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Impossible sight on Saturday’s eclipse

Posted on by elizabethprata

One of the signs Jesus said to look for in the nearing of the end of the age is signs in the sun, moon, and stars. That verse is found in Luke 21:25. Actually, there is a LOT of astronomical activity prophesied to occur during the Tribulation, especially the end. But first, take a look at what impossible sight the second full lunar eclipse of this year will bring:

When to Catch Tomorrow’s “Impossible” Total Lunar Eclipse
“The moon passes through the southern part of the Earth’s shadow, which gives the “eclipse” effect, (fortunately not of the vampire variety) in the early morning and will last about an hour. Depending on cloud coverage and light interference, there will also be a chance to see a selenelion, an effect deemed “impossible” by celestial geometry. A “selenelion” (or “selenehelion”) occurs when both the sun and the eclipsed moon can be seen at the same time. Astronomers note that during an eclipse, the sun, the earth, and the moon are in a straight line in space. But due to atmospheric refraction, which causes the human eye to perceive astronomical objects higher in the sky than they are in reality, there will be a short window (one to six minutes) when you might be able to spot the sun rising in the east-southeast and the full, eclipsed moon setting in the west-northwest. The lunar eclipse is scheduled to be visible in Phoenix at around 7:20 a.m., with the selenelion visible during the first three or so minutes.”

As for the previously mentioned celestial activity that is prophesied for the end of time:

Isaiah 13:10 The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.

Ezekiel 32:7 When I snuff you out, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.

Joel 2:30 I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke.

Joel 2:31 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD

Luke 21:26 Men will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken.

And those are just a few of the verses that prophesy the celestial bodies’ strange action. All this to say that God is in control. He is in control of all demons, angels, government systems, heaven, people,…and celestial bodies. He created the moon to reflect light of the sun that He gave us. At His timing, He will shut the light. Keep looking up. Christians will see the brightest light of His glory at the rapture, unbelievers will see the lights go out. In His love, He allows you to choose on which side you will remain: light…or dark.
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Eclipse! Darkest night in 100 years, blood red moon in OZ

Posted on by elizabethprata

Blood on the moon: 2011 Lunar Eclipse takes Oz
“The solar eclipse today may have already meant bad tidings for grounded Australian airport shut-ins. Ash from the Chilean volcano could turn the lunar eclipse blood-red in The Land Down Under, according to Australian scientists. The volcanic ash that has delayed hundreds of flights across Australia will provide midnight moon-watchers with an extraordinary view of the eclipse. Usually, dust and ash in the air turns lunar eclipses a copper color, but because of the excess of ash in the atmosphere over Australia due to Chile’s Puyehue volcano, the moon is expected to shine bright red. A popular superstition in both Australia and the United States holds that “blood on the moon” is a bad omen.”

Hmmm, not just copper, but blood red. “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)

Joel’s blood red moon is an occurrence that will take place in the Tribulation, so today’s blood red moon does not have specific prophetic significance because we are not in the Tribulation yet. However, there are some prophetically interesting things about this lunar eclipse.

–It is one of four this year along with 2 solar eclipses. NASA explains “Four partial solar and two total lunar eclipses take place in 2011. This 4:2 combination of solar and lunar eclipses in a single year is rather rare.”

–It will be the longest lunar eclipse in a decade. NatGeo says “Rare” Lunar Eclipse Wednesday” (Longest in 100 years, as this newscast states) Eclipse to last nearly two hours and should be especially dark. “The path that the moon is taking through Earth’s shadow is almost directly through [the shadow’s] center, making for the longest possible path and so the longest duration,” said Ben Burress, staff astronomer at the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, California. “The last eclipse that was as long as this one was in 2000, while the next won’t be until 2018, so this makes it a somewhat rare event.”

–The eruption at Chile’s Puyehue volcano on June 4 is interrupting flights at New Zealand and Australia as the ash makes its way across the southern hemisphere. This will cause the moon to appear as blood red.

