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 8:9It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
• Joel 3:15The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
• Isa 13:10For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
• Mark 13:24–25But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,
• Isa 24:23Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders will be glory.
• Acts 2:19–20I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.
• Rev 6:12–17I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.
• Joel 2:30–31I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
• 2 Pet 3:10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
• Isa 34:4All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
• Zeph 1:14–15The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.
• Luke 21:25–26There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;
• Joel 2:10The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
• Rev 8:12The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn’t shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.
• Amos 5:20Won’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
• Jer 4:23–28I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
• Ezek 32:7–8When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
• Dan 7:11–12I saw at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke; I saw even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.
• Matt 24:21for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
• Matt 24:8But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.

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