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"Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.

Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heavens were opened,

But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land,

Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

And I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke;

For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, "‘The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

And he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."

and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth.

For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)

And, "You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands;

Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens."

For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God,

But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.