Astrology is a point of tension and conflict that sits at the heart of modern Christianity, and it doesn’t get talked about very much outside of discussions on evil and sin. I want to address that topic head-on today.
The church, broadly speaking, has developed a reflexive rejection of anything that even sounds like astrology. Mention the word in most Christian circles and you’ll get a sharp look and a quick verse about divination. And yes, divination is condemned in Scripture. Clearly, repeatedly, without apology.
What tends to get skipped over is that there is a significant difference between divination (the attempt to manipulate or predict fate using spiritual forces outside of God) and what scholars call astral theology. Astral theology is the recognition that God built the heavens as a communication system, a cosmic clock, a signboard that He controls and speaks through. And the Bible doesn’t just allow for astral theology. It commands it.
The Biblical Case: He Made Them to Be Signs
Let’s start at the very beginning, with Genesis.
And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years.” (Genesis 1:14)
That phrase “sacred times” in Hebrew is moadim, the exact same word used throughout the Torah for God’s appointed feasts (Passover. Sukkot. Yom Kippur). God didn’t create the sun, moon, and stars simply to light our way at night. He created them to mark His calendar, His appointments, His communications with humanity. That is not a minor footnote. That is in the very first chapter of the Bible.
Then there’s Job 38:31-33, where God speaks directly to Job from the whirlwind:
Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orion’s belt? Can you bring forth the Mazzaroth in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth?
What is the Mazzaroth? Hebrew scholars widely understand this as the 12 constellations, what we commonly call the zodiac, and God is not warning Job away from them. He is pointing to them as evidence of His own sovereign dominion. He named them. He commands them. He challenges Job to do the same if he can.
Psalm 19:1-4 goes even further on the subject:
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.
The heavens speak. They have a voice, and Paul quotes this very passage in Romans 10:18 in the context of the reach of the gospel, as if the heavens themselves are part of the proclamation. This is not fringe theology. This is Paul, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
The New Testament only continues the pattern. Jesus himself, in Luke 21:25, says:
There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.
Joel 2:30-31, quoted by Peter on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2, says:
I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
We also have Revelation 12:1. It is one of the most discussed astronomical passages in the entire New Testament:
A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
A higher perspective on all this is so important. Stepping back and seeing the full picture matters here, because the Bible does not tell us to ignore the sky. It tells us, from Genesis to Revelation, in the Law, the Wisdom literature, the Prophets, the Gospels, the Epistles, and the Apocalypse, to watch it. The condemnation in Scripture is against divination – using celestial patterns to predict personal fate or to manipulate spiritual forces apart from God. That is not what we are doing here.
What we are doing is exactly what the Bible commands. Looking up, watching, and recognizing the appointed times of God.
What Scholars Have Said
This is not a new conversation, and it has not been limited to internet prophecy channels and televangelists. Take E.W. Bullinger, for example. He was a 19th-century Anglican theologian and biblical scholar, and he wrote The Witness of the Stars in 1893.
Bullinger argued, with careful textual and historical support, that the original gospel message was written in the constellations before Scripture was ever compiled, and that the star names and constellation groupings preserve ancient divine communication that predates human religion. His analysis of Scorpius is particularly relevant to what we’re seeing right now. In his framework, Antares, the bright red star at the very heart of the Scorpion, represents the ancient enemy whose head is crushed and whose sting strikes the heel in Genesis 3:15, the very first messianic prophecy in the Bible.
We can also explore the work of Joseph Seiss, a Lutheran theologian, who made a similar case in The Gospel in the Stars in 1882. Both of these men were working from serious scholarly foundations, not sensationalism.
More recently, pastor and researcher Mark Biltz, who actually discovered the blood moon tetrad phenomenon before John Hagee brought it to wider audiences, has spent years documenting the precise way lunar and solar eclipses fall on God’s appointed feast days. The 2014-2015 blood moon tetrad fell exactly on Passover and Sukkot for two consecutive years. History bore out the pattern: similar tetrads occurred in 1492, 1948, and 1967, each time converging with major turning points in Jewish history. The expulsion from Spain. The rebirth of the nation of Israel. The recapture of Jerusalem. This is not coincidence. This is the cosmic clock God described in Genesis 1:14.
Even rabbinical tradition has something to say here. The Jewish Talmud, in Succah 29a, states that a lunar eclipse is considered a somber omen for Israel. Why? Because the Jewish calendar is entirely lunar-based. A solar eclipse, by contrast, indicates judgment on the nations. This was written centuries ago and continues to be referenced by Jewish scholars today. It is worth noting that these ancient rabbinical writers were not engaging in astrology or divination. They were reading the sky the same way Genesis told them to: as a sign.
The Signs We Are Seeing Now
With that foundation in place, let’s talk about what is actually happening in the sky right now, because it is remarkable.
The Purim Blood Moon Triad
For three consecutive years – March 25, 2024, March 14, 2025, and March 3, 2026 – there have been total lunar eclipses falling precisely on the Jewish festival of Purim.
Purim commemorates the story of Esther – a story of Israel’s miraculous deliverance from an existential annihilation plot that originated in the ancient Persian Empire, which is modern-day Iran (cough, cough). The theological weight of three consecutive Blood Moons falling on that particular feast, during a period in which Israel is in direct military conflict with Iran and its proxies following the October 7, 2023 attacks (the worst assault on the Jewish people since the Holocaust), is not something any serious student of prophecy can casually wave away.
The pattern breaks after 2026. It does not extend into 2027. Three and done.
177 Days
From that final Purim Blood Moon on March 3, 2026, to May 31, 2026 is exactly 177 days.
