January 11, 2018 -- John Hagee praises President Trump and his decision to move US Embassy to Jerusalem.

What does one do with John Hagee and his views?  This is a very general question and leads to ambiguities.  Hagee once espoused strong views and statements that revealed an anti-Catholic bias, which he has since apologized.  Hagee also promoted a book Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change (2013), in which predictions were made, which some considered superstitious.  Hagee has also been a strong supporter of Israel reviving the group Christians United for Israel in 2006.

Hagee is founder and head pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas.  He is Pentecostal.  He received a Bachelor of Science degree in History and Education, a Master’s in educational administration from the University of North Texas, theological education at Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie, an honorary doctorate from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, and an honorary doctorate from Netanya Academic College in Israel.

Hagee has recently praised President Trump and his decision to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem.  Hagee stated,

What President Trump is doing is one of the most courageous political things that's been done in Washington in a long time….Many presidents have promised to move the embassy and declare Jerusalem as the eternal capital, but they have promised without performing….President Trump, when I spoke to him in the White House about this several weeks ago, he said this very emphatically. He said, 'Other presidents have failed you, but I will not disappoint the Christian community in this issue. I will stand with Israel, and we will at some point in time, move the embassy.' 

Hagee claims that he met with President Trump and that he talked with the president about moving the embassy in 2017 or the “Jubilee Year.”  Hagee states that he told the president that,

God measures everything in modules of 50 years….And I said this is a principle that's carried out in Leviticus, the 25th chapter….I said, 'If you look at 1917, it was a Jubilee Year, and the Balfour Amendment came, and then in 50 years, it was 1967, and Jerusalem was reconnected to Israel….And you add 50 to 1967, and you're in 2017.' I said, 'This is the year to move the embassy and make that declaration because it is a biblical timing of absolute precision.'

At this point, the math makes sense.  1917+50=1967+50=2017.  However, I am not sure what makes 1917 a Jubilee Year. 

I am certain, however, that there are parallels with important events in the Catholic Church in particular the common or lay people.  In 1917 was the year of events of Fatima, in 1967 was the beginning of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (following the Second Vatican Council from 1959-1965), and 2017 was the canonization of Francisco and Jacinta.