Revelation 6:12

The sixth seal brings a great earthquake and the darkening of sun and moon. Cosmic upheaval signals the approach of God's final judgment.

Cross-references · 27

• Matt 24:29Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
• Joel 2:10Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.
• Acts 2:19–20I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
• Mark 13:24–25But in those days, after that tribulation: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;
• Joel 3:15The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.
• Joel 2:30–31I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.
• Amos 8:9And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
• Rev 16:18And there were flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder, and a great earthquake the likes of which had not occurred since men were upon the earth—so mighty was the great quake.
• Isa 13:9–10Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.
• Ezek 32:7–8When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.
• Isa 50:3I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”
• Rev 11:13And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand were killed in the quake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
• Isa 29:6you will be visited by the LORD of Hosts with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, with windstorm and tempest and consuming flame of fire.
• Rev 8:5Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the earth; and there were peals of thunder, and rumblings, and flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
• Hag 2:6–7For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.
• Isa 24:23The moon will be confounded and the sun will be ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before His elders with great glory.
• Hag 2:21–22“Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I am about to shake the heavens and the earth:
• Matt 24:7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
• Zech 14:5You will flee by My mountain valley, for it will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with Him.
• Isa 60:19–20No longer will the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on your night; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your splendor.
• Matt 27:45From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
• 1 Kgs 19:11–13Then the LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Behold, the LORD is about to pass by.” And a great and mighty wind tore into the mountains and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.
• Luke 23:44–45It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour.
• Matt 27:54When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified and said, “Truly this was the Son of God.”
• Matt 28:2Suddenly there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, rolled away the stone, and sat on it.
• Mark 15:33From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
• Amos 1:1These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.

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