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Four Blood Moons: It’s theory explained: 3 of 5

10 Friday Oct 2014

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Note:  Please see 1 of 5 for introduction.  –SB

CHAPTER 14

The Four Blood Moons of 1949-50

I will take you from among the nations,

gather you out of all countries, and bring you into

your own land. . . .  Then you shall dwell in the land

that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people,

and I will be your God.

–EZEKIEL 36:24, 28

The second appearance of Four Blood Moons that are significantly linked to Jewish history was reported by NASA during 1949-50.  [NASA Eclipse Web site, http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html .]  They occurred during the rebirth of the State of Israel, which began in 1948.  The mighty right hand of God gathered the Jewish people who, beginning in AD 70, had been scattered across the earth when Titus besieged Jerusalem.  The Jewish people of the Diaspora were brought back to Israel, just as the Old Testament prophets had prophesied.

This Tetrad, beginning in 1949, occurred on the Jewish holidays of Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles:

  1.  Passover, April 13, 1949
  2.  Feast of Tabernacles, October 7, 1949
  3.  Passover, April 2, 1950
  4.  Feast of Tabernacles, September 26, 1950

BLOOD MOONS OF 1949-50

A total solar eclipse took place on September 12, 1950, before the Feast of Tabernacles on September 26.

What was happening to the Jewish people during this time?

It was in 1948 that Israel was once again declared a nation.  There is no greater miracle in human history than the miracle of the ingathering of the seed of Abraham.  The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people.  The Land of Israel was where their spiritual identity was shaped.  The Land of Israel is where the Jewish people will reside forever.

After being forcibly exiled by Titus in AD 70 the Jewish people never lost their love and connection to their sacred land.  Throughout the Diaspora they never ceased to hope for the restoration of their national identity and freedom.  Their constant prayer was, “Next year in Jerusalem.”

Compelled by the Abrahamic covenant and as a result of the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition and Holocaust, the Jewish people endeavored in reestablishing themselves in their ancient homeland more than ever.  They returned to the Land as pioneers or ma’pilim, which were immigrants coming to Eretz-Israel (the Land of Israel) in defiance of restrictive legislation.  They committed themselves to make the deserts bloom, to revive the Hebrew language, to build villages and towns, all the while ready to defend themselves from the enemies that were dedicated to their destruction.

These were peace-loving people who desired nothing more than independent nationhood which would open the gates of their biblical homeland to every Jewish person scattered among the nations.

THEODORE HERZL—VISIONARY

In 1897, Theodore Herzl, who is known as the founder of Zionism, convened the First Zionist Congress and proclaimed the right of the Jewish people to national rebirth in their own country.  This right was recognized in the Balfour Declaration of November 1917 and reaffirmed in the Mandate of the League of Nations, which specifically gave international sanction to the historic connection between the Jewish people and Eretz-Israel (Land of Israel) and to the right of the Jewish people to rebuild their national homeland.

Herzl was motivated by his personal experience of anti-Semitism while studying at the university in Vienna and, specifically, the trial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in 1894.  Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was unjustly accused of treason, primarily because of the predominant anti-Semitic atmosphere in Vienna.  Herzl witnessed mobs shouting, “Death to the Jews” and resolved that there was only one solution:  the mass immigration of Jews to a land that they could call their own.  This was the genesis of Zionism, the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their covenant homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty.  [The Jewish Virtual Library, Establishment of Israel:  The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Herzl.html .]

MENACHEM BEGIN—THE WARRIOR

Menachem Begin was a Jewish youth leader in Poland when the Russians invaded during World War II.  He was captured and placed in prison, where he was interrogated every night for hours.  He slept in a cell infected by fleas.  I will never forget him saying to me, “The first flea is considered and invader, and the rest are considered welcomed friends.”

After Begin’s release, he immediately traveled to what was then called Palestine (named after WWI for territories under the British Mandate, which included not only present-day Israel but also present-day Jordan).  It was a time when Britain was decidedly pro-Arab.  However, due to the Balfour Declaration, the governed body was forced to allow Jews to immigrate to Palestine.  But they limited the number of immigrants by creating the harsh White Paper policy of 1939.  This policy was decidedly influenced by the Arabs and limited the number of Jewish immigrants into Palestine to a meager ten thousand per year.

Here’s the problem:  this was during the Holocaust when Hitler was sending twenty thousand Jews per day to the concentration camps of Europe.  The Jews who were privileged to receive immigration documents to Palestine had a ticket to life, those who did not were a first put in ghettos and then sent to the camps where they were treated like animals by the demonized anti-Semitic Nazis.  Making matters worse, the British army rounded up any Jewish person without immigration documents who managed to get to Palestine and then sent them back to Hitler’s death camps.  [Menachim Begin, The Revolt:  Story of the Irgun  (Jerusalem:  Steimatzky Agency Ltd; 1977).]

