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April 14th, 2014
12:53 PM ET
Does the Bible predict the 'blood moon'?Opinion by Kenneth L. Waters Sr., special to CNN (CNN) - Are the End Times finally at hand? To some Christians, the answer will be as clear as the moon in the sky. Monday night will host a rare celestial event: a “blood moon,” which occurs when the Earth spins between the sun and the moon. During this lunar eclipse, the shadow of the Earth catches the refracted sunlight, casting a reddish sheen upon the moon. Christians who draw a divine connection to the celestial show are citing the Bible's Book of Acts, in which God says:
That passage echoes the Hebrew Bible’s Book of Joel, one of Judaism's 12 minor prophets. The sequence of four consecutive blood moons (known as a tetrad) has occurred several times before, in 1909-10, 1927-28, 1949-50, 1967-68, 1985-86, and 2003-04. 'Blood moon' will be a sight to behold during total lunar eclipse This cycle, the four blood moons will all take place on religiously significant dates for the Jewish people. The first comes April 15, 2014, the second day of Passover. The second will come on October 8, 2014, during the Jewish Feast of the Tabernacles. The third will come on April 5, 2015, during next year's Passover celebration, and the fourth will arrive on September 28, 2015, another Feast of the Tabernacles, also known as Sukkot. That said, there is nothing particular extraordinary about these holy days coinciding with a full moon. Jewish holy days are based upon a lunar calendar. Passover is always celebrated the first full moon after the vernal equinox and the Feast of Tabernacles is always the first full moon after the autumnal equinox. But that hasn’t stopped some well-known Christians from drawing supernatural connections. John Hagee, a televangelist and megachurch pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, preached a sermon series called the “Red Moon Prophecies” in 2013. Hagee expanded on those sermons in book titled, “Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change.” In it, the pastor claims the lunar eclipses foreshadow “a world-shaking event,” originating in the Middle East between April 2014 and October 2015. "There's a sense in the world that things are changing and God is trying to communicate with us in a supernatural way," Hagee told CBN News. "I believe that in these next two years, we're going to see something dramatic happen in the Middle East involving Israel that will change the course of history in the Middle East and impact the whole world," he said. Monday night, Hagee is airing a special webcast that he says will reveal "direct connections between four upcoming blood-moon eclipses and what they portend for Israel and all of humankind." Hagee says that previous blood moon cycles occurred at momentous events in Jewish history: In 1493, as Jews were expelled from Spain; in 1949, as the state of Israel was founded; and in 1967 during the Six Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors. "There are no solar or lunar accidents," said Hagee, who leads a church of some 20,000 members. But something remarkable always happens somewhere in the world when events like this occur. That’s just the way the world is – blood moons or not. The Bible often speaks of astronomical signs indicating the End Times, but they are ambiguous and non-specific. And Jesus discouraged Christians from setting timetables and questing after signs. "No one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows," Jesus says in the Gospel of Matthew. The Apostle Paul also talked about signs of the End Times - not to establish a calendar, but rather to comfort members of the church who thought death would deprive them of the opportunity to see Jesus’ Second Coming. In times of widespread fear, insecurity and uncertainty, religious leaders and secular theorists, some well-meaning and some who are not, will exploit the need for hope and assurance by declaring exclusive discovery of some secret plan hidden in the disorder. We have seen this before: the fear of Y2K in 2000; Harold Camping’s predictions of the apocalypse in 2011; the “Mayan” Apocalypse on December 21, 2012; and now the blood moons. But instead of looking to the heavens for signs of the future, Christians should focus on the hope and promise of the gospel message and seek to reflect Christ in word and deed. And especially as we enter Holy Week and anticipate Easter, may each of us look within our own hearts for those shadows that keep us from enjoying the fullness of relationship with the Creator of the sun, the stars, and yes, the blood moons. Kenneth L. Waters is associate dean and professor of New Testament at Azusa Pacific University. The views expressed in this column belong to Waters.
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the greek word in 1 Thess 4:17 is HARPADZO which means "caught up". In my church we call it the "CATCHING AWAY" instead of the Rapture since people get silly about the word Rapture not being in the english bible. If you want to argue against the teaching because the word "Rapture" is not in the english bible go ahead. But nevertheless, the bible teaches the "catching away" before the tribulation begins.
