Blood Moon Over Jerusalem: The God of Israel Speaks from the Heavens

By Christine Darg, Jerusalem Channel

Our Moveable Feast of Tabernacles celebration in Jerusalem’s Old City began early this morning with a spectacular heavenly display of the super blood moon in the western sky just before sunrise.

Blood Moon author Bob O’Dell, who will be addressing our opening convocation tonight in the Armenian Quarter, proclaimed portions of Psalm 89, which describes God’s faithful covenant with David (representing King Messiah). Psalm 89 calls the moon the Lord’s “faithful witness” in the sky.

The Lord has been speaking to the nations during the tetrad of four blood moons on successive Passovers and Feasts of Tabernacles. I believe these blood moons are a fulfilment, at least partially, of the great prophecies in Joel.

Many are wondering and asking the meaning of the blood moons. Pastors have written books about the phenomena but it all boils down to the salvation message.

Joel Chapter 2 ends like this:

31The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
32And everyone who calls
on the name of the Lord will be saved;
for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
there will be deliverance,
as the Lord has said,
even among the survivors
whom the Lord calls.

We are presently here in Israel living “amongst the survivors” whom the Lord has called home.  But the times of the Gentiles are ending. Thank God today is still the day of God’s favour to call upon the name of the Lord Jesus, but soon that door of opportunity will be closed.

Not ever having seen a total lunar eclipse, many of us were awed by the God of wonder this morning as we watched the spectacle of the eclipse from beginning to end, and as we meditated upon Jeremiah 31 which proclaims:

This is what the Lord says,
he who appoints the sun
to shine by day,
who decrees the moon and stars
to shine by night,
who stirs up the sea
so that its waves roar—
the Lord Almighty is his name:
36“Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,”
declares the Lord,
“will Israel ever cease
being a nation before me.”

And THAT IS the word of the Lord to Iran, to ISIS, to the enemies of Israel, to the BDS (boycott-divestment-sanctions) anti-Semitic movement and to all who hate the God of Israel!

When I was a child, I experienced an apocalyptic dream about blood moons.  Therefore, to live to see this heavenly enactment in the sky over the reconstituted nation of Israel is a personal victory for me.

Joel Chapter 2, which is quoted in Acts 2, is the word of the Lord to the nations:

Blow the trumpet in Zion;
sound the alarm on my holy hill.
Let all who live in the land tremble,
for the day of the Lord is coming.
It is close at hand—

The day of the Lord is great;
it is dreadful.
Who can endure it?
Rend Your Heart

“Even now,” declares the Lord,
“return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning.”
Rend your heart
and not your garments.
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in love,
and he relents from sending calamity.
Who knows? He may turn and relent
and leave behind a blessing—

15Blow the trumpet in Zion,
declare a holy fast,
call a sacred assembly.
16Gather the people,
consecrate the assembly;
bring together the elders,
gather the children,
those nursing at the breast.
Let the bridegroom leave his room
and the bride her chamber.
17Let the priests, who minister before the Lord,
weep between the portico and the altar.
Let them say, “Spare your people, Lord.
Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn,
a byword among the nations.
Why should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’ ”

21Do not be afraid, land of Judah;
be glad and rejoice.

23Be glad, people of Zion,
rejoice in the Lord your God,
for he has given you the autumn rains
because he is faithful.

27Then you will know that I am in Israel,
that I am the Lord your God,
and that there is no other;
never again will my people be shamed.

28“And afterward,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your old men will dream dreams,
your young men will see visions.
29Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days.
30I will show wonders in the heavens
and on the earth,
blood and fire and billows of smoke.
31The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
32And everyone who calls
on the name of the Lord will be saved!

Canon Andrew White, the vicar of Baghdad, also addressed our opening convocation of our “Moveable Feast of Tabernacles” Monday evening in the Armenian Quarter with prophetic violinist Maurice Sklar .  Details of other convocations this week are at our events page.