The Shemittah Years - 2001/2008/2014-15

[Guest DRS81]

2001 - 9/11 attacks

2008 - Economic Collapse of American Economy

2014-15 - What will be next? Four blood moons = irony.

 

- Thoughts? DRS81

From the book, Four Blood Moons by John Hagee

Shemittah is the Sabbatical year, which occurs every seventh year. Shemittah is "Shabbat" (the Sabbath) for the land of Israel; the land "rests" in a fashion, similiar to the way the Jewish people rest every seventh day (Lev 25:4). While observing Shemittah guarantees abundant produce, neglecting it leads to judgment. Jeremiah foretold that the Jewish people would be exiled for not keeping Shemittah by not allowing the land to rest (Jeremiah 17:4). When the Jewish people violated the law of Shemittah, God exiled them for seventy years until the land "enjoyed her Sabbaths" (2 Chronicles 36:19-21). Jewish tradition teaches that exile is the penalty for the three cardinal sins of murder, idolatry, sexual immortality, and for neglecting to keep the laws of Shemittah! The next Shemittah year occurs in 2015, which is also the appearance of the final Four Blood Moons that align with the Feasts of the Lord within this century.

 

From the book, Four Blood Moons by John Hagee

- The occurrence of a lunar eclipse is common

- The occurrence of a total lunar eclipse is less common

- The occurrence of a Tetrad or four consecutive Blood Moons (total lunar eclipses) is rare

- The occurrence of a Tetrad with a total solar eclipse within its series is very rare

- A Tetrad with a total solar eclipse that is significant to Israel's history and the Jewish Feasts is very, very rare

- The occurrence of a Tetrad with a total solar eclipse historically significant to Israel and Jewish Feasts that includes a Shemittah year within its series is very, very, very rare
- But a Tetrad with a total solar eclipse, historically significant to Israel and falling on the Jewish Feasts with a Shemittah year that corresponds with the Feast of Trumpets (the Jewish New Year) within its series is astronomically rare!

 

From the book, Four Blood Moons by John Hagee

Events that happened in the last Shemittah years: Every Seven Years..

- The Shemittah year of 1973: The Supreme Court decision of Roe vs. Wade occurred, which has resulted in the deaths of more than 60 million unborn babies.

- The Shemittah year of 1980: Saddam Hussein invaded Iran to signal the beginning of the Gulf War years.

- The Shemittah year of 1987: A supernova that could be seen by the naked eye for the first time since 1604 occurred. A supernova is the explosion of a star that has reached the end of its life; this brilliant point of light can briefly outshine entire galaxies and radiate more energy than our sun will in its entire lifetime. That same year the U.S. stock market crashed.

- The Shemittah year of 1994: Yasser Arafat returns to the Middle East. A rare earthquake occurred in North America on the New Madrid fault line; it spanned the Midwest of the United States up to Canada.

- The Shemittah year of 2001: America was attacked by radical Islamic terrorists killing nearly three thousand Americans on 9/11. This day became America's new day of infamy.

- The Shemittah year of 2008: America experienced a stock market crash on September 29 when the market fell 777 points in one day. It was the greatest one-day decline in the history of Wall Street.

- The Shemittah year of 2015:

[Atwood]

God is still on the throne.

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What are "The Shemittah Years"?

[OneLight]

A Sabbatical year
 
Honestly DSR, it was not too hard of an answer.
 
Or, if you prefer:

Shemittah is a year of economic, environmental, and social equity. It is a time when physical and social boundaries are dissolved, reminding us that we live and thrive not within the barricades of self but in the shelter of each other and the gifts of the wilds. We all abide in one and the same world that we consume and renew in an endless cycle of co-generation. To keep the world humming, we must do this mindfully and properly.

Shemittah is a year of radical simplicity, of a reduction in production and consumption, when our energies that would otherwise go into pursuing those ends are spent doing other things. What other things? The Bible is silent on that. That is where we get to fill in the blanks.

