When Will the Sun and Moon Go Dark?

📖 Day 12 – Prophecy & Power

“When Will the Sun and Moon Go Dark? The Prophetic Trigger Point”

Matthew 24:29–31 • Revelation 6:12–17 • Joel 2:30–31

🎙️ [SERIES INTRO]

Welcome to Deep Dive: KJV Bible Studies. I’m Pastor Joshua Tapp from True Words Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. In this series, we go verse by verse, no fluff, no compromise—just the King James Bible, preached and taught with boldness and truth. Let’s dive in.

📜 [SCRIPTURE: MATTHEW 24:29–30]

Matthew 24:29–30
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:
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven…

🌑 POINT 1: THIS HAPPENS AFTER THE TRIBULATION, NOT BEFORE

The sun and moon go dark after the tribulation—not before it, not during the “church age,” and not at some vague unknown time.

Matthew 24:29
Immediately after the tribulation of those days…

That’s when the rapture happens.

🔥 POINT 2: THE DARKENING TRIGGERS THE WRATH OF GOD

Revelation 6:12–17
…lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood…
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

Seal 6 = sun and moon go dark = the rapture = the beginning of God’s wrath.

⚠️ POINT 3: JOEL SAW IT COMING BEFORE THE DAY OF THE LORD

Joel 2:31
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.

This isn’t a symbolic phrase—it’s a literal sign the Bible connects to multiple major prophetic events.

✝️ POINT 4: JESUS GATHERS HIS ELECT IMMEDIATELY AFTER

Matthew 24:31
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet,
and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

That’s the rapture—not a secret one, not seven years earlier.

📖 CLEAR GOSPEL PRESENTATION – THE 7 VERSES

Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God:
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree… by whose stripes ye were healed.
Acts 16:30–31 …Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved…
John 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

🗣️ CALL TO ACTION

Don’t fall for pre-trib confusion or prophetic fog.
God gave you signs.
Watch for them. Understand them. And preach the truth boldly.

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