The Moon

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years;

and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so.

Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.

God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth,

and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

Then he dreamed still another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, “Look, I have dreamed another dream. And this time, the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bowed down to me.”

And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the LORD your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,

They shall fear You As long as the sun and moon endure, Throughout all generations.

Blow the trumpet at the time of the New Moon, At the full moon, on our solemn feast day.

It shall be established forever like the moon, Even like the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah

He appointed the moon for seasons; The sun knows its going down.

The moon and stars to rule by night, For His mercy endures forever;

Praise Him, sun and moon; Praise Him, all you stars of light!

For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not give their light; The sun will be darkened in its going forth, And the moon will not cause its light to shine.

Then the moon will be disgraced And the sun ashamed; For the LORD of hosts will reign On Mount Zion and in Jerusalem And before His elders, gloriously.

Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day that the LORD binds up the bruise of His people And heals the stroke of their wound.

Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, Who disturbs the sea, And its waves roar (The LORD of hosts is His name):

The earth quakes before them, The heavens tremble; The sun and moon grow dark, And the stars diminish their brightness.

The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD.

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

“And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring,

The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD.

There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.

I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.

Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars.

The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.