Luke 21:25

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

“Then [Note: This event answers to the “immediately” of Matt. 24:29, and suggests the next major event on God’s calendar] there will be [supernatural] signs [evident] in the sun and moon and stars. And on earth [there will be] distress among nations; they will be perplexed by the roaring of the ocean’s churning waves. [Note: Probably this is figurative language for highly agitated conditions on earth].

Cross References

Matthew 24:29

“But immediately after the terrible trouble of those days, [i.e., the next major event on God’s calendar], the sun will become dark, and [therefore] the moon will not [be able to] shed its [reflected] light. The stars will fall from the sky and the forces of the heavens will be shaken [Note: From the description of these same events in Luke 21:25-26, it is possible that this is figurative language for great calamities happening on the earth].

Matthew 27:45

Now from noon until three o’clock in the afternoon there was darkness over all the land.

Mark 13:24

`But after those days of terrible trouble [i.e., the next major event on God’s calendar will be], the sun will become dark, and [therefore] the moon will not [be able to] shed its [reflected] light,

Mark 13:26

And then they will see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and splendor.

Mark 15:33

And when it became noon there was darkness over the entire land until three o’clock in the afternoon.

Luke 21:24

And people will die by the sword and be led captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled on by the [unconverted] Gentiles [i.e., by the Romans and later by others] until the times of [domination by] the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Luke 21:26

Men will become despondent from fear, and from dreading the [terrible] things which will come upon the earth, for the forces of the heavens will be shaken.

Acts 2:19

And I will display miracles in the sky above and [supernatural] signs on the earth below [consisting of] blood, fire and smoky vapor.

Revelation 20:11

Then I saw a great [i.e., huge], white throne and Him who was seated on it [i.e., probably Christ]. Earth and heaven fled from His presence and they were not found anywhere [again].