Blood moon

In the early hours of Monday, September 28, the last blood moon in the current tetrad (cycle of four moons) will occur during the Jewish festival of Sukkot (Tabernacles). The blood moon, a full lunar eclipse in which the moon appears red, will be visible from the US, beginning shortly after midnight on Sunday, September 27, for approximately one hour and 11 minutes. Even more significantly, the blood moon will also be visible from Israel.

In Acts 2:20 “The sun will become dark, and the moon will turn blood red before that great and glorious day of the LORD arrives.

The current tetrad has high significance for Judaism and Israel. Each blood moon in the tetrad has fallen on a Jewish holiday: Passover of 2014, Sukkot of 2014, Passover of 2015 and now Sukkot of 2015. A tetrad of blood moons all coinciding with Jewish festivals is extremely rare; only three such tetrads have occurred in the past thousand years. This is the fourth cycle. According to many rabbinic scholars, these tetrads always signify turning points in Jewish history. A prophecy in the Book of Joel states that the coming of the Messiah will be preceded by a blood moon.

In Joel 3:3 “I will set wonders in the heavens and the earth: blood and fire and pillars of smoke; the sun will turn to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of God”

Looking back to 1949 for example, the Passover Blood Moon was on April 13, 1949. The final Armistice Agreement of Israel’s War of Independence, signaling the war’s end, was not signed until July 20 of that year.

Similarly, there was also a Passover Blood Moon on April 24, 1967. The Six Day War, which reunited the divided city of Jerusalem, did not start until more than a month later, on June 5, 1967.