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I remember as a young man hearing an evangelist talk about Joel 2 and Acts 2 and how they describe how the Lord is going to return and that a sign of His coming will be the moon turning to blood and the sun not giving it's light. With that information and a vast lack of understanding, I spent a great amount of time star/moon gazing as a young person. I was fearful of the Lord's return because to me that would spell the end of my life here on earth. However, now, as a believer and an adult I understand that the end of my life here on earth only means the beginning of my life in Heaven, which is a joyful thing, not something to be feared or dreaded. Maybe the Lord put that fascination me so that some 20+ years down the road I would be passionate to tell of His second advent. Maybe I am just a science nut....maybe I'm just a nut. Whatever the case may be, today's brief article is to share some thoughts regarding the second of four blood moons. I would also like to share with you what they COULD mean, and what things we should be looking for as our Messiah prepares for His return to take a way His people.
A Look Back:
In the early morning hours of April 15th I was awake and moon-gazing as a reddish hue surrounded the moon. It was an amazing sight! I can't recall being more awe struck other than the day I watched anxiously as my bride-to-be made her way towards me on our wedding day, hoping she would not turn around and run the other way. It was a Divine Appointment that my wife and I met and got married, and it was a Divine Appointment watching the Moon turn red before my very eyes. In my studies of the Bible (God's Perfect Word) I have learned a few things about Judaism and the practices there in. A lot of times I fear that I have learned just enough to be dangerous, but the point is, I know this; God has set up the Sun, Moon, and Stars to be as "Signs and Appointed Times". Some translations may say, "Signs and Seasons" but we are not monitoring Summer, Winter, Spring, and Fall, the Hebrew word, "Season" is actually Mo'ed, which means, "A Divine Appointment" We are living during an exciting time where God is using the bodies He created in the Heavens to show us His Appointed Times. In addition, we see that these are not just happening on random days, they are occurring on the Lord's Feast Days. Please see Leviticus 23 to read more about those. To make a long article short as they say; God uses the sun and the moon to speak to us here on Earth (among other things obviously). God specifically uses the moon to speak to the Nation of Israel (The Apple of His Eye) while the sun most of the time is a sign to the nations of the world (gentiles). What we have here and now is a message to all the nations of the world....Let me explain!
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By looking at the picture to the right you can clearly see the Blood Moons, the dates they are expected to fall on, as well as the name of the Jewish Feast that they fall on.
Two celestial events have passed and the next one to note is the Solar Eclipse on March 20, 2015. Following that we will see two more Blood Moons happen again on the same two Jewish Feast days. Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles or as it is known in Judaism, "Sukkot" (a reference to the huts that are built on the holiday to celebrate God's great provision for the Israelites during their 40 years of wanderings in the Old Testament.
The interesting thing about the Blood Moons are that the first three are not visible to the nations of the Middle East. The very last Blood Moon to happen in this tetrad is a Super Blood Moon and it is visible from Israel and more specifically.....Jerusalem.
So the question is; What are we looking at? The short answer, I believe is; God is telling the world a message ABOUT ISRAEL. Then He is speaking to the Gentile nations during the March Solar Eclipse. Then He gives us another warning/message ABOUT ISRAEL before giving a warning/message DIRECTLY TO ISRAEL on the Feast a Tabernacles 2015. A Super Blood Moon able to be seen from Israel's Capitol City, Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem's Capitol spot....The Temple Mount!!! God is telling planet Earth something and I think it is time that we listened before it is too late.
That is our preliminary word on this. My intention is to post many more blogs showing how Jesus and Paul preached about the second coming of Jesus and not just His second coming, but the day He raptures His church home before the great and awesome day of the Lord. I encourage you to share this blog on your Facebook and twitter so that your friends and family can start to get their hearts prepared. ---- There are some links provided so that you can view scripture passages and some definitions of words that may not sound familiar.
IN the words of Christ -- "Pray, that you might be counted worthy to escape all these things".
Blessings my brethren,
Greg
