Mark 13:9-13

⁹ “But watch out for yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils, and you will be beaten in the synagogues. You will be brought before rulers and kings for My sake, for a testimony to them.

¹⁰ And the gospel must first be preached to all the nations.

¹¹ But when they arrest you and deliver you up, do not worry beforehand, or premeditate what you will speak. But whatever is given you in that hour, speak that; for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

¹² Now brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

¹³ And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

Also found in Matthew 24:9-10 and Luke 21:12-19.

But watch out for yourselves (v.9) — The pronoun is added here for emphasis. It is, “But, as for you, do not think only of what is coming.” The word “councils” is … “sitting together.” — Wuest, page 247.

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Treachery from friends and relatives [will be fulfilled] in the Great Tribulation period when the Church will be in Glory and the Jews will be forced to choose between the coming Jesus Christ and the then present Antichrist. The words “ye shall be hated of all men” are distinctly Jewish. Only the Jewish nation ever has been or ever will be the global object of hatred. … That which is to be endured are the sufferings of the Tribulation period. The end refers to the close of that period. Salvation here is not spiritual, for no one is ever saved by enduring anything, but is physical, physical protection and well-being for those who have endured the sufferings of that terrible period, these are saved to enter the Millennium. — Wuest, pages 248-149.

Wuest correctly related this passage to the Tribulation period about half the time. He kept switching back and forth between that interpretation and one that saw fulfillment of these prophecies in the Acts period and in the Age of Grace. All my other commentaries attempted, incorrectly, to apply all these things to today.

See Pentecost’s interpretation of Christ’s words in my post for Matthew 24:9-14.