The “blood moon phenomenon” has been the
talk of the Christian world in 2014 and 2015, as four lunar eclipse tetrads all
occurring on biblical holy days occur within 18 months, the last of which
happens Sept. 28 on the Feast of Tabernacles. But now a scholarly Orthodox
rabbi from Brooklyn affirms this series of blood moons is serious spiritual
business, because each one brings the world closer to the advent of the
messiah. “Each one of these is a messianic advancement,” says Rabbi Mendel
Kessin. “There are incredible events that predate the messiah.”
Kessin says that normal lunar eclipses,
that give the appearance of the moon turning blood red, signal bad news for
Israel and the Jewish people. However, he says, those that occur on biblical
holy days – such as Passover and Sukkot or Tabernacles – represent good news
for them.
Kessin also points out that the next blood
moons will occur just two weeks after the end of the Shemitah year – or Sabbath
year when debts are released and the land rests, according to the Bible. Kessin
says rabbinic teachings suggest the messiah will come in the year following the
Shemitah year.
Rabbi Mendel Kessin If you think Kessin
sounds like some Hebraic roots Christian teachers, like Pastor Mark Biltz, who
discovered the blood moon phenomenon in 2008 and authored the bestselling book,
“Blood Moons,” and wrote a documentary movie of the same name, and messianic
Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, the New York Times bestselling author of “The Harbinger”
and “The Mystery of the Shemitah,” you’re not alone.
The Sabbath-observing Biltz highlighted
Kessin’s teachings from his Tacoma, Washington, pulpit Saturday. Biltz has
linked historical blood moons tetrads with historical events such as the
expulsion of the Jews from Spain beginning in 1492, the founding of the modern
state of Israel in 1948 and Israel’s capture of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War in
1967.
Kessin, who holds has a Ph.D. in
psychology from Fordham University and is a noted lecturer on Jewish philosophy
in the U.S., Canada, South Africa and Israel, also sees significance in the
recent U.S. deal with Iran over nuclear weapons.
There is an 800-year-old rabbinic commentary
known as Yalkut Shimoni, which he translates: “Paras (Persia-Iran) will be the
dread of humanity. The world’s leaders will be frustrated in their futile
efforts to save what they can, but to no avail. The people of Israel will also
be petrified by the impending danger. And HaShem (God) will say to us, ‘Why are
you afraid? All of this I have done in order to bring you the awaited
redemption. And this redemption will not be like the redemption from Egypt,
which was followed by suffering. This redemption will be absolute, followed
with peace.’”
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