Great Tribulation · Future - Tribulation
Fourth Trumpet: Heavenly Bodies Darkened
Day and night reduced
From the teaching of Apostle Mary Banks
When the fourth angel sounds his trumpet, a third part of the sun, moon, and stars are smitten and darkened. This cosmic judgment affects both day and night, with a third part of each being darkened. The sun is darkened in its going forth, and the moon does not cause her light to shine. The stars of heaven and their constellations do not give their light, and all the bright lights of heaven are made dark. This darkening represents a significant cosmic disruption where the heavenly bodies that provide light to the earth are partially diminished in their ability to shine.
The prophetic scriptures speak of the sun going down at noon and the earth being darkened in a clear day. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. The sun and moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. This judgment is part of the day of the Lord, which comes with wrath and fierce anger. The heavens are covered, the stars are made dark, the sun is covered with a cloud, and darkness is set upon the land.
The scriptures
And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.