Four Blood Moons (2015) - full transcript

The shadow of the Earth moving

across the face of the moon has
been seen by man since he first

walked the planet.

The darkening of the moon brings wonder,
worship, fear

and fascination.

The most wondrous and
mysterious of all lunar phenomena

is the rare occurrence
when the moon is full,

and the shadow of the
earth is perfectly aligned,

and the moon is turned
to the color of blood.

So imagine

you're an astronomer
or a space traveler,



and you land on
the face of the moon,

and you look back to the earth
during one of these eclipses.

What you'll see is a
giant ring of fire. You'll

see every sunrise and
every sunset on the earth

all at the same time,
and that reddish light; sunsets

and sunrises look very red,
pass through the atmosphere

and fall on the
face of the moon,

so you get that dim,
red blood color.

Only four times in
the last five hundred years

have there been four blood
moons appearing back to back

coinciding with
Jewish High Holy Days.

The fourth series of
blood moons is upon us.

A tetrad is a
scientific term that NASA uses,

and what it refers to is
when you have four total lunar



eclipses in a row, back to back.

PASTOR JOHN
HAGEE: The thing that

compelled me to write
The Four Blood Moons was

when I discovered the scientific
fact NASA was putting out;

that it happened in 1493,
that it happened

in 1949,
that it happened in 1967

and was going to happen in 2015.

The Talmud states clearly

that the eclipse of the sun
is difficult for the nations

of the world.

The eclipse of the moon is
difficult for the Jewish people

and express a difficulty
for the Jewish people.

When
I saw 1493 and 1949 and 1967

knowing history I
knew that these three

dates applied to Israel
and are the Jewish people.

It is interesting to
correlate historical events

with the timing of the tetrads.

Over the past five
hundred years each of them

coincides with a
significant event.

The fact that these significant
events have to do with Israel

is an interesting coincidence.

Because of Israel's
unique place in the world

some believe the
juxtaposition of blood moons

and significant
historical events

may be something
more than random;

a foreshadowing,
a time of significant change.

And of course,
Joel in his prophecy

is so specific about the blood
moon being the beginning

of the ultimate redemption,
and so of course,

the notion that the heavenly
bodies serve as signs is very

much part of Jewish thought
and Jewish and Jewish theology,

and rooted in the Bible.

David said, "The Heavens

declare the glory of the Lord."

That the heavens give to
men reason and thought.

When I read that
verse in the 19th chapter

I knew that God was
communicating to earth

by the heavens.

There is an amazing midrash,
rabbinical

statement in the mystical
interpretations of the Bible

as well as in the
rabbinical interpretations

that the Jewish people
are compared to the moon,

and the moon
goes through cycles,

and it looks at a certain as
if the moon has completely

disappeared,
but it will never completely disappear.

From that disappearance
it will be born again,

and it will emerge again
and become even stronger

than it was before.

He
Sent the... he created the sun

and the moon, you know,
and the stars for signs,

and when you read
the book of Isaiah,

you read the book of Joel,
you read the Gospels,

you read Acts,
you read Revelation everywhere it says,

"The sun will turn to sackcloth,
the moon to blood"

even in Luke the Lord says,
"There will be signs in the sun

and the moon."

- I - never debunk these signs.

I never do.

Again, I see the larger picture.

That's what I'm more
naturally predisposed to being

preoccupied with,
but I find these things very suggestive,

and why wouldn't God send signs.

There would be no reason not to.

What we notice in science

is the more you research
therecord of nature the more

evidences you find for
the handiwork of God,

and so it's not a
surprise that we're

seeing an increasing
number of scientists

looking at that evidence.

There are
plenty of believers in the science

community, and so uh,
but we try to stick to that which can

be explained from the laws
of physics that we understand,

and so that's kind of the
basis of our conversations.

There are many people who do not

believe in Bible prophecy at all,
because they simply

don't understand it,
but they do accept scientific fact,

and they do accept
historical fact,

and so when you take
scientific fact and historical fact

and line it up exactly
with prophetic fact,

and they all are in
perfect agreement

now is time to put doubt
aside and to believe that God

is trying to communicate
to us in a very special way,

and we need to talk about this,
because something

is about to change:

Are guys
familiar with the blood moon?

Yeah, we've heard about it.

Did you
guys get to see it in October?

Yes

Yes,
I've heard of blood moon before.

Didn't we just
have one recently?

The only moon I know
about is the Comanche Moon,

and that's when
the full moon was up

and the Comanche's would
ride and raid and cause

a lot of blood to flow.

Have you
ever heard of a blood moon?

Oh yeah, it's biblical.

To be honest with
you I'm just too busy being a mom

and raising my kids and
taking care of my household.

I don't have time to
really think deeply about it.

