Matthew 24:29

Immediately after the tribulation comes cosmic upheaval signaling the end. Jesus draws on prophetic imagery to announce God's decisive intervention in history.

Cross-references · 20

• Amos 8:9And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
• Joel 3:15The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.
• Isa 13:10For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.
• Mark 13:24–25But in those days, after that tribulation: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;
• Isa 24:23The moon will be confounded and the sun will be ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before His elders with great glory.
• Acts 2:19–20I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
• Rev 6:12–17And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
• Joel 2:30–31I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.
• 2 Pet 3:10But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.
• Isa 34:4All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.
• Zeph 1:14–15The great Day of the LORD is near—near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter.
• Luke 21:25–26There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.
• Joel 2:10Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.
• Rev 8:12Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun and moon and stars were struck. A third of the stars were darkened, a third of the day was without light, and a third of the night as well.
• Amos 5:20Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?
• Jer 4:23–28I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.
• Ezek 32:7–8When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.
• Dan 7:11–12Then I kept watching because of the arrogant words the horn was speaking. As I continued to watch, the beast was slain, and its body was destroyed and thrown into the blazing fire.
• Matt 24:21For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.
• Matt 24:8All these are the beginning of birth pains.

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