First of 3 Significant Blood Moons Hits Overnight, Landing Directly on a Jewish Holiday
Benjamin Gill : Mar 13, 2025
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...The moon will turn red for more than an hour over North and South America [in the early hours of] March 14.
[CBN News] ANALYSIS: Skywatchers have a chance to see a "blood moon" unfold tonight. It will be visible across the US for about an hour starting at 2:26 a.m. Eastern on Friday morning. Peak viewing is close to 3 a.m. Eastern. (Image: Pixabay)
It's the first in a series of remarkable celestial signs that will be on display in the coming months that could hold prophetic significance for our world. This series of four heavenly phenomena includes one solar event and three lunar events, two of which could represent a possible message about Israel.
It all kicks off with a total lunar eclipse known as a "blood moon" that will appear over the US on March 14, 2025. This particular one will fall directly on the Jewish holiday of Purim. That's when the Jewish people celebrate the Biblical account of Esther when they were delivered from annihilation at the hands of an enemy named Haman in the Persian empire, which is modern-day Iran.
That first lunar eclipse will be followed by two more blood moons, with one coming this fall before Rosh Hashanah, and then the third one ALSO falling directly on Purim on March 3, 2026.
Bible prophecy experts say lunar eclipses, known as "blood moons," are tied to events that affect Israel. And with antisemitism spiking around the globe, the ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza, and the massive Middle East shifts that have followed the October 7 massacre in Israel, the two Purim blood moons could hold special significance.
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What Is the Significance of a Blood Moon?
A blood moon is a full lunar eclipse in which the moon can appear to be an eerie, blood-red color. Blood moons occur when Earth passes directly between the moon and the sun, preventing the sun from reflecting off the moon and casting a reddish shadow over it.
In the next such event, the moon will turn red for more than an hour over North and South America on March 14.
The cosmic moment will repeat on September 7, 2025, with an 82-minute "blood moon" that will be visible over Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. That's two weeks before the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which is a time of prayer and repentance.
Then, the third blood moon will arrive on Purim on March 3, 2026. It will be visible for nearly six hours from Asia to parts of North America.
Christian leaders who study Biblical prophecy, like Pastor John Hagee, have contended for years that blood moons portend significant events for Israel and the Middle East and, therefore, the entire world.
Hagee wrote a best-selling book about it called Four Blood Moons. "The heavens are 'God's billboard.' He's been sending signals to Earth, and we haven't been picking them up," Hagee explained a decade ago when talking about a particularly remarkable series of blood moons called a tetrad—that's four blood moons within a span of two years.
The last time a tetrad took place was from 2014-2015, and all four of those eclipses landed directly on Jewish holidays, coming as the world endured the shocking and horrific rise of ISIS, the highly controversial Iran nuclear deal, and the previous Israeli war with Hamas.
That tetrad began during Passover in 2014. The final blood moon of that series took place in September of 2015 during the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, which marks God's provision and protection during the Israelites' 40 years in the wilderness.
Significance of Blood Moon Tetrads in History
Historically, blood moon tetrads have occurred during some truly world-changing events directly related to Israel. (Image: Pixabay)
Three tetrads stand out over the last millennium, coinciding with major events for the Jewish people. They occurred from 1493-1494, 1949-1950, and 1967-1968.
In 1492, the Jews were expelled from Spain after severe persecution, and Christopher Columbus also discovered America, which would eventually become a safe haven for the Jewish people.
In 1948, the modern state of Israel was reborn as a nation in its original homeland, fulfilling a Biblical prophecy from Jeremiah 16:15 – "For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers."
"After 2,000 years, God supernaturally brought them from 66 nations, and a nation was born in a day," Hagee explained in a previous interview. "That, again, was a supernatural something that happened following the tragedy of the Holocaust."
Finally, in 1967, Israel recaptured their capital of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War, which many see as an essential precursor to the eventual construction of the Jewish Third Temple. (The Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D.)
"In each of these blood moons, you have something that begins in tragedy and ends in triumph," Hagee said.
The next tetrad of blood moons will occur in 2032–2033, exactly 2,000 years after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The first two in that rare tetrad will occur on April 25 and October 18, 2032. The last two in that series will fall on Jewish holidays – Passover on April 14, 2033, and Sukkot on Oct 8, 2033. A total solar eclipse will occur right in the middle of that tetrad on March 30, 2033.
Celestial Signs in the Bible & Jewish Tradition
Blood moons are mentioned in multiple places in the Bible, including in the book of Joel, the book of the Acts of the Apostles, and the book of Revelation.
Blood moons are first foretold in Joel 2:31:"The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come." The Apostle Peter repeats that prophecy in Acts 2:20.
Then the ... book of Revelation 6:12 says: "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood."...
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Capping off the four major celestial signs over the next two years, after the three blood moons, there will be a total solar eclipse in August of 2026, visible across Europe and Russia.
As Pastor Hagee previously told CBN News, "The evidence is very clear Scripturally that God controls the sun, moon, and stars—that God is sending us a signal through the sun, the moon, and the stars. The question is, are we listening?" Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here
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