Mark 13:24-25

The coming of Judgment Day: V. 24. But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, V. 25. and the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.

The evangelist's account is only a brief summary of the words of the Lord, but what depth of emotion is in the few words thus recorded!

As Jesus looks forward, according to His omniscience, the earlier calamity will merge into the later, the judgment upon Jerusalem is carried out only on a greater scale in the final judgment of the world.

There will be no interval of a happy, sinless reign, no millennium. With no respite and without extensive previous warning the Day of the Lord will dawn, it will burst upon the world with great suddenness. Then there will be signs such as are entirely out of the usual course of events in nature; no ordinary eclipses which follow laws and rules framed by God, but a return to chaos.