"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 --- 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.
Before them fire devours, behind them a flame blazes.
Before them the land is like the garden of Eden, behind them, a desert waste --- nothing escapes them. ..." **
The day of the Lord is an awesome, terrible thing. Who can possibly survive?
That is why the Lord says, “Turn to me now, while there is time. Give me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning. ..." ***