Acts 2:20 (DRB)

Passage

The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and manifest day of the Lord to come.

Nearby Context

Acts 2:18 And upon my servants indeed and upon my handmaids will I pour out in those days of my spirit: and they shall prophesy.

Acts 2:19 And I will shew wonders in the heaven above, and signs on the earth beneath: blood and fire, and vapour of smoke.

Acts 2:20 The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and manifest day of the Lord to come.

Acts 2:21 And it shalt come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Acts 2:22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him, in the midst of you, as you also know:

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "darkness", "shall", "turned", "moon", "blood", "before", "great", and "manifest". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "darkness" and "shall", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 19's "And I will shew wonders in the..." into verse 21's "And it shalt come to pass that...", so "darkness" and "shall" belong inside that flow. In Acts context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "darkness" and "shall" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.