Televangelist John Hagee’s prediction that a series of “blood moon” lunar eclipses signals a “world shaking event” is a misinterpretation of the Bible, two Southern Baptist professors said.
Hagee’s prediction “ignores” a common style of writing in the Bible known as “apocalyptic literature” that “frequently contains cosmic imagery” to describe significant spiritual events. In apocalyptic literature such figures of speech are not meant to be interpreted “in a literalistic manner,” Ben Merkle,
The “blood moon” as seen from Korea town, west of Los Angeles, early on Tuesday. The next total eclipse of the moon comes on Oct. 8.
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There were “whistles, cheers and howls” early Tuesday on the grounds of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles as the moon turned red during a total lunar eclipse.
As the Los Angeles Times adds, “telescopes dotting the lawn pointed upward and southward, as the moon hovered above the observatory” and visitors who had packed the grassy
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