Matthew 24:7-8

Signs of the Close of the Age

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
   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.
   
2. 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.
   
3. 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.
   
4. 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.