April 5, 2015 12:09 AM CEST
A mystic Israeli rabbi from southern Israel has made a frantic call to all Jews to repent and pray with the approach of the third blood moon of a tetrad cycle, to appear in the skies during Passover and Good Friday.
The website Breaking Israel News reports that
Rabbi Amram Vankin predicted years ago that
the 44th president of the United States would
bring bloodshed to the Jewish people, based on
the Hebrew word for blood, "dam," which has
the numeric value of 44. Vankin said this before
Barack Obama was elected as the 44th American
president.
President Obama just announced the framework
for an agreement between the world powers and
Iran, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu warned Friday "will threaten the
survival of Israel."
The rabbi believes the number 44 has special
significance this lunar eclipse because this one
is expected to last 4 minutes and 44 seconds,
the shortest such eclipse of the 21st century.
A student of the rabbi, Gil Nachman, spoke with
Breaking Israel News, saying Vankin also correctly predicted the Gaza flotilla conflict and
Carmel forest fire in Israel in 2010, as well as
the two Israeli clashes with Hamas in Gaza,
Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012 and
Operation Protective Edge in 2014.
Vankin attended his own call for prayer at
Jerusalem's Western Wall on Wednesday after
posting a Facebook message saying, "In these
critical times, am Yisrael [the people of Israel]
must join together to pray to Hashem [the Lord]
to send us Messiach Ben David [the Messiah]."
Other rabbis and pastors believe the blood
moons are a significant signpost in the heavens
but may not portend judgment for Israel as
much as they portend momentous events -- and
perhaps blessing for the Jewish people.
Pastor John Hagee, author of the book, Four
Blood Moons: Something is About to Change,
told CBN News' Erick Stakelbeck, "God is trying
to communicate with us in a supernatural way."
"I believe that in the next two years [from 2014],
we're going to see something dramatic happen
in the Middle East involving Israel that will
change the course of history in the Middle East
and impact the whole world," Hagee said.