Full Quiver wrote:Is it not due to the color that is portrayed in such an event? An orange or reddish tint/glow?
Dolfan, I'm not necessarily a fan of Hagee except that if he is a Christian and I am a Christian then we have fellowship one with another but where did Hagee imply that God has to do something because he said it was so?
Hagee speaks as if his own statements and ideas are God's truth, especially concerning Israel. Just because he has written a book that is more gimmick than truth, invokes God and prophecy and Israel and borrows a phrase from folklore to describe it for effect, does not mean God has shown, revealed or signified something that Hagee says is so.
"A blood moon is when the Earth comes between the sun and the moon. And the sun is shining through the atmosphere of the Earth and casts up in the moon a red shadow. And so the moon appears to be red," says Hagee.
Ok. So, yes, that is an accurate description of an astronomical phenomenon. It is never referred to as a "blood moon" in the Bible. Joel, Peter and John each refer to moons like blood, etc., but they point to these things as signs. And, certainly the Bible is clear that God arranged the heavens to signify things. But, the astronomical event he calls a "blood moon" is not unprecedented. He is adamant that the timing of these "blood moons" as he calls them, itching to inject mystical and prophetic imagery into them where no evidence for that imagery to apply exists, on Passover and Tanernacles in 2014 & 2015 matters prophetically.
There was no "blood moon" in 1492. It was 1493 and 1494. Hagee says it was 1492 and attaches Spain's 1492 expulsion of Jews and Columbus' discovery of America (a haven for Jews, he says) to it. He says there was one in 1948, but it was 1949-1950. But 1948 fits his Israel narrative better.
You can point to historically significant events in many years. They all are important in some way to Jews or to Christians or to any group you might pick.
John Hagee makes a lot of money yapping on about Israel. He is perpetuating a myth with this blood moon thing. We are in the last days. As far as that goes, we could already be in the early throes of the tribulation. None of us knows precisely what Joel, Peter and John referenced in terms of the moon being like blood. It is better, I believe, to let the mystery of the things in the Bible that we don't understand remain so and not subject them to profiteering from the likes of John Hagee. We are so gullible, it just boggles me how anybody actually pays any attention to him anymore.
I love how Hagee pulls Israel's Iran policy into this moon geometry so that HE is right no matter what. Last month, on CBN News, Hagee said, "The only reason that Iran will not acquire a nuclear bomb will be that Israel chooses a military solution to that crisis. I believe if that happens, it will start a series of events that will change e course of world history. If Israel does not, then it will still change the course of world history." Coincidentally, he has a 1.3 million member parade of people with open wallets called Christians United for Israel.
Hagee is a preacher of the gospel of Israel. Israel rejects the gospel of Christ to this moment. They crucified Jesus and they would wipe his name from the Earth if allowed, to this very moment. God is not going to judge the nations for their relationship to the nation of Israel, per se. He will judge each one of us based on whether Jesus is our Lord. His judgment upon the Earth is also based on the rejection of Jesus, and we can include Netanyahu and every other Jesus-rejecting Jewish person in that number of those to be judged for this.
Hagee said to CBN, "If there ever was a time for the Christians of America to stiffen their spine and stand up and speak up, it's now. To see evil and not call it evil is evil. ... We cannot be silent and receive God's approval at a time like this."
Genius.
Again, unless you are a Christian united for Israel, you are disapproved by God. And....you can speak up by writing HIM a check. A modern twist on Tetzel in the multimedia age.
But he is wrong. Our speech should be nothing of Israel in the world, but Jesus on the cross to Jew and Gentile alike. Paul longed for Israel to be saved. He said nothing of political action about them. Fact is Israel the nation will be judged severely by God. Revelation is the manual of God's judgment on them and the world for rejecting Jesus. A remnant of Israel will be saved because God sovereignly chose to save them in his own love just as He has saved you and me. We are accepted in the Beloved now because of His sovereign salvation. It had and has nothing to do with geopolitical activities by the kingdoms of his world, including Israel the nation. God has, indeed, raised that nation up as He has all nations, and for His own purposes.....to show forth His glory. And, in His glorious fury and terror He will subject them to His authority that they have rejected. And, in His glorious grace He will save whom He will from them and fulfill his own Word concerning them. We should pray for evangelists and missionaries to enter their nation. We should not concern ourselves with those matters too great for us about the political alignments of the heathens who oppose Him.
I ain't buying what Hagee is selling. No one should.
Human government bears the same relation to hell as the church bears to heaven. (David Lipscomb, On Civil Government, 72).