First come blood moons, then Shemitah year - http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/first-come-blood-moons-then-shemitah-year/?cat_orig=faith
Bible prophecy watchers see significance in fall 2014, 2015
So you think the blood moons phenomenon has come and gone?
Do you think the omens of mega-bestsellers "The Harbinger" and "The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment" are all history at this point?
Think again.
The most interesting times are ahead, according to "Blood Moons" author Mark Biltz and Jonathan Cahn, the messianic rabbi who riveted the world with his teachings about "harbingers" of things to come for America based on biblical patterns he discovered.
This fall, the second of four blood moon eclipses will occur the evening of Oct. 8, coinciding with the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, also known as Sukkot. A partial solar eclipse will take place two weeks later. Two more blood moons will follow on Passover in the spring of 2015 and on the Feast of Tabernacles in the fall 2015.
Biltz, a teaching pastor at El Shaddai Ministries in Washington state, points out that previous blood-moon tetrads, a series of four eclipses, in history have come on or around significant developments for Jews and the state of Israel.
Likewise, a key discovery in Cahn's "The Harbinger" and "The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment" is the pattern of biblical Shemitah years and their relevance to economic calamities in the U.S.
While Cahn is not making any predictions about what is to come, many of those familiar with his work are eyeing the date Sept. 13, 2015, with interest, if not dread.
The No. 1 bestselling Christian book in America over the last three years, Cahn's "The Harbinger," points out that America's two greatest financial shakings occurred on successive Hebrew Shemitah years following the 9/11 Islamic terror attacks on the U.S., the key to the series of limited judgments the author sees as a result of America's turning away from God just as ancient Israel did before the dispersion.
While Cahn prefers not to speculate on what, if anything, might befall America on Sept. 13, 2015, it will be the next Shemitah year - which occurs on Elul 29 every seven years on the Hebrew calendar. It is a time when debts are to be forgiven and the land, in the agricultural communities of ancient Israel, was to be given a rest.
Sept. 17, 2001, was the beginning of the economic calamity associated with 9/11 when, two days earlier, Lehman Brothers, one of the nation's largest financial firms, collapsed. Sept. 17, 2001, was Elul 29 on the Hebrew calendar. Likewise, Sept. 29, 2008, marked the next big crash. Sept. 29, 2008, fell on Elul 29.
Biltz's "Blood Moons" book and movie deal with the 2015 Shemitah year and what he expects might happen on Sept. 13 next year.
All of this is laid out in detail in easy-to-understand documentary form in "The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment," the leading faith video in the nation in 2012 and 2013, produced by Joseph Farah and WND Films.
Farah believes the date Sept. 13, 2015 bears close watching - though he is quick to admit he has no idea what, if anything, will happen in America.
"A clear pattern has been established," he says. "I don't believe it's a coincidence what happened in America on Elul 29 in 2001 and 2008. It would be foolish to ignore the possibility that a greater judgment might be in the works - especially if America continues to move away from God and His Word."
It's also worth noting that Elul 29, 2015, represents the eve of the Feast of Trumpets or Rosh Hashana at sundown. A blood red moon is expected to occur that evening, according to NASA. The Feast of Trumpets begins a period known by Jews as "the days of awe" that lasts through Yom Kippur a week later.
Biltz first noted several years ago that a cluster of tetrads will occur in 2014 and 2015 - all of them on Hebrew high holidays. There won't be any more for the rest of the 21st century.
Since then, his book and a movie inspired by it - both called "Blood Moons" - have captured the imaginations of the public in the U.S. and throughout the world.
Joel 3:31 says: "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come."
Other biblical references can be found in Acts 2:20 and Revelation 6:12.
Whether or not anything significant occurs of a prophetic nature Sept. 13, 2015, Farah said he expects the approaching dates in 2014 and 2015 to create renewed interest in "The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment" and Biltz's "Blood Moons" book and movie.
