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shall make hats for them, for glory and beauty. From the seductress who flatters
41 So you shall put them on Aaron your brother with her words.
and on his sons with him. You shall anoint Matthew 24:29–51
them, consecrate them, and sanctify them, that
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they may minister to Me as priests. And you 29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those
shall make for them linen trousers to cover days the sun will be darkened, and the moon
their nakedness; they shall reach from the waist will not give its light; the stars will fall from
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to the thighs. They shall be on Aaron and on heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be
his sons when they come into the tabernacle shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will
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of meeting, or when they come near the altar appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the
to minister in the holy place, that they do not earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of
incur iniquity and die. It shall be a statute for- Man coming on the clouds of heaven with
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ever to him and his descendants after him. power and great glory. And He will send His
angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they
Psalm 20:1–5 will gather together His elect from the four
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 “Now learn this parable from the fig tree:
M ay the LORD answer you in When its branch has already become tender
the day of trouble;
May the name of the God of Jacob and puts forth leaves, you know that summer
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is near. So you also, when you see all these
defend you; 34
May He send you help from the suredly, I say to you, this generation will by no
2 things, know that it is near—at the doors! As-
sanctuary,
And strengthen you out of Zion; means pass away till all these things take
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May He remember all your offerings, My words will by no means pass away.
3 place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but
And accept your burnt 36 “But of that day and hour no one knows,
sacrifice. Selah
not even the angels of heaven, but My Father
May He grant you according to your only. But as the days of Noah were, so also
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heart’s desire, will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as
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And fulfill all your purpose. in the days before the flood, they were eating
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We will rejoice in your salvation, and drinking, marrying and giving in mar-
And in the name of our God we will set riage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
up our banners! 39 and did not know until the flood came and
May the LORD fulfill all your petitions. took them all away, so also will the coming of
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the Son of Man be. Then two men will be in
Proverbs 7:1–5
the field: one will be taken and the other left.
7 My son, keep my words, 41 will be taken and the other left. Watch there-
Two women will be grinding at the mill: one
And treasure my commands
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within you. fore, for you do not know what hour your Lord
2 Keep my commands and live, is coming. But know this, that if the master of
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And my law as the apple of your eye. the house had known what hour the thief
3 Bind them on your fingers; would come, he would have watched and not
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
And call understanding your nearest kin,
5 That they may keep you from the
immoral woman, 24:37 as the days of Noah were. Jesus’
emphasis here is not so much on the extreme
wickedness of Noah’s day (Gen.6:5),but on the
people’s preoccupation with mundane mat-
ters of everyday life (“eating and drinking,mar-
rying and giving in marriage”—v. 38), when
7:2 apple of your eye. This expression refers judgment fell suddenly. They had received
to the pupil of the eye which, because it is the warnings, in the form of Noah’s preaching
source of sight, is carefully protected (see (2 Pet.2:5)—and the ark itself,which was a tes-
Deut. 32:10; Ps. 17:8; Zech. 2:8). The son is to timony to the judgment that was to come. But
guard and protect his father’s teachings they were unconcerned about such matters
because they give him spiritual and moral and therefore were swept away unexpectedly
sight. in the midst of their daily activities.
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