29 passages · Life and end
A coming Day of the LORD will bring down everything proud, from cedars and towers to trading ships, and idols will be abandoned. People will hide in caves, so Isaiah urges them to stop trusting in mere humans.
The Day of the LORD is pictured as cruel destruction, with people paralyzed by fear, stars dark and the earth shaking. God says He will punish the world's arrogance and its people will flee or be killed.
The LORD's sword comes down on Edom, pictured as a great sacrificial slaughter at Bozrah. It is called a day of vengeance on behalf of Zion, and Edom's land becomes burning tar and sulfur.
A questioner asks who comes from Edom with garments stained red, and the answer says he is mighty to save. He describes trampling the nations alone as in a winepress, because the day of vengeance had come.
Ezekiel is told to wail because the Day of the LORD is near, a day of doom for the nations. A sword will fall on Egypt and its allies from Cush to Libya.
Joel calls for the ram's horn to be blown in Zion because the Day of the LORD is near. He describes an unstoppable army devouring the land like fire, causing heaven and earth to tremble, led by the LORD himself.
The LORD says that when he restores Judah he will gather the nations in the Valley of Jehoshaphat to judge them for scattering Israel and selling people as slaves. Tyre, Sidon and Philistia will have their actions turned back on them.
The nations are called to prepare for war, turning plowshares into swords, and to come to the valley for judgment. God is pictured as a harvester and winemaker, while being a refuge for his people in Zion.
Amos warns those who long for the Day of the LORD that it will be darkness and not light, like fleeing a lion only to meet a bear.
God shows Amos a basket of ripe summer fruit and says the end has come for Israel, with temple songs turning into wailing.
God swears never to forget their deeds. The land will quake, the sun will set at noon, and feasts will become mourning like mourning for an only son.
The focus widens to the Day of the LORD, when all nations will be repaid as they acted. On Mount Zion there will be deliverance, and Jacob's house will consume Edom like fire burns stubble.
The prophet calls for silence because the Day of the LORD is near. God will punish officials, the violent and deceitful, and merchants, and will search Jerusalem for the complacent who think God does nothing, whose wealth will be plundered.
The Day of the LORD is described as near and terrible: a day of wrath, darkness, and battle cries. Neither silver nor gold can save anyone on it.
Zephaniah urges the shameful nation to gather and turn to the LORD before His anger arrives. The humble who do His justice are told to seek righteousness and humility, in the hope of being sheltered.
A day of the LORD is coming when nations capture Jerusalem and half the city goes into exile. The LORD goes out to fight them and his feet stand on the Mount of Olives, which splits in two, creating a valley of escape.
The LORD will strike the attacking nations with a plague and panic, so they turn on one another. Judah will fight and collect the nations' wealth, and the plague will strike their animals too.
God says the coming day will burn like a furnace, leaving the arrogant as stubble, while for those who fear His name the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings.
God tells them to remember the law of Moses and says He will send Elijah before the great Day of the LORD, turning hearts of fathers and children to each other so He does not strike the land with a curse.
Jesus tells his disciples the Son of Man's coming will be sudden and unmistakable, like lightning. He compares it to the days of Noah and Lot, urges readiness, and, asked where, answers with a proverb about vultures.
Peter denies that the believers are drunk, since it is only morning. He says this is what the prophet Joel foretold: God pouring out His Spirit on all people, with salvation for everyone who calls on the Lord.
Paul says the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night, suddenly for those saying 'Peace and security'. Believers are children of the light and should stay awake and sober, armed with faith, love and hope, since God appointed them for salvation.
Paul says God will repay those who afflict believers and give relief to the oppressed when Jesus is revealed from heaven. Those who reject the gospel will face eternal destruction, while Christ will be glorified in His people.
Paul asks them not to be shaken by claims, even ones claiming to be from him, that the Day of the Lord has already come. It will not come until the rebellion and the revealing of the man of lawlessness, who exalts himself as God in the temple.
Peter says this second letter is a reminder to recall the prophets' words and the apostles' commands. In the last days scoffers will ask where the promised coming is, ignoring that God's word made the earth, judged it with the flood and reserves the present heavens and earth for fire.
Peter says a day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and he is not slow but patient, not wanting anyone to perish but all to repent. The Day of the Lord will still come like a thief, with the heavens passing away and the earth laid bare.
Since all will be destroyed, Peter asks his readers to live in holiness and look forward to a new heaven and earth where righteousness dwells. He calls them to be at peace, be on guard against error, notes Paul's letters can be hard to understand, and ends with a call to grow in grace and knowledge.
Jude quotes a prophecy attributed to Enoch that the Lord will come with thousands of his holy ones to judge the ungodly. He describes the intruders as grumblers who follow lusts and flatter for gain.
A great earthquake shakes the earth, the sun goes black, the moon turns red, and stars fall. All people hide and call for the mountains to fall on them, since the great day of the wrath of God and the Lamb has come.