Four Blood Moons
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This island of democracy in the sea of an Arab-Islamic world sits at the center of constant religious and civil unrest. Just who are Israel’s modern-day enemies and what is their current agenda?
ISRAEL’S HOSTILE NEIGHBORS
Israel’s enemies can be divided into two groups: the surrounding Islamic nations that have historically been their opponents in past wars, and radical terrorist organizations formed more recently that are committed to Israel’s destruction.
EGYPT
Egypt was the leading nation that fought against Israel in all of her past wars (1948, 1967, and 1973). Outlawed in Egypt since 1954, the Muslim Brotherhood emerged as a political party under a new name—the Freedom and Justice Party. Mohamed Morsi was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood and chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party. Morsi was voted in as the president of Egypt on June 30, 2012. The following is a quote from the former president:
Either [you accept] the Zionists and everything they want, or else it is war. This is what these occupiers of the land of Palestine know—these blood-suckers, who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, the descendants of apes and pigs.8
As Four Blood Moons goes to press, President Morsi has been ousted from office and placed under house arrest as a result of a “complete military coup” after thousands of Egyptian citizens demonstrated in the streets of Cairo demanding his resignation.
As of July 9, 2013, former Finance Minister Hazem el-Beblawi has been appointed Egypt’s new prime minister. Only time will tell if the Muslim Brotherhood will allow the new regime to stay in power.9
SYRIA
Syria has been another opponent of Israel in all her past wars and remains an enemy of Israel to this day. Head of Hezbollah Political Council His Eminence Ibrahim Amin Sayyed laid out “dangers” facing the region, the first being the existence of Israel.
JORDAN
Jordan shares the longest border with Israel with a significantly large Sunni Muslim population. Although Jordan signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, the country is constantly under fire from Syria, which backs anti-Israel militants.10
IRAN
Iran is the greatest threat Israel currently faces. Under their fanatical former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran has been on a fast track to produce nuclear capabilities while promising to “wipe Israel off the map.” Iran finances and trains Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists, equipping them with arms to use against Israel.
Consider this quote from the 2005 conference entitled “A World without Zionism” in Tehran, Iran:
Our dear Imam said that the occupying regime must be wiped off the map and this was a very wise statement. We cannot compromise over the issue of Palestine. Is it possible to create a new front in the heart of an old front. This would be a defeat and whoever accepts the legitimacy of this regime [Israel] has in fact, signed the defeat of the Islamic world. Our dear Imam targeted the heart of the world oppressor in his struggle, meaning the occupying regime (Israel). I have no doubt that the new wave that has started in Palestine, and we witness it in the Islamic world too, will eliminate this disgraceful stain from the Islamic world. But we must be aware of tricks.11
A TARGET FOR TERRORISTS
While the nations of the Middle East present the visible threat to Israel’s existence, radical Islamic organizations such as the PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Fatah are an ever-present force inciting strife and bloodshed, and providing momentum for an increasingly hostile and unstable environment for Israel. Fueled by perceived success in their last armed conflict with Israel, they are committed to an all-out war with Israel in the near future.
It is 1967 all over again.
The coming Four Blood Moons are aligning themselves, the next Shemittah year is nearing, the sages of old have foretold of events past and those to come, the enemies of Israel are surrounding the Land of Covenant once again, the signs of the terminal generation are complete . . . there is only one question left to answer. . . .
ARE YOU READY?
The fourth series of Four Blood Moons is coming! They are extremely rare even by scientific standards. God is shouting to us, “Something big is about to happen!” However, the coming Four Blood Moons of 2014–15 does not mean the Rapture is going to happen during that time. Why? Because the Rapture could happen at any moment.
What they are telling us is that God is getting ready to change the course of human history once again. He is preparing to display the next series of signs in the heavens. What is going to happen?
The question is not about the terminal generation or when Israel’s enemies are going to attack next—the question is are you ready to meet the Lord? Are your children ready?
