
By PNW Staff
August 27, 2026
There is nothing scientifically mysterious about why Thursday’s moon will appear red. During a lunar eclipse, Earth passes between the sun and moon, while Earth’s atmosphere filters the sunlight passing through it. Shorter blue wavelengths scatter more easily, while more red and orange light continues through the atmosphere and reaches the lunar surface–the same basic phenomenon responsible for brilliant red sunsets.
Astronomers can predict eclipses far into the future, which means this eclipse didn’t suddenly appear in response to today’s wars, earthquakes or political crises. Christians have repeatedly made the mistake of assigning specific prophetic significance to eclipses, comets, planetary alignments and other astronomical events, only to watch predicted dates come and go without the expected prophetic fulfillment.
Biblical watchfulness should never become prophetic sensationalism. Yet there is an opposite mistake that deserves just as much caution: becoming so determined not to sensationalize prophecy that we begin ignoring what prophecy actually says.
The Bible really does say that extraordinary signs are coming in the heavens.

