As WND
previously reported,
a minister who promotes
the Old Testament roots of
Christianity suggests a
rare string of lunar and
solar eclipses said to
fall on God's annual holy
days in 2015 could signal
the return of Jesus.
Pastor
Mark Biltz of El
Shaddai Ministries
in Bonney Lake, Wash.,
noted a coming rare
phenomenon of four
consecutive total lunar
eclipses, known as a
tetrad, and often called
"blood moons" since the
moon often takes on a
bloody color.
He says
during this century,
tetrads occur at least six
times, but what's
interesting is that
the only string of
four consecutive blood
moons that coincide
with God's holy days
of Passover in the
spring and the
autumn's Feast of
Tabernacles (also
called Succoth) occurs
between 2014 and 2015
on today's Gregorian
calendar.
"The fact
that it doesn't happen
again in this century I
think is very
significant," Biltz
explained. "So then
I looked at last
century, and, believe
it or not, the last
time that four blood
red moons occurred
together was in 1967
and 1968 tied to
Jerusalem recaptured
by Israel."
He then
started to notice a
pattern of the tetrads.
"What's
significant to me is
that even before 1967,
the next time that you
had four blood red
moons again was right
after Israel became a
nation in '48, it
happened again in 1949
and 1950 ... on
Passover and Succoth.
You didn't have any
astronomical tetrads in
the 1800s, the 1700s, the
1600s. In the 1500s, there
were six, but none of
those fell on Passover and
Succoth."
When
checking the schedule for
solar eclipses, Biltz
found two – one on the
first day of the Hebrew
year and the next on the high
holy
day
of Rosh Hashanah, the
first day of the seventh
Hebrew month. Both of
these take place in the
2014-2015 year.
Biltz
says, "You have the
religious year beginning
with the total
solar
eclipse,
two weeks later a total
lunar eclipse on Passover,
and then the civil year
beginning with the solar
eclipse followed two weeks
later by another total
blood red moon on the
Feast of Succoth all in
2015."