Verse 27

For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

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  • Isa 30:30 : 30 The LORD will cause his majestic voice to be heard and will display the strength of his arm with furious anger and consuming fire, with a cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
  • Zech 9:14 : 14 Then the LORD will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Sovereign LORD will sound the trumpet and march forth in the storms of the south.
  • Mal 3:2 : 2
  • Matt 24:37 : 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
  • Matt 24:39 : 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
  • Luke 17:24-37 : 24 For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day. 25 But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. 26 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 People were eating, drinking, marrying, and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, 29 But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed. 31 On that day, no one who is on the housetop with possessions inside should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should turn back for anything. 32 Remember Lot's wife! 33 Whoever tries to save their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it. 34 I say to you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. 35 Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left. 36 Two people will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 37 And they answered him, 'Where, Lord?' He said to them, 'Where there is a body, there the vultures will gather.'
  • Jas 5:8 : 8 You too must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near.
  • Job 37:3 : 3 He unleashes it under the whole sky, and His lightning to the edges of the earth.
  • Job 38:35 : 35 Can you send forth lightning bolts and have them go? Do they report to you, 'Here we are'?
  • 2 Pet 3:4 : 4 and they will say, 'Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, everything continues just as it has from the beginning of creation.'
  • Matt 8:20 : 20 Jesus replied, 'Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.'
  • Matt 16:28 : 28 Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.
  • Matt 24:3 : 3 While Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately and said, 'Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?'