Re: BLOOD MOONS: What's Coming in 2014-2015? | Mark Biltz

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Blood Moon and the "Messianic Advancement"
By Rivkah Lambert Adler July 31, 2015 , 7:50 am
“The sun shall turn to darkness, and the moon to blood, prior to the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.” (Joel 3:4)
April 2014 Blood Moon. (Photo: Anne Dirkse/ Wiki Commons)
Blood moon enthusiasts around the world are eagerly awaiting the appearance of a final blood moon of a special four-moon cycle, known as a tetrad, on September 28, 2015. What makes this particular tetrad unique is that each blood moon occurs during a Jewish holiday, making it a very rare historical occurrence.
In a recent talk he gave in Jerusalem, Rabbi Mendel Kessin, a rabbinic scholar, spoke about the connection between the appearance of blood moons on Jewish holidays and historical events that bring the ultimate redemption closer. At the 36-minute mark, Rabbi Kessin introduces the history of blood moons to his Orthodox Jewish audience and explicitly connects the blood moons to redemption.
Kessin begins by explaining that a lunar eclipse occurs when the earth is between the sun and the moon, turning the moon dark. Lunar eclipses happen approximately every 12-18 months, according to Kessin. Rarer than an ordinary lunar eclipse, he continues, is a blood moon, which turns the moon red instead of dark.
Rarer still are tetrads – sequences of four blood moons six months apart. And extremely rare, happening only four times in 500 years, are tetrads that fall on the significant Jewish holidays of Passover and Sukkot [Feast of Tabernacles]. These sequences included the years 1492, 1948, 1967 and 2015.
It is commonly known that in 1492, Columbus discovered America. What is less well-known is that, on July 30, 1492, the entire Jewish community of Spain, approximately 200,000 individuals, were expelled by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Columbus’ discovery of America provided the Spanish Jews with safe harbor. As Kessin teaches, the discovery of America softened the exile of the Spanish Jews and, in that way, moved redemption forward. According the Kessin, the exile of the Jewish people began to ease up as far back as 1492.
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The next tetrad falling on Jewish holidays happened in 1948, when the State of Israel was founded. The third extremely rare tetrad on Jewish holidays was in 1967, when the city of Jerusalem was reunited. Now, in 2015, the final blood moon of the current tetrad is scheduled to fall on the first night of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
In addition, the blood moon this Sukkot will occur just two weeks after the end of the current Shemitah year. This is significant because the Talmud, the most important collection of rabbinic teachings in Judaism, suggests that the the messiah will come in the year following a Shemitah year.
Speaking to Breaking Israel News, Kessin said, “Each one of these is a messianic advancement. There are incredible events that predate the messiah.”
Why would God make blood moons a sign for the Jews? Traditionally, as recorded in the Talmud, a lunar eclipse is a bad sign for the Jews, who mark time with the moon.
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Describing the Blood Moons in Hebrew, courtesy of v871.com
On the other hand, the Jewish holidays of Passover and Sukkot are considered nights of the greatest protection of the Jews. The first night of Passover is referred to in Hebrew as leil shimurim, a night of guarding. Additionally, the outdoor booths in which Jews dwell during the holiday of Sukkot are meant as reminders of the fragile huts that protected the newly freed slaves during 40 years in the desert after the exodus from Egyptian slavery.
In essence, Kessin explains that the presence of a blood moon, which would otherwise have been a bad omen, is a good omen for the Jews whenever it falls in this sequence. “Every time a blood moon happens [on a Jewish holiday tetrad],” said Kessin, “there is messianic advancement.”
Kessin reminded Breaking Israel News that the threat from Iran is also messianic, which he says can be clearly seen from the 13th century Biblical rabbinic commentary known as the Yalkut Shimoni. Rabbinic scholar and author Rabbi Nachman Kahana translates the relevant section of the 800-year old commentary:
Paras (Persia-Iran) will be the dread of humanity. The world’s leaders will be frustrated in their futile efforts to save what they can, but to no avail. The people of Yisrael will also be petrified by the impending danger. And HaShem will say to us, “Why are you afraid? All of this I have done in order to bring you the awaited redemption. And this redemption will not be like the redemption from Egypt, which was followed by suffering. This redemption will be absolute, followed with peace.
“We have now entered the countdown to the messiah, which is unbelieveable,” Kessin told Breaking Israel News. “Based on the [verse from the Book of Joel cited above], based on what’s happening, something awesome seems to be in the works. Fascinating!”

