DUH!!! Pardon my lame-brained stupidity, but an obvious connection to Passover only just occurred to me now. While reading a story about tonight's appearance of the so-called "Blood Moon" eclipse (set to begin around midnight, and continuing through 4:00 a.m.) I read that Passover week begins tonight also. DUH!!!, again! Let's see, what exactly does Passover celebrate?
Passover was the culmination of the ten Plagues that God caused the Egyptian people to suffer because Pharaoh was stubbornly refusing to let God's people (Israel) go. The Angel of God was to pass over all of Egypt and bring some sort of deadly plague upon all the first born sons of all the people, and all the domestic animals except for those Israelites who celebrated the Passover meal in accordance with God's strict instructions, including the painting of the front door of each participating household with the blood of the Passover lamb, upon the frame of the doors. Even those Israelites who refused to obey God's commandments for the Passover supper would not be spared the plague, due to their faithless disobedience.
Now, I've written that I felt that there was some kind of connection between the appearance of these blood moons (four over the next two years), which will coincide with the Jewish dates for Passover and Yom Kippur, and that I thought that it might in some way be a warning of the soon-coming "Gog/Magog" Russian invasion of Israel. With these assumptions in mind I thought that an invasion might occur after the eclipses were done in the Fall of 2015. But when you think more specifically about the symbolism here, it might be a fore-warning of something sooner than that.
Bare with me here while I borrow from Cecile B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments", and his portrayal of the "Angel" of Death passing over the Israelites, in Goshen. He used a large, grey and purple ground-fog to represent this deadly Plague. That strikes me as being very similar to the image that Ezekiel's prophecy in chapters 38,&39 projects in describing how Gog and his army will begin their invasion of Israel when God says He will bring them to come up "as a cloud" upon the Mountains of Israel. It strikes me that this may refer to an attack of poisonous gas such as the Sarin gas that is still being used by Russia's ally, Syria, in their on-going Civil War, and which Russia promised to dispose of, but retains 96% of it still. So the DeMille image of the gas floating across the ground and around the Israelites' houses seems very appropriate to me. And the harmlessness of the cloud to the obedient Israelites is also similar to the apparent ineffectiveness of the "Sarin gas", if that's what Russia will use upon most of Israel, since the Israeli government has been giving out free gas masks to its' citizens for decades for just such an emergency. The only ones who would be harmed would be those who didn't obey the warnings, and didn't use the gas masks, or flee to higher ground (as Jesus warned in Matthew 24), because of the heavier-than-air nature of Sarin gas which causes it to immediately sink to the lowest points available.
All this causes me to re-think my original view that the 18-month cycle of Blood Moon eclipses would probably finish before any invasion would occur. It now seems plausible that the first Blood moons would usher in the invasion and the final eclipses would follow the end of the war, which will occur around the timing of Yom Kippur, 2015. Since Yom Kippur celebrates God's annual forgiveness for the sins of His people, this seems an appropriate symbolism for the end of a war in which the certain annihilation of all of Israel was prevented, and the enemies of God's Chosen People were completely routed, and ended up fighting amongst themselves until 83% of the invasion force is killed.
Ezekiel talks about this as being God's way of "Glorifying Himself" when He reveals Himself to his people, many of whom may have lost faith in His existence. This occurs simultaneously with imagery that strikes me as indicating the "Rapture" of the "Elect" of Christ may happen after this war, and immediately before a major Nuclear exchange between Russia and the United States!!! So, tonight, look up and see the first Blood Moon eclipse; and here after keep looking up, "for your redemption (may) draweth nigh!!!
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