We’re on the eve of destruction according to Mormon author Julie Rowe. According to The Guardian :
Sunday will be the fourth appearance of a blood moon over the last two years, in what is known as a tetrad series. The last time was in 1982; the next will be in 2033.
If some religious leaders are to be believed, none of us will live to enjoy that next blood moon. Most such leaders are of groups on the fringes of organised belief, although this week leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints felt moved to reassure those among its followers who are worried.
Irvin Baxter runs Endtime Ministries in Plano, Texas. He posts regular YouTube videos speculating over whether this series of blood moons could signal the end of the world.
“Some prophecy teachers are declaring boldly that this tetrad just ahead signals that something is getting ready to happen, which will change the world forever,” Baxter said on his website.
To many of us, a tetrad of blood moons that recurs periodically can be explained by ellipses and Keppler and ordinary astronomy but what do we know.
The last time I was this underwhelmed by a prophecy of the end of the world as we know it was back in 2011 when that Camping dude did some creative math to predict the world was ending in May 2011. No wait, October 2011.
It’s like being a kid held hostage by a bunch of fanatical Jehovah’s Witnesses with serious wish fulfillment issues waiting for the end of the world in 1975. No, wait, 1977. Imminently! Seriously, people, it could happen at any time!! Do you want to spend your time doing frivolous things like getting an education and enjoying your life, when Jehovah could smite you silly tomorrow for not doing all you can to save the rest of the world? I wouldn’t want that kind of guilt on me.
Ehhhhh, whatever.
On the other hand, if Julie Rowe is right, the JW’s are going to look pretty stupid for not baptizing their dead relatives and forgoing the holy underwear. They gave up Christmas, holidays and other social pleasures only to be passed up for the Mormons. I’d be pissed.
The Endtimes Prohecy site cautions Christians to not put too much stock in reading the stars:
As Christians, we should not practice or put our faith in astrology. However, God has at times used the heavens for sending signs to mankind.
In Genesis 1:14, God said, ”Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:” God specifically said, “Let them be for signs.”
That’s interesting, because I’ve never known of one end time prediction that doesn’t do exactly the thing this site says not to do. But you do have to wonder why an omnipotent god would be so vague and cryptic about his end of the world time period. These signs are more like the ditheringly frustrating clues of a Will Shortz Weekend Edition puzzle. Why doesn’t god just use a global public address system? What would be the point of only revealing his message in signs that can only be read by gullible, judgmental, Holy Hanes wearing, latent polygamists who believe that their prophet translated a new holy book from golden plates that only he could see, using a magical rock in a hat that he stuck his face into? Is a god who plays these kinds of silly practical jokes on people the kind of deity I want to worship?
Well, while we wait, let’s all sing-a-long to CCR’s prophetic words:
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