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Zechariah 13:9
Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire; I will refine them like silver is refined and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will answer; I will say,‘ These are my people,’ and they will say,‘ The LORD is my God.’”
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Malachi 3:2-4
Who can endure the day of his coming? Who can keep standing when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.He will act like a refiner and purifier of silver and will cleanse the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will offer the LORD a proper offering.The offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in former times and years past.
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Revelation 2:10
Do not be afraid of the things you are about to suffer. The devil is about to have some of you thrown into prison so you may be tested, and you will experience suffering for ten days. Remain faithful even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown that is life itself.
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1 Peter 1 6-1 Peter 1 7
This brings you great joy, although you may have to suffer for a short time in various trials.Such trials show the proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold– gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away– and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
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Proverbs 17:3
The crucible is for refining silver and the furnace is for gold, likewise the LORD tests hearts.
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Daniel 12:10-11
Many will be purified, made clean, and refined, but the wicked will go on being wicked. None of the wicked will understand, though the wise will understand.From the time that the daily sacrifice is removed and the abomination that causes desolation is set in place, there are 1,290 days.
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James 1:2
My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials,
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Deuteronomy 8:16
fed you in the desert with manna( which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.
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Revelation 7:14
So I said to him,“ My lord, you know the answer.” Then he said to me,“ These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb!
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Daniel 11:40
“ At the time of the end the king of the south will attack him. Then the king of the north will storm against him with chariots, horsemen, and a large armada of ships. He will invade lands, passing through them like an overflowing river.
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Daniel 8:19
Then he said,“ I am going to inform you about what will happen in the latter time of wrath, for the vision pertains to the appointed time of the end.
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Deuteronomy 8:2-3
Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the LORD’s mouth.
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Daniel 8:17
So he approached the place where I was standing. As he came, I felt terrified and fell flat on the ground. Then he said to me,“ Understand, son of man, that the vision pertains to the time of the end.”
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Acts 15:37-39
Barnabas wanted to bring John called Mark along with them too,but Paul insisted that they should not take along this one who had left them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.They had a sharp disagreement, so that they parted company. Barnabas took along Mark and sailed away to Cyprus,
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Daniel 8:10
It grew so big it reached the army of heaven, and it brought about the fall of some of the army and some of the stars to the ground, where it trampled them.
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Revelation 17:17
For God has put into their minds to carry out his purpose by making a decision to give their royal power to the beast until the words of God are fulfilled.
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Malachi 4:1-3
( 3: 19)“ For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the LORD who rules over all.“ It will not leave even a root or branch.But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall.You will trample on the wicked, for they will be like ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the LORD who rules over all.
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Daniel 12:4
“ But you, Daniel, close up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will dash about, and knowledge will increase.”
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John 20:25
The other disciples told him,“ We have seen the Lord!” But he replied,“ Unless I see the wounds from the nails in his hands, and put my finger into the wounds from the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will never believe it!”
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Daniel 11:27
These two kings, their minds filled with evil intentions, will trade lies with one another at the same table. But it will not succeed, for there is still an end at the appointed time.
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2 Chronicles 32 31
So when the envoys arrived from the Babylonian officials to visit him and inquire about the sign that occurred in the land, God left him alone to test him, in order to know his true motives.
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Daniel 11:33
These who are wise among the people will teach the masses. However, they will fall by the sword and by the flame, and they will be imprisoned and plundered for some time.
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Revelation 14:15
Then another angel came out of the temple, shouting in a loud voice to the one seated on the cloud,“ Use your sickle and start to reap, because the time to reap has come, since the earth’s harvest is ripe!”
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Matthew 16:17
And Jesus answered him,“ You are blessed, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven!
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Matthew 26:69-75
Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A slave girl came to him and said,“ You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”But he denied it in front of them all:“ I don’t know what you’re talking about!”When he went out to the gateway, another slave girl saw him and said to the people there,“ This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.”He denied it again with an oath,“ I do not know the man!”After a little while, those standing there came up to Peter and said,“ You really are one of them too– even your accent gives you away!”At that he began to curse, and he swore with an oath,“ I do not know the man!” At that moment a rooster crowed.Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said:“ Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.
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Habakkuk 2:3
For the message is a witness to what is decreed; it gives reliable testimony about how matters will turn out. Even if the message is not fulfilled right away, wait patiently; for it will certainly come to pass– it will not arrive late.
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Matthew 26:56
But this has happened so that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.
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Acts 13:13
Then Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia, but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.
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Daniel 9:27-10:1
He will confirm a covenant with many for one week. But in the middle of that week he will bring sacrifices and offerings to a halt. On the wing of abominations will come one who destroys, until the decreed end is poured out on the one who destroys.”In the third year of King Cyrus of Persia a message was revealed to Daniel( who was also called Belteshazzar). This message was true and concerned a great war. He understood the message and gained insight by the vision.
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John 15:2
He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.
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Daniel 11:29
At an appointed time he will again invade the south, but this latter visit will not turn out the way the former one did.