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IMG_1758Last Friday (July 31st) my wife and I sat on the knoll by the firepit behind the house and watched the “Blue Moon” rise over Bug Ridge.  It was a clear West Virginia evening as we faced southward and gazed upon the beauty as far as the eye could see.

“Blue Moons” are not necessarily blue, unless there is a unique phenomenon that causes the moon to have a bluish tinge.  The phrase actually refers to the rarity of these events and not the color of the moon.  The event is the lunar form of a leap year and happens when two full moons occur in a single month.  The result is thirteen full moons is a single year rather than the normal twelve.  July 31st adjusted for the accumulated “error” and reconciled the lunar calendar.

The “Blue Moon” is a natural reset.  It happened to coincide with a personal reset that occurred just two days earlier on Bug Ridge.  That “blue moon” feeling came over Lindy and I when we sold all our personal and real property at an auction in preparation for moving our ministry to Panama.  It was a strange to wake up the next day in another man’s house, in another man’s bed, sitting in another man’s chair, watching another man’s TV and driving another man’s vehicle.  Almost everything is gone and what remains is on loan by some benevolent bidders.  Resets are painful and yet necessary to maintain balance in both our natural and spiritual lives.  This past “Blue Moon” was a reminder to us that God owns all these things and they are under His control.

I believe that “Blue Moon” feeling is about to touch more than those of us living on Bug Ridge.  It seems the recent signs in the heavens are announcing a significant reset that is about to take place.  The 2014-15 tetrad (four consecutive “blood moons” on the Jewish feast days of Passover and Tabernacles) will be completed this September.  The “Bethlehem Star” (the merging of Jupiter and Venus) returned on June 30th in the constellation “Leo,” the lion.  Astronomers tell us it appeared two thousand years ago (2 BC) in the constellation Virgo, the virgin.  The lunar calendar just reset a few days ago.  This is all happening within the last year of the 7-year Biblical cycle known as the “Shemitah.”  It appears the heavens are warning of a major reset in the near future and prior to the second advent of the Lion of Judah.  The reset effect will be felt worldwide and many people will be caught unprepared.

The skies may be clear and blue at the moment, but dark clouds are on the horizon.  This is the calm before the storm.  The wise man sees the trouble ahead and makes preparation, but the fool continues on ahead and comes to ruin.  This is the time to reset ourselves in the place God has called us and brace for impact.  It is time to set your house in order and hunker down until the storm passes.  Remember this above all else, Jesus Christ is our only refuge.  All of our meager efforts will not be sufficient unless they are built on the solid Rock of our salvation.