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“The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise
of the kingdoms of nations gathered together ... for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall
come as a destruction from the Almighty ... 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. 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 ... Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place,
in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger ... (it) shall be as when
God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.” (Isaiah 13:4-19)
“...let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh
at hand; A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness ... A
fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth ... 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 2:1-10)
“Behold, the day of the Lord cometh ... For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to
battle ... Their flesh shall consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes
shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.”
(Zechariah 14:1-12)
“But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall
not give her light, And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven
shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great
power and glory.” (Mark 13:24-26)
“And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake;
and the sun became black as sackcloth hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars
of heaven fell unto the earth ... and every mountain and island were moved out of their
places ... For the great day of his wrath is come: and who shall be able to stand?”
(Revelation 6:12-17)
According to Revelation 11:13, within the hour after the two witnesses leave the earth, a
massive earthquake will occur. This same earthquake is referred to in Zechariah 14:4, as Jesus
returns to this world at the same point he left it, on the Mount of Olives, a small range of four
summits which overlook Jerusalem from the east. The earthquake is again mentioned in
Revelation 16:18-21: “And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great
earthquake ... And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And there fell
upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent (114 pounds)...”
It is interesting to note, that when Jesus died on the cross, there was “darkness over all the
land” and “the earth did quake, and the rocks rent (Matthew 27:45, 51).” The 18th century
scientist von Hoff wrote: “There have been strange colorings of the heavens and unusual fogs
noticed as occurring at the same time of earthquakes; such as the unusual color of the sky at
Lisbon on the first of November, 1755, and the dry fog (Nebel), which was so thick as to
produce total darkness during the earthquake in Calabria in 1783.”