Admin Sat 04 Apr 2015, 9:37 am

Bad Iran deal foretold in ‘blood moon’ celestial signs?
Discoverer of phenomenon ‘linked’ to upheaval in the Jewish world calls for interfaith prayer for Jerusalem during full lunar eclipse this weekend
BY AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN April 3, 2015, 4:11 am 60

After observing a total lunar eclipse over Jerusalem’s Temple Mount in 2008, Pastor Mark Biltz pondered the meaning of such a celestial event and began investigating heavenly occurrences in the Bible. He wondered if it was possible to ascribe them meaning.
He found a positive sign almost immediately in Genesis 1:14, the verse in which God creates the sun and the moon. A literal English translation of the Hebrew is: “And God said, and there will be lights in the heaven’s firmament, to separate between day and night, and they will be for signs, and for festivals, and for days, and years.”

The blatant mention of “signs” was all Biltz needed, he recounted to The Times of Israel in a phone conversation from his Washington state home ahead of his livestream annual Passover seder with his 1,000-strong congregation.

The next challenge was looking for historical connections — which he quickly found in abundance.
In scanning the 5,000 years of lunar eclipses charted on the NASA website, he began seeing a pattern when crossing the dates of past lunar eclipses against historical time periods. Most striking to Biltz were the widespread upheavals he saw linked to the Jewish people and the State of Israel during what NASA labeled “tetrads,” or the phenomena of four full lunar eclipses in two years.

Namely, he recognized that the Inquisition, and Israel’s War of Independence and the Six Day War all occurred during these periods of four “blood moons.” (During the fall of the Second Temple, although not a tetrad year, there were a host of heavenly events, he said.)

This week the world will experience the third of a tetrad of “blood moons,” colloquially termed because of Rayleigh scattering (which also causes sunsets to appear red) in filtered moonlight through the Earth’s atmosphere.
Biltz had accidentally stumbled upon the now wildly popular four blood moon phenomena. He wrote a 2008 book about it and had his idea capitalized upon by popular Pastor John Hagee, who also wrote a bestselling book and recently produced a movie screened in theaters around the world last week.

Some Christian believers, however, look at the four blood moons phenomena as a portent for an apocalyptic end of time. An Internet search on Biltz, the spiritual leader of El Shaddai Ministries with a 250,000-strong weekly online congregation, reveal similar doomsday statements attributed to him. And a huge amount of web space is spent on debunking any and all theories attached to blood moons.
Biltz told The Times of Israel he “100% does not think it’s the end of the world.”
He readily admitted, however that he “would be surprised if a major conflict didn’t take place this year.” As there’s never any need to look very far for contemporary Jewish national strife, he noted last summer’s war with Hamas.

He can’t be certain, but the blood moons may have something to do with “the horrible deal they just got with Iran,” he said in a conversation following President Barack Obama’s briefing on Thursday. The deal, which Obama labeled as “historic,” is denounced by the Israeli government as “dangerous capitulation.”
To promote peace, Biltz and other interfaith blood moon enthusiasts are calling for four minutes of prayer for Jerusalem during the four minute forty-four second lunar eclipse on April 4 (EST).
A similar endeavor was carried out by interfaith website Root Source, founded by Israeli Gidon Ariel and American Bob O’Dell, in Jerusalem’s Western Wall during the March 20 full solar eclipse over the North Pole.
Biltz said in a Breaking Israel News interview that “if a Jew from Israel calls for prayer for the entire world during the solar eclipse, then we Christians should return the favor and call for prayer for Israel, and the reading of Psalm 122, during the lunar eclipse.”

