Sixth Seal: Cosmic Disturbances
12 I looked when He opened the sixth seal, Matt. 24:7; Rev. 8:5; 11:13; 16:18and behold, there was a great earthquake; and Is. 13:10; Joel 2:10, 31; 3:15; Matt. 24:29; Mark 13:24the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. 13 Matt. 24:29; Mark 13:25; Rev. 8:10; 9:1And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. 14 Ps. 102:26; Is. 34:4; (2 Pet. 3:10); Rev. 20:11; 21:1Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and Jer. 3:23; Rev. 16:20every mountain and island was moved out of its place. 15 And the Ps. 2:2–4kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, Is. 2:10, 19, 21; 24:21; Rev. 19:18hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, 16 Hos. 10:8; Luke 23:29, 30; Rev. 9:6and said to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who Rev. 20:11sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of His wrath has come, Is. 63:4; Jer. 30:7; Joel 1:15; 2:1, 11, 31; Zeph. 1:14; Rev. 16:14and who is able to stand?"