1) Moon turns to blood (usually, moon darkens). In OT only Joel 2.31 has
this (perhaps because of reference to blood in 2.30; even in Jl 2.10 &
3.15, the moon is darkened, not bloodied). AssMos (T.Mos) 10.5 has a
dramatic parallel, plus (perhaps) SibOr 3.796-806. Nowhere else in the
NT, not even the Olivet discourse, does the moon turn to blood.
2) Stars fall (usually, they are darkened, or sometimes, change their
courses, etc). Only Isa 34.4 Lxx has this (best sense of Hebr is that
they wither on the vine); slightly similar, stars are trampled by
Antiochus Epiphanes, Dan 8.10. Stars fall in 4Esd 4.51-5.13 and SibOr
2.194; 3.83; 8.190,233, but these are very few and unusual.
3) I find no precendents for the islands being removed, even in OT.
4) In many passages the sinners hide in caves, but I find only Hos 10.8
and Lk 23.30 as parallels for calling on the rocks to conver them, and
nowhere, to my knowledge, to hide them from the face of God. In Hosea and
Luke, they seem to be asking for sudden death, not hiding.
5) Obviously, *the wrath of the Lamb* is original with the author of Rev;
I have found no real parallels in ApocLit.
If anyone can point to any parallels for these five peculiarites of Rev,
either in ApocLit, rabbinic, or early patristic (even if derived from
Rev), I would be very interested and grateful. Also, do these phenomena
have any significance for the interpretation of 6.12-17?
Many thanks, and cordial greetings, Juan Stam, Univ Nacional, Costa Rica