Matthew 24:29-35
In this part of our Lord’s prophecy He describes His own second coming to judge the world. This, at all events, seems the natural meaning of the passage: to take any lower view appears to be a violent straining of Scripture language. If the solemn words here used mean nothing more than the coming of the Roman armies to Jerusalem, we may explain away anything in the Bible. The event here described is one of far greater moment than the march of an earthly army; it is nothing less than the closing act of the present dispensation — the second personal advent of Jesus Christ.
These verses teach us in the first place that when the Lord Jesus
returns to this world He shall come with peculiar glory and majesty. He shall come “in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.” Before His presence the very sun, moon and stars shall be darkened, and “the powers of heaven shall be shaken.”