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Jesus only left one sure sign of His return. Many refer to Matthew 24 as their defense for saying Jesus said no one can know the day nor the hour of His return. However, Jesus did not say we could not know when He was returning. He said "Heaven and earth will pass away...but of THAT day and THAT hour knows no man neither the angels neither the Son." Jesus was not talking about His return. He was talking about Revelation 20:11. His Father shows His face and heaven and earth pass away with fervent heat. This is not Jesus' return. The Father destroys heaven and earth to recreate them in this passage. This has nothing to do with Jesus' return and being able to know when He is returning.

Jesus' words in Matthew 24 are a direct quote of Isaiah 13. Isaiah speaks of the day of the Lord (Jesus). He tells us of a nuclear war which must occur between the Medes (present day Kurds) and Babylon (present day Iraq). The arrows are said to come from heaven (space). Iraq is destroyed so completely that no one ever lives there again.

This war causes the earth to leave its orbit from around the sun. Isaiah 13:12-13. This begins the three day countdown to Jesus' return. The earth goes into total darkness. These three days of darkness are what Jesus called "The sign of the Son of Man" in Matthew 24. This is the only sign mentioned just before the trumpet is mentioned for the angels to gather the elect (the rapture). Jesus mentioning the sun, moon and stars going dark is saying the exact same thing Isaiah 13 says. Jesus says the stars of heaven fall to the earth. He is telling us how the inhabitants of the earth will view this as the earth leaves its orbit. It will appear the stars are falling as the earth leaves its orbit.

The reason for the three days of darkness mentioned above, is that this correlates to the time Jesus spent in the grave. Jesus called Himself the light of the world. If the light of the world went missing as He lay in the grave, then the earth went through a period of darkness for three days. Of course this was a spiritual darkness. However, there is a physical sign which matches this spiritual darkness.

The opening passages of Genesis show the earth in darkness and flooded. It is not until the fourth day that God placed the sun, moon and stars into the heavens to light the earth. This is why the earth is shown as dark. Darkness was upon the face of the deep (space). The earth had left its orbit once before. The darkness lasts three days until God places the sun, moon and stars to light it once again.

This period of darkness was meant to honor the time Jesus the light of the world would be in the grave. We see the sign next when God makes His covenant with Abram. Genesis 15. God causes a horrible darkness to fall upon Abram. Why? God is showing Abram the sign of the Son of Man on which Abram's faith is to be based. Jesus' time in the grave to pay for our sins. When the anniversary of this covenant comes some 430 years later, God delivers the Hebrews using the same sign. Three days of darkness fall upon Egypt. This is when the firstborn of the Egyptians was struck dead by God while the Hebrews were spared this event. They had light while the Egyptians had three days of darkness.

Next we see the sign when Jesus hangs on the cross. Three hours of darkness fall upon Israel. While no explanation is given, we can deduce that it is the same sign only a shortened version. It was intended as a prophetic sign as to what will preceed the return of Jesus to claim the earth. Then we see Jesus the light of the earth missing three days as He lay in the tomb. Jesus villalobos--Jv712 (talk) 21:39, 1 June 2010 (UTC)