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THE BLOOD MOONAlthough the moon is probably connected with Israel doctrinally, in some ways it also pictures the church. Like the church, the moon is ordained to be a faithful witness (Psa. 89:37). Like the church, the moon turns against the world. Like the church, the moon reflects light to the world, and as the church has a spiritual nature and a carnal nature, the moon has a lighted side and a dark side. Well, according to the prophetic Scriptures, this faithful witness in the heavens will one day turn blood red: “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.” (Acts 2:20; also see Joel 2:31 and Rev. 6:12) Although Peter quotes the prophecy in Acts 2, there is no indication that it was fulfilled at that time. It will be fulfilled in Revelation chapter six, in the Great Tribulation.But why blood? If the moon is a faithful witness, what exactly is it witnessing of by turning blood red in the Great Tribulation? Peter tells us in the very next verse: “And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Acts 2:21) The witness is a sign to Israel and all the world that the blood-washed saints of God have been caught up to heaven and that those remaining on the earth must not worship the beast but rather be washed in the blood of Christ.