That's a nice story.
1 Thessalonians 4:17,Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
It says that Christians will meet Jesus in the clouds as he returns, not that he'll take them someplace safe, right?
Harold Camping is dead, but you can still sell your possessions and send a cheque to...........
hmmm....didn't like a long post....
question: is there a limit on the number of words in a post now?
No length limit that I'm aware of. Someone mentioned that the emoticons are now forbidden - you wouldn't have happened to have had 8 items on your list, would you? The ) after an 8 is an emoticon.
I'm trying to figure out which one of the evil forbidden words I am using...so pls bear with me as I break up this post:
3) Israel forced to give up half of Jeru salem Ze chariah 12:3 Ze chariah 14:2 Re velation 11:2
4) Dam ascus des troyed Isaiah 17: 1 & 14
I'm trying to figure out which one of the evil forbidden words I am using...so pls bear with me as I break up this post:
All Hagee and the like are saying is that something big is about to happen. There are a lot of things "BIG" that could happen in the next year and a half:
1) Rus sia takes all of Ukraine & threatens Poland
2) Stock Market Crash James 5:1
" There are a lot of things "BIG" that could happen in the next year and a half."
I'd say that's a pretty safe bet. In the comings and goings of world events, it's fairly certain that something " BIG" usually will occur in that time frame
Hagee forgot to mention that there are some solar eclipses during the same time frame:
29 april 14
23 oct 14
20 mar 15
13 sep 15
Taken together with the four blood moons, I am taking it as a sign. Starting 15 apr 14 and ending 13 sep 15 is a pattern of seven celestial events. Maybe something big like the Rapture could happen?
Where is the Rapture mentioned by name in the Bible?
the greek word in 1 Thess 4:17 is HARPADZO which means "caught up". In my church we call it the "CATCHING AWAY" instead of the Rapture since people get silly about the word Rapture not being in the english bible. If you want to argue against the teaching because the word "Rapture" is not in the english bible go ahead. But nevertheless, the bible teaches the "catching away" before the tribulation begins.
psalm 37:29 the righteous will possess the EARTH and live FOREVER upon it
just a test
It's also a known fact that if you play Vivaldi's " Four Seasons" backwards ( not sure how you do this in the digital age) it reveals the precise year, month, day, and season of Christ's return.
Lol. Thanks for the chuckle.
Wait a minute. I thought that was Pink Floyd's album The Wall.
Does the Bible predict the eclipse of the moon? No.
Do lunar eclipses happen very often? Yep.
Has CNN decided to sensationalize this particular eclipse? Not sure why, but yes.
Yup!
I think it's more that John Hagee has decided to sensationalize it.
Which is as much as to say he woke up this morning...
It predicted the eclipse of one particular event surrounding Jesus' birth and death. But that's it.
http://www.bethlehemstar.net
I disagree with the inclusion of Y2K, unless the author is refering to the millenium.
Y2K was real issue with computers, albeit overblown and ultimately a self-defeating prediction, but it was real.
The timing of the 'Blood Moons' and what's going on in Russia and the Ukraine and the implications of that is very interesting.
Maybe Pastor John Hagee is alluding to 'Armageddon.'
John Hagee is the Glenn Beck of the evangelical world. They're both disturbed.
Haggee frequently more than "alludes" to armageddon.
Vic, can you please point out an event in history that did NOT occur shortly before or shortly after a total lunar eclipse? There are three to four every year.
Vic, unless Russia and the Ukraine transplant themselves to the ME , that's not what he 'a talking about.
Not to mention that there is always something going on in the ME, so his "prophesy" is pretty useless.
You actually think Hagee is not a bad joke on two feet. That explains a lot about you, Vic...
It is a "series of events" by which a war breaks out that will cause the invasion of Israel by the Land of Magog —modern-day Russia— and Persia —modern-day Iran— that will lead up to the 'Battle of Armageddon' the appearance of the 'Anti-Christ.'
Please refer to the Book of Ezekiel, Chapters 38 & 39.
