I think what main Christians think is, there are signs for end of World, and those are darkened sun, moon, falling stars, and the rest of signs. So, until the end of the world comes, the words of Jesus shall not pass.
Rev 6:12-13 “And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood. And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.”
Matthew 24:29-30 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.”
Mark 13:24-26 ”But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
All of these things already happened and the world did not end, nor did Jesus return.
However, the Son of Man came in the clouds with power and great glory:
1.
1755 Lisbon earthquake
2.
New England's Dark Day
3.
The Falling of the Stars
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Matthew 24 The Return of the Son of Man
…28 "Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather. 29 "But immediately after the tribulation of those days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS WILL FALL from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 "And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory.…
Jesus foretold it exactly, but Jesus did not predict the exact years.
Jesus said the Son of Man would appear after the stars fell: Mark 13:25 “AND THE STARS WILL BE FALLING from heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.” 26 "Then they will see THE SON OF MAN COMING IN CLOUDS with great power and glory.…”
THE STAR-FALL OF 1833
So exceptional was this event that Clarke in his
History of Astronomy in the Nineteenth Century writes: “… a tempest of falling stars broke over the earth.”
According to the millennial scholars of the 1840s, the
third sign in the sixth chapter of
Revelation came to pass on 12 November 1833, the night of the unique star-fall.
Clarke wrote of that night, saying: “Once and for all, then, as the result of the star-fall of 1833, the study of luminous meteors became an integral part of astronomy.” He goes on to say: “North America bore the brunt of its pelting. From the Gulf of Mexico to Halifax, until daylight with some difficulties put an end to the display, the sky was scored in every direction with shining tracks and illuminated with majestic fireballs.”
Denison Olmsted, Professor of Mathematics at Yale University, wrote the following in the
American Journal of Science: “The morning of 13 November 1833, was rendered memorable by an exhibition of the phenomenon called shooting stars, which was probably more extensive and magnificent than any similar one hitherto recorded …
Probably no celestial phenomenon has ever occurred in this country, since its first settlement, which was received with so much admiration and delight by one class of spectators, or with so much astonishment and fear by another class. For some time after the occurrence, the ‘meteoric phenomenon’ was the principle topic of conversation.”
Simon Newcomb in
Astronomy for Everybody called the display of falling stars
“the most remarkable one ever observed”.
The French astronomer, Flammarion, in
Popular Astronomy, wrote: “The Boston observer, Olmsted, compared them, at the moment of maximum, to half the number of flakes which are perceived in the air during an ordinary shower of snow.”
The
New York Journal of Commerce wrote: “No philosopher or scholar has told or recorded an event like that of yesterday morning.
A prophet eighteen hundred years ago foretold it exactly, if we will be at the trouble of understanding stars falling to mean falling stars.” (New York Journal of Commerce, 14 November 1833.)
Astronomers, after careful study, learned that this particular meteoric display occurs every thirty–three years. However,
the display of 1833 was unique in its drama. The fall of 1866 did not rival it in any way, and that of 1899 was of even less interest.
In any event, as the millennial scholars said, it was not the cause behind the
sign, but
the time of its arrival, and
its sequence with the
earthquake and the
dark day which were important. Many Biblical scholars pointed to the exact fulfilment, and in the proper order of the prophecies concerning the heavens and the signs of the coming of Christ as given in the sixth chapter of
Revelation:
1. The appearance of the great earthquake in 1755.
2. The sun darkened and the moon turned into blood on the Dark Day of 1780.
3. The stars falling from the heavens in 1833.
From:
http://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sears_thief_night.pdf