Shemittah was not a year you could just slip into. The people had to prepare. They had to create structures and systems in the other six years that would enable the celebration and observance of the seventh year. The shemittah message of replacing the never-ending quest for more with the blessing of enoughness affected and informed the other six years. The blessings of this seventh sabbatical year had to be planned for. This did not mean accelerating and producing excess to build up warehouses and pantries in the six “on” years, further depleting our energies and resources so that we could manage to live in the seventh “off” year as expansively as we live in the other six. Rather, it means that we should produce and consume wisely, so that the earth remains healthy and robust and able to tend to our needs on its own in the seventh year.

[Guest DRS81]

Shemittah is the Sabbatical year, which occurs every seventh year. Shemittah is "Shabbat" (the Sabbath) for the land of Israel; the land "rests" in a fashion, similiar to the way the Jewish people rest every seventh day (Lev 25:4). While observing Shemittah guarantees abundant produce, neglecting it leads to judgment. Jeremiah foretold that the Jewish people would be exiled for not keeping Shemittah by not allowing the land to rest (Jeremiah 17:4). When the Jewish people violated the law of Shemittah, God exiled them for seventy years until the land "enjoyed her Sabbaths" (2 Chronicles 36:19-21). Jewish tradition teaches that exile is the penalty for the three cardinal sins of murder, idolatry, sexual immortality, and for neglecting to keep the laws of Shemittah! The next Shemittah year occurs in 2015, which is also the appearance of the final Four Blood Moons that align with the Feasts of the Lord within this century.

 

From the book, Four Blood Moons by John Hagee. How any Christian can avoid this and not be excited about reading about these things is beyond me.

 

(sigh)?

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From the book, Four Blood Moons by John Hagee. How any Christian can avoid this and not be excited about reading about these things is beyond me.

 

(sigh)?

 

Well, firstly, my frustration was that you presented an obscure term and when asked about it, your response was a pass-off. In other words, it was poor etiquette.

 

Secondly, 9/11 and the economic collapse weren't exactly events to jump for joy about.

 

Excited? For what? War? Famine?

[Guest DRS81]

Well, firstly, my frustration was that you presented an obscure term and when asked about it, your response was a pass-off. In other words, it was poor etiquette.

 

Secondly, 9/11 and the economic collapse weren't exactly events to jump for joy about.

 

Excited? For what? War? Famine?

 

Excited that God is giving us signs in the heavens, excited for the rapture. I'm sort of more anxious than excited to see what happens. It's interesting nebula. I am intrigued by it because I'm a Christian, and Jesus told us to be watchful. How are you not thirsty to read that book?? Man o man.

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Well, firstly, my frustration was that you presented an obscure term and when asked about it, your response was a pass-off. In other words, it was poor etiquette.

 

Secondly, 9/11 and the economic collapse weren't exactly events to jump for joy about.

 

Excited? For what? War? Famine?

 

Excited that God is giving us signs in the heavens, excited for the rapture. I'm sort of more anxious than excited to see what happens. It's interesting nebula. I am intrigued by it because I'm a Christian, and Jesus told us to be watchful. How are you not thirsty to read that book?? Man o man.

 

Quite easily.

 

First of all, if Hagee is claiming that this coming Blood Moon tetrad is foretelling the rapture, then he's no different than Hal Lindsey (author of The Late Great Planet Earth) or whats-his-name who wrote "88 Reason Why Christ Will Return in 1988) or Harold Camping.

 

Second, it's been pointed out in one of the other threads that the events linked to the previous Blood Moon tetrads didn't actually occur in the same 2 years as the Blood Moons.

 

Third, Scripture does not speak of a Blood Moon Tetrad.

 

As far as linking signs in the Heavens to what is prophecied in Scripture, you are better off getting software that tracks the future and look for the time when:

 

1 ...a woman [Virgo] clothed with the sun [the sun passing through Virgo], and the moon under her feet [the moon's location is at the apparent feet of Virgo], and on her head a crown of twelve stars[you can play around with how that works] ; 2 and she was with child [possibly a planet in the apparent "womb" of Virgo] ; and she cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth.

