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The complete Lunar Eclipse over the Middle East on the 9th of November, 2003.
Lunar and Solar Eclipse
Signs at the Time of the End
Translation of text by the New English Bible
Commentary by Robert D. Mock MD
January 2004
Edited August 2006
Topics
“Joel 2:28, 31; Act 2:17, 20 - “And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God,
That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh…..
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.”
The two most ancient civilizations, the Jews and the Moslems, whose religious history is based around the lunar calendar, watched one of the most spectacular blood red lunar eclipses in recorded history. The peak of the lunar eclipse was on November 9, 2003 at 3:10 a.m. Jerusalem Local Time after the close of the Shabbat and was visible high above the western horizon. This was the first blood red eclipse to be seen over Jerusalem since Passover, 1996.
Also on Sunday, November 9 (Ramadan 14) the Moslem citizens of Africa and Arabia in the midst of Ramadan celebrations awakened at pre-dawn to a moon turning coppery red in a breathtaking celestial spectacle. With telescopes and binoculars, the subtle shading on the moon allowed observers to investigate the craters and lunar landscape with greater detail.
A total lunar eclipse occurs only when this planet earth get
directly between the sun and the moon and occurs only at the full moon
phase. If our earth did not have any atmosphere, the moon would actually
look totally black. Yet, the atmosphere around the Earth filters and
refracts the sun’s light depending on the amount of the dust and clouds in the
atmosphere. As such the moon can appear in a variety of shades from dark
grey or brown, to bright red, orange and yellow. 
Though
the eclipse was visible across the United States at various stages, it was to
be the dramatic blood red appearance that was visualized over the land of the
Jews and Moslems.
The Position of the Lunar Eclipse in the Thigh of the Lamb on November 9, 2003
When we analyze this specific eclipse and its how it occurred in the constellations of heaven, we notice something remarkable. The lunar eclipse over Jerusalem occurred in the constellation of Aries which in Hebrew (taleh) means ‘The Lamb” Not only that it occurred in the hollow of the thigh of the lamb.
According to Robert Wadsworth with Biblical Astronomy,
Biblical Astronomy - “If this is a blood red moon, then it will be a great sign indeed, and will continue in the current portrayal and theme of the blood of atonement that began with the close approach of Mars on Elul 1, 2003, which also began the 40 day season of repentance to the Day of Atonement which took place on October 6/7). The major theme of the sign of the constellation of Aries the Lamb is the One who was slain but resurrected and now returning to defeat his enemies and deliver his people. This is pictured by a ram, or lamb, full of vigor and life; not falling in death as Capricornus is.”
This is the Lamb that appeared ‘as though it had been slain” but found worthy to open the seven seals in Revelation 5 because of His atoning blood that was shed to unlock the ‘sealed book’ and unleash the final seven seals that will bring forth the final apocalyptic time of the end upon this earth. This is the “Lamb” that will defeat the beast from the sea and his armies in Revelation 19.
A Total Solar Eclipse like the one on the 23th day of November, 2003.
That is not all. On November 23, 2003, a total solar eclipse was seen though it was visualized only by the intrepid travelers to the far off reaches of the world on the continent of Antarctica.
Let us make the assumption that the Lord of hosts writes out His plan in the heavens as the prophets of old truly believed, than it does behoove us to see if there is a meaning for this solar eclipse. Here we see that the position of the sun and the moon as will be visualized from land base on Antarctica will be in front of and near the head of the scorpion in the celestial constellation of Scorpius, Hebrew for akrab, meaning conflict or war.
The Great Controversy of the Ages is the conflict between the “Woman” and her “seed” and the “Serpent” and the serpent’s seed as foretold in Genesis 3:15.
Genesis 3:15 – “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.”
Here we see direct allusions to Eve and her eventual seed, the “Son of Man” and veiled illusions to Mary, daughter of Heli, and her seed, Emmanuel in direct conflict with Satan, who is called HaSatan, “The Adversary”, and the seed of HaSatan called the AntiChrist. The Christ and the AntiChrist will come in direct conflict.
