20The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
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But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-36)We have here the first-fruits of the Spirit in the sermon which Peter preached immediately, directed, not to those of other nations in a strange language (we are not told what answer he gave to those that were amazed, and said, What meaneth this ?) but to the Jews in the vulgar language, even to those that mocked; for he begins with the notice of that (Acts 2:15), and addresses his discourse (Acts…
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