What is Root Source? Today, more and more Christians and Jews are hearing the divine call to wake up and engage with one another. Root Source is answering that call: knowledgeable, Orthodox Israeli Jews teaching Christians around the world online about Jewish concepts, ideas and thought, to more deeply understand the roots of their faith, in an informal and loving manner. Root Source enables and encourages dialogue and relationships between Christians and Jews, and empowers Christians to learn like Jews have been learning for centuries. Our Israeli Jewish teachers know you are a Christian, and respect your identity and your faith. Root Source gives you access to world-class Jewish biblical teaching online, helping you learn deeper and reach higher in your Christian faith, with the opportunity to ask any question openly. Our members are often surprised at how quickly they can learn deeper biblical truths from Orthodox Jewish teachings and directly and practically apply those teachings to their own Christian faith. Current and planned courses cover topics such as Jewish Prayer, Torah and Hebrew Scripture, Jewish Life, Hebrew Language, History of Israel, and Jewish interpretation of current events. Blood Moons ebook root-source.com 2
About our Authors Gidon Ariel Founder and CEO A visionary and pioneer in Jewish-Christian relations, Gidon made Aliyah to Israel when he was 14 and spent close to a decade in advanced Jewish studies institutes (Yeshivas) and the IDF. Gidon serves in the IDF reserves as a Captain in the Military Spokesperson s Office after spending over 20 years in the Armored (Tank) Corps. Raised an Orthodox Jew, he has kept Jewish traditions his entire life, and is a seasoned Hebrew and Judaism Instructor. Gidon is the owner of several Webbased marketing businesses, and has been working with Christian organizations in Israel, the USA and internationally since 2005. Bob O Dell Co-Founder and Investor Bob is a hi-tech entrepreneur and philanthropist, a pro- Israel Christian with experience in different streams of the Christian faith. He has worked with Jews in Israel continuously since 1988, and in 2000 co-founded Wintegra (a successful high-tech Israeli startup) with an Israeli. Wintegra was sold in 2010 to PMC-Sierra. Since 2013, Bob has focused on working with Orthodox Jews interested in entrepreneurial and philanthropic endeavours. Root Source has become Bob s top focus since it was founded on Nissan 1, 5774 (April 1, 2014). He serves Root Source as an unpaid volunteer. Blood Moons ebook root-source.com 3
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The Biblical Significance of Blood Moons And God said: Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years. (Genesis 1:14) The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. (Joel 2:31) And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the Children of Israel, and say unto them, these are my appointed festivals, which you shall proclaim to be sacred assemblies, they are my appointed feasts. (Leviticus 23:1,2) Blood Moons ebook root-source.com 5
What is a Blood Moon? Every year there are between two and five lunar eclipses. Most lunar eclipses are partial, a total lunar eclipse is significantly less common, usually occurring every 3-4 years. When a lunar eclipse does take place, a totally eclipsed moon is called a blood moon due to its reddish color. If the earth had no atmosphere, the moon would be completely dark during an eclipse. The effect of the sunlight passing through the earth s atmosphere causes sunsets to turn the sky a reddish color and cause the moon to appear red on a total lunar eclipse. Blood Moons ebook root-source.com 6
What is a Tetrad? What is even more uncommon than a total lunar eclipse, or a blood moon, is a series of them. When four total lunar eclipses take place without any partial lunar eclipses in between, it is called a Tetrad. Tetrads are rare, having only occurred 54 times in the last 2015 years, however we are now in the middle of what NASA is referring to as the 2014-2015 tetrad. The most unique thing about the 2014-2015 tetrad is that all of them are visible for all or parts of the USA, says longtime NASA eclipse expert Fred Espenak. Click to watch a short film by NASA explaining the 2014-2015 Tetrads below. Blood Moons ebook root-source.com 7
The 2014-2015 Tetrad The Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar, so every Jewish month begins with a new moon. As a result, Jewish holidays move around the secular calendar. For example, according to the Bible, Passover takes place on the 14th day of the first month known as Nissan. However, in some years Passover occurs in March and other years it occurs in April. Amazingly, all four Blood Moons of the 2014-2015 tetrad overlap with Biblical festivals. 1st Lunar Eclipse April 15 th, 2014 (Passover 5774) 2nd Lunar Eclipse October 8th, 2014 (Sukkot/Tabernacles 5775) 3rd Lunar Eclipse April 4th, 2015 (Passover 5775) 4th Lunar Eclipse September 28th, 2015 (Sukkot/Tabernacles 5776) Blood Moons ebook root-source.com 8
Tetrads Overlapping with Jewish Festivals in History A total lunar eclipse is rare, a series of uninterrupted lunar eclipses is even more rare, and for the tetrad to overlap with Biblical festivals is exceedingly rare. However, this exceedingly rare occurrence has occurred in history. Each time has been during a period of great significance in Jewish history. In the past 500 years, only three tetrads have overlapped with Jewish Festivals: 1493-1494: 1492 was the final year of the Spanish Inquisition, the devastating expulsion of Jews from Spain, and the year America was discovered by Christopher Columbus, who according to many, was Jewish and looking for a new home for his persecuted brethren. 1949-1950: 1948 was the year the State of Israel was founded, the first Jewish commonwealth in 2,000 years and the miraculous return to their Biblical inheritance. That same year the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, the earliest Biblical manuscripts to be unearthed. 1967-1968: 1967 was the year of the 6 Day War when Israel defended herself against the attack of 5 Arab nations, liberating Jerusalem and the Biblical lands of Judea and Samaria. Against ominous military challenges, the Jewish State greatly enlarged her small borders. Blood Moons ebook root-source.com 9