"If you haven't seen 'The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment' yet, you may think it is all about past occurrences related to 9/11," he said. "But the most interesting aspect of what the movie offers is what it portends for the future. This is the most important project I have been involved in through my 35-year media career. This is a message, I believe, God directed me to undertake for a time such as this."
In January 2012, "The Harbinger" by Cahn exploded onto the publishing scene, immediately becoming a surprise New York Times bestseller, already read by hundreds of thousands nationwide.
"A number of years ago, as I was standing at the edge of Ground Zero in New York City, I came across the first puzzle piece of an ancient biblical mystery and a prophetic message known as 'The Harbinger' that concerns the future of America," explains Cahn, who helped write the two-hour documentary "The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment."
Cahn says he has since found nine harbingers that tie the problems America has experienced beginning Sept. 11, 2001, to parallels that led to the destruction of ancient Israel.
"Before God judges a nation, He sends warning," explains Cahn. "He sent warning to ancient Israel. He even allowed its enemies to breach its borders in a devastating strike that would traumatize the nation. It was a wake-up call, the call to return to God. But the nation responded with defiance. God then gave nine harbingers of judgment, nine prophetic signs, alarms and foreshadows of what was to come. Now America is the nation in rapid departure from God's will. And God likewise allowed an enemy to breach its borders in a devastating strike - the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It was, likewise, a wake-up call. But America, like Israel, has not responded with repentance but with defiance. And now the nine harbingers of judgment have reappeared and have done so on American soil."
Isaiah 9:10 is a verse in which Israel's national leaders utter a vow of defiance following an attack by Assyria. It declared that the nation would not repent before God but would defy Him instead. Cahn reveals in "The Harbinger" - and in even more dramatic fashion in the video - that beginning the day after Sept. 11, 2001, American leaders began repeating that 2,500-year-old vow, word for word.
"Having no idea what he was doing, the majority leader of the U.S. Senate (Tom Daschle) was declaring America as under the judgment of God," Cahn says. "It was the reenactment of an ancient mystery - and bore the most grave of consequences."
He continues: "According to the ancient mystery revealed in the Book of Isaiah, if after that first calamity and warning, the nation doesn't return to God but responds in defiance, it will end up triggering a second calamity. It was because of this ancient key, that, seven years after 9/11, the American economy collapsed. In the days after 9/11, the Federal Reserve slashed the base interest rate in an attempt to defy the consequences of the attacks. That action put us on the path leading to the collapse of the American economy seven years later. In 2008, the government made a second fatal mistake, another ill-fated financial decision, that would trigger the collapse of the American economy. Amazingly, it took place on the seventh anniversary of the uttering of the ancient vow on Capitol Hill."
Cahn also reveals in "The Harbinger" and "The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment" something that readers and viewers universally find astonishing - that New York's Ground Zero actually represents more than the former financial center of the country. It represents the exact place at which America was first consecrated to God in prayer by the country's new leaders.
"When judgment came to Israel, the calamity returned the people's attention to the place where the nation had been consecrated to God - the Temple Mount," says Cahn.
"God was calling the nation back to Himself. What about 9/11? Could there be, in the American calamity, as well, a mystery of return? Could there be a prophetic message hidden in the place where it happened? There is a place where America was consecrated to God in prayer. It is also a place linked to a prophetic warning given on that same day - uttered by the nation's first president - now coming to pass."
In 1789, newly inaugurated President George Washington gave a prophetic warning at Federal Hall in New York City. He declared that America's prosperity and protection were dependent upon its adherence to God. Later, the political leaders of the young nation gathered at St. Paul's Chapel to commit the nation's future to God's purposes. That chapel is located at Ground Zero and miraculously survived 9/11 virtually unscathed. But the foundation of Federal Hall was ominously cracked.
All of this is covered in "The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment," using actual archival footage along with narration by Cahn.
The video is directed by award-winning filmmaker George Escobar, vice president of WND films and television.
The key to decoding the harbingers, Cahn says, is found in understanding the seemingly innocuous words of Isaiah 9:10 (King James Version), what it meant to Israel and how the history seems to be repeating itself in America today: "The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: The sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars."