When Menachem Begin arrived in Palestine and witnessed the British army put Jews by the hundreds on the trains back to Europe and to Hitler’s death comps, he decided to form the paramilitary group known as the Irgun.  The word Irgun in Hebrew means “our group.”  The purpose of the Irgun was to teach Jewish men how to fight and liberate their fellow Jews from the trains and ships headed for Hitler’s death camps.

Under the radar of British intelligence, the Irgun imported the machinery to manufacture their own rifles and ammunition.  The Irgun also developed a percussion bomb that was placed on the train tracks.  When the train, loaded with captured Jews bound for the death camps, would pass over the percussion bomb, it was timed to blow up between the engine and the coal car.  It cut the train like a knife.  The engine sailed down the tracks, the cars slowed down, and Menachem’s Irgun boarded the trains and liberated their fellow Jews.

The British put out a very lucrative bounty for the capture of Menachem Begin.  Begin’s resolve became as steel while he was in the Russian prisons.  On one occasion, he hid in the fireplace of his home for three days straight while the British intelligence officers interrogated his wife who was just a few feet away.  He may have looked like a bespectacled mild-mannered schoolteacher, but he was a dedicated warrior and liberator of the Jewish people.

The King David Hotel was the command center for the British army with approximately three hundred British officers and soldiers living on the premises.  Menachem Begin and the Irgun wired the King David Hotel with explosives.  The British commander was then called by phone and given the opportunity to evacuate the hotel prior to the explosion.  The British commanding officer vigorously refused to obey the orders of a Jew and believed the call to be a prank.  The Irgun then detonated a small bomb in the middle of the street in front of the hotel to demonstrate it was no hoax.

The British still refused to leave the King David Hotel.  The explosives were set off and several hundred British soldiers needlessly perished.  [“The Bombing of the King David Hotel,” Jewish Virtual Library, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/King_David.html .]

Menachem Begin was characterized as a terrorist.  Not so!  He was committed to saving the lives of the Jewish people.  He was eventually rewarded by the people of Israel when they elected him prime minister.  It was my pleasure to meet with him several times during his very successful administration. . . .

He was a devout man who studied the Torah every day.  After his term in office, he taught a Bible class in his home every Friday night.  I believe that without Menachem Begin and his Irgun organization the British would not have left Palestine and thousands more Jewish lives would have been lost to the Holocaust. . . .

DAVID BEN-GURION—THE DIPLOMAT

Ben-Gurion was a Zionist statesman and political leader, the first prime minister (1948-53, 1955-63) and defense minister (1948-53, 1955-63) of Israel.

It was Ben-Gurion who delivered Israel’s declaration of independence in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948.  His charismatic personality won him the adoration of the masses; he was revered as the “Father of the Nation.”

In 1906 the twenty-year-old Ben-Gurion immigrated to Palestine and worked as a farmer in the Jewish agricultural settlements for several years.  As the Jewish settlement strengthened and deepened its roots in Palestine, anxiety mounted among the Palestinian Arabs, resulting in violent clashes between the two communities.

Ben-Gurion reacted to the British White Paper Policy of 1939 by calling upon the Jewish community to rise against the British and on May 12, 1942, he assembled an emergency conference of American Zionists in New York City where the convention decided upon the establishment of a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine after the war.  [British White Paper of 1939,” Jewish Virtual Library, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/paper39.html .]

At the end of World War II, Ben-Gurion again led the Jewish community in its successful struggle against the British mandate; and in May 1948, in accordance with a decision of the United Nations General Assembly, and with the support of the United States, the State of Israel was established.  The Declaration of Statehood read in part:

ACCORDINGLY WE, Members of The People’s

Council, Representatives of The Jewish Community of

Eretz-Israel And of The Zionist Movement, Are Here

Assembled On The Day of The Termination of The

British Mandate Over Eretz-Israel And, By Virtue of

Our Natural And Historic Right And On The Strength

of The Resolution of The United Nations General As-

sembly, Hereby Declare The Establishment of A Jew-

ish State in Eretz-Israel, To Be Know As The State of

Israel. . . .

 

Placing Our Trust In The Almighty, We Affix Our

Signatures To This Proclamation At This Session Of

The Provisional Council Of State, On The Soil Of The

Homeland, In the City of Tel-Aviv, On This Sabbath

Eve The 5th Day Of Iyar, 5708—14th May, 1948.  [The Jewish Virtual Library, Establishment of Israel:  The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel.]

Ben-Gurion viewed the newborn state as the direct continuation of Jewish history that had been interrupted two thousand years earlier when the Roman legions had crushed the Hebrew freedom fighters and banished the Jews from their land.  He saw the Jews’ period of exile as a prolonged interlude in the history of Israel and declared that they had now regained their rightful home.  David Ben-Gurion believed that Israel was “a country built more on her people . . . the Jews will come from everywhere . . . from France, from Russia, from America and from Yemen . . . their faith is their passport.”  [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/60297/David-Ben-Gurion .]

