8. All this is but the beginning [the early pains] of the birth pangs [of the intolerable anguish].
9. Then they will hand you over to suffer affliction and tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake.
10. And then many will be offended and repelled and will begin to distrust and desert [Him Whom they ought to trust and obey] and will stumble and fall away and betray one another and pursue one another with hatred.
11. And many false prophets will rise up and deceive and lead many into error.
12. And the love of the great body of people will grow cold because of the multiplied lawlessness and iniquity,