Posted on 12/29/2013 7:32:27 PM PST by DouglasKC
Mark Biltz is the founder of El Shaddai Ministries, a Hebrew roots resource and teaching ministry located near Tacoma, Washington. Recently Biltz has attracted attention in presentations and YouTube videos about end-time prophecy and the Lords return. He discusses the significance of four total lunar eclipses that will fall on the dates of Passover and Sukkot in 2014 and 2015. The Crucifixion of Jesus was at the time of Passover, and Biltz believes that the Second Coming of Christ must happen at Sukkot, so he argues that this relatively unusual event of four lunar eclipses on these four dates has great significance. He also mentions two solar eclipses in 2015 having prophetic implications. Because total lunar eclipses often appear red, people sometimes call a totally eclipsed moon a blood moon. Therefore, Biltz suggests that these eclipses are a fulfillment of the prophecy in Joel 2:31 of the sun being darkened and the moon turning to blood and suggests that they may presage the Lords return. Others, such as John Hagee, have begun speaking about this as well. Let us examine some of these claims.
Why do total lunar eclipses often appear red?
A lunar eclipse occurs when the earths shadow (the umbra) falls on the moon. If the earths shadow completely covers the moon, it is a total eclipse. But a partial lunar eclipse happens if the earths umbra only partially covers the moon. Because the earth has an atmosphere that bends light around its edge, the earths umbra is not completely dark. So, the totally eclipsed moon will reflect the color of the light contained in the earths shadow. The earths atmosphere scatters out shorter-wavelength light (green through violet) leaving mostly longer-wavelength light (red, orange, and yellow) in the earths umbra.
(Excerpt) Read more at answersingenesis.org ...
I don’t believe the Bible is the literal truth. I think it tells parables. I don’t think Blood Moons are anything of importance, nor do I believe in any Rapture. I do believe in God.
I probably should of just avoided this thread, as arguing religion is somewhat pointless. It was late for me, and I should have just left it alone. Anyway, take care.
Sorry to burst your balloon, but DISASTER is right around the corner,
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Right around the corner, eh? A week, a month, a year?
You have no idea of when, obviously.
And there’s no need to get defensive about your utter lack of knowledge when, it puts you in very good company.
You said ... “Right around the corner, eh? A week, a month, a year?”
It’s like a rubber band that you stretch. You keep stretching it and you get ready for the SNAP that you know is going to happen. You know it’s just about to happen, but you can’t say when, exactly.
Now the question is, with the rubber band - as you’re pulling it - is it going to snap next year, or a decade from now? No, because you know it’s just about to happen, because you’ve taken it TO THE LIMIT and you know it can’t last too much longer, and you CRINGE, just waiting for that SNAP.
Well, we’ve taken it to the limit and we’re just waiting for the SNAP right now.
Gen 1:14 And Elohim said, Let lights come to be in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and appointed times, and for days and years, 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth. And it came to be so.
sign: a signal, flag, beacon, omen; (properly in relation to time, to come, of the future)
God gives His approval or disapproval via blessings and curses. He never says I give you a sign as My approval.
Good news, the Christian faith is growing in the global south, that is one confort and even better, the internet is helping to get the Gospel out.
Well ... you can come up with whatever “name” you want for those tetrads in the past and the situations that accompanied them. I’m less interested in the name, as much as I’m interested in the pattern that has been exhibited.
If you want to use “sign” for those tetrads as described in the various articles, that’s fine with me, as it doesn’t matter much to me as much as what has been happening.
I know what the Bible says, according to the Genesis quote you gave. The problem is ... I don’t know if those tetrads are what is being talked about in Genesis 1:14.
So, they may not be a “sign” from God, any more than the Comet ISON is a sign from God. If the Comet ISON is a “sign from God” - then I would like to know what it is a sign of, or about (if someone happens to think that).
Not everything that happens every single night in the sky is a sign from God. Every lunar eclipse is not a sign from God. Every solar eclipse is not a sign from God. Every comet is not a sign from God. The meteorite that hit Russia a little while back is not a sign from God. Haley’s Comet is not a sign from God. The meteorite that hit Winslow, Arizona and made a mile-wide crater is not a sign from God.
Regardless of the above, though, one thing is for sure, though, there is a pattern in those tetrads, and I’ll be curious to see if something develops in connection with the upcoming tetrad.
But what I do know is that the Bible teaches us that we will understand the times by the signs and seasons (God appointed times), so that is why I will do as commanded when the first one arrives and continue to rid my life of the leaven of religion that has been added to the Word of God as Christ teaches us to do.
So while we have advance notice of the upcoming signs in the sky, it will not be until they come and we see what is happening in the world in regards to God's people, and not just the Jews, but also the Christians as God's signs are for all his people, not just one religion that gave it its name from but one of the twelve tribes of Israel. But whatever we see, it must align with what God has spoken through His prophets as He says that He does nothing without first revealing it through the prophets.
And I will tell you, I am in disagreement with the claims of the establishment of the state of Israel as having anything to do with the previous tetrads. But there were other things happening at the time that do agree with what the prophets wrote, and so I will begin keeping close track of the happenings in the days leading up to and just after Purim as to the brand of leaven we are dealing with during the first blood moon.
I should think it idolatry to be focused on astrology.
Well God did create the sun and moon for a purpose, but their purpose was help people determine his holy days:
(GW) Then God said, "Let there be lights in the sky to separate the day from the night. They will be signs and will mark religious festivals, days, and years
But I think this prognostication based on "blood" moons is pretty far fetched. It's safe to say that the holy days of the Lord can and do herald significant events which of course is part of the reason for their creation.
I tend to agree, but don’t recall the verse you mentioned in that form. Can you cite it?
We indeed live in exciting times wherein solar eclipses fascinate the sense of ourselves as living in the universe. At least as long as they last.
In that such a totality also brought Einstein confirmation of more distant starlight being bent along the gravitational field of the sun, lends such perfect alignment the whiff of Divinity.
But even these events take place against the larger cosmic backdrop. These may be interesting for study, but always with an eye as to how they contribute to the whole. And therein the sole focus of worship should be on the Almighty, and not merely those aspects of His invention.
Have a blessed Happy New Year!
You have a blessed New Year as well.
I did a little digging to find out where these lunar eclipses will take place.
Passover
Date: 15 April 2014
Location: North and South Americas
http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2014-april-15
Sukkot
Date: 8 October 2014
Locations: Asia, Europe, Africa
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2014.html
Passover
Date: 3 April 2015
Locations: Pacific Ocean, Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2015_lunar_eclipse
Sukkot
Date: 27 September 2015
Locations: Atlantic Ocean, South America, Western Africa, Eastern North America, Western Europe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2015_lunar_eclipse
This covers all of the known inhabited world. What ever is headed our way is going to affect everyone.
Roughly three months to go bump...what disaster do we face first? Collapse of the economy? Nuclear attack from Russia? Fasten your seat belts!
The Blood Moons by Mark Biltz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32ZkCygd8bE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CSNrXEUCag
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