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What Is The Blood Moon Prophesy?

What is the so-called “Blood Moon Prophecy” all about? Is it in the Bible? Does it relate to us today?

Blood Moons

There are a lot of false teachers out there and some who actually claim to be prophets of God predicting all sorts of doom and gloom, but the so-called “blood moon prophecy” is a recent invention by some who claim to have special revelation from God. One such man is John Hagee, founder and president of Cornerstone Church, a highly charismatic megachurch in San Antonio, Texas. Hagee states that there were four consecutive lunar eclipses between April 15th, 2014 and September 28th, 2015, and that these coincide with Jewish holy days. Hagee calls this a sign of the end times, but is it? A year passed since that time and nothing happened…and we’re still waiting for his sign to mark the end times. Hagee bases this on Joel 2:20 and Revelation 6:12. Do these Scriptures have anything to do with blood moons or do they relate to a blood moon prophecy? Were these verses already fulfilled when the four lunar eclipses happened? What about all the other “blood moons” over the last two thousand years that also coincided with Jewish holy days? These “blood moons” are not as rare as Hagee would lead us to believe. By the way, the end didn’t come then, so why are we to believe Hagee on this so-called blood moon prophecy now?

Prophetic Churches

There are more churches that focus on prophecy today than there were in the previous 2,000 years of church history. Why do they focus on prophecy and not on Christ? Christ’s teaching calls us to live in holiness and obedience to Him. Prophecy teachings take our eyes off of our sins and sanctification, and really, they take our focus off of Christ and onto world events. Do you think God would really need our help (or Hagee’s help) in determining when the end times? Didn’t Jesus say that no one will know the day of His return (Matt 24:36)? By people’s claiming to receive “special revelation” from God, they insinuate that the Bible is not enough. Aren’t they really saying, “Thanks God, the Bible’s awesome….but I have more revelation now that I must add to your teachings.”

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Joel 2:20

Joel 2:20 is a prophecy about a time when God will pour out His spirit, not a prophecy about the end of the age. This speaks about Jesus’ promise of the Helper or Advocate that was to come after He returned to the father; when the Holy Spirit would finally be poured out. Joel is referencing this special time in history…the birth of the church that Jesus is the Head of. Joel the Prophet wrote, “The earth quakes before them; the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining” (Joel 2:10), but more specifically relating to the establishment of the church, which I believe this verse is about, as Joel writes “And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes” (Joel 2:30-31), however is this talking about the end times?

The very next verse says, “And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved” (Joel 2:32a). This will happen before the “day of the Lord comes,” not referring to that day. If this refers to the end times, then why does the Apostle Peter refer to these Scriptures in referring to the Holy Spirit’s being poured out on the church where Joel wrote “it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions” (Joe 2:28). This sounds like God is still working with the church and doesn’t seem to fit into the end times prophecies that others prophets wrote about. Peter quoted the prophecy of Joel (Acts 2:17-21) and he related it to the coming of the Holy Spirit which would inspire prophecies and visions, all of which happened in the New Testament church, beginning on the Day of Pentecost. Peter didn’t see these “blood moon” verses as predicting the end times but predicting the time when God says “I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh” (Acts 2:17).

Revelation 6:12

Another verse that the “blood moon prophecy” proponents claim is Revelation 6:12, where the Apostle John wrote about the time where it says the Lamb of God “opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place” (Rev 6:12-14). This verse does seem to point to an end time but the reasons for the sun being as sackcloth and the moon becoming like blood could be a number of things.

If a nuclear holocaust broke out, experts say that the sun would not even be able to shine through because of the dense clouds and at night, the moon would appear to be reddish in color. The phrase “blood moons” doesn’t even appear in the Bible; not one time! The words “blood” and “moon” appear only three times in the Bible but only in the same sentence, never next to one another. It simply refers to the color of the moon more than the end of the age and the color of the sun. There is no indication of any “blood moon” prophecy appearing in the Bible, nor is it something that we should give us any cause for concern. For the first two thousand years, the church never referred to a “blood moon” or a “blood moon prophecy,” but only to the color of the moon, which could be from wars, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other natural catastrophes.

Conclusion

What is the blood moon prophecy? It is only a manmade creation or a figment of some man’s lively imagination. If these same prophecy hounds would put the same time, energy, and focus on becoming more like Christ, we’d not give these alarmists any attention. As it is, they sell millions of books, they fill huge auditoriums, and they build large megachurches because of people’s obsession with biblical prophecy. And yes, they make lots and lots of money… perhaps that’s the real bottom line of these “prophets” (or self-proclaimed prophets for profit?). Why don’t they focus on reaching the lost instead of trying to draw huge crowds and build giant megachurch’s? It is only to scratch some itch that curious people have about prophecy and the end times…and sell more books, more DVDs, and sell out more conferences.

The truth is, they are selling out the gospel. Those who come for “prophecy conferences” and such are being drawn to God for the wrong reasons. They should be told of the coming wrath of God upon all who refuse to repent and trust in Christ (Rom 2). Those who die outside of saving faith in Christ have a future that’s already been written, but of course these false teachers and prophets don’t want to make anyone uncomfortable by bringing up sin, repentance, the blood of the Lamb, sanctification, obedience, and other such things taught in the Bible. It just doesn’t sell. They’d rather fill the pews of the church than fill the rolls of heaven.

Article by Jack Wellman

Jack Wellman is Pastor of the Mulvane Brethren Church in Mulvane Kansas. Jack is also the Senior Writer at What Christians Want To Know whose mission is to equip, encourage, and energize Christians and to address questions about the believer’s daily walk with God and the Bible. You can follow Jack on Google Plus or check out his book Teaching Children the Gospel available on Amazon.

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