What Does That Mean for us in 2014-2015? According to many Bible believers, the 500 year pattern of tetrads overlapping with Jewish Festivals means that there is great significance to the 2014-2015 period we now live in. The last three examples demonstrate a pattern of Jewish persecution followed by miraculous intervention where God rescues Israel from danger and leads the Jewish people to safety and vibrancy. The Jewish people today are confronted with genocidal threats from a nuclear Iran, brutal terrorism from Islamic Jihadists, and isolation from the liberal, western world. The pattern of persecution and danger is there, but will the pattern continue and will we be blessed to see God s miraculous intervention and restoration of Israel once again? Blood Moons ebook root-source.com 10
Solar Eclipse Preceding the Passover Blood Moon Root Source co-founder Bob O Dell, who has studied lunar and solar astronomical events for more than 35 years, discovered that two weeks before the Passover Blood Moon, an exceedingly rare solar eclipse will be taking place. There will be a total eclipse of the sun for two minutes over the North Pole on Friday, March 20, the day of the Spring Equinox which coincides with the beginning of the Hebrew month of Nissan, the first month in the Biblical calendar year, a solar occurrence that has never happened before in human history. Any total solar eclipse that exactly reaches the North Pole is rare, and the path of the March 20 Total Solar Eclipse which begins in the Atlantic Ocean south of Greenland remains in the North Atlantic Ocean, missing Ice Land, passing over the Faroe and Svalbard Islands while curving continually north until the path ends at the North Pole, putting the North Pole inside the total eclipse totality for about 2 minutes beginning 10:18AM GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). The shadow then exits the earth at the top of the world, heading out into space where it can no longer be seen anywhere. Click the image to see an animated image of the shadow of totality reaching the North Pole. The year 2015, however is unique in that the Vernal Equinox, or first day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere, the day that days and nights are of equal length everywhere on earth, occurs on that very same day, about 12 hours later, at 10:45PM GMT in the evening. Furthermore, the Jewish Religious New Year, which begins the Jewish Calendar in the month of Nissan, begins at sundown in Jerusalem on March 20 exactly 5½ hours after the total eclipse at 3:50PM GMT, or at 5:50PM Jerusalem local time. Blood Moons ebook root-source.com 11
Solar Eclipse Preceding the Passover Blood Moon A Total Solar Eclipse at the North Pole on the first day of Spring has a likelihood of once every 100,000 years. Any spot on earth can expect to see an eclipse roughly every 300 years, but for that to occur on a very specific day of the 365 day calendar yields a rarity of once every 100,000 years. In addition, because the Jewish Religious Calendar has only been in operation for a much shorter time, or 5775 years, it is unlikely such a combined event ever occurred before in Jewish history. The concurrence and rarity of this natural event, together with the times in which we live, indicates the finger of God, said Gidon Ariel, an Israeli Orthodox Jew and co-founder of Root Source. A total solar eclipse at the North Pole on the first day of spring occurs once every 100,000 years. For it to occur on the first day of the first month of the Biblical calendar year is, however, entirely unprecedented since this is only the year 5775 according to Jewish tradition, meaning that there has never been such a solar occurrence in human history. Blood Moons ebook root-source.com 12
CALL TO PRAYER BY MARK BILTZ DISCOVERER OF THE BLOOD MOONS Mark Biltz from El Shaddai Ministries and Bob O Dell from Root Source are calling for Christians everywhere to Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem during the time that the Blood Moon will be blood red. This is a rare occurrence happening on 4/4 for just over 4 minutes. It is happening on a Shabbat, which just so happens to also be the very first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. With all the turmoil going on in the Middle East, Christians need to pray for the nation of Israel. As a matter of fact the Scripture say in Isaiah 62:6,7: I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. The Blood Moons have erupted a controversy within the Christian community about the nature of eclipses, their meaning, and whether they can signal future events, said Bob O Dell of Root Source. For this prayer event, Mark Biltz and I were willing to put our personal views aside and leverage the occasion for a cause we can all agree upon to communicate our strong desire to be a blessing to the Nation of Israel. For optimal viewing times of the Passover 2015 Blood Moon around the world, click here. Join us in this world-wide call to Prayer for the Jewish people! Blood Moons ebook root-source.com 13
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