Total Lunar Eclipse | May 16, 2022
Greetings to all former subscribers to the Biblical Astronomy newsletters and to all subscribers to Biblical Astronomy.org as well as to all newcomers who are interested in this subject. It has been nearly nine years since I posted my last newsletter in June 2013. I have been going through some physical struggles which for medical reasons have prevented me from sitting at a computer to do research or to write publications. I am writing this on a Kindle tablet that I can hold in my hand while sitting in a recliner. Though I can only type one letter at a time with a stylus, at least I am able to write articles for the blog, though it takes a little longer to complete them. I was a fairly good typist for many years and was able to type much faster before. I need to learn patience, and get used to taking longer to complete texts.
There are some interesting astronomical events coming up in May and June. In order to give you a heads up, I will cover major celestial events shortly before they occur. This first blog will most likely not get posted until the day before the event occurs.
Chris Clark has been working hard and long to get our new website up and running, as well as helping me put this blog together, especially with the charts and pictures. We hope to have the next blog up a week before the event occurs. That event will occur on May 29.
There will be a total eclipse of the moon from the late evening of Sunday, May 15, through the early morning of Monday, May 16. See the chart to the right from the May 2022 issue of Sky &Telescope, p.48, which shows the various stages of the eclipse.
This eclipsed moon may appear blood red from some viewing locations where the eclipse will be visible.
Those getting the best view are those who live in the Midwest to the East Coast of the United States and Canada, most of Mexico, and all of Central and South America. Those are the best locations to view the eclipse in its entirety.
Parts of the eclipse are visible from western and eastern Europe, and from western Africa, to and throughout the Saudi Peninsula.
This eclipse will be partially visible from Israel. The farther east the viewing locations are on that side of the world, the less spectacular this event will appear from your location. See how the eclipse will appear from various locations on Earth in the chart to the left from the May 2022 issue of Sky & Telescope, page 48.
The Moon will be in the constellation Scorpio during the total eclipse. In the midst of the eclipse, when the umbral shadow is at its fullest, the blood red moon will be above and close to the bright red star Antares. The Hebrew name for the constellation Scorpio is Akrab, which means, the conflict, or war. The meaning of the star Antares is the wounding. The red color of the star represents blood.
With the eclipsed blood red moon above the bright red star Antares during the peak of the eclipse, there will be plenty of blood portrayed here. The scorpion represents the enemy of Yeshua (Jesus). The constellation above Scorpio is Ophiuchus, who represents the seed of the Woman (Yeshua, and/or, the nation of Israel) who is pictured here struggling with the serpent, the enemy.
See the painting by Michele Abraham of these two constellations on the right. The stinger of the Scorpion is seen poised to strike the right heel of Yeshua, as the left heel of Yeshua is coming down near the scorpion’s head area (See Genesis 3:15). We will see what happens on Earth around this time, if anything.
I thank Chris Clark for helping me put this blog together and getting it posted on our newly constructed website which was constructed by him. He accomplished what usually can take months, in a week. I also thank Mazzaroth Maniacs for encouraging me to start this blog. Without either of them, this blog would not have happened.
If you have a camera and plan on viewing this eclipse, please take photos of the eclipse together with the bright star below it! Please e-mail your photos to: info@biblicalastronomy.org
Your photos will be added to the bottom of this blog post, if there is not a really large amount of pictures sent, in which case we will have to select which pictures will be posted.
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Lunar Eclipse Photos provided by Cheyenne Klascius
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Lunar Eclipse Photos provided by Diane OCallaghan
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Lunar Eclipse Photos provided by Jennifer Barriga (left) and Randy Hernandez (right)
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Lunar Eclipse Photo provided by Karen Funderburg
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May 14, 2022 @ 3:27 pm
Thank you Michael rood for your information about this coming event and we need to be ready for the Lord for when ever he returns to claim his chosen ones and to have our lives in order for him and our hearts right before our God and let every man tell his person’s next door to him let him know the truth about our lord amen
May 14, 2022 @ 3:42 pm
Thank you so much so glad and blessed Michael Rood posted
May 14, 2022 @ 4:42 pm
Thank you so much for sharing.
We will keep Bob Wadsworth in our prayers.
May 14, 2022 @ 4:52 pm
Thank you Michael Rood for your wondrous and most important book I own next to the rest of my Bibles. The Chronological Gospels : The Life and Seventy Week Ministry of the Messiah. I remember seeing Bob Wadsworth, A Voice Crying in the Heaven referenced in it.
My prayers to you Bob for being a dedicated instrument of Yehovah.
I use TCG as my main text in our Bible Study I host for two different groups each week. I hope to include more from this site into it.
May Yehovah Be With You
May 14, 2022 @ 8:04 pm
Thank you Bob for the heads-up. I have been a follower of Astronomical events for many years since I purchased your materials nearly 20 years ago. So much has been happening in the heaven above us since your last Newsletter in June 2013 it’s great to see you once again put stylus to pad, despite your physical restrictions. It’s just great to have you summarize these heavenly events for our learning and instruction so we can see what Yahweh is speaking to us on Earth. (Your first blog seems relevant to Israel at this time?) Many blessings with this new phase of your ministry.
May 14, 2022 @ 10:44 pm
Thank you for posting this for us and being diligent against all odds with overcoming faith to notify of this great event. We need to be informed and you are great at leading us into all truth. Thank you so much and may Yehovah blessings be upon you and yours.
