Matthew 24:6-7

Signs of the Close of the Age

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.

1. 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.
   
2. 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.
   
3. 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.
   
4. 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.
   
5. 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.