The Powers of the Heavens by Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 16, 1867

The Powers of the Heavens.

By Editor

OUR LORD, in stating what signs should precede his second coming, said, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.” Matt. xxiv, 29.

There has been a variety of opinions with different classes of people, as to what is meant by the expression, “the powers of the heavens.” The original, however, makes this matter very clear. The word rendered powers is δύναμις; and one of the definitions given of this word by both Robinson and Greenfield, is, “From the Hebrew, plural, the hosts of heaven, the sun, moon, and stars.”—Ed.