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The Prophetic Arrival of 10 Horns Now rounding the Homestretch Turn!

September 13, 2006

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Revelation 13:1 – And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

Thirty years ago, when all eyes had been fixed on Europe as the place from which the ten horns of this verse would come, I was crystal clear they were getting ready to arise as ten Arab nations in the Middle East, and I described how they would do it. The following quote is taken from the first edition of my first my first book, Tectonic Chaos, which I completed in 1976.

But I have had no major problems with teaching it in our work for all these years because I learned how to wear a flack jacket in Vietnam. But, I must say, it has been interesting to achieve the life of a old frog in a punch bowl among the brethren and my seminary classmates, and it has been a humbling experience.

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“The ten horns of Revelation 13:1 are ten Arab nations who will form the nucleus o the seventh kingdom, and the ten crowns are the kings that will rule them. For years we have pictured the typical Arab as a scrawny little fellow on a camel in the desert with a comic expression on his face. This viewpoint is quickly changing.

Oil is slowly replacing the dollar in international importance – and soon ten Arab nations will have gained economic control of much of the earth’s wealth. We will not try to stop them because of the Soviet Union – and the Soviet Union will not try to stop them because of us

and Red China. The world power block will block itself as the ten Arab nations prosper in their midst.”

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Well, thirty years have passed, and the Arab nations have prospered since America, Russia, and China were afraid to go down and take their oil because of what the other two would do to them if they should attempt to do so. This has allowed some the ten with large oil revenues to use them to purchase vast quantities of military hardware, some very high tech, and they have shared it with some Arab nations not blessed with great oil revenues.

Iran’s willingness to finance the terrorists, Syria, and Lebanon with the money from their oil revenues has built a steel shield across Israel’s northern border, which will one day be effectively used against them.

Iran has become far and away the most powerful of the Arab nations in the world. It has become the central hub for training Islamic terror groups, was much more advanced that any other Arab nations in high tech electronic that we ever dreamed, and has used its oil reserves to bring in Russian and Chinese advanced weapons and high tech personal to made military installations and nuclear facilities. This has caused many of the Arab nations to bow down in appeasement to them, and their President is becoming so bold he tells us soon the world will bow down to Iran. The following three articles of August illustrate what you have just read in this paragraph.

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Iran is becoming the World’s Central Hub for Training Islamic Terror Groups!

August 17. 2006

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Ir an to Launch Major Military M

aneuvers

Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST

August 17, 2006

Iran will launch a series of large-scale military maneuvers across the country and has not made plans for an end to the ongoing war games, the army said Thursday.

“The maneuvers are aimed at introducing Iran’s new defensive doctrine,” military spokesman Gen. Mohammad Reza Ashtiani was quoted as saying by state-run television.

He said the exercises would begin on Saturday in the south east of the country. “It will continue in the whole of Iran, stage by stage for an unspecified period,” Ashtiani said.

The announcement came as Iran faces heightened international scrutiny because of its contentious nuclear program and for supporting the Lebanese Hizbullah guerrillas.

Iran denies Israeli accusations it is arming and training Hizbullah fighters.

Ashtiani praised Hizbullah for its month-long fight against Israel. “Human forces can decide fate of a war. We saw it in Lebanon,” the general said, echoing Hizbullah claims it won the war by resisting a massive bombing and ground offensive for more than a month before a UN-brokered cease-fire came into place earlier this week.

The military spokesman said Iran’s maneuvers reflected the current level of tension in the Middle East. “We have to be prepared against any threat and we should be a role model for other countries,” local newspapers quoted Gen.

Ashtiani, as saying. “Our army is ready to defuse all plots against Islamic Republic of Iran.”

The military exercise, involving 12 infantry regiments, is called “The Blow of Zolfaghar,” in reference to a sword that belonged to Imam Ali, one of the most revered figures of Islam for Shi’ite Muslims. A majority of Iran’s 70 million people are Shi’ite.

On Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said that Iran also plans to boost security patrols on its borders.

Ministry spokesman Mostafa Pourmohammadi said the move targeted smugglers. Drug traffickers killed 8 police officers during a firefight in southeastern Iran last week.

