Friday, July 3, 2015

WATCHING: BLOOD MOONS, BLACK SUN, BETHLEHEM STAR



                     
          Blood moons, solar eclipse, the Bethlehem Star – we have been watching the skies lately, haven’t we?  Four blood moons this year of the “Shemitah” (sabbatical or 7th year – Lev. 25:4) have really gotten our attention, and for good reason.  Yes, we should WATCH.  Scripture is filled with omens in the sky.  On the fourth day of Creation, God created the sun, moon, and stars, saying they were for “SIGNS and seasons” (Gen. 1:14).  What is the sign of the black sun (solar eclipse)?  There will be a partial solar eclipse on September 13th this year, the last day of the Shemitah. (It will not be visible in our area, however.)  And what is the sign of the fourth blood moon (lunar eclipse) on September 28th, the beginning of the Feast of Tabernacles in Israel?  This is the only one of the four that Israelis can view.

As for the Bethlehem Star, we know that the birth of Jesus was signaled by a star that the wise men from the East followed right to Bethlehem.  Thousands of years before the birth of Jesus, a prophet said, “I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near; a Star shall come out of Jacob; a Scepter shall rise out of Israel …” (Num. 24: 17).  The second part of the prophecy, “a Scepter,” indicating a Ruler, will be fulfilled at His second coming.  Maybe, just maybe, the sign of His second coming will be another star!  Jesus did say there would be a solar eclipse, a lunar eclipse, stars falling, the heavens shaking, and “Then the SIGN of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory …” (Matt. 24: 29-31 – read all of it).  The lightning from one end of heaven to the other will truly be spectacular! (Luke 17:24).
Now let’s consider the black suns and blood moons.  “The ancient Jewish sages taught that “when the sun is in eclipse it is a bad omen for the world (those who worship idols) … when there is an eclipse of the moon it is a bad omen for Israel, since Israel reckons time by the moon and those who worship idols by the sun” (the Babylonian Talmud Sukkah 29a).[1]  There will be a partial solar eclipse on September 13, 2015.  It will not be visible in our area, but could it be a bad omen for nations outside Israel? On the Jewish calendar the date is Elul 29, which is the last day of the Shemitah, the seventh year Sabbath: “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release of debts.  And this is the form of the release: Every creditor who has lent anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it of his neighbor or his brother, because it is called the Lord’s release” (Deut. 15:1-2).  In Hebrew it is called the Lord’s “Shemitah.”  This Shemitah year began on September 24, 2014, and concludes on September 13, 2015.
I think America could possibly have a financial collapse on September 13th.  Why do I think that?  There are two good reasons in our recent history.  At the conclusion of the Shemitah of 2001-2001, terrorists struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center, and this led to the greatest stock market point crash in the history of America!  It wiped out debts and credits!  This last day of “the Lord’s Shemitah” was a JUDGMENT ON THE USA!  On September 11, 2001, the New York Stock Exchange was forced to close down.  This was on a Tuesday.  When the NYSE opened back up on Monday, September 17th, it so happened to be Elul 29, and Wall Street collapsed!
This scenario happened again!  It was on the seventh anniversary of 9/11, on the last day of the next Shemitah year, Elul 29, the “day of nullification” which was September 29, 2008.  That morning the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange refused to ring!  “Observers took it as an omen.  What followed the omen would surpass even the crash of 2001. … It was the greatest stock market point crash in American history. … The greatest financial collapse in American and world history took place on the very day given in the Bible to wipe away the financial accounts of a nation. … It just happened to occur on the exact appointed day and down to the exact appointed hours in which the cancellation of financial accounts had to be accomplished.”[2]
Recently, I have been re-reading Rabbi Jonathan Cahn’s two books, The Harbinger[3]and The Mystery of the Shemitah.  I take my job as a “watchman” seriously!  It is obvious that the United States of America is going down, down, down, and I feel an urgency to warn people to prepare for what may be coming.  All Christians must watch and pray.  God has specific things He wants each of us to do.  Perhaps our downward slide can be reversed!
Yes, we can watch the skies for signs from God, but, most of all, we need to watch in prayer.  Remember, Jesus chided the disciples for not watching even one hour when He was going through the greatest trial of His earthly life in the Garden of Gethsemane.  He said, “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation.  The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Matt. 26: 38-41).  He is saying to be vigilant, stay awake!  Also, Jesus warned about the awful consequences of NOT watching in the end times preceding His coming: “Behold, I am coming as a thief.  Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame” (Rev. 16:15).
Tomorrow, Americans will be celebrating the Fourth of July, Independence Day, but I am not excited about it this year due to the recent Supreme Court ruling, legalizing same-sex marriage.  I plan to write a blog, drawing from Jonathan Cahn’s book, The Harbinger.  He shows nine harbingers or warnings of judgment from God revealed to him in the destruction of 9/11.  I believe Cahn is a modern day prophet for America.  He shows how the nine harbingers that appeared in ancient Israel are now manifesting in America.  The book is full of American history, so interesting.  The watchword is RETURN!  There is still hope for America, but we must REPENT and turn to God.  If you haven’t read this book, I urge you to get a copy immediately and read it!  It will blow your mind!  Meanwhile, watch and pray!



[1] http://burningbush647.blogspot.com/2014/11/blood-moons-and-black-suns-as-often.html
[2] Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, The Mystery of the Shemitah, (Lake Mary, FL: Front Line, Charisma Media, 2014), pp. 141-142.
[3] Cahn, The Harbinger (Lake Mary, FL: Front Line, Charisma Media, 2011).

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