

He says, “This is not something that some religious think tank has put together. He believes today marks the dawn of a “hugely significant event” for the world. Pastor and author John Hagee, from San Antonio, Texas, has written a book on the phenomenon. Tetrad #3: Palestinians surrender to Israeli soldiers in June, 1967. The King James Bible predicts: “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD comes”. Some Christians believe the phenomenon represents the End of Days and the second coming of Christ. Tetrad #2: The signed document proclaiming the establishment of Israel declared by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, left, May 14th, 1948. In addition to the two totalities occurring this year, there will be two more in 2015, on April 4 and Sept. Tetrad #1: Portrait of the 15th century Spanish Inquisition, where royal leaders punished converted Jews (and later Muslims.) Getty Images Interestingly, this month’s total eclipse is the first of four consecutive total eclipses dubbed “blood moons” occurring at approximately six-month intervals - a phenomenon called a tetrad.
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Mars, Earth and the sun today aligned in a rare “opposition of the planets” that only happens once every 778 days.Īnd it comes six days before a full lunar eclipse, when the entirety of the moon is shaded by Earth and appears as an eerie reddish color. It’s been touted as a rare astrological event that could herald the “End of Days.”īut if the experience of generations gone by is anything to go by, we’ll be all right.


A photo composite shows various stages of the 2008 lunar eclipse.
