Joel 3:15

“The sun and moon shall be darkened, etc.] Both the politic and ecclesiastic state of antichrist shall be ruined and destroyed; it shall “fare” with Rome Papal as it did with Rome Pagan, at the time of its dissolution; (see <660612>Revelation 6:12,13 16:8); and the stars shall withdraw their shining: antichristian princes and nobles in the civil state, and the clergy of all ranks in the church state, shall lose their glory.”

“(See on Joe 2:10; Joe 2:30).”

“The sun and the moon shall be darkened - This may be, either that they shall be outshone by the brightness of the glory of Christ, or that they themselves shall undergo a change, whereof the darkness at the Crucifixion was an image. An ancient writer says ; “As in the dispensation of the Cross the sun failing, there was darkness over all the earth, so when the ‘sign of the Son of man’ appeareth in heaven in the Day of Judgment, the light of the sun and moon and stars shall fail, consumed, as it were by the great might of that sign.” And as the failure of the light of the sun at our Lord’s Passion betokened the shame of nature at the great sin of man, so, at the Day of Judgment, it sets…”

“Joe 2:10, Joe 2:31; Isa 13:10; Mat 24:29; Luk 21:25, Luk 21:26; Rev 6:12, Rev 6:13 Joel 3:16”

“"Sun and moon have become black, and the stars have withdrawn their shining. Joe 3:16. And Jehovah roars out of Zion, and He thunders out of Jerusalem; and heaven and earth quake: but Jehovah is a refuge to His people, and a stronghold to the sons of Israel. Joe 3:17. And ye will perceive that I Jehovah am your God, dwelling upon Zion, my holy mountain: and Jerusalem will be a sanctuary, and strangers will not pass through it any more." On the forebodings of the judgment in Joe 3:15, see at Joe 2:10. Out of Zion, the place of His throne, will Jehovah cause His thunder-voice to sound, will roar like a lion which is rushing upon its prey ( Hos 5:14; Amo 3:4), so that heaven and earth tremble…”