About the moon being as of blood...

[Tobias Reiper]

A thought just hit me this morning, and after I quit panicking (this never happened to me before, so I didn't know how to take it) I decided to get everyone's take on it.

Joking aside, in the book of Revelation John states that a third of the moon shall be as of blood. Now the symbol most of us associate with Islam is the crescent moon, which is approximately one third of the moon.

Now I know this isn't a novel idea, it's just one I've never seen or heard expressed before, which is why I haven't been able to study on it, but what is the likelyhood that the reference of the moon isn't one of the signs in the Heavens that Jesus spoke of in the Gospel, but a prophecy of the rise of Islam?

And isn't it also possible that the red dragon isn't a symbol for Satan's role in communism, as many people think, but of Islam?

Please go into depth as to why it's not a possibility if it's not plausible.

[Chief of Staff Lizard]

A thought just hit me this morning, and after I quit panicking (this never happened to me before, so I didn't know how to take it) I decided to get everyone's take on it.

Joking aside, in the book of Revelation John states that a third of the moon shall be as of blood. Now the symbol most of us associate with Islam is the crescent moon, which is approximately one third of the moon.

Now I know this isn't a novel idea, it's just one I've never seen or heard expressed before, which is why I haven't been able to study on it, but what is the likelyhood that the reference of the moon isn't one of the signs in the Heavens that Jesus spoke of in the Gospel, but a prophecy of the rise of Islam?

And isn't it also possible that the red dragon isn't a symbol for Satan's role in communism, as many people think, but of Islam?

Please go into depth as to why it's not a possibility if it's not plausible.
Hi FA.

Of course anything is possible, but I do not think the above is plausible. And that is based more on my foundational approach to interpretation of scripture than anything else. In fact I find the comparison of the red moon/dragon to Islam attractive because I do see Islam (and by Islam, I mean radical Islam as practiced in much of the Middle East)as one of (if not the biggest) enemies of Christianity.

However, I also think that scripture, though certainly relevant to us today, was written with a specific audience in mind. Namely the readers that were contemporary to the time of the writing.

In other words, I think Revelation was written to first century Christians and would have been understood by them. Any interpretation that could only be understood centuries after the fact, is, in my opinion suspect. I just do not see God inspiring scripture, writtin in the first century that would not be understood until the 21st century.

That is just my :2cents:

[Ted]

Let's be careful here. The passage about "a third of the moon" is 8:12, and is speaks of being darkened, not blood. The passage about the moon becoming blood is 6:12, and it speaks of the whole moon, not a third of it.

Ted