Watch and pray! Be prepared, like the five wise virgins who made sure they had extra oil for their lamps (Matthew 25:13). The Church is soon to leave the world. We are seeing signs of the end of this age.
Jesus said, “When these signs begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near” (Luke 21:28).
We’re getting ready to leave here. The King is coming! He is coming soon with power and great glory, and His reward is with Him (Isaiah 40:10). Are you ready? Are the members of your family ready? It’s the greatest question you will ever answer in this life!
When you see these signs in the heavens, don’t be afraid; rather lift up your heads and rejoice. Shout for joy! Your redemption draws nigh. The battle is over; soon we shall wear a robe and a crown of life.
There will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.
(LUKE 21:25–28)
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the great English preacher of the nineteenth century, didn’t speak extensively concerning the end times. But what he did say showed a remarkable understanding concerning the interrelationship of the things to come and the return of Christ as recorded in the book of Luke.
The following are excerpts from his sermon entitled “Joyful Anticipation of the Second Advent”:
I must leave this first point, concerning the terrible time (a time of fearful national trouble) when this precept is to be carried out, by just reminding you that, when the Lord Jesus Christ shall come, the heavens shall tell us: “There shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars.” Now I come to THE REMARKABLE PRECEPT itself: “Then I look up; lift up your heads.”
Let there be no looking down because the earth is quaking and shaking, but let there be a looking up because you are going to rise from it; no looking down because the graves are opening; why should you look down?
You will quit the grave, never more to die. “Lift up your heads.” The time for you to hang your heads, like bulrushes, is over already, and will certainly be over when the Lord is coming, and your redemption draweth nigh. Wherefore, “look up, and lift up your heads.” Hallelujah!12
The coming Four Blood Moons are almost here . . . are you ready?
NOTES
CHAPTER 1: SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS
1. “Russian meteor exploded with force of 30 Hiroshima bombs,” The Telegraph, February 16, 2013, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9874662/Russian-meteor-exploded-with-force-of-30-Hiroshima-bombs.html.
2. “Russian Meteor: Lack of Fragments Sparks Conspiracy Theories,” The Telegraph, February 16, 2013, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9874790/Russian-meteor-lack-of-fragments-sparks-conspiracy-theories.html.
3. Tariq Malik, “Giant Sun Eruption Captured in NASA Video,” Space.com, November 17, 2012, http://www.space.com/18533-giant-sun-eruption-nasa-video.html.
4. Michio Kaku interview with George Norry, Coast to Coast, November 24, 2012, http://w
ww.amateurastronomers.net/youtube-interviews.html.
5. Michio Kaku, “We Are Sitting Ducks for Solar Flares,” Big Think, February 1, 2012, http://bigthink.com/videos/we-are-sitting-ducks-for-solar-flares.
CHAPTER 2: THE STAR IN THE EAST
1. John Phillips, Exploring Genesis: An Expository Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2001), 38.
2. “How Hot Is the Sun?” Space.com, http://www.space.com/17137-how-hot-is-the-sun.html.
3. Andrew Grant, “100. Sun Burn,” Discover, January-February 2013, 92, http://discovermagazine.com/2013/jan-feb/100-sun-burn#.UUMrUhysiSo.
CHAPTER 3: WARNING COMES BEFORE JUDGMENT
1. Space.com, http://www.space.com/15689-lunar-eclipses.html.
2. Space.com, http://www.space.com/15689-solar-eclipses.html.
3. Rabbi Moshe Pinchuk, Director of Jewish Heritage Center, Netanya Academic College, June 2013, http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/eclipse/eclipsecycles.htm.
4. http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/roman-calendar.html/.
5. http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/julian-calendar.html/.
6. http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/gregorian-calendar.html/.
7. Clarence Larkin, Dispensational Truth (Glenside, PA: Rev. Clarence Larkin Est., 1920).
8. David Wessel, “Did the ‘Great Depression’ Live Up to the Name?” Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2010.
