Is it the end of the world when...?
Is it the end of world when...? (94) The Second Coming Jesus, looking back over Jerusalem in the week before Passover, goes on to say more about the end of the world perhaps, not just the “end of the world as they knew it.” Read Matthew 24:29-31, Mark 13:24-27, Luke 21:25-28 1. Read Isaiah 13:10-11, Jeremiah 4:23-24, Joel 2:10, Amos 8:9, Revelation 6:12-14 What physical events cause the sun, moon, and stars to disappear? And what physical events might look like stars falling from the sky? 2. Is Jesus talking about physical events? (There may well have been earthquakes and eruptions near the time of Jerusalem’s destruction – physical events could have inspired or fulfilled Revelation, or both.) 3. In Matthew 24:30 what might be the “sign of the son of man”? Could it be something we’ll only know when we see it, like the “abomination” in the earlier passage? ...