Luke 21:26
Men withering away for fear and expectation of what shall come upon the whole world. For the powers of heaven shall be moved.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
In Context
27And then they shall see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with great power and majesty.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:32May thy sons and thy daughters be given to another people, thy eyes looking on, and languishing at the sight of them all the day, and may there be no strength in thy hand.
Matthew 24:29And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of heaven shall be moved. The stars... Or flaming meteors resembling stars.
Hebrews 10:26For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sacrifice for sins: If we sin wilfully... He speaks of the sin of wilful apostasy from the known truth; after which, as we can not be baptized again, we can not expect to have that abundant remission of sins, which Christ purchased by his death, applied to our souls in that ample manner as it is in baptism: but we have rather all manner of reason to look for a dreadful judgment; the more because apostates from the known truth, seldom or never have the grace to return to it.
Matthew Henry on Luke 21:21-29
Judgments Predicted. 20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. 21 Then let them which are in Judæa flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. 22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the… Read the whole commentary →