ACC ~ Luke 21 v25 - 26

SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS WHEN PEOPLE FALL INTO UNBELIEF

AMBROSE: This is a true sequence of prophecy and a fresh cause of mystery, because the Jews will be led captive a second time to Babylon and Assyria. Those throughout the world who have denied Christ will be captive. A hostile army will trample visible Jerusalem as the sword kills Jews. All Judea will be put to the spiritual sword, the two-edged sword, [1] by the nations that will believe. There will be different signs in the sun, moon and the stars. [2] … When very many fall away from religion, a cloud of unbelief will darken bright faith, because for me that heavenly Sun [3] is either diminished or increased by my faith. If very many gaze on the rays of the worldly sun, the sun seems bright or pale in proportion to the capacity of the viewer, so the spiritual light is imparted to each according to the devotion of the believer. In its monthly courses, the moon, opposite the earth, wanes when it is in the sun’s quarter. When the vices of the flesh obstruct the heavenly Light, the holy church also cannot borrow the brightness of the divine Light from the rays of Christ. In the persecutions, love of this life alone certainly very often shuts out the light of God. EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 10.36-37. [4]

[1] Heb 4:12.

[2] See Joel 2:10, 30-31; 3:15.

[3] See Mal 4:2.

[4] EHG 399**.