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Aug. 14, 2017 - Jim Bakker Show
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The Coming Solar Eclipse - Pastor Mark Biltz on The Jim Bakker Show
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God's Signs in the Heavens 00:06:04
It says in Genesis 1, 14, God declares that he is creating the sun and the moon for signs and for seasons and for days and years.
But the word signs is in there.
The sun and the moon were created in the star.
And we're about to see the heavens declare.
Well, Luke 21, 25, Jesus says there will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars.
And what do we have?
We have solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, and the Revelation 12 signed in the heavens.
Wow.
Yeah.
The events that have happened since the blood moons.
Could we just kind of name some of them?
Well, you did have a war in Israel during the month of Ov.
As a matter of fact, I flew all the way to Israel on the 9th of Ov, Tisha Beav, with a group of pastors to comfort Israel during that time.
But you saw a war in Israel.
You see all these terrorist attacks.
You see the rise of ISIS.
You see natural disasters, all kinds of things.
But to me, the main thing of the blood moons was God wants his church to repent, just like you're talking about.
What I thought was fascinating, I saw this in the news the other day.
You can Google this.
They say the exact path of the solar lunar eclipse, or solar eclipse, I mean, the exact path of the solar eclipse across the United States voted 95% for Trump.
And the fascinating thing to me is God is not interested so much in the heathen to repent as much as he wants the church to repent.
Okay, judgment always begins with the house of God.
And I believe God, it's a warning that we need to take the lead.
As believers, God is telling us this starts first with us.
And we need to repent.
And it so happens, does anyone know when that eclipse is falling on the biblical calendar?
This is why you need day timer.
You can only have a solar eclipse on a new moon.
Okay, and Israel was to base their calendar on the new moon.
Well, it so happens we're about to enter the month of Elul.
And the month of Elul is known as the month of repentance.
It was on Elul 1 that Jonah left for 40 days to tell Nineveh to repent.
It was on Elul 1 that Moses went up to Mount Sinai after the sin of the golden calf, trying to make atonement while Israel was repenting for that.
It was on Elul 1 that Jesus went into the wilderness for 40 days, coming back out on Yom Kippur.
Elul 1 is the month of repentance.
And to have this solar eclipse at this time, it is huge significance, which we will get into more later.
I can't wait.
I want to know what do you think this means.
This is strange.
Well, I think basically it means that we as a church, we have 40 days to really repent, just like, you know, Abraham.
He was interceding for Sodom and Gomorrah, trying to find at least 10 righteous.
I don't know how many righteous is needed for America.
But I believe, and this is what they're taught in Judaism from even 2,000 years ago.
I have books from 2,000 years ago and what they taught.
And they said, because the Gentiles go by the sun for their calendar, a solar eclipse represents judgment coming upon a nation.
A lunar eclipse, because Israel goes by the moon, refers to judgment coming upon Israel.
Okay, or to repent.
You know, they need to repent.
And so this, one thing, I'll go ahead and mention it now.
Yeah, I do.
Many people don't realize this, but World War I started in August of 1914, and there was a total solar eclipse over Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire.
And what happens?
You have this total solar eclipse, beginning of World War I, and the Ottoman Empire is destroyed.
It even went over Nineveh, the same place as where Jonah was.
And most people don't even know the story of Jonah except from the Bible.
We read it and we saw they repented.
But we don't know how God, and Jonah didn't know, which is why he fled, how God was preparing the ground before he went.
Did you know there was a plague?
They were found, these cuneiform tablets talking about the ancient Assyrian history.
And they said there was a major plague three years before Jonah came.
That was followed by a civil war.
Maybe they were blaming each other for the plague in Nineveh.
That was followed by another plague.
Then, and NASA records this, it's one of the most famous eclipses in all of history called the Bersegele eclipse.
It happened, a total solar eclipse over Nineveh a month before Jonah came.
Jonah comes and he says, repent.
Well, that's why they were so willing to repent.
They've already suffered from a major plague, a civil war, another plague, a total solar eclipse over Nineveh.
And then here comes Jonah saying you better repent.
Now, obviously, the solar eclipse, they didn't receive judgment because they repented.
It didn't happen for a while.
So just like I never set dates for anything, but what I do say is look at the events that happen on God's calendar so you know if it's God who's speaking or not.
And then hopefully we repent and judgment is stayed.
But I believe judgment, because it's falling at Elul 1, over, and this is the first time a solar eclipse has ever gone over the entire United States and nowhere else in over 100 years.
The last one was World War I.
And guess what?
It was World War I, and it was on August 21st, the same as this one.
Wow.
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