Joel 2:31 — The Moon Turned to Blood

On the night of March 2, 2026, the moon turned to blood.

There is only one verse in the entire Tanakh that speaks of the moon turning to blood. Not Psalms. Not Isaiah. Not Daniel. Joel alone was given this sign. And the book of Revelation simply stole it.

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of AO come. — Joel 2:31

The word "before" is the key to everything. The blood moon is not the judgment. It is the warning. It is the seven-day notice. Just as AO told Noah:

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights. — Genesis 7:4

Seven days' warning before the flood. The day begins at sunrise so the blood moon, which was in the sky before sunrise, belonged to March 2 — not March 3 as the world reported. Count seven days from March 2: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven — and you land on right before sunrise on March 10, the first day of spring.

Joel 2:31 was fulfilled the night of March 2, 2026. The sign was given. And seven days later, the great and terrible day of AO arrived.

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Our Eyes Were Already on March 9

Long before the blood moon announcement, our eyes were fixed on March 9, 2026 — the spring equinox. We had already written about the almond tree and the spring equinox: the almond is the first tree to blossom in spring, and Scripture uses it as the sign of resurrection. The rod that budded in the night. The dead branch that came to life. The spring equinox is when winter ends and life returns — and the almond tree is the watchful sentinel that announces it.

And then, exactly the week before, the news broke: a total lunar eclipse — a blood moon — would appear overnight on March 2, 2026. Joel 2:31 immediately came to mind. And with it, Genesis 7:4 — the seven-day notice AO gave Noah before the flood. March 9 is the equinox. Sunrise on March 10 is the first day of spring. The moment the almond rod blooms.

And here is something that should not be overlooked. Joel commands a fast — twice. In chapter 1: "Sanctify ye a fast" (Joel 1:14). In chapter 2: "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly" (Joel 2:15). And during the week of March 9, 2026 — the very week we believe the great and terrible day arrived — billions of people worldwide were fasting. Ramadan for Islam. Lent for Christianity. The entire world was fasting to false gods at the exact moment Joel's prophecy was being fulfilled. And our God is jealous. His name is Jealous (Exodus 34:14). The whole world obeyed the command to fast — and directed it to false gods.

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Joel in Context

Joel is one of the shortest books in the Tanakh. Three chapters. Three acts. The punishment. The redemption. The final judgment. Easy as one, two, three.

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Act One: The Desolation (Joel 1)

Joel opens with a question that should stop every reader:

Has anything like this ever happened in your whole life, or in the lifetime of your ancestors? — Joel 1:2

Has anything like this — what was done to the children of Israel — ever happened before? Has any nation been devoured the way Israel was devoured? Four empires consuming them one after the other until nothing was left. Joel is telling his people: remember what happened to you. Tell your children. Tell their children. Because what was done to you has never been done to anyone.

This is why there is a great deal of truth in John 3:16 — but the son that AO gave to the world was not a man on a cross. It was Israel. AO so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son — His firstborn, Israel (Exodus 4:22) — as an example to every nation on earth of what happens when you forsake His ways. That is what Joel is describing. That is why he says tell your children about it.

Then he describes it — four creatures that devour everything:

That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. — Joel 1:4

Four beasts. Four stages of consumption. This is not a farming report. These four creatures mirror the four beasts of Daniel 7 — four empires that devoured Israel one after the other. Each one consumed what the last one left. No king. No temple. No priesthood. No land — that was the starting condition. That is how the captivity began. And then the four beasts went to work — and the fourth beast, the one that stamps out the residue (Daniel 7:19), is devouring Jacob right now.

The vine is laid waste. The fig tree is barked and stripped clean. The branches are made white. — Joel 1:7

No protection. Is that not the same language as Daniel 9:26? Cut off and have nothing?

Joel's response is not war. It is fasting:

Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of AO your God, and cry unto AO. Alas for the day! for the day of AO is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. — Joel 1:14–15

The day of AO is at hand. Not in some distant future. At hand. The desolation Joel describes is the condition of the world right now — the end of the captivity, the final hours before the dawn.

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Act Two: The Day of AO (Joel 2)

Joel 2 opens with an alarm:

Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of AO cometh, for it is nigh at hand. — Joel 2:1

Then comes a verse that has been misread for centuries. The Queen James runs it together as one thought, but our correction places a period after thick darkness — because these are two separate statements:

A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness. As the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. — Joel 2:2

"A day of darkness and gloominess" is not the same event as "the morning spread upon the mountains." Read it the way it was written. The first sentence describes what hides it from sight — darkness, gloominess, clouds, thick darkness. Like a fog. No one can see it. Who has believed our report? (Isaiah 53:1). No one.

Then a period. Then a new sentence: As the morning spread upon the mountains — the sun rises, and what was hidden is revealed — a great people and a strong. There has never been the like. Neither shall there be any more after it.

A great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like. — Joel 2:2

We will never see the like of David and Elijah again. It has never happened before — which means Moses and Aaron cannot compare. And it will never happen again. The greatest story never told is about to unfold. One returned from heaven. The other — the firstborn of the dead — resurrected from the grave.

A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. — Joel 2:3

Fire before them. Flame behind them. Nothing escapes.

