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Blood Moon Prophecy

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Pastor John Hagee, 2007

 The Blood Moon Prophecy is a series of apocalyptic eliefs promoted y !hristian

ministers John Hagee and Mark Bilt", #hich state that a tetrad $a series of fo%r

consec%ti&e l%nar eclipses'coinciding on Je#ish holidays'#ith si( f%ll moons in

et#een, and no inter&ening partial l%nar eclipses) #hich egan #ith the *pril 20+

l%nar eclipse is a sign of the end times as descried in the Bile in *cts 2-20 and

.e&elation /-+2 The tetrad ended #ith the l%nar eclipse on 1eptemer 27, 20+

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5n *pril +, 20+, there #as a total l%nar eclipse 8t #as the 9rst of fo%r consec%ti&e

total eclipses in a series, kno#n as a tetrad: a second one took place on 5ctoer ;,

20+, third one on *pril , 20+ and the remaining one took place on 1eptemer

27, 20+ 8t is one of eight tetrads d%ring the 2+st cent%ry *ect that ca%ses s%nsets to appear red324 Hagee also connects the solar eclipse of 

March 20, 20+ in the middle of the se?%ence

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 The idea of a Clood moonC ser&ing as an omen of the coming of the end times

comes from the Book of Joel, #here it is #ritten Cthe s%n #ill t%rn into darkness, and

the moon into lood, efore the great and terrile day of the @ord comesC34 This

phrase is again mentioned y 1aint Peter d%ring Pentecost, as recorded in *cts,34

altho%gh Peter says that date, not some f%t%re date, #as the f%l9llment of Joel=s

prophecy The lood moon also appears in the ook of .e&elation chapter / &erses

++ D +6,3/4 #here &erse +2 says C *nd 8 eheld #hen he had opened the si(th seal,

and, lo, there #as a great earth?%ake: and the s%n ecame lack as sackcloth of

hair, and the moon ecame as loodC

*ro%nd 200;, Bilt" egan predicting that the 1econd !oming of Jes%s #o%ld occ%r in

the fall of 20+ #ith the se&en years of the great tri%lation eginning in the fall of

200; He said he had Cdisco&eredC an astronomical pattern that predicted the ne(t

tetrad #o%ld coincide #ith the end times When the prediction failed, he p%lled the

article from his #esite, %t contin%ed to teach on the Csigni9canceC of the tetrad

Hagee #o%ld later sei"e on Bilt"= prediction to #rite Fo%r Blood Moons, #hich #o%ld

ecome a est seller, spending more than +0 days in *ma"oncom=s top +0 y

*pril 20+364 For the #eek ending March 60, 20+, it #as the ninth est selling

paperack, according to P%lishers Weekly374 By midD*pril, Hagee=s ook had hit

Eo on the The Ee# ork Times estDseller list in the ad&ice category364 Hagee=s

ook $and s%se?%ent sermon series at his home congregation, !ornerstone

!h%rch) did not proclaim that any speci9c Cend timesC e&ent #o%ld occ%r $as did

Bilt" in his original prophecy), %t claimed that e&ery prior tetrad of the last 00

years coincided #ith e&ents in Je#ish and 8sraeli history that #ere originally tragic,

yet follo#ed y tri%mph