Posted on 05/11/2025 11:57:32 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
NASA scientists have calculated the date a lunar eclipse occurred in A.D. 33 that may pinpoint the day of Jesus’ crucifixion.
In Genesis 1, we read that God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years.”
So it’s not surprising there would be a least one sign in the heavens to mark the death of Jesus as a sacrifice for the sins of the world.
The New York Post reported that NASA’s “astronomical models suggest that a lunar eclipse turned the moon red over Jerusalem on Friday, April 3, 33 AD — a date many scholars tie to Jesus’ death.”
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What? What do you mean, microangels, nanoangels, picoangels or?
Certainly not a solar eclipse, but all lunar eclipses are at full moon.
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A lunar eclipse is always at a full moon.
And I thought Passover was the first weekend after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox (Spring).
And if Jesus died at age 33, that makes his birth year 1. So the Star of Bethlehem occurred that year. Look for comets, supernovae, conjunctions etc that year.
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Appreciate the effort by NASA, but Passover falls at the time of a full moon so an eclipse would not be possible.
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Certainly not a solar eclipse, but all lunar eclipses are at full moon.
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What caused the darkness from the sixth hour (noon) to the ninth hour (3 p.m)?
God caused the darkness.
Are you thinking of Easter?
Easter falls on the first Sunday after the Full Moon date, based on mathematical calculations, that falls on or after March 21. If the Full Moon is on a Sunday, Easter is celebrated on the following Sunday.
Passover always falls on the full moon, but some years have 13 months instead of 12, so on the Gregorian calendar the date varies by as much as a month.
In Temple times, the extra month was added based on weather to ensure ripened barely was available for Temple offering. Not sure anyone knows if 33 AD was a 13 or 12 month year.
See? There is just much research to be done.
Lunar eclipse ONLY happen on full moons. Solar eclipses only happen on new moons.
I posted early Roman/Greek writer's attempts to link the Darkness at noon with a SOLAR eclipse. Info regarding this is historically valid, my misidentification was not.
Lunar eclipses occur at the full moon phase. — https://science.nasa.gov/moon/eclipses/
No probs! Understandable mistake. I get it, I really do.
THAT, sir, is the BIG question!
Not an astronomical event, maybe a meteorological event?
Weather? Maybe a dark cloud wide storm front? High altitude dust storm?
Then there's the earthquake.
I'm guessing a not too distant volcanic eruption could cause the shaking and barf out an ash cloud that could shadow an area for hours. There doesn't seem to be much of a record of 1st century volcanoes, Vesuvius in 79 AD is about it.
I'm also open to the possibility of meteor strike shaking the ground and spewing ejecta high into the atmosphere.
I’ve made whoppers of woopsies m’self.
Fortunately there’s always a FReeper or a couple dozen to catch ‘em...
I was impressed! Most won’t admit it, even when it’s a very understandable mistake like yours. It takes a mature and secure person to do so.
I’ve certainly made my own mistakes, some not as understandable as yours (blush).
Nisan 14 is always at full moon time. the proper condition for it tp show that the sun's light on it is being blocked by the earth, as it passes through the earth's umbra/penumbra. The degree of darkness would depend on whether the earth is directly on the line between sun and moon or not.
But the darkness that came in the last three hours of Jesus' agony and death occurred in the period that would customarily have been from the sixth hour of daylight (high noon in Jerusalem) until the ninth hour, mid-afternoon, when He finally gave up the ghost and His Body was completely inert, lifeless, exsanguinated.
The moon phase had nothing to do with this kind of darkness, perhaps God blinding human minds from within, not from without. Thus if so, the miracle would be control of what a person or persons perceive, not necessarily a pause in the behavior of the universe.
Well might the sun in darkness hide,An event of supernatural origin, arising from the fiery Divine wrath poured our on Him in full but bedimmed sight of the guilty creatures, once for all time.
And shut his glories in,
When Christ The Mighty Maker died
For man the creature's sin."
(Isaac Watts)
Nisan 14, the day of "preparation" -- the killimg of the Passover lamb, and its bleedout -- began on what we would call "Thursday" at sundown, extending through to the cross-death of John Baptist's "Lamb of God" that taketh away the sin (collectively) of the world of humans, all within that day-period at the end of that day and the beginning of the seven-day feast at the coming sundown.
No. It was Friday, according to ResearchGate, a more reliable authority.
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