The Lord Judges the Nations
The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. Joel 3:15
The sun and... This will be a literal happening at the second coming of Christ (Joel 2:30-32; Mat. 24:29-31).
and the stars... Anti-Christian princes and nobles in the civil state, and the clergy of all ranks in the church state, shall lose their glory.
Mat. 24:29 "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:"
As in earlier passages (cf. Joel 2:10, 2:31) the darkening of the heavenly bodies (Joel 3:15) serves as an ominous sign of the approaching day of the Lord (Joel 3:14). Both the politic and ecclesiastic state of antichrist shall be ruined and destroyed.
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