Israel was reborn in the month of Iyar—the “second month” has always held great biblical significance.  It was in the second month that King Solomon began to build the First Temple (1 Kings 6:1); it was in the second month, on the same exact day, that Ezra began to rebuild the Second Temple (Ezra 3:8).   And it was in the second month on the 5th day of Iyar, that Israel was reborn as a nation.

Who has ever heard of such things?

Who has ever seen things like this?

Can a country be born in a day

or a nation be brought forth in a moment?

Yet no sooner is Zion in labor

than she gives birth to her children.

(ISAIAH 66:8 NIV)

The first permanent Israeli government took office on January 25, 1949.  During the next several months, a series of four Israeli War of Independence truce agreements were signed; with Egypt on February 24, with Lebanon on March 23, with Jordan on April 3, and with Syria on July 20.  All of these agreements created armistice demarcation lines, which established Israel’s borders.  [The Jewish Virtual Library, Establishment of Israel:  The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel.]

It was during this process of Israel’s rebirth and the establishment of her borders that on Passover 1949 God splattered the heavens with the first Blood Moon of the second Tetrad.  The Jewish people had endured the severe tribulation of the Holocaust, the trials of rebirthing a nation, and now it was a time of triumph; they were officially home and home forever.

. . .

Four Blood Moons: It’s theory explained: 5 of 5  12 October 2014

Four Blood Moons: It’s theory explained: 4 of 5  11 October 2014

Four Blood Moons: It’s theory explained: 2 of 5  9 October 2014

Four Blood Moons: It’s theory explained: I of 5  8 October 2014

The Rapture: Common theories, sources, history and speculation  (1 October 2014)

 

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Four Blood Moons: It’s theory explained: I of 5

08 Wednesday Oct 2014

Posted by essaybee2012 in Acts 2:19-20, Bill Koenig, blood moons, Christians United For Israel, Exodus 12:14, Feast of Tabernacles, Feasts of Israel, Festival of Ingathering, Four Blood Moons theory, Four Blood Moons: Something is about to change (2013), Gregorian calendar, harvest season, Jewish day, Jewish history, Jewish holidays, John Hagee, Koenig International News, Leviticus 23:34-43, Leviticus 23:4-5, lunar eclipse, mikrah, mo'ed, NASA, Nissan, Passover, Pei-Samekh-Cheit, Pesach, prophecy, Sukkot, tetrad, Tishri, World Watch Daily

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I’ve excerpted the following passages from:  Hagee, John.  Four Blood Moons:  Something is about to change.  Worthy: Brentwood, TN.  2013.

According to the back jacket of Hagee’s book, he is “the founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, a nondenominational evangelical church with more than 20,000 active members.  He is also the founder and president of John Hagee Ministries, which telecasts his radio and television teachings throughout America and in 249 nations worldwide.  Hagee is the founder and national chairman of Christians United for Israel.”

I am not a member of his church, nor do I agree with much of his teachings, however, this book presents a clear biblical perspective of the Four Blood Moons theory.  I have extracted only that which explains that theory for those who have heard of it, or haven’t, and want to know more.

It is clear to me that the Four Blood Moons theory has historical merit.  It’s basic structure, I believe, cannot be disputed.  I’ve left out from my extractions the biblical prophecy portions, which I believe to be Hagee’s territory.  I simply wanted to present the theory (in four fairly short parts) with it’s basic historical and biblical structure, as it will be clearly eye-opening to those who read to the end.

Two blood moons have already occurred this year (the second one last night), and two more will appear next year.  This “tetrad” of blood moons, occurring on the same Jewish feasts each time, has only occurred four times in roughly five hundred years.

Unless otherwise noted, all scripture passages are from the New King James Version of the Bible  –SB

Section 3

The Four Blood Moons

Chapter 12

The Four Blood Moons and Two Feasts

I will show wonders in heaven above

And signs in the earth beneath.

Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

The sun shall be turned into darkness,

And the moon into blood,

Before the coming of the great and

awesome day of the LORD.

–ACTS 2:19-20

. . .  “Have you ever considered the sun, moon, and stars in the study of prophecy?”

NASA DISCOVERY

My first attempt was to open the NASA website and search for lunar signals. . . .  I just kept searching and could find nothing to validate the connection of the Four Blood Moons to prophecy.

The Scriptures speak of “signs in the heavens,” many of which have been confirmed by NASA. . . . But still, I could not find the connection to prophecy.

