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The sun will turn to darkness,Matthew 24:29; Mark 13:24; Luke 21:25;">[xr] and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and glorious Day of the Lord.

for you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.Matthew 24:43-44; 25:13; Luke 12:39-40; 2 Peter 3:10; Revelation 3:3; 16:15;">[xr]

not to be so quickly upsetshaken in mind">[fn] or alarmed when someone claims that we saidas though by us">[fn] either by some spirit, conversation, or letter that the Day of the Lord has already come.Matthew 24:4; Ephesians 5:6; 1 John 4:1;">[xr]

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that dayOn it">[fn] the heavens will disappear with a roaring sound, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done on it will be exposed.Psalm 102:26; Isaiah 51:6; Matthew 24:35,43; Mark 13:31; Luke 12:39; Romans 8:20; 1 Thessalonians 5:2; Hebrews 1:11; Revelation 3:3; 16:15; 20:11; 21:1;">[xr]

I came to be in the Spirit on the Day of the Lord, when I heard a loud voice behind me like a trumpet,[xr]