Four Blood Moons by John Hagee

2:30–31; Luke 21:25, 27–28; Acts 2:19–20).
    The stars represent Abraham’s spiritual seed, which is the church, for Abraham is “the father of us all [all who believe]” (Romans 4:16–17).
    The purpose of the church is to be a light in a dark world. The Bible says, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:16).
    Jesus said to the church, “You are the light of the world” (Matthew 5:14). The purpose of the kingdom of light is to ruleover the kingdom of darkness.
    Paul makes that clear in Hebrews 11:12: “Therefore from one man [Abraham] and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude—innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.”
    Sand of the sea represents the physical children of Abraham through Isaac, who are the Jewish people. The sand is forever connected to the land so the Jewish people are forever connected to the land of Israel by covenant.
    Concerning replacement—the stars never replace sand, and sand never replaces the stars. Each has its own sovereign purpose from God to exist. Israel and the church are unique. The church never replaces Israel, and Israel never replaces the church.
    Replacement Theology is intellectually and scripturally dishonest. I believe Replacement Theology is religious anti-Semitism; it is one of the most dangerous forms of deception in the church today.

CHAPTER 8
Wars and Rumors of Wars
    You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to
it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen,
but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
    â€”M ATTHEW 24:6–7 NIV 1984
    As a student of history, allow me to plant a seed of thought in your mind.
    Begin with the basic concept that God is sovereign. He controls the lives of men, the destiny of nations, and all events that happen in the universe.
    Next, consider that God, as Creator and Owner of planetearth, made a real estate covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their seed that the land of Israel, with boundaries established in the Bible, belongs to the Jewish people forever (Genesis 15:18–21; 17:7–8).
    Remember this very important fact; the Jewish people do not
occupy
the land; they
own
the land!
    Continue the logic that a sovereign God has made a pledge to the Jewish people that “He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep” (Psalm 121:4 KJV ).
Keepeth
is a military term meaning “to defend and protect.” The major battles in the Bible had to do with God defending the Jewish people, “the apple of His eye” (Zechariah 2:8). Any nation or group of nations that tried to eliminate Israel was wiped out by the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
    The enemies of the children of Israel at the Battle of Jericho, and the five armies at the Battle of Five Kings (Joshua 10) who tried to annihilate Israel as they journeyed from Egypt to the Promised Land, were stoned to death by God Himself when they attacked Israel. The Bible records the battle graphically:
    And it happened, as they fled before Israel . . . that the L ORD cast down large hailstones from heaven on them . . . and they [five armies] died. There were more who died from the hailstones than the children of Israel killed with the sword.
    (J OSHUA 10:11)
    David, the shepherd boy, killed Goliath with the help of the Lord and the fling of his sling shot. In doing so, he saved Israel from becoming enslaved by the Philistines. This one act of bravery liberated Israel to produce the prophets who would pen the Holy Scriptures for the world to read. It liberated Israel to bring forth King David and ultimately King David’s great-great grandson—Jesus of Nazareth, who liberated the world from the kingdom of darkness.
    When Haman plotted to kill the Jews in Persia [modern Iran], he and his sons