Members of several faiths believe Sunday night’s blood moon may portend catastrophe.
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The event, which will happen overnight Sunday, is basically the convergence of two astronomical phenomena: A supermoon, which happens when the moon reaches its closest point to Earth, and a lunar eclipse, which takes place when the earth moves in between the moon and the sun. With direct sunlight blocked, the moon appears to take on a reddish hue, hence the phrase "blood moon."
The last time this combination of events happened was in 1982.
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The idea is that the blood moons are the fulfillment of prophecy from the New Testament, with Revelations 6:12 among the oft-cited passages:
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood.
When there is a series of four blood moons within two years, it's called a "tetrad." Saturday's blood moon will complete a tetrad, having followed previous lunar eclipses in April and October of 2014, as well as April of this year.
Each of the recent blood moons have also happened on Jewish feast days, which believers see as significant.
Pastor John Hagee is one of the highest profile figures connecting the upcoming blood moon to prophecy and, potentially, disaster. Hagee is the author of the 2013 book Four Blood Moons, and in a promotional video for the book he predicted a "world shaking event that will happen between April 2014 and October 2015."
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