The Blood Moon Rises[/b]
Just after Mars reaches its closest point to earth in six years, a distance of a mere 57.4 million miles, a total lunar eclipse will spectacularly change the color of the moon at around 7am.
But don't get too twitchy with the curtains this morning - only people in north and South America will be able to see it with the naked eye. The eclipse is the first of four in the next two years a rare astrological event called a Tetrad which some religious extremists believe heralds the end of the world. The Bible predicts: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD. The four successive totals blood red lunar eclipses each followed by six full moons - will start this morning and finish on September 28 2015. Pastor and author John Hagee, from San Antonio, Texas, has written a book on the Tetrad phenomenon. He believes tonight marks the dawn of a hugely significant event' for the world. He says: NASA has confirmed that the Tetrad has only happened three times in more than 500 years - and that it's going to happen now. The incredible alignment has only happens only a handful of times in the last two thousand years but on each of the last three occasions it has coincided with a globally significant religious event. The first Tetrad since the middle Ages, in 1493, saw the expulsion of Jews by the Catholic Spanish Inquisition, which rocked Western Europe. The second coincided with the establishment of the State of Israel in 1949 and the last one occurred in 1967 precisely at the time of the Six-Day Arab Israeli War.
According to NASA, the moon will turn blood for a different, less dramatic reason. During a lunar eclipse the Moon doesn't fully disappear from sight but moves into the darkest part of Earth’s shadow, known as the umbra. As a result, the earth blocks sunlight from reflecting offs the moon's surface and instead it passes through the earth's atmosphere thus making the moon appear a reddish color.
Just after Mars reaches its closest point to earth in six years, a distance of a mere 57.4 million miles, a total lunar eclipse will spectacularly change the color of the moon at around 7am.
According to NASA, the moon will turn blood for a different, less dramatic reason. During a lunar eclipse the Moon doesn't fully disappear from sight but moves into the darkest part of Earth’s shadow, known as the umbra. As a result, the earth blocks sunlight from reflecting offs the moon's surface and instead it passes through the earth's atmosphere thus making the moon appear a reddish color.