Blood Moon Rising
The snake oil salesmen are at it again, though in fact, the error they are perpetrating is very old.
I am referring, of course, to the hype about the “blood moons”, and the pile of books, and current internet articles, that are flogging this error. This stems from a human desire for God to hurry-up, and to get it over with.
Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. Amos 5:18
We naturally desire to be in the millennial reign, to live in a perfect world, but God will do it in his own time. Don’t rush Him!
10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: 11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it? Joel 2:10-11
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, BEFORE the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. Joel 2:31
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD IS NEAR in the valley of decision. 15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. Joel 3:1:14-15
“The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, BEFORE that great and notable day of the Lord come:” Acts 2:20
An old Jewish error concerning these passages can be traced to the passage in the Talmud that equates a lunar eclipse to a “blood moon”. When Christians pick up this error there is a problem, Christian doctrine does not come from the Talmud;
“When the moon is in eclipse, it is a bad omen for Israel. If its face is as red as blood, (it is a sign that) the sword is coming to the world.”http://www.pray4zion.org/TheComingBloodMoons.html
A Blood Moon over the Temple wall
The Talmud is a New Age reinterpretation of the Old Testament, and is as dangerous as any pagan religion. Christians have no business following this abomination. There is a current push to reinterpret the New Testament, in the same New Age way, that is equally as dangerous, but that is not my subject for today.
Suffice it to say that this reinterpretation can be found in all the major denominations, and in many independent churches today.
Modern translations such as The Message, and the New Century version, follow in the New Age tradition of the Talmud. This trend has been going on for some time, however, and even older translations such as the NASB, the NIV, and the NKJV, have been infected, to some extent.
The idea that a lunar eclipse could be in view here is refuted by the immediate context of the passage. In every passage about this phenomenon, a dimming of the sun is connected to the “blood moon”. You can’t get away from this connection, and yet every one of these false teachers focuses on the “blood moon” as if it was an eclipse. It isn’t!
FULL ARTICLE AThttp://housetops.me/2014/02/22/blood-moon-rising/
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