"Four Blood Moons"

John Hagee who is the Senior Pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas with 20,000 active members and the founder of Christians United For Israel recently authored a book entitled "Four Blood Moons - Something Is About To Change." Pastor Hagee, at the suggestion of a Pastoral friend, studied in depth Joel 2:30-31 illustrating The Lord saying, "I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars 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."

The information in our message for this week is all taken from Pastor Hagee's new book. Three times in history there has occurred "Blood - Red" total lunar eclipses and each time significant events pertaining to Israel have also occurred. The Lunar Eclipses happened on four consecutive Feast Days of the Jewish calendar.

The first of the Four Blood Moon events happened in 1493 and 1494 following a significant event concerning the Jewish people in Spain. The Monarchy in Spain headed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella on March 30, 1492 signed a decree ordering the Jews to leave Spain. This was known as the Edict of Expulsion which banished all Jewish people from Spain who refused to convert to Catholicism. This resulted in 200,000 Jews being expelled from Spain with no where to go.

The second appearance of the Four Blood Moon events occurred during the rebirth of the State of Israel, beginning in 1948. The Jewish people of the Diaspora were brought back to Israel as prophesied by Old Testament Prophets. It was in 1948 that Israel was declared a nation.  The land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. The Four Blood Moons occurred on four consecutive Feast Days of 1949-50.

The third occurrence of Four Blood Moons happened in 1967-68. During 1967   the city of Jerusalem was reunited with the Jewish people for the first time in nineteen hundred years. The Arab nations were committed to driving the Jewish people into the sea. On May 15th as Israel celebrated their Independence Day, Arab forces of 465,000 troops, 2,800 tanks and 800 aircraft surrounded Israel. However, the Six - Day War was a war of miracles. There was no military reason for an Israeli victory, it was simply the hand of God! The Blood Moons occurred on four consecutive Feast Days in 1967-68.

The next occurrence of Four Blood Moons will occur on Passover, April 15, 2014: Feast of Tabernacles, October 8, 2014: Passover, April 4, 2015: Feast of Tabernacles, September 28, 2015. Only our Lord God knows what events might occur concerning Israel in relation to these next Four Blood Moon events. Let us be those who pray "Thy Kingdom Come And Thy Will Be Done" in support and protection for the Jewish people worldwide during these next two years.

May The Lord Bless You And Keep You In His Care This Day And Each Day,

Frank