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Solar eclipses happen when the moon covers the sun and there is darkness on the earth during the time when the sun should be shining. This happens when there is ‘no’ noon, at the beginning or end of a lunar calendar month.

What was so unusual about this eclipse?

• It happened at ‘midnight’ instead of during the day. The eclipse covered the northern countries below the North Pole who are in a period of sun day and night. At midnight they were still light and they were able to experience this spectacular event
• It covered 2 days.  It began early Thursday (June 2) over northeast Asia, but actually ended Wednesday night because its narrow path of visibility — where skywatchers could see the event — crossed the International Date Line. This means the eclipse went backwards to the day before!  Interesting note: June 1st was Jerusalem Day- the 44th anniversary of Jerusalem coming back into the hand of Israel.
• This type of ‘midnight‘ solar eclipse will not take place again until 2084.
• June 1st eclipse is the first of 3 that will happen within 30 days. (June 15- total lunar, July 1- solar)

Watch for my posting of the June 15 Blood Moon over Jerusalem.

One of the things I like to study is connections between heavenly events and happenings with Israel. I don’t know what is coming in the future, but I can look at the past history.

According to Jewish Rabbinic tradition and from historical recording of cycles, an eclipse should be interpreted according to the following (Talmud-Mas. Sukkah 29a)

• Solar – a bad omen for idolaters
• Lunar – a bad omen for Israel
• Red Moon at Lunar eclipse – a sword is coming for the whole world
• Black Moon at Lunar eclipse – the arrows of famine are coming to the world
• Both red and black moon – both sword and famine
• In the East- specifically for those who live in the East
• In the West – specifically for those who live in the West
• In the midst of heaven-  for the whole world

June 1, 2011 is Iyar 28, 5771 on the Hebrew calendar. This is also Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day. There will also be a partial solar eclipse seen in the northern countries, Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Iceland and other far north Asia. Northern Russia will get the best showing of this eclipse.

• In 1967, Israeli paratroopers completed their capture of the Old City of Jerusalem, restoring Jewish control of the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site. Soldiers danced, sang and cried at the Western Wall, the site of Jewish prayers for centuries. A plaza was cleared in front of the Wall, and one week later, tens of thousands of Jews swarmed to the site on the holiday of Shavuot (Pentecost). Iyar 28 is celebrated today as Yom Yerushalayim, commemorating the reunification of the Holy City, which has stood as the capital of the Jewish nation for 3,000 years.

June 15, 2011 will have a full lunar eclipse,  a blood red moon. The June 15 total lunar eclipse will be visible to observers in Africa, southern Asia, and Australia. (AAA?) It is said that this eclipse will be one of the darkest eclipses ever. It will be second only to the July 16, 2000 total lunar eclipse.

• On the Hebrew calendar this falls on Sivan 13. In 1948,  20 Jews were killed by a bombing of the Jewish Quarter in Cairo, Egypt. (In the coming months, more bombings in Cairo killed an additional 50 Jews.) In the period following Israel’s declaration of independence, anti-Jewish riots broke out across the Arab world. Jews were attacked and imprisoned, Jewish property was seized, and most of these centuries-old Jewish communities were forced to disband.

July 1, 2011 will see another partial solar eclipse. This eclipse will only be visible in the Antarctic.

• On the Hebrew calendar this falls on Sivan 29, 5771. On this date in 1312 BC, Moses sent 12 spies into the Promised Land. 40 days later they came back and 10 had an evil report, which the nation believed. This was Av 8, 1312. The next day was Av 9, which began a cycle of disastrous events for the nation. Two of the biggest disasters that happened on Av 9 (Tisha B’Av) were that both Solomon’s Temple ( 586 BC)  and Rebuilt Temple (70 AD) were destroyed on that very day.

November 25, 2011 will see the 4th partial solar eclipse of 2011. This will be seen in Antarctica, southern New Zealand and South Africa.

• This is Cheshvan 28 on the Hebrew calendar. On this day in 1949 Israel reached a population of 1 million. in 1882 the population of Israel (size of New Jersey) was 289,000. Today the population is 7,746,000. Look what the Lord has done.

December 10, 2011 will see the 2nd full lunar eclipse of 2011, a blood red moon.  This will be visible from Alaska, northern Canada, Australia, New Zealand, central Asia and eastern Asia. Viewers in most of North America and Hawaii will view the moon set still in eclipse, while those along the west coast of the United States and Canada will see the beginning of totality just as the moon disappears below the western horizon. The best view of the total lunar eclipse will be from central and eastern Asia. The eclipse will find the moon set between the horns of Taurus the Bull.

• This is Kislev 14 on the Hebrew calendar and  is considered to be Reuben’s birth date, the first son of Jacob.

This is the first Lunar eclipse since August 28, 2007 when secret meetings were being held in Camp David regarding the Temple Mount.

This also is the evening of the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and marks the official beginning of winter. The sun is at its lowest in our sky because the North Pole of our tilted planet is pointing away from it.

According to Astronomy.com, this will have the highest Full Moon until 2020.    According to Rob Suggs of Marshall Space Flight Center, “The last time we had a total lunar eclipse on the solstice was in 1638 and the next one will be in 2094.”

