Four Blood Moons by John Hagee Page A

were hung on the gallows they built to hang the Jews. God was watching! Most of the Jews in the world at this point in history lived in Persia. For them to have been annihilated would have hindered the purposes of God. God saw to it that the architect of the Old Testament Holocaust hanged on the very gallows he built for the Jews.
    Jesus told us that before His second coming, we “will hear of wars and rumors of wars” and that “nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom” (Matthew 24:6–7 NIV 1984). I believe that “nation will rise against nation” describes all major physical wars on earth from the time of Christ until today, including the wars against Israel.
    The point is this: God Almighty created the Jewish State and has sworn to defend it. Anyone—politicians from Haman to Hitler, military giants from Goliath to Iran, or any tormentor from Pharaoh to Putin—that presents an existential threat to Israel will utterly be destroyed by the hand of the Lord.
    God is jealous, and the L ORD avenges;
    The L ORD avenges and is furious.
    The L ORD will take vengeance on His adversaries,
    And He reserves wrath for His enemies.
    (N AHUM 1:2)
W ORLD W AR I
    As we study the history of the Jewish people related to biblical prophecy, let us consider the impact of World War I on the State of Israel.
    In World War I, the British were cut off from their source to make cordite gunpowder. First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill went to Chaim Weizmann, a Jewish chemist, and asked him if he could find a way to make several tons of synthetic gunpowder. Without it bullets couldn’t be fired, artillery was useless, and cannons on ships were mere ornaments. The outcome of the war was at stake.
    Weizmann and his associates discovered how to make this massive amount of synthetic gunpowder within weeks. This Jewish inventor played a major role in the victory of WWI over Germany.
    After the war, Lord Balfour asked Chaim Weizmann what England could do to honor him. Weizmann asked that his people (the Jews) be given a homeland.
    Lord Balfour created a historic document known to thisday as the Balfour Declaration, giving the Jewish people what God had already guaranteed in the book of Genesis—a homeland.
    Though the Balfour Declaration went through several drafts, the final version was issued on November 2, 1917, in a letter from Balfour to Lord Rothschild, president of the British Zionist Federation.
    The Zionists of the world continued to return to the Land of Promise. God’s all-seeing eye was watching over the seed of Abraham as He was regathering the exiles from the nations of the world. 1
W ORLD W AR II
    In His discourse on the Mount of Olives, Jesus described the horror of future events, saying, “Unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake [the Jewish people] those days will be shortened” (Matthew 24:22). This verse clearly points to the coming Holocaust of the Jews, because the references in the Olivet Discourse to “the elect” refer to the Jewish people—not the church.
    Adolf Hitler was a demonized, anti-Semitic monster who came to power by virtue of the Treaty of Versailles, which mandated that Germany pay to America and England all expenses for World War I. It was an astronomical cost.
    In an effort to comply to this treaty Germany bankrupted itself by monetizing the debt, a method of financing nationaldebt through printing new money, which inflates the currency until it has absolutely no value due to its huge supply. America is doing exactly this right now, as we race toward a twenty-trillion-dollar national debt.
    Hitler came to power promising the German people that he would not pay the debt to America and England for World War I. He vowed instead to invest in the German people by rebuilding the national highway infrastructure, which became known as the Autobahn, creating a car, which became the