Blood Moons

I'm actually really super mega tired of hearing about people claiming that Jesus is going to come back during the blood moons or people coming up with silly theories about the blood moons.

Let's get a few things under the "reigns" here first so we are all under the same premises:

1 - What we call a "blood moon" is actually the name for a total lunar eclipse. There are two things that need to happen in order for this to take place. First, the moon has to been in the "full moon" phase in order for it to happen. Second, the moon needs to pass into the shadow of the earth. The earth has a partial and a full shadow. The blood moon only occurs in the full shadow of the earth.

2 - The current calendar that we use is the Gregorian Calendar. Prior to that (circa 1580's) we used the Julian calendar. These dates figure longer and shorter for given months.

3 - The Jewish calendar is based on typical lunar cycles and their holidays correspond.

4 - Jewish Holidays aren't singular days such as "Christmas" or "Easter" but they last for about a week for the major holidays.

5 - Blood Moons aren't something that everyone everywhere on earth can view at the same time. When we are having night and view the eclipse the other side of the earth is experiencing day and the eclipses only last a few hours.

6 - When four of these "Blood Moons" occur within two years it's called a "tetrad" because of the rarity. From the time of 1c.e. there will have been 62 Tetrads until 2100c.e.


So there is a lot of conjecture about when these fall because people are making a lot of buzz about them falling on Jewish Holidays. This actually will have happened 8 times:

1. 162-163 C.E. (Common Era)
2. 795-796 C.E.
3. 842-843 C.E.
4. 860-861 C.E.
5. 1493-1494 C.E.
6. 1949-1950 C.E.
7. 1967-1968 C.E.
8. 2014-2015 C.E.

I'm actually kind of tired of hearing about famous events as if they are some sort of crazy happening. For instance, in 1967 the 76ers won the NBA Championship on the same day of the April Blood moon. That doesn't mean anything. The game was on that day. If the other team won you could draw your own lines in that way too. Later that year, Disney's "Jungle Book" was released on the next one. The other two from 1968 have no significant events tied with them.

The fact is that what happens with people and the moon is a lot of times based on how we interact with things. I do know the biblical prophecies and I see a lot of people drawing conclusions about what happens with Israel and the blood moon. Here's the problem with that line of thinking. Those blood moons on those holidays would have happened whether anything happened with Israel or not. It was the way the moon was moving in relation to the sun and the earth. If Israel didn't declare independence from Brittain in 1948 the blood moons still would have happened and it would still have been on those holidays.

It's wildly erratic to pull conclusions from what people do in relation to a natural phenomenon that we could calculate into the foreseeable future. If you believe Jesus is coming back, great! Good! I'm just saying that these occurrences are not likely what the prophets were talking about as it is inevitable that some of those people too had seen a blood moon before the prophecies were ever made. Those prophecies also mention an earthquake right before them that "moves mountains and islands" and a ton of stars falling from the sky.

Sometimes having a little context is more important than being right. Sure the bible could be talking about these blood moons, but if they are the earthquake and big happenings with them aren't there. Instead maybe we stop focusing on "getting out of here" and remember that Jesus said this:

Jesus replied: “'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”