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테드라드 블러드 문을 징조로 보아서 2015년 가을 나팔절에 예수님의 재림이 있을 것이라는 극단적 종말론을 주장하고

있습니다. 과연 성경적인 종말론일까 사기성 주장일까?

The Blood Moon Mania

Legitimate Sign or Hype?

by Dr. David R. Reagan

In 2008 the pastor of a congregation in Tacoma, Washington, by the name of Mark Biltz, began to teach that the Second Coming of the Messiah might occur in the Fall of 2015. He based this prediction on the pattern of an astronomical phenomenon that he had discovered. His speculation was picked up immediately by the Bible prophecy sensationalists who specialize in playing around with such matters. The result was that Pastor Biltz's theory became an Internet sensation.

The basis of his theory — and not his conclusion — has now been given legitimacy by the publication of Pastor John Hagee's book, Four Blood Moons.¹

^{2008년에 마크 빌츠의  이름으로 와싱톤 타코마의 집회에서 목사는 메시아의 재림이 2015년 가을에 있을 것이라고 가르치기 시작했다. 그는 그가 발견한 천문현상으로 이 예측의 근거를 두었다. 성경 예언자들 사이에서 이러한 주장은 인터넷으로급속히 퍼져 나가  센세이션을 일으켰다. 그 결과 마크 빌츠 목사의 이론은 인터넷 센세이션이 되었다}

^{이론의 근거는 - 결론은 아니지만-그의 존 해기 목사의 4 Blood Moon 이라는 책의 출판에 의해 성경적으로 맞는 적법성이 주어지게 되었다.}

Red Flags

미혹되지 말아야 할 4가지 경고들

But is Mark Biltz's theory really legitimate? The first red flag of caution that must be considered is the source of the theory. Mark Biltz is involved in what is called the Hebrew Roots Movement.² This is an anti-Christian, Judaizing movement. Its members have done everything they can to delegitimize the writings of the Apostle Paul. because of his teaching that the Law of Moses was invalidated by the Cross.³

^{그러나 마크 빌츠의 이론이 정말 맞는 것일까?  첫번째 주의해야할 미혹은 이론의 근거를 살펴야만 한다}

^{마크 빌츠는 히브리 뿌리 운동에 개입되어 있다. 이 히브리 뿌리운동은 적그리스도적이며 그리스도인의 유대화 운동이다.}

^{이 운동을 하는 사람들은 사도 바울의 서신들을 불법화 시키기 위해 그들이 할 수 있는 모든일을 해 왔다.}

^{왜냐하면 사도 바울은 십자가에 의해 모세의 율법이 무효가 되었다고 가르쳤기 때문이다.}

The second red flag is that Biltz is involved in date setting. Both Matthew 24:36 and Matthew 25:13 state that we cannot know the day or hour of the Lord's return. With regard to the parable of the wise and foolish virgins contained in Matthew 25:1-13, Biltz dismisses Jesus' warning in verse 13 that no one can know the day or hour of His return. He does this by arguing that it is directed at the foolish virgins, and not the wise ones.⁴ Yet, there is nothing in the parable to substantiate this conclusion.

두번째 거짓은  그날과 그시는 알 수 없는데 마크 빌츠는 날짜룰 정했기 때문이다.(2015년 나팔절 날짜)

열처녀의 비유에서  신랑의 돌아오는 시간을 모른다는 것을 무시했기 때문이다.

어리석은 다섯처녀는 몰랐고 지혜로운 처녀는 알았다고 주장한다. 그러나 이러한 결론을 확증해 줄 수 있는 비유는 전혀 없다

With regard to Jesus' similar statement in Matthew 24:36, Biltz tries to explain it away by saying it is a reference to the Feast of Trumpets because although there is a yearly date for this feast, no one knows for certain when it will actually begin because its beginning is dependent on the sighting of a new moon.⁵ Again, there is no justification in the context of the this verse for such a bizarre interpretation.

A third red flag is the fact that there is no way the Second Coming could occur in the Fall of 2015 because there are too many prophecies that must be fulfilled before the Lord's return. To name a few:

세번째 미혹은 재림이 2015년 나팔절에 있다고 하나 전혀 재림에 관한  수많은 성경상의 예언과 맞지 않는다는 것이다.

먼저 성취되어야 할 예언은 몇개만 들어보면 다음과 같다. 

