GETTY The rare Blue Moon is a warning says pastor

"Prophecisor" Pastor Paul Begley has taken to YouTube to warn of the significance of the rare Blue Moon happening in the run up to the even rarer "tetrad" of four Blood Moons. Fellow preachers have been warning for months that the date of the last of four 'blood moons' over the past 18 months, due to occur on September 28, and following a papal visit to the US, will signal the second coming of Jesus Christ, before Armageddon. Two evangelists with huge followings in the states - Mark Blitz and John Hagee - claim after that date the world as we know it will be destroyed by major earthquakes amid heightened tensions in the Middle East and the possibility of a Third World War. Pastor Begley said he was concerned that tonight's Blue Moon could spell disasters in the run up to the prophesied apocalypse in September. A Blue Moon only happens when there is a second full moon in one calendar month - and so is unusual as the full moon cycle is normally 29.5 days.

YouTube Pastor Paul Begley

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He said in his video, on the channel he calls The Coming Apocalypse, which is also aired on some US TV channels, that after the first full moon this month on July 1, there were great fires in Canada, which sent so much ash into the air they made the moon "appear red." Having another "red moon" in the run up to the "blood moons" is a warning we cannot ignore, he suggested. He said: "The thing I find very strange about this is it happens to be happening in this four Blood Moon tetrad, and in such a prophetic time. "As we come towards the fourth and final Blood Moon - a super Blood Moon, we've got a Blue Moon." The pastor said the full moon in early July was the night of his first broadcast. He added: "There were forest fires burning in Canada that sent so much ash, but the jet streams did not blow them away like normal, but instead, God just let the smoke hang there, so when the moon came up it was blood red. "So it was un unscheduled Blood Moon. It should not have been red, but because of the ash and smoke in the atmosphere, it turned the moon blood red and it darkened the Sun, which is exactly what the Bible says in Joel Chapter two."

GETTY The last Blood Moon of the four happens on September 28

It is the prophetic events - the Iranian nuke deal, the rioting on the temple mount the last few days, the hostilty around radical Islam Pastor Paul Begley

He said verse 30 read: "And I will show wonder in the heaven and in the Earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke." "That sounds like the Canadian forest fire.: The verse continued "the Sun shall be turned into darkness." Mr Begley added: "It was that afternoon and the moon turned into blood - it did that night. An unscheduled Blood Moon. "So we were not supposed to have a Blood Moon, but we did, we had an unscheduled Blood Moon, and on this Friday (today) we are going to have a Blue Moon." He suggested the Blue Moon, coupled with "prophetic events" currently happening made it more significant. He said: "It is the prophetic events - the Iranian nuke deal, the rioting on the temple mount the last few days, the hostilty around radical Islam, the UN discussion of a two- state solution to be forced on Israel, there is so much happening right now - the supreme Court decision on gay marriage.

Blue moon - in pictures Sat, August 1, 2015 A blue moon is an additional full moon that appears in a subdivision of a year: either the third of four full moons in a season, or a second full moon in a month of the common calendar. Play slideshow Getty Images 1 of 12 The moon rises over people gathered on Glastonbury Tor

YouTube Mark Blitz

"Throw in an unscheduled Blood Moon and a Blue Moon and you have to just ask are these part of the signs that the Bible spoke about - 'we will see wonderous events in the heavens". Blitz and Hagee have been accused of peddling the false warnings in order to cash in on books they have penned about their predictions - one of which was turned into a movie. The Blood Moon tetrad began on April 15 last year, followed by another red-coloured lunar eclipse on October 8 last year, and a third on April 4 this year. Scientists and commentators have called for calm and pointed out how many false 'end of world predictions' have been made historically that have never materialised. Professor Gary Shogren, a former pastor who studied the New Testament at Aberdeen University, said: "You’ll never go broke predicting the apocalypse".