"And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven." (Luke 21: 11)
"Fearful sights" (φοβητρά - phobetron) is only used here in the NT. It is also rare in classical Greek. It is used in the Septuagint for Isaiah 19:17. It is said to be "not confined to sights, but fearful things. Rev., better, terrors. Used in medical language by Hippocrates, of fearful objects imagined by the sick." (Vincent's Word Studies) It means simply that which strikes terror, terrorism.
I do believe that "fearful sights" and "great signs" are joined with "from heaven." Both are in the sky, or perhaps in space, or both. They are things that can be seen from earth by human eyes.
We know that our world, being on the brink of the Apocalypse, is seeing "terrorism" widespread over the world. That is indeed a fearful sight. It portends the coming of the civil war under the rider on the red horseman of the Apocalypse (of which I have written extensively). But, the "fearful sights" no doubt include more than the terrorism of which we speak.
Are today's UFOs part of this end time prophecy of "fearful sights"?
We know that the days of the coming Apocalypse, the time of "the great tribulation," have lots of "fearful sights," such as stars (meteors, comets, etc.) falling from heaven, the heavens rolling together as a scroll, angels flying in the midst of heaven, etc.
What think ye?
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