John Hogue is an astrologist and an expert on Nostradamus who regularly appears on national television promoting his viewpoints. He has written 600 articles and 35 books. His biggest claim to fame is that, until last week, he predicted the election of the past twelve U.S. presidents. If true, that’s a pretty impressive record. Frankly, I don’t see how he is old enough to have done that.
But last week, John Hogue the rogue–an astrologer with a dark, long beard–misread the stars or whatever and got it wrong. He had been predicting throughout all of this year that Hilary Clinton would win the presidency. In fact, he said he was writing a book about it. But she didn’t; Donald Trump won by far the most electoral votes in an upset victory while losing the popular vote by perhaps 2 million votes. So, John Hogue blew his record on his thirteenth try. Is number 13 unlucky for the astrologer?
The Bible condemns astrology. The ancient Chaldeans, who lived in present southern Iraq, were most known for their stargazing. And it was practiced in the ancient, great city of Babylon located on the Euphrates River in present central Iraq. Isaiah the Prophet sarcastically declares, ” Keep on then with your magic spells and with your many sorceries, which you have labored at since childhood. Perhaps you will succeed, perhaps you will cause terror. All the counsel you have received has only worn you out! Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you. Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot even save themselves from the power of the flame” (Isa 47.12-14 NIV).
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