Do you think that there's

any connection between all
these astronomical events that

are happening and something
that's going on with Israel?

Unfortunately,
being in uniform I cannot

answer my full opinion,
but yes I do.

I really do.

Space is a miracle.

Just the world being
here is a miracle.

We live in a miracle.

For me I think it could
be one of... depends which side

of the fence you look at it.

So,
if you think of it as a spiritual thing,

yes, you can see the relation.

If you don't,
then it could be circumstantial,

and it's just sort of a
chance that it's all happening.

I think
I read about it in the Bible

somewhere about the moon
turning red or something,

but I mean,
maybe that's pollution.

People determine the
cosmic events of the heavens

in many different ways.

Some are concerned,
and some don't care.

Scientists call the phenomena
of four blood moons a tetrad.

Historians call
it a coincidence.

Some biblical scholars call
the tetrad of blood moons a sign

from God.

Are the strange
sequences of tetrad

of blood moons an
astronomical phenomenon

or a sign in the heavens?

Is there is a correlation
between the movement

of planets, prophecy,
and the history of our world?

We are going to look
at this rare phenomenon

at the intersection of science,
history, and scripture.

Facts, tradition,
and opinion collide in controversy, mystery

and wonder.

Is something about to change,
and if so, what is it,

and how shall we know it.

The first tetrad of the blood
moons in our story was 1493.

The blood moon appeared as
the most famous ship's captain

in the world set sail on his
second voyage to the New World.

My family and I were
among the hundreds of Jews

who escaped the horrors
of the Spanish Inquisition.

We left Spain on the 24th day
of September in the year 1493.

The terror we had endured
since the edict of expulsion

would forever darken our dreams.

They hated us.

Queen Isabella
banished every Jew

who refused to convert
to the Catholic Church.

Tomás de Torquemada was
a Jew who feigned conversion

to the Holy Catholic Church
to find favor with the Queen.

Jews who converted
to save their lives

were dragged before the
inquisition on the slightest suspicion.

He tortured other Jews
who claimed conversion

to make us confess we embraced
our beloved Judaism in secret.

I am ashamed to confess
that I pretended conversion

to Christianity to
escape exile or death.

But I was to be
tourchered anyway

to make me confess it was a lie

And I remained a Jew

It was a great honor to
meet the famous captain

General Colón.

He surprised me
with his kindness.

I shall never
forget the feeling.

In his care we will be free.

Our sweet child gave
our Captain the last vestige

of our persecution.

The loathsome yellow
star they made us wear.

Never again.

We prepared to set sail
to a new world and new life

Our hearts were filled with a new hope,
and a thanks to God

The terrors and touchers
we endured to save our lives

and preserve our precious
faith. Would never be forgotten.

They subjected us to
reprelceable tortures

to force us to confess

that in our hearts
we were still Jews.

It was not about
finding the truth.

It was about expelling Jews,
or killing them.

By some miracle I withstood
the purging and survived

Those less fortunate
were left to die.

We had a chance to meet the men

who financed the
voyages of Captain General

Colón.

It was not the Catholic Queen
Isabella as most believed.

It was these Jewish men,
Rabbi Isaac Abrabanel,

Louis De Santangel
and Gabriel Sanchez.

The New World was
not the ancient Homeland

God gave to our fathers.

But for us it would
surely be a promised land.

Our Lord unlocked my mind,

sent me upon the sea,

and gave me fire for the deed.

I could feel his hand upon me.

Those who heard of my
enterprise called it foolish.

They ridiculed me and laughed.

But who can doubt that
the Holy Ghost inspired me?

The day we left the moon
was full and darkened

by a total eclipse and suddenly
turned the color of blood.

It was as if God marked the
day with a sign in the heavens

lest we ever forget.

I do know he had inclinations.

I do there are some who
track him back to actually having

Jewish blood and
Jewish heritage himself

and attribute that
as the reason he

was very favorable to the Jews
at a time when the world was

not very favorable to the Jews.

His name was Cristabal Colón.

His Italian name,
and Colón is a Hebrew Cohanic Jewish

priestly name.

That's what makes
a lot of people

feel that he was
definitely Jewish.

Columbus
today has become a great villain,

and that's because people do
not know who he was originally,

and they reflect what they've
been told today about Columbus,

and when you go back to his
document he wrote so much.

This is Columbus'
books of prophecies,

and this was what was
done 500 years ago,

and you see it
in his own writing,

and this is what he himself
wrote down and talked about.

For the Jewish in particular

who were persecuted in Spain
the America was a place to run to,

and America was a place
to make a new kind of life,

and it's remarkable that
Jews came to the Americas

from the beginning and played
a critical role in the formation

and the development of America.

The first Thanksgiving
was celebrated in 1621,

a year after the
Mayflower landed.

It was inspired in
part by Yom Kippur,

the Jewish Day of Atonement.

It was to be a day of fasting,
introspection, and prayer.

History has failed to remember
the significant influence

of the Jews in the
founding of America.

- I
- don't believe in coincidences

especially when it comes to
Israel and the Jewish people

and God's hand being
involved with His people.

When George Washington

and the Revolutionary Army
had run out of food, arms,

munition, clothing,
Haym Solomon when

to the Jewish Community
in America and in Europe,

raised millions of
dollars and gave it

to George Washington
and the Revolutionary Army,

and they were able
to continue the fight,

and they won the battle,
because a Jewish banker made

that possible.

He's the forgotten
man in history,

but I assure you that,
that battle would've been lost,

and Freedom in
America would never

have happened without
the Jewish contribution

in our early history.

May Mr. Solomon

and the children of the stock of
Abraham who dwell in the land

continue to merit
and enjoy the goodwill

of the other inhabitants.

While everyone
shall sit in safety

under his own vine
and fig tree and there

shall be none to
make him afraid.

I love what John Adams said.

I'm just going to read a
quote from John Adams.

This is right out
of Adam's writings.

He said, "I will insist that
the Hebrews have done more

to civilize man than
any other nation.

They preserve and
propagate to all mankind

the doctrine of a supreme,
intelligent, wise, almighty

sovereign of the
universe which I believe

to the great essential
principle of all morality

and consequently
of all civilization".

Almost all

of the founding fathers
of the United States

were what was called
"Restorationists".

They wanted,
they believed that the Jewish people should

be restored to their homeland.

Our founding fathers

both Ben Franklin as well as

Thomas Jefferson
each when they had

to come up with a national
symbol or a national motto they

came up with symbols and
mottos that referred back

to the ancient Israelites.

Every person who ever
lived has stared into the night

pondering the mysteries
of life and death,

the vastness of
space and wondered...

Well,
I look at the universe as something

which just works
like a wound-up clock.

We understand
the laws of physics,

and as astronomers we
spend an awful lot of time

learning how to predict
these sorts of things,

and the laws of nature
are fairly well understood,

I think by humans,
and so we're pretty good at understanding

at how these things work,
and they work simply

because the laws of physics
are the way that they are,

and so we don't see
anything particularly special

about them, but um,
it's kind of a triumph

of the human
intellect that we can

understand these things at all.

The Bible stood alone
until the 20th Century

in making the claim that the
Universe continually expands

from the cosmic creation event.

We can now prove
that that is true

showing that the
Bible not only has

predictive power
with human history

it has predictive power
with scientific discoveries,

and now that we can
measure the factors governing

this fine tuning there we
find the most spectacular

scientific evidence for supernatural,
super-intelligent

design.

We can actually measure
the level of design

in the parameters that
govern the expansion,

and it tells us that the causal
agent beyond space and time

at a minimum is ten trillion,
trillion, trillion, trillion,

trillion, trillion, trillion,
trillion times more

intelligent more knowledgeable
and better funded than us

human beings.

Therefore,
it's not just a transcendent creator,

it's a personal creator.

All of us at some time ponder

the meaning of life,
where we come from, why we're here.

What happens when we die,
and how

we fit into the grand
scheme of the universe?

Some stare into the blackened
void and find no meaning.

Others search the
Heavens to unravel

the mysteries of the cosmos.

Many look for signs
and messages from God.

And it's through
my astronomy research I realize

there had to be a
beginning to the universe

and therefore there
had to be a God,

and I spent two years
researching the holy books

and religions of the world and
recognized that the Bible alone

was an accurate revelation
from the one who had actually

created the universe.

The Bible says in Genesis 1:14

that, "I have set the sun,
the moon, and the stars

for signs and seasons.

The word "signs" in Hebrew
also can mean signals,

that God is sending us a signal

When we look up in the sky

and we see something
that wasn't there before,

you know,
strange feelings can happen.

History leaves
little doubt that there

have been signs in the heavens,
signs that people of earth

have interpreted as sent by a
power greater than ourselves.

The Bible records one
of the most startling signs

ever given.

Well, I don't think

there's any question that God
uses signs and wonders to speak

his people, and look,
that's how He led the Magi to the baby

Jesus, and I think that's
more than just a fairy tale.

I think that's exactly how
they found Christ in that manger

in Bethlehem.

The book of Ezekiel speaks

about the rebirth of Israel as
a nation in the land of promise

and also prophesizes that
when the nation is formed

the Israelis will not possess
the ancient high places

of worship.

In the '67 war they captured
all the ancient high places

of worship.

PASTOR JOHN
HAGEE: Israel still stands

by the sovereign hand of God
and will until the last day the sun

rises in the East
and sets in the West.

When the last battle
has been fought,

the last bullet has been
fired the flag of Israel

is going to be flying over the
ancient walls of the holy city,

and Jerusalem
will stand forever.

The story of Israel begins
with Abraham, the great Father

of many nations.

It begins with a covenant of priesthood,
posterity,

and possession of a land to
this very day remains in conflict.

The Jewish people
survived two thousand years

of exile and persistent
persecutions.

They survived the
horrors of Nazi Germany.

They rose from the
ashes of World War II

like the mystical phoenix
of ancient Greek mythology.

Israel was reborn after
nineteen hundred years of exile.

Its first permanent government
was established in 1949.

The nation of Israel
came into being

in the crimson glow of
a tetrad of blood moons

that fell on Jewish holy days.

The second in
five hundred years.

It wasn't the Holocaust that

created the state of Israel.

It's three thousand years of
Jewish history that goes back

to the founding of the state
when King David made Jerusalem

its capital,
but even earlier to when Abraham came there

and met the King
of Shalem and saw

this place,
the city of Jerusalem.

From the time of the
Temples to the current time

Jews never turned their
backs on Jerusalem.

Jews always prayed toward
Jerusalem and yearned

for the return,
to return not out of terror and not out

of prejudice and
persecution but...

we pray that we return with
God's mercy and blessing.

It has to be remembered

that we lived in this area
for two thousand years

until the destruction of the temple,
the second temple

in year 70 of the common year,
and even

though were then pushed,
exiled from pillar to post

there was always
in an unbroken chain

Jews who lived in the area
for the full four thousand

years of Jewish history.

The seeds of
Zionism were planted

by Theodore Herzl
in the closing years

of the nineteenth century.

A Jewish chemist by the
name of Chaim Weizmann

created the synthetic
gunpowder that

enabled England to defeat
Germany in World War I.

A grateful Queen asked Weizmann

how could they repay him.

Weizmann's answer
changed the world,

"Give the Jews a homeland."

The Balfour Declaration
fulfilled God's promise

to Israel made four
thousand years earlier

and recorded both in
the Bible and the Talmud.

The Jews had a homeland at last.

The United Nations
recognized the nation of Israel

on November 29th 1947.

It is significant that
the United States

was the first
nation to recognize

the new state of Israel.

It was an American President,
Harry Truman,

that was the first to recognize
the new nation of Israel.

He did that even
though almost every one

of his major political
advisors urged him not to.

Several of them said they
would resign if he did it.

Harry Truman was probably

the strongest supporter of
Israel that America's ever had,

and he was supportive in
spite of the objections of almost

everybody in his cabinet.

Harry Truman told his advisors

he wanted three days to
think about whether or not

the United States would
support Israel's intention

to declare independence.

He went into seclusion.

What he did during
those three days

would not be
known for fifty years.

Harry Truman
when handed the document that

notified him that Israel
had declared sovereignty

walked, took his pen and
actually marked out "The New

Jewish State" and wrote
"The State of Israel."

We know now what

he did during those three days.

He read the Bible,
and in his reading of the Bible

he read about Cyrus
the King of Persia

who allowed the Jews after
the destruction of the first Temple

to return to Judea in 536 BC,
and Cyrus

is one of the great
heroes of the Bible

for giving the Jews the
right to return to Judea

and to rebuild the Holy Temple.

Harry Truman
is a very religious-minded president.

Harry Truman,
if you want fun at Christmas time

read the presidential
messages of Harry Truman

to the nation about Christmas.

It's stronger than
any preacher I've ever

seen in the United States.

President
Truman writes in his memoirs,

"I wanted to be
the second Cyrus.

I want to go down in
history as the President

who allowed the Jews
to return to their homeland

after two thousand
years of wandering.

But he
had been to Sunday School,

and he had read his Bible,
and He

knew that there was an
imperative for America to be

a supporter of Israel,
and that hasn't changed.

Without
the existence of the United States,

without Truman's
decree Israel may not

have been reborn as a nation,
and after 1948

to the modern day the U.S.
has been Israel's strongest ally,

strongest supporter.

We are bonded by
our shared democracy,

our shared Judeo-Christian values,
our shared Bible.

It's a special,
special, relationship,

and I believe God
has blessed America,

because we have blessed Israel,
and if that

changes we're in big trouble.

On May 14th,
1948 Israel proclaimed its independence.

Less than 24 hours later the
armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria,

Lebanon,
and Iraq invaded the country.

Stop and think about the fact

that in 1948 within an hour
after they declared sovereignty

at 4 o'clock in the afternoon
on the 14th of May 1948

they were at war.

This was a brand-new nation,
an hour old, was at war.

They were attacked
from every direction

by Muslim nations,
Muslim entities that wanted to destroy

them, and they were victorious.

That can be described
as nothing but a miracle.

It was
foretold in the Bible that Israel would

be recreated as a state,
and I think it is

to thee uh, it's remarkable that
that Biblical prophecy which is

about as clear as any of the
prophecies in the Bible can be

verified by us today and
would actually have been merely

speculative before 1948,
but after 1948 we can say that

the Bible predicted it,
and it happened.

My basic belief of the Jews

is that they are
the chosen people,

and I don't even believe
this for theological reasons.

I believe this for
rational reasons.

There's no other way to
explain Jewish history, none.

There are over 200
countries in the world.

Only one is targeted
by enemies by extinction.

There is no attempt to
eradicate any other state on earth,

no matter what it has done.

No one wants to
eradicate anything.

Everyone's at
peace with Honduras.

Everybody's at peace with Paraguay,
with Burma.

People who hate it nobody
wants to eradicate them.

Now, it's very interesting,
because ironically,

coincidentally,
the one state is targeted for extinction

is the one Jewish state.

Now, is that coincidence?

Of course it's
not a coincidence.

It can't be a coincidence,
and it makes sense to me.

Before the ink was dry
on the declaration of independence

Palestinian Arabs launched
an air attack on Tel Aviv.

As the fighting intensified
other Arab forces

joined the Palestinians.

Within six weeks
Israeli defense forces

seized control of lands granted
them by the United Nations.

Almost immediately
Israel was attacked

in a brutal simultaneous
coordinated assault

by five regular Arab armies
with an overwhelming superiority

of equipment, armor,
artillery and air force.

In what became known as
Israel's war of independence

the newly formed,
poorly equipped Israeli defense forces

repulsed the invaders in
fierce intermittent fighting

which lasted fifteen months.

Six thousand Jews were killed,
but in the end Israel ejected

the invading Arab
forces and captured

five thousand square kilometers
beyond the areas allocated

to it by the United Nations.

It was only in the final phases
that the Haganah, Israeli

Defense Forces,
bold initiatives,

and the unexpected
help of pilots

from America that changed
the course of the war.

I was in North
Dakota selling used cars

when I got the call.

"Bring your leather jacket
and proof you can fly",

my Air Force buddy said.

Israel was being attacked by
five Arab Armies with no way

to defend themselves.

We purchased a hodge-podge
of planes left over from the war.

We flew the old planes
into Israel at night,

reassembled them
from spare parts

and hoped we
could make them fly.

I was a fighter pilot
for the U.S. Navy.

The word that Jews were going
to fight to keep their new nation

was a call for help
I couldn't ignore.

The Arabs had
squadrons of planes

and the myriad machines of war.

They were a superior
force in every way

and preparing to bomb
Israel into oblivion.

They laughed that
Israel had no air force.

I would've liked to have been
there when they found out they

were wrong... very, very wrong.

There was nothing that
could've kept me from being there

and doing what had to be done.

I was born to be in
that moment of history.

These pilots andother
courageous volunteers

came to help were the
most important contribution

to the survival of
the State of Israel.

David Ben Gurion called
them the "Fingers of God."

The Armistice was signed on July,
20th, 1949.

With the
homeland secured at last

and their enemies vanquished
and defeated the gathering began.

The return of the
Jews from Israel

has been likened to
the Exodus from Egypt.

The gathering of exiles
to a God-given land

began the central idea
of the Zionist movement.

The Megilat HaAtzma'ut,
the idea of going up,

of returning to the Holy
land that is higher spiritually

than all other lands.

The Jews were returning home.

The miracle of
Israel had only begun.

Who ever heard of such a thing

for a people to be scattered
from their homeland

to the ends of the earth.

For two thousand years, gone.

Then they return,
re-establish their ancient homeland.

If that's not proof of
the existence of God

I don't know what is.

Many are the miracles

of the time in which we live.

The greatest is
our return to Israel

after two thousand
years of exile.

Ranking next to
that is the return

of the exiles, the black Jews of
Ethiopia from the Tribe of Dan.

They've returned now to Israel.

The dark Jews in India,
from the tribe of Manasseh,

six thousand of them.

We
Have returned after so many years

to our sovereignty and to our language,
Biblical language.

We speak the same language
basically that they spoke

thirty-three hundred years
as Joshua entered into Israel

to the conquest of Israel,
and that we basically,

it's the same God,
the same religion.

David Ben Gurion
had declared the new nation

a place of freedom of Religion,
conscience, language, education

and culture.

That dream of
Israel was not to be.

With the creation of
the Palestinian Liberation

Organization in
1964 Israel entered

a period of high tension,
sabotage and terrorism.

Egypt staged its
army on Israel's border.

