Unleashing the Beast

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access back to Palestine. During the seven eclipses that occurred in 1973:  The Yom Kippur War occurred, which could have destroyed Israel.  The Arab oil embargo impacted America and the West.  Twenty-eight nations suffered from drought.  History's largest explosion occurred on the surface of the sun. Since Israel is on a lunar calendar—based on the cycle of the moon—any eclipse on the moon is considered cosmic sign for Israel. The moon has a 29½-day cycle. In slightly less than 30 days, the moon enters a four-phase cycle as it moves from darkness to light, and back to darkness. According to Avi Ben Mordechai, in his book Signs in the Heaven , with each cycle of nearly 30 days the ancient rabbis understood that the moon was being reborn, or "born again." In the Old Testament period, an entire Jewish festival was proclaimed at the beginning of the month, called the B'rit Chadasha , or the New Moon Festival. During the 1,000-year reign of Christ, the New Moon Festival will be reinstituted (Isaiah 66:23). T HE M OON OF B LOOD The inspired Bible prophets predicted that the moon would become blood (see Acts 2:20). For centuries, scholars have attempted to ascertain the meaning of this