I believe that Jesus Christ was then revealing what the "sign" of the Son of man will be. It happens about the time of the 7th trumpet, when Jesus Christ is seen sitting on the right hand of power - and coming in great power and glory!
The wicked will hide in the rocks for fear of Him and His glory!
I can view these
wicked ones as the ones shown in revelation.......
live by the den/cave, die by the den/cave
4693. spelaion spay'-lah-yon neuter of a presumed derivative of speos (a grotto); a cavern; by implication, a hiding-place or resort:--
cave, den.
Strong's Number
G4693 matches the Greek σπήλαιον (
spēlaion), which occurs 6 times in
6 verses
Matt 21:13
and he saith to them, 'It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.'
Luk 23:30
“Then
they will begin ‘to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!” '
Revelation 6:16
15 And the kings of the earth, and the princes, and the chief captains, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and freeman,
hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 for the great day of
their wrath is come; and who is able to stand?
The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD
The day on which Titus encompassed Jerusalem, was the feast of the Passover...........
Meanwhile the
horrors of famine grew still more melancholy and afflictive.
The Jews, for of food were at length compelled to eat their belts, their sandals, the skins of their shields, dried grass, and even the ordure of oxen. In the depth or this horrible extremity,.........