BLOOD RED- MOONS

[johnny botwright]

BLOOD RED MOONS AND THEIR MEANING
Part 1
Moses wrote: “And God said, ‘Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years†(Genesis 1:14, NIV).

The word for “sign†here, in the Hebrew, is owth, and means “a signal, as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence,†etc.
For "sign" Gesenius' Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon points out that this word means “a sign,†“a token†(Exo.12:13; Josh.2:12), “signs and times†(Gen.1:14), i.e., “signs of times.†It is used of a military ensign, a sign of something past, and a sign of something future, a portent, as well as a sign of anything which cannot be seen.

The word for “seasons†is the Hebrew moadim and means “festivals, literally, appointed times.â€
For “seasonsâ€, Strong’s Concordance has “an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; spec. a festival.†Gesenius has it, “(1) a set time, . . . (2) an assembly . . . (3) a place in which an assembly is held . . . (4) an appointed time, a signal.â€

Thus heavenly bodies, the eclipses of sun and the moon and the periodic return of comets, and celestial meteor showers, can be, in Biblical terms, a “heavenly signâ€! Yeshua spoke of such signs occurring before His return to planet Earth. When such a sign occurs on a moad or moadim, or Festival of God, it is especially significant.

Yeshua said: “Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars [meteors] will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken [an incredible cosmic quaking and shaking -- see Hebrews 12:25-28; Hag.2:21-23]. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and glory†(Matt.24:29-31).

A total lunar eclipse occurs only when this planet earth get directly between the sun and the moon and occurs only at the full moon phase. When the Moon’s orbit takes it into the Earth’s shadow, it loses its full Moon brilliance and becomes dark. This is because the Moon has no light of its own – you can only see it when the Sun shines on it. So if the earth blocks its light source, it appears to go dark. But it’s not true to say that absolutely no sunlight reaches the Moon at this time. Some rays from the sun reach the moon by being bent around the earth by our planet’s atmosphere. Small as this amount of refracted light may be, it does stop the moon from disappearing totally from our skies during the eclipse. It’s also responsible for shading the moon with colour.

The sun’s light includes all the colours of the spectrum, but only red light can penetrate through the gas and dust in the earth’s atmosphere to reach the moon. If the atmosphere is relatively clean and only a small amount of dust is present, then more than just the red end of the spectrum can filter through, making the moon’s dark surface appear washed in a feeble grey or yellow hue. Even more dust gives it a tobacco colour. The colour range runs right through to blood red, when a large amount of dust is mixed in with the natural gases of the earth’s atmosphere.

Volcanic eruptions in the twelve months prior to the eclipse are thought to be the major contributor: they eject dust high into the air, which prevailing winds then carrying around the globe. Though there are many references in literature to blood red moons and their supposed foretelling of impending calamity, in reality it is only a report card on the condition of the Earth’s atmosphere, and a spectacularly dramatic sight. If our earth did not have any atmosphere, the moon would actually look totally black. Yet, the atmosphere around the Earth filters and refracts the sun’s light depending on the amount of the dust and clouds in the atmosphere. As such the moon can appear in a variety of shades from dark grey or brown, to bright red, orange and yellow.
This phenomena occurs because the moon is not completely dark, but is faintly illuminated with a red light refracted by the earth's atmosphere which filters out the blue rays.
In modern times, a higher density of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere contributes to a spectacular red moon.
Occasionally a lunar eclipse occurs when the earth is covered with a heavy cloud layer which prevents light refraction, making the surface of the moon completely dark (like sack-cloth).

Both the Old and New Testaments speak of a blood-red moon prior to the Day of the Lord and Yeshua the Messiahs return to earth to defeat the enemies of God, the enemies of Israel and Satan.
Joel 2:31 "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come."
Acts 2:20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.

Another future sighting described of a black sun and a blood red moon is revealed in the Sixth Seal of Revelation.
Revelation 6:12 – “I looked when He opened the sixth seal and behold there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.â€

The Jewish Talmud (book of tradition/interpretation) says, "When the moon is in eclipse, it is a bad omen for Israel. If its face is as red as blood, [it is a sign that] the sword is coming to the world."
Rabbi Meir said, "Whenever the luminaries are in eclipse, it is a bad omen for Israel since they are inured to blows. This may be compared to a school teacher who comes to school with a strap in his hand. Who becomes apprehensive? He who is accustomed to be daily punished."

Anciently, a blood red moon symbolized violence, war, and evil factions rising up against the nation of Israel.
A red moon has historically and 'scripturally' meant a period of judgment for the wicked.
Total-eclipse “blood-red†moons have been rare in history but many battles and wars coincided with an eclipse.