CHAPTER 4: THE SPINE OF PROPHECY
1. The (Online) Book of Common Prayer, “The Great Litany,” http://www.bcponline.org/.
2. Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War: Revised Edition (New York: Penguin Classics, 1984), 1.
3. “Tisha B’Av [The 9th of Av],” Judaism 101, http://www.jewfaq.org/holidayd.htm.
CHAPTER 6: CONCERNING THE RAPTURE
1. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, cited in Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2010), back flap.
2. Arthur W. Pink, Gleanings in Genesis (Chicago: Moody, 1922), 5, http://books.google.com/books?id=He89UcODFyIC&pg=PA20&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=snippet&
q=trinity&f=false.
3. Portions of this description can be found in John Hagee’s Can America Survive?, updated edition (Nashville: Howard Books, 2011), 219.
4. J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1983), vol. 4, p. 95 and vol. 5, p. 726–27.
5. McGee, Thru the Bible, vol. 3, p. 673.
CHAPTER 7: LAND OF PROMISE, LAND OF PAIN
1. Dan Senor and Saul Singe, Startup Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracles (New York: Twelve/Hachette Book Group, 2009), 13–15.
2. Eric H. Cline, From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible (Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2007), 43–53.
CHAPTER 8: WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS
1. “Origins of the Balfour Declaration,” The Balfour Declaration, Zionism, November 2, 1917, http://www.zionism-israel.com/Balfour_Declaration_1917.htm.
2. “The Road to War: Germany: 1919–1939,” AuthenticHistory.com, http://www.authentichistory.com/1930-1939/4-roadtowar/1-germany/.
3. Daily Alert, “Why You Shouldn’t Get Too Excited about Rowhani” (June 21, 2013), http://www.dailyalert.org/rss/tagpage.php?id=45520.
4. Harry S Truman, “Why I Dropped the Bomb,” cited in Margaret Truman, ed., Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S Truman (New York: Warner Books, 1989).
5. “Holocaust Evidence: Eisenhower’s Proof,” Awesome Stories, http://www.awesomestories.com/history/holocaust-evidence/eisenhowers-proof.
6. Stephen E. Atkins, Holocaust Denial As an International Movement (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2009), 216.
7. Paul Harvey, “If I Were the Devil” transcript: cited on Jackson Adams, “The Paul Harvey Excerpt That Didn’t Make the Super Bowl,” The American Spectator, February 4, 2013, http://spectator.org/blog/2013/02/04/the-paul-harvey-excerpt-that-w.
CHAPTER 9: FAMINE, EARTHQUAKES, AND ANARCHY
1. worldhunger.org.
2. arc.org.
3. “The Family Farm Is Being Systemically Wiped Out of Existence in America,” The Economic Collapse, April 26, 2012, http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-family-farm-is-being-systematically-wiped-out-of-existence-in-america.
4. Ibid.
5. Department of Treasury, Federal Reserve Board, June 14, 2013.
6. Emily Miller, “Death Tax Hike to 55% Nears,” Human Events, December 1, 2010, http://www.humanevents.com/2010/12/01/death-tax-hike-to-55-nears/.
7. Associated Press (February 15, 2013).
8. Examiner.com (January 11, 2013).
9. Otto W. Nuttli, The Effects of Earthquakes in the Central United States (Marble Hill, MO: Gutenberg-Richter Publications, 1993), 41–48.
10. “Wisconsin Battle over Union Rights Shifts to Recall Efforts, High Court Election,” FoxNews.com, April 12, 2011, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/12/wisconsin-battle-union-rights-shifts-recall-efforts-high-court-election/.
11. Michael S. Schmidt and Colin Moyhihan, “F.B.I. Counterrorism Agents Monitored Occupy Movement, Records Show,” New York Times, December 24, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/nyregion/occupy-movement-was-investigated-by-fbi-counterterrorism-agents-records-show.html.