3 Then another sign appeared in heaven : and behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns [possibly something to do with Draco], and on his heads were seven diadems. 4 And his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.

The Male Child, Christ

5 And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron

(Rev. 12)

[Guest DRS81]

Quite easily.

 

First of all, if Hagee is claiming that this coming Blood Moon tetrad is foretelling the rapture, then he's no different than Hal Lindsey (author of The Late Great Planet Earth) or whats-his-name who wrote "88 Reason Why Christ Will Return in 1988) or Harold Camping.

 

Second, it's been pointed out in one of the other threads that the events linked to the previous Blood Moon tetrads didn't actually occur in the same 2 years as the Blood Moons.

 

Third, Scripture does not speak of a Blood Moon Tetrad.

 

As far as linking signs in the Heavens to what is prophecied in Scripture, you are better off getting software that tracks the future and look for the time when:

 

1 ...a woman [Virgo] clothed with the sun [the sun passing through Virgo], and the moon under her feet [the moon's location is at the apparent feet of Virgo], and on her head a crown of twelve stars[you can play around with how that works] ; 2 and she was with child [possibly a planet in the apparent "womb" of Virgo] ; and she cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth.

3 Then another sign appeared in heaven : and behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns [possibly something to do with Draco], and on his heads were seven diadems. 4 And his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.

The Male Child, Christ

5 And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron

(Rev. 12)

 

 

1. Yeah but there's a difference between 1988 and 2014-2015, the four blood moons and Israel! There's nothing wrong with an author being excited about this. The four blood moons always connects to the future of Israel.

2. It didn't occur, what does that even mean? That's like false prophets telling you the rapture doesn't exist. The four blood moons have only occurred three times in 522 years.

3. Revelation 12 Israel (woman) is referring to the great tribulation, but what you're not understanding is that John Hagee doesn't try to connect or predict anything. He's not claiming that he was ever a prophet, John is a disciple of Christ. And if you read the book you would also understand that. He just tells it like it is and slams you with facts using scripture, science and NASA as proof. The author uses scripture nebula to back up everything he is saying, and he also says the only way to the Father is through Jesus Christ. That shows me that he's not only a science geek, but has faith that Jesus Christ is his savior. That's even more of a reason to read his book because he's not a false prophet.

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1. Yeah but there's a difference between 1988 and 2014-2015, the four blood moons and Israel! There's nothing wrong with an author being excited about this. The four blood moons always connects to the future of Israel.

2. It didn't occur, what does that even mean? That's like false prophets telling you the rapture doesn't exist. The four blood moons have only occurred three times in 522 years.

3. Revelation 12 Israel (woman) is referring to the great tribulation, but what you're not understanding is that John Hagee doesn't try to connect or predict anything. He's not claiming that he was ever a prophet, John is a disciple of Christ. And if you read the book you would also understand that. He just tells it like it is and slams you with facts using scripture, science and NASA as proof. The author uses scripture nebula to back up everything he is saying, and he also says the only way to the Father is through Jesus Christ. That shows me that he's not only a science geek, but has faith that Jesus Christ is his savior. That's even more of a reason to read his book because he's not a false prophet.

 

1. The previous Blood Moon Tetrads had correlations in some way with major events dealing with the Jews (i.e. expulsion from Spain) and more recently Israel (i.e. The 6 Day War). So, one can expect to see something significant happening with Israel. Fine. But to tie the Blood Moon Tetrads with the Rapture? No.

 

2. Didn't occur until after.

 

The War of Independence — 1948

• Passover, April 13, 1949
• Sukkoth, Oct. 7, 1949
• Passover, April 2, 1950
• Sukkoth, Sept. 26, 1950

 

The War of Independence began the year before the first of the Blood Moons.

 

3. I appreciate that you regard John Hagee is a great Bible Teacher, but I have known many teachers of the Bible who back the things they say with Scripture, yet their handling of the Scripture was wrong.

 

I do not disagree with all things Hagee preaches, but I don't regard all things he says and does as ultimate truth either.

 

I am tired of men being put on such pedestals. That is all.