Joel 2:31
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31 The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.(A)
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Malachi 4:5
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5 See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.(A)
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Matthew 24:29
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The Coming of the Son of Man
29 “Immediately after the suffering of those days
the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from heaven,
and the powers of heaven will be shaken.(A)
Revelation 6:12-13
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12 When he broke the sixth seal, I looked, and there was a great earthquake; the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,(A) 13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree drops its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.(B)
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Malachi 4:1
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The Great Day of the Lord
4 [a]See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.(A)
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- 4.1 3.19 in Heb
Joel 2:10
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10 The earth quakes before them;
the heavens tremble.
The sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.(A)
Mark 13:24-25
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The Coming of the Son of Man
24 “But in those days, after that suffering,
the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light,(A)
25 and the stars will be falling from heaven,
and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.
Zephaniah 1:14-16
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The Great Day of the Lord
14 The great day of the Lord is near,
near and hastening fast;
the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter;
the warrior cries aloud there.(A)
15 That day will be a day of wrath,
a day of distress and anguish,
a day of ruin and devastation,
a day of darkness and gloom,
a day of clouds and thick darkness,(B)
16 a day of trumpet blast and battle cry
against the fortified cities
and against the lofty battlements.
Joel 3:15
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15 The sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.
Luke 21:25
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The Coming of the Son of Man
25 “There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves.(A)
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Isaiah 13:9-10
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9 See, the day of the Lord is coming,
cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,
to make the earth a desolation
and to destroy its sinners from it.(A)
10 For the stars of the heavens and their constellations
will not give their light;
the sun will be dark at its rising,
and the moon will not shed its light.(B)
Joel 3:1
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3 [a]For then, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,(A)
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- 3.1 4.1 in Heb
Matthew 27:45
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The Death of Jesus
45 From noon on, darkness came over the whole land[a] until three in the afternoon.(A)
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- 27.45 Or earth
Isaiah 34:4-5
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4 All the host of heaven shall rot away,
and the skies roll up like a scroll.
All their host shall wither
like a leaf withering on a vine
or fruit withering on a fig tree.(A)
5 When my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens,
upon Edom it will fall,
upon the people I have doomed to judgment.(B)
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