MATTHEW 24:29 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:”
Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. The cosmic signs that follow the tribulation — darkened sun, non-shining moon, falling stars, shaken heavens — are the prophetic imagery of divine judgment drawn from Isaiah 13:10 and 34:4. The cosmic disruption communicates the magnitude of the transition: the present age is ending.
Church Fathers on Matthew 24:29
As soon as the Lord has fortified the believers against the arts of Antichrist and his ministers, by shewing that His coming would be public, He proceeds to shew the order and method of His coming.
By the tribulation, He means the times of Antichrist and the false Prophets; for when there are so many deceivers, the tribulation will be great. But it shall not extend through any great length of time. For if for the elect’s sake the Jewish war is shortened, much more shall this tribulation be shortened for their sakes; for which reason He said not 'After,' but 'Immediately after,' for He shall come immediately after.
The darkening of the sun, the failing of the moon, and the fall of the stars, indicate the glories of His coming.
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