Look at the words of Joel as they relate to the coming of the Lord. Joel is describing very similar events to Revelation.
[SUP]15 [/SUP]Alas for the day!
For the day of the Lord
is at hand;
It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
[SUP]16 [/SUP]Is not the food cut off before our eyes,
Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
[SUP]17 [/SUP]The seed shrivels under the clods,
Storehouses are in shambles;
Barns are broken down,
For the grain has withered.
[SUP]18 [/SUP]How the animals groan!
The herds of cattle are restless,
Because they have no pasture;
Even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment.[SUP][
b][/SUP]
[SUP]19 [/SUP]O Lord, to You I cry out;
For fire has devoured the open pastures,
And a flame has burned all the trees of the field.
[SUP]20 [/SUP]The beasts of the field also cry out to You,
For the water brooks are dried up,
And fire has devoured the open pastures.
[h=3]The Day of the Lord[/h]2 Blow the trumpet in Zion,
And sound an alarm in My holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble;
For the day of the Lord is coming,
For it is at hand:
[SUP]2 [/SUP]A day of darkness and gloominess,
A day of clouds and thick darkness,
Like the morning
clouds spread over the mountains.
A people
come, great and strong,
The like of whom has never been;
Nor will there ever be any
such after them,
Even for many successive generations.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]A fire devours before them,
And behind them a flame burns;
The land
is like the Garden of Eden before them,
And behind them a desolate wilderness;
Surely nothing shall escape them.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]Their appearance is like the appearance of horses;
And like swift steeds, so they run.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]With a noise like chariots
Over mountaintops they leap,
Like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble,
Like a strong people set in battle array.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]Before them the people writhe in pain;
All faces are drained of color.[SUP][
a][/SUP]
[SUP]7 [/SUP]They run like mighty men,
They climb the wall like men of war;
Every one marches in formation,
And they do not break ranks.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]They do not push one another;
Every one marches in his own column.[SUP][
b][/SUP]
Though they lunge between the weapons,
They are not cut down.[SUP][
c][/SUP]
[SUP]9 [/SUP]They run to and fro in the city,
They run on the wall;
They climb into the houses,
They enter at the windows like a thief.
[SUP]10 [/SUP]The earth quakes before them,
The heavens tremble;
The sun and moon grow dark,
And the stars diminish their brightness.
[SUP]11 [/SUP]The Lord gives voice before His army,
For His camp is very great;
For strong
is the One who executes His word.
For the day of the Lord
is great and very terrible;
Who can endure it?