The 2014-2015 Blood Moon Tetrad What is it? Does it mean anything??? PART 1 of 6 Introduction
What is a blood moon? A blood moon is a name for a complete lunar eclipse when the sun s shadow completely blocks the moon s light. A total lunar eclipse can only occur on a full moon. The earth's atmosphere traps the dark blues leaving the red light from the sun to bend and strike the total lunar eclipsed moon. The blood red effect will last for about three hours during a total eclipse.
Every full moon has traditional names that have been derived from ancient history (including various religious traditions), formalized in the Farmer s Almanac as: MONTH JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER FULL MOON NAMES Wolf Moon, Old Moon Snow Moon, Hunger Moon Worm Moon, Crow Moon, Sap Moon, Lenten Moon Seed Moon, Pink Moon, Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon, Fish Moon Milk Moon, Flower Moon, Corn Planting Moon Mead Moon, Strawberry Moon, Rose Moon. Thunder Moon Hay Moon, Buck Moon, Thunder Moon Corn Moon, Sturgeon Moon, Red Moon, Green Corn Moon Harvest Moon, Full Corn Moon Hunter s Moon, Blood Moon, Sanguine Moon Beaver Moon, Frosty Moon Oak Moon, Cold Moon, Long Nights Moon
Is this rare? Blood moons are not rare, but what is rare is when they occur in tetrads (groups of four) that fall on the same days as Hebrew Feast days, and also include at least one total solar eclipse. These lunar eclipses coincide with the first of the seven feasts, Passover (Pesach) and the last of the feasts, Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot). This makes then VERY rare.
How rare? The alignment of a blood moon tetrad with the feast days has only happened eight times since the Messiah came. Hold that thought...more later!
So what? Alignment of significant signs in the heavens on God s ordained feast days should get our attention. The fact that the alignment occurs on the FIRST and the LAST feast days is also significant.
The Alpha and Omega The Aleph and Tau The First and the Last Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. (Matthew 5:17) Let the Holy Spirit guide your thinking on this and every subject!
Why is this important? What do lunar and solar eclipses have to do with God s plan?
From the very beginning... Then God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth ; and it was so. Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. GENESIS 1:14-16
and let them be for signs... 'owth אוה (in the sense of appearing to come); a signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.: mark, miracle, sign, token
and let them be for seasons... mo`ed מּוד an appointment, a fixed time or season. This word does NOT mean season as we know it, nor does it mean feast as we know it. The word literally means APPOINTED TIME(S). It is the same word used in Leviticus 23 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'The feasts the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts. [ these are my appointed times ]
...and days and years,... Both the literal and symbolic passage/process of time. The sun and moon enable us to have a counting system to determine the passage of time. This also assumes God s plan which progresses with the passing of time.
God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. So the evening and the morning were the fourth day. GENESIS 1:17-19 (NOTE: The Hebrew day begins and ends at dusk, because of the verse above.)
So far... God created the sun and moon and stars and put them in the heavens for: 1. Signs a way to communicate with His people, to get our attention. We are to be watching. 2. Seasons a way to mark and determine proper feast days, which are more correctly interpreted as appointed times. They are appointed because God has special plans for those days. We are to observe them, and watch for His work on these days. The feast cycle is God s prophetic calendar. 3. Days and years a way to mark passage of time, and God s plan
He told us WHY He put them there, and then told us WHAT He would do with them...and what to look for.
And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. Joel 2:30-31 [Peter also quoted this OT passage in his sermon on Pentecost]
Behold, the day of the LORD comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay the land desolate; And He will destroy its sinners from it. For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light; The sun will be darkened in its going forth, And the moon will not cause its light to shine. Isaiah 13:9-10
Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Matthew 24:29
But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; Mark 13:24
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. Revelation 6:12
When the sun is darkened, or is black as sackcloth, we can assume a total SOLAR eclipse. When the moon will not give its light, or becomes like blood, we can assume a total LUNAR eclipse. Chances are high that God would include both of these in the signs He provides. And a tetrad of blood moons, as far as those that pertain to the ordained feast days, will have both signs darkened sun and blood moon. And so, they do... even more rare.
Are these signs just a random set of events? There is absolutely NO such thing as randomness in our universe. Science has been searching for any sign of randomness, but they have not found it. EVERYTHING has a pattern or logic. Nothing can be considered random. Are they merely coincidental? Coincidence implies randomness. It does not exist. There is nothing coincidental in our universe. If this is true, then what is the alternative?
As the Jewish rabbis say... Coincidence is NOT a Kosher word! There is no such thing as coincidence. There is only special design, a special plan, a pattern of things that is intricately engineered (science has actually proven this). If you have a design and a plan, you have a designer and a planner. GOD is in control of everything! Including the signs in the heavens.
He is the ultimate time piece designer, planner and keeper. Our universe is incredibly mathematical and consistent. It keeps perfect time. HE keeps perfect time. Because of this, we can now predict signs in the heavens with great accuracy.
7 signs in the heavens coming... Nov 28 2013 Hanukkah Comet ISON vaporized by sun April 15 2014 Passover LUNAR Eclipse Oct 8 2014 Tabernacles LUNAR Eclipse One Full Cycle Hebrew Feasts (Appointed times) March 20 2015 New Year Nisan 1 TOTAL SOLAR Eclipse April 4 2015 Passover LUNAR Eclipse Sept 13 2015 Trumpets PARTIAL SOLAR Eclipse One Full Cycle Hebrew Feasts (Appointed times) Sept 28 2015 Tabernacles LUNAR Eclipse