And don't miss this weekends display of the full moon and Mars, Aug 26 11:56
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“Joel 2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome Day of YHVH.”
The Day of the Lord is the time period in which God pours out His fiery wrath on the world immediately following the Great Tribulation.
The above verse is the demarcation between the end of the Great Tribulation and the Day of the Lord. This sign in the Heavens is the final sign before the return of Christ and the commencement of the Day of the Lord.
While it is not stated explicitly, it appears that the sun and moon will be darkened simultaneously. It is impossible for this to be the result of ordinary eclipses alone, because solar and lunar eclipses, by their very nature, can only occur a minimum of two weeks apart (roughly).
However, when Christ died the sun was darkened for hours. This was not an ordinary solar eclipse, which usually last a few minutes at most. There was something much larger than the moon passing between the earth and sun.
This event will be unique in human history and represents a cataclysm on the level of Noah’s flood. When this final sign happens, followers of Christ should begin looking up for His imminent return.
We see this in the Olivet discourse recorded in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, plus the matching account in Revelation:
Revelation 6:12-17
I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”
There are 5 other signs that must occur before these last 2. Don’t expect the 6th sign to occur in 2018. We will see the Antichrist revealed by the abomination of desolation long before the signs in the Heavens happen.
DAY OF THE LORD....
King James Version
AMOS 5:18
Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
4 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven,shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking
with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take
place after these things.”2 Immediately I was [a]in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven,