John Haggie
And His Four Blood Moons
John Hagee's Four Blood Moons
Without a doubt, John Hagee is one of the greatest preachers of our time and a true man of God. He has done much
to promote the Gospel of Christ and to strengthen the church in general. However, he has two weaknesses: one is the
inadequacy of some of his research; the other is his inability to keep himself from making predictions
about the Second Coming of Christ. He has been wrong before about a previous prediction made about the Second Coming and
now he is making more false predictions. Generally speaking, there is no quicker way to discredit oneself than to
make predictions, especially about something as elusive as the Second Coming.
In this case, Hagee thinks that some periodically occurring astronomical phenomena are "signs" from God. He cherry-picks
a few previous "blood moon" occurrences in history, and arbitrarily connects them to Jewish historical dates, many
of which depict rather minor events; while, at the same time, he ignores more important Jewish dates which were not
associated with any blood-moons. If red moons are supposed to be associated with earth-shaking events, why are
the ones he picks out connected with mostly minor events? And why are most such moons associated with no important events
whatever, which come and go with few hardly even noticing them?
Essentially, Haggie has overlooked what Jesus has said about the end times, that "there will be great tribulation, such
as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be" (Matt 24:21), meaning that these
true signs could not be fulfilled by mere naturally occurring phenomena. In other words, the true coming "signs"
could not be phenomena that have already happened in the past, and which continue to happen on a periodic basis. By
contrast, the real "signs in the skies," such as the darkening of the sun and the reddening of the moon, will occur on a
scale never before seen. It will not be natural (or nature's) blood moons that merely turn the moon slightly reddish, that few people
even notice and most people just sleep through. No, the signs that Jesus speaks of will literally strike terror into the
hearts of all (ungodly) men. Haggie stops short of actually setting dates for the "big event" to happen, the one that he
says is being preceded by the recent blood moons. But these moons have already come and gone and, again, we hardly even
noticed. Nothing "big" happened; nothing of earth-shaking import; no end-time apocalyptic events of any kind.
On the whole, one will find that Hagee's ideas on this topic are rather easy to debunk. I would like to write a book on this topic,
but I simply do not have the time to do so, being presently overwhelmed with present literary pursuits, such as trying to complete
a multi-volumed work on the second coming, which has been a labor of about 6 or 7 years so far, and will require about one more year
to complete. In that work, the whole pre-tribulation rapture theory (which is the basis for Haggie's blood moon concept) will be
addressed.
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