Natural Disasters Between the Blood Moons

There have been an extreme explosion of natural disasters since the first Blood Moon occurred in April, 2014 with the lunar eclipse.  How does this correlate with the Bible? 

Genesis 1:14 tells us that God created the sun, moon and stars, not only to give mankind light, but to separate the seasons as well. The Creator also had a greater plan in His scheme of creation, which included using such a brilliant light to show signs in the heavens. There are many examples found throughout the Bible that speaks of watching for such signs in the sun, moon and stars. The Bible also goes on to say that "He changes times and seasons;" (Daniel 2:21)

There were signs recorded in the Bible of such cosmic things happening. In the Book of Joshua it says: 

"So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jasher. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day." (Joshua 10:13)

In reference to the Prophet Habakkuk, who prophesied during the reign of King Jehoiakim, stated, "[The] Sun and moon stood still in the heavens" (Habakkuk 3:11). This prediction during the Chaldean siege came to fruition.

When the Magi visited the Messiah, they were led to the baby Jesus by a great, bright star in the East, "We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him." (Matthew 2:1). 

According to Pastor John Hagee, there will be celestial signs in the heavens and he goes on to describe these occurrences in his book, Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change. Hagee also believes that these unusual moons will have a great significance for Israel due to them appearing around various Jewish holidays.

Perhaps Pastor Hagee is right when it comes to natural change, because with these Blood Moons has come many natural disasters around the world. The following list enumerates the various natural phenomena occurring the past year:

Natural Disasters since April, 2014	Number Worldwide
Tornadoes (F2 or greater)	108
Volcanoes (active eruption)	30
Cyclones (Category 2 or greater)	10
Hurricanes (Category 3 or greater)	10
Earthquakes (magnitude greater than 6.5)	63
Floods/Landslides (more than 15 death toll )	45
Floods/Landslides (more than 2,000 displaced )	44
Major Winter Storms/Blizzards (USA only)	26

According to the Evangelical preacher, God is getting ready to show such signs in the heavens once again. "There's a sense in the world that things are changing and God is trying to communicate with us in a supernatural way," Hagee told CBN News.   

John Hagee also predicted... "I believe that in these next two years, we're going to see something dramatic happen in the Middle East involving Israel that will change the course of history in the Middle East and impact the whole world."

Pastor John Hagee

Whether the predictions for the celestial signs implicating change for Israel will come to fruition in our modern world, mankind will have to wait and see after the last of the Blood Moon tetrad occurs on September 28, 2015. But it cannot be denied that the natural disasters occurring around the world are happening more often and, in many cases, more fierce than ever before.

"There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea." (Luke 21:25) 

 "The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night." (Revelation 8:12)

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UPDATED ON 9/30/2015......

Commentary By The Editor:

I regularly check this website and various articles that I have already written to make sure the photos, charts, etc. are still visible on the site. Once in a while they just disappear! I replace them and go to check the next article...

When checking this particular story, I was somewhat bemused to discover the video of Pastor John Hagee had not only been removed, but the entire account had been "terminated" completely from YouTube! Why? Then I found this verse while questioning such motives.

"The sower soweth the word. And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts. And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;" ~ Mark 4:14-16

So here is an updated video for my readers to ponder upon...

   John Hagee 2015, Four Blood Moons - COUNTDOWN: Special Program -- April 04, 2015

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Natural Disasters April, 2015 - September 2015	Number Worldwide
Tornadoes (F2 or greater) (USA only)	31
Volcanoes (active eruption as of 9/30/2015)	39
Cyclones (Category 2 or greater)	unavailable
Hurricanes (Category 3 or greater)	14
Earthquakes (magnitude greater than 6.5)	32
Floods/Landslides (more than 15 death toll )	14

Note: Combined total of natural disasters between April, 2014 and September, 2015 equaled 466.

Major Prophetic Announcement!

The following article was written by Leo Hohmann, a writer and contributor to the online website, Prophecy News Watch.

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Major Prophetic Announcement!  

Holy Altar Constructed For Third Jewish Temple

March 16, 2015 | LEO HOHMANN   

Depiction of the Jewish priests performing the ritual service on the altar in the Jewish Temple

End-times prophecy watchers are marveling over a news report out of Jerusalem this week that the Altar of the Lord has been reconstructed by the Temple Institute.

The Institute, based in the Old City of Jerusalem, announced it has finished building an altar that is essentially “ready for use” in sacrificial services.

