the future
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11For I know the thoughts that I think over you, says the Lord: thoughts of peace and not of affliction, so that I may give you patience and an end.
1Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what the future day may bring.
6I am confident of this very thing: that he who has begun this good work in you will perfect it, unto the day of Christ Jesus.
21There are many intentions in the heart of a man. But the will of the Lord shall stand firm.
5Have confidence in the Lord with all your heart, and do not depend upon your own prudence.
8Jesus Christ, yesterday and today; Jesus Christ forever.
23Then if anyone will have said to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘he is there,’ do not be willing to believe it. 24For there will arise false Christs and false prophets. And they will produce great signs and wonders, so much so as to lead into error even the elect (if this could be). 25Behold, I have warned you beforehand. 26Therefore, if they will have said to you, ‘Behold, he is in the desert,’ do not choose to go out, or, ‘Behold, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not be willing to believe it. 27For just as lightning goes out from the east, and appears even in the west, so shall it be also at the advent of the Son of man.
3Open your works to the Lord, and your intentions will be set in order.
4But you, Daniel, close the message and seal the book, until the established time. Many will pass through, and knowledge will be increased.”
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has regenerated us into a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead:
3For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine, but instead, according to their own desires, they will gather to themselves teachers, with itching ears,
1The word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2And in the last days, the mountain of the house of the Lord will be prepared at the summit of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills, and all the nations shall flow to it. 3And many peoples will go, and they will say: “Let us approach and ascend to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob. And he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 4And he will judge the nations, and he will rebuke many peoples. And they shall forge their swords into plowshares, and their spears into sickles. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they continue to train for battle. 5O house of Jacob, let us approach and walk in the light of the Lord. 6For you have cast aside your people, the house of Jacob, because they have been filled up, as in past times, and because they have had soothsayers as the Philistines have, and because they have joined themselves to foreign servants.