OK, let's get to some verses...
These verses show how long the Day of the Lord is...while the bible often uses the day = year principle, in this case it also makes it explicitly
clear.
Isaiah 34:2-3,8 (KJV)
2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to
the slaughter.
3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
8 For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
Isaiah 63:3-4 (KJV)
3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and
their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
Isaiah 61:2 (KJV)
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
It is a time of wrath from God against the world for taking the Mark of the Beast, and vengeance for their persecution to death of true saints around
the world. (Isaiah 34:8)
When does this Day of the Lord start? The bible tells you when it starts, and what signs will accompany it!
Notice!
Rev 6:12-17 (KJV)
12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon
became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man,
hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
There are 4 visible signs that occur. When it comes, it will be impossible to miss. These signs will occur and be seen and felt worldwide.
1) The sun turns to black
2) The moon turns blood red.
3) There is a world wide meteor shower
4) There is a world wide earthquake.
Now...notice something interesting! This "sun turning black" sign IS NOT AN ECLIPSE.
How do you know? Because AT THE SAME TIME the moon has turned blood red.
There are people who read this passage, and say it will be an eclipse, and fail to see that the moon is blood red at the same time that the sun is
black. Because the sun turning black happens at the same time the moon is turning red, it cannot be an eclipse.
Also here is something extra-ordinary!
This has happened before!
This sun turning black has happened in history, and will occur one more time.
Notice
Mark 15:33-34
(33) And it being the sixth hour, darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour.
(34) And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? (which being translated is, My God, My God, why did
You forsake Me?)
During Christ's crucifixion, the sun turned to darkness for 3 hours.
There is extra-biblical evidence for this event.
Julius Africanus, a Christian writing in the 3rd century, cites a historian named Thallus, who wrote about a darkness that he explained as a solar
eclipse, which Julius then went on to refute because a solar eclipse cannot occur during a full moon, which it was when Jesus was crucified.
The church historian Eusebius also cites a Roman historian from the 2nd century, who says that during the year AD 32/33 "a great eclipse of the sun
occurred at the sixth hour that excelled every other before it, turning the day into such darkness of night that the stars could be seen in heaven,
and the earth moved in Bithynia, toppling many buildings in the city of Nicaea," and references another unnamed source.
Seven Books of History Against the Pagans by Orosius also refer specifically to the darkening of the sun.
en.wikipedia.org...-henige-6
This was not a solar eclipse, but a supernatural event. This event will occur again, along with the moon sign, to signal the start of the Day of the
Lord.
These signs are also mentioned by Christ, as well as in many OT passages.
Matt 24:29 (KJV)
29 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:
Joel 2:10 (KJV)
10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their
shining:
Joel 2:30-31 (KJV)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Joel 3:15 (KJV)
15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
Amos 8:9 (KJV)
9 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:
Isaiah 13:9-11 (KJV)
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners
thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon
shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay
low the haughtiness of the terrible.
[to be continued]
[edit on 19-12-2009 by SirPaulMuaddib]
[edit on 19-12-2009 by SirPaulMuaddib]