The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. — Joel 2:4

Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. — Joel 2:6

All faces turn pale. The same language appears in the book of Jasher during Jacob's trouble, when AO sent three angels who appeared as two thousand horsemen before Esau's camp. Esau fell off his horse. His entire camp was terrified (Jasher 32:35). The angels declared: "Surely we are the servants of Jacob, who is the servant of God, and who can stand against us?"

Who can stand against them?

The AO 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 AO is great and very terrible; and who can abide it? — Joel 2:11

No one.

After describing the army, after calling for repentance, after promising restoration — "I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten" (Joel 2:25) — Joel places the sign:

And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of AO come. — Joel 2:30–31

The moon turned to blood before — not during, not after — before the great and terrible day.

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The Sun of David

And then there is the matter of the sun. We wrote about this at length in The Dawn of a New Day, but the connection to Joel demands a summary here.

David is called "the light of Israel" in Scripture:

Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel. — 2 Samuel 21:17

Isaiah connects that light to fire:

And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and His Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour. — Isaiah 10:17

The light of Israel shall be a fire. His Holy One — a flame. David is both. He is the light of Israel and he is AO's Holy One. He is the Serpent Bearer, and he will cause fire to rain down from heaven with the staff of God. This is Joel 2:3: "A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth."

And Malachi names Him directly:

But unto you that fear My name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. — Malachi 4:2

The Sun of righteousness shall arise. Not descend from heaven. Not return on a cloud. Arise — as a sun rises. As a dead man rises from the grave.

And Isaiah confirms it:

So shall they fear the name of AO from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. — Isaiah 59:19

The sun rises in the east. So AO is not talking about the sun. He is talking about His firstborn son — David the Messiah. His glory from the rising of the Son. And they shall fear His name from the west — the west coast of America, the true promised land. We will discuss this at length in a future post.

David himself described it:

He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. — 2 Samuel 23:3–4

As the light of the morning. When the sun rises. A morning without clouds. David is describing his own return.

In creation week, each day represents a thousand years of earth's history. On day four, AO created the sun — the greater light to rule the day. Day four corresponds to the years of David's life and kingdom, when his throne was established and the light ruled. When the temple was destroyed and Israel was cut off, the sun went down. The lampstand was turned off for 3,500 years. But the sun is about to rise again.

NASA tells us the sun is 93 million miles away. Reverse it: 3/9. March 9. The spring equinox in 2026 — the day the sun reclaims the sky from the darkness.

Coincidence? We are going to find out.

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A Word About Blood Moons

Blood moons have become a frequent phenomenon over the past century. They appear regularly enough now that the world barely notices them. But ask yourself: when did blood moons become so common? The phenomenon of a visibly red-tinted moon seems to be a recent occurrence — within the last hundred years or so.

Getting people accustomed to seeing blood moons so that when the real sign appears, the world shrugs.

But Joel 2:31 is the only blood moon verse in the entire Tanakh. If AO placed one sign — just one — as the marker before the great and terrible day, then the blood moon of March 2 was not just another lunar eclipse. Something tells us that this blood moon looked very different from all the blood moons the world has ever seen.

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What Is the Great and Terrible Day?

The church has taught for centuries that "the great and terrible day of the Lord" is the final judgment — the end of the world, fire from heaven, lakes of burning sulfur. But Joel himself separates the events. Chapter 2 is the day of AO. Chapter 3 is Gog and Magog — the final battle, the judgment of the nations in the Valley of Jehoshaphat. They are not the same event.

The great and terrible day of AO is not the end of the world. It is the beginning of the restoration. It is the resurrection of the king — the kickoff of Jacob's trouble, the 7-year judgment on America, "that nation whom they shall serve" (Genesis 15:14).

Scripture tells us plainly who that king is:

And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. — Ezekiel 34:23

And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd. — Ezekiel 37:24

Ezekiel wrote this hundreds of years after David's death. He did not say "a son of David." He said David. AO is not speaking in metaphor. He is speaking in prophecy. David will return.

And the prophet Malachi sealed it with a two-step promise:

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of AO. — Malachi 4:5

First Elijah. Then the great and dreadful day. Two steps. Two events. Separated by time.

If Elijah returned on September 10, 2024, then the great and dreadful day — the resurrection of David — follows.

Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of AO shall be thy rereward. — Isaiah 58:8

The morning is here.

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Joel's Final Word

Joel does not end with the blood moon. He ends with a promise:

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of AO shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as AO hath said, and in the remnant whom AO shall call. — Joel 2:32

Whosoever shall call on the name of AO shall be delivered. Not the name of a church. Not the name of a denomination. Not the name of a man who claimed to fulfill what David alone was promised. The name of AO.

The blood moon has appeared. The sign has been given. The morning is spreading upon the mountains.

It is the glory of God to conceal His word, but the honor of kings is to search it out. — Proverbs 25:2

You are searching. You are reading. You are here.

The greatest story never told is about to be witnessed with your own eyes. HalleluAO!

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Read the companion pieces: The Dawn of a New Day: David Is the Sun of Righteousness, The Almond Tree and the Spring Equinox, The Resurrection of David — The Rod of the Almond Tree, Deuteronomy 33:26 — The Sign That None Can Deny, and The Shiller PE Ratio Is Drawing the Three Towers.