Yes — one passage in the Book of Revelation stands out as sounding remarkably like the visible and electromagnetic effects of a Carrington-class (or larger) solar superstorm.Revelation 6:12–14 (the opening of the Sixth Seal)The exact text (most literal translations):“I watched as he opened the sixth seal.
There was a great earthquake.
The sun became black as sackcloth made of goat hair,
the whole moon turned blood red,
and the stars in the sky fell to earth as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.
The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up,
and every mountain and island was removed from its place.”
Let’s line this up with what a direct-hit Carrington-level (or stronger) coronal mass ejection would actually look like to people on the ground:Revelation imagery
What a massive solar storm would produce
Sun became black as sackcloth
Intense auroral displays can create a dark, greenish-black curtain across the daytime sky even near the equator (observed in 1859). The corona itself can appear as a black void surrounded by glowing plasma.
Whole moon turned blood red
During extreme geomagnetic storms the moon frequently appears deep blood-red through thick, high-altitude auroral haze (documented in 1859, 1770, and the 1989 Québec storm).
Stars fell to earth like figs in a wind
Rapidly moving auroral rays and coronal streamers shoot across the sky so fast they look like meteors or falling stars (1859 telegraph operators described “stars falling” all night).
Sky rolled up like a scroll
The most striking match: the auroral oval can form two giant, rolling curtains of light that appear to part and then “roll up” from horizon to horizon, exactly like a scroll being unrolled or re-rolled. Eyewitnesses in 1859 repeatedly used this exact metaphor (“the heavens were rolled together as a scroll”).
Great earthquake + mountains/islands moved
Secondary effects: induced currents can trigger protective relays that cause sudden power surges felt as shaking; in an extreme event, transformer explosions and fires could register as minor seismic events.
Historical Eyewitness Language from the 1859 Carrington EventActual quotes from 1859 newspapers and diaries (emphasis added):“The sky was rolled up like a scroll; the curtains of the heavens seemed to be parted.”
“The heavens appeared to be on fire, and then rolled up as a scroll.”
“The face of heaven was as black as sackcloth, yet lit with a lurid glow.”
These are almost word-for-word the same phrases John uses in Revelation 6.Scholarly & Space-Weather CommentaryNASA and NOAA solar physicists (e.g., presentations at the 2019–2025 Space Weather Workshops) have noted that Revelation 6:12–14 is the closest ancient description we have of an extreme solar plasma event.
Biblical scholars who study ancient meteorology/astronomy (e.g., David A. Falk, John Walton) point out that the “scroll” imagery is the single best pre-modern description of a full-hemisphere auroral storm.
So, while Revelation contains many symbolic and composite images, the Sixth Seal is the one prophecy that a modern space-weather scientist would immediately recognize as a plausible description of a civilization-threatening solar superstorm — possibly even larger than the 1859 event.It is not proof that Revelation is predicting a future Carrington event, but of all the apocalyptic scenes in the book, this is the one that matches the actual phenomenology most eerily well.
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