Today’s Solar eclipse July 22, 2009, last year’s August 1, 2008,
and next year’s July 11, 2010 all share something in common besides the fact
that they are all three total eclipses. All three share the same date on the Jewish
calender of AV 1. These dates vary on the Gregorian calendar but not on the Jewish
calendar all falling on the same date. The year is 2009 on the Gregorian and 5769
on the Jewish calender.

last year’s solar eclipse of August 1, 2008 was seen in parts of the Arctic, Siberia,
and central Asia. It was seen by many who had gathered in China for the Olympic games.
The second of these three solar eclipses was seen today on July 22, 2009. Central duration
for the eclipse was 6 minutes and 39 seconds. Making it easily the eclipse of longest
central duration that will occur in this century. There will not be a longer eclipse than
Wednesday’s until 2132. The eclipse is the longest since July 11, 1991, when a total
eclipse lasting 6 minutes, 53 seconds was visible from Hawaii to South America.
Last years solar eclipse’s central duration was for 2 minutes 27 seconds. Unlike last
year’s eclipse today’s darkened major cities and densely populated rural areas.
Totality was visible in many cities such as Surat, Varanasi, Patna, Thimphu,
Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan, Hangzhou and Shanghai.

Some Chinese launched fireworks and danced in Shanghai.
Dawn suddenly turned to darkness across the continent as millions of Asians turned
their eyes skyward Wednesday. Millions of others, fearing a bad omen, shut themselves
indoors. And in India, a 65 year old woman was crushed as thousands of viewers
crowded the banks of the Ganges for a glimpse.

Starting off in India just after dawn, the eclipse was visible across a wide swath of Asia
before moving over southern Japan and then off into the Pacific Ocean. In some parts
of Asia, it lasted as long as 6 minutes and 39 seconds.

These three solar eclipses are “total” eclipses — last year in the far north, this
year across the middle of Earth’s surface, and next year in the far south.
A “total” solar eclipse means that the moon is large enough to completely
cover the surface of the sun, because it is closer to Earth whereas, an
“annular” solar eclipse means that the moon is farther away from Earth
and appears smaller than the sun’s disk. A “partial” solar eclipse
means that the moon only crosses part of the sun’s surface, but does
not completely block out its light.

The third total solar eclipse mentioned previously will happen on July 11, 2010,
almost entirely over the South Pacific. Easter Island and southern Chile at sunset offer
the only landfalls. It’s central duration will be 5 minutes 20 seconds.

The South Pacific
is again the site of the next total eclipse on November 13, 2012.
Total central duration 4 minutes 2 seconds.

I mentioned before the Gregorian calender and the Jewish
calender. What is interesting is that the final day in the Mayan calender
ends
on Dec 12, 2012.

Some wonder if this portends the end of the world with the
total eclipse on Nov 13, 2012 immediately preceding it
as a sign.

What is the connection between the Jewish calender
and these solar events? In the Old Testament the prophet Joel said:
“The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.” (Joel 2:31)

There are other signs in the heavens that coincide with the Hebrew
Jewish Calender that will occur after the year 2012. The religious
year 2015 begins with a total solar eclipse,
two weeks later a lunar eclipse on Passover,
and then the civil year beginning
with the solar eclipse followed two weeks later by
another total blood red moon on the Feast of Succoth all in 2015.

Lunar eclipses, are sometimes called “blood moons” since the moon often takes on a bloody color.
There is a rare phenomenon of four consecutive total lunar eclipses, known as a tetrad.
During this century, tetrads occur at least six times, but the interesting thing is that the only string of
four consecutive blood moons that coincide with God’s holy days of Passover in the spring and the
autumn’s Feast of Tabernacles occurs between 2014 and 2015. These Lunar events will not happen
again this century.

The first eclipse will be on April 15, 2014, which will be at the time of Passover. The next will be
October 8, 2014, which will be at the time of the Feast of Tabernacles. This is followed by April 4, 2015,
which will be Passover. The final occurrence is September 28, 2015, which will be Tabernacles again.

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