“THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF LUNAR ECLIPSES”
“THE
SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF LUNAR ECLIPSES”
The
definition of an eclipse
is “When one celestial object passes into the shadow of
another.”
More
and more now, we are
seeing lunar eclipses, whereby the moon passes in front of the
sun, and
the sun is put into the shadow of the moon, with the result of
the earth
being placed into darkness for a time.
Now
in the Bible we have two
major events whereby the earth was in put into darkness … but not
as
a result of a lunar eclipse … as we shall see … there are similarities.
Firstly,
there was the tenth
plague of Egypt where the land was plunged into darkness (Exodus
12:29).
Secondly,
when Christ was
ON the cross, the land was plunged into darkness (Matthew 27:45).
Now
Dear Reader, can you
recall what also accompanied these blackouts?
Correct
… there was death
… in the first instance … the smiting of all Egypt’s firstborn
… and in
the second instance … death of God’s only begotten first born in
Jesus
Christ.
Now,
as stated, these were
not the result of eclipses but there is this parallel … that darkness
represents death.
Now
… the moon receives the
reflection of the sun, and as the moon represents man, and the sun
represents
Christ (Malachi 4:2), man receives his light from Christ (John 1:9).
So
if the sun is darkened,
then also man’s light is affected … diminished or extinguished.
If
Christ had not come to
earth, man would have remained dead in trespasses and sin … in total
darkness.
Now
as the light of Christ,
the gospel, the good news, steadily becomes an alien object …
indeed a fast
diminishing subject on earth … that is … less and less people want
less and
less of Christ, the world descends into darkness.
Now
here’s the question …
“What is putting the earth into darkness with a lunar eclipse of the
sun?
Correct
… it’s the moon
… which represents man.
Man
is extinguishing …
putting into the shade as it were … the Sun of righteousness, Jesus
Christ, by
having other idols in Christ’s place.
So
what should we be
reminded of when we see an eclipse?
Firstly,
man’s
pre-eminence with himself resulting in the downgrading of Christ …
putting
Christ into the shade and blocking Christ out of man’s life … that is …
putting
himself in front of, and before, Christ … as with the moon with the sun.
Secondly,
a warning of the
death of mankind, when the Spirit of God indwelling Christians, is
taken
from the earth in the upcoming seven years of tribulation.
But
here’s the thing with an
eclipse … the surrounding circle of light around the dark circle, the
corona of
an eclipse … can still be seen despite the round orb of darkness.
THE
LESSON:
Man
can not and never
will be able to eliminate, block out, extinguish, put into the
shade … the Sun of righteousness.
God’s
prophecies … that is …
the exact and precise future history being told in advance … will have
their
way … despite man’s efforts to thwart them.
Even
if all Christians are
killed, and the Bible be eliminated from the face of the earth, the Christ’s
foreordination can not be stopped (1 Peter 1:20).
The
Sun of righteousness
will always ‘re-appear’, despite man’s ‘lunar’ efforts to block Christ
out of
the picture.
Harley
Hitchcock
April 2023
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