Blood moon

The world is getting excited again, as the sighting of the blood moon coincides with the Jewish Passover.

It reminds people of these prophecies from the Bible:

• I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. (Joel 2:30-31, NIV)

• The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. (Acts 2:20, NIV)

• I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, (Revelation 6:12, NIV)

Blood moons are set to happen at both Passover and Sukot in 2014 and 2015.  Is there a significance to this?

Some people seem to think so.

Stakelbeck cites history, where:

1492: Spain expelled the Jews, Columbus discovers America which became a safe haven for the Jews.
1948: Israel reborn as a nation.
1967: Israel won the 6-day war.

all happened during the time when blood moons were seen.

Perhaps this season's blood moons has something to do with Israel, Syria and Egypt?

Perhaps the coincidence of blood moons with Jewish festive calendars is not so special.  Since the calendars are based on the lunar cycles, and since blood moons are the effect of eclipses of the Earth over the Moon, perhaps it is only natural that the coincidences happen when they happen, as Faulkner analyses.

What do you think?  Is there any significance to blood moons?  Are they just astronomical phenomenons that bear no relevance? Or does God, who uses Sun, moon and stars for signs, tell us something through them?

Do they, at the very least, signify something about Bible prophesy to you?