REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Eighteen - A Time of Darkness

 As John goes on to show, the great earthquake is accompanied by terrifying events that  involve even the heavens. He says: "And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and entire moon became as blood, and the stars of the heaven  fell to the earth, as when a fig tree shaken by a high wind casts it unripe figs ." (Revelation 6:12b, 13)  What a striking phenomenon!  It represents the culmination  of the catastrophic situation that Jesus had earlier prophesied about at Matthew 24:29. Can you imagine the frightening darkness that would result if the prophecy were fulfilled literally?  No more warm comforting sunlight by day!  No more friendly moonlight  by night! and the myriad of stars would no longer twinkle against the velvety backdrop of the sky. Instead, there would be  cold, relentless blackness.

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