; n f; TDNT-1:505,86; [{See TDNT 110 }] AV-lightning 8, light shining 1; 9
1) lightning
1a) of the gleam of a lamp
↑ Simeon the Righteous, Shimon HaTzadik
↑ 2360 θροέω throeo [thro-eh’-o] from θρεομαι threomai (to wail); v; AV-trouble 3; 3
1) to cry aloud, make a noise by outcry
1a) in the NT, to trouble, frighten

1b) to be troubled in mind, to be frightened, alarmed

[Errorbn-1] The way of error
2 Peter 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

Jude 1:11 "Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. 12 These are spots(not "unspotted" like Pure Religion) in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;"

Revelation 2:14-17 "But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication ("to permit one’s self to be drawn away by another into idolatry"). 15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. 16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. 17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth [it]."

Ezekiel 16:49 "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy."

The way of the world is the way of Cain and His city-state, the Corban of the Pharisees and the cities of blood, Nimrod and the Nicolaitan, Babylon and Balaam, Sumer and Sodom, Pharaoh and the foolishness of Saul, and more recently FDR and LBJ and all the welfare States who use legal charity which is not The Way of Christ, the Kingdom of God nor the righteousness of God.

[2] The way of the world is the way of Cain and His city-state, the Corban of the Pharisees and the cities of blood, Nimrod and the Nicolaitan, Babylon and Balaam, Sumer and Sodom, Pharaoh and the foolishness of Saul, and more recently FDR and LBJ and all the welfare States who use legal charity which is not The Way of Christ, the Kingdom of God nor the righteousness of God.

[Spotsq-2] Spotted and unspotted
1 Timothy 6:14 "That thou keep [this] commandment without spot <aspilos>, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:"

James 1:27 "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted <aspilos> from the world.

1 Peter 1:19 "But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish <amomos> and without spot <aspilos>:"

2 Peter 3:13 "Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot <aspilos>, and blameless <amometos>. 15 And account [that] the longsuffering of our Lord [is] salvation..."

Hebrews 9:14 "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot <amomos> to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"

2 Peter 2:13 "And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots <spilos> [they are] and blemishes<momos>, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:"

Jude 1:16 "These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words], having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage... 21 "Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 22 And of some have compassion, making a difference: 23 And others save with fear, pulling [them] out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted <spiloo> by the flesh. 24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present [you] faultless <amomos> before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,"

[lithos-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 3037 λίθος lithos [lee’-thos] apparently a primary word; n m; TDNT-4:268,534; [{See TDNT 446 }] AV-stone 49, one stone 4, another 4, stumbling stone + 4348 2, mill stone + 3457 1; 60
1) a stone
1a) of small stones

1b) of building stones

1c) metaph. of Christ

[kataluo-4] 4.0 ^4.1 2647 ~καταλύω~ kataluo \@kat-al-oo’-o\@ from 2596 and 3089; v AV-destroy 9, throw down 3, lodge 1, guest 1, come to nought 1, overthrow 1, dissolve 1; 17
1) to dissolve, disunite
1a) (what has been joined together), to destroy, demolish

1b) metaph. to overthrow i.e. render vain, deprive of success, bring to naught
1b1) to subvert, overthrow

1b1a) of institutions, forms of government, laws, etc., to deprive of force, annul, abrogate, discard

1c) of travellers, to halt on a journey, to put up, lodge (the figurative expression originating in the circumstance that, to put up for the night, the straps and packs of the beasts of burden are unbound and taken off; or, more correctly from the fact that the traveller’s garments, tied up when he is on the journey, are unloosed at it end)

[5] Acts 5:38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:

[nohands-6] Without hands
Mark 14:58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.

Acts 7:48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Acts 17]]:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

2 Corinthians 5:1 ¶ For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Colossians 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: and stones?
Deuteronomy 10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

Deuteronomy 30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

Romans 2:29 But he [is] a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision [is that] of the heart, in the spirit, [and] not in the letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of God.

Philippians 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

Hebrews 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

Hebrews 9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, [which are] the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

Daniel 2:34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet [that were] of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

Daniel 2:44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, [but] it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. 45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream [is] certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

[exauth-7] 7.0 ^7.1 Not exercise authority
Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."

Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."

Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."

[synteleias-8] 8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 4930 συντέλεια sunteleia [soon-tel’-i-ah] from 4931 sunteleo; n f; TDNT-8:64,1161; [{See TDNT 785 }] AV-end 6; 6
1) completion, consummation, end

[mandeceived-9] 9.0 ^9.1 ^9.2 Many deceived
Matthew 24:5 "For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many... 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

Mark 13:6 "For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many."

Luke 21:8 "And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them."

2 John 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

2 Peter 2:2 "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."

[telos-10] 10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 5056 τέλος telos [tel’-os] from a primary tello (to set out for a definite point or goal); n n; TDNT- 8:49,1161; [{See TDNT 785 }] AV-end 35, custom 3, uttermost 1, finally 1, ending 1, by (one’s) continual + 1519 1; 42
1) end
1a) termination, the limit at which a thing ceases to be (always of the end of some act or state, but not of the end of a period of time)

1b) the end
1b1) the last in any succession or series

1b2) eternal

1c) that by which a thing is finished, its close, issue

1d) the end to which all things relate, the aim, purpose

2) toll, custom (i.e. indirect tax on goods)

For Synonyms see entry 5941

[12] For Synonyms see entry 5941

[odin-11] 11.0 ^11.1 5604 ὠδίν odin [o-deen’] akin to 3601 odune consuming grief; n f; TDNT-9:667,1353; [{See TDNT 855 }] AV-sorrow 2, pain 1, travail 1; 4
1) the pain of childbirth, travail pain, birth pangs

2) intolerable anguish, in reference to the dire calamities precede the advent of the Messiah

[paradidomi-12] 12.0 ^12.1 3860 ~παραδίδωμι~ paradidomi \@par-ad-id’-o-mee\@ from 3844 and 1325; TDNT-2:169,166; {See TDNT 191} v AV-deliver 53, betray 40, deliver up 10, give 4, give up 4, give over 2, commit 2, misc 6; 121
1) to give into the hands (of another)

2) to give over into (one’s) power or use
2a) to deliver to one something to keep, use, take care of, manage

2b) to deliver up one to custody, to be judged, condemned, punished, scourged, tormented, put to death

2c) to deliver up treacherously
2c1) by betrayal to cause one to be taken

2c2) to deliver one to be taught, moulded

3) to commit, to commend

4) to deliver verbally
4a) commands, rites

4b) to deliver by narrating, to report

5) to permit allow
5a) when the fruit will allow that is the time when its ripeness permits

5b) gives itself up, presents itself

[thlopsis-13] 13.0 ^13.1 2347 θλῖψις thlipsis [thlip’-sis] from 2346 thlibo to press (as grapes), press hard upon a metaphor; n f; TDNT-3:139,334; [{See TDNT 311 }] AV-tribulation 21, affliction 17, trouble 3, anguish 1, persecution 1, burdened 1, to be afflicted + 1519 1; 45
1) a pressing, pressing together, pressure

2) metaph. oppression, affliction, tribulation, distress, straits

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[eatbite-14] Bite not
Ecclesiastes 4:5 "The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh."

Proverbs 6:10 "[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man."

Proverbs 20:4 "The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing."

Proverbs 24:33 "[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 34 So shall thy poverty come [as] one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man."

Proverbs 11:17 "The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but [he that is] cruel troubleth his own flesh."

Isaiah 9:20 "And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:"

Isaiah 9:20 "And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:"

Ezekiel 11:3 "Which say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the caldron, and we [be] the flesh... 11 This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; [but] I will judge you in the border of Israel:"

Micah 3:3 "Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron."

Galatians 5:14 "For all the law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another."

2 Corinthians 11:20 "For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour [you], if a man take [of you], if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face."

The ultimate bondage is to hate your neighbor through the error of Balaam because we fail to forgive which is the consuming fire of Exodus 33 and the Raca of Matthew 5 that brings the judgement and wrath of God.

[Blindlead'-15] False prophets and Guru theories
Isaiah 42:16 "And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. 17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye [are] our gods. 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see."

Isaiah 30:20 "And [though] the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed,..."

