The stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken — the stars falling and the powers of heaven shaken are the standard cosmic-disruption language of prophetic judgment, drawn from Isaiah 34:4. The language may be literal (actual cosmic events) or figurative (the powers of the present age being overthrown) or both. In any case, the coming of the Son of Man is attended by cosmic disruption that communicates the scale of the event: the entire created order is involved.

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