NOTES

CHAPTER 1: SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS

1.    “Russian meteor exploded with force of 30 Hiroshima bombs,” The Telegraph, February 16, 2013, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9874662/Russian-meteor-exploded-with-force-of-30-Hiroshima-bombs.html.

2.    “Russian Meteor: Lack of Fragments Sparks Conspiracy Theories,” The Telegraph, February 16, 2013, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9874790/Russian-meteor-lack-of-fragments-sparks-conspiracy-theories.html.

3.    Tariq Malik, “Giant Sun Eruption Captured in NASA Video,” Space.com, November 17, 2012, http://www.space.com/18533-giant-sun-eruption-nasa-video.html.

4.    Michio Kaku interview with George Norry, Coast to Coast, November 24, 2012, http://www.amateurastronomers.net/youtube-interviews.html.

5.    Michio Kaku, “We Are Sitting Ducks for Solar Flares,” Big Think, February 1, 2012, http://bigthink.com/videos/we-are-sitting-ducks-for-solar-flares.

CHAPTER 2: THE STAR IN THE EAST

1.    John Phillips, Exploring Genesis: An Expository Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2001), 38.

2.    “How Hot Is the Sun?” Space.com, http://www.space.com/17137-how-hot-is-the-sun.html.

3.    Andrew Grant, “100. Sun Burn,” Discover, January-February 2013, 92, http://discovermagazine.com/2013/jan-feb/100-sun-burn#.UUMrUhysiSo.

CHAPTER 3: WARNING COMES BEFORE JUDGMENT

1.    Space.com, http://www.space.com/15689-lunar-eclipses.html.

2.    Space.com, http://www.space.com/15689-solar-eclipses.html.

3.    Rabbi Moshe Pinchuk, Director of Jewish Heritage Center, Netanya Academic College, June 2013, http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/eclipse/eclipsecycles.htm.

4.    http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/roman-calendar.html/.

5.    http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/julian-calendar.html/.

6.    http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/gregorian-calendar.html/.

7.    Clarence Larkin, Dispensational Truth (Glenside, PA: Rev. Clarence Larkin Est., 1920).

8.    David Wessel, “Did the ‘Great Depression’ Live Up to the Name?” Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2010.

CHAPTER 4: THE SPINE OF PROPHECY

1.    The (Online) Book of Common Prayer, “The Great Litany,” http://www.bcponline.org/.

2.    Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War: Revised Edition (New York: Penguin Classics, 1984), 1.

3.    “Tisha B’Av [The 9th of Av],” Judaism 101, http://www.jewfaq.org/holidayd.htm.

CHAPTER 6: CONCERNING THE RAPTURE

1.    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, cited in Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2010), back flap.

2.    Arthur W. Pink, Gleanings in Genesis (Chicago: Moody, 1922), 5, http://books.google.com/books?id=He89UcODFyIC&pg=PA20&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=snippet&
q=trinity&f=false
.

3.    Portions of this description can be found in John Hagee’s Can America Survive?, updated edition (Nashville: Howard Books, 2011), 219.

4.    J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1983), vol. 4, p. 95 and vol. 5, p. 726–27.

5.    McGee, Thru the Bible, vol. 3, p. 673.

CHAPTER 7: LAND OF PROMISE, LAND OF PAIN

1.    Dan Senor and Saul Singe, Startup Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracles (New York: Twelve/Hachette Book Group, 2009), 13–15.

2.    Eric H. Cline, From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible (Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2007), 43–53.

CHAPTER 8: WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS

1.    “Origins of the Balfour Declaration,” The Balfour Declaration, Zionism, November 2, 1917, http://www.zionism-israel.com/Balfour_Declaration_1917.htm.

2.    “The Road to War: Germany: 1919–1939,” AuthenticHistory.com, http://www.authentichistory.com/1930-1939/4-roadtowar/1-germany/.

3.    Daily Alert, “Why You Shouldn’t Get Too Excited about Rowhani” (June 21, 2013), http://www.dailyalert.org/rss/tagpage.php?id=45520.

