So much talk about Blood Moons

Why so much talk about Blood Moons? Are they a distraction away from the true Moon turned to blood that happened on the night of May 19, 1780? Are lunar eclipses more significant than the fulfillment of Bible prophecy? Connect them with certain dates, sensationalize them and make them bigger than life. But nothing is bigger than the fulfillment of the written prophecies of Jehovah. 

“The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.” (Joel 2:31,32).

As so much greater was the May 19, 1780 cosmic event, the Revelation vision included even more than a deep red moon. 

“And I beheld when He had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; 

And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. 

And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places." (Rev. 6:12-14).

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.” (Matt. 24:29).

The sun went dark the daytime preceding the deep red moon. It went down in American history as the “Dark Day”.  That day the darkness was so deep that, during the Revolutionary War, General Washington hunkered down his troops for the day. It was a warning to Protestant America that their God was living and waiting to build their faith in Him. Lanterns were lit yet were difficult to see at a short distance. Words written with black ink on white paper could not be read. Their hands couldn't be seen directly in front of their faces. Everyone didn't cry that “yet another forest fire was burning down Ontario!” And everyone didn't call it fog.

Then November 12, 1833 a meteorite show lasted almost all night. That meteor shower was the densest of any other known before it and ever afterwards. Scientists still use that meteor shower as the baseline to gage all Leonid events.

And the first of the Revelation 6:12 oddities of nature, the great earthquake was the Lisbon Earthquake. It is another extraordinary natural occurrence. It was felt across the Atlantic in the Caribbean islands to Morocco, to Greenland, the British Isles, Norway and Sweden--4 million square miles in area. the 8.7 magnitude quake and its accompanying tsunami destroyed Lisbon and the whole coast causing extensive damage. Mountains, “some of the largest in Portugal, were impetuously shaken, as it were, from their very foundations and some of them opened at their summits, which were split and rent in a wonderful manner, huge masses of them being thrown down into the adjacent alleys. Flames are related to have issued from these mountains”.--Sir Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, p. 495.

All of these phenomena came after the great tribulation the great tribulation of the papal Dark Ages, just as Jesus promised.

But there is another tribulation, even bigger than were the Dark Ages. This one will be during the age of light. It will not be longer than the 1,260 year time of trouble, but being worse and shorter, it will be much greater in intensity. This will happen just previous to Jesus return in power and searing glory. It will be like the star Sirius coming as close as the Moon. It will overthrow every natural law we have. 

Rivers flowing backward. Volcanoes blowing, earthquakes ripping up the landmasses. Tornadoes and hurricanes raising havoc. Heavenly bodies moving out of His way. Meteorology in chaos. Mountains writhing.

“God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of His praise. 

And His brightness was as the light; He had horns coming out of His hand: and there was the hiding of His power. 

Before Him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at His feet. 

He stood, and measured the earth: He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: His ways are everlasting. 

I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. 

Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? Was Thine anger against the rivers? Was Thy wrath against the sea, that Thou didst ride upon Thine horses and Thy chariots of salvation? 

Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even Thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. 

The mountains saw Thee, and they trembled [writhed as in childbirth]: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered His voice, and lifted up His hands on high. 

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of Thy glittering spear. 

Thou didst march through the land in indignation, Thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. 

Thou wentest forth for the salvation of Thy people, even for salvation with Thine anointed; Thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. 

Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter Me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly. 

Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters. 

When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when He cometh up unto the people, He will invade them with His troops.” (Hab. 3:5-16).