Matthew 13:13 "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand."

Matthew 15:14 "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."

Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recoveing of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

John 9:39 ¶ "And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind."

Luke 6:39 "And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? 40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master."

Acts 13:11 "And now, behold, the hand of the Lord [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand."

[2tables-16] Two tables
Psalms 69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. 24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents."

Romans 11:8 "(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. 9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway."

1 Corinthians 10:20 "But [I say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils." (See the sacrifice of fools in Ecclesiastes 5:1)

Acts 6:2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples [unto them], and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. (see "portion to seven" Ecclesiastes 11:2 and Acts 6.)

Luke 22:30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Isaiah 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean]. 9 ¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the milk, [and] drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:

Malachi 1:7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] contemptible.

Malachi 1:12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] polluted; and the fruit thereof, [even] his meat, [is] contemptible.

Malachi 2:2 "If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings<01293>: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay [it] to heart." See wages of unrighteousness and snare.

Isaiah 8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

1 Peter 2:8 "And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:" (see merchandise)

[anomia-17] 458 ~ἀνομία~ anomia \@an-om-ee’-ah\@ from 459; n f AV-iniquity 12, unrighteousness 1, transgress the law + 4160 1, transgression of the law 1; 15
1) the condition of without law
1a) because ignorant of it

1b) because of violating it

2) contempt and violation of law, iniquity, wickedness

[polus-18] 4183 ~πολύς~ polus \@pol-oos’\@ including the forms from the alternate pollos; TDNT-6:536,910; {See TDNT 650} adj AV-many 210, much 73, great 59, misc 23; 365 1) many, much, large

[19] Daniel 9:27; Daniel 11:31; Daniel 12:11

[Isidolatry-20] 20.0 ^20.1 Covetousness is idolatry
Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"

Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."

1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."

For it is written that the tables of dainties provided by rulers of the world are a snare because they cause the masses to bite one another through government systems of legal charity which are covetous practices which are a form of fornication or adultery where the people are devoured as merchandise, curse children and are "entangled again in the yoke of bondage" with the aid of the false religion of the whore who rides the beast.

[24] For it is written that the tables of dainties provided by rulers of the world are a snare because they cause the masses to bite one another through government systems of legal charity which are covetous practices which are a form of fornication or adultery where the people are devoured as merchandise, curse children and are "entangled again in the yoke of bondage" with the aid of the false religion of the whore who rides the beast.

[tameion-21] 21.0 ^21.1 5009 ταμεῖον tameion [tam-i’-on] contraction of a presumed derivative of tamias (a dispenser or distributor; n n; AV-closet 2, secret chamber 1, storehouse 1; 4
1) a storage chamber, storeroom

2) a chamber esp. an inner chamber

3) a secret room

[astrape-22] 796 ἀστραπή astrape [as-trap-ay’] from 797 astrapto v. to lighten 1a) of dazzling objects; n f; TDNT-1:505,86; [{See TDNT 110 }] AV-lightning 8, light shining 1; 9
1) lightning
1a) of the gleam of a lamp

[23] Simeon the Righteous, Shimon HaTzadik

[throeo-24] 2360 θροέω throeo [thro-eh’-o] from θρεομαι threomai (to wail); v; AV-trouble 3; 3
1) to cry aloud, make a noise by outcry
1a) in the NT, to trouble, frighten

