Matthew 24:5-8

Signs of the Close of the Age

⁵ For _b many will come in my name, saying, 'I am _c the Christ,' and they will lead many astray. ⁶ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you _d are not alarmed, for this _e must take place, but the end is not yet. ⁷ For _f nation will rise against nation, and _g kingdom against kingdom, and there will be _h famines and earthquakes in various places. ⁸ All these are but the beginning of _i the birth pains.

1. Cross References
   Matthew 24:11
   And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.
   Matthew 24:24
   For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
   Jeremiah 14:14
   And the Lord said to me: "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.
   1 John 2:18
   Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.
   
2. Cross References
   Matthew 1:17
   So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.
   
3. Cross References
   2 Thessalonians 2:2
   Not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
   
4. Cross References
   Revelation 1:1
   The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John.
   
5. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 15:6
   They were broken in pieces. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.
   Revelation 6:4
   And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
   
6. Cross References
   Isaiah 19:2
   And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians, and they will fight, each against another and each against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.
   
7. Cross References
   Acts 11:28
   And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world (this took place in the days of Claudius).
   Revelation 6:8
   And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider's name was Death, and Hades followed him. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth.
   Revelation 6:12
   When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood.
   
8. Cross References
   John 16:21
   When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.
   Acts 2:24
   God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
   Romans 8:22
   For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.