8. For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines. These things are only the beginning of birth pains.
9. “Watch out for yourselves! They will hand you over to the courts, and you will be beaten in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of Me, as a witness to them.
10. The Good News must first be proclaimed to all the nations.
11. When they arrest you and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Say whatever is given to you in that hour, for it is not you who speaks but the Ruach ha-Kodesh.
12. Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. And children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.
13. And you will be hated by all because of My name, but the one who endures to the end will be saved.”
14. “But when you see ‘the abomination of desolation’ standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.
15. The one on the roof must not go down, nor enter to take anything out of his house.
16. And the one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.
17. Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
18. Pray that it will not happen in winter.
19. “For in those days there will be trouble such as has never happened, not since the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will.
20. And unless Adonai had cut short those days, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom He chose, He cut short the days.
21. “And then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here’s the Messiah!’ or, ‘Look, there He is!’ do not believe it.