Romans 3: 4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
message? what message?
That, as happens periodically, the nodes of the moon's orbit are aligned with the line joining the earth and sun?
Well, rather than depending upon apparently rather sensationalized claims tiptoeing around both astrology and Biblical prophecy, why not turn to the people most prominently associated with the purported meaning of the whole thing?
There are Jewish sects that follow such things. Might be able to find something online. One source would Kabalistic astrology, avoid the New Age pretenders who are not Jewish.
From what I can tell they see it as a tightening and a build up to something from ancient times, a transformation that is not good for Israel. Pretty abstract. Beyond that I don’t see much agreement.
If you look at the historical pattern of events such as this in the past, it becomes clear what is about to happen beginning this year...
In the 1492 tetrad, Jews were cast out of Spain and the new world was discovered by Columbus as their refuge.
In the 1948 tetrad, Israel was reborn as a nation.
In the 1967 tetrad, the 6 day war resulted in Israel regaining most of it’s territory back
What I would expect to see happen beginning this year based on the historical pattern is a final purge of Palastine from Jerusalem. This could include Israel regaining ALL of their territories back, as well as FULL control of all parts of Jerusalem. It can also mean that we will see the mosque located in the temple mound removed or destroyed to make way for the rebuilding of the Holy Temple. It is most likely that this series of events will begin with war against Israel from it’s neighboring Arab nations (prophesied in Psalm 83).
This Obviously would NOT go over very well in the world... and will most likely be the triggering event which leads the nations to gather their forces against Israel. This confrontation (NOT armageddon) is prophesied in Ezekiel 38.
What God is saying is, “The engine of the cosmos is performing just as I planned at the beginning of time.”
Interesting celestial events already began this week, with the “opposition of Mars”—it’s perfect alignment with the sun, and also with Earth.
Good evening,’ said Ronan. ‘Students, are you? And do you learn much, up at the school?’
‘Erm -’
‘A bit,’ said Hermione timidly.
‘A bit. Well that’s something.’ Ronan sighed. He flung back his head and stared at the sky, ‘Mars is bright tonight’.
‘Yeah,’ said Hagrid, glancing up too. ‘Listen, I’m glad we’ve run inter yeh, Ronan, ‘cause there’s a unicorn bin hurt - you seen anythin’?’
Ronan didn’t answer immediately. He started unblinkingly upwards, then sighed again.
‘Always the innocent are the first victims,’ he said. ‘So it has been for ages past, so it is now.’
‘Yeah,’ said Hagrid, ‘but have yeh seen anythin’, Ronan? Anythin’ unusual?’
‘Mars is bright tonight,’ Ronan repeated while Hagrid watched him impatiently. ‘Unusually bright.’
Light can do funny things. I’ll keep planting my tree.
Annular eclipses are quite rare, and this one occurs after the first blood moon on April 15. And as for the date, there is definitely something important about it - after all, it wouldn't have been chosen by William and Kate for their royal wedding if it didn't signify something. Which, of course, makes its general non-mention in this blood moon/solar eclipse series of events particularly interesting. For it has literally become "the eclipse that is not named."
Now why is that?
What’s the frequency Kenneth?
Sorry. I am a longtime, dyed-wool dispensationalist with an intense interest in the similarities between the present and the apocalyptic future.
However, when I see "it's" when it should be "its", I stop reading, as I can reasonably assume that the writer is operating from a literacy-free zone.
Pagans are real superstitious about celestial coincidences, too.
They seem to be very late to understand. This was published seven years ago here on FR. Shabbat Shalom ! Who are these people ?
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
BFL
Now, tetrads aren't necessarily that rare—there was one in 2003—but the fact that each blood moon in this tetrad coincides with major Jewish feast days is rare.
Not really. The Jewish calendar is a lunar based calendar and several holidays as the blogger points out, Passover and Sukkot fall in the 15 day of the Jewish lunar calendar, i.e. on a full moon. But since full lunar eclipse only happen when the moon is full, it would not be all that surprising that eclipses even sometimes tetrads, coincide with Jewish holidays.
The Jewish calendar counts from the traditional date assigned to the creation of the world. It is a lunar calendar that is adjusted to remain in relationship to the seasons of the solar year. As such the monthly calendar more or less lines up with the phases of the moon, with those Jewish holidays falling on or about the 15th of a Jewish month taking place when there is a full moon, and the beginning of a new month corresponding to the appearance of a new moon (Ex. 12:1-2).
From: http://www.northshorejewishcenter.org/services/holiday-guide/
Interesting celestial events already began this week, with the "opposition of Mars"—it's perfect alignment with the sun, and also with Earth.
Oppositions between Earth and Mars happen about every 26 months because the planets are relatively close to one another so it is not exactly a rare event.
Tuesday's blood moon happens on Passover; October's on Sukkot; next April's on Passover again, and the final blood moon of the tetrad falls on Sukkot once again. That last one is the only one that will be visible by Israel.
So? The others were just “practice”?
And:
Dickinson also notes that tetrads aren’t actually that unusual. They occur when there are four successive total lunar eclipses separated by six month periods when the Earth is directly between the Moon and the Sun, first refracting the sunlight through the atmosphere onto the Moon (making it ‘red’) and then blocking all direct illumination (the eclipse).
This isn’t even the first tetrad of this century (that was in 2003-2004) and including this one there will be seven more before the year 2100. And although it is certainly rarer for all four eclipses to coincide with Passover and Sukkot (this has happen eight times since 162 CE) this is still frequently enough to make any concurrent events of historical significance nothing more than coincidence.
Throw a dart at a calendar and you’ll find something of ‘historical significance’ happening on that day. It’s just what history is like.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/blood-moons-the-apocalypse-and-why-this-lunar-eclipse-is-nothing-more-than-coincidence-30167181.html
And I think the bolded part makes a good point. At any point in time, nearly on any given day, there is some sort of visible celestial event, planetary alignments, comets, meteor showers, “super moons”, so called “blood” moons, total lunar or solar eclipses, or a natural disaster like an earthquake, a volcanic eruption, big hurricanes and cyclones, tornado outbreak, floods, droughts, rock slides, etc., etc., etc. And history keeps happening too. There are political upheavals; the beginnings of wars, invasions, assassinations, etc., etc., etc. So at any point in time, yes one can associate a naturally occurring event happening near to some significant historical event but are they “signs” or just a coincidence? I’m going with coincidence as I also don’t believe in palm or tea leave reading or in horoscopes.
I for one am looking forward to getting up early on April 15th to stand and watch in awe the beauty of it.