Joel 2:10

"The earth quaketh before them; the heavens tremble; the sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

This terminology is invariably associated with the coming of Christ, or God, in judgment upon mankind. Jesus said, "The sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken; and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven" (Matthew 24:20,30). Fanciful illustrations of how a great swarm of locusts may cut off the light of sun, moon and stars, together with the denomination of this passage as hyperbole, fail to fill the bill here. The whole passage must be applied to "the day of Jehovah." Furthermore, as Hailey said, such a description as this verse, "became the prophetic description of Jehovah's judgments by the prophets that followed Joel,"[17] and was also adopted by the sacred writers of the N.T. as a description of the final judgment day, as seen repeatedly in Revelation (cf. Revelation 6:12-14).

This verse is a picture of the dreadful consequences of the present and temporary locust plague; but it is also a picture of the future judgment of God upon Israel, being also, even a type of the final judgment of all humanity on the Last Day.