The Moon Shall Not Give Her Light

“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not… While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened (Ecclesiastes 12:1-2).” In prophecy, the words, "sun" and "moon" and "stars" are all parable words. The "stars" are the people of the congregation, however this message is about the interpretations of the words the sun and moon. Knowing the interpretation of these words, is beneficial for end time understanding. In prophecy, these words pertain to worship leaders, and their teachings. God used two different words because he allowed believers to know that has made a distinction between priests which have heard the covenant message, and those which have not heard it. The word "moon" refers unto priests which have heard; and the word "sun"refers unto the priests which have not heard. Although the moon has gained a certain amount of understanding, these priests have not confessed the controversial parts of the covenant message to their congregations.

“He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down (Psalms 104:19).” Proving God's interpretation of parable words is done by studying all of the prophecies of scripture which pertain to that word, and then building its interpretation one piece of evidence at a time. When a true parable meaning of a word is discovered, then each and every verse which uses that parable word, will make sense. "At that time... they shall bring out the bones... and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved,  and whom they have served... and whom they have worshipped (Jeremiah 8:1-2)." This piece of evidence is suggesting that believers have been serving their priests; for they are promoting the mistaken beliefs and thoughts of their teachers. The words of this verse are also suggesting that one day priests will come face to face with the true spiritual condition of their own congregations.

God used the names of these two distinctly different types of light to show believers that during end times he will be judging priests based upon whether or not they have heard the covenant message. “There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differs from another star in glory (1Corinthians 15:41)." Consider that the moon's light is simply a reflection of the sun's glory. Likewise, if priests which have actually heard the truth, hide it, and simply teach the portions of the covenant message which are convenient for them, then they are just reflecting religion's glory. Believers should be looking forward to the day of a new moon, wherein God's glory is all that matters. "Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on the solemn feast day (Psalm 81:3)."

Certain verses of prophecy testify that God has elevated the role of the moon and its followers during end times: “The moon and stars to rule by night (Psalms 136:9).” This verse suggests that the priests which know the covenant message will be leading God's people during the end times. Another prophecy confesses that the moon shall possess God's end time instructions, and that those instructions shall never depart. “Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night… If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever (Jeremiah 31:35-36).”

“He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass… In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endures (Psalms 72:6-7).” This verse is implying that peace and prosperity will come from the moon's teachings, however the "abundance of peace" which comes from the moon, is temporary, because the moon is teaching truths which are incomplete, and which can never bring peace between the nations of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Rather, the moon's teachings are bringing peace between religion's denominations. This peace came about because God caused certain leaders to rise up and read the covenant message, and they have been teaching some of the less controversial portions of it. "The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound (Isaiah 30:26)."

There are prophecies of scripture which testify that there will come a day in the which the sun will be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light (Ecclesiastes 12:2). "Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine (Isaiah 13:9-10)." "Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. The Lord shall roar... and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people (Joel 3:14-16)." That day is will be a day of repentance; but so long as the moon continues to shine, there is no repentance. "He maketh the sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust (Matthew 5:45)."

There is one verse of scripture which seemingly suggests that the moon will continue in its strength forever. "I have found David... His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven (Psalm 89:20; 89:35-36)." But what is this verse actually verifying? Is it not testifying that God's people will endure forever? And is it not validating God's promise to bring the moon and his ordinances?

"The sun knoweth his going down (Psalms 104:19)." "God commands the sun and it riseth not (Job 9:7)" The Hebrew word which was translated into the word “sun,” was also translated into the word “itch,” and it was used in the verse, “The Lord will smite thee... with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed (Deuteronomy 28:27).” God's peculiar, albeit, very precise placement of this word, is designed to imply that every priest who is refusing to hear the covenant message, will be taken by the curse. God's warning about the itch appears within Israel's covenant: it is God's testimony against believers who received the prosperity of his blessings, and then stop listening to his commandments (Deuteronomy 28:15). The sun shall be turned into darkness, because God commanded it to be dark in that day, and every priest who ignores God's commandment will suffer God's correcting punishment. “He knows their works, and he overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed. He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others; because they turned back from him, and would not consider his ways (Job 34:25-27).”

“The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the notable day of the Lord come (Acts 2:20; Joel 2:31).” The same word which was translated into the word “turned,” was also translated into the word “converted.” This is true in the book of Acts, as well as in the book of Joel.  In other words, both verses could have been translated: the sun shall be converted into darkness, and the moon into blood. These verses pertain to the day wherein the sun will receive God's messengers, and many priests will be corrected, and they will convert their understandings of scripture. In other words, the sun is darkened because it submits itself unto the authority of God's word. This happens when priests which are silencing the covenant message, start promoting it. "The sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood (Revelation 6:12)." Blood depicts the righteousness of working to please God. “Being in agony Jesus prayed the more earnestly; and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground (Luke 22:44).” Suggesting that the moon is turned into blood, is God's way of acknowledging that he sees the anguish of those priests which sacrifice themselves and share the controversial parts of his end time message with their congregation. These priests will, in effect, be laying down their lives for the word of God.

"The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining (Joel 2:10)." The word, dark, has to do with believers repenting and humbling themselves, and giving God the glory. The earth will quake because priests are teaching the controversial parts of the covenant message, because God's army is being released. “The Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide (Joel 2:11).” The world will hear God's instructions, as well as his warnings. "He was clothed in a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. The armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine lined, white and clean (Revelation 19:13-14)." “Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces gather blackness (Joel 2:6).”

Despite the vast size of the Lord's army, there will still be leaders that refuse to accept the truth, and they will not receive God's messengers. Their lights shall be put out in the day of God's wrath (Habakkuk 1:5). “When I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light… I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall (Ezekiel 32:7-10).” God will pour affliction upon these leaders, and he will violently remove their beauty, and will not spare, but he will utterly destroy all their places of assembly (Lamentations chapter two). “Heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him (Job 20:27).”

“They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously (Isaiah 24:22-23).” This verse eludes to the afflicting pestilence which will be poured upon some priests. The sun will be taken hostage in an unwalled prison of public opinion, for these priests have transgressed against the Lord, and God will make them an abhorrence to all flesh (Isaiah 66:24). This is God's promise and his punishment which will be forever correcting the priesthood. "I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible (Isaiah 13:11)." “He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word (Psalms 105:28).”

When believers hear the new covenant, and when they learn what Jesus’ sacrifice accomplished for every believer, then New Jerusalem be lit by God's glory, and by the teachings of Jesus Christ. “The city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof (Revelation 21:23).” “The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory (Isaiah 60:19).”

One final thought: “There appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: and she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered (Revelation 12:1-2).” So long as priests are permitted to preach iniquity in our pulpits, all of creation is travailing together in birth pains. Along with that thought, be aware that our iniquities are causing righteous priests who are privy to the covenant message, to remain silent and cleave to their traditional religious teachings. Understanding these two things brings interpretation to the prophecy concerning the appearance of a great wonder in heaven. This prophecy is showing believers a portrait of the final victory: The final enemy which still needs to be defeated is seen under the woman’s feet. “He must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet (1Corinthians 15:25).” The moon is the final enemy, and the moon is depicted as being put under the feet of the those who are travailing in the birth of the covenant message! The moon will be defeated and put under the woman's feet, when these priests see the mistakes which they are making, and they confess their own failures.