Signs of the Times · Luke 21:25
Signs of the Times
Jesus' own phrase for reading the age — held up against a live, computed picture of the world's risk right now.
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“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring.”
What "signs of the times" means
The phrase is Jesus' own. When the Pharisees demanded a sign from heaven, He answered that they could read the sky — "foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring" — but could not "discern the signs of the times" (Matthew 16:3). The rebuke assumes the signs are readable: the question is whether the reader is honest. Luke 21:25 widens the canvas — signs in sun, moon, and stars, distress of nations, perplexity — ending not in despair but in instruction: "look up... for your redemption draweth nigh" (21:28).
This page is the watch's catch-all: the society-wide, celestial, and hard-to-categorize signals that do not fit a single tracker — read with the same rule as every other category. Report what is happening; leave the interpretation between the reader and the text.
How this watch reads the data
Instead of a mood, this page carries a measurement. The World Now computes a global risk index continuously from live events — conflicts, disasters, infrastructure stress, macro shocks — and the score above updates as the world does. Below it runs the last 24 hours of verified events across every category the platform tracks. "Distress of nations, with perplexity" is a first-century phrase; a live, auditable picture of that distress is what this century can add.
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Questions people ask
What does "signs of the times" mean?
It is Jesus' phrase from Matthew 16:3 for the readable indicators of what God is doing in an age — used as a rebuke to experts who could forecast weather but not discern their own moment. Today it names the practice of reading world events against the Bible's watch passages.
What does Luke 21:25 mean?
Luke 21:25–28 describes the far edge of the signs: disturbances in sun, moon and stars, nations in distress and perplexity, the sea roaring — and then the instruction to look up rather than melt down, "for your redemption draweth nigh."
What are the signs in the sun, moon and stars?
Luke 21:25 (echoing Joel 2:30–31 and Matthew 24:29) speaks of visible celestial disturbances preceding the Son of Man's return. Scripture leaves them undated and unenumerated — which is why this watch logs observable events and declines to map any single eclipse, comet or storm onto the verse.