[more to come]
johnny

 

[johnny botwright]

The rest including the vidoe links can be seen at

http://www.prophecytalk.com

end times discussion page 2

the vidoes are very good.

there were 4 red moons that fell on Jewish feasts, 1949, Israel formed 1948

also 1967 Jerusalem was retaken.

the next time this occurs is 2014/15

four red moons that fall on Jewish feasts.
The bible calender.

what these signs from the heavens means to every true believer.

to the christains who are watching.

not many here will know this, but you need to.

johnny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AuNkEGwXZQ

 

[XTruth]

I have reasons to believe that you can see this: www.conditionalsalvation.com/rapture_2010 I have the 7 year trib beginning in the first week of November based on the moons and so much more.... it all points to rapture 2010 - second coming 2017

 

[johnny botwright]

some intresting points raised,

Regarding sign posts, a thought.If we are visiting our perents or a friend or going to a wedding some distance away we have a map, we find out when we have to get on the motor way, following the map and sign posts on A and B roads, through towns , once on the motor way, we are then looking for the junction we need to leave the motor way, then follow sign posts to our destination, also with the help of a map.we need all the sign posts, A and B roads, Motor way signs. and the map.Like wise other considerations we need to make journey time, if its a three hour journey and the wedding is at twelve, no good leaving at 11 oclock, or ten hours before, and sitting out side for seven hours. like wise fuel, 300 miles we are going to have to fill up the tank, no good leaving with quarter of a tank of fuel, the wise and foolish virgins, ect.Yes we also have sat nav, but we still have to programe in our journey, and we need a rough idea where we need to arrive, a street name, if we do not have the excact house number,day or hour.? a post code, the area. we will be close.If we said well im only going to follow the A and B road sign posts, and ignore the motor way sign posts, we could find our selves lost, and vise versa. we are on a journey.we may not have a pillar of fire to follow, but we have a map, The Bible.under standing times and seasons, and the signs of the times. Johnny


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AuNkEGwXZQ
blood red moons and their meaning.

 

[XTruth]

I agree with you J- ! I have the same link on my website that you are posting here. I have it a couple times, as well as many other links. These moons in 2014-15, as well as the 3 in a row on the 1st of Av (Aug.1,2008; July 22,2009; and July 11,2010), all are the bases of my research. It turned out to be a small book instead of an article, but read on please: http://www.conditionalsalvation.com/rapture_2010

I also have Rev.6:12 as the total solar eclipse on Nov.13,2012, just 40 days from 12/21/12. Rev.6:12 describes a total solar eclipse in the first half of the 7 year Trib. The only one coming up in the next few years after this Sept (fall feast) is the one in Nov. 2012... after that, the next one falls in 2015. All that research is in the above website

 

[johnny botwright]

Some say it will usher in the end of the age, even the end of the world as we know it. ?
its good some people have researched this for the rest of us, to see, and to be made aware, of the coming signs in the heavens, and what it could mean for every one?

Mark Biltz, pastor of El Shaddai Ministries, in Bonner Lake, Washington. Mark Blitz, discovered a pattern of blood red moons and solar eclipses on very significant dates in the Jewish calendar in the coming years, particularly between 2012-2015.

These findings collaborated with the same type of sequences which have taken place on the Jewish calendar in the past which were important events in the history of Israel and the Jewish people.
Moreover, he found that these phenomena have not occurred in previous centuries in the frequency and on the important Jewish feast and Fast days as they have since Israel became a nation and most importantly, in the sequence in which we are going to occur in the next few years and which don't happen again in the whole of this century.

THE PAST PATTERN
The pattern which Mark Blitz saw was four blood-red moons on each of the Jewish feast days one after another in the same year. Looking back, this occurred the last time in 1997-98 and was 2,000 years since the birth of Yeshua the Messiah and 3,000 years anniversary of Jerusalem being established as the city of our King.
* First Day of Passover, April 3, 1996
* First Day of Tabernacles, September 26 1996
* Feast of Purim, March 22-23 1997
* During "Teshuva" (Repentance), on September 16, 1997

In 1967-68 it was tied to the war which was staged against Israel by Egypt and Jordan in which Jerusalem came back into Israel's jurisdiction once again.
The Six-Day War — 1967
* First Day of Passover, April 24, 1967
* First Day of Sukkot, Oct. 18, 1967
* First Day of Passover. April 13, 1968
* First Day of Sukkoth, Oct. 6, 1968

The previous time to that was in 1948-1950 which was the period of time after Israel became a nation when the Arab States waged warfare against her and tried to destroy the newly born nation.
The War of Independence — 1948
* Passover, April 13, 1949
* Sukkoth, Oct. 7, 1949
* Passover, April 2, 1950
* Sukkoth, Sept. 26, 1950

Before that there were no astronomical back-to-back blood-red moon events in the 1800s, the 1700s or the 1600s. In the 1500s, there were six, but none of those fell on Passover and Sukkot.

