As the moon shines red for the fourth time since April 2014, even those not typically associated with prophetic circles are wondering if we’ve reached the end.
“The night of Sept. 27-28 will bring a ‘blood moon,'” writes CNN’s Todd Leopold. “To skywatchers, it simply refers to the copper color the moon takes on during an eclipse, but to some Christian ministers, the fourth and final eclipse in a tetrad—four consecutive total lunar eclipses, each separated by six lunar months—fulfills biblical prophecy of the apocalypse.”
CNN cites the rise in popularity of Hagee’s book Four Blood Moons, and the subsequent documentary as the sudden fascination with the tetrad of lunar eclipses.
Leopold and Hagee aren’t the only ones examining the sky and Scriptures.
“There are many that dismiss the blood moon phenomenon, but we have seen similar patterns before,” writes Michael Snyder, the publisher of the Economic Collapse Blog. “For example, a similar pattern of eclipses happened just before and just after the destruction of the Jewish temple by the Romans in A.D. 70.”
According to earthsky.org, though, the phenomenon isn’t necessarily associated with destruction. The site lists eight tetrad lunar eclipses that also fell within the Jewish festival time frame:
1. 162-163 C.E.
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.
Even NASA got in on the end-time game, sending out a press release about potential asteroids hitting the earth based on Internet rumors of destruction.
“If there were any object large enough to do that type of destruction in September, we would have seen something of it by now,” Paul Chodas says. Chados is the manager of NASA’s Near-Earth Object office. “There is no scientific basis—not one shred of evidence—that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth on those dates.”
While the sky comparisons might end there, CNN’s Leopold also noted how men and women across the globe are aligning the stock market crash late last month with other end-time prophecies.
