"Before all these things happen, people will lay their hands on you and persecute you; you will be delivered to the synagogues and put in prison, and for MY sake you will be brought before kings and governors. This will be your opportunity to bear witness.
So keep this in mind: do not worry in advance about what to say, for I will give you words and wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to withstand or contradict.
You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, by relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death. But even though, because of MY name, you will be hated by everyone, not a hair of your head will perish. By your patient endurance you will save your soul." - Luke 21: 12-19
(The prophets of the Scriptures spoke in a rather obscure way about the end of the history that would initiate GOD's universal kingdom. According to them, all nations of the world would join forces to destroy the Holy City of Jerusalem, but right at the moment of greatest despair GOD would intervene in a triumphant way to establish HIS own kingdom [Isaiah 66:18; Ezekiel 38; Joel 4; Zechariah 14]/.
That is why, when JESUS speaks of the destruction of the temple, the apostles think of the end of time. The answer of JESUS is clear: the tragedy that will end with the destruction of Jerusalem is near but that would not be the end of the world.
This discourse contains JESUS' warnings about the destruction of the Jewish nation that would occur 30 years later, but what HE said regarding these agents clarifies the meaning of the conflicts that occur at present in the whole world.)
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