And the Book of Revelation, Chapter 6.
That's a reach, Vic. And it's not going to happen because of some eclipses, so it's moot.
Lunar eclipses are very common. They occur with known regularity and mathematical precision. Astronomers can forecast them out for the next 10,000 years and back in time for the last 10,000 years with a few strokes on their laptops. There are about 3 to 4 a year. That means, since Jesus’ life there have been about 7,000. Little doubt they can be linked to some historical event.
The reason they are common and predictable is that the moon orbits the Earth once every 29 days and at a 5 degree angle to plane at which the Earth orbits the sun (if it didn’t have this angle, EVERY full moon would be a total lunar eclipse). About a third of lunar eclipses are penumbral and invisible to the naked eye, about a third a partial and only a third are total. As all of the relevant rotational times, distances, angles and sizes are known with impressive accuracy, all one need do is apply a bit of Newtonian physics and calculus and let the model run. Remember at high school, when the teacher would get out the golf ball, basketball and bright light?
Secondly, blood moons are an exaggeration. Usually the moon simply darkens during a total lunar eclipse. To get the blood moon takes special atmospheric conditions (such as the event occurring near sunrise/sunset) and, quite often, a bit of cheating with filters by the photographer.
The problem is that many Christians equate “I don’t know” with “God did it”. Hence, when they don’t understand evolution, God made all life, when they don’t understand the origins of the Universe, God created the Universe, and when they don’t understand simple lunar eclipses, they are a message from God.
One would have thought that adult Christians would be less intimidated by high school astronomy, well…….maybe not.
yep. well said.
The blood moon discussed in the Bible is explained here:
http://www.bethlehemstar.net
Another waste of time site that is trying to justify their beliefs with psuedo science.
Red moons, blood moons etc. etc. I'm not worry at all about it. I don't care much about this.
The believers in Christ, the saints in Christ, the church of God has nothing to worry about these. Let the World worry and be scare about it, because is them [the world] that's going to have to deal with God Wrath, not the Church. That's why we are saved.
Sure dude.
When The Rapture comes and all of the humble, compassionate, charitable, honest, non-judgemental True Christians ascend bodily to Heaven, I'm sure we'll miss both of them.
You're an Extremely Prime Example of what I said. And of course as an atheist your Extreme Hypocrisy and Pathological Lying does help to Illustrate the Eternal Truth that will last Forevermore. That is Atheism/evolutionism/idolatry are indeed Absolute, Complete and Total Stupidity.
cult speak ...
What's really stupid is someone who would use the expression "evolutionism", as well as capitalize words in a very odd manner...
"Huh you don't understand humor/sarcasm/irony don't you?"
(it pains me to keep the glaring grammatical error, but without it the irony is lost)
OMG OMG Doc Vestibull is also a Secret Agent of the GRAMMAR GESTAPO OF THE INTERNET. He/she is now going to pick and poke me with sharpened pencils and toothpicks yelling at me saying DIE DIE DIE. He/she will do that till I die and be no more. Agents of THE GRAMMAR GESTAPO OF THE INTERNET are very, very, very ruthless and cruel. OMG!!
"He/she is now going to pick and poke me with sharpened pencils and toothpicks yelling at me saying DIE DIE DIE."
Well, skippy, you're the one condemning Doc and everyone who doesn't believe exactly the same way you do to an eternity of torture in Hell, so I'd say that turnabout is a bit of fair play here...
Oh, I see, Sallie,
we wouldn't want to catch you in a state of Panic (wink wink)...
Pro 14:1 The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her own hands.
Youre a woman? O.o
yep .... it's still comin' ... still comin' ... still comin' ... still comin' ...
let's forget all the previous predictions that were wrong ... it's still comin' ...
Really... I'm sure you have many examples of it; don't you? What this article is about is not the Prophesy in the Bible. Your ignorance as well as your extreme hypocrisy is Evidence of what I've been saying all along.
"Instead of looking to the heavens for signs of the future, Christians should focus on the hope and promise of the Gospel message and seek to reflect Christ in word and deed."
+++ oh yes, definitely. it'll be great when the End Times come. jesus is going to open his daddy's seven seals, releasing War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, etc. on the world. it'll be great when jesus/god kills 2/3 of the world's population. glorious, really.