• The Rapture of the Church must occur.
• The seven year period called the Tribulation must take place.
• The Jewish Temple must be rebuilt.
• The Antichrist must be revealed.
• A second Jewish holocaust must occur.
• 교회의 휴거가 먼저 일어 나야만 한다
• 환란이라고 하는  7년의 기간이 있어야 한다
• 제 3 성전이 건축되어야만 한다
• 적그리스도가 나타나야만 한다
• 두번째 유대인 학살이 일어 나야만 한다.

To his credit, John Hagee does not set a date for the Lord's return in his excellent new book, Four Blood Moons. Instead, he simply takes Biltz's discovery and argues that it is an omen of a major development that will take place — a development that will most likely have a significant impact on the Jewish people.

Red Moons

So, what is this omen that Biltz and Hagee have in mind and which they refer to as "the four blood moons"?

A "blood moon" is the name that has often been assigned to a complete lunar eclipse, which occurs when the earth comes between the sun and the moon, putting the moon into a complete shadow. Such a moon often (but not always) appears to be red in color because of the way light bends around the earth's atmosphere, scattering short wavelength light (green through violet) and leaving longer wavelength light (red, orange and yellow). It's why sunsets and sunrises generally are red.⁶

Complete or total lunar eclipses are relatively rare. During the 20th Century, there was a total of 229 lunar eclipses of all types, but only 81 of these were total eclipses (completely obscuring the moon in the earth's shadow). The rest were partial eclipses. In this century there will be 228 lunar eclipses of all types and 85 total eclipses.⁷

What is rarer is what is called a "tetrad." This is a series of four total lunar eclipses in a row over a two year period of time. Since the time of Christ there have been a total of 87 tetrads, including the last one that occurred in 2003-2004. In this century, we are scheduled to experience 8 tetrads, the most that can occur in a century's time (some centuries have had none at all).⁸

Even rarer is a phenomenon that Mark Biltz discovered. Of the 87 tetrads that have occurred since the time of Christ, only 8 have fallen on Jewish feast days. Those eight occurred in the following years: 162-163, 795-796, 842-843, 860-861, 1428-1429, 1493-1494, 1949-1950 and 1967-1968.⁹

For an example of what is meant by a tetrad falling on Jewish feast days, consider the tetrad of 1967-1968.¹⁰

1. Passover, April 24, 1967 — Blood Moon
2. Feast of Tabernacles, October 18, 1967 — Blood Moon
   (Total Solar Eclipse, November 2, 1967)
3. Passover, April 13, 1968 — Blood Moon
4. Feast of Tabernacles, October 6, 1968 — Blood Moon

Biltz and Hagee both make much of the fact that the last three tetrads that fell on Jewish feast days occurred at times when significant events were happening among the Jewish people:

1. 1493-1494 — This tetrad followed the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.
2. 1949-1950 — This tetrad followed the re-establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.
3. 1967-1968 — The beginning of this tetrad occurred right before the beginning of the Six Day war in 1967.

Notice that two of these tetrads followed the significant events. Only one (1967-1968) served as a partial precursor of the event. And notice that there was no significant event in Jewish history that was related to the first five tetrads that fell on Jewish feast days.

A Legitimate Omen?

So, what about it? Is the tetrad of 2014-2015 the herald of some major event that will impact Israel in particular?

It could well be.¹¹ The Bible makes it clear that God speaks through signs of nature, including signs in the heavens. The very first chapter of the Bible affirms this fact: "Then God said, 'Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years...'" (Genesis 1:14).

As for blood moons, the Bible refers to them several times. Some of the references only imply a blood moon when they speak of the moon being "darkened" (Isaiah 13:10, Joel 2:10, Joel 3:15, and Matthew 24:29). Others specifically mention a moon "turned to blood" (Joel 2:31 and Revelation 6:12).

But the one thing all these verses have in common is that all of them refer to the Second Coming of the Messiah, and since that cannot occur in 2015, the tetrad of 2014-2015 — if it has any prophetic significance — cannot be a sign that the Messiah is going to return to earth at that time. It must have some other biblical significance, if any at all — as John Hagee argues in his book.

A Caution

I think we should be very cautious about emphasizing things like the Jewish feast tetrads. Such "signs" usually end up as prophetic embarrassments. Consider the mania that occurred in 1982 over the "Jupiter Effect." This line up of the planets was supposed to cause giant earthquakes and tsunamis. The year came and passed with no such significant events. Since that time, we have had to deal with similar manias concerning the Hale-Bop Comet in 1997, the Y2K computer "crisis" of 2000, and the Mayan Calendar in 2012.

We should focus instead on the precise end time prophecies of the Bible that have been precisely fulfilled in our day and time — clearly indicating that we are living in the season of the Lord's return.

