The Renewed Covenant (New Testament) writers, Matthew 27:45, Mark 15:33, Luke 23:44-45, and Dionysius the Areopagite (Greek Astronomer) were four eyewitnesses that recorded this epic fulfillment of Amos’ prophecy. Individually and in one accord, each determined that the miracle of this darkened sun event lay with its profoundly unusual length. It was Luke alone, of the followers of Yahusha, who clarified that the darkness over all the earth was overtly related to the occulted sun. However, the other two disciples covertly stated it.”

But, you may ask, how did each of these disciples of the Messiah declare the darkness was related to the sun itself? The answer lay in the fact that they all identified the time of day as the period between the 6th and the 9th hour. Each daylight, as ruled by the sun, was divided into twelve equal portions as portrayed on the sundial, the trusted measuring device of all ancient nations. (John 11:9). All agreed that the sun was shining as usual from sunrise to the 6th hour (noon). It was the sun that was obscured from noon (6th hour) until the 9th hour. At the 9th hour, the sun was shining again as usual until sunset at the end of the 12th hour at its natural time as registered on a sundial.

Consider that the words “stricken sun” are not even necessary here because the use of the term “hour” testifies to the single measuring unit of time represented by the sun alone.

In letters written under the name Dionysius the Areopagite, the author claims to have observed a solar eclipse from Heliopolis at the time of the crucifixion. Parker, John (1897). “Letter VII. Section II. To Polycarp–Hierarch. & Letter XI. Dionysius to Apollophanes, Philosopher.” The Works of Dionysius the Arepagite. London: James Parker and Co. pp. 148–149, 182–183.

 

According to the Orthodox Church in America, Dionysius, who is mentioned in Acts 17:34, was from Athens and received a classical Greek education (i.e. Atticism). He studied astronomy at the city of Heliopolis, and it was in Heliopolis, along with his friend Apollophonos where he witnessed the solar eclipse that occurred at the moment of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ by Crucifixion. (The connection between the events was surely realized by him at a later date.) But even so, at the time of the eclipse he said, “Either the Creator of all the world now suffers, or this visible world is coming to an end.” Hieromartyr Dionysius the Areopagite the Bishop of Athens, Wikipedia.org

There are a total of four eyewitnesses that testify that, indeed, it was the “sun” that was darkened on that most epic day of Earth’s history.

The church historian Eusebius of Caesarea (A.D. 264 – 340), in his Chronicle, quotes Phlegon [second century A.D.] as saying that during the fourth year of the 202nd Olympiad:

“A great eclipse of the sun occurred at the sixth hour [noon] that excelled every other before it, turning the day into such darkness of night that the stars could be seen in heaven, and the earth moved in Bithynia, toppling many buildings in the city of Nicaea.” Chronicle, Olympiad 202, trans. Carrier (1999)

The record of that day by the Greeks must not be overlooked regarding the stars shining at noon, as they were expert astronomers who fully utilized the sun, moon, and stars for all their timekeeping.

It appears that divine intervention utilized the occulted moon, which was already in a relative position to or at the moment of a solar eclipse. Yahuah may have merely brought the moon closer to Earth and caused it to align with the sun for three hours. A three-hour eclipse is not unheard of, as NASA records these events. These occur during a perigee moon when the moon is larger and closer to Earth. This would facilitate the earthquake event and the stars that could have become visible in the shamayim to serve Yahuah’s prophetic purposes.

The Sorrowing Eternal Father’s Announcement to the World

So what might a sorrowing Eternal Father want to portray to earthlings on that epic day of conflicting emotions of the sacrificial death of His only begotten son through an epic three-part orchestrated “signal” event of the sun, moon, and stars? 

With the added assistance of Divine intervention, the astronomical sign portrayed in this Stellarium image illustrates what could have been. NASA holds no revealed record of this occurring at noon in that region for any date within 20 years.  But I firmly believe that on that day, both the occulted sun and the occulted moon were together at the feet of the “he lamb,” the constellation Aries, at exactly midday (noon/the sixth hour).

Might our sorrowing Eternal Father have utilized this timely astronomical event to announce to the whole earth, “Behold, the LAMB, My Only Begotten Son, who takes away the sin of the world?” This is the very story revealed and synchronized to the stars. It is by starting the New Year utilizing the full moon as the New Moon, together with the constellation Bethula (Virgo), on the 14th of the month, that allows for the constellation Aries to be in the sky at precisely noon, allowing the three-part orchestration of sun, moon, and stars to announce the prophetic fulfillment of this grand and all-encompassing event.

It appears Yahuah had advanced knowledge that both the identity of His authentic anointed Son and the original New Moon would become a subject of controversy in the centuries following the crucifixion. So, He placed the authenticity of the true lunar phase displayed in the middle of the lunar month in the safety of the Abrahamic Covenant. This foundational covenant also identifies the long-promised authentic Messiah and His pre-ordained night of the crucifixion. Thus, we can know with certainty that Passover, the 14th of the lunar month, nearly 2000 years after Abraham, was also to occur in a dark lunar phase in the middle of the lunar month. As a result, the full moon is the original first day of the lunar month, as established by yet another principle in Scripture. Refer to the article, The Night Was Dark.

As discovered earlier in this Word Study, the simple version below compares the NKJV with the Creator’s Calendar New Restored Interlinear Text as found in the original Hebrew. 

Blind Leading the Blind

Why do the Yahudim (Jews) and Christians (of every denomination) overlook these verses above from Amos 8:9-11 that highlight the long-promised Messiah’s sacrificial death in the middle of the lunar month with the largest solar eclipse ever to be witnessed on earth? Might it be because the truth carries with it incriminating evidence that they are no longer synchronized with the true beacons of astro-luni-solar time?

The Romans, who coined the term Christianity, and indeed are represented today by the Mother Roman Catholic Church, because of their hatred for the Yahudim (Jews), altered the calendar. They eliminated the moon from their calendar except for finding Easter Sunday. This began as early as 46 B.C. with Julius Caesar, which included an eight-day continuous weekly cycle. Later, the eight-day week was dropped, and a seven-day continuous weekly cycle was settled upon and finally put into law by Constantine in A.D. 325. Refer to the article, Constantine’s Creed.

Following A.D. 70, the Jews were taken into Roman captivity and ultimately pressured to adopt Roman and Babylonian calendar principles. Today, neither the Romans nor the Jews maintain a single unit of time as preordained in Scripture. Link.

However, correct lunar time is not the only thing removed from the radar of each of these highly religious groups. The most important of all is the identity of the authentic Messiah.  Today, the Yahudim (Jews) deny that the Messiah has ever come. Part of the problem is that their choice of calendar, which begins with either the dark conjunction or the first visible crescent as the first day of the lunar month, will never identify Him by the prescribed solar eclipse criteria on the day of His sacrificial death. 

Then, because the Romans have implanted into the paradigms of most of the world today a seven-day planetary week that cycles without end, it has been assumed that the Messiah died on Good Friday and rose on Easter Sunday.  This lunar eliminated time-measuring system, together with the name Jesus Christ, actually identifies the imposter Messiah who does not fit all of Scripture’s required criteria. There is much more extenuating evidence of a continued cover-up.