"Jesus discouraged setting timetables and questing for signs"
+++ did he? he set one himself for coming back. he said he'd come back before his disciples died and didn't. jesus' prediction was fail as his disciples died and he has not returned.
christians cherry-pick and see what they want in the bible.
BootyFunk:
Hmmm...not quite. Jesus did not say that He would come back before the disciples died. This is a misreading of the statement, and a common error.
If you read Matthew 24:1-33, Jesus ends His description of the "end-times scenario" by saying, "Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled."
But it is clear IN CONTEXT that the generation He is referring to is NOT the generation to whom He is speaking, but the generation WHO WILL SEE ALL OF THE SIGNS HE HAS JUST DESCRIBED. That is why He follows this statement with, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only."
Clearly, heaven and earth have did NOT "pass away" during the generation He was speaking to (within the context of the signs He describes), so He could not have been speaking about His own generation. And they have STILL not "passed away" yet (within that context), so His words still refer to a future time.
Peace.
If you read it in context he was clearly talking about the lifetime of the people he was talking to. If you don't want Jesus to be wrong you can take it out of context and make a bunch of excuses for why it doesn't mean what it plainly states.
Joey: With respect, I am theologian with thirty years under my belt. I think I know a little bit about how to read Scripture "in context."
Please re-read the passage carefully. The disciples ask Jesus what the signs of the "end of the world" (i.e., His return) would be. He then describes those signs – but does NOT indicate DURING that description SPECIFICALLY WHEN those signs would occur; i.e., they MIGHT occur during the lifetimes of those He was speaking to, or they might NOT. He then ends His description by saying that "this" generation – i.e., CLEARLY meaning the generation that would see those signs, since that is what He was talking about – "would not pass" till all the signs were fulfilled (i.e., all the signs would occur during a single generation). However, at no point does He state that the generation He was talking ABOUT was the generation He was speaking TO.
Far from cherry-picking, this is how Scripture is SUPPOSED to be read: IN context, NOT taking the line "this generation shall not pass" OUT of the context in which He was speaking, which is what you are doing, and, as noted, is a common error.
I heard the thunder last night and was worried because I knew the ice giants were fighting in asgard but I saw lightning and knew that Thor would protect me.
I was licking handrails and got sick and I knew the sickness was because I must have done something wrong and god was displeased with me.
I wrote thousands of pages of text with thousands of predictions and when one obvious one came true everyone knew I was the almighty doG (I am glad no-one asked about the other 999 predictions that never came true).
Just bathe in the sewer and you will be fine.
your predictions sound just as accurate as the bible's.
"John Hagee, a televangelist and megachurch pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas., preached a sermon series called the “Red Moon Prophecies” in 2013.
Hagee expanded those sermons in to a book ti.tled “Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change ,” in which he claims the moons foreshadow “a world-shaking event,” originating in the Middle East between April 2014 and October 2015."
Preaching armageddon is business as usual for John Hagee – this is just another pretext so he can trot out his favorite hobby horse.
"Blood Moons, Blue Moons, Harvest Moons" all terms that originated without a precise understanding of the anstronomical orbits of the earth and moon.
It is obvious that the Bible was written when man had little or no concept of astronomy.
In Genesis, is states: "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also."
They obviously had no idea that the sun is just another star or that the moon is not independently luminescent.
Isaiah 40:22 describes the earth as a circle or sphere when most people thought it was flat..... job 26:7 says the earth hangs on nothing and ecclesiastes 1:7 says that all the streams of water flow to the ocean yet it does not overflow...but there was no way for people to know this at this time in history the bible isn't a scientific book but when it does touch on these subjects it is all correct.
Isaiah 40:22 describes the earth as a circle or sphere when most people thought it was flat
The sun and moon are clearly spherical. It's not much of a stretch to imagine that we were too. The curvature was even visible if you watched ships heading to the horizon.
.job 26:7 says the earth hangs on nothing
What is it that man could see to lead them to believe otherwise? A big turtle?
ecclesiastes 1:7 says that all the streams of water flow to the ocean yet it does not overflow...but there was no way for people to know this at this time
Really? Was there evidence somewhere to indicate that it was overflowing? The oceans just sat there (not overflowing). Who would have imagined otherwise?
