I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. (Zechariah 12:2) Shalom Magnos, I watched as the Lamb broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became as dark as black cloth, and the moon became as red as blood. (Revelation 6:12) The second in a series of four consecutive Blood Moons (total lunar eclipses), which fall on the Jewish holidays of Passover and Sukkot in 2014 and 2015, is quickly approaching. With it, big changes seem to be taking shape in the Palestinian struggle for statehood, which directly affects the heritage of the Promised Land for the Jewish People. Pastor Mark Biltz, founder of El Shaddai Ministries in Washington state, was first to discover the Blood Moon Tetrad pattern when he entered Jewish feasts dates into the NASA website. “According to NASA, over 5,000 years you only average one total lunar eclipse every year and a half, and here we have four within a year and a half, and they’re falling on feast days,” Biltz explained. “The last time it happened was when Israel recaptured Jerusalem in 1967 and 1968. The first of this series of Blood Moon Tetrads was in 1949. That was the year after Israel was reborn as a modern nation in 1948 amidst the Arab-Israeli war. In 1949 after the Blood Moon, the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) was moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and Israels first Prime Minister, Ben Gurion declared that Jerusalem would be the Eternal Capital of Israel. Like the last Blood Moon Passover this year, the coming Blood Moon seems to be linked to momentous events in the making. (Total eclipses are sometimes called blood moons because the moon reflects sunlight being filtered through the earth’s atmosphere, giving it a ruddy, bloodlike appearance.) A total lunar eclipse will occur between the two Blood Moons of 2014 and the two of 2015. Although a Blood Moon Tetrad falling on the Jewish holidays is something of a statistical improbability, eight fall between AD 1 and AD 2100. After this eighth tetrad is complete, another will not happen for 600 years. “Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their words, for I see violence and strife in the city.” (Psalm 55:9) Blood Moons Foretell of Changing Times ”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) Last year on July 29, 2013, Israel and Palestinians entered direct peace negotiations, and the world was very hopeful that at the end of the nine-month negotiations a final status agreement would be reached. To bring the Palestinians to the bargaining table, Israel agreed to release 104 Palestinian prisoners, 14 of whom were Arab-Israelis. Many were guilty of murdering Israeli civilians and suspected Palestinian collaborators. They were to be released over time in four groups. For this concession, the Palestinians agreed to not sign up for international conventions. As talks progressed, it seemed that anything less than total capitulation to Palestinian demands was unacceptable, and Abbas was not willing to recognize Israel as the Jewish state. As it became obvious that the talks would come to an end with no agreements, on March 28, 2014, Israel delayed releasing the fourth round of Palestinian prisoners. By delaying it, Israel hoped to encourage the Palestinians to commit to extending the peace negotiations. Consequently, on April Fool’s Day, 15 days prior to the first Blood Moon, in the midst of the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, Abbas moved to join 14 treaties and conventions and one United Nations organization. The request was approved by UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon. Included in the 15 was the Geneva Conventions which articulate the laws of war. “We [Palestinians] have not only signed these [agreements], but we have become officially bound by them now,” Randa Siniora, the Director General of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR), told Al Jazeera in late April. Most of the memberships became official in May. All of this happened at the outset of a very auspicious time: on April 15, 2014, the first of a series of four Blood Moons over a two year period occurred. They coincide with the 2014 and 2015 Jewish festivals of Passover (Pesach) and Tabernacles (Sukkot). Just after the first Blood Moon, Abbas announced the formation a unity government with the terrorist group Hamas. Israel responded by formally cancelling the release of the prisoners and imposing financial penalties in the form of withholding tax levies collected by Israel on the Palestinian Authority’s behalf. That government was sworn in on June 2nd with immediate discord breaking out over issues of security and over relations with the Israelis. Hamas’ kidnapping of the three yeshiva students took place only three weeks after the unity government was announced. Although Abbas initially said that he would dissolve the unity government if Hamas was behind the kidnapping, when Israel presented evidence of Hamas involvement nothing was done. After Hamas launched an intensive rocket campaign against Israel, Israel responded with “Operation Protective Edge,” during which Hamas fired more than 4,500 rockets and mortar shells at Israeli population centers. Today, the Temple Mount Faithful prepare for the construction of the Third Temple while we await the return of the Messiah who will come to the rebuilt Temple. Only the Jewish People can rebuild that Temple, not the Muslims. So it seems that in these “last days” it could be God’s plan that the Jews will maintain ultimate control of the Temple Mount and not the Muslims, regardless of what Abbas has planned. That said, the Bible also indicates that in the Last Days, the anti-Messiah will establish a temporary, false peace in the Holy Land. This Third Temple might also be built after the false peace begins the final seven-year period. Half way through that period, the anti-Messiah will stop the sacrifices and declare that he is God (Daniel 9:27; 2 Thessalonians 2:4). Abbas’ struggle for Jerusalem may be connected to these Last Days events, which is perhaps why his current activities are coinciding with the rare celestial cycle called a Blood Moon Tetrad. “All these signs, coming together at one time, are potentially the culminating signals that God is closing this chapter of human history,” Mark Biltz recently told Sid Roth on Its Supernatural. “This could be the final curtain call before the Great Tribulation mentioned in the Bible. God has always wanted to warn His people, and the rest of the world, before He intervenes. What better way to communicate to us than through the universal language of heavenly signs that speak to every tribe, tongue and nation?” Magnos, when Yeshua (Jesus) instructed His disciples concerning the end times, He mentioned wars, rumors of wars, celestial signs, earthquakes, rebellion against parents, and great treachery. We certainly seem to be experiencing all of that, which makes it ever the more important to share the Good News of Yeshua with Israel and the nations! So many lives hang in the balance. Please help us reach out with the Love of God and the Messianic Prophecy Bible, which will be an effective ministry tool in these last days. The moon will be dismayed, the sun ashamed; for the LORD Almighty will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before its elders—with great glory. (Isaiah 24:23) For I am ready to set things right, not in the distant future, but right now! I am ready to save Jerusalem and show My glory to Israel. (Isaiah 46:13) So Be It.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:50:26 +0000
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