Iran has routinely held war games over the past two decades to improve its combat readiness and test locally made equipment such as missiles, tanks and armored personnel carriers. In April, Teheran launched its biggest military maneuvers so far, during which it said it tested several advanced weaponry including missiles.

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IRAN was More High Tech electronically than we Dreamed!

August 23, 2006

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DEBKAfile Exclusive: American electronic warfare experts in Israel to find out how Hizballah’s Iranian systems neutralized Israeli EW

August 23, 2006, 2:15 PM (GMT+02:00)

DEBKA-Net-Weekly 266 b> DNW issue out on Friday, Aug. 25.i> DEBKAfile on Aug. 23 adds: The American EW experts are interested in four areas.

1. The Israeli EW systems’ failure to block Hizballah’s command and communications and the links between the Lebanese command and the Syria-based Iranian headquarters.

2. How Iranian technicians helped Hizballah eavesdrop on Israel’s communications networks and mobile telephones, including Israeli soldiers’ conversations from inside Lebanon.

3. How Iranian EW installed in Lebanese army coastal radar stations blocked the Barak anti-missile missiles aboard Israeli warships, allowing Hizballah to hit the Israeli corvette Hanith.

4. Why Israeli EW was unable to jam the military systems at the Iranian embassy in Beirut, which hosted the underground war room out of which Hassan Nasrallah and his top commanders, including Imad Mughniyeh, functioned.

DEBKA-Net-Weekly 266: Until the watershed date of July 12, 2006, when the Hizballah triggered the Lebanon War, Israel was accounted an important world power in the development of electronic warfare systems – so much so that a symbiotic relationship evolved for the research and development of many US and Israeli electronic warfare systems, in which a mix of complementary American and Israeli devices and methods were invested. In combat against Hizballah, both were not only found wanting, but had been actively neutralized, so that none performed the functions for which they were designed. This poses both the US and Israel with a serious problem in a further round of the Lebanon war and any military clash with Iran.

DEBKAfile’s military sources add: Both intelligence services underestimated the tremendous effort Iran invested in state of the art electronic warfare gadgetry designed to disable American military operations in Iraq and IDF functions in Israel and Lebanon. Israel’s electronic warfare units were taken by surprise by the sophisticated protective mechanisms attached to Hizballah’s communications networks, which were discovered to be connected by optical fibers

which are not susceptible to electronic jamming. American and Israeli experts realize now that they overlooked the key feature of the naval exercise Iran staged in the Persian Gulf last April: Iran’s leap ahead in electronic warfare. They dismissed most the weapons systems as old-fashioned.

But among them were the C-802 cruise missile and several electronic warfare systems, both of which turned up in the Lebanon war with deadly effect.

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Iranian President Demands World Bow to Iran!

Arutz Sheva, Israel National News

Iran Opens Nuclear Facility

By Ezra HaLevi

August 27, 2006

Ahmadinejad appeared at the opening of a nuclear facility in the city of Arak, south of Tehran, which will produce the plutonium needed to build nuclear warheads. The complex was surrounded by anti-aircraft batteries during Ahmadinejad’s press conference, and journalists were barred from photographing certain areas.

“There are no talks of nuclear weapons in Iran,” President Ahmadinejad said with a smile as he inaugurated the plant. “And we are not a threat for any country, even the Zionist regime – the enemy of the countries in the region.”

Ahmadinejad followed up his conciliatory words with a threat to “use force” against any country that tries to stop Iran’s nuclear bid. “We tell Western countries not to cause trouble for themselves, because the Iranian people are determined to take big steps,” he said.

Iran still officially claims the nuclear plants are for the sake of producing nuclear power. The Islamic Republic, though, is the world’s fourth-largest oil producing country and is in no need of alternative energy sources.

In response to UN demands that it stop enriching uranium, Ahmadinejad demanded last week that the world bow to Iran. “If you want to have good relations with the Iranian people in the future, you should acknowledge the right and the might of the Iranian people, and you should bow and surrender to the might of the Iranian people. If you do not accept this, the Iranian people will force you to bow and surrender.”

