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Joel 2:31
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El sol se convertirá en tinieblas, y la luna en sangre, antes que venga el día del Señor , grande y terrible.
El sol se tornar� en tinieblas, y la luna en sangre, antes que venga el d�a grande y terrible de Jehov�.
El sol se tornar� en tinieblas, y la luna en sangre, antes que venga el d�a grande y espantoso del SE�OR.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
sun: Joel 2:10, Joel 3:1, Joel 3:15, Isaiah 13:9, Isaiah 13:10, Isaiah 34:4, Isaiah 34:5, Matthew 24:29, Matthew 27:45, Mark 13:24, Mark 13:25, Luke 21:25, Revelation 6:12, Revelation 6:13
the great: Zephaniah 1:14-16, Malachi 4:1, Malachi 4:5
Reciprocal: Genesis 1:14 - and let Exodus 10:22 - thick darkness Joshua 10:13 - So the sun Psalms 105:28 - sent Isaiah 13:6 - for the day Isaiah 24:23 - the moon Jeremiah 4:23 - the heavens Jeremiah 4:28 - the heavens Jeremiah 30:7 - for Ezekiel 13:5 - the day Ezekiel 32:7 - I will cover the heaven Joel 2:2 - A day of darkness Amos 5:18 - the day of the Lord is Zephaniah 1:7 - for the day Zechariah 13:8 - but Zechariah 14:1 - General Matthew 24:7 - famines Luke 12:49 - come Luke 23:44 - there Acts 2:19 - General 1 Thessalonians 2:16 - for 2 Peter 3:10 - the day Revelation 6:17 - the great Revelation 8:12 - and the third part of the sun
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,.... Not by eclipses, as Aben Ezra; but by the clouds of smoke arising from the burning of towns and cities, which would be so great as to obscure the sun, and through which the moon would look like blood: or all, this may be understood in a figurative sense of the change that should be made in the ecclesiastic and civil state of the Jewish nation, signified by the "heavens" and "earth"; and particularly that their king or kingdom should be in a low, mean, and distressed condition, designed by the sun; and the change of their priesthood is signified by the "moon": so Vitringa on Isaiah 24:23; interprets the "sun" here of King Agrippa, the last king of the Jews in obscurity; and the "moon" of Ananias junior, the high priest, slain by the zealots:
before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come; not the fall of Gog and Magog, as Kimchi; not the day of the last judgment, but of the destruction of Jerusalem; not by the Chaldeans, but by the Romans; their last destruction, which was very great and terrible indeed, and in which there was a manifest appearance of the hand and power of God; see Malachi 4:1. Maimonides u interprets it of the destruction of Sennacherib near Jerusalem; but if that sense is not acceptable, he proposes that of the destruction of Gog and Magog, in the times of the Messiah.
u Moreh Nevochim, par. 2. c. 19. p. 271.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Before the great and terrible Day of the Lord come - o: “The days of our life are our days wherein we do what we please; that will be the “Day of the Lord,” when He, our Judge, shall require the account of all our doings. It will be “great,” because it is the horizon of time and eternity; the last day of time, the beginning of eternity. It will put an end to the world, guilt, deserts, good or evil. It will be “great,” because in it great things will be done. Christ with all His Angels will come down and sit on His Throne; all who have ever lived or shall live, shall be placed before Him to be judged; all thoughts, words, and deeds shall be weighed most exactly; on all a sentence will be passed, absolute, irrevocable throughout eternity; the saints shall be assigned to heaven, the ungodly to hell; a great gulf shall be placed between, which shall sever them forever, so that the ungodly shall never see the godly nor heaven nor God; but shall be shut up in a prison forever, and shall burn as long as heaven shall be heaven, or God shall be God.” : “That day shall be great to the faithful, terrible to the unbelieving; great to those who said, ‘Truly this is the Son of God;’ terrible to those who said, ‘His blood be upon us and upon our children.’” : “When then thou art hurried to any sin, think on that terrible and unendurable judgment-seat of Christ, where the Judge sits on His lofty Throne, and all creation shall stand in awe at His glorious Appearing and we shall be brought, one by one, to give account of what we have done in life. Then by him who hath done much evil in life, there will stand terrible angels. “There” will be the deep gulf, the impassable darkness, the lightless fire, retaining in darkness the power to burn, but reft of its rays. There is the empoisoned and ravenous worm insatiably devouring and never satisfied, inflicting by its gnawing pangs unbearable. There that sharpest punishment of all, that shame and everlasting reproach. Fear these things; and, instructed by this fear, hold in thy soul as with a bridle from the lust of evil.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Joel 2:31. The sun shall be turned into darkness — The Jewish polity, civil and ecclesiastical, shall be entirely destroyed.
Before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come. — In the taking and sacking of Jerusalem, and burning of the temple, by the Romans, under Titus, the son of Vespasian. This was, perhaps, the greatest and most terrible day of God's vengeance ever shown to the world, or that ever will be shown, till the great day of the general judgment. For a full view of this subject, I wish to refer the reader to the notes on Matthew 24:1-51.
