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Matthew chapter 24 Jesus gives this answer to the disciples question about

when he when the son of man is going to return. And in the home stretch of this answer,

it looks like he is just pulling on a jillion little threads

from the Old Testament.

And so in just literally one verse,

we've already been all over the Old Testament in Isaiah and

Daniel and Ezekiel looking at the stuff that Jesus would seem to be referencing or

calling to mind for his original audience about what it's going to be like

when the son of man returns.

So the verse we're looking at is just this.

Immediately after the distress of those days, these are the words of Jesus. The sun will be darkened and the

moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky and the

heavenly bodies will be shaken. Now we've already seen that Jesus is invoking

here a judgment of God against Babylon, a group that profaned

the temple and were punished profoundly.

Babylon at the time of Jesus was used as a metaphor, a

pen name, a pseudonym.

We even call it a code name,

well I like that better, a code name

for Rome and the current occupiers.

Rome under the leadership of Pompeii 60, 70, 80 years before Jesus had profaned the temple.

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