So, why should I pay attention to the eclipses happening April 8th?
I've got some incredible and interesting Bible perspective for you today.
My name is Leanne Friesman, and this is Restoring Word.
There are some incredible and exciting things that are getting ready to happen a month
from now, and I want to put it into Biblical perspective, and because I taught a lot of
this stuff seven years ago, I might have a little bit of a different perspective on things
that I think will help you, it will encourage you, and it will strengthen you.
I'm reading a scripture today out of Amos 8, and this is the New King James.
All my scriptures are out of the New King James version.
And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go
down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the broad daylight.
Well, what's that?
That, my friends, is a solar eclipse.
And in a month, we've got a major event happening that is incredibly fascinating, and I've got
some strong thoughts about what that looks like.
But before I go there, I really want to do more, maybe a little bit of a review, and
kind of put all of it in context for maybe some of you who haven't followed this over
the course of the last 10 years.
Do you remember the blood moons that happened all the way back through 14, 15, 16, and 17?
A pastor by the name of John Hagee wrote a book about it, and I found it incredibly fascinating.
My family and I, we watched them all.
We tracked them, and it was really a very interesting time to watch all of it.
So why was that eclipse so important?
Now, I've got a lot of notes today, so I want you to kind of have like, I've got like six
pages of notes.
And guys, I really don't like reading from notes, because I don't want to sound canned
when I put these together.
But there's a lot of things that have happened since those four lunar eclipses happened.
You know, I taught the book of Revelation for years, and I never knew that there was
such a thing as a blood moon, and I didn't really understand kind of in the heavens what
was really happening.
But what I'd like to do right now is I'd kind of like to maybe review some things that happened
during that season or during that time, because it really was fascinating what was happening
in the earth.
Now, let's go through this.
Those four blood moons happened in a season and an hour where they each landed on a holy,
sacred Jewish holiday.
And when you study, you know, because of astronomy and mathematics and the movements
of the planets and the stars, we have people now who can go through and they can show us
and tell us what happened thousands of years ago.
So why was this kind of interesting?
Well, first off, there was a series of these blood moons that happened in 1492 when Columbus
sailed the ocean blue.
That's also the year of the Spanish Inquisition, where they forced people, Jewish people, to
convert to Christianity.
That wasn't a good thing.
The second happened, believe it or not, during 1948 and 1949.
What happened in 1948?
Well, you had the establishment of the nation of Israel in May.
It was a major event.
It was organized by the U.N. and the Jewish people now had a homeland.
It happened again in 1967.
Well, what happened in 67?
Well, you had the Seven Day War in 1967.
And at that point, the Jewish people came in and took possession of the Temple Mountain.
It was a troubling time in America and actually a troubling time in Israel.
And if you happen to have an opportunity to go see the movie Golda Meir or Golda, it might
help put some of those in perspective.
So what really happened this last time we had a series here in America?
Well, I just went through and I did some research.
The first eclipse happened April 15th of 2014 in Oklahoma.
We had some incredible...
Tornado outbreaks. We saw the manifestation of Ebola. Hamas kidnapped
three teens in Israel. That was on the first one. All right. The second eclipse
happened October 8th of 2014. Ebola came to America that fall. Do you remember that?
It was very scary. It was kind of a precursor of another pandemic, huh? Yeah.
ISIS arose in Syria. It was devastating. People were coming from all over the
world to fight for ISIS. And then we had the Michael Brown case here in America
that brought all kinds of social upheaval. Heartbreaking. The next one was
on April 4th of 2015. What happened?
And then you had the fourth one, which was September 28th of 2015. You said,
well, what happened? I can remember on September 28th going, God, what happened?
What was the big deal about this fourth blood moon? Well, I was at a prayer
group with a group of people, and I remember sitting there. There was a
Jewish ambassador-like figure at this prayer group, and we were all praying
and worshiping and talking to the Lord. And you know what he said that I thought
was incredibly interesting? He said the one thing that nobody paid attention to
was the fact that the Russians had built an airstrip in Syria. Now, guys,
this wasn't just any airstrip. According to Google, when I googled it
yesterday, it would hold a thousand troops. Now, we have seen Russia do a lot
of crazy things since then, right? Well, the presence of that airstrip could
potentially be a threat to Israel, and that is our Israel is our greatest ally.