4.    Harry S Truman, “Why I Dropped the Bomb,” cited in Margaret Truman, ed., Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S Truman (New York: Warner Books, 1989).

5.    “Holocaust Evidence: Eisenhower’s Proof,” Awesome Stories, http://www.awesomestories.com/history/holocaust-evidence/eisenhowers-proof.

6.    Stephen E. Atkins, Holocaust Denial As an International Movement (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2009), 216.

7.    Paul Harvey, “If I Were the Devil” transcript: cited on Jackson Adams, “The Paul Harvey Excerpt That Didn’t Make the Super Bowl,” The American Spectator, February 4, 2013, http://spectator.org/blog/2013/02/04/the-paul-harvey-excerpt-that-w.

CHAPTER 9: FAMINE, EARTHQUAKES, AND ANARCHY

1.    worldhunger.org.

2.    arc.org.

3.    “The Family Farm Is Being Systemically Wiped Out of Existence in America,” The Economic Collapse, April 26, 2012, http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-family-farm-is-being-systematically-wiped-out-of-existence-in-america.

4.    Ibid.

5.    Department of Treasury, Federal Reserve Board, June 14, 2013.

6.    Emily Miller, “Death Tax Hike to 55% Nears,” Human Events, December 1, 2010, http://www.humanevents.com/2010/12/01/death-tax-hike-to-55-nears/.

7.    Associated Press (February 15, 2013).

8.    Examiner.com (January 11, 2013).

9.    Otto W. Nuttli, The Effects of Earthquakes in the Central United States (Marble Hill, MO: Gutenberg-Richter Publications, 1993), 41–48.

10.  “Wisconsin Battle over Union Rights Shifts to Recall Efforts, High Court Election,” FoxNews.com, April 12, 2011, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/12/wisconsin-battle-union-rights-shifts-recall-efforts-high-court-election/.

11.  Michael S. Schmidt and Colin Moyhihan, “F.B.I. Counterrorism Agents Monitored Occupy Movement, Records Show,” New York Times, December 24, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/nyregion/occupy-movement-was-investigated-by-fbi-counterterrorism-agents-records-show.html.

12.  Ibid.

13.  “Florida Student Claims He Was Suspended for Refusing to ‘Stomp on Jesus’ in Class,” Fox News Insider, March 23, 2013, http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/03/23/students-told-to-stomp-on-jesus-at-florida-atlantic-university-by-professor-deandre-poole/.

14.  Gary L. Bauer, “Liberal Inanity,” Campaign for Working Families, March 5, 2013, http://www.cwfpac.com/eod/tuesday-march-5-2013.

15.  Ibid.

CHAPTER 10: THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM

1.    Coliseum and Christian Martyrs Encyclopedia, http://www.tribunesandtriumphs.org/colosseum/colosseum-christian-martyrs.htm.

2.    “Aelia Capitolina: Judaism Expelled,” GoJerusalem.com, http://www.gojerusalem.com/article_520/Aelia-Capitolina-Judaism-Expelled.

3.    http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/josephus/war-1.htm (chapter 1, section 2).

4.    Tsafrir Ronen, “Hadrian’s Curse—The Invention of Palestine,” CrethiPlethi.com, May 22, 2010, http://www.crethiplethi.com/hadrians-curse-the-invention-of-palestine/israel/2010/.

CHAPTER 12: FOUR BLOOD MOONS AND TWO FEASTS

1.    Bill Koenig, World Watch Daily, Koenig International News, http://watch.org/showprint.php3?idx=104119&mcat=24&rtn=index.html.

2.    http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday5.htm.

CHAPTER 13: THE FOUR BLOOD MOONS OF 1493–94

1.    Mark Blitz, The Feasts of the Lord, El Shaddai Ministries (Bonney Lake, WA 98391).

2.    Henry Kamen, Spanish Inquisition (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999), 49.

3.    H. H. Ben-Sasson, ed. A History of the Jewish People (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976), 588–590.