One other thing — the signs in the heavens mentioned in the Bible that will accompany the Lord's return may not be natural astronomical occurrences at all. Instead, they may prove to be supernatural in nature, provided by God to herald His Son's return.

A Response From Mark Biltz

When this article was released over the Internet, Pastor Mark Biltz wrote to me denying that he had ever set a date for the Lord's return. Yet the Internet is full of statements of his that clearly indicate his belief that the Lord could possibly return in 2015 at the time of the last blood moon in the 2014-2015 tetrad.¹² One of those statements is in the form of a transcript of a television interview.¹³ Another is a statement Mark posted on his website and then later removed.¹⁴ And if he does not think the Lord's return on that date is a possibility, why has he tried to explain away the warnings that no one can know the date of the Lord's return?

Regarding his being anti-Christian, he states on the home page of his website that "We do not want to convert Jews to Christianity or Christians to Judaism."¹⁵ Furthermore, the pastor of another Hebrew Roots congregation states on his website: "Pastor Mark Biltz and I are both in agreement that the foolish virgins of Matthew 25 are ALL the Sunday churches."¹⁶ The same posting refers to the Apostle Paul as "the spouter of lies."

Pastor Biltz also denied that he believes the basic doctrines of the Hebrew Roots Movement, but if that is true, then why does he identify with the movement? Furthermore, he has an article on his website that strongly endorses the cornerstone belief of the movement — namely, that Sabbath worship is obligatory.¹⁷ There is nothing wrong with Sabbath worship or celebration of the Jewish feasts or following the Jewish kosher laws, as long as a person does so voluntarily. But when someone begins to teach that these things are obligatory in order to please God, and when they condemn others who do not observe them, that constitutes Judaizing, and that is a serious error — so serious, in fact, that Paul calls it a false Gospel in his Galatian letter.

Pastor Biltz says on his website that his goal is to make "non-Christian followers of Jesus." As one of his critics put it, that's like becoming a "vegetarian meat-eater."¹⁸

Pastor Biltz has since published a book titled Blood Moons.¹⁹ The sub-title of the book is most revealing: "Decoding the Imminent Heavenly Signs." This sub-title hints at a fact that is clearly revealed in the book itself — namely, Mark Biltz is deeply involved with Jewish mysticism, called Kabbalah. The Kabbalah Movement argues that the full message of the Bible is never on the surface. Rather, one must search below the surface text, using Kabbalah techniques, to find the true and full meaning. This, of course, is sheer nonsense. The only biblical requirement for understanding the depths of God's Word is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

In his book, Biltz argues that one cannot understand the Bible without understanding Hebrew, and even that is not sufficient because every Hebrew letter stands for a word, a number and a picture. So in order to fully "decode" the Bible, one must understand the picture meaning of each Hebrew letter.²⁰ This is what he calls "the decoder ring" for understanding "what God is hiding."²¹

Biltz also states that his spiritual mentor, the man who "changed his life," is Moshe Braun.²² This man happens to be an unregenerate Jewish Rabbi, yet this is the man to whom Biltz attributes his "spiritual insights."

Notes

1) John Hagee, Four Blood Moons: Something is About to Change (Brentwood, TN: Worthy Publishing, 2013).

2) For excellent articles about the Hebrew Roots Movement, see:
a) Geoffrey Grider, "The Hebrew Roots Cult Movement: Hatred for Christians and the Apostle Paul," www.nowtheendbegins.com/writers/GG/the-hebrew-roots-cult.htm.
b) S. Michael Houdmann, "What is the Hebrew Roots Movement?" www.gotquestions.org/Hebrew-roots.html.
c) Dean Haskins, "Why Not Hebrew Roots? The False Teachings of the Hebraic Roots Movement," www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3000552/posts.
d) The Lush Family, "The Dangers of the Hebrew Roots Messianic Movement," www.angelfire.com/la/jlush/dangersHRM.html.

3) Geoffrey Grider, "The Hebrew Roots Cult..." (cited above).

4) Joe Kovacs, "Blood Moon Eclipses? Second Coming in 2015?" WND, 04/30/2008, www.wnd.com/2008/04/63076/. See also: Daniel Matson, "The Four Lunar Eclipses of 2014-2015," watchfortheday.org/tetrad20142015.html.

5) Ibid.

6) Dr. Danny R. Faulkner, "Will Lunar Eclipses Cause Four Blood Moons in 2014 and 2015?" AIG, 07/12/2013, www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2013/07/12/lunar-eclipses-cause-blood-moons.

