Four Blood Moons?

Joel 2:31 and the Claim of Four Blood Moons

Joel 2 .31 says that the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the awesome day of the Lord comes. Best-selling author John Hagee has said that the latest tetrad, or series of four consecutive total lunar eclipses, is a sign of that very prophecy.

God has said through Joel and St. Peter, listen, when this happens, it's unusual.

He bases his teaching of four blood moons on the observation that during a lunar eclipse the moon appears kind of red. But the Bible says nothing about eclipses in the end times. For one thing, tetrads are not unusual.

There will be eight of them in this century alone. Hagee also likes to mention that these eclipses all occur on Jewish holidays, but that's also not unusual, since the Jewish calendar is based on phases of the moon.

Why Lunar Eclipses Do Not Prove End-Times Prophecy

Anything lunar on any Jewish holiday has no prophetic significance. He makes some other claims that are just silly. For example, he reads a passage from Mark 13 about the sun being darkened and the moon not giving its light and says, that verse describes a time in the future when the sun.

And the moon will eclipse at the same time.

Except that the sun and the moon can't eclipse at the same time. For all his blathering about NASA predictions, NASA has said this is coming, he misses that astronomical fact. He also fails to realize that eclipses are events that only a small portion of the globe can witness.

Mark 13 Is Not Talking About an Eclipse

If anything, these should be evidences that Mark 13 is not talking about an eclipse. Understand Christian, that the Bible says nothing about four blood moons or an eclipse being a sign of the day of the Lord.

It's a false teaching when we understand the text.