–Jesus told us that as we approach the Tribulation and then, throughout the Tribulation, the celestial bodies would be shaken. It stands to reason that the ‘rare’ number of eclipses, and the ‘rare’ length of the eclipse and the ‘rare’ blood-red and not copper color would be indicators of prophetic warning. He holds the celestial bodies in His hand,

“Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth,
      Before the difficult days come,
      And the years draw near when you say,
      “ I have no pleasure in them”:
        While the sun and the light,
      The moon and the stars,
      Are not darkened,
      And the clouds do not return after the rain;
        In the day when the keepers of the house tremble,
      And the strong men bow down;
      When the grinders cease because they are few,
      And those that look through the windows grow dim;
 Remember your Creator before the silver cord is loosed!
(Ecclesiastes 12:1-2;6)






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Astronomy news: 6 eclipses in 2011, NASA notes it’s "a rarity"

Posted on by elizabethprata

There’s lots of reasons for sky watchers to keep looking up, the most important is because we are commanded to keep watching for Him, but another one is as NASA notes, “Four partial solar and two total lunar eclipses take place in 2011. This 4:2 combination of solar and lunar eclipses in a single year is rather rare with only six cases during the 21st Century (2011, 2029, 2047, 2065, 2076 and 2094). The first and last eclipses always occur in January and December. The dates and types of eclipses during 2011 are as follows:”
2011 Jan 04: Partial Solar Eclipse
2011 Jun 01: Partial Solar Eclipse
2011 Jun 15: Total Lunar Eclipse
2011 Jul 01: Partial Solar Eclipse
2011 Nov 25: Partial Solar Eclipse
2011 Dec 10: Total Lunar Eclipse”

Six times in a year out of 100 years is a rarity indeed.

MSNBC reports and uses the word rare as well, “Rare treat coming: Three eclipses in June and July“. Sorry, the partial solar midnight sun eclipse is already gone by.

‘Midnight’ solar eclipse of June 2 “The eclipse begins on Thursday, June 2, at dawn in northern China and Siberia, then moves across the Arctic, crossing the International Date Line and ending in the early evening of Wednesday, June 1, in northeastern Canada. That’s right: The eclipse begins on Thursday and ends on Wednesday because of the International Date Line. Because observers in northern Russia and Scandinavia will be observing it over the North Pole, they will actually see it in what is, for them, the middle of the night of June 1 and 2.”
Solar eclipse no one will see on July 1 “Exactly a month later, on Friday, July 1, an equally bizarre eclipse will occur in the Antarctic. Because this is the southern winter, the sun will be below the horizon for almost all of Antarctica, except for a small uninhabited stretch of coast due south of Madagascar. The only place the eclipse will clear the horizon will be in a small area of the Southern Ocean, far to the south of South Africa. Chances are that this eclipse will be witnessed only by penguins and sea birds.”
Lunar eclipse of June 15 “Exactly halfway in between these two partial solar eclipses, there will be a total eclipse of the moon on Wednesday, June 15. The eclipse will be visible for millions of people in Africa, the Middle East and southwestern Asia. It will be visible as the moon rises in the early evening in South America and Europe, and as the moon sets before dawn in eastern Asia and Australia.”

If you have telescope or binoculars, keep looking to the skies. Although, some things are happening for which image enlargement is not necessary–

This shot from a NASA fireball-watching camera shows a meteor over Macon, Ga., on the evening of May 20, 2011, source NASA. “A brilliant meteor blazed through the sky above Georgia recently, and two NASA fireball-monitoring cameras caught the dramatic display on video. The meteor was caused by a human-size chunk of an unknown comet. It was the brightest meteor yet recorded by NASA’s fireball-observing network — based at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. — in its nearly three years of operation, officials said. The 6-foot-wide (1.8-meter) space rock barrelled into Earth’s atmosphere at 10:47 p.m. EDT on May 20 (0247 GMT on May 21), about 66 miles (106 kilometers) above the city of Macon, Ga.”

Keep looking up! Things are hoppin’ up there!

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