IF YOU missed the lunar eclipse early Saturday morning, never fear, at least you’re still alive.

This eclipse is particularly special as it is the longest of the century, with earth casting a shadow on the moon for 1 hour and 43 minutes.

Some people believe the ‘Blood Mood’ signifies the end of the world, citing Bible verses, mainly from Acts and Revelation.

Revelation 6:12

I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red — JOHN TORRES (@JeayAey) July 27, 2018

The blood moon is said to signify the second arrival of Jesus Christ, as stated in Joel 2:31: “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.”

The blood moon prophecy predicts the world as we know it will end after a series of four lunar eclipses, which is known as a “tetrad”.

Christian pastor, Mark Biltz predicted the return of Jesus in 2015, which coincided with a tetrad. He wrote of this in Blood Moons: Decoding the Imminent Heavenly Signs, where he cites Joel 2:31.

John Hagee also wrote of the Blood Moon Prophecy, in his book Four Blood Moons: Something is About to Change.

Mr Hagee believes the event of a tetrad will result in an apocalypse. For the record, there have been 62 tetrads in the last 2000 years and zero apocalypses.

Both these books attracted mainstream media attention in 2014.

Of course, a Blood Moon has always been seen as a bad omen, just like black cats and shattering mirrors, so some decided to poke fun at those indulging in Doomsday conspiracies.

Doomsday prophet: "The blood moon will see our end on Friday! It is in the Book of Joel: "The sun will turn into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.""



Me: The end before August rent is due and I can skip Friday cardio? Awesome! — Gabino Iglesias (@Gabino_Iglesias) July 26, 2018

ppl saying the blood moon tonight means the end of the world so let's cross our fingers y'all — jessica (@ketchup1d) July 27, 2018

The Blood Moon better not End the World right now. I wanna be alive for the 8th Season of Game of Thrones! #LunarEclipse #BloodMoon #GameOfThrones @GameOfThrones — Nima Zarei (@n_ii_ma) July 27, 2018

World: Blood moon means end of the world!



Me knowing that we had 15,000 false end of the world predictions: ahhhh1!1 — Aj (@wrongavenger) July 27, 2018

Ok, we had a Blood Moon but it was cloudy in the UK so a lot of people missed it. I think we should have a rerun on a day without cloud. A "People's Blood Moon", as it were. Who's with me? — Derek Sorensen (@th3Derek) July 27, 2018

Every year, the earth will witness at least four eclipses, according to EarthSky.org, two of which will be solar and two being lunar, so there’s no real reason to fear the apocalypse. Obviously, we don’t get to see them. This eclipse however was visible in Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and South America.

And some people got some spectacular photos of the lunar eclipse:

However, some people didn’t have ideal eclipse viewing conditions, with clouds lingering over the United Kingdom:

Blood moon from Scotland is less than exciting pic.twitter.com/tSRMoHVkRg — Angus Fox 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@nuxnix) July 27, 2018

Universe: gives a dope blood moon that is very rare and is supposed to bring good things

UK: here are all these clouds for the first time in weeks you've been dying for in the heatwave 🙄 — lily blue (@ravensrays) July 27, 2018