“I will put anxiety in the hearts of those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a wind-driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as one flees from a sword, and fall though no one is pursuing them.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes grow weary looking for them every day. But you will be powerless to do anything.

For if we deliberately sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

For the

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days:

The sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not shed its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the celestial powers will be shaken.

the stars will be falling from the sky,
and the celestial powers will be shaken.

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief;

on that day the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, the elements will burn and be dissolved, and the earth and the works on it will be disclosed.

General references

The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness, and mental confusion,

The sun and moon will grow dark,
and the stars will cease their shining.

“But in those days, after that tribulation:

The sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not shed its light;