Acts 2:20

New International Reader's Version

The sun will become dark. The moon will turn red like blood. This will happen before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.

Cross References

Isaiah 13:10

All the stars in the sky will stop giving their light. The sun will be darkened as soon as it rises. The moon will not shine.

Isaiah 13:15

Those who are captured will have spears stuck through them. Those who are caught will be killed by swords.

Isaiah 13:9

The day of the Lord is coming. It will be a terrible day. The Lord’s burning anger will blaze out. He will make the land dry and empty. He’ll destroy the sinners in it.

Isaiah 24:23

The Lord who rules over all will rule on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. The elders of the city will be there. They will see his great glory. His rule will be so glorious that the sun and moon will be too ashamed to shine.

Isaiah 34:8

That’s because the Lord has set aside a day to pay Edom back. He has set aside a year to pay them back. He will pay them back for what they did to Zion.

Jeremiah 4:23

I looked at the earth. It didn’t have any shape. And it was empty. I looked at the sky. Its light was gone.

Joel 2:1

Priests, blow the trumpets in Zion. Give a warning on my holy mountain. Let everyone who lives in the land tremble with fear. The day of the Lord is coming. It is very near.

Joel 2:31

The sun will become dark. The moon will turn red like blood. It will happen before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.

Joel 3:14

Huge numbers of soldiers are gathered in the valley where the Lord will hand down his sentence. The day of the Lord is near in that valley.

Amos 8:9

The Lord and King announces, “At that time I will make the sun go down at noon. The earth will become dark in the middle of the day.

Malachi 4:5

“I will send the prophet Elijah to you. He will come before the day of the Lord arrives. It will be a great and terrifying day.

Matthew 24:29

“Right after the terrible suffering of those days, “ ‘The sun will be darkened. The moon will not shine. The stars will fall from the sky. The heavenly bodies will be shaken.’ (Isaiah 13:10; 34:4)

Matthew 27:45

From noon until three o’clock, the whole land was covered with darkness.

Mark 13:24

“So in those days there will be terrible suffering. After that, Scripture says, “ ‘The sun will be darkened. The moon will not shine.

Luke 21:25

“There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. The nations of the earth will be in terrible pain. They will be puzzled by the roaring and tossing of the sea.

Acts 2:19

I will show wonders in the heavens above. I will show signs on the earth below. There will be blood and fire and clouds of smoke.

Acts 2:21

Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ (Joel 2:28–32)

1 Corinthians 5:5

When you come together like this, hand this man over to Satan. Then the power of sin in his life will be destroyed. His spirit will be saved on the day the Lord returns.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

You know very well how the day of the Lord will come. It will come like a thief in the night.

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar. Fire will destroy everything in them. God will judge the earth and everything done in it.

2 Peter 3:7

By God’s word the heavens and earth of today are being reserved for fire. They are being kept for the day when God will judge. Then ungodly people will be destroyed.

Revelation 16:8

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

Revelation 6:12

I watched as the Lamb broke open the sixth seal. There was a powerful earthquake. The sun turned black like the clothes people wear when they’re sad. Those clothes are made out of goat’s hair. The whole moon turned as red as blood.