Acts 2:20

The sun will darken and the moon turn to blood before the great day of the Lord. It warns of coming judgment alongside the offer of salvation.

Cross-references · 21

• 2 Pet 3:10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
• Amos 8:9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
• Matt 24:29Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
• 1 Th 5:2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
• Mal 4:5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
• Joel 2:1Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
• Mark 13:24But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
• 2 Pet 3:7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
• Luke 21:25And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
• Joel 3:14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
• Isa 2:12–21For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
• Rev 6:12And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
• Rev 16:8And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
• Matt 27:45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
• Jer 4:23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
• Isa 13:9Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
• Isa 13:15Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
• Isa 24:23Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
• Zeph 2:2–3Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD’s anger come upon you.
• Isa 34:8For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
• 1 Cor 5:5To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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