One nation was crushed by another, and one city by another, for God caused them to be in great turmoil.
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TSK · Matthew 24:7
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“I will provoke civil strife in Egypt, brothers will fight with each other, as will neighbors, cities, and kingdoms.
“For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments– sword, famine, wild animals, and plague– to Jerusalem to kill both people and animals!
I will produce portents both in the sky and on the earth– blood, fire, and columns of smoke.
For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to wage war; the city will be taken, its houses plundered, and the women raped. Then half of the city will go into exile, but the remainder of the people will not be taken away.
There will be great earthquakes, and famines and plagues in various places, and there will be terrifying sights and great signs from heaven.
And I will perform wonders in the sky above and miraculous signs on the earth below, blood and fire and clouds of smoke.
Now this phrase“once more” indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.
Then I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became blood red;