The bible isn't a scientific book but when it does touch on these subjects it is all correct.
Yes it's not scientific. Yes some of the things mentioned were correct. Including, some historical facts were correct. It does not follow that if the authors were correct in some points, that the entire Bible is therefore a reliable source for everything it claims.
Umm...yeah. Because OBVIOUSLY, people who lived near oceans couldn't tell that streams empty into them and it doesn't overflow. Genius that...
"Isaiah 40:22 describes the earth as a circle or sphere when most people thought it was flat"
The word sphere is never used or implied in this verse. The word used (חוּג, chug) means circle, as in 360 degrees, and referred to the horizon. The verbal form of the word means "to draw a circle" or "to make a circle".
The ISV translation uses the word "disc", which is a flat circular object and not spherical.
"job 26:7 says the earth hangs on nothing"
Job mentions that "he hangeth the earth over nothing", not "on nothing", which implies that it is not resting on anything but it is suspended by something.
"the bible isn't a scientific book but when it does touch on these subjects it is all correct."
No, it does not get anything correct. Translations and interpretations over the years may seem to make these statements accurate, but they are not scientifically true.
The book of Joshua implied that the sun and moon orbit around the earth, and the New Testament mentions being able to stand on a very high mountain and being able to see every kingdom of the world. We know these are scientifically impossible, yet the writers of the books in the Bible did not know this at the time.
Yes, and Genesis 1. appears to have been written down around the same time as Leviticus – when the Jews first adopted monotheism.
For the text of the Adam and Eve diaries, please see The Bible According to Mark Twain. It also covers Methuselah's views of baseball. A must read.
God how I wish Mark Twain would have written the original texts...this world would be an even funnier place than the Christians have made it to be.
GOP,
If it interests you, Israel Finkelstein is an Israeli archaeologist who is despised by Evangelicals and Orthodox Jews because of his so-called "revisionist" archaeology.
When I was a Christian, F. F. Bruce was one of my heroes...until I read Finkelstein (and others) and realized just how biased Bruce's opaque "profession" was.
Diggin' in the dark, Bruce and his boys were.
There's 3 or 4 references in the Bible about the blood moons. Which just goes to show you how accurate the Bible is and demonstrates how we are indeed in the end times. But Jesus isn't coming back because of the blood moons. He's coming back because He promised He would. This is just another sign His return in imminent.
“Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.”
—1 John 2:18
Give or take 17.5 million hours, right?
Aaaaaaaaaaany day now.
Christians have been waiting on tenterhooks for the Second Coming since the Bible itself was written.
Many have prophesied the exact time of date of His return and ALL have been wrong.
Back in the mid 2nd century, Montanus convinced his followers that the 2nd coming would be during their lifetimes. Despite Christ's no show and the continuation of civilization, somehow the cult lasted for centuries.
A couple of hundred years later, a North African Christian tribe known as the Donatists tried the same scam, saying everything would collapse in 380CE.
Around the same time, St. Martin of Tours declared that the anti-Christ had already been born and was on His way to gaining power over the world.
A mathematical Christian group called the Lotharingians were quite certain The End would be in 970CE becuase in that year, the Annunciation and Good Friday were on the same day.
Pope Innocent III prophesied the 2nd Coming for 666 years after the rise of Islam., the year 1284.
Archdeacon Militz of Kromeriz and an ascetic monk named Jean de Roquetaillade both said it would be around 1365CE.
Melchior Hoffman, an Anabaptist prophet, predicted that the world would burn in 1533CE.
The Fifth Monarchy Men, a guano insane English terrorist group, said the apocalyptic battle between Christ and Satan would happen in 1666CE.
George Rapp said it would be September 15th, 1829.
William Miller predicted October 22, 1844. Jesus’ failure to arrive is known as “The Great Disappointment”. Many of his disillusioned followers went on the found the 7th Day Adventist Church, who are still patiently awaiting His return.
Charles Russell, 1st President of the Watchtower Society told his fellow Jehovah’s Witnesses that Jesus would be back in 1874.
