Revelation 8:12

The fourth trumpet darkens a third of the sun, moon, and stars, dimming day and night. It signals God's judgment reaching the very lights He created to govern the world.

Cross-references · 25

• Joel 2:31The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
• Isa 13:10For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
• Joel 2:10The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
• Rev 6:12I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.
• Matt 24:29But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
• 2 Th 2:9–12even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
• Zech 13:8–9It shall happen that in all the land,” says Yahweh, “two parts in it will be cut off and die; but the third will be left in it.
• Rev 8:7–12The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. One third of the earth was burned up, and one third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
• Mark 13:24But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,
• Rev 9:18By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.
• Joel 3:15The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
• Luke 23:44–45It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
• Exod 10:21–29Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”
• Rev 9:15The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.
• Matt 27:45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
• Luke 21:25There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;
• 2 Cor 4:4in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
• Jer 4:23I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
• Ezek 32:7–8When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
• Mark 15:33When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
• Rev 16:8–9The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.
• Rev 12:4His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
• Amos 8:9It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
• Acts 2:20The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
• Isa 24:23Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders will be glory.

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