Position of Sun and Moon in Scorpius during Total Solar Eclipse on Nov. 23, 2003
Here we may be seeing the omens in the heavens. The next mention of the woman and her seed and the serpent and its seed is found in Revelation 13. If the Lord of hosts does speak to us and give us clues to what is happening in the other dimensions of the heavens, how can and will He speak? Surely He has the power and authority to let His voice speak through the heavens and all the inhabitants of the earth will be shaken to their knees. But what does this do to the free will of man and the power of choice that has been given to us. As has been stated by one of my favorite authors, Ellen G. White in the 1903, when she wrote,
Ellen G. White - “Every human being, created in the image of God, is endowed with a power akin to that of the Creator – individuality, power to think and to do.” (Ellen G. White, Education, Pacific Press Publishing Co., 1903, 1951, pg 17)
The war in heaven is not over and is still raging. Eventually the final conflict and battles will be waged on this earth as the inter-dimensional forces of God under the command of the archangel, Michael, will drive the rebelling and evil forces of Satan into this three dimensional sphere of this planet earth. Here on this earth, all mankind will be able to witness the other-dimensional spiritual powers that will become physical. The unseen will be manifested. The veils will be uncloaked. The drama will be intense and great catastrophes will occur on this earth.
Another future sighting described of a black sun and a blood red moon is revealed in the Six Seal of Revelation.
Revelation 6:12 – “I looked when He opened the sixth seal and behold there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.”
It was the Rabbi Yeshua whom we know as Jesus the Nazarene, who was sitting on the slopes of the Mount of Olives and began his most famous discourse, the Olivet Discourse, on the events leading up to the time of the end in Matthew 24. His accounts of the celestial events will occur after the tribulation of the time of the end.
Matthew 24:29 – “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven and the powers of heaven will be shaken.”
Here again we seem to be visiting catastrophic events that are unprecedented in our natural world. The natural laws which appear to be uniform and in steady state are suddenly thrown into sudden disarray.
Over one hundred eighty years ago similar signs in the heavens were sensitizing prophetic watchers in New England to the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation. In an era in which none of the Christian churches believed in the literal coming of the messiah, William Miller and Joseph Bates became the most outspoken advocates that Jesus as Yeshua ben David would return as the messiah in a literal and physical return that truly would be seen by ‘every eye’. This was called the Millerite Movement and the Great Awakening of 1830 to 1845.
Yet the great awakening was not an event that grew up from a
cultic center, it was a religious phenomenon that swept all the denominations
in the United States: Baptists, Catholics, Methodists, Episcopalians, and
Presbyterians and more. With the Great Awakening in the 1830s and 40s
came the beginning of literal prophetic interpretation of scripture on the
literal return of the messiah. When Jesus did not come in 1844 most of
the Millerites 
returned back
to their home churches. But out of the Great Awakening, the Seventh-day
Adventists arose and carried the torch of the literal return and earned
the title as the grandfathers of modern prophetic interpretation. The Jehovah’s
Witnesses followed in suit, then came the Evangelical Christians as dispensationalists
beginning with John Darby and the Scofield Bible, and eventually the Messianic
Christians, those group who are trying to recreate the Hebrew
Nazarene Ecclesia of Israel,
the Nazarenes and the Josephites/Ephraimites. Each step along the
way, the pathway of restoration has become more defined as Christians are
leaving the corruption of Roman orthodox Christianity and returning to the
Hebrew-Judaic roots of their spiritual ancestry.
The October 3, 2005 Solar Eclipse by the moon taken by Stefen Seip in Campillo de Altobuey, Espana
Is it no wonder that at this time of religious and spiritual awakening, most of the major ‘isms’ in the world today began to revive.
- Evolutionism with the seeds of the idea of “natural selection” espoused by Charles Darwin while he was on the H.M.S. Beagle on a British science expedition at the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean. (Paul Johnson, The History of the Jews, Harper and Row Publishers, 1987, pg. 321) It was Heinrich von Treitschke (1834-1896), the German historian, who popularized anti-Semitism in academia and encouraged the scientific community to misapply the ideas of Charles Darwin creating “Social Darwinism” where races compete with each other in the ‘survival of the fittest’. (Ibid 393)
- Spiritism dating from 1848 with the ‘knockings’ experimented by the Fox family at Hydesville and later Rochester, New York.
- Mormanism when Joseph Smith at the age of 17 was visited by the angel Moroni on September 21, 1823, who was the supposed son of Mormon, leader of the Nephites living in the Americas in the 4th century. Joseph Smith was instructed to translate the book of Morman which Moroni’s father, Morman compiled and wrote them on golden plates hidden near Palmyra, New York.