These words were first uttered by leaders in Israel and in response to a limited strike by Assyria on the lands of Zebulun and Naphtali - an attack the prophet makes clear is actually part of a limited judgment by God against apostasy. It wasn't meant to destroy the nation, but to awaken it, according to most commentaries.
But, says Cahn, Israel didn't take the cue. Instead, the response from the people in Isaiah 9:10 is one of defiance. The brick buildings were toppled, but they vowed to build bigger and better. The little sycamore trees may have been uprooted, but they vowed to plant bigger and better cedars in their place.
God, speaking through Isaiah, explains what will happen as a result of their pride and arrogance and failure to heed the harbinger: Bigger and more potent attacks will follow.
Because neither the northern kingdom of Israel nor the southern kingdom of Judah truly repents, the first is eventually swept away by Assyrian invaders and the latter is carried off into captivity by the Babylonians for 70 years.
But what does this have to do with the United States of America - particularly what the U.S. experienced on 9/11 and since? Cahn has found some eerie parallels.
"In the aftermath of the attack, the nation was stunned," said Cahn. "Everyone was trying to make sense of what had happened - this unprecedented attack on America. The very next day, Sept. 12, then Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle presented America's response to the world. And what did he say?"
Daschle said: "America will emerge from this tragedy as we have emerged from all adversity - united and strong. Nothing ... nothing can replace the losses of those who have suffered. I know there is only the smallest measure of inspiration that can be taken from this devastation. But there is a passage in the Bible from Isaiah that speaks to all of us at times like this."
The majority leader then went on to read Isaiah 9:10.
"Daschle has no idea what he is doing here," explains Cahn. "He thinks he's offering comforting words to a grief-stricken people, but he is actually embracing the spiritually defiant and arrogant words of the children of Israel, proclaiming the ancient and ominous vow of the leaders of that nation. He doesn't realize it, but he is actually inviting more judgment on the nation."
It might be of some significance that Daschle, one of the most powerful men in the nation when he spoke those words, later fell into disgrace - to the point where he couldn't even serve in Barack Obama's Cabinet.
That might have been the end of the story - if no other top leader in the nation uttered those strange and obscure words after 9/11. But that's not the case.
On the third anniversary of the attack, Sept. 11, 2004, another powerful U.S. senator running for vice president that year, and who would famously run for the presidency four years later, gave a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus.
This time, John Edwards' entire speech was built on a foundation of Isaiah 9:10, "Today, on this day of remembrance and mourning, we have the Lord's Word to get us through," he said.
He then read Isaiah 9:10. He went on to talk about how America was doing just that - rebuilding with hewn stone and planting cedars.
In "The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment," viewers get to see these remarkable, largely forgotten or overlooked speeches, which directly link the events of 9/11 and the events referred to in Isaiah 9:10.
"Like Daschle, Edwards thinks he's invoking inspirational and comforting words from the Bible, but he's actually inviting judgment on America," says Cahn. "He's repeating the vow that provoked God to bring calamity on ancient Israel."
Even more astonishing, Daschle and Edwards were not alone among U.S. leaders in making similar statements, as "The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment" shows.
Even Barack Obama's Inauguration address in 2009 made similarly eerie allusions.
But aside from such statements, which could be chalked up to political talk and coincidences, is there anything else linking Isaiah 9:10 to 9/11?
The video documentary, like the book, is full of shocking parallels. There was actually a very famous sycamore tree felled in the attack on the World Trade Center. It was replaced by trees in the same genus as the cedar. As plans to replace the towers were developed a "hewn stone" was actually quarried out of the Adirondack Mountains in New York and brought to Ground Zero as a cornerstone.
"The parallels are truly stunning," says Farah, founder of WND, who produced the documentary for WND Films. "In fact, they are overwhelming in their number and their exactitude. I am persuaded God is trying to tell America something and Rabbi Cahn has found the key to unlocking the message."
Farah says events continue to unfold that seem to link directly to the message of Isaiah 9:10 right here in the United States.
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