4.    Encyclopedia Judaica; The Spanish Inquisition Gates to Jewish Heritage.

5.    Barbara Epstein, The Minsk Ghetto 1941–1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008).

6.    Encyclopedia Judaica, vol. 15 (Jerusalem: Keter, 1972), 235.

7.    Ibid.

8.    Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History (New York: William Morrow, 1991).

9.    2000–2011 Jewish-American Hall of Fame © 2012 American Numismatic Society.

10.  Dagobert D. Runes, The War Against the Jew (New York: Philosophical Library, 2008), 171.

11.  Ibid., 12.

12.  Ibid., 12–13.

13.  Ibid., 160.

14.  Elinor and Robert Slater, Great Moments in Jewish History (Jerusalem: Jonathan David Publishers, 1998), 170.

15.  Ibid., 170–71.

16.  Hakevi, “Al-queda: The Next Goal Is to Liberate Spain from the Infidels,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Vol 7, no. 16, Oct 11, 2007.

CHAPTER 14: THE FOUR BLOOD MOONS OF 1949–50

1.    NASA Eclipse Web site, http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html.

2.    The Jewish Virtual Library, Establishment of Israel: The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Herzl.html.

3.    Menachim Begin, The Revolt: Story of the Irgun (Jerusalem: Steimatzky Agency Ltd; 1977).

4.    “The Bombing of the King David Hotel,” Jewish Virtual Library, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/King_David.html.

5.    “British White Paper of 1939,” Jewish Virtual Library, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/paper39.html.

6.    The Jewish Virtual Library, Establishment of Israel: The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel.

7.    http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/60297/David-Ben-Gurion.

8.    The Jewish Virtual Library, Establishment of Israel: The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel.

CHAPTER 15: THE FOUR BLOOD MOONS OF 1967–68

1.    Isi Leibler, The Case For Israel (Australia: The Globe Press, 1972) 60.

2.    Ibid.

3.    Ibid.

4.    Ibid., 18.

5.    Ibid., 60.

6.    Ibid., 18.

7.    Chaim Herzog, The Arab-Israeli Wars (New York: Random House, 1982), 149.

8.    Original text on pages 215–19 from R. Menachem Mendel Kasher, The Great Era (Torah Shelemah Institute).

CHAPTER 16: THE FOUR BLOOD MOONS OF 2014–15

1.    http://eclispe.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html.

2.    John Hagee, The Battle for Jerusalem (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2001), 103–117; John Hagee, Jerusalem Countdown (Lake Mary, FL: Frontline, 2007), 127; John Hagee, Can America Survive (Nashville: Howard Books), 189–211.

3.    http://www.myjewishlearning.com/culture/2/Languages/Hebrew/History_and_Centrality/Eliezer_Ben_Yehuda.shtml?p=3.

4.    http://www.space.com/6638-supernova.html.

5.    “Timeline 1916–1917,” Timelines of History, http://timelines.ws/20thcent/1916_1917.HTML.

6.    Rabbi Judah ben Samuel, “Jubilee Prophecy Gives the Year of the Messiah,” Destination Yisra’el, December 2, 2012, http://destination-yisrael.biblesearchers.com/destination-yisrael/2012/12/rabbi-judah-ben-samuels-jubilee-prophecy-gives-the-year-of-the-messiah.html.

7.    Mark Blitz, The Feasts of the Lord.

8.    The Commentator, http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2360/mohammed_morsi_
on_israel_these_blood_suckers_these_warmongers_the_descendants_of_apes_and_pigs#.UdGPr-2nLFU.email
.

9.    Fox News (with the Associated Press and Reuters contributing to this report), http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/05/egyptian-islamists-to-protest-morsi-removal-amid-reports-violence-arrests/.

10.    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4369856,00.html.

11.    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30weekinreview/30iran.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.

12.    Charles Hadden Spurgeon, Metropolitan Tabernacles Pulpit Vol. 42, (Pilgrim Publication, 1998), 2496.