The Second Coming of Jesus is compared to lightning ( Matthew 24: 27, Luke 17: 24). In Christianity, One of its most significant verses is Deuteronomy 6:4, Verses 6:4–5 were also quoted by Jesus in Mark 12:28–34 as the Great Commandment.in the Torah, the word for 'arrow', khets חֵץ, is used for the 'arrows' of YHWH/ Elohim, which are represented as lightnings in Habakuk 3:11, but also as general calamities inflicted on men as divine punishment in Deuteronomy 32:42, Psalm 64:7, Job 6:4, etc.As such, it is an unsurpassed method of dramatic instantaneous retributive destruction: thunderbolts as divine weapons can be found in many mythologies. Lightning plays a role in many mythologies, often as the weapon of a sky god and weather god. Neo-Attic bas-relief sculpture of Jupiter, holding a thunderbolt in his right hand detail from the Moncloa Puteal (Roman, 2nd century), National Archaeological Museum, Madrid Drawing from this powerful association, the thunderbolt is often found in military symbolism and semiotic representations of electricity. As a divine manifestation the thunderbolt has been a powerful symbol throughout history, and has appeared in many mythologies. In its original usage the word may also have been a description of the consequences of a close approach between two planetary cosmic bodies, as Plato suggested in Timaeus, or, according to Victor Clube, meteors, though this is not currently the case. It may have been a symbol of cosmic order, as expressed in the fragment from Heraclitus describing 'the Thunderbolt that steers the course of all things'. In Indo-European mythology, the thunderbolt was identified with the 'Sky Father' this association is also found in later Hellenic representations of Zeus and Vedic descriptions of the vajra wielded by the god Indra.

Ptolemaic coin showing the Eagle of Zeus, holding a thunderboltĪ thunderbolt or lightning bolt is a symbolic representation of lightning when accompanied by a loud thunderclap.

Cartoon lighting blot