Jim Bakker Show - The Coming Solar Eclipse - Pastor Mark Biltz on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2017-08-14
Duration: 06:04


=== God's Signs in the Heavens (06:04) ===

[00:00:00]  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.
[00:00:13]  But the word signs is in there.
[00:00:16]  The sun and the moon were created in the star.
[00:00:21]  And we're about to see the heavens declare.
[00:00:25]  Well, Luke 21, 25, Jesus says there will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars.
[00:00:32]  And what do we have?
[00:00:33]  We have solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, and the Revelation 12 signed in the heavens.
[00:00:39]  Wow.
[00:00:39]  Yeah.
[00:00:40]  The events that have happened since the blood moons.
[00:00:44]  Could we just kind of name some of them?
[00:00:47]  Well, you did have a war in Israel during the month of Ov.
[00:00:54]  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.
[00:01:02]  But you saw a war in Israel.
[00:01:04]  You see all these terrorist attacks.
[00:01:06]  You see the rise of ISIS.
[00:01:08]  You see natural disasters, all kinds of things.
[00:01:11]  But to me, the main thing of the blood moons was God wants his church to repent, just like you're talking about.
[00:01:18]  What I thought was fascinating, I saw this in the news the other day.
[00:01:21]  You can Google this.
[00:01:22]  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.
[00:01:33]  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.
[00:01:42]  Okay, judgment always begins with the house of God.
[00:01:46]  And I believe God, it's a warning that we need to take the lead.
[00:01:51]  As believers, God is telling us this starts first with us.
[00:01:56]  And we need to repent.
[00:01:58]  And it so happens, does anyone know when that eclipse is falling on the biblical calendar?
[00:02:06]  This is why you need day timer.
[00:02:08]  You can only have a solar eclipse on a new moon.
[00:02:13]  Okay, and Israel was to base their calendar on the new moon.
[00:02:17]  Well, it so happens we're about to enter the month of Elul.
[00:02:21]  And the month of Elul is known as the month of repentance.
[00:02:25]  It was on Elul 1 that Jonah left for 40 days to tell Nineveh to repent.
[00:02:30]  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.
[00:02:39]  It was on Elul 1 that Jesus went into the wilderness for 40 days, coming back out on Yom Kippur.
[00:02:46]  Elul 1 is the month of repentance.
[00:02:48]  And to have this solar eclipse at this time, it is huge significance, which we will get into more later.
[00:02:56]  I can't wait.
[00:02:58]  I want to know what do you think this means.
[00:03:00]  This is strange.
[00:03:02]  Well, I think basically it means that we as a church, we have 40 days to really repent, just like, you know, Abraham.
[00:03:10]  He was interceding for Sodom and Gomorrah, trying to find at least 10 righteous.
[00:03:14]  I don't know how many righteous is needed for America.
[00:03:17]  But I believe, and this is what they're taught in Judaism from even 2,000 years ago.
[00:03:23]  I have books from 2,000 years ago and what they taught.
[00:03:26]  And they said, because the Gentiles go by the sun for their calendar, a solar eclipse represents judgment coming upon a nation.
[00:03:36]  A lunar eclipse, because Israel goes by the moon, refers to judgment coming upon Israel.
[00:03:42]  Okay, or to repent.
[00:03:44]  You know, they need to repent.
[00:03:45]  And so this, one thing, I'll go ahead and mention it now.
[00:03:49]  Yeah, I do.
[00:03:50]  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.
[00:04:07]  And what happens?
[00:04:09]  You have this total solar eclipse, beginning of World War I, and the Ottoman Empire is destroyed.
[00:04:14]  It even went over Nineveh, the same place as where Jonah was.
[00:04:18]  And most people don't even know the story of Jonah except from the Bible.
[00:04:22]  We read it and we saw they repented.
[00:04:24]  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.
[00:04:30]  Did you know there was a plague?
[00:04:33]  They were found, these cuneiform tablets talking about the ancient Assyrian history.
[00:04:39]  And they said there was a major plague three years before Jonah came.
[00:04:45]  That was followed by a civil war.
[00:04:47]  Maybe they were blaming each other for the plague in Nineveh.
[00:04:50]  That was followed by another plague.
[00:04:54]  Then, and NASA records this, it's one of the most famous eclipses in all of history called the Bersegele eclipse.
[00:05:02]  It happened, a total solar eclipse over Nineveh a month before Jonah came.
[00:05:09]  Jonah comes and he says, repent.
[00:05:11]  Well, that's why they were so willing to repent.
[00:05:13]  They've already suffered from a major plague, a civil war, another plague, a total solar eclipse over Nineveh.
[00:05:19]  And then here comes Jonah saying you better repent.
[00:05:22]  Now, obviously, the solar eclipse, they didn't receive judgment because they repented.
[00:05:27]  It didn't happen for a while.
[00:05:29]  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.
[00:05:40]  And then hopefully we repent and judgment is stayed.
[00:05:43]  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.
[00:05:55]  The last one was World War I.
[00:05:57]  And guess what?
[00:05:59]  It was World War I, and it was on August 21st, the same as this one.
[00:06:04]  Wow.