What is a Blood Moon?
A lunar eclipse occurs when the earth passes between the sun
and the moon. This blocks the sun’s rays from reflecting off the moon as
normal. However, some of the sun’s rays curve around the earth causing the moon
to appear red during a total eclipse. Because of its vivid color, a total lunar
eclipse is often referred to by NASA as a Blood Red Moon. The occurrence of
blood moons is quite common, normally happening at least twice per year. Most
of us have seen the moon when its appearance has changed to red. When four
blood moons happen in close succession, NASA refers to this as a tetrad.
Tetrads are rather rare, only taking place fifty-five times since 1 AD.
The Teaching of the 4 Blood Moons
The teaching of the four blood moons has recently captivated
the attention of the religious world. This teaching states that, when four
consecutive blood moons fall on Jewish feast days, a major event affecting the
Jewish people will occur in close proximity to that time.
The Blood Moon Prophecy is a theory studied and taught by
some Christian ministers, such as John Hagee and Mark Biltz, which states that
an ongoing tetrad (a series of four consecutive lunar eclipses coinciding on
Jewish Holidays—with six full moons in between, and no intervening partial
lunar eclipses) which began with the April 2014 lunar eclipse is a sign of the
end times as described in the Bible in Acts 2:20 and Revelation 6:12.
On April 15, 2014, there was a total lunar eclipse. It was
the first of four consecutive total eclipses in a series, known as a tetrad; a
second one took place on October 8, 2014, third one on April 4, 2015 and the
remaining one will take place on September 28, 2015. It is one of eight tetrads
during the 21st century AD. As with most eclipses, the moon appeared red during
the April 15 eclipse. The red color is caused by Rayleigh scattering of
sunlight through the Earth's atmosphere, the same effect that causes sunsets to
appear red. Hagee also connects the
solar eclipse of March 20, 2015 in the middle of the sequence.
Total solar eclipse of March 20, 2015
The idea of a "blood moon" serving as an omen of
the coming of the end times comes from the Book of Joel, where it is written
"the sun will turn into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the
great and terrible day of the Lord comes. This phrase is again mentioned by
Saint Peter during Pentecost, as recorded in Acts, although Peter says that
date, not some future date, was the fulfillment of Joel's prophecy. The blood
moon also appears in the book of Revelation chapter 6 verses 11 - 13, where
verse 12 says “And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there
was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the
moon became as blood"
Now, it’s about to
happen for the fourth time!
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