The altar is the most ambitious project to date toward the goal of rebuilding the Jewish Temple. The massive outdoor altar, which took several years to build, can be operational at little more than a moment’s notice, reported the Israeli magazine Matzav Haruach.

The altar is the last major component needed for the long-obstructed sacrifices to resume in a future Jewish temple.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray daily for its reconstruction atop the holy hill known as Mount Moriah or the Temple Mount.

Bible scholars say the rebuilding of the ancient temple is predicted throughout scripture, starting with Daniel’s vision in Daniel 9:27. Jesus echoed Daniel’s warning about an abomination standing in “the holy place” in the last days in Matthew 24:15, followed by the Apostle John’s vision of the Temple in Revelation 11:1-2. Paul mentioned it in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4.

Most people don’t realize the temple had two altars — the altar of burnt offering and the altar of incense. The largest was the altar of burnt offering, placed in the outer court of the priests. Designing and building it to exact biblical specifications required quite an undertaking.

It was approximately 5 meters (16 feet) tall and 16 meters (52.5 feet) wide, with four “horns” or raised corners, and a ramp.

The altar is the central focus of the sacrificial services that were halted with the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 A.D.

The Temple Institute has prepared all the priestly garments and sacred vessels for the rebuilt temple, which can be viewed on its website. It even trains members of the priestly family to be ready to serve as soon as the Temple is constructed.

Carl Gallups, a Baptist pastor in Florida, Bible prophecy expert and author of “Final Warning: Understanding the Trumpet Days of Revelation,” told WND the announcement about the altar will be seen by many Christians as a huge step toward fulfillment of Bible prophecy.

“This announcement will surely excite prophecy watchers around the world,” he said. “Regardless of one’s eschatological leanings, every sincere student of the Word of God knows there are at least hints, if not clear declarations, of something happening just before the return of the Lord that involves altar sacrifices and the distinct possibility of a rebuilt temple on the Temple Mount.”

Jonathan Cahn, author of “The Harbinger” and “The Mystery of the Shemitah” also sees the announcement as significant.

“We know that end-time prophecy cannot be fulfilled without the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem,” Cahn, a Messianic Jewish rabbi in New Jersey, told WND. “The abomination desolation prophesied in Daniel and in the Gospels, must take place within the Temple precincts. So, too, the apostle Paul speaks of the ‘man of sin,’ or the Antichrist, sitting in the Temple of God. What many people don’t realize is that along with the Holy of Holies, the altar of the Temple is the most central and critical part of the Temple.”

Cahn said it is the altar that is the center of the abomination causing desolation.

“It was specifically the altar of the Temple that was desecrated by Antiochus Epiphanes in the days of the Maccabees that comprised the first abomination desolation and the foreshadowing of what will take place in the end-times,” he said. “So any progress made toward the rebuilding of the altar is worthy of our attention.”

Mark Biltz, author of “Blood Moons: Decoding the Imminent Heavenly Signs” and pastor of El Shaddai Ministries, says prophecy watchers should not forget, however, that the Temple Mount is under the control of the Muslims for a reason.

“Religiously, you have the Temple Institute and they are ready to rebuilt it,” he said.

In previous years, there have been attempts to sacrifice a goat on the Temple Mount at Passover, something that enrages Muslims who consider the hilltop the third most sacred spot in Islam.

“They could actually do sacrifices without a temple, some sacrifices. And Passover is one of them. There’s always been a drive to sacrifice a lamb on the Temple Mount,” Biltz said. “They would do it in a heartbeat. But it’s just like here in America where the ACLU wants nothing to do with religion or religious groups. So it’s the same there. The Israeli government doesn’t want to cause any uproar among the various religious factions, especially with elections coming up.”

The Temple Institute represents the views of the Ultra-Orthodox community, which makes up a small percentage of Israel’s population, about 4 percent.

“They would love a temple but the broader population wants to keep church and state separate, and there is a lot of animosity toward the Ultra Orthodox,” Biltz said. “But they don’t need some big elaborate temple, they could start to do the sacrifices with a tent or some sort of makeshift tabernacle. It’s all very interesting and it’s all coming to a head. I believe you’re going to see a major war first, which would redraw alignments and allegiances.”

This explains the reaction of former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan as he observed rabbis rushing to pray at the Temple Mount following the Israeli Army’s reclaiming of the landmark in the 1967 Six-Day War.

“What is this?” Dayan, a secular Jew, reportedly mused. “The Vatican?”

