Excerpts below from the original article "Signs in the Heavens -- Now" by Andrew Strom, posted at https://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~revival/signs.html  

     How many Christians know that there have already been BLOOD-RED AND 'SACK-CLOTH' MOONS over Jerusalem in 1996 and 1997, precisely on the Passover Sabbath and other important Feast days? What does this mean? And how many know of the other heavenly signs that are occurring at the moment -- obviously pointing to significant end-time events?
 
(This article owes much to the information gathered by Greg Killian of Israel, whose web-site is linked at the end of this article.)

     Some Christians seem to view the concept of 'signs in the heavens' as being somehow akin to godless astrology or pagan superstition. However, the Bible makes it very clear that GOD Himself very often employs such celestial signs, to prepare and warn His people of imminent earthshaking events. We are told in Genesis that GOD created the sun and the moon "for SIGNS and for seasons" (Gen 1:14). "And I shall show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath..." (Acts 2:19). The Bible declares that this will be particularly true of the Last Days. Jesus Himself warned of this 'End-time' period: "And great earthquakes shall be in diverse places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and GREAT SIGNS shall there be from heaven... And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars" (Lk 21:11,25). The Bible even talks of the moon being "turned to blood" as a sign that we are nearing the very end of the age. (Joel 2:31*, Rev 6:12).
 
     Significantly, there have already been BLOOD-RED and SACK-CLOTH MOONS (caused by lunar eclipses) over Jerusalem in 1996 and 1997, falling precisely on major feast-days of the Jewish calendar. The first of them came on the evening of 3 April 1996, which was the beginning of the Feast of Passover. The second came on the evening of 26-27 September 1996, which was 'Erev Hag HaSuccoth' (the Eve of the Feast of Tabernacles). And there were also two such eclipses in 1997, falling precisely on the feast-day of 'Purim' (23 March 1997 - a 90% eclipse) and also in the middle of the 'Days of Teshuva (Repentance)' on 16 September 1997. There will not be any further total lunar eclipses over Jerusalem until 21 January 2000. The chances of such a string of eclipses occurring over Jerusalem precisely on these significant dates surely has to be far more than coincidence. It is also worth noting that if we take the Jewish month of Nisan as being the first month of the year, as the Jews were commanded in Exodus 12, then the first three of these eclipses all occurred within the space of just ONE BIBLICAL YEAR. (April 1996 to March 1997).
 

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     But what causes some eclipses to turn the moon blood-red? Well, the answer is as follows: A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon is full, and the earth passes between the moon and the sun, thus blocking the sun's light and casting a shadow on the moon for a time. However, often during a total lunar eclipse, the moon is not completely dark, but is faintly illuminated with a red light refracted by the earth's atmosphere which filters out the blue rays. Occasionally a lunar eclipse occurs when the earth is covered with a heavy layer of cloud, which prevents light refraction, making the surface of the moon completely dark (like sack-cloth). However, the first lunar eclipse this year certainly turned the moon blood-red. As one Jerusalem resident commented of the Passover eclipse: "Did you see that beautiful 3-D Red Moon? It was awesome; The most beautiful sight I've ever seen in the sky..."
 
     The words of the prophet Joel regarding blood-red moons are somewhat more ominous however: "And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come" (Joel 2:30-31). These words are found in the same passage that speaks of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon "all flesh" in the Last Days. In other words, the prophesied great End-times Revival and harvest occur in the same immediate time-frame.
 
     It seems very clear that the signs mentioned above are obviously designed by GOD to point us to the significance of the JEWISH FEAST-DAYS AND FESTIVALS at this time. And indeed, the significance of these Feasts for the Last Days is well worth looking into. The three most important Feasts that GOD instituted for the Jewish people were, of course, Passover, Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles. Significantly, Jesus the Messiah was killed exactly on the Passover some 2000 years ago, with the details of His death corresponding precisely to symbolic Passover rituals (the slaying of the sacrificial lamb, etc*). And fifty days later, precisely on the Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit was outpoured upon His disciples for the first time, thus beginning the Christian Church. Many Christians today believe that the last great move of GOD before the end -- the last great 'harvest' -- will somehow be tied directly to the coming of the third one -- the Feast of Tabernacles (which is a festival celebrating the 'first fruits' of harvest). It was actually during the Feast of Tabernacles that Solomon dedicated the Temple, and while the musicians 'lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD', suddenly the cloud of GOD's glory filled the Temple (2 Chron 5:3-14... Might it not be the same in our day also?) These are some of the reasons why I feel it is so significant that these blood-red and sack-cloth moons are pointing to particular Jewish Feasts.
 

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     Another significant 'sign in the heavens' that is occurring at present very possibly equates with the 'Woman crowned with twelve stars' found in Revelation 12: "And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and on her head a crown of twelve stars; she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery... And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought it forth; she brought forth a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to GOD and to His throne, and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by GOD, in which to be nourished for 1260 days" (Rev 12:1-5).
 
     Over the four years 1996 to 1999, precisely at the time of the Feast of Trumpets in Israel (Tishrei 1)*, there will be a sign in the heavens that has never occurred before and will never occur again. The new moon will be 'born' in the constellation of Bethulah (the Virgin) on this date during each of these four years, and will then move directly to the feet of the Virgin within 24 hours. The Sun is just below the horizon, so that Bethulah is 'clothed' with the Sun. Positioned over the Virgin's head is the constellation known as "Bernice's Hair",- this is the crown of twelve stars! And higher, above her legs, we find Draco, the Dragon, poised to devour her child when it is born.
 
     Please remember that this particular positioning of the constellation Bethulah (the Virgin) -- about to give 'birth' to Lavanah (the moon), has never occurred before, and will never occur again, due to the procession of the equinoxes.
 
     I have been amazed at what has been occurring in the political scene in Israel over the last few years or so. I believe that it was quite significant symbolically that the Jewish Prime Minister Rabin (who was really the first to buy peace by giving away Israeli land to the Arabs) was killed at a peace rally in 'Kings of Israel Square' in Jerusalem in late 1995, and was replaced by Mr Peres, whose name is literally part of the "writing on the wall" where it says: 'Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and the Persians' (Dan 5:28). The very man who was continuing Rabin's policy of giving away Israeli land had a name that Biblically carried the sense of a kingdom being taken away and divided!
 
     Like the more recent Netanyahu change in the leadership of Israel, I believe that the church is also about to go through a complete 'Reformation' of its leadership, which will lead to a tremendous Revival, though this may come at quite a price. I am convinced that, as always, only a comparitive "remnant" from today's church will make it through into the coming move of GOD.
 

*Note: Of possible significance is the fact that Tishri 1, 1999 happens to be Sept. 11, two years prior to 9-11-01.