Blood Moon

Blood moons are full moons. Lunar eclipses only happen to a full moon -- that's a simple astronomical fact, like solar eclipses always being on a new moon.The Jewish Calendar is lunar, with each month starting at the new moon. To my knowledge, many Jewish holidays start on the 14th of the month. 14 days after a new moon is a full moon.What a "coincidence"!{ABE} Now, if a blood moon were to happen on a Jewish holiday that did not fall on the 14th of the month, then that would indeed be a miracle.Edited by dwise1, : ABE

Well, that "duo" happens every six months of every single year. It would be like tying a prophecy to when the three stars of Orion's belt point to the star Sirius, which is always.The orbital plane of the moon is inclined from the orbital plane of the earth (AKA "the ecliptic"). As you recall from jr-high geometry, two planes intersect along a line. The line where the earth's and moon's orbital planes intersect is the Line of the Nodes which always points in the same direction, though it does slowly shift due to precession.In order for there to be an eclipse, the sun and the moon must be positioned on that Line of Nodes (the earth always is). Every six months, the earth's revolution around the sun brings the sun in line with the Line of Nodes. When that happens, we have a solar eclipse when the moon falls on the Line of Nodes at the new moon and a lunar eclipse when the moon falls on the Line of Nodes at the full moon.Thus, every single year at six-month intervals we have at least two solar eclipses and at least two lunar eclipses. In addition, it is common for a lunar eclipse to be bracketed by two solar eclipses or a solar eclipse by two lunar eclipses. Of course, for us to observe any of those eclipses the shadows must lined up just right, so we don't observe all of them, but they do still occur with great regularity, in pairs and sometimes in triples, every six months of every single year.You may as well tie the timing of a prophecy to a day when the sun rose in the east.

Such over-reactions keep reminding me of what Mexican President Jos Lpez Portillo said in a 60 Minutes interview:

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It's been a long time since we've worn feathers.

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Apparently not quite long enough.

Today's full moon will indeed be closer, the closest that it ever comes to the earth, since it is supposed to be at perigee. And, of course, the closer an object is, the larger it appears.

Which, yet again, is an event that happens quite frequently. In this case, every single day.To assign the timing of a prophecy of a once-in-all-eternity all-emcompassing event, such as the end of the earth (which has an extremely long history), to something that happens all the time just makes no sense at all.