I looked at the earth---it was a barren waste; at the sky---there was no light.

I saw that there were no people; even the birds had flown away.

And so the land will dry up, and everything that lives on it will die. All the animals and birds, and even the fish, will die."

He commands the sea, and it dries up! He makes the rivers go dry. The fields of Bashan wither, Mount Carmel turns brown, and the flowers of Lebanon fade.

When he is angry, who can survive? Who can survive his terrible fury? He pours out his flaming anger; rocks crumble to dust before him.

At that time he will stand on the Mount of Olives, to the east of Jerusalem. Then the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west by a large valley. Half of the mountain will move northward, and half of it southward.

You will escape through this valley that divides the mountain in two. You will flee as your ancestors did when the earthquake struck in the time of King Uzziah of Judah. The LORD my God will come, bringing all the angels with him.

And I saw the Lamb break open the sixth seal. There was a violent earthquake, and the sun became black like coarse black cloth, and the moon turned completely red like blood.

The stars fell down to the earth, like unripe figs falling from the tree when a strong wind shakes it.

On the day when the forts of your enemies are captured and their people are killed, streams of water will flow from every mountain and every hill.

The weapons we use in our fight are not the world's weapons but God's powerful weapons, which we use to destroy strongholds. We destroy false arguments;