May 14, 2022 @ 11:21 pm
Very good. From san Miguel. Buenos Aires. Argentina
May 14, 2022 @ 11:22 pm
May the Most High cause His face upon you brother! Shalom
May 15, 2022 @ 3:09 am
SHALOM Michael! It’s Ginger Winter hope you’re well! Would very much like to speak with you and catch up!!
May 15, 2022 @ 5:25 am
Wow Bob! Shalom shalom from Australia! Your resources have meant so much to us, we’ve wondered what had happened to you, and it’s just so wonderful to see this post! Praise Yehovah, our Healer, for His mercy ensures for EVER! Everything happens for a reason, and in this season where you have been “absent” He has been refining you for NOW So glad to have your voice back again at this time! Nige & Rae, Australia
May 15, 2022 @ 8:25 am
Good day Bob. Yehovah bless you. Thank you for your continued work. Your work has been valuable to me over the years since I was awaken to Torah observance. I noticed on the Calendar that this blood moon will be on the second Passover. All very interesting. May Yehovah give us wisdom to understand the times as His signs in the sky. For we know that they point to the redemptive story of Yeshuati (my salvation).
May 15, 2022 @ 12:11 pm
Shalom Bob! Thank you for your diligence and detailed information. I would also like to stress that the May 15th blood moon/lunar eclipse is also on the second Passover on the aviv calendar. Very significant biblical sign!
May 15, 2022 @ 1:21 pm
Shalom and thank you for sharing all of this with us. Yehovah bless you in all you do! And give you strength.
May 15, 2022 @ 1:58 pm
So glad to hear you again, Bob. We have missed you. This is so exciting.
May 15, 2022 @ 4:07 pm
I thank all of you for all of your ideas, encouragement, and support. I am glad that Chris had the foresight to add a reply section to this website. It is great to hear other ideas from across the planet about celestial events.
We have many plans about adding more material, including all the previous newsletters from 1996 to 2013, and a 100 page digital book on the biblical meanings of the 48 constellations taken from many different news letters. Please keep us in your prayers. Yehovah greatly bless you all.
Robert (Bob) Scott Wadsworth
May 15, 2022 @ 7:07 pm
I am ecstatic!! Great news, and TIMELY.
May 15, 2022 @ 7:06 pm
Bob!!!! My friend and I have prayed for you and I was thinking about you lately. I wanted to contact you to see if I could purchase some of your DVD’s. This makes me so happy… bless you. We have missed you! I used to subscribe to your newsletter for years! PRAYING FOR YOUR COMPLETE HEALING!!! Blessings be upon hou and your house!!
May 15, 2022 @ 7:27 pm
Shalom, Bob!
I have a few updates I would love to share with you.
We are excited to see some significant signs as described in Gen 1:14:
1. The Second Passover of the aviv calendar (Numbers 9)
2. The Full Flower Moon will be turned to red (i.e. the Blood moon)
3. Lunar eclipse:
a. The penumbral eclipse begins UTC May 16 at 01:32:05, May 15 at 8:32:05pm CST.
b. Partial eclipse May 16 at 02:27:52 UTC, May 15 at 9:27:52 pm CST.
c. The full eclipse will be May 16 at 03:29:03 UTC and May 15 at 10:29:03 pm CST.
d. The partial eclipse will be May 16 at 05:55:07, May 16 at 12:55:07 am CST.
e. The penumbral eclipse will be May 16 at 06:50:49 UTC, May 16 at 1:50:49 am.
4. Plus we have a asteroid the size of the empire state building flying by earth a few hours before the lunar eclipse around 6:18pm CST and 9:18pm GMT.
Asteroid 388945 is traveling at 18,000 miles per hour towards earth and has traveled by earth once before in May 2020. The good news is that even though it is labeled “potentially dangerous” because of its proximity to earth, it will not hit earth. However, this appears to be yet, another one of the “signs” (Hebrew: אֹתֹת) described by our Elohim in Genesis 1:14 .
“And Elohim said, “Let lights come to be in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and appointed times, and for days and years” Gen 1:14
What these signs tell us is unknown. However, we are to keep watch and be aware of Yehovah’s messages to His people, the children of Israel.
https://moon.nasa.gov/resources/487/total-lunar-eclipse-may-2022/
The Super Flower Blood Moon lunar eclipse of 2022 occurs tonight! Here’s what to expect.
https://www.space.com/super-flower-blood-moon-eclipse-tonight
May 15, 2022 @ 10:13 pm
They will also see the moon “Israel or humanity” that is at the foot of the constellation of Libra, the balance, that is, the moon was weighed and rejected by the eternal. and in the middle of scorpion as it says stars will fall and yahuas gives us the power to horrar scorpions “demons” as it says in luke 10; 19 also the balance of apocalypse 6: 5-6 and that refers to the famine due to the conflict of ukraine- russia. antares is the star that the Babylonians worshiped and refers to the idolatry of unamanity and red to the judgment that comes over our entire planet
May 16, 2022 @ 5:48 am
Thank you fro beginning again, Bob. Beautiful website with such interesting information. Heal well and wholly.
May 16, 2022 @ 9:44 am
Shalom Bob, thank you so much for your effort to write this article. This is so exciting. My prayers for you. Greetings from Guatemala, Central America.
May 17, 2022 @ 1:41 am
Thanks for this article.
I’m glad you’re writing.
Perhaps you can download a keyboard that has swipe. It’ll allow you to write faster.
Blessings
May 24, 2022 @ 3:48 am
Thank you everybody for all of your wonderful pictures of the total lunar eclipse that you sent in to be posted on this website! In the near future we plan on adding a lot of educational material on Biblical Astronomy as well as Biblical research materials.