You know, as Christians, I don't want to think politically. I really want to think
biblically about what's happening in the world, and I want to have biblical eyes
to see what he's doing and to see what he's saying. And so that's kind of what
I'm trying to do today. Well, let's talk about what's happened since those four
blood moons, which are now seven years ago. Well, think about it. We've had one of
the worst pandemics in human history, and millions died, okay? We have the rise
of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and a call for the global
dollar. We have globalists who are trying to exert their influence worldwide. We
pretty much got media turmoil here in America. You've got left versus right
media battling each other. We've got, as the world becomes smaller and
smaller because of social media, we have a lot of conflict regarding worldview,
the Christian worldview versus Islamic worldview. We see mass migrations of
millions of people. We've seen millions of people come into America and since
the border fell, and last conservative number I heard was somewhere around 11
million. How is America going to absorb these people? I don't know. On top of that,
you all know about the war in Ukraine and the fact that America is now paying
trillions of dollars in interest, in interest, just to continue to fund this
war. It's an interesting but challenging time to be alive, don't you think? Well,
where does that take me, you know, in terms of what's coming? Well, I want to go
back to the book of Joel, and I want to look at some of the scriptures that are
pulled in Joel chapter 2, as well as in Acts chapter 2, all right? Let's
look at Joel 2, starting in verse, well, it's actually, it's verse chapter 3. No,
let's go back. For behold, in these days and at that time, when I bring back the
captives of Judah and Jerusalem, okay, that's already happened, all right, I will
also gather all the nations and I will bring them down to the valley of
Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of my
people, my heritage Israel, whom I've scattered among the nations. They have
also divided up my land. Wow, think about it, guys. What happened? Well, the Jewish
people were scattered to the nations of the earth, and then what happened? Well,
they came back into the land after 1948, and they reestablished a nation, and they
built a nation, and they built homes, and they built a future there, and then in
the last line of this specific scripture, and this is a Ch'ot.
chapter three, verse two, they have also divided up my land.
Now, when you think biblically, you're very careful when it comes to how people
handle the nation of Israel.
Watch that.
Okay.
Now the nations of the earth, the Jewish people were dispersed to all the nations
of the earth.
They came home as an advertisement, and literally you can see it all throughout
the book of Ezekiel, that God is God.
He loves his people.
He's got a plan and he's bringing them home.
But Israel is the apple of God's eye.
And when we look at Bible prophecy and we look at things that are happening in the
solar system, and we look for signs and wonders in the heavens, we really want to
think about it from God's perspective.
What is God interested in?
Well, he's interested in declaring who he is.
He's interested that people would come to know him.
He's interested in building his kingdom, and he's interested in supporting and
encouraging those that are part of that happening in the earth.
Well.
Where we are now is kind of a very precarious place.
America is not good.
We've got enormous division.
We have the greatest threat we've ever, ever had towards a third nuclear war.
I mean, Putin is making some pretty scary threats.
In the middle of all of that, what do we do?
Well, we preach the gospel.
And I want to talk about some additional symbolism that we're seeing here, because
we're seven years out.
And when you study numbers in the Bible, it is significant.
OK, so we're seven years from that last four triads.
We have an eclipse coming one month from now.
So let's talk about this eclipse.
What?
Well, first off, what's the symbolism of the number seven?
Well, it's in biblically the seven is the number of completion.
It's the number of fullness.
We see the number seven over and over again.
We have the seven year tribulation.
We have seven trumpets and seven bowls and seven vials going through that seven year
tribulation time.
Seven is a number of fullness.
So we've now come off this major triad that was, you know, seven years ago in August
21st, I believe, of 2017.
Here we are seven years later.
Man, God has been good.
He has been so faithful.
I'm so thankful for his grace and for his mercy and for his love.
He's been a wonderful God.
But I am really fascinated with what's coming with the eclipse.
So why should we look at this?
Well, right now and why I'm making this for YouTube is this gospel, one of the one of
the scriptures that we look to, it says this gospel shall be preached to the ends of the
earth and then the end shall come.
