Luke 21:11
King James Version (KJV)
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Translations
Luke 21:11 - Amplified Bible
There will be mighty {and} violent earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences (plagues: malignant and contagious or infectious epidemic diseases which are deadly and devastating); and there will be sights of terror and great signs from heaven.
Luke 21:11 - American Standard Version
and there shall be great earthquakes, and in divers places famines and pestilences; and there shall be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Luke 21:11 - Bible in Basic English
There will be great earth-shocks and outbursts of disease in a number of places, and men will be without food; and there will be wonders and great signs from heaven.
Luke 21:11 - Darby Bible
there shall be both great earthquakes in different places, and famines and pestilences; and there shall be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
Luke 21:11 - English Standard Version
There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Luke 21:11 - King James Version
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Luke 21:11 - La Biblia de las Americas
habrá grandes terremotos, y plagas y hambres en diversos lugares; y habrá terrores y grandes señales del cielo.
Luke 21:11 - The Message
Luke 21:11 - New American Standard Bible
and there will be great earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Luke 21:11 - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy
habrá grandes terremotos, y plagas y hambres en diversos lugares; y habrá terrores y grandes señales del cielo.
Luke 21:11 - World English Bible
There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Luke 21:11 - Young's Living Translation
great shakings also in every place, and famines, and pestilences, there shall be; fearful things also, and great signs from heaven there shall be;
Luke 21:11 - Additional Comments
Regarding the destruction of Jersalem in 70 AD:
All these things preceded the destruction of Jerusalem. Were there wars? The Romans were frequently at war with the Jews, the Samaritans, the Syrians, and others during this period. Were there earthquakes? Historians tell us of great earthquakes in the Roman Empire before Jerusalem was destroyed. Were there famines? Acts 11:28 tells of one in this period. Were there fearful sights? Pompeii blew its top just seven years before Jerusalem was destroyed. Were there signs in the heavens? Not long before Jerusalem was destroyed, a comet that looked like a sword hung over the city by night for a year.
Regarding the end times:
** An increase in earthquakes: From official records, scholars have researched the frequency of earthquakes and report an astonishing increase since - yes, just the middle of the 20th century, when Israel was reborn and all the other signs began. There averaged only 2.3 per decade above Richter 6.0 before the 1950s; in the 1950s, there were 9; the 1960s, 13; the 1970s, 51; the 1980s, 86! And already in the 1990s there have been more than 100, with tens of thousands dead in various parts of the world, including Iran, Indonesia, Japan, India and Russia.
** An increase in famines - Talk to the Red Cross, the Tear fund and other similar agencies and we soon find that nearly a third of the world is dying of starvation. The World Health Organization says that as many as two billion people are starving every day - thatne third of the human population!
"Despite efforts by governments and the international community to solve world food problems, more people are hungry today than ever before."
The problem of hunger is increasing in many developing countries where population growth far outstrips the increase in food production. This trend has led agricultural scientists such as Keith Barrons, author of The Food in Your Future, to warn: "Done surprised if the greatest famine in history occurs sometime in this decade." Population has grown in developing countries "from 2,092 million in 1960 to 3,301 million twenty years later, or roughly 2.3 percent a year."
** An increase in pestilences (plagues) - "Pestilence" is an infectious or contagious disease that reaches epidemic proportions.
Despite unquestionable medical triumphs, pestilence still does persist and has reached epidemic proportions in many parts of the world. Some of the contributory factors are the pollution of the air, water, and food; the sexual revolution; the unprecedented abuse of drugs such as alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin; the deterioration of sanitary conditions caused by the population explosion and economic depression; hunger in developing countries, and overeating in affluent societies. These and other factors are causing the resurgence of old infectious diseases as well as the emergence of baffling new ones. Examples
- Heart Diseases and Cancer (in industrialized nations the two leading killers are heart disorders and cancer)
- Venereal Diseases. Many countries are currently experiencing an epidemic of venereal diseases as a result of the sexual revolution.
- AIDS - AIDS is now the leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa. Since the beginning of the epidemic over 15 million Africans have died from AIDS. During 2004 an estimated 2.3 million adults and children died as a result of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
While $815 million are spent annually on cancer research, according to the World Health Organization, only about $30 million are accorded for research on tropical diseases. Most North Americans ignore the frightening prevalence and devastation caused by such tropical diseases as "ascariasis," an intestinal roundworm infection which, according to the United Nations, victimizes 650 million people; or "ancylostomiasis," a disease caused by hookworms which feed in the small intestine and which afflicts 450 million people; or "amoebiasis," a dysentery caused by amoeba which victimizes 350 million persons and kills at least six million children annually; or "filiaris," a roundworm infection affecting 300 million persons and causing blindness and elephantiasis; or "schistosomiasis," a miserable and generally incurable disease caused by minute parasitic worms in the blood stream which victimizes 300 million people.
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