Blocked the Straits of Tiran,
and drove the United Nations

peacekeepers from the Sinai.

Israel had no choice
but to defend itself.

The Israeli army raided the
Jordanian controlled West Bank,

initiated flights over Syria
and took on the Egyptians

in the Sinai.

In six days against
insurmountable odds

the little nation
of Israel held back

and defeated the enormous
fire power of six separate nations.

An Israeli victory
in a six-day war

was theoretically impossible.

Things happened no one
could explain unless the victory is

part of God's ancient
promise to protect Israel

in a fight against her enemies.

War historians were left
scratching their heads.

But you can't teach

the tactics or the strategy or
the operations of the Israelis

in a war college
and make sense of it,

because there's no reason
they should've won other

than divine intervention.

But the
fact is there have been many,

many more missiles sent
out and rockets sent out

by the other side.

They just didn't hit us!

Somehow they went on
places where nobody was living,

and that's a
miracle to rival all

of the miracles in the
Bible in the book of Exodus

about what happened
to the Hebrews living

in Egypt during the
time of the Ten Plagues,

and it's very, very clear.

You have to be deaf,
dumb, and blind not

to see God's protective hand.

Was it a victory wrought by miracles,
or was it

only a curious co-incidence,
the resounding defeat

of their enemies,
came in the glow of four blood moons.

Blood moons that fell
on Jewish holy days.

We found there is much
more to the story of tiny Israel

defeating five standing armies
that is found in history books.

There were hundreds
of occurrence

documented by U.N. observers.

Some would even call
them miraculous events.

I was a taxi driver
before the war,

but in Israel we are all soldiers,
and willing.

I was not very religious,

but after what
happened to us that day,

how can I not say it
was God who helped us?

We'd been on recon
since early Friday.

I was sick and hurting bad.

We knew we had to make
our way back to our unit.

Two of us wouldn't
stand a chance

if we ran into the Egyptians.

Then suddenly, there they were.

There was no nowhere to run

so we just stood there...

like ducks in a gallery
waiting to be shot.

For lack of a better idea
we aimed our guns at them

and shouted and... I can
hardly explain what happened.

There were 18 armed
soldiers in the back of the truck.

I had a rifle with an
almost empty clip.

They trembled like men
stricken by the palsy...

Begging me for mercy.

When my heart finally
stopped pounding,

I asked the Egyptian

"Why he didn't call for
his men to open fire?"

He said their arms
were paralyzed.

Paralyzed!

I'm not sure I understand what happened,
but

how can I ever say it was
not God who helped us?

The Egyptian said
he feared our God

and I confessed I fear him also.

Each soldier sees the
war from his own perspective.

There was a myriad of
miracles on the battlefield

but also in the
villages and the towns.

For all the incredible stories
documented there were many more

preserved in the
private stories,

told by the ones who were there,
by the ones who were spared

by events that
cannot be explained.

I was ten years old
when the war came.

My father had gone to fight.

The last thing he
said to me was that

I was the man of our
family while he was away.

When the bombs began,
we barely escaped.

I ran with my Mother and
sister Lili like father had said.

We were finally safe...

At least that's what I thought.

The bomb did not explode.

Baruch Hashem.

In the days and
months that followed,

I heard many stories like ours.

We were not the only ones spared
by the miraculous hand of God

Any thinking person

has to think about
the intervention of God

in the history of Israel.

What rationale is there
for Israel to exist today?

This little country,
a postage stamp,

stood against 20
Arab countries sworn

to its destruction plus
hundreds of millions of Moslems

who were incited
and activated to work

against Israel's existence,
but not only does it

exist it thrives.

There were only four
Syrian fighters on the ridge,

but three of our guys
were hit and wounded bad.

I figured if Jacob and I could
keep them pinned down until dark,

we could slip away and
get our guys to the medics.

But nothing could have
prepared us for what happened.

It was an entire company
of Syrian infantry.

We were nearly out of
ammunition. We had no chance.

For us the war was over.

We knew the Syrians
did not take prisoners.

Jacob and I said goodbye,

prayed for God to save
Israel and prepared to die.

It was the Arabs
who told U.N. Observers they'd

seen armies of Angels.

Those stories did not come
from the Israeli soldiers,

but they did understand.

It was foretold.

His promise to us

that our seed will
never be destroyed,

we'll return to Israel,
and that through us

will come the redemption,
and that's

a tremendously important thing.

I believe it with all my heart,
but you

don't have to believe it.

You know that Golda Meir said,
"To live in Israel

and to believe in miracles
means you're a realist."

They happen all around you,
and they've happened here,

and it's not a question.

I don't believe it.

I know it.

It's happening.

The battle for Ammunition
Hill was the worst day of the war.

There wasn't a plan.
We were told to attack.