Right now, because of YouTube, we have more subscribers and listeners and viewers who
are able to hear the gospel than any other time in human history.
Isn't it amazing?
I mean, think about it.
I like to think of, you know, YouTube is kind of the poor man, the poor man's cable.
They can watch anything from anywhere in the world.
And be careful, there's good things on YouTube with credible voices.
And there's also some very shaky things that are on YouTube.
But that's what's so interesting now about watching all of this.
Now, on April 8th, what's going to happen is and I've had the opportunity to teach this
as a special education teacher.
The moon is going to come and it's going to move across America in a very slow manner.
OK, the moon will go the whole earth or not the whole earth, but the path of this
eclipse as it crosses America, everything will go dark for around three to four minutes.
And then, of course, with the planets orbiting and the stars moving, it's going to
cast a shadow.
And where this shadow is being cast across our nation is fascinating.
The first place it crosses over is at Eagle Pass, Texas.
Why is that significant?
Well, that's the area where you have millions of people crossing into America.
They're coming here, they want freedom, but not everyone that is coming here is
necessarily wanting the American dream.
I do believe that there are people that are crossing the border and they're crossing
into America.
and their motives are not good. They don't like America and they're bringing
things with them that should make us all think. Okay, so that's pretty interesting.
The next thing it's going to land or it's going to cast its shadow on seven
Nineveh's. Now when this eclipse happened seven years ago, the
shadow went across seven Salem's and Salem is kind of the short name for
Yerushalayim or Jerusalem. Okay, seven of them. Don't you find that fascinating?
Now what's the significance of Nineveh? Well remember Nineveh was in what we now
call modern-day Iraq. Jonah had to go there. He had to preach a word to them. He
didn't necessarily like them. He didn't necessarily want to go. He was in
disobedience. He delivered this word and yes there was repentance and there was a
great revival in Nineveh because of this prophets obedience. How does that
connect with America? Well I definitely think we're at a time where we need to
humble ourselves and seek the Lord and you know no great revival happens unless
there's repentance. You know one of the things, one of the most interesting
things that's happened over the course of the last seven years was the Asbury
outpouring and at that outpouring the focus was on repentance. What else
happened in the last seven years? Like I said we had a major outbreak. We've also
had a threat for nuclear war. We've seen other things arise. Hmm. Another
interesting thing that's going to happen with the shadow is it's going to
go over New Madrid and this you think what's with the New Madrid? Well for
those of us that follow Bible prophecy this is the most volatile earthquake
fault line in America. It crosses three New Madrids and one hasn't happened
since around the early 1800s and there's a lot of geological evidence for
that but what's what's so concerning about that is if it were to happen
today all of the major bridges crossing the Mississippi River would be destroyed.
Can you imagine what that would do to our country? Literally it could divide
our country in half and there would be a flood of water up the Missouri
River. It would be devastating. Billions and billions of dollars in damage. The
New Madrid earthquake fault line is one to keep your eyes on. Okay. Another real
interesting thing is the number 40. 40 is a biblical number in the Bible and 40
days after April 8th is the holiday that we acknowledge as Pentecost and in
Pentecost that is where the presence of God fell on the Apostles in the upper
room and they were filled with the Spirit of God and you and I that are
born-again spirit-filled believers we understand the importance of our prayer
language, of speaking in other tongues, of building ourselves up in our most holy
faith, praying for things that we don't know how to pray for but God and the
Holy Spirit praise it through us. America experienced the Azusa revival
at the turn of the century 120 some years ago. This outpouring birthed some
of the most influential denominations and it brought the baptism of the Holy
Spirit worldwide. It was a hundred years ago. Interesting, huh? Well, why else should
we try to pay attention to this? Well, we're going all out. We're watching this.
I want to see it. I want to be able to observe it. I want to be able to
experience and I think there'll be something prophetically about me going
to watch it. So I encourage you to watch it and watch it from wherever you are in
the nation. In Oklahoma we're only gonna be able to see maybe 80 to 90 percent of
that eclipse. If you're in the full shadow there's a couple things that are
gonna happen. Yes, the earth will go dark. The temperature will drop about 10
degrees. You will hear different animals or birds chirping when it goes dark
because nature responds to the shadow as it's being cast. And then it's going to, I
really think it's going to make a lot of people think about the heavens and
about God.
a reality of the universe.
