25And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-27)These verses seem to point at Christ’s second coming, to judge the world; the disciples, in their question, had confounded the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the world (Matt. 24:3), which was built upon a mistake, as if the temple must needs stand as long as the world stands; this mistake Christ rectifies, and shows that the end of the world in those days , those other days you enquire ab…
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