Eclipse Devotional

DEVOTION 13  A Call to Turn from Darkness to Light in the Light of an Eclipse 1 Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming.  It is close at hand— 2 a day of darkness and gloom,  a day of clouds and blackness.  Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes,  such as never was in ancient times nor ever will be in ages to come.  10 Before them the earth shakes, the heavens tremble, the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars no longer shine.  12 “Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning." 13 Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, 30 I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. 31 The sun will b...

7   He speaks to the sun and it does not shine; he seals off the light of the stars. (Job 9:7) 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.  4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.  5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. (Genesis 1:1-5) 14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,  15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so.  16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the st...