And that is not a bad thing.
It's a really good thing.
So what do you think God is trying to say to America now?
Well, oh, and one other thing I want to throw in there that I really don't know much about.
What's coming in America?
Well, I would pay attention to Israel.
I would pay very attention to every political, economic, social decision that's made towards
Israel.
Why?
Because as Christian believers, we love Israel and we love the Jewish people.
I'm very skeptical of anyone who all of a sudden brings up anything negative or whatever
with the Jewish people.
Do I agree with every military decision that they make?
Of course not.
But they're in a position where they have to survive.
After ISIS was destroyed, what happened to a lot of those ISIS fighters?
Well, they unfortunately made their way down into Israel and into the Gaza Strip, and they
are now what we would call Hamas.
And we know that.
I mean, ISIS is Hamas.
Be very observant of those decisions that are being made right now.
You know, John Kilpatrick did a message.
I'm trying to get my computer back on here, folks.
John Kilpatrick did a very interesting message called The Earth is Speaking.
And we definitely want to be led by the Holy Spirit in this hour.
We want to listen to what he's saying.
We want to be at the right places at the right time.
And it is really important that we do this.
I do believe God is restoring and is bringing health and wholeness to the body of Christ.
And I've got some additional scriptures here.
This comes out of the chapter of Joel, and this came up in our Bible study this week.
So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locusts have eaten, the crawling
locusts, the chewing locusts, my great army which I sent among you.
And you shall eat plenty and be satisfied.
And praise the name of the Lord your God who has dealt wondrously with you.
And my people shall never be put to shame.
Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel.
I am the Lord your God, and there is no other.
And my people should never be put to shame.
I'm mentioning locusts here because there is supposed to be a rise after this eclipse
of some sort of a locust event I'm going to be watching.
I think you should watch too.
Now, these scriptures I love going on here with verse 28.
And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh.
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy.
Your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
And also on my men servants and on my maidservants, I will pour out my spirit in these last days.
Verse 30, and I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood and fire and
pillars of smoke.
The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and coming
day of the awesome day of the Lord.
And whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
What's my hope in all of this?
Well, my hope is that we experience repentance and revival.
That we have people who hunger.
And we're seeing it.
We're seeing this.
People are getting saved in record numbers left and right.
This gospel is being preached through something simple like this little broadcast today and
people are coming to know Jesus.
We're seeing manifestations of people in Gaza are having dreams of Jesus and he's speaking
to them.
When we had the war in the Middle East, in ISIS, in Iraq, and in Syria, we saw many people
come to know the Lord.
That is God's heart.
His heart is that we would know him.
That we would seek him.
That we would study his word.
That we would grow stronger in the knowledge of him.
What could be coming over the next course of human time after this eclipse?
Well, we shall see.
We shall see.
I think it could go either way.
Will people hear what the Lord is trying to say?
Will they repent?
I pray they do.
What happens to America if they don't?
Well, I think it could be very bad for America.
America. Is it possible we could have terrorists cross and bring things into
our country? Yes, not just from the southern border. In fact, I have some
major, major reservations about what's happening right now at the northern
border. You probably haven't thought about it. Let me pray for you today. Lord, I ask
for every person within the sound of my voice that whenever they hear this, Holy
Spirit, I ask for you to move on their heart and move in their life. God, give
them divine appointments. Lord, let your word just come alive inside of them. Lord,
that they may seek you and find you, that they may know you and know your word,
that they would know your character in the midst of the things that are coming
on the earth. Lord, I ask that you would make yourself known amongst the nations.
Lord, I thank you for this opportunity to preach and share and teach your word,
and I ask that you would seal everything that was said and done today, that you
would seal it by your spirit. Lord, anything that's off that I might have
shared today, God, please forgive me. And Lord, those things that are of you, I ask
that they would drop deep in people's spirits and that they would seek you and
that they would know you. Thank you for listening. I know it was a lot today. It
was a lot. Thank you for listening and have a wonderful day.