It's in Acts, and the Book of Joel .. http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/04/14/whats-up-with-the-blood-moons-prophecies/ , and in others places way beck thun i bot tooooo, moose be .. soooooooooooo gawd, it MUST be true! .. i mean the 'forecasters' of yesteryear .. just think! .. they were NOT TAINTED by any of the great expanse of knowledge .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science#Scientific_community .. humans have garnered in science and in other fields of learning since then .. you think that doesn't make sense? .. c'mon! .. NOT TAINTED means pure .. doesn't it? .. if it's possible to have pure sinners, that is ..
The Blood Moon Is Coming - Get Ready To Open That Sixth Seal
By Hank Campbell | April 10th 2014 05:30 AM
When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth - Revelation 6:12-14
We've only had a few doomsday events come and go in 2014 but a new one arrives April 15th. No, it isn't the IRS, though that is doomsday for American wallets.
Sure, to you and me a lunar eclipse is no big deal, but to a lot of other people we live in super-important times and so a lunar eclipse must become a "blood moon", which sounds sufficiently creepy enough to enjoy, assuming you get up early to see it. Blood moon doesn't send you to church? Well, it is also the beginning of a lunar tetrad – four lunar eclipses, each six months apart (1) - which means, well, not much, but any time a number gets thrown in there it feels prophetic.
I am not a superstitious guy but it can't hurt to buddy up to an old Catholic priest just the same. I say old because demons and such only seem to respond to Latin, at least if my deep movie lore is accurate, and Vatican II messed that all up. I think the Four Horsemen would just laugh at Episcopalians.(2)
Tetrads are actually not that big a deal to us. That happened in 2004, but I was curious how often they happened, wondering if maybe we are spoiled. Bruce McClure and Deborah Byrd at EarthSky [ http://earthsky.org/space/what-is-a-blood-moon-lunar-eclipses-2014-2015 ] had the answer and the answer is they can be uncommon - though they will happen 8 times this century during the 1600s-1800s they didn't happen at all, so at times they have been really rare. (3)
They also had as good an answer as any for why this Blood Moon business has gotten so popular - like with most bits of pseudoscience gibberish we can blame the New York Times. Texas pastor and NYT bestseller John Hagee wrote a book using NASA data about when these occur and history to correlate lots of stuff to tetrads. In 1492 he says tetrads were causalated [ http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Causalation ] to throwing Jews out of Spain, then in 1948 he says tetrads were causalated to the Jews getting their state back. You get the idea, he is predicting something big, and it must involve Jews. He can make anything about Jews, it seems.
So, apocalypse, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria, got it, but why the blood moon part again? It's unclear, other than that the guy wrote a book with that in the title and then a bunch of people started believing it, the same way people believed the Gluten Apocalypse and the Sugar Apocalypse and Trans Fats apocalypse and whatever else. In reality, all lunar eclipses look reddish. Here is one from 1982, for example, yet no one was foretelling any doom over it. At least I can't recall that they were, and I was living in a small town with 5 churches and no bars.
Why does it look that way? Blame global warming. Or at least our atmosphere. Because we are between the Sun and the Moon, it would just be in our shadow and a boring black if we had no atmosphere, but Gaea causes some light wavelengths to be filtered out. Green, for example, go bye-bye but red is the wavelength least affected. If you were looking at Earth from the Moon, Earth would have a reddish ring around it for the same reason, but because we are here looking at its face as the eclipse begins, it looks red.
People have obviously witnessed these plenty of times before, that is why they are parts of stories across the world. It isn't just Revelation that spatters the moon in blood, both Acts and Joel use the same terminology. The good news is that's only three books in the Bible. If it were four, to match the four eclipses in a tetrad, we might have reason to be concerned. Or not, it is just coincidence, but stringing together coincidences makes for a good narrative.
Not everyone in America will be able to see this first one, given its inconvenient timing. Republicans will be busy doing their taxes so a million people can have free health care. But you can bet by that fourth one in 2015 they will be blaming Obamacare Apocalypse for something. Maybe I should write a book called the Barackalypse and get it into print, and then I could have a New York Times bestseller too.
(RNS) Could a series of “blood moon” events be connected to Jesus’ return? Some Christians think so.
In the wee hours of Tuesday (April 15) morning, the moon slid into Earth’s shadow, casting a reddish hue on the moon. There are about two lunar eclipses per year, according to NASA, but what’s unusual this time around is that there will be four blood moons within 18 months — astronomers call that a tetrad — and all of them occur during Jewish holidays.
A string of books have been published surrounding the event, with authors referring to a Bible passage that refers to the moon turning into blood. “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord,” Joel 2:31 [ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joel+2%3A31&version=KJV ] says.
Recent books capitalizing on the event include “Blood Moons: Decoding the Imminent Heavenly Signs” by Washington state author Mark Biltz; “Blood Moons Rising: Bible Prophecy, Israel, and the Four Blood Moons” by Oklahoma pastor Mark Hitchcock; and ”Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change” by Texas megachurch pastor John Hagee.
