What's the Meaning of the “Blood Moon”? Do We Sigh a Relief, or Are “End-times” Impending?

Summary: The “Blood Moons” could be a sign of “end-times.” There are other signs that we should expect like an earthquake to initiate “the day of the Lord.” This article offers a “heads up” for May.

The answer to these questions depends on our frame of reference. If we look to the all-time best-seller, the Bible, we should see that on the first page, God puts lights in the sky for signs and seasons, Genesis 1:14-16. The sun was to rule the day, the moon by night.

We recognize the sun as the source of light, heat and energy for our planet or everything would freeze. Perhaps we could consider that the sun represents a similar spiritual truth that the Son, (referenced in Psalm 2:7, Proverb 30:4 and John 3:16) is also the source of life, even beyond our world as we know it.

An eclipse of the moon occurs when the earth is between the moon and the sun. The moon is the largest body in our solar system to reflect light from the sun, and it can also represent the church as a body of believers who also reflect the light of the Son.

In the spiritual dimension, for the moon to be eclipsed, it means that things of this world come between the church and the Son, just as the True Witness tells the last of seven churches that they think they are rich and increased with goods, [focused on materialism] Revelation 3:17.

A “blood moon” does not occur unless there is a full eclipse of the moon and it could suggest that the churches are, in a general sense, eclipsed by the things of this world so the Son does not shine on them.

The uniqueness of this blood moon was its timing as the first of four that fall on Jewish festivals—the Passover and Feast of Tabernacles this year and next year! Could this portend serious events, even the “end-times”?

It depends who we talk to if we want to stretch “could” to “would,” but with so many crises developing around the world at almost every level, why not consider the possibility? After all, the Bible says “the shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the “day of the Lord,” Joel 2:31.

Many think “the day of the Lord” is the coming of Christ, but Joel 2:10,11 support an earthquake as initiating the “day of the Lord” as a period of time, probably the 7 last years expected by Evangelicals.

Just as our days dawn gradually and we can wake up as our room gets gradually lighter, maybe God is giving us a gentle wakeup with warning signs for “the day of the Lord” prior to the earthquake that may comes with “sudden destruction” as Paul said in 1Thessalonians 5:2,3.

Christians defer to Jews with a focus on Passover, but they should have “heads up” a month from now when the timing of Christ’s clues come into focus. “As in the days of Noah” and “like a man traveling to a far country,” both point to Numbers 9:10,11 for Passover, a time of judgment, in the 2^nd spring month (May), even as Christ’s reference to the fig tree “when summer is nigh” could be pointing to May .

Dr. Richard Ruhling is non-denominational and has had a special interest in end-time Bible prophecy for 25 years. His website, http://MayJudgmentDay.com has more information on this topic and if May brings calamity, http://TheBridegroomComes.com has information that believers should consider.