The Third Blood Moon

Early this morning during the first day of Jewish Passover and on anniversary of the day Jesus of Nazareth was crucified by the Romans, there was a third total lunar eclipse called a "blood moon" because of the color the moon takes during such event.

It is a third one in a rare astronomical occurrence called a "tetrad" when in a span of two years there are four total lunar eclipses. What makes it even more rare is that those eclipses fall on the first days of Jewish feasts of Passover and Tabernacles respectively.

In the first chapter of the book of Genesis in the Bible we read that the sun and the moon were given not only for us to use them to tell times and seasons , but also for them to be God's signs to His people and so it happened historically that every time such tetrad occurred, it preceded, accompanied, or followed major historical events in Jewish as well as world history such as the destruction of the temple and dispersion of Jewish people among all nations in AD 70, the rebirth of the nation of Israel in 1948 and the Six Day War in 1967.

What is interesting about this third blood moon is that it follows the total solar eclipse that took place on a Jewish New Year, Nisan 1, and the recent announcement of "historic deal" with Iran and increased tension in U.S.- Israel relations because of this deal.

While many seeing how it paves the road for a future attack on Israel by Iran, currently led by fanatical Shia Muslim government that even released a propaganda video showing their planned destruction of Israel with a nuclear bomb and mocking the Americans while negotiating with Obama and U.N. are horrified, it should not surprise those who are ardent students of the Bible.

All prophetic old Testament Books clearly state that in the last days, after Israel's miraculous rebirth, all nations will turn against it and Israel will stand alone. Right now her enemies explain to themselves the continual existence of Israel with American protection of it. They say that if it was not for America, Israel will cease to exist, so God will allow America to stop its protection of Israel in order to prove to the world that He is the one who protects her.

It will also force Israeli people to trust in God and not their worldly "friends." We can draw comfort from that knowing that God will not allow Israel to be destroyed. Iran and her Russian as well as Muslim allies will try to destroy her and perhaps this will happen in a very near future, but they will be supernaturally defeated according to the Book of Ezekiel chapters 38-39. Perhaps the defeat of Iran's army and its leadership will be the very thing that will free the Iranian people from under their oppression. There are promises in the Bible for the Iranian exiles as well who, like my very own husband, cannot even go back to visit their country of birth because of the Islamic regime ruling their country right now. It looks very scary right now, but God will have the last word and He works in mysterious ways.