Signs In The Heavens
Astonishing as it seems, four lunar eclipses will occur on God’s annual
Holy Days during Passover and Sukkot in the years 2014 and 2015, and
two solar eclipses on Nisan 1 and the Feast of Trumpets! These are
exceedingly rare occurrences, especially when they dovetail with God’s
Holy Days! What does it all mean? What is the prophetic significance? It’s
time to wake up and take heed of these ominous, fateful warnings from
heaven.
According to the Jewish calendar, the year 2008 is a Sabbatical year. A
new Sabbatical cycle will begin September 29, 2008. 2015 will also be a
Sabbatical year.
But most amazing of all, it has been discovered that in the years 2014 and
2015 there will be two solar eclipses and four lunar eclipses, all of them
occurring on Jewish Holy Days!
The Lunar eclipses break down as follows:
Passover April 15, 2014
Feast of Tabernacles October 8, 2014
Passover April 4, 2015
Feast of Tabernacles September 28, 2015
The two Solar eclipses connected with God’s Holy Days in 2014-2015
occur:
Adar 29/Nisan 1 March 20, 2015
Feast of Trumpets September 13, 2015
It was on Nisan 1 that the Hebrew new year’s day occurred, according to
the Scriptures (Exo.12:1-2). On the anniversary of this date, one year later,
Moses raised up the Tabernacle of God, inaugurated it, and the glory of
God descended from heaven (Exodus 40:2, 17, 34).
The real shocker is that this phenomenon is extremely rare, for this pattern
of eclipses to fall on both Passover and Sukkot in two years in a row, and
for a solar eclipse to occur on important Holy Days in the same year
(2015).
This intriguing, incredible discovery comes from Mark Blitz, pastor of El
Shaddai Ministries, in Bonner Lake, Washington. Blitz was intrigued with
the statement in the Scriptures that connect the second coming of the
Messiah with “signs in the heavens,” particularly the signs that “the sun
will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood” before the return of
Christ. He went on the Internet, to the U.S. Government NASA website to
see if there were any significant eclipses of the sun and moon during the
next few years. To his surprise, he discovered four lunar eclipses in the
Sabbatical year 2014/2015, and was intrigued by the fact that they occurred
on God’s annual Holy Days!
Writing about the amazing discovery in the May 2008 issue of Prophecy in
the News, J. R. Church declares, “This is most unusual. It is a rare
occurrence for four lunar cycles on successive Passover and the Feast of
Tabernacles (Sukkot) observances. It will not happen again for hundreds
of years.”
Says J. R.Church, in a letter accompanying the magazine issue, “Four lunar
eclipses occurring on the Feast of Tabernacles and Passover in two
successive years are phenomenal. But add to them two solar eclipses on the
two days that open the Jewish year – Adar 29/Nisan1, just two weeks
before Passover, and Tishri 1 (Rosh Hashannah) – is uncanny. On each of
these six Jewish Holy Days, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not
give her light. Will this happen again in the 21st century? No. Did it happen
in the 20th century? Yes, in 1949/1950, the year following Israel’s
statehood, and 1967/1968, the year Jerusalem was liberated in the Six-Day
War! Before that, you have to go back to 1493 for four successive lunar
eclipses on Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles” (May 2008 letter).
Is God Almighty telling us something? Skeptics and scoffers will denounce
the discovery as mere coincidence, but the prophet Daniel informs us,
“Many shall be purified, made white, and refined. But the wicked shall do
wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but the wise will
understand” (Dan.12:10).
Peter warned, “Scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to
their own lusts, and saying, ‘Where is the promise of His coming? For
since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the
beginning of creation” II Pet.3:3-4
Another shocking discovery is that coming up this summer there will be
three SOLAR eclipses in a row, in 2008, 2009, and 2010, all on the date of
the first of Av, the fifth Hebrew month of the year.
Av 1 August 1, 2008 partial solar eclipse
Av 1 July 22, 2009 partial solar eclipse
Av 1 July 11, 2010 partial solar eclipse
The first day of Av is in the middle of the time period when the Jewish
people mourn the destruction of the Temple of God. Historically Moses
descended from Mt. Sinai with the two tablets of the Ten Commandments,
and found the people engaged in gross idolatry at the foot of the mountain.
That was on Tammuz 17. Also, on Av 9, the Hebrew spies returned from
spying out the land of Canaan and brought an evil report – and the people
lost faith in God, and were condemned to wander 40 years in the
wilderness (Numbers 14:34). Av 9 also commemorates the date of the
destruction of the first Temple by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in 586 B.
C., and the second Temple by the Roman general Titus on the same date in
70 A.D.
These two dates are days of infamy in Israel. The three week period
between Tammuz 17 and Av 9 are called “between the straits” and are
days of mourning, repentance, and lamentations. How interesting that a
solar eclipse will fall on the date of Av 1, in the middle of mourning and
lamentation, three years in a row!
Mark Blitz believes that these phenomenal solar eclipses on this date signify
that God could begin judging the Gentile nations this summer, beginning Av
1. Solar eclipses, he says, are designed for Gentile nations, whereas lunar
eclipses are designed for Israel. These eclipses, too, then could be a
WARNING FROM GOD TO A WAYWARD WORLD!