Hagee’s book is drawing the most attention, with his book now No. 4 on The New York Times best-seller list in the advice/how to section, and No. 80 on USA Today’s best-seller list. The book by the controversial 74-year-old founder of San Antonio’s Cornerstone Church has also spent 152 days in Amazon’s top 100 books.
In his book, Hagee says something will happen to the nation of Israel due to the tetrad. The four eclipses occur on April 15 and Oct. 8, 2014, and April 4 and Sept. 28 next year. The ones in April occur during Passover, and the ones in October occur during the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles.
(Date unknown) Jews pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Religion News Service file photo
Jewish holy days revolve around a lunar calendar with Passover beginning on the first full moon after the beginning of spring, and the Feast of Tabernacles occurring on the first full moon after the beginning of fall. Hagee writes that every time a tetrad occurs on Jewish feast days, something traumatic and “world-changing” happens to Israel.
In 1492, the Jews were expelled from Spain and Christopher Columbus discovered America, giving the Jews a place to go. In 1948, the modern state of Israel was born, and in 1967, Israel won the Six-Day War and recaptured Jerusalem.
During the 300-year interval from 1600 to 1900, there were no tetrads at all, according to NASA eclipse expert Fred Espenak.
This time, Hagee suggests that a Rapture will occur where Christians will be taken to heaven, Israel will go to war in a great battle called Armageddon, and Jesus will return to earth. Hagee planned a special televised event on Tuesday (April 15) on the Global Evangelism Television [ https://www.getv.org/ ] channel.
But NASA does not consider tetrads as especially rare, saying in a statement that there will be eight sets of tetrads before the year 2100. The most unique thing about the upcoming tetrad is that they are visible from all or parts of the United States, NASA stated [ http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/27mar_tetrad/ ].
A publicist for Hagee said the pastor was not available for an interview.
“When you see these signs, the Bible says, lift up your head and rejoice, your redemption draweth nigh,” Hagee said in a sermon, according to the San Antonio Express-News [ http://www.chron.com/news/local/article/Pastor-Hagee-Blood-moons-point-to-world-shaking-5391880.php ]. “I believe that the Heavens are God’s billboard, that He has been sending signals to Planet Earth but we just have not been picking them up.”
Greg Boyd, a pastor of Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minn., called the predictions a waste of time, maybe even bordering on astrology.
“You have an entire population buying into this stuff so no congregation is immune to this,” Boyd said. “It can strike fear into people, which is so unnecessary and wrong.”
The Jewish holy days carry less theological significance than Jesus’ resurrection for many Christians, said Sam Storms, a pastor of Bridgeway Church in Oklahoma City. Any connection between the two events should carry less weight, he said.
“We need to stop giving into some of these sensationalist speculations,” he said. “Maybe Christians are more gullible. One has to twist the data to make it appear as if these are the fulfillment of some biblical prophecy.”
In the olden days the sudden appearance of a big red bloody moon probably sent people into a panic. Terrified, they probably ran around screaming, "Help me! Help me! My God, the moon has turned red! The moon has turned red! We're all going to die!" But then the moon would turn back to normal and they'd still be alive and probably a bit ashamed that they'd lost their heads and they'd warn their kids, "Look, kids, one day the moon might turn red for a little while, but don't worry. It's just a thing. Why does it happen? I don't know. Why does anything happen in this crazy world of ours! But if it does turn red, it'll be fine. Don't run around screaming. You'll feel very silly in the morning."
John Hagee, a best-selling author and evangelist who once claimed that Hurricane Katrina was God's way of punishing New Orleans for allowing LGBT parades [ http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2008/04/23/22152/hagee-katrina-mccain/ ], says that this is the dawning of the end of days. "God is literally screaming at the world: 'I'm coming soon.'" This is literally not true.
The mega-church founder does not believe that the world is ending just because the moon is turning red. The moon turns red all the time. The last total lunar eclipse was was in December 2011 [ http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEdecade/LEdecade2011.html ]. What makes this blood moon slightly more notable than your average run of the mill blood moon is that it is the first of a tetrad, a series of four lunar eclipses that will happen about six months apart. The next one is set for October 8. These are sort of uncommon insofar as the last one was in 1967 [ http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/televangelist-claims-blood-moons-sign-world-shaking-event-article-1.1754601 ], but not that uncommon when you really think about the vastness of time, history, and space. But 1967 was also the year of the Six-Day War, Hagee would point out, and this blood moon is falling on the first night of Passover and even the most critical skeptic would have to admit that that coincidence is…well, utterly meaningless. As even the Young Earth Creationists at Answers in Genesis [ http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2013/07/12/lunar-eclipses-cause-blood-moons ] explain, "The timing of the eclipses…while interesting, falls far short of the sort of signs that will cause the heavens to shake (Matthew 24:29)."
The End Times are not here. Sorry. Don't forget to file your taxes.
UPDATE: Should the clouds fail to part, you will be able to see the blood moon here [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7aXzE5ZNH8 (now a full replay of the eclipse) (next below, as embedded)]:
UPDATE 2, April 15, 2014, 2:25am ET: This moon sure is taking its sweet time turning red, isn't it? While we wait, here's the music video for the Mando Diao song "Mr. Moon [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U76APDOWycM (next below, as embedded)]."
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