Then I thought . . . maybe these lunar signs are meant for Israel.  God is the defender of Israel.  He created Israel.  Israel is His firstborn son (Exodus 4:22).  So I chose the first date that came to my mind, which was the year of Israel’s rebirth, and typed in the following statement:  “Total moon eclipse in 1948.”

. . .

Four “blood-red” total lunar eclipses will fall on Pass-

over and Sukkot in 2014 and Sukkot in 2014 and 2015, the same back-to-

back occurrences at the time of 1492, 1949 and 1967.

[Above quote from:  Bill Koenig, World Watch Daily, Koenig International News, http://watch.org/showprint.php3?idx=104119&mcat=24&rtn=index.html.]

. . .

There have been several Tetrads (four consecutive blood moons) since NASA first recorded their occurrences, but Tetrads linked to significant Jewish history have happened only three times in more than five hundred years.  These specific occurrences could not be ignored. . . . they are about to happen for a fourth time.

. . .

THE FEASTS OF THE LORD

In my book His Glory Revealed I explain the scriptural applications for the seven Feasts of Israel by giving their relevant historical account and their prophetic interpretations.

. . .

The Hebrew word for feast is mo’ed, denoting “a set or appointed time.”  A very similar meaning is mikrah indicating a “rehearsal or recital.”  Each feast, like a dress rehearsal, offers a significant glimpse of God’s prophetic plan.  The combined feasts, divinely established shortly after the Israelites were redeemed from Egypt’s bondage, would be a spiritual blueprint of what lies ahead for Israel, Jerusalem, and the rest of the world.

All Jewish holidays begin the evening before the date specified on most calendars.  This is because a Jewish “day” begins and ends at sunset, rather than at midnight like the Gregorian calendar.

If you read the story of creation in Genesis I, you will notice that it records, “And there was evening, and there was morning, one day.”  From this, we conclude that a day begins with evening and ends the following evening; that is, sunset to sunset.

As I present the significance of the Four Blood Moons in the chapters to follow, I will mention two feasts that are directly associated with their past and future occurrences.  In order to better understand their noteworthy connection, I will briefly describe them; they are Passover (Pesach) and the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot).

PASSOVER

Passover (Pesach) begins on the 15th day of the Jewish month of Nissan.  It is the first of the two major festivals with both historical and agricultural significance that occur in the Tetrad.

These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations

which you shall proclaim at their appointed times.  On

the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the

Lord’s Passover.

(LEVITICUS 23:4-5)

So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall

keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your gener-

ations.  You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting

ordinance.

(EXODUS 12:14)

Agriculturally, it represents the beginning of the harvest season in Israel, but the primary observances of Pesach are related to the Exodus from Egypt after generations of slavery (Exodus, chapters 1-15)

The name Pesach comes from the Hebrew root Pei-Samekh-Cheit, meaning to pass through, to pass over, to exempt, or to spare.  It refers to the fact that God “passed over” the houses of the Jewish people that applied the lamb’s blood on the doorposts of their home as He slayed the firstborn of Egypt.  Pesach is also the name of the sacrificial offering (a lamb) that was made in the Temple on this holiday.

. . .

THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES

The Festival of Tabernacles (Sukkot) begins on the 15th day of the Jewish month of Tishri.  The word Sukkot means “booths” and refers to the temporary dwellings that the Jewish people are commanded to live in during this holiday to commemorate the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert, living in temporary shelters.

Say to the Israelites:  “On the fifteenth day of the sev-

enth month the LORD’S Feast of Tabernacles begins,

and it lasts for seven days.  The first day is a sacred as-

sembly; do no regular work.  For seven days present

offerings made to the LORD by fire, and on the eighth

day hold a sacred assembly and present an offering

made to the LORD by fire. . . .”  So beginning with the

fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have

gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to

the LORD for seven days; the first day is a day of rest,

and the eighth day also is a day of rest.  On the first day

you are to take choice fruit from the trees, and palm

fronds, leafy branches and poplars, and rejoice before

the LORD your God for seven days.  Celebrate this as a

festival to the LORD for seven days each year.  This is

to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come;

celebrate it in the seventh month.  Live in booths for

seven days:  All native-born Israelites are to live in

booths so your descendants will know that I had the

Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of

Egypt.  I am the LORD your God.

(LEVITICUS 23:34-43 NIV 1984)

Agriculturally, Sukkot is a harvest festival and is sometimes referred to as the Festival of Ingathering. . . .  The Feast of Tabernacles is ultimately a time of thanksgiving for God’s provision.

. . .

Four Blood Moons: It’s theory explained: 5 of 5  12 October 2014

Four Blood Moons: It’s theory explained: 4 of 5  11 October 2014

Four Blood Moons: It’s theory explained: 3 of 5  10 October 2014

Four Blood Moons: It’s theory explained: 2 of 5  9 October 2014

The Rapture: Common theories, sources, history and speculation  (1 October 2014)

 

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