musiclover420 said: Maybe this moon will finally end the unrest in the middle east!
 Dr.Wongburger said: So we are referred to a article which has no scripture references for its claims and doesn't even quote the original speakers (John Hagee and Mark Blitz) on subject. hmmmm... What to think of this.
Regardless of that weak article, I'm excited to photograph the moon this time!
I love how short the article is, "yeah cool moon coming up, and possibly apocalypse, that is all"
No need to really go into much detail at all... Journalism is turning to crap nowadays... Or it has been for awhile and this is the pinnacle of the crap.
The writer of it was lazy probably or had a general lack of interest. It's like the posts that went around on social media sites recently such as facebook claiming mars was going to be visible from earth. I saw people had been posting it.. I searched it.. The interwebz told me the rumor started because originally in 2003 mar's was as close as it ever had been with in a period of 60 thousand years.
September 27th will be the next and final blood moon.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/04/15/when-is-the-next-blood-moon-dates-for-rare-lunar-tetrad-october-8-time-san-francisco-biblical-prophecy-eclipse/
Being on subject I find it of interest to go ahead and speak of the biblical significance of the blood moons that are held in high value to Christians and Jewish people world wide.
Let's start with some verses.
“The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.” (Joel 2:31)
“And God said: ‘Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years.” (Genesis 1:14)
“And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the Children of Israel, and say unto them, these are my appointed festivals, which you shall proclaim to be sacred assemblies, they are my appointed feasts.” (Leviticus 23:1,2).
Here is some information I pulled from a article/ ebook on the subject which I find to be rather facts more than dealing with faith or religion.
" When four total lunar eclipses take place without any partial lunar eclipses in between, it is called a ‘Tetrad’. Tetrads are rare, having only occurred 54 times in the last 2015 years, however we are now in the middle of what NASA is referring to as the “2014-2015 tetrad”. “The most unique thing about the 2014-2015 tetrad is that all of them are visible for all or parts of the USA,” says longtime NASA eclipse expert Fred Espenak. "
"The Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar, so every Jewish month begins with a new moon. As a result, Jewish holidays move around the secular calendar. For example, according to the Bible, Passover takes place on the “14th day of the first month” known as Nissan. However, in some years Passover occurs in March and other years it occurs in April. Amazingly, all four Blood Moons of the 2014-2015 tetrad overlap with Biblical festivals.
1st Lunar Eclipse - April 15th, 2014 - (Passover 5774) 2nd Lunar Eclipse - October 8th, 2014 - (Sukkot/Tabernacles 5775) 3rd Lunar Eclipse - April 4th, 2015 - (Passover 5775) 4th Lunar Eclipse - September 28th, 2015 - (Sukkot/Tabernacles 5776)"
Tetrads overlapping with Jewish festivals in history
"A total lunar eclipse is rare, a series of uninterrupted lunar eclipses is even more rare, and for the tetrad to overlap with Biblical festivals is exceedingly rare. However, this exceedingly rare occurrence has occurred in history. Each time has been during a period of great significance in Jewish history. In the past 500 years, only three tetrads have overlapped with Jewish Festivals:
1493-1494: 1492 was the final year of the Spanish Inquisition, the devastating expulsion of Jews from Spain, and the year America was discovered by Christopher Columbus, who according to many, was Jewish and looking for a new home for his persecuted brethren.
1949-1950: 1948 was the year the State of Israel was founded, the first Jewish commonwealth in 2,000 years and the miraculous return to their Biblical inheritance. That same year the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, the earliest Biblical manuscripts to be unearthed.
1967-1968: 1967 was the year of the 6 Day War when Israel defended herself against the attack of 5 Arab nations, liberating Jerusalem and the Biblical lands of Judea and Samaria. Against ominous military challenges, the Jewish State greatly enlarged her small borders."
Already passed this year -
"The year 2015, however is unique in that the Vernal Equinox, or first day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere, the day that days and nights are of equal length everywhere on earth, occurs on that very same day, about 12 hours later, at 10:45PM GMT in the evening. Furthermore, the Jewish Religious New Year, which begins the Jewish Calendar in the month of Nissan, begins at sundown in Jerusalem on March 20th exactly 5½ hours after the total eclipse at 3:50PM GMT, or at 5:50PM Jerusalem local time.
A Total Solar Eclipse at the North Pole on the first day of Spring has a likelihood of once every 100,000 years. Any spot on earth can expect to see an eclipse roughly every 300 years, but for that to occur on a very specific day of the 365 day calendar yields a rarity of once every 100,000 years. In addition, because the Jewish Religious Calendar has only been in operation for a much shorter time, or 5775 years, it is unlikely such a combined event ever occurred before in Jewish history."
“The concurrence and rarity of this natural event, together with the times in which we live, indicates the finger of God,” said Gidon Ariel, an Israeli Orthodox Jew and co-founder of Root Source. A total solar eclipse at the North Pole on the first day of spring occurs once every 100,000 years. For it to occur on the first day of the first month of the Biblical calendar year is, however, entirely unprecedented since this is only the year 5775 according to Jewish tradition, meaning that there has never been such a solar occurrence in human history."
https://www.billyebrim.org/sites/billyebrim.org/files/bloodmoonebook.pdf
Well I hope you guys enjoyed this good read on the facts surrounding the blood moon.
Reason for edit: grammar correction
Edited by Dr.Wongburger (08/30/15 07:34 PM)
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