Joel 2:30 Cross References

Joel 2:30

30: "I will cause wonders in the heavens and on the earth--blood and fire and pillars of smoke.

There will be great earthquakes, and there will be famines and epidemics in many lands, and there will be terrifying things and great miraculous signs in the heavens.

"Immediately after those horrible days end, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.

And I will cause wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below--blood and fire and clouds of smoke.
The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon will turn bloodred, before that great and glorious day of the Lord arrives.

"And there will be strange events in the skies--signs in the sun, moon, and stars. And down here on earth the nations will be in turmoil, perplexed by the roaring seas and strange tides.
The courage of many people will falter because of the fearful fate they see coming upon the earth, because the stability of the very heavens will be broken up.

But when the warriors of Benjamin looked behind them and saw the smoke rising into the sky from every part of the town,

And the rulers of the world who took part in her immoral acts and enjoyed her great luxury will mourn for her as they see the smoke rising from her charred remains.

They will weep as they watch the smoke ascend, and they will say, "Where in all the world is there another city like this?"

He looked out across the plain to Sodom and Gomorrah and saw columns of smoke and fumes, as from a furnace, rising from the cities there.

Who is this sweeping in from the deserts like a cloud of smoke along the ground? Who is it that smells of myrrh and frankincense and every other spice?

I watched as the Lamb broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became as dark as black cloth, and the moon became as red as blood.
Then the stars of the sky fell to the earth like green figs falling from trees shaken by mighty winds.
And the sky was rolled up like a scroll and taken away. And all of the mountains and all of the islands disappeared.
Then the kings of the earth, the rulers, the generals, the wealthy people, the people with great power, and every slave and every free person--all hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
And they cried to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.

When the men of Ai looked behind them, smoke from the city was filling the sky, and they had nowhere to go. For the Israelites who had fled in the direction of the wilderness now turned on their pursuers.

"At that time, after those horrible days end, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give light,
the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.

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