- At the same time the Islamic nations were becoming restless and under the powerful Albanian general who commanded the armies of the Ottoman Sultan, Mohamed Ali the Great drove out the French and for the next forty years, from 1806 – 1848, he and his son Ibrahim Pasha dominated the Middle East political scene.
- Communism was founded on the principles of the Karl Marx (1818-1883) a Jewish anti-Semitic German socialist who most famous phrase, ‘the opiate of the Jews’ was coined from a jibe on religion being a ‘spiritual opium’ by his friend, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), a secular intellectual writer and poet who Paul Johnson called an ‘emancipated and apostate’ Jew’ (Ibid 343). Marx’s communistic millennialism led him to prophecy on the coming of the Messiah in 1849 and for eight different dates thereafter until 1859. (Ibid 348) In essence, “Marx’s theory of communism was the end-product of his theoretical anti-Semitism.” (Ibid 350)
- Is it also not remarkable that modern Zionism also
began in the 1840’s. It was the German Rabbi Zevi Hirsch
Kalischer (1795-1874) who asked the Frankfurt Rothschilds in 1836 for
funds to buy Erez (Land of) Israel or at least Jerusalem from Muhamed Ali
the Great with the goal to begin the ingathering of the Jews to their
land. (Ibid 374) It was in 1840 that Sir
Moses Montefiore and Adolphe Cremeieux expected the impending
arrival of the messiah, rescued Rabbi Judah Alkalai (1798-1878) with the
Damascus community near Belgrade with the plan that a transplantation of
this community to Israel would become a model for world Jewry to relocate
as a nation, with Hebrew as a national language
and the
messiah as its ruler. (Ibid 322)
Even so the word, Zionism, was not coined until 1893. (Ibid 398)
As the Signs of the Times, the Great Earthquake of Lisbon in November 1, 1755, the Dark Day and the evening moon that turned to blood in May 19, 1780 in New England and the Great Meteroic shower of November 13, 1833, all radically changed the religious perceptions of the Christian Protestant world in American. This would awaken the idea that in the future, natural signs in the heavens would precede the coming Great Day of the Lord.
It is a coincidence that the lunar cultures of the Middle East will witness during Ramadan, 2003 a potential ‘oracle’ in the heavens. With the United States mired in Baghdad, radical fundamental Muslims are reasserting their power in every Muslim country in the Middle East, threatening the foreign and domestic assets of America, the Great Satan and Great Britain, plus the stalemate between the arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat of the House of the Husseinis, the Muftis of Palestine and Ariel (Lion) Sharon leading the seventieth generation of Jews since the fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE, the question need to be asked, “What will their interpretation of these events be?”
Every prophetic utterance of the ancient prophets are not just revelations of God’s divine plan but a prophetic reality of what will be as the Lord of hosts has to work with men who are absorbed in their own world of power, greed and control. These power centers lie in all institutional centers who seek their own institutional preservation, whether it be political, economic or religious. What the religio-political leaders in Jerusalem and the rest of the Islamic Middle Eastern countries see as the omens in the heavens will be played out in their own actions over the next few months. As BibleSearchers and ones seeking to observe the Finger of God moving the nations around in an ever intensive spiral, we will be watching, studying and praying.
Part One - Lunar and Solar Eclipse
Part Three - The Internal Dynamo Engine in the Center of the Earth
Message from BibleSearchers
BibleSearchers scans the world for information that has relevance on the time of the end. It is our prayer that this will allow the believers in the Almighty One of Israel to “watch and be ready”. Our readiness has nothing to do trying to halt the progression of evil on our planet earth. In our readiness, we seek to be prepared for the coming of the Messiah of Israel so that goodness and evil will be manifested in its fullest. Our preparation is a pathway of spiritual readiness for a world of peace. Our defender is the Lord of hosts. The time of the end suggests that the Eternal One of Israel’s intent is to close out this chapter of earth’s history so that the perpetrators of evil, those that seek power, greed and control, will be eliminated from this planet earth. The wars of the heavens are being played out on this planet earth and humans will live through it to testify of the might, power, justice and the love of the God of Israel. In a world of corruption and disinformation, we cannot always know what the historical truth is and who is promoting evil or mis-information. We cannot guarantee our sources but we will always seek to portray trends that can be validated in the Torah and the testimony of the prophets of the Old and the New Testament.
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