While applauding their motives, the majority of Christians don’t attribute these celestial events with signs. As one Christian in Israel put it, “Personally, I don’t give much credence to this blood moon craze. If it motivates them to pray for Israel, fine! But I don’t need a blood moon to prompt me to pray for Israel, nor do I need it to know that we live in perilous times.”

Interestingly, Biltz is very accepting of that reaction (“some people think I’m the anti-Christ,” he joked) and said he just wants people to “put this in your own theological pipe and smoke it how you want.”
‘It’s all about the journey, the discovery. I’m like a kid turning over rocks saying, “Look what I found here!”‘
“It’s all about the journey, the discovery. I’m like a kid turning over rocks saying, ‘Look what I found here! Buried treasure!'” he said.
It is more important to Biltz that the world begin recognizing the rectitude of the “biblical calendar” — the calendar that dictates Jewish festivals and holidays.
He explained that the Islamic calendar, for instance, merely follows the moon; the Gregorian is based on the sun. But the biblical calendar uses the sun and moon.
This creates a situation in which Easter can be a month prior to Passover, or that “Jesus be resurrected before he’s been crucified” — on the assumption that the Last Supper was during the priestly Passover sacrifice in Jerusalem.

God, “the master time keeper, wants us to be aware of his clock,” said Biltz
This is why his congregation, an eclectic mix of nationalities, languages and beliefs, meets on Saturdays, the Jewish Shabbat. Biltz, who has Jewish ancestry on his father’s side and grew up observing Passover every few years in honor of his half-Jewish grandfather, was born a Catholic, but became a Protestant at age 19. Nineteen years later — of course there is a reliable pattern in his life as well — Biltz was drawn to Jewish wisdom.
He began learning rabbinical literature — he said he has a full set of Talmud at home — when he decided how he could “change the world.”
In 2001 he decided “Christians needed to understand how wonderful Jewish thinking is.” He began teaching Jewish texts in his online and live congregations to “get Christians to love the Jews from the Torah perspective, not the emotional perspective.”
Now with up to four million hits a month, Biltz claimed, his online ministry draws “every tribe, nation, and tongue. They all want to come and learn Torah.”

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Admin Fri 20 Mar 2015, 11:14 pm

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Connections Abound Between Solar Eclipse and this Sabbath
By Lea Speyer March 20, 2015 , 11:48 am
“This month shall mark for you the beginning of the months; it shall be the first of the months of the year for you.” (Exodus 12:1)
In a recent radio interview with Voice of Israel, Rabbi Tuly Weisz from Israel365 explained the numerous connections between Friday’s total eclipse of the sun and the onset of a special Sabbath on the Jewish calendar.
Friday’s exceedingly rare solar eclipse over the North Pole, occurring on the Spring Equinox combined with a supermoon, will also take place just hours before the onset of the Sabbath in Israel and the beginning of the new Hebrew month of Nissan, the first month of the Biblical calendar.
This Sabbath is known in Hebrew as “Shabbat HaChodesh”, literally, the “Sabbath of the Month,” when three Torah scrolls are read from in synagogues as opposed to the normal one scroll.
Many significant events took place on the first of Nissan in the Bible, including the onset of the Plague of Darkness and the dedication of the Tabernacle exactly one year later. Rabbi Weisz and Rabbi Ari Abromowitz of “Israel Inspired Radio” discuss the connections between these Biblical events and the celestial trifecta occurring today.
LISTEN BELOW: Hints of the Eclipse in the Torah Portion
Although the eclipse will only be partial in Israel, the excitement felt by some Jews in Jerusalem is total.
Gidon Ariel, co-founder of Root Source, will be leading a prayer service at the Western Wall as part of the Root Source’S “ #2Minofprayer campaign.” Followers all over the world will be joining Ariel’s live stream over the internet.
Ariel and his Root Source co-founder Bob O’Dell are calling Jews and Christians to join together to pray Isaiah 11:9 during the time of the solar eclipse.
“None will harm or destroy another on My entire holy mountain, for the land will be as full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is filled with water.” (Isaiah 11:9
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