Joel 2 :30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come. 32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.

Acts 2:6 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: 19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come: 21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

From Joel to Peter ,God makes very clear Who He is and how He speaks...The last days clock started in Acts. In Joel they are told to tell generation after generation Who makes the earth shake, Who turns the sun dark and why we have pillars of smoke. All of those wonders was to remind us of “the terrible day of the Lord.”
We live like the days of Noah ,just like Jesus said we would and warned us not to. We live in a time if nature delays what we want , we make our own sun. We live in a time we control our time and environments. Joel was written long ago and Acts was written long ago but they looked for that great “terrible day of the Lord,” even then.
That remnant the Lord called never stopped teaching and preaching the truth and was waiting. We do not like pain and suffering , we do not like not being comfortable and we do not like not being in charge.
Jesus , Joel and Peter are just a few that told us just how bad it will get before Jesus returns. We will not be in charge and we can not stop it. God has always shown people from Genesis to today what He does when we do not listen and make this life about us.
We should have prepared each generation to face “ signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke.” Jesus said we would not. For those that see “terrible day of the Lord ,” as the Promise and hope of better things to come, be ready to comfort those that did not...