the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.
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the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.
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and the starres of heven shall fall: and the powers wich are in heven shall move.
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And the starres of heauen shall fall: and the powers which are in heauen, shall shake.
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Passages linked to Mark 13:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 34:4 All 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.
- Revelation 6:13 The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and…
25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
Ver. 25. {See Trapp on "Mat 24:29"}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And then he shall send his angels,.... The ministers…
And then he shall send his angels,.... The ministers of the Gospel to preach it, and plant more churches among the Gentiles, since that at Jerusalem was entirely broken up:
and shall gather together his elect; that is, he the son of man, or Christ, shall gather them by the ministry of his servants; or "they shall gather them", as the Ethiopic version reads; and as Beza says it is read in a certain copy: these ministers shall be the means of gathering such whom God has chosen from all eternity, to obtain salvation by Christ, out of the world, and unto Christ, and into a Gospel church state: even
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from the uttermost part of the earth, to the uttermost part of the heaven; be they where they will, on earth, and under the whole heavens; See Gill on Mat 24:31.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And the stars shall be falling from heaven (esontai…
And the stars shall be falling from heaven (esontai ek tou ouranou piptontev) and the powers that are in the heavens shall be shaken. In the great events of the creation recorded in Genesis 1 the sun and the moon and the stars did not show their light until that period which is called the fourth day. So in the end of the world, the sun and the moon and the stars are represented as withdrawing their light, perhaps figuratively, but perhaps also literally, in the course of some of the unknown physical changes which shall accompany the winding up of the present dispensation. To this agree the next words, "the powers that are in the heavens shall be shaken." The powers may here mean those great unseen forces of nature by which the universe is now held in equipoise. When the Creator wills it, these powers shall be shaken. (See Job_26:11, "The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof;" see also Isa_34:4, "And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. As the end of the world approaches, the elements will quiver and tremble.
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