Are Eclipses Signs of Judgment?
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- Once again, neither a lunar nor a solar eclipse is a sign of judgment, no matter what these loony false prophets say.
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- Because the Gentiles go by the sun for their calendar, a solar eclipse represents judgment coming upon a nation.
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- A lunar eclipse, because Israel goes by the moon, refers to judgment coming upon Israel. That's not anywhere in the
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- Bible. But what about where it says the sun will be darkened and the moon turned to blood before the great and awesome day of the
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- Lord? These are references to supernatural signs in the heavens, but eclipses are natural and calculable.
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- NASA has mapped every eclipse that will occur for the next 1 ,000 years. They know exactly where they will be visible from down to the mile and how long their duration will be down to the second.
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- How are they able to do that? Because they're prophets? No, and neither are these other guys claiming eclipses are signs of judgment.
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- God created the sun and the moon for signs and seasons. Signs in this context meaning memorial or holy days.
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- So since they mark time, they run like, well, clockwork. Psalm 8 -3 says, I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have set in place.
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- Psalm 104 -19 says He made the moon to mark the seasons. The sun knows it's time for setting.
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- Eclipses are not signs of judgment, they are a wondrous spectacle of God's created order. John 3 -19 says the appearing of Christ is the sign of judgment, so repent and worship
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- Him before He appears a second time to judge mankind. But if the Lord tarries, expect the next eclipse to happen on time as God ordained it when we understand the text.