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In his first sermon in Acts, Peter apparently interpreted this as reference to the spate of interesting solar and lunar eclipses of his time, notably the total solar eclipse in the area in November 29CE, later conflated into the story of Jesus' crucifixion and, if memory serves (can get more detailed info later) a total lunar eclipse occuring a couple of months prior at the same time as the Jewish festival Sukkot.
2013-2015 saw the remarkable coincidence of a 'feast tetrad' of four total lunar eclipses across two years all occurring on Pesach and Sukkot 2014-15 (the eighth such occurrence since Jesus' day), as well as a H3 hybrid solar eclipse, the rarest variety (also the eighth since Christ). The previous two 'feast tetrads' had occurred in 1949 (when an armistice with surrounding countries established Israel's nominal initial borders) and in 1967 (when Israel captured the Temple Mount and established its current borders). The second closest that a 'feast tetrad' and H3 eclipse occur near each other across three thousand years was four years apart (versus one year in 2013-14) in the 1490s, coinciding with Jews' expulsion from Spain and the first Spanish arrival in the Americas which would one day be home to the second highest Jewish population outside Israel, many fleeing European oppression.
The odds of these two remarkable events -eighth 'feast tetrad' and eighth H3 solar eclipse - happening together are, by a very sceptical estimate, well under 1 in 200: Or in other words, if bible prophecy is true believers could be >99.5% certain that they were the signs preceding Jesus' return. Some preachers offered far less cautious assessments, saying the odds were trillions to one or other nonsense; but as a non-Christian sceptic I took a more critical approach, and since 2011 have remained observant and curious about whether it would all come to pass.
Unfortunately if it were going to come to pass, it would have required the seven years of tribulation and the like to have already occurred, with the Jewish temple rebuilt no later than 2020 by even the most generous interpretation and Jesus returning in glory in 2022-23. Obviously, that's not going to happen. So the only logical conclusion is that - in addition to all the other evidence of biblical false prophecy etc. - even Christians can now be >99.5% certain that Jesus is not going to return.
