The Tetrad: does this weekend’s ‘Blood Moon’ herald the end of the world?

April 2015 – SPACE - According to one American pastor, four blood moons is a biblical sign that an imminent world-changing event is on the way. Pastor John Hagee told the Daily Mirror: ‘It just says “when you see these signs – and four blood moons is a very significant one – the end of this age is coming” The King James Bible states: ‘The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord comes.” This phenomenon is known as a Tetrad and is four successive lunar eclipses where the Moon has a reddish hue each followed by six full moons. The Tetrad has only occurred three times in the last 500 years. NASA, unsurprisingly, disagrees with Pastor Hagee and has stated: ‘During the eclipse, the moon often looks reddish because sunlight has passed through Earth’s atmosphere, which filters out most of its blue light.

‘This eerie, harmless effect has earned the tongue-in-cheek nickname Blood Moon.’ The fourth and last blood moon is set to occur on September 28… could we be a few months away from the apocalypse or something worse, like Harry Styles leaving One Direction? –Metro UK