Rudolf Steiner maintained that from 1930 onwards, Jesus would grant certain people psychic powers to enable them to witness his presence in the “etheric plane”.
Herbert Armstrong, Pastor General of the Worldwide Church of God said 1975.
Bill Maupin managed to convince his followers to sell all of their worldly goods in preparation for Jesus’ return on June 28th, 1981.
Benjamin Crème stated that on June 21st, 1982 Christ would make a worldwide television announcement.
Mark Blitz, Pastor of El Shaddai Ministries says it would be September 30th, 2008
Jerry Falwell said it’d happen between 1999 and 2009.
Harold Camping told everyone that the Rapture would happen May 21, 2011 after failing in his first predicted date of 1994.
Conversely, many believe He’s all ready come in the form of Sun Myung Moon, Emanuel Swedenborg, Baha u llah, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, David Koresh, Hailie Selassie, John Thom, Arnold Potter, William Davies, George roux, Ernest Norman, Krishna Venta, Ahn Sahng-Hong, Jim Jones, Mashall Applewhite, Hulon Mitchell, Wayne Bent, Ariffin Mohammed, Mitsuo Matayoshi, Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, Inri Cristo, Thomas Provenzano, David Icke, Shoko Asahara, Hogan Fukinaga, Marina Tsvigun or Sergei Troop.
It would appear that the much lauded Jewish carpenter has been thoroughly dead for 2000 years and will remain so.
"The sequence of four consecutive Blood Moons (known as a tetrad) has occurred before in 1909-10, 1927-28, 1949-50, 1967-68, 1985-86, and 2003-04."
So how is this round different than the last 6 times in the last century or so?
There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock.
JEHOVAH!!!! You're just a shill for the Peoples Front of Judea aren't you?
I thought we were the Popular Front...
Always look on the briiiight siiide of life....
"1909-10, 1927-28, 1949-50, 1967-68, 1985-86, and 2003-04"
And for just about everyone of those dates you can come up with someone blowing up something in Palestine/Israel, but you can do that for just about any year.
There was an earthquake in Palestine in 1927, but the Hebron massacre didn't happen until 1929.
The 1948 Arab-Israeli war ended in 1949.
The Six-Day war did happen in 1967
Palestinians hijacked the Achille Lauro in 1985.
Yasser Arafat died in 2004.
The world didn't end. Life went on.
Which just goes to show you how accurate the Bible is and demonstrates how we are indeed in the end times.
The Hebrews looked out the window at night to figure out what day of the month it was. The fact that they didn't understand what a lunar eclipse was does not offer evidence of inerrant prophesy.
G to the T
"So how is this round different than the last 6 times in the last century or so?"
It has to do with how these next 4 coincide with important Jewish dates and celebrations. Whenever these things coincided in the past, something BIG happened.
Such as?
Google it.
And to be fair, I'd like to point out that while I believe the blood moon as described in Scripture is accurate as a sign of the times, but I don't necessarily hold to what Hagee believes. It is interesting, though.
T, you made the assertion. Back it up.
sorry, but it simply showing that they new the various phases and events concerning the moon, didn't understand why they happened, and associated magic with the moon.
It simply shows the superst!tions of the writers of the bible.
These "blood moons" are completely natural occurances, something they didn't fathom at the time. It is not evidence of any "end times" or any other such thing. It is a sign that the moon's natural cycles are continuing.
"...we are indeed in the end times"
Absolute nonsense.
Hey T, what's up? Save any souls today?
Apple?
Yup. How is life?
Better than I deserve. How are you?
Same here. How is the family dad?
The End is nigh! Max out your credit cards on church ti/thes!
– Reverend Chicken Little
Certain species of Baboons have been giving "blood moons" for millenia. It is called presenting.
This 'blood moon prophecy' is complete nonsense.
Darn it, I forgot about the embargo on emoticons.
Much to Salero 's chagrin.
I suppose every cloud has a silver lining.
In this age of science and discovery, it's tragic that some people still cling to ancient myths. It's even more sad that some people seek to profit from people's ignorance about natural phenomena, all in the name of god.