The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come.The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah cometh.
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… and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness, the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord, and it will be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Man of Israel, hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man accredited to you by God through mighty works and signs and wonders God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know, this Jesus, delivered up by the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, this Jesus whom you crucified by the hands of lawless men, And this Jesus God raised him to life, setting him free from the agony of death, because it was not possible for death to keep its hold on him. See, King David, he says about him in the Psalms, I saw the Lord always before me, because the Lord is at my right hand, I will never be shaken. And so my heart is glad, my tongue rejoices, and in my body I will live in hope. …
I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below. blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. And everyone who calls in the name of the Lord will be saved. Now those verses he just quoted were from Joel. Anybody know where in Joel? Joel chapter 2 verses 28 through 32. Either we have Bible scholars here or they've got a little note down at the bottom of their Bibles that tells them, some of you probably have it, Joel 2, 28-32, instant Bible scholar status, okay? So he quotes from Joel. So out of the first part of this sermon, we've got a pretty heavy Old Testament emphasis. Then we get to verse 22, men of Israel. Listen to this. Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. …
Joel 2.11, the day of the Lord is great and very terrible. Same chapter, verse 31, the sun shall be turned into darkness, the moon into blood before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. Prophet Amos says, Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! For what good is the day of the Lord to you? Is not the day of the Lord darkness and not light?" Malachi writes that the day of the Lord is a great and dreadful day. Zephaniah says, the great day of the Lord is near, it hastens quickly, the noise of the day of the Lord is bitter. Zephaniah chapter 1 also says, that day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble, distress, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. Zechariah 14, the opening verses also define it in similar terms. These times in the Old Testament, the day of the Lord is called the day of doom, the day of doom. …
… fire, columns of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness, the moon into blood before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. This will change everything, plants, crops, tides, men, animals, everything in complete chaos on the earth. And then the sky is the subject in verse 13. The fourth feature, the stars of the sky fell to the earth. fiery balls start careening out of the darkness, out of the blackness, and hitting the earth. The word stars here is asterace, from which comes the English word asteroid. And asterace refers to any heavenly body. It could be a star. A star could be a thousand times larger than our sun. But an asteroid could be the size of a truck, or the size of a neighborhood, or the size of a town, or the size of a city. It could be hundreds of miles in diameter. They know they're up there. The astronomers are very much aware of it. There are, in fact, trillions, trillions of asteroids and comets flying around in space that God can use when He starts firing them at this earth. …