12. Ibid.
13. “Florida Student Claims He Was Suspended for Refusing to ‘Stomp on Jesus’ in Class,” Fox News Insider, March 23, 2013, http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/03/23/students-told-to-stomp-on-jesus-at-florida-atlantic-university-by-professor-deandre-poole/.
14. Gary L. Bauer, “Liberal Inanity,” Campaign for Working Families, March 5, 2013, http://www.cwfpac.com/eod/tuesday-march-5-2013.
15. Ibid.
CHAPTER 10: THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM
1. Coliseum and Christian Martyrs Encyclopedia, http://www.tribunesandtriumphs.org/colosseum/colosseum-christian-martyrs.htm.
2. “Aelia Capitolina: Judaism Expelled,” GoJerusalem.com, http://www.gojerusalem.com/article_520/Aelia-Capitolina-Judaism-Expelled.
3. http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/josephus/war-1.htm (chapter 1, section 2).
4. Tsafrir Ronen, “Hadrian’s Curse—The Invention of Palestine,” CrethiPlethi.com, May 22, 2010, http://www.crethiplethi.com/hadrians-curse-the-invention-of-palestine/israel/2010/.
CHAPTER 12: FOUR BLOOD MOONS AND TWO FEASTS
1. Bill Koenig, World Watch Daily, Koenig International News, http://watch.org/showprint.php3?idx=104119&mcat=24&rtn=index.html.
2. http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday5.htm.
CHAPTER 13: THE FOUR BLOOD MOONS OF 1493–94
1. Mark Blitz, The Feasts of the Lord, El Shaddai Ministries (Bonney Lake, WA 98391).
2. Henry Kamen, Spanish Inquisition (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999), 49.
3. H. H. Ben-Sasson, ed. A History of the Jewish People (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976), 588–590.
4. Encyclopedia Judaica; The Spanish Inquisition Gates to Jewish Heritage.
5. Barbara Epstein, The Minsk Ghetto 1941–1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008).
6. Encyclopedia Judaica, vol. 15 (Jerusalem: Keter, 1972), 235.
7. Ibid.
8. Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History (New York: William Morrow, 1991).
9. 2000–2011 Jewish-American Hall of Fame © 2012 American Numismatic Society.
10. Dagobert D. Runes, The War Against the Jew (New York: Philosophical Library, 2008), 171.
11. Ibid., 12.
12. Ibid., 12–13.
13. Ibid., 160.
14. Elinor and Robert Slater, Great Moments in Jewish History (Jerusalem: Jonathan David Publishers, 1998), 170.
15. Ibid., 170–71.
16. Hakevi, “Al-queda: The Next Goal Is to Liberate Spain from the Infidels,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Vol 7, no. 16, Oct 11, 2007.
CHAPTER 14: T
HE FOUR BLOOD MOONS OF 1949–50
1. NASA Eclipse Web site, http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html.
2. 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.
3. Menachim Begin, The Revolt: Story of the Irgun (Jerusalem: Steimatzky Agency Ltd; 1977).
4. “The Bombing of the King David Hotel,” Jewish Virtual Library, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/King_David.html.
5. “British White Paper of 1939,” Jewish Virtual Library, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/paper39.html.
6. The Jewish Virtual Library, Establishment of Israel: The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel.
7. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/60297/David-Ben-Gurion.
8. The Jewish Virtual Library, Establishment of Israel: The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel.
CHAPTER 15: THE FOUR BLOOD MOONS OF 1967–68
1. Isi Leibler, The Case For Israel (Australia: The Globe Press, 1972) 60.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., 18.
5. Ibid., 60.
6. Ibid., 18.
7. Chaim Herzog, The Arab-Israeli Wars (New York: Random House, 1982), 149.
8. Original text on pages 215–19 from R. Menachem Mendel Kasher, The Great Era (Torah Shelemah Institute).