Mat 24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold,
he is in the secret chambers; believe
it not.
Mat 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
NLT: Just as the gathering of vultures shows there is a carcass nearby, so these signs indicate that the end is near.
Behold he is in the desert, go not forth..
Gal 1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called
me by his grace,
Gal 1:16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
Gal 1:17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me;
but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
Arabia = "desert or barren"
Gal 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and
answereth to Jerusalem which now is,
and is in bondage with her children.
Exo 6:5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the
Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
Exo 13:3 And Moses said unto the people,
Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you
out from this place: there shall
no leavened bread be eaten.
Deu 5:6 I
am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Ezr 9:8 And now for
a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us
a nail in his holy place, that our
God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
Jhn 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word,
then are ye my disciples indeed;
Jhn 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Jhn 8:33 They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and
were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
Jhn 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
Jhn 8:35 And the
servant abideth not in the house for ever:
but the Son abideth ever.
Jhn 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Gal 4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Gal 4:22 For it is written, that
Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
Gal 4:23 But he
who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman
was by promise.
Gal 4:24 Which things are an allegory:
for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai,
which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Gal 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai
in Arabia, and
answereth to Jerusalem which now is,
and is in bondage with her children.
2Pe 2:18 For when they speak great swelling
words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh,
through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
2Pe 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
2Pe 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
2Pe 2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known
the way of righteousness, than, after they have known
it,
to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
2Pe 2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog
is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Gal 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
Gal 4:29 But as then
he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Gal 4:30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture?
Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
Gal 4:31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
Col 4:18 The salutation by the hand of me Paul.
Remember my bonds. Grace
be with you. Amen.
Heb 10:34 For ye had compassion of me
in my bonds, and took
joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Phl 1:14 And many of the brethren in the Lord,
waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
Eph 6:20 For which I am an ambassador
in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Mat 16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and
whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt
loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Act 28:17 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men
and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers,
yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
Act 28:18 Who, when they had examined me, would have let
me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
Act 28:19 But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.
Act 28:20 For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see
you, and to speak with
you: because that for the hope of Israel
I am bound with this chain.
Rev 20:1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and
a great chain in his hand.
Rev 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan,
and bound him a thousand years,
2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing,
that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.