To take back the city.

It doesn't matter if you're from
Poland or Yemen or America.

Jerusalem is our common bond.

Even as an Orthodox Jew I can
hardly explain the deep meaning

it had for me to be involved
in the fight for Jerusalem.

Every day for my whole life I had
prayed three times to Jerusalem.

As a child I heard
my parents say,

"Next year in Jerusalem."

I could never have
imagined the mystical feeling

of seeing the wall
for the first time

Gazing upon this last
remnant of our holy temple

The incredible privilege of being
among those who freed it from bond age

The wonder of
being among the first

to touch the holy stones

and pour out thanks to God.

But
the prophecy wasn't fulfilled

until the 7th of June 1967
when those paratroopers

from the 55th Brigade
went into that city,

and they took that old city,
and they came to the Temple Mount,

and they blew Shofar,
and they proclaimed,

"This is our country.

This is our city.

This is our holy site,
the Temple Mount where Abraham

offered up his son, Isaac."

You say there's not
a sovereign God?

There's not a God that
watches over Israel?

Look at the evidence.

We have
returned to all that is holy in our land.

We have returned never
to be parted from it again.

To our Arab neighbors we extend,
especially

at this hour, the hand of peace.

To members of the other religions,
Christians

and Muslims I hear-by
promise faithfully

that their full freedom
and all their religious rights

will be preserved.

We did not come to
Jerusalem to conquer

the holy places of others.

Whatever one chooses
to believe about how it happened

by all accounts the victory of
the six-day war was miraculous.

For the Jews the
greatest miracle

was for the first time
in two thousand years

the nation of Israel once
again controlled Judaism's most

holy sites the Temple Mount,
and what

was left of their Temple at
the Western Wall of Jerusalem.

The site of the Temple

is a place that remains sacred
throughout Jewish history

despite its destruction
two thousand years ago.

And it has been a
symbol of our past

and a symbol of our future,
and those

who try to take it
away understand

that if you take away our
past you take away our future.

We will not let that happen,
and the return to Jerusalem,

I think, is an eternal return.

It's one that we have to work
hard to protect and to assure

not just for us but for
all future generations

and for all people.

The Jews vow to protect
all holy places of Jerusalem.

They demolished the walls,
cleared the minefields

and removed the barbed-wire
barriers dividing Jerusalem.

The freedom to worship
was granted to everyone.

Muslims were allowed to
pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Jews were allowed to
pray at the Western Wall.

Christians were allowed to
pray at the Church of the Holy

Sepulcher.

Such religious
freedom was unheard of

and continues to this day.

Freedom of religion in Israel
reflects the precious freedom

of religion of its great ally,
the United States of America.

America and Israel

are bound by fundamental values,
common commitments,

common world views; it's
why Israel votes with the United

States more often virtually
than any other country, maybe

Great Britain more.

It is bound together
by a commitment

to democracy, justice, freedom,
the rights of minorities

and all of the other commitments
that both countries share.

Let me start from the beginning,

and that's 1947
and hereto it's God,

and it's God working
through America.

I want to make this point
as clearly as I can say it.

One of the most
important aspects

of the Jewish interpretation
of the Bible and Biblical events

is that God works
through people.

Israel was
born because God chose them.

America was born
because we chose God.

Any nation can choose God.

Israel is the first line of defense

for Western civilization.

Israel is the canary
in the coal mine,

and if Israel goes
down we all go down.

As the
United States abandons God,

or if you will,
becomes more and more secular

it abandons Israel
more and more.

And remember,
because the moral compass gets broken

as you leave God and
the Judeo-Christian values

of this country.

So, it all goes hand in hand.

You abandon God within.

You abandon Israel without,
and you decline for both reasons.

We
Haven't seen these blood moons

since 1967,
and that was when Israel miraculously

in the Six-Day War
conquered its enemies.

A similar situation to today.

All of Israel's
enemies gathering

at its doorstep on
every single border

breathing threats and pledging
to wipe the Jewish people, not

just Israel,
but the Jewish people

off the face of the earth.

We have a similar situation today,
and what do we have?

We have once again
that tetrad of blood moons.

This is the first time in history

you have this tetrad
occurring in a Shemittah year.

It's never happened
in a Shemittah year.

This
year is the Shemittah year in Israel,

and it coincides
with the... within

the tetrad...
astronomical occurrence,

so the pastor said well,
that's even added proof that something

dramatic is about to happen.

God is going to demonstrate
that He still runs the world.

What, if anything,
are the heavens saying to us?

Does understanding the
past truly hold the secret

to comprehending the future?

Is something about to change,
or has the changing already begun?

Already since the emergence

of this current round,
this current tetrad of blood moons

we've seen the world change.

