The Sun Will Be Darkened and the Moon Will Not Give Its Light

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I've always found it interesting that Jesus next says "Immediately after…" Obviously End Times events are happening in a specific order and are progressing on a specific timeline. (Tweet that!)

Here's what Jesus says next in Matthew 24:

"Immediately after the anguish of those days, 

     'the sun will be darkened,

     the moon will give no light, 

     the stars will fall from the sky, 

    and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.'" (Matthew 24:29, NLT)

In case you didn't know it, this is a quotation from or reference to Old Testament prophets Isaiah and Joel:

"The heavens will be black above them;

    the stars will give no light.

The sun will be dark when it rises,

    and the moon will provide no light." (Isaiah 13:10, NLT)

(See also Isaiah 34:4.) 

The earth quakes as they advance,

    and the heavens tremble.

The sun and moon grow dark,

    and the stars no longer shine. (Joel 2:10, NLT)

We've talked about the sun being darkened and the moon not giving its light before on this blog when we talked about the series of lunar and solar eclipses that we are currently experiencing and are living in the middle of. (Tweet that!)

The first of four lunar eclipses (called a tetrad)*) occurred last April 15^th. Leading up to that I wrote a series of posts about lunar eclipses and why this current series is so interesting and important--especially to the spiritually minded. (Tweet that!) If you haven't read those posts, I'd recommend you catch up on that information. At the bottom of the post on April 15, 2014, there is a list of all the posts in that series on the lunar eclipses. Find that post here:

• "The First Lunar Eclipse on Passover 2014" ( posted April 15, 2014)

Within this tetrad* (which means these four total lunar eclipses), a solar eclipse will also occur on March 20^th, 2015. We'll talk more about solar eclipses as that one approaches, but we touched on them back in June in a three-part series. You can find links to all three posts here:

• "About Solar Eclipses Part 3 – The Spiritual and Prophetic Significance of the Coming Solar Eclipse" (posted June 21, 2014)

The next lunar eclipse, which is the second of the four, will occur in barely over a month on October 8, 2014, which is the first day of the Jewish holy day called the Feast of Tabernacles (also called Sukkot). (Tweet that!) This is:

• the third of the three fall Feasts as well as 
• the last, or 7th, of the seven annual Feasts.

In anticipation of that lunar eclipse, we are going to spend some time in coming posts talking about the three fall Feasts of the LORD. (Tweet that!)

We talked about the three spring Feasts last spring. Those three spring feasts are (click on their links to learn more):

• Passover 
• Unleavened Bread 
• and First Fruits

Jesus also fulfilled the fourth of the seven Feasts, which is Pentecost [link]:

• Pentecost

That means of the seven annual Biblical Feasts, there are three left for us to explore, to learn how Jesus will fulfill them in his second coming, and to celebrate before the year ends. (Tweet that!) These final three annual Feasts of the LORD are: 

• the Feast of Trumpets
• the Day of Atonement
• and the Feast of Tabernacles

This means that, as we've moved into September, the next annual Biblical Feast to occur on the calendar is the Feast of Trumpets, and the trumpet call is actually referred to in the next few verses in Matthew 24. We'll talk about that in the next post. (Tweet that!)

*tetrad: "A sequence of four total lunar eclipses including no partial eclipses [in between them]..." ("'Blood Moons' Explained" on Space.com.)

Related Articles:

• The Moon as a Sign and the Prophesied Blood Red Moons
• How the Jewish Calendar Works
• The Prophetic Significance of the Feasts of the LORD
• What Causes the Moon to Turn Red Like Blood?
• "Tetrad" of Four Lunar Eclipses on Jewish Feast Days in the Past
• The First Lunar Eclipse on Passover 2014