Mark 13:24-25

Mark 13:24-25

[24] But  in  those  days,  after  that  tribulation,  the sun  shall be darkened,  and  the moon  not  give  her  light,  [25] And  the stars  of heaven  and  the powers  that are in  heaven  shall be shaken. 

What does Mark 13:24-25 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

In contrast to the appearance of false Messiahs, the true Messiah will appear after the predicted Tribulation. [1] This Isaiah , of course, a reference to the Second Coming, not the Rapture. The Rapture terminates the church age, a period of time within the inter-advent age. The Olivet Discourse deals with the larger period, the inter-advent age, and does not refer to the church, though the church exists during most of the inter-advent age. The Book of Revelation gives further information about the celestial phenomena that will happen then ( Revelation 6-18; cf. Mark 13:7-894). However the Old Testament prophets also predicted these things ( Isaiah 13:10; Isaiah 24:23; Isaiah 34:4; Ezekiel 32:7-8; Joel 2:10; Joel 2:30-31; Joel 3:15; Amos 8:9). If we take the wars, earthquakes, and famines of 1711724065_7 literally, and I think we should, we should probably understand these phenomena literally too.