All the host of heaven; the sun, and moon, and stars. which frequently come under this name in Scripture, as Deuteronomy 4:19, Deuteronomy 17:3, and elsewhere. Shall be dissolved; shall seem to be dissolved. So great shall be the confusion and consternation of mankind, as if all the frame of the creation were broken into pieces. Some understand this of the general judgment; which some passages here following will not permit. But it is a very usual thing for prophetical writers, both in the Old and New Testament, to represent great and general calamities in such words and phrases as properly agree to the day of judgment; as, on the contrary, the glorious deliverances of God's people are set forth in such expressions as properly agree to the resurrection from the dead. See Ezekiel 37:7 Joel 2:31, Joel 3:15 Revelation 6:12,13. The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll, Heb. as a book; for books were then written in scrolls, which they usually rolled up together; and when they were so, no man could read any word in it; and no more shall any man be able to see those goodly lights of heaven, for they shall all be obscured and confounded. This phrase is used also Isaiah 8:1 Revelation 6:14. As the leaf that falleth off from the vine, when it is withered. As a falling fig; which falleth, either through great maturity, or being thrust out by green figs coming forth, or by any other accident.
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Isaiah 34:4
4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.