The next set of blood-red moons going back in time were at the time of the Spanish Inquisition in its final year 1492, when the Alhambra Decree ordered all remaining Jews who would not convert to Christianity to leave Spain, where there were three of these occurrences.

Altogether, this occurrence of back-to-back blood-red moons has occurred seven times since 1 A.D. on some of the most significant days in Jewish history. In all of these examples, the eclipses have fallen on the first day of the feasts of Passover and Sukkot.

Note that total eclipses of a blood-red moon are rare and for them to fall on Jewish Feast days makes them even more significant.

THE COMING LINE UP OF BLOOD-RED MOONS
In this coming line-up Mark Blitz noted a rare phenomena of four consecutive total lunar eclipses, known as a "tetrad" (i.e. a group of four). He says during this century, tetrads occur at least six times, but what’s interesting is that the only string of four consecutive blood moons that coincide with God’s holy days of Passover in the spring and the autumn’s Feast of Tabernacles (also called Sukkot) occurs between 2014 and 2015 on today’s Gregorian calendar. This had also been the case in 1948-50 and 1967-68 and 1997-8.

Other interesting facts
* Passover is the first annual feast
* Sukkoth is the seventh and final annual feast

* The next seven year cycle in the Biblical calendar begins on Rosh Hashanah (1st Tishri) on Sept. 30, 2008, and ends on Rosh Hashanah on Sept. 13-14, 2015.
The Biblical calendar is set up in a seven year cycle wherein the seventh year is a sabbath year.

* The sabbatical year (the seventh year) in the seven-year cycle begins on Rosh Hashanah on Sept. 25, 2014, and ends on Rosh Hashanah on September 13-14, 2015 — the day of a partial solar eclipse.
So the Sabbatical year itself is earmarked with four blood-red moons, being concluded with the fourth on Rosh Hashanah and a solar eclipse on the same day - September 13-14, 2015.

This is the what will occur in 2014–2015
* Blood-red moon on the first Day of Passover, April 15, 2014
* Blood-red moon on the first Day of Sukkot (Tabernacles), Oct. 8, 2014
* Solar eclipse on the first of Nisan, beginning of the religious year, March 20, 2015
* Blood-red moon on the first Day of Passover, April 4, 2015
* Blood-red moon on the first Day of Sukkot (Tabernacles), Sept. 28, 2015

And then on the Feasts in 2015 itself:
* Blood-red moon on Rosh Hashanah or The Feast of Trumpets, September 13-14
* Solar eclipse on Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles), September 13-14
* Blood-red moon on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), September 23
* Blood-red moon on Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles), September 28

Note. that this includes two solar eclipses, one on the first day of the Hebrew year in 2015 and the next on the high holy day of Rosh Hashanah/Feast of Trumpets 2015, the first day of the seventh Hebrew month.
Both of these take place in the 2014-2015 year.
The two Solar eclipses connected with the Holy Days in 2014-2015 are:
Adar 29/Nisan 1(new year) March 20, 2015
Feast of Trumpets September 13, 2015

Mark Biltz says, “You have the religious year beginning with the total solar eclipse, two weeks later a total lunar eclipse on Passover, and then the civil year beginning with the solar eclipse followed two weeks later by another total blood red moon on the Feast of Sukkot all in 2015.â€

“The fact that it doesn’t happen again in this century I think is very significant,†Biltz explains.

Writing about the amazing discovery in the May 2008 issue of Prophecy in the News, J. R. Church declares, “This is most unusual. It is a rare occurrence for four lunar cycles on successive Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) observances. It will not happen again for hundreds of years.â€

With this amazing sequence, we need to keep in mind Joel's prophecy, "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come." Joel 2:31

The ancient Jewish calendar only went to the year 5775, counting from creation.
It has been reckoned that the Rabbis reconciled the calendar after Yeshua's death to conceal the fulfillment of Daniel's 70 year prophecy as pertianing to Him as the Messiah.
In doing this their calendar is said to be 240 years out.

On this basis, adding 240 years would bring their calculations to 6015 which parallels our dating system for the year 2015.

Considering the fact that the Rabbis understood that there would be a 1,000 year milleniun to follow this age totalling 7,000 years for mankind on this earth, the end of their calendar does not indicate the end of the world as some might think as the Mayan calendar seems to indicate.

When the Mayan calendar is adjusted to the Jewish calendar, the end date comes to 2015 and not 2012. The Mayans, Aztecs and the Chinese calendars all finish on the same time.
However, they lack the illumination of the revealed will of Almighty God as given in the scriptures upon which the Jewish calculations are made.

We have seven "days" of 1,000 years before this earth is dissolved to create a new heaven and a new earth. Praise His Name! (Baruch HaShem).


johnny

 

[NJBeliever]

Good citing of Scripture in the original post.

Although there are several instances of blackouts of the sun and moon in the bible, the moon only turns to blood once in all of Scripture. And that is at the 6th seal of Revelation chapter 6.