We've seen the emergence of ISIS,
this dreaded

Islamic State conquering
a vast amount of territory

in the very heart
of the Middle East.

We've seen a vicious war
between Israel and Hamas.

We've seen Vladimir Putin,
the Russian Dictator,

making moves against
Ukraine and possibly beyond.

We've seen the Ebola crisis,
and we see,

most importantly,
I believe in terms

of the significance of
these four blood moons,

we see Iran continue to
drive for a nuclear weapon,

and even worse, we see the West,
Europe, the United States,

the U.N. apparently
willing to allow

Iran to have nuclear weapons.

It's God saying to us,
"Wake up."

It's time to change.

The Bible says very clearly

in the book of Genesis
God says to Abraham,

"I will bless those
who bless you.

I will curse those
who curse you."

By the way, that's provable.

Those who have cursed the
Jews have ended up cursed.

Where's the Babylonian Empire?

It's gone.

Where's the Grecian Empire?

It's gone.

Where's the Roman Empire?

It's gone.

And I
believe today's radical Islamic regimes

including the Iranian
regime will also

end up in the dustbin
of history for what they

have done to the Jewish people.

I am
convinced as I am that this tie is red

that the day that the United
States begins to abandon Israel

will be the beginning of the downfall,
God forbid,

of this great country,
the United States of America.

- I
- think it was Billy Graham who

said we should walk around
with a Bible in one hand

a newspaper in the other,
and that's never

been more apt than it is today.

Well,
I think the main message that God

is trying to communicate
to the whole world

is to get ready to
get right with him.

For that matter we
could die tomorrow.

It doesn't matter
about the blood moon.

You know, we could die tomorrow,
and we need to be ready.

I'm asked every so often

what do I think the most
important verse in the Bible is?

And for years I have made
the case that it is Genesis 1:1,

"In the beginning God created
the Heavens and the Earth,"

because if you don't accept
that don't bother reading the rest.

It's all predicated on that.

The fact that there

is a God who's in total control
is the most hopeful message

that you can hear
today on planet earth,

and it's evidenced in
the four blood moons.

There's
threats within the Christian world

to abandon its Judeo roots,
and there

are threats within the Jewish
world to mistrust the Christian

and to work for the
eventual eradication

of the Christian and Jewish
or the Judeo-Christian essence

of America.

So, there's like a civil war in
both religions that people must

be aware of, but... so,
you have two things.

You have the centripetal
force or centrifugal force pulling

Christians and Jews apart,
and you

have the other force bringing
Jews and Christians together.

I would
like to say to Christians and Jews

that we are spiritual brothers,
because we both come

from the seed of
Abraham spiritually,

and the Bible goes
to great lengths

to say that Abraham is
the father of all who believe.

Listen to that very closely.

If a line has to
be drawn draw it

around both Christians and Jews,
because our spiritual roots

are one in the same.

The
Christians picked up the ball

when were no longer a nation
capable of doing it when we

could only worry. Do everything
we could to worry about

survival we couldn't afford
to worry about redemption.

Our daughter religion,
the Christians,

spread the notions of
commandment and redemption

to the world.

I think
that Israel is in difficult position

today because Israel is the
target of the rage of Islam,

the rage of the Muslim world,
and I don't mean every Muslim,

but I'm talking about
Islamic radicalism

has focused its rage on Israel.

The Jews and the Christians

who believe in a God of love,
a God of morality,

and a God of peace against
extremist Islam that believes

in a God of power and Jihad.

A world war of power
that will ultimately

bring Islamic domination
over the world.

This is a religious war,
and our friendship

means we have to bend together.

The stars may very
well tell us that this

is the time for great
things to happen.

We have to make them happen.

With the lessons
we've learned from history must

we only guess at
what the future holds.

Perhaps there
are logical reasons

to consider history, science,
the words of the Talmud

and the Bible as we seek
to understand the past

and interpret the signs
that may portend our future.

Perhaps we need to ask
ourselves uncomfortable questions.

Are these astronomical
occurrences

indeed signs of the heavens, and

if they are should we not begin
to wonder who we really are

and where we fit in the
grand scheme of the universe

and decide the things
that matter most here

on our precious planet earth?

What does the future
hold for mankind?

What does the future
hold for each of us,

and perhaps the most important
question of all what are we

going to do about it?

Whatever the future holds we
must wonder if we are ready,

right with the world,
our fellow men and the God

who gave us life?

I think
we're living in fateful times.

I think the stars,
the moon, the sun

may well be telling
us that this situation is

ripe for redemption,
and I think it is,

but ultimately that
won't be determined

by the stars or the moon.

Ultimately, I think that will be
determined by human action,

and us, Christians and Jews,
coming together,

returning our errant
brother and living

in a world of a God of love
and morality and peace.