Mark Biltz (born June 25, 1956) is an American Christian pastor and author. His theories correlate solar and

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s with

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, and he has published several books on the topic. He is the

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director of

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. He began writing about the "blood moon"

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phenomenon in 2008, and has come to be known as "the blood moons pastor" or "Blood Moon Biltz". His writings correlate lunar and solar eclipses with the modern State of

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Biography

In 1975, he attended

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and started to take an interest in

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studies. Soon after, he left the

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and studied

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. In 1987, he moved to

and served as an administrative teacher of South King County Bible College in

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. In 2008, he started researching a phenomenon he called the "Blood Moon", correlating data on

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's website with the

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and the modern State of

. Since then, he has come to be known as "Blood Moons Biltz" and “the blood moons pastor”. Biltz hosts his own show on the PTL TV Network entitled ''Discovering the Ancient Paths''.

Works

* ''Blood Moons: Decoding the Imminent Heavenly Signs'' (2014) * ''Sooner Than You Think: A Prophetic Guide to the End Times'' (with Sid Roth, Perry Stone, Tom Horn, L.A. Marzulli, Paul McGuire, and John Shorey, 2015) * ''God's Day Timer: The Believer's Guide to Divine Appointments'' (2016) * ''The Three Messiahs: The Startling Connection Between the Jewish Messiah, the Antichrist, and the Twelfth Imam'' (2017) * ''Decoding the Antichrist and the End Times: What the Bible Says and What the Future Holds'' (2019) * ''Decoding the Prophet Jeremiah: What an Ancient Prophet Says About Today'' (2020)

TV appearances

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Biography

Works

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