Revelation 6:12

God's Word

I watched as the lamb opened the sixth seal. A powerful earthquake struck. The sun turned as black as sackcloth made of hair. The full moon turned as red as blood.

Cross References

Isaiah 24:23

The moon will be embarrassed. The sun will be ashamed, because the Lord of Armies will rule on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem. He will be glorious in the presence of his respected leaders.

Isaiah 29:6

The Lord of Armies will punish you with thunder, earthquakes, and loud noises, with windstorms, rainstorms, and fire storms.

Isaiah 34:4

All the stars in the sky will rot. The heavens will be rolled up like a scroll. The stars will fall like leaves from a grapevine, like green figs from a fig tree.

Isaiah 50:3

I clothe the heavens in darkness and cover them with sackcloth.

Joel 2:10

The earth quakes in their presence, and the sky shakes. The sun and the moon turn dark, and the stars no longer shine.

Joel 3:15

The sun and the moon will turn dark. The stars will no longer shine.

Amos 1:1

These are the words of Amos, one of the sheep farmers from Tekoa. He saw ⌞a vision⌟ about Israel during the reigns of Judah’s King Uzziah and Israel’s King Jeroboam, son of Joash. This happened two years before the earthquake.

Amos 8:9

On that day, declares the Almighty Lord, I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

Zechariah 14:5

Then you will flee to the valley of my mountains, because this valley between the mountains will go as far as Azel. You will flee as you did from the earthquake at the time of King Uzziah of Judah. The Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones will be with him.

Matthew 11:21

“How horrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How horrible it will be for you, Bethsaida! If the miracles worked in you had been worked in Tyre and Sidon, they would have changed the way they thought and acted long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Matthew 24:29

“Immediately after the misery of those days, the sun will turn dark, the moon will not give light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the universe will be shaken.

Matthew 24:7

Nation will fight against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

Matthew 27:45

At noon darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

Matthew 27:54

An army officer and those watching Jesus with him saw the earthquake and the other things happening. They were terrified and said, “Certainly, this was the Son of God!”

Matthew 28:2

Suddenly, there was a powerful earthquake. An angel of the Lord had come down from heaven, rolled the stone away, and was sitting on it.

Mark 15:33

At noon darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

Revelation 11:13

At that moment a powerful earthquake struck. One-tenth of the city collapsed, 7,000 people were killed by the earthquake, and the rest were terrified. They gave glory to the God of heaven.

Revelation 16:18

There was lightning, noise, thunder, and a powerful earthquake. There has never been such a powerful earthquake since humans have been on earth.

Revelation 16:8

The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun. The sun was allowed to burn people with fire.

Revelation 8:12

When the fourth angel blew his trumpet, one-third of the sun, one-third of the moon, and one-third of the stars were struck so that one-third of them turned dark. There was no light for one-third of the day and one-third of the night.

Revelation 8:5

The angel took the incense burner, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it on the earth. Then there was thunder, noise, lightning, and an earthquake.