Mark 13:24 Meaning and Explanation
“But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,”
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What Does Mark 13:24 Mean?
Jesus' gaze now travels beyond the tribulation — 'in those days, after' — to a scene painted in the language of the prophets. Isaiah and Joel had spoken this way of the day of the Lord: sun darkened, moon withholding light. The steadiest lights in human experience, the clocks of every calendar, go out.
The imagery declares that the day of the Lord is no local event; it engulfs the very frame of the world. Everything by which people steer — the fixed, the bright, the dependable — is dimmed so that one light alone may fill the eye: the coming Son of man. What feels like the failing of the world is the clearing of the stage. Darkness in this scene is not the end of the story; it is the hush before glory enters.
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What does Mark 13:24 mean?
After that tribulation the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give her light.