1b) to be troubled in mind, to be frightened, alarmed

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 |  '''V6''' <span style="color:red">'''the end (telos)<Ref name="telos">{{5056}}</Ref>  is not yet.'''</span> is not the same as the word '''end''' we see in '''V3''' "end" (synteleias)<Ref name="synteleias">{{4930}}</Ref>
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-| '''V7''' is about nation and kingdoms against against each other but also famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.which did take place and will take place again.
+| '''V7''' is about nation and kingdoms against against each other but also famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places which did take place and will take place again.
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 | '''V8''' ōdinōn<Ref name="odin">{{5604}}</Ref> is specifically "birth pains"  but can be considered a ''reference to the dire calamities'' depending on your point of view.
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+| ''[[Simon the Just]]'' and [[Alexander the Great]] <Br>According to the story told by [[Josephus]] Flavius, when [[Alexander the Great]] reached Jerusalem in 332 B.C. (The Talmud ''Yoma 69a'' places his arrival at Jerusalem in 329 B.C.) it was the time of when ''[[Simon the Just]]''<Ref>Simeon the Righteous, Shimon HaTzadik</Ref> was residing as High Priest of the Great Assembly. <Br>When [[Alexander the Great]], rode into Judea wearing his plumed helmet on his giant white horse, he approached ''Simon the Just'' who was the high priest who had come out to meet him he did something that astonished his troop and officers.<Br>From his lofty position of dominance and power he suddenly dismounted and ''bowed''. Some reported that he even took a knee while others claimed he "prostrated" himself when he saw ''Simon the Just'' approaching.<Br>Historians of that era have reported that, when Alexander was questioned by his his loyal commanders about this extraordinary act of humility and obeisance, he related that before going into battle his dreams were of an angel proclaiming his victory to come. He claimed that the face of that angel was the face of ''[[Simon the Just]]'', the Jewish High Priest who appears to be the last of the truly righteous priests.
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-=== ''[[Simon the Just]]'' and [[Alexander the Great]] ===
-According to the story told by Josephus Flavius, [[Alexander the Great]] reached Jerusalem in 332 B.C. The Talmud ''Yoma 69a'' places his arrival at Jerusalem in 329 BC during the time when ''[[Simon the Just]]'' (Simeon the Righteous, Shimon HaTzadik) was residing as High Priest of the Great Assembly.
-Alexander the Great was very tall man by the standards of most nations at the time. He also wore a plumed helmet and was said to be "the two horned one".<Ref>The two horns were a claim of authority and power that reached back to the Egyptian [[gods|god]] Ammon and confirmed by the oracle of Zeus-Ammon at Siwa, Egypt, a Syriac Legend, and the Koran with the Islamic epithet Dhu al-Qarnayn the "two-horned",(''Zulqarnain'' "man with two horns").
-:The Persian king Cyrus who rescued the Jews from their exile in [[Babylon]] allowing them a freedom of religion and a return Israel was also identified by ''two horns''. The king with two horns is mentioned by [[Daniel 8|Daniel Chapter 8]] concerning a vision of a two-horned ram destroyed by a one-horned goat and "little horn". This is reportedly symbolic for the Greek king [[Antiochus Epiphanes|Antiochus IV Epiphanes]].  Moses was also depicted with "horned". And then there are the [[Horns of the altar]] ([[Exodus 27]]:2, [[Exodus 29]]:12-14). What are these horns all about? Horns may symbolize power or domination ([[Ezekiel 34]]:21), and destruction ([[Zechariah 1]]:18–21), or rescue from oppression ([[1 Kings 22]]:11; [[2 Chronicles 18]]:10). The seven horns of the Lamb of God also represent divine power ([[Revelation 5]]:6).</Ref>
-As he approached ''Simon the Just'' and other priests he was riding his famous a white horse that was also an extremely tall animal. His lofty position was an expression of his dominance and power. Yet, when he saw the face of ''Simon the Just'' approaching with the other priests he dismounted and bowed, with some reporting that he took a knee, and others claiming he "prostrated" himself.
-Historians of that era have reported that, when Alexander was questioned by his his loyal advisors, he related that before going into battle his dreams were of an angel leading him to victory. He claimed that the face of that angel was the face of ''Simon the Just'', the Jewish High Priest.

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Contents

Jesus Foretells Destruction of the Temple

Signs of the End of the Age

Be not troubled

Kingdm against kingdom

Afflictions

The Abomination of Desolation

Flee Desolation

Believe not

The Coming of the Son of Man

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

No One Knows That Day and Hour

Days of Noah

Watchand be ready

Who is faithful and wise

Who is the evil servant

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Jesus Foretells Destruction of the Temple

Signs of the End of the Age

Be not troubled

Kingdm against kingdom

Afflictions

The Abomination of Desolation

Flee Desolation

Believe not

The Coming of the Son of Man

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

No One Knows That Day and Hour

Days of Noah

Watchand be ready

Who is faithful and wise

Who is the evil servant

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