I missed the Blood Moon Wednesday morning. I went out to see it, but when I looked up all I saw was fog. It figures that the morning of such an interesting celestial event would also be the foggiest morning in South Georgia.

I am not so enamored with the latest fad of attributing the Blood Moons (total lunar eclipses) to end time prophecies. The Jewish Calendar has always centered around the moon cycles and full moons and lunar eclipses happen with enough regularity that over the course of 4000 years or so some significant things will align with those eclipses.

Every 27.32 days, the moon completes an orbit around the earth, and we tend to mark the beginning of that orbit as the “full moon.” Without fail…27.32 days…every month…for 6000 years since the earth was created. The earth completes a turn on its axis once every 24 hours, and a lap around the sun once every 364.25 days. Consistency created by a consistent God.

God is orderly and consistent – we refer to it theologically as His FAITHFULNESS. Just as we can always count on creation to remain constant, so also we can count on God to always be the same. He never diminishes, never has a bad day, never takes a day off, never comes in late. He never sleeps nor slumbers. He is always 100% “on.” The cycles of nature, including the lunar cycles, remind us that we can hold to His unchanging hand.

As for the end times… what if this string of “blood moons” does portend the return of the Lord? What difference does that make? How differently would we live our lives if we knew today were our last day on earth? Well, the truth of the matter is, we should live EVERY DAY as if it were our last. It could be. Let’s not wait for the two-minute warning to start trying to win the game.