There is so much to see in this verse but, to truly SEE as He wishes us to see, is to [see/understand] spiritually....
Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
1. What are the signs? We are His signs....
Isaiah 8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
2. What is meant by "signs in the sun?" Signs are the apostles and prophets such as Isaiah and "the children." How can we be "signs in the sun?" What is "the sun, the Great Light that rules the day?"
Genesis 1:14-19 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
1 Thessalonians 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
John 1:4-9 In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Revelation 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
The Sun is the Great Light, the Lamb, the True Light and we are "signs in the Sun" IF we are children of the day, of Light.
3. What are "signs in the moon?"
As the True Light has children of the Light....the lesser of the great lights, the moon, also has signs (children of the darkness.) They cannot comprehend the Light for the Light is divided from darkness. As Light has prophets, apostles, teachers, etc.....darkness has his false prophets, wolves in sheep's clothing, liars, deceivers...his signs in the moon.
As the "True Light" is Jesus, the Sun/Son...the false light is that of Satan, the moon. It has no light of it's own...it glows with a false light cast from the Sun.
4. Signs in the stars....what are Biblical stars?
Revelation 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
Stars are angels. So, angelic beings will be signs. There are good angels and...fallen angels. We know this will be a time of turmoil so are the "stars" the return of the fallen angels, the "wandering stars?" Are they those that are held in chains of darkness (meaning under the control of Satan) to come forward in the last days?
Jude 1:6,13 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.(13) Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
5. The last of the...signs of the sea and the waves roaring.
From the above Jude quote we see that the "raging waves of the sea," the roaring waves are...the wandering stars...fallen angels! The "sea" is symbolic of masses of ungodly people. There is a lot of roaring going on today!
Understanding the spiritual meaning of signs in the sun, moon, stars, etc....then opens understanding of:
Mark 13:24-25 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
"After that tribulation." Are there two? Yes, the first precedes the arrival of Satan himself in the guise of Jesus Christ. The first tribulation prepared his way by his false prophets...sent to deceive so that many of God's children shall fall. The second and greatest tribulation is taught of here:
Mark 13:19-24 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be. And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom He hath chosen, He hath shortened the days. And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, He is there; believe him not: For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things. But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
After the on-going tribulation of spiritual deception, "after that tribulation the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light." Jesus tells us that the tribulation of Satan precedes the wrath of God (regardless of what man teaches about rapture). Satan's hour of temptation, the great tribulation is when...
6. The Sun shall be darkened
Acts 2:20-21 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Joel 3:14-16 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of His people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
The Sun....The Lamb, The Light of the world is "turned into darkness." Darkness is Satan. Satan will be here pretending to be our Saviour! Darkness will obscure the true Light. This is the great tribulation which is BEFORE the day of the Lord...call on the name of the Lord, the true Lord, to be saved. The voice of the Lord will be roaring out of Zion and Jerusalem as His elect children are those that speak His Words...if others will hear and be saved. (Zion and Jerusalem speak of people...not a geographical location).
7. The moon shall not give her light and became as blood.
Satan will be here as the false Christ, a false Light...darkness rather than Light. The time of 666:
Revelation 6:12 (666) And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
The sun becomes dark/Satan while the moon became as blood. Blood is the "life of the flesh," [Gen.9:4] Those still carnal/flesh find their life in their father, in their rock...and he is not our Rock. Satan is the life/blood of the fallen and they will have no idea they have been deceived. They have taken the mark of the beast by believing his lies, by believing he is Jesus Christ.
To understand the spiritual nature of His Words is to see.
Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
1. What are the signs? We are His signs....
Isaiah 8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
2. What is meant by "signs in the sun?" Signs are the apostles and prophets such as Isaiah and "the children." How can we be "signs in the sun?" What is "the sun, the Great Light that rules the day?"
Genesis 1:14-19 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
1 Thessalonians 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
John 1:4-9 In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Revelation 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
The Sun is the Great Light, the Lamb, the True Light and we are "signs in the Sun" IF we are children of the day, of Light.
3. What are "signs in the moon?"
As the True Light has children of the Light....the lesser of the great lights, the moon, also has signs (children of the darkness.) They cannot comprehend the Light for the Light is divided from darkness. As Light has prophets, apostles, teachers, etc.....darkness has his false prophets, wolves in sheep's clothing, liars, deceivers...his signs in the moon.
As the "True Light" is Jesus, the Sun/Son...the false light is that of Satan, the moon. It has no light of it's own...it glows with a false light cast from the Sun.
4. Signs in the stars....what are Biblical stars?
Revelation 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
Stars are angels. So, angelic beings will be signs. There are good angels and...fallen angels. We know this will be a time of turmoil so are the "stars" the return of the fallen angels, the "wandering stars?" Are they those that are held in chains of darkness (meaning under the control of Satan) to come forward in the last days?
Jude 1:6,13 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.(13) Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
5. The last of the...signs of the sea and the waves roaring.
From the above Jude quote we see that the "raging waves of the sea," the roaring waves are...the wandering stars...fallen angels! The "sea" is symbolic of masses of ungodly people. There is a lot of roaring going on today!
Understanding the spiritual meaning of signs in the sun, moon, stars, etc....then opens understanding of:
Mark 13:24-25 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
"After that tribulation." Are there two? Yes, the first precedes the arrival of Satan himself in the guise of Jesus Christ. The first tribulation prepared his way by his false prophets...sent to deceive so that many of God's children shall fall. The second and greatest tribulation is taught of here:
Mark 13:19-24 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be. And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom He hath chosen, He hath shortened the days. And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, He is there; believe him not: For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things. But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
After the on-going tribulation of spiritual deception, "after that tribulation the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light." Jesus tells us that the tribulation of Satan precedes the wrath of God (regardless of what man teaches about rapture). Satan's hour of temptation, the great tribulation is when...
6. The Sun shall be darkened
Acts 2:20-21 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Joel 3:14-16 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of His people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
The Sun....The Lamb, The Light of the world is "turned into darkness." Darkness is Satan. Satan will be here pretending to be our Saviour! Darkness will obscure the true Light. This is the great tribulation which is BEFORE the day of the Lord...call on the name of the Lord, the true Lord, to be saved. The voice of the Lord will be roaring out of Zion and Jerusalem as His elect children are those that speak His Words...if others will hear and be saved. (Zion and Jerusalem speak of people...not a geographical location).
7. The moon shall not give her light and became as blood.
Satan will be here as the false Christ, a false Light...darkness rather than Light. The time of 666:
Revelation 6:12 (666) And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
The sun becomes dark/Satan while the moon became as blood. Blood is the "life of the flesh," [Gen.9:4] Those still carnal/flesh find their life in their father, in their rock...and he is not our Rock. Satan is the life/blood of the fallen and they will have no idea they have been deceived. They have taken the mark of the beast by believing his lies, by believing he is Jesus Christ.
To understand the spiritual nature of His Words is to see.
