Mark 13:13-14

Signs of the Close of the Age

¹³ _z And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. _a But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

The Abomination of Desolation

¹⁴ "But when you see _b the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not to be ( _c let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

1. Cross References
   John 15:18 - 21
   If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
   Luke 6:22
   Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!
   
2. Cross References
   Daniel 12:12 - 13
   Blessed is he who waits and arrives at the 1,335 days.
   James 5:11
   Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
   Revelation 2:10
   Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
   Hebrews 3:6
   But Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
   
3. Cross References
   Daniel 9:27
   And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.
   Daniel 11:31
   Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the regular burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.
   Daniel 12:11
   And from the time that the regular burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days.
   
4. Cross References
   Daniel 9:23
   At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, and I have come to tell it to you, for you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word and understand the vision.
   Daniel 9:25
   Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.
   Revelation 1:3
   Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.