Set your CST clocks for the three phases: 12:58-2:06AM (beginning the partial phase), 2:06-3:24AM (for the total eclipse with the middle happening @2:45), and the final phase from 3:24-4:33AM.
If eclipses happen randomly during the year, why is this one special?
NASA says getting a spring/fall eclipse for two years back-to-back ON THE SAME DAYS is called a tetrad. And this tetrad is not just happening on any spring/fall day. These are happening on Passover and The Feast of Tabernacles. So let's begin at the beginning...
1. First, what is a blood moon? When the earth moves between the sun and moon, the sunlight is refracted through the Earth's atmosphere and gives the moon a reddish glow. It's the same phenomenon that happens at sunset.
2. How does such an astronomical event intersect with God's calendar? NASA tells us there are just 7 times since the first century when four blood moons have happened on Passover/Feast of Tabernacles on two consecutive years. From God's perspective, He has told us in Genesis that He will use the sun, moon, and stars as signs and seasons. That's how the Wise Men found the baby Jesus; the Bible is full of examples of communication using the sky billboard.
3. So what? The Talmud says that when the moon is in such an eclipse, it is a bad omen. When the face of the moon is blood red, it is said that the sword is coming to the world.
4. Does history bear out the "bad omen"? Jesus was crucified during the tetrads of 32/33AD. What else has happened on the timeline when blood moons fell on Passover/Feast of Tabernacles for two consecutive years?
*162-163AD. Four total lunar eclipses coincided with the persecution of the Jews in the Roman Empire, followed by a flood, then famine. Within three years, the Antonine Plague struck which killed 8 million people, a third of the population.
*1492. Listen to how Christopher Columbus began his journal: "In the same month in which their Majesties [Ferdinand and Isabella] issued the edict that all Jews should be driven out of the kingdom and its territories, in the same month they gave me the order to undertake with sufficient men my expedition of discovery to the Indies."
It is estimated that 200,000 Jews were expelled from Spain. Tens of thousands died while trying to reach safety. Some paid exorbitant fees for a ticket on a ship, only to be taken out and dumped in the ocean. But Columbus' discovery of America provided a safe haven for what is now some six-eight million Jews.
*From 1600 to 1900, there were NO blood moons.
*1948. Blood moons happened on the year Israel proclaimed her independence...and in less than 24 hours, the regular armies of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq invaded. The fight lasted 15 months and claimed over 6,000 Israeli lives (nearly 1% of the country's Jewish population). The next year the United Nations declared Israel's statehood.
*1967. Blood moons happened when Israel fought the Six Day War.
According to NASA, four successive total "blood-red" lunar eclipses will begin tonight, April 15th, 2014 (@Passover)...and October 8, 2014 (@Feast of Tabernacles). Then they will repeat on Passover 2015 (April 4th) and on the 2015 Feast of Tabernacles (September 28th).
Just for the record, NASA sees no connection between blood moons and judgment. And just for the record, God is a God of order and He means what He says.
"AND I WILL SHOW WONDERS IN THE HEAVENS, AND IN THE EARTH, BLOOD AND FIRE AND PILLARS OF SMOKE. THE SUN SHALL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS, AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD, BEFORE THE COMING OF THE GREAT AND AWESOME DAY OF JEHOVAH." Joel 2:30,31
"THE SUN SHALL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD, BEFORE THAT GREAT AND GLORIOUS DAY OF THE LORD." Acts 2:20
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