“One of the first things he did was give it back to the Muslims,” Biltz said. “They didn’t want the religious right telling the government what to do. They would rather have the Muslims have it. So there is a bigger fight among the Jews, an even bigger fight over whether to build a temple, than the fight with the Muslims. There are two huge fights going on. ”

There is an interesting foreshadowing of this end-time rebuilding event in the book of Ezra, who gave an account of the Jewish exiles returning from captivity in Persia.

“In rebuilding the temple destroyed under the Babylonian occupation, the first act of those returnees was to rebuild an altar and offer sacrifices upon it to the Lord,” Gallups said.

They did this at the site of the ruined temple. The altar was constructed under the leadership of a high priest named, of all things, Yehoshua (Joshua, or Jesus in the New Testament Greek).

The returning Jews, according to Ezra, rebuilt this holy altar despite fears of attack from surrounding enemies. After the altar was rebuilt, and regular sacrifices reinstated, the returnees celebrated their first festival — the Feast of Tabernacles.

That feast occurs in autumn. This year it will occur during the season of the rare tetrad of four blood moons and the seven-year Shemitah cycle described in Cahn’s book.

Ezra, chapter three, says that after the altar was rebuilt and sacrifices resumed, and when the temple had been rebuilt – the people shouted with joy, praised the Lord and wept aloud. “And the sound (of the celebration) was heard far away.”

“Now, in 2015, we have the news that once again the altar of sacrifice has been rebuilt and is ready for use,” Gallups said. “We also know of a very serious plan to rebuild the ancient temple of God upon the Temple Mount. The days of Ezra and Yehoshua appear to be upon us again. In the midst of the celebration of these facts, the sound of that celebration is once again ‘being heard far away.’ And through the modern technology of the Internet the sound is being heard around the world. These are certainly prophetic times in which we are living.”

Biltz sees the timing of the altar announcement as prophetic.

“Tomorrow, (Saturday) every Jew in synagogues around the world is reading the Torah portion from Exodus about the construction of the tabernacle,” he said. “It’s the last chapter of Exodus about the glory falling, Moses coming out and blessing the people and the glory falling on the tabernacle.

“Not only that but this next week, historically, is the very day the dedication of the tabernacle happened, on Nisan 1, that is read in the Torah portion. This year, being Saturday, March 21. It actually begins at sundown on Friday, March 20.”

As an expert in the Hebrew roots of the Christian faith, Biltz is always looking at current events in light of the times and the seasons according to the Hebrew calendar. And there is something else special this year about Nisan 1, which arrives at sundown March 20.

“Amazingly, there is also a total solar eclipse occurring at the beginning of the religious calendar on March 20. A total solar eclipse speaks of judgment coming on the nations. This is followed two weeks later by a total lunar eclipse or blood moon on Passover.”

So the fact that a remnant of Jews has prepared an altar and the sacred vessels for temple services, even if the politics are still such that constructing the temple is currently impossible, is exciting, Biltz said.

Most of the sacred vessels needed for the temple sacrificial system have been recreated by Israeli artisans – the cups, the chalices, the incense altar and incense shovel, the table of showbread, the high-priest’s crown, the golden menorah, the three-pronged fork and so on. All of these items are being planned now by the Temple Institute, even though the political obstacles to rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem remain huge.

“They even have the high priest’s crown. They have everything ready to go,” Biltz said. “They’ve even had the Levites come in and be fitted for the priestly garments, everything is ready.”

The purpose of the Temple was to make atonement for Israel and atonement for the nations of the world before the Creator, whom all mankind should desire to draw near, Biltz said.

“If the nations had only understood this back then, they would have never destroyed the temple but placed their armies around it to protect it,” he said. “If the nations understood that today, they would realize rather than dividing Jerusalem it should be united with a Temple to Hashem bringing His presence back into our world. This is the only true path to world peace.”

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For further reading on this subject, please visit:

Jewish Temple Altar Rebuilt, Ready for Use
Ezra 3: Rebuilding the Altar/Rebuilding the Temple
Priestly Garments of the High Priest & The Ordinary Priest
Altar of the Lord Rebuilt in Jerusalem—A Sign of the Times?

The Lost Books of the Bible

Excerpts taken from "Who's ? Right: Mankind, Religions & The End Times"...

When referring to religion it can be defined very broadly. Thus, the religious books in the world can also be similarly circumscribed. There are many Holy Books today that contain specific systems of beliefs, codes of ethics and philosophies of life. In almost every religion around the world, the congregation depends on a Holy Book.