That number is not arbitrary. The Book of Enoch, one of the oldest Jewish texts in existence and quoted directly by the apostle Jude in his New Testament letter, describes a specific lunar cycle:
…the waning which takes place in the first portal in its season till 177 days are accomplished, reckoned according to weeks, 25 weeks and two days.
177 days. 25 weeks and two days. That is exactly the span between the last Purim Blood Moon and the Blue Moon rising tomorrow night.
And then there’s the reality that 25 weeks and two days points us naturally to Proverbs 25:2.
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.
God hides things in plain sight, layered and waiting for those with eyes to see and patience to search. The 177-day count is one of those hidden things. It was sitting in an ancient text, pointing toward a date on our calendar that we are living through right now.
The Blue Moon on May 31st and What Is Converging With It
A Blue Moon, the second full moon within a single calendar month, is not astronomically rare on its own. But this one is not arriving alone.
As mentioned previously, Antares is currently positioned at the very heart of the constellation Scorpio. Antares is one of the four ancient royal stars, the great guardians of heaven recognized in Persian, Babylonian, and Hebrew astronomical tradition.
The four royal stars are Antares in Scorpio, Regulus in Leo, Aldebaran in Taurus, and Fomalhaut in Pisces. Ancient astronomers called them the watchers, the pillars of the sky. In biblical astronomy, tracing back through Bullinger’s work and earlier sources, Antares in Scorpio carries the imagery of the ancient adversary, specifically the conflict of Genesis 3:15, the crushing of the head and the striking of the heel.
That this star is highlighted at the heart of its constellation during this convergence is not a quiet background detail. It is a marker.
The Fourth Watch
When I looked up the exact peak time of this Blue Moon, it falls during the fourth watch of the night, the period from roughly 3:00 to 6:00 AM. This detail matters more than it might seem.
The fourth watch in Scripture is the watch of divine intervention. It is when Jesus walked across the water to His terrified disciples in Matthew 14:25. It is the watch associated with the deliverance from Egypt, God moving in the darkest hour just before the dawn. Throughout Scripture, the fourth watch is when God shows up after human strength has run completely out and the morning is almost at hand.
This Blue Moon – the full moon we are watching take form as I type this post – peaks in the fourth watch. At the end of a 177-day count. Following three consecutive Purim Blood Moons. Following October 7.
These are not disconnected coincidences. They are a pattern, and in God’s economy, patterns are communication.
What’s Coming: 2026 Through 2028
The lunar signs are not the end of the story. They are the setup for what comes next. Beginning in 2026 and running through 2027, the astronomical calendar shows an unusually dense cluster of solar eclipses. We see three annular solar eclipses, also called Rings of Fire, which occur in February 2026, February 2027, and January 2028.
Alongside those, total solar eclipses fall in August 2026 and August 2027. This concentration of total solar events across roughly 18 months, visible over portions of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, is striking on its own terms.
Remember what the Talmud says: solar eclipses are signs of judgment upon the nations. If lunar eclipses carry God’s word to Israel, solar eclipses carry His word to the world. The sequence unfolding before us, a triad of Purim Blood Moons, a 177-day Blue Moon convergence, and now a dense run of solar eclipses pointing toward the horizon, looks less like scattered astronomical noise and more like a sentence being completed.
Jesus said in Luke 21:25 that there would be signs in the sun, moon, and stars, and that nations would be in anguish and perplexity. Joel 2 and Acts 2 give us the imagery of the moon turning to blood and the sun to darkness before the great and terrible day of the Lord. We are watching that language become a literal description of what is happening in the sky above us.
A Word to the Skeptics (and I Mean This Respectfully)
I know the pushback. Every generation has had its watchmen who were certain the end was at hand and were proven premature. The 2014-2015 blood moon tetrad passed without a single obvious apocalyptic event, and some believers came away discouraged and a little embarrassed. That is a real concern, and a fair one. Because of that and other examples, I want to be transparent about what I am and am not saying here.
I do not know the day or the hour, and I will never imply that I do. That is not and never will be my motive or intention. Scripture is explicitly clear that no one does, not the angels, not even the Son in His incarnate humanity (Matthew 24:36). I am not setting a date. What I am doing is what Jesus specifically commanded: watching.
There is a meaningful difference between date-setting, which Scripture warns against, and watchfulness, which Scripture repeatedly commands. “When you see these things happening, look up, for your redemption is drawing near” (Luke 21:28). That is a direct instruction from Jesus to watch the signs and let them lift our eyes.
The appropriate response to what we are seeing is not panic. It is not obsessive chart-watching that crowds out practical faith and daily love of neighbor. It is a drawing closer, to Him, to each other, to the work He has given us to do, and in that process, to continue to watch for Him. We are called, very clearly, to occupy until He comes, to live as those who know the night is far spent and the day is at hand. That is a posture of urgency and hope together, not fear.
If You Don’t Know Him
I would rather sound urgent than stay politely quiet while the clock runs, so here I will ask you: do you know Him?
If you do not have a relationship with Jesus Christ, I am encouraging you directly: don’t wait. Don’t decide you’ll think about it later. Don’t assume you have more time than the skies are currently suggesting.
Romans 10:9 says:
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
That is it. It’s not about religion, it’s not about performance. It’s not about a perfect track record, either. It’s about a confession and a belief that Jesus is Lord, that He died for your sins, that He was buried, and that He rose again on the third day. He is alive. He is returning. And He is watching for you with far more patience and love than you may realize.
The heavens are declaring His glory right now, in a language as old as creation itself. He set the stars in motion before you were born, and He has been keeping time ever since. He is not surprised by any of this. He is not scrambling. He is moving exactly according to the plan He made before the foundation of the world.
Stay close. Stay watchful. Let the sky remind you that He is faithful.
Maranatha.
Come, Lord Jesus.
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