Sunday will present the rarest Super moon – the first time in more than 30 years we will have a Super moon and lunar eclipse at the same time.
The result: a so-called "blood moon" that some in religious circles are suggesting will signal an end of the world type of event -- a doomsday.
So, while many astrological watchers are looking forward to the unique event, others are wondering if the end is near. Some in religious circles like Pastor John Hagee say this Super moon, often called a "Blood Moon" when it takes on a copper color during an eclipse, points to a significant world event like an apocalypse or Armageddon.
Hagee, a Christian minister from Texas, suggests that there are "direct connections between four upcoming blood-moon eclipses and what they portend for Israel and all of humankind."
"The coming four blood moons points to a world-shaking event that will happen between April 2014 and October 2015," he said.
On Sunday (September 27, 2015) Earth's shadow will begin to dim the "super moon" slightly, beginning at 8.11 p.m. EDT. U.S. and much of the world, a total lunar eclipse will mask the moon's larger-than-life face for more than an hour.
"Over the last 500 years, blood-red moons have fallen on the first day of Passover three separate times. These occurrences were connected to some of the most significant days in Jewish history: 1492 (the final year of the Spanish Inquisition when Jews were expelled from Spain), 1948 (statehood for Israel and the War of Independence) and 1967 (the Six-Day War). Every heavenly body is controlled by the unseen hand of God, which signals coming events to humanity. There are no solar or lunar accidents. The next series of four blood moons occurs at Passover and Sukkot in 2014 and 2015," Hagee writes in material promoting his book Four Blood Moons.
Hagee, according to ibtimes.com, "cites a passage from Joel 2:31 in the King James Bible that he claims predicts the end of days with the arrival of a blood moon. 'The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord comes,' reads the biblical passage."
While not addressing Hagee, a NASA official recently addressed rumour’s that an asteroid would hit earth in late September, ending life as we know it supposedly. That is not expected to happen, he said.
"There is no scientific basis - not one shred of evidence - that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth on those dates," said Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object office at the JetPropulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,California.
WHY I AM NOT A DISPENSATIONALIST John Nelson Darby is recognized as the father of dispensationalism later made popular in the United States by Cyrus Scofield's Scofield Reference Bible. Charles Henry Mackintosh, 1820–1896, with his popular style spread Darby's teachings to humbler elements in society and may be regarded as the journalist of the Brethren Movement. CHM popularised Darby more than any other Brethren author. As there was no Christian teaching of a “rapture” before Darby began preaching about it in the 1830s, he is sometimes credited with originating the "secret rapture" theory wherein Christ will suddenly remove His bride, the Church, from this world before the judgments of the tribulation. Dispensationalist beliefs about the fate of the Jews and the re-establishment of the Kingdom of Israel put dispensationalists at the forefront of Christian Zionism, because "God is able to graft them in again," and they believe that in His grace he will do so according to their understanding of Old Testament prophecy. They believe that, while the methodologies of God may change, His purposes to bless Israel will never be forgotten, just as He has shown unmerited favour to the Church, He will do so to a remnant of Israel to fulfill all the promises made to the genetic seed of Abraham. I am not a dispensationalist; it is unbiblical.
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