The next total Lunar Eclipse will be April 2014, Passover. That will begin the tetrad of blood moons on feast days (Passover 2014, Tabernacles 2014, Passover 2015, Tabernacles 2015) I want to say so much about this, but there is no space in today’s email!!!!!

The eclipse will border the constellations Taurus, Gemini and Orion. (I love the Biblical meanings of these 3 constellations) Remember, how you tell the meaning of the constellation is to go back to the ancient star names (God named the stars, Ps 147:4) from the brightest in the constellation to the least.

TAURUS- ‘the bull’ This is a sign of the bull with his head down, rushing to perce and destroy his enemies with his sharp horns. The Hebew name is Shur, which comes from the root which means both coming and ruling.

• The bulls eye is Al Debaran (Arabic) which means ‘leader’ or ‘governor’
• The star in the tip of the horn is El Nath (Arabic) meaning ‘wounded’ or ‘slain’
• The cluster of the stars at the neck of the bull is known as Pleiades which means congregation of the judge or ruler. This is also called Seven Sisters. Pleiades is found in the Bible in Job 9:9 and 38:31; Amos 5:8. Interesting that the 7 churches of Revelation 2-3 are all found at the base of the Taurus Mountains
•  Another group of stars on the face of the bull is nown as the Hyades, which means ‘congregated’

GEMINI – ‘the twins’ Here we see Jesus in a manifold two-fold; God and man; suffering and glory; humiliation and triumph

• One of the twins is holding a club and the other a bow, but they are both at rest, not in action – signifiying a peaceful reign to come, all enemies subdued
• The Greeks called them Apollo and Hercules
• The Hebrew name for the constellation is Thaumim, which means ‘united‘
• The Latin names for the Twins are Castor and Pollux (see Acts 28:11)
• The left twin holding the club is Hercules, ‘who cometh to labour or suffer’. The star in his left foot is Al Herah, which means ‘hurt’ or ‘wounded. The star in the center o fthe left twin is Waset, which means ‘set‘ and tells of Him who ‘set his face like flint’ to carry out the Herculean work and when the time was come ‘steadfastly set His face to go’ to complete it
• The right twin holding the bow and arrow  brightest star in his head is called Apollo and means ‘ruler’ or ‘judge‘. The star in the knee of the twin on the right is called Mebsuto, which means ‘treading under feet.”
• ORION- ‘the Glorious One’, ‘the Hunter’, ‘the Prince’This shows the Coming One is not a beast, but a triumphant, glorious man and prince
  • This constellations shows Jesus as the Light of this world (John 8:12; 1:4; 9:5)
  • In Hebrew the word is Chiseil, meaning ‘a strong one’, ‘a hero’
  • Amos 5:8, “He made the Pleiades and Orion”
  • The brightest star is in the shoulder and is named Betelgeus, which means ‘the coming of the branch’ (Malachi 3:2)
  • The next brightest star is in the foot and is called Rigel, meaning ‘the foot that crushes’. The foot is lifted up, and placed immediately over the head of the enemy, Lepus, as though in the very act of crushing it
  • The next star is in the left shoulder is called Bellatrix, which means ‘quickly coming’
  • The three in Orion’s belt are called the Three Kings (see Job 38:31)
  • Star in the right leg is Saiph, ‘bruised‘ (see Genesis 3:15)

We will experience the first total lunar eclipse over North America in almost 3 years this next week, the night that begins on December 20. Will this be a bright blood moon or a dark moon (sackcloth)? If depends on things in the atmosphere. If we had volcanic eruptions, the moon would be dark during this eclipse, but most likely this lunar eclipse will be dull red to bright blood red.

When was the last lunar eclipse and what were the headlines? (The following headline information is from Watch.org by Bill Koenig, September 3, 2008)

 August 28, 2007: A Blood-Red Moon Rises over North America, Olmert Offers Temple Mount Sovereignty to the Palestinians, Olmert and Abbas Meet on Israel’s Land and Jerusalem, Bush Says Iran’s Actions Could Lead to a Shadow of a Nuclear Holocaust, and Bush Arrives in New Orleans for his 15th Post-Katrina Visit.

Another total lunar eclipse/”blood-red” moon occurred on July 16, 2000, while U.S. President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Yasser Arafat were at the Middle East Summit at Camp David. The sticking point that caused the summit to fail had to do with who would have sovereignty over the Temple Mount-The Israeli’s or the Palestinian Arabs. 

A lunar (moon) can only occur during a full moon, always the middle of a Hebrew month. A solar (sun) eclipse can only happen at the end or beginning of a Hebrew month.  If you don’t have a Jewish calendar, you can always tell what time of the month it is by the moon. A sliver of the moon shows the beginning or ending of the Hebrew month while a full moon is the middle of the month. In order for an eclipse to fit into Biblical prophecy it must fall on a Feast of the Lord or a Holy Day

When the signs are in the heavenlies over God’s appointed festivals (Feasts of the Lord) it is calling us to attention, watch. Luke 2:25, “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; (28) Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.” (Also Daniel 6:26-27; Joel 2:31; Isaiah 34:2-5) [my comment- look up, WATCH the heavenly signs]

What do Rabbinical historical records show us regarding eclipses:

As the shepherds, we should be ‘watching’ by night also. Mark 13:33, “Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.”