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Matthew 24:6-8
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6 (A)You will hear of wars[a] and reports of wars; see that you are not alarmed, for these things must happen, but it will not yet be the end. 7 (B)Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be famines and earthquakes from place to place. 8 [b]All these are the beginning of the labor pains.

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  1. 24:6–7 The disturbances mentioned here are a commonplace of apocalyptic language, as is the assurance that they must happen (see Dn 2:28 LXX), for that is the plan of God. Kingdom against kingdom: see Is 19:2.
  2. 24:8 The labor pains: the tribulations leading up to the end of the age are compared to the pains of a woman about to give birth. There is much attestation for rabbinic use of the phrase “the woes (or birth pains) of the Messiah” after the New Testament period, but in at least one instance it is attributed to a rabbi who lived in the late first century A.D. In this Jewish usage it meant the distress of the time preceding the coming of the Messiah; here, the labor pains precede the coming of the Son of Man in glory.
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