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The Blood Moons
What are the blood moons?
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What are blood moons?
Do they coincide with periods
of monumental change affecting both Israel and the world?
Could the blood moons signal
the end of the world as we know it?
Surprisingly, the phrase "blood
moons" does not appear at all in the KJV Bible.
The three places in Scripture
where our closes celestial neighbor turns into the color red is Joel 2:31, Acts
2:20 (which quotes Joel) and Revelation 6:12.
We need to cover a few brief
definitions as we start our study.
These special appearances of
the moon are referred to as the blood moon tetrad.
A tetrad is a series of four
consecutive total eclipses of the lunar surface.
Tetrads are relatively rare
occurrences. While none occurred from 1582 to 1908 A.D., seventeen total have
and will take place from 1909 to 2156 A.D.
A lunar eclipse is the
obscuring of the moon's light (which is a reflection of the sun's rays hitting
it) due to the earth passing between it and the sun.
A solar eclipse, on the other
hand, is the obscuring of the sun's light due to the moon passing between it
and the earth.
Would-be prophets have placed
a significant amount of emphasis on the belief that each of the four lunar
eclipses in the tetrad, which 'should' produce blood moons, always fall within
God's annual Feast Days. Is this true?
The first total lunar eclipse
of a year 2014-2015 tetrad did indeed occur within one of God's Feast Days.
It fell from 7:06 to 8:24 UTC
(Universal Time Coordinated) on April 15th, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
The second total eclipse, according
to NASA, began at 10:25 UTC (6:25 a.m. EDT) and ended at 11:24 UTC (7:24 a.m.
EDT) on October 8, 2014.
It occurred almost twelve
hours before the official beginning of God's annual Holy Day period known as
the Feast of Tabernacles, which began at sunset on the same day!
All Biblical days begin and
end at sunset.
Anyone who states all four
eclipses in the tetrad that produce the blood moons occurred within God's
annual Holy Days do not know what they are talking about!
The third lunar eclipse that
took place on April 4, 2015 placed it within God's annual Spring Holy Days.
The last eclipse in the series
happened on September 28, 2015, placing it also just within the Fall Holy Day
Season.
What makes it look red?
When the sun's rays are
blocked from striking the moon, as during an eclipse, the lunar surface
reflects whatever colors the earth's shadow (creating by the planet's
atmosphere) contains as it goes across the desolate landscape.
If our atmosphere contains
particles of ash and dust from a volcano, the shadow cast will likely look
vivid red like blood.
If the atmosphere contains
many clouds, however, the surface will look darker.
Prophets who profit
The discovery of the moon
tetrad and the false belief all the eclipses occur during God's Holy Days has
proven a boon to prophecy-based ministries and prophecy-interested outreaches.
They can make quite a bit on
"blood money" spreading their prophetic nonsense!
One prophetic commentator
trumpets his belief the tetrad occurs during the Holy Days and rhetorically
asks what it all means.
His answer is to warn people
to wake up and heed what he labels the "ominous" signs from heaven.
A World Net Daily article on
whether Jesus will return in 2015 quotes Pastor Mark Blitz as suggesting the
string of lunar and solar eclipses to fall on God’s annual Feast days, and the
appearance of a blood moon, could herald the second coming of Jesus.
Pastor John Hagee argues that
prophecy points toward the earth reeling toward its last days.
In the book "Earth’s
Final Moments," he claims to unveil how the prophetic writings of
Scripture intersect with current events to reveal our world's last moments.
Was the world warned?
One would expect the Blood
Moons to be visible by everyone, especially if they are to be a sign from God
Almighty that the world will finally be ending!
If the tetrad cannot be seen
worldwide, surely it would be viewable in Jerusalem given its pivotal role in
end time prophecy!
According to NASA, the April
15, 2014 eclipse was NOT visible at all in Jerusalem, or the Middle East, or
most of Europe, or even central Asia.
The eclipse that took place on
October 8, 2014 and the blood moon of April 4, 2015 was also not visible in
Jerusalem, Africa or Europe!
Even on September 28, 2015,
which was touted as Jerusalem's last chance to be warned of its impending doom,
only part of the eclipse was seen from the city.
One must ask whether a sign
that few people notice is much of a sign.
The Real Sign
An Old Testament prophet wrote
of the day of the Lord as being a day of thick
darkness (Joel
2:1-2, 10).
This description was repeated
by Jesus himself (Matthew 24:29).
Joel added the moon will be
turned to blood, with John referring to the same appearance and adding the sun
will look black (Revelation 6:12).
The eclipses in the 2014-2015
Tetrad all lasted less than two hours.
The darkness that fell over
Egypt as punishment for not releasing the children of Israel from slavery
lasted for three days (Exodus 10:21-22).
The day of the Lord, however,
when God miraculously causes the moon to appear as blood, will last
approximately eighteen months!
This Biblical sign of the end
of man's rule on earth will be so spectacular that it will be undeniable (Revelation 19).
Do not
believe us, or anyone else, just because we or they say so. BELIEVE
YOUR BIBLE!
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