The Blood Moon Prophecy

Pastor Wes discussed Blood Moon Tetrads in his lecture April 13, 2014 titled The Signs of His Coming! And he gave me much information to think about.  I pulled the Blood moon Prophecy off of wikipedia.  I can see why and how this prophecy came about, but think they are flawed just a wee bit.  Let me explain.  

1st yes we can use the heavens to predict the future.  God told us this in Genesis 1:14 "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years"  And let them be for signs....... what kind of signs? and for seasons..... what kind of seasons?  Quite simply this means Sacred Times.  

Joel 2:31  The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood: before the great and dreadful day of the Lord doth come.

 Revelation 6: [12] And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal, and behold there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair: and the whole moon became as blood:[13] And the stars from heaven fell upon the earth, as the fig tree casteth its green figs when it is shaken by a great wind: [14] And the heaven departed as a book folded up: and every mountain, and the islands were moved out of their places. 

These two references, one old and one new testament, tells you exactly what signs in the heavens to look for.  

Even the wise men, on the night of Christ's birth followed the heavens to his location.  

Matthew 24:36  "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone  

According to our Jewish friends this refers specifically to the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashana) whose day and hour no one knows until the signs from the heavens are seen and reported back, confirmed, and then the trumpets are sounded.   Celebrated yearly on the 1st day of Tishra.  

God used the sounding of the trumpet in various ways with Israel. It was used to call the people to repentance, to awake from sin. It was used to remind them of the covenants He had with His people which showed His mercy and grace toward them. On blowing the horn on New Year’s Day it was to remind them of their short comings and sin.


And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem” (Isa. 27:12-13).

NOW......  the question remains, do the signs have to be visible from Israel?  62 tetrads since 1 AD, 8 of them falling on the Feasts, most of which not visible from Biblical Israel.



With the information that I have gathered thus far, I surmise that indeed the end times will occur when there is an eclipse during the Feast of the Trumpets.   I have not unearthed enough information in order to predict which one it will happen at.   I will go out on a limb and say that I feel that the eclipse will be visible from somewhere in the world, not just the Biblical Israel, because in my opinion "Israel" is the land of God's people, and those of us that believe in him are his people, and we are scattered throughout the world.  Contrary to what most think, I personally don't think God's land is limited by people, geography, or borders.

The Blood Moon Prophecy is an idea popularized by Christian pastors John Hagee and Mark Biltz, which states that an ongoing tetrad (a series of four consecutive total lunar eclipses, 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.

Overview

The moon appeared red during the April 2014 eclipse.

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 (the remaining three eclipses will take place on October 8, 2014, April 4, 2015, and 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.

Around 2008, Biltz began predicting that the Second Coming of Jesus would occur in the fall of 2015. He said he had "discovered" an astronomical pattern that predicted the next tetrad would coincide with the end times. When the prediction failed, he pulled the article from his website, but continued to teach on the "significance" of the tetrad.

Four Blood Moons became a best seller, spending more than 150 days in Amazon.com's top 150 by April 2014 For the week ending March 30, 2014, it was the ninth best selling paperback, according to Publishers Weekly. By mid-April, Hagee's book had hit #4 on the The New York Times best-seller list in the advice category. As the eclipse approached, Hagee and Biltz's speculations gained mainstream media attention in publications such as USA Today and the International Business Times. Earth & Skyreported receiving "a number of inquiries about Blood Moon", prompting a response.

Despite the attention, it is not clear if many people actually believe the ideas. According to Christian Today, only a "small group of Christians" saw the eclipse as significant.

Writing for Earth & Sky Bruce McClure and Deborah Byrd point out that the referenced verse also says the "sun will be turned into darkness", an apparent reference to a solareclipse. They note that since the Jewish Calendar is lunar, one sixth of all eclipses will occur during Passover or Sukkot. Furthermore, there have been 62 tetrads since the first century AD and eight of them have coincided with both the feasts. Thus, the event is not as unusual as Hagee and Biltz imply. Additionally, three of the four eclipses in the tetrad will not even be visible in the biblical homeland of Israel, casting further doubt on Hagee and Biltz's interpretation. Writing for Space.com, Geoff Gaherty said he saddened that "'prophets of doom' ... view these life-enriching events as portents of disaster" and said the eclipse was "hardly something to be concerned about".