7) NASA, "Index to Five Millennium Catalog of Lunar Eclipses (2000 BCE to 3000 CE)," eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEcat5/LEcatalog.html.

8) Ibid.

9) Alf and Julie Saunders, "The Coming Blood Moons," www.pray4zion.org/TheComingBloodMoons.html.

10) Hagee, Four Blood Moons, page 210.

11) There is really little risk in predicting that something significant may happen to Israel in relation to the 2014-2015 blood moon tetrad. After all, significance has been give to events that happened a year before the tetrad (Spain's expulsion of the Jews in 1492 and the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948). And thus those who are enthusiastic about the Blood Moon Theory would surely not hesitate to give significance to an event that occurs one year after the tetrad. Since the tetrad itself consumes a time period of two years, this means that the prediction that something important will happen in Israel in relation to the 2014-2015 tetrad has a window of four years for its fulfillment!

12) Joe Kovacs, "Blood Moon Eclipses?" (cited above).

13) Alan Kurschner, "Answering Mark Biltz's 'Blood Moon 2014-2015' Date Setting Schema," www.alankurschner.com/2013/08/12/answering-mark-biltzs-blood-moon-2014-2015-date-setting-schema/.

14) It appears that after Mark Biltz appeared on the Prophecy in the News television broadcast in early 2008, he received a lot of flack for indicating that the Lord might return on the date of the last blood moon of 2015 (September 28). Also, people pointed out that the Tribulation, lasting 7 years, had to happen first. Biltz replied to these objections on his website by stating that there was room for the Tribulation, if it started in the Fall of 2008, because counting forward from that date would place the Lord's return in the Fall of 2015 at the end of the 2014- 2015 tetrad. When the Fall of 2008 passed without the Tribulation beginning, Biltz pulled the article from his website. See: Stuart Robbins, "Exposing Pseudo-Astronomy," podcast.sjrdesign.net/shownotes_o85.php. You can find the date-setting statement that Biltz removed from his website in an article titled, "MarkBiltz? www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=37884&forum=36.

15) El Shaddai website: www.elshaddaiministries.us.

16) Last Trumpet Ministries website: www.lasttrumpetministries.org.

17) El Shaddai website (cited above). Article about the Shabbat.

18) Geoffrey Grider, "The Hebrew Roots Cult Movement..." (cited above)

19) Mark Biltz, Blood Moons: Decoding the Imminent Heavenly Signs (New York, NY: WND Books, 2014).

20) Ibid., page 19.

21) Ibid., page 16.

22) Ibid., page xv.

[별과같이]

마크 빌츠가 왜 교주인가요?
마크 빌츠와 한국메시아닉과 무슨 관계가 있나요?

이 두가지를 증명하지 못하시면 님은 거짓영에 미혹되어 헛된 말로 성도들을 진리에서 떨어져 나가게 하는 자입니다.

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토라대학원은 어디서 수입한 것입니까? 미국 어느교파에서 가지고 온것이냐는 물음에 답을 안하시네요.
죠션 메쥬들이 모두 마크 빌츠,짐스탤리가 주장하는 히브리 뿌리운동/원뉴맨/two houses 운동을 하지 않습니까? 그들의 동영상을 계속 올리면서 같은 주장을 하시니 그들의 교리와 같은 것이 아니겠는지요?같은 영이 작용 한다고 보는 것입니다.

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토라신학대학원은 미국 시애틀에 있고 총장은 전윤근 목사님이십니다.

마크 빌츠가 왜 교주인가요?
마크 빌츠와 한국메시아닉이 무슨 관계가 있다고 조선 메쥬가 이단인 이유라 하시는지요?

이 두가지를 증명하지 못하시면 님은 거짓영에 미혹되어 헛된 말로 성도들을 진리에서 떨어져 나가게 하는 자입니다.

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에휴....제대로 알고 올리세요
2015 가을 재림설...년도날짜 언급없습니다
마크 빌츠 신간 블러드문 읽어보세요
그리고 마크 빌츠도 한낱 인간입니다
조선메쥬와는 뭔 연관성이 있다는건지....

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2015년은 년도요 나팔절은 날짜입니다. 마크빌츠,짐스탤리와 연관이 없다는 것을 밝히려면 조선메쥬들의 신학사상이 어디로 부터 비롯 되었는지 원류부터 정확히 밝혀야 합니다.

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2015년 나팔절에 예수님 재림한다고 하지않았어요
다시 읽어보세요