Is the "Blood Moon" a sign that the end of the world is coming?

By ACI News Agency

29 Jul 2018- 11:20

The "Moon of Blood", the total lunar eclipse, on July 27, caused fear among some locals, who say who has a connection to an apocalyptic prophecy. What is true?

David Diner, a NASA researcher, explained on the US agency's website that "if you were standing on the surface of the moon during a lunar eclipse, you would see the setting and the sun shine. lift up behind the Earth and you will observe the refracted and scattered solar rays that pass through the atmosphere surrounding our planet. "

" Seen from Earth, these rays "fill" the shadow of the projected Earth on the But what does this natural phenomenon have to do with Biblical prophecies?

Priest José de Jesús Aguilar, director of radio and television of the First Archdiocese of Mexico, told ACI Prensa that that the "Moon of Blood" is "a wonderful phenomenon, many people specifically link it to two texts of the Bible."

"The first is Mael of Joel, where he says," I, the Lord, will do that the sun does not give its light – it's a solai eclipse re – and the Moon will become blood before the great and remarkable day of the Lord. According to this, the prophecy would of course announce that there would be a moon of blood, a red moon before the Lord came for the second time. "

Aguilar explained that" this text is called apocalyptic because it connects with a text from Revelation with regard to the sixth seal, where it says "the sun will change in the darkness and the moon in the blood, in the great and terrible day of Yahweh. "

The Mexican priest says that even though they are mentioned in the Holy Scriptures" Some signs of the arrival of the Messiah, we must remember that Christ tells us, when the apostles ask him when will be the day and the hour, that no one knows not even the Son, only the Father "

" This sentence that Christ does not says not only to the apostles, but to all generations, who are so worried when the end of the world will be, instead of worrying about living the day, the "As Christ said to another moment, do not worry about the next day that every day has its own concerns, "he added.

come last moment, the end of the world, if you live in love, in justice, in truth, you will not have to fear, because this moment will be your liberation. "

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