Likewise, Egypt's collapse in 590 BC ( Ezekiel 32:7-8) and Judah's fall in 586 BC ( Zephaniah 1:14-16) are described with this stellar apocalyptic language. ![]() The Old Testament refers to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC ( Isaiah 13:10-13) in this manner. This highly symbolic manner of writing, with language like, “the sun was darkened, the moon would not give her light, and the stars shall fall," is the way the Hebrew prophets described how God would come in judgment upon a nation. Anytime Jewish literature describes the fall of a government or nation, apocalyptic language is used. Hagee as a brother in Christ, and writing as one who also believes in the full inspiration of Scripture, I would like to show you why the premise of Hagee's book is speculative at best, and pure lunacy at worst.ħ Reasons Why the Premise of John Hagee's Four Blood Moons Is Potential Lunacy " The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD" (Joel 2:31). Yet, Hagee concludes that something traumatic, but ultimately triumphant, is going to happen to Israel during 20, an event that 'will change the course of world history.' More to the point, Hagee believes the "rapture" will occur, Israel will go to war in a great battle called Armageddon, and Jesus Christ will return to earth because the prophet Joel said, For now, just think about this: Israel wasn't even a nation the first six times a lunar tetrad occurred. In a moment I will absolutely destroy Hagee's conclusion about "traumatic things" happening to the Jews and the nation of Israel every time a lunar tetrad occurs on Hebrew holy days. And third, in 1967 Israel won the Six Day War and captured Jerusalem. Second, in 1948 Israel became a nation again. First, in 1492 Spain expelled the Jews and Christopher Columbus discovered America, giving the Jews a place to go. Hagee writes that every time a tetrad occurs on Jewish feast days something traumatic and 'world-changing' happens to Israel. He gives three examples. Here are the eight that have occurred since Christ. Again, the lunar tetrad falling on Hebrew holidays is not as rare as Hagee would like you to believe. So it is also guaranteed that the third and fourth lunar eclipses of a tetrad will occur on those same Hebrew festival days the following year. If the first total lunar eclipse of a tetrad happens to occur on Passover (15 Nissan on the Hebrew calendar), it is guaranteed that the second total lunar eclipse will occur the Festival of Tabernacles (15 Tishri on the Hebrew calendar) because the Hebrew calendar is lunar, and the Festival of Tabernacles is exactly six lunar months after the Festival of Passover. Since the times of Christ, there have been eight tetrads that have occurred on Jewish Passover and the Festival of Tabernacles. Think about this for a moment though. Hagee writes that what is rare is that this lunar tetrad is occurring on Jewish holy days. The last one was in 20, and there will be a total of 8 lunar tetrads in this century (2001 to 2100). Likewise, lunar tetrads (total lunar eclipses that occur six months apart, with no partial lunar eclipses in between) also occur frequently. There are at least two to five lunar eclipses every year. ![]() ![]() These four eclipses, called by astronomers a tetrad, occur on April 15, 2014, which is Jewish Passover on October 8, 2014, which is the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles on April 4, 2015, which is (again) Jewish Passover and on Septemwhich is (again) the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles.Ĭontrary to what Hagee would have the reader believe, lunar eclipses aren't that special. Hagee believes that something terrible, but ultimately triumphant, is about to happen to the nation of Israel due to the four total lunar eclipses that will occur in the northern hemisphere during 20. Christians who believe what John Hagee is proposing without thinking for themselves, could find themselves afflicted with the same disease. Hagee's newest book Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change makes a case that the author may be suffering from a form of temporary insanity. I have enjoyed hearing him preach a few times on television. ![]() I'm sure John Hagee is a fine Christian and a great pastor.
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