Likewise, the majority of mankind feels a similar kind of need and depends on the scholars and theologians to bring to light that which was lost. That need to learn more about the "missing holy texts" from the the Christian and Hebrew Bible has become a hot topic in the last 20 years or so...

When it comes to the enigma of biblical mysteries, the holy books of the world are filled with many stories untold. Generations of great scholars and scientists have tried to uncover that which is otherwise unfathomable. It becomes controversial in context, with the end results continuing to remain hidden in obscurity.

For most biblical mysteries, unraveling the answer is obscure. However, when it comes to the ancient holy books being uncovered around the world - such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Book of Enoch, just to name a few - the authenticity of the ancient scrolls have been clarified by scholars and scientists alike.  Hence... shedding a new light on the writings of the Holy Bibles of the Christians and Jews.  

It has been suggested by some theologians and scholars of Christianity and Judaism that many books of the original Hebrew Bible transcript were excluded from inclusion in the Christian Bible because of the significance of the numerology contained within the ancient writings. Other philosophers of religion proclaim the original Hebrew texts were written in three different languages and lost in translation, and thus when the Old Testament was modified into Greek, then Latin, and then English, translation once again became questionable.

The synopsis of the 'Numerology' theory is not agreed upon by all theologians of religion, but the 'Lost in Translation' has become the most common theory accepted, not only among the religious scholars, but among modern mankind in general. There are some that believe when the original 70 Jewish scribes  (also known as the Masoretes) translated their sacred writings into Greek, there were liberties taken and the stories were written on a "need to know" basis with possible discrepancies added on purpose. Was this their way of protecting the actual sacred writings from the enemies of the Christian and Jew? Or were the 'significance of numbers' the culprit for excluding the 'lost books of the Bible'? Mankind may never fully comprehend the answers to those questions

The following is a list of a few speculated books lost to antiquity...

Tanakh/Old Testament:

1. Book of the Covenant (Exodus 24:7)
2. Book of the Wars of the Lord (Numbers 21:14; II Chronicles 35:26)
3. Book of Jasher (Joshua 10:13)
4. Book of Manners of the Kingdom (I Samuel 10:25) Also referred to as "Behaviors of Royalty"
5. Annals of King David (I Chronicles 27:24)
6. Book of the Acts of Solomon; Book of Nathan the Prophet; Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite; Visions of Iddo the Seer (II Chronicles 9:29)
7. Book of Shemaiah the Prophet; Book of Iddo the Seer  (II Chronicles 12:15)
8. Book of Visions of Isaiah (II Chronicles 32:32)

New Testament Books:

While there are many books proclaiming a place in the New Testament of the Christian Bible, the following books are the most commonly known:

1. Gospel of Judas
2. Gospel of Thomas
3. Gospel of Peter
4. Gospel of Mary Magdalene
5. Gospel of Nicodemus
6. Epistles of Jesus Christ and Abgarus, King of Edessa

Whether these ancient books of the New Testament ever existed is up for debate. It continues to be a controversial issue among the scholars of religion. Once again, the manuscripts of the New Testament were included and decided upon by men [humankind] over many centuries. These holy canons were written during the 1st and 2nd century and completed by the year 150 A.D.; yet the forming of the New Testament [as we know it today] was not officially canonized until the Council of Hippo (393 A.D.) and the Council of Carthage (397 A.D.), which affirmed the 27 books of the New Testament as authoritative. The mystery continues on why one manuscript made the cut, yet another canon did not. What were those ancient recorders thinking and what was the reasoning behind excluding certain books from the Christian's Bible? 

Was ancient man responsible for creating such an old mystery? Did they intentionally leave out information that was not intended for all of mankind to study upon and learn?  Our ancient ancestors, who began with the lineage of Cain (son of Adam), put much precedence upon the significance of numbers. It is commonly known in our modern 21st century world that mathematics is the universal answer for everything. So the theory of the books being excluded because of the numerology within could have been the original plan in the outlook of the bigger picture [regarding the future of mankind]. 

It would appear the current limitations of the Bible was determined centuries ago by mankind, yet there are many ancient scrolls being unearthed that have Biblical significance and receives only a little recognition for such a discovery. Is mankind still trying to hide that which was originally intended for a select few or was it the Creator's plan to keep mankind guessing? 

Who's ? Right when it comes to Biblical era writings of importance which were not included in the Holy Bibles?