Iranian Deputy Parliament Speaker Mohammad Reza Bahonar threatened that too much pressure on Iran would lead to calls from Iranian citizens themselves for the government to embark on a nuclear weapons program. “Our country is confronted with illogical countries that have nuclear weapons,” he told an Iranian paper.

“If they put too much pressure, our people might ask the government to produce nuclear weapons as a deterrent.”

Nuclear weapons can be produced either using plutonium or enriched uranium as the explosive core.

A reactor using enriched uranium uses regular water in the energy-producing process. A heavy-water reactor like the one just inaugurated is able to run on natural uranium, which can be mined in Iran and bypass the enrichment process currently the focus of UN Security Council ire.

Plutonium can be extracted from the spent fuel of the heavy-water reactor and used in a bomb.

Iranian Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadeh says the heavy-water facility is to be used to treat AIDS and cancer, as well as for other medical and agricultural uses.

Iranian expatriate commentator Amir Taheri wrote a biting response to Iranian claims that it is pursuing nuclear capabilities for purposes other than nuclear weapons, in Saturday’s Arabic Al-Shark Al-Awsat:

“Iran does not have any working nuclear power plant and thus has no immediate need of enriched uranium even as fuel. The only Iranian nuclear power plant under construction in Hellieh on the Bushehr Peninsula is not scheduled to come on stream before next spring. And when it does, it will have enough fuel for the first 10 years of its operation. Russia, which is building the station, has offered to provide all the needed fuel for its entire lifespan of 37 years…

“Iran does not need any enriched uranium at least until next March. After next March, it would still need not produce any enriched uranium until the year 2017. Even after 2017, Iran would still have no need of domestic uranium enrichment for the Hellieh plant until 2044…

“It is hard to argue a case in favor of nuclear power plants in Iran. Iran has the world’s second or third largest oil reserves and the second largest reserves of natural gas. Even if Iranian domestic consumption of energy were to reach average Western levels in the next decade or so, Iran would still have enough domestic energy resources to last it more than 400 years. As several studies by Iranian academics have shown, nuclear power would be at least 27 per cent more costly to produce and distribute than electricity generated by oil, gas or hydroelectric

power plants.

“There is yet another argument against nuclear power plants in Iran. The whole country is located on one of the most active earthquake zones in the world. Hellieh, the place where the first nuclear power plant is being built, has been destroyed by earthquakes on at least three occasions in the past century or so…

“The obvious answer is that the Islamic Republic wants to put itself in a position to build an arsenal of nuclear weapons.”

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September 13, 2006

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While I was working on an AWS Assignment in the SWWC Federal Office Building in Kansas City Missouri (1963 to 1965), Our AWS Headquarters was at Scott AFB, Illinois, where then Captain (Dr) Chong served as Staff General Surgeon and Chief of General Surgery Service of USAF Hospital Scott. Dr. Chong had a brilliant military career, retiring as a Major General in 1994.

The general entered the Air Force in October 1963 following the completion of a residency in general surgery. He was certified by the American Board of Surgery in April 1964. He has commanded three Air Force medical centers, served as command surgeon of two major air commands, and was commander of the Joint Military Medical Command, San Antonio. The general is a chief flight surgeon, and was a surgeon/flight surgeon member of the DOD launch site recovery team for 15 space launches during the Apollo, Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz programs.

If you would like to see his qualifications, go to this Air Force web site and look him up. They are quite impressive.

www.af.mil/bios/alpha.asp?alpha=c

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Muslims, Terrorist and the USA: A Different Spin on Iraq War.

This WAR is for REAL!

By Dr. Vernon Chong, Major General, USAF, Retired.

To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it. Our
country is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know it, that we have faced in your lifetime and mine (which includes WWII).

The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there
are very few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer who realize what losing really means.

First, let’s examine a few basics:

1. When did the threat to us start?

Many will say September 11, 2001. The answer as far as the United
States is concerned is 1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, with the following attacks on us:

* Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979; * Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983; *
Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983; * Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988; * First New York World Trade Center attack 1993; * Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex 1996; Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998; * Dares Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998; * Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000; * New York World Trade Center 2001; * Pentagon 2001. (Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581 terrorist attacks worldwide).

2. Why were we attacke

d?

Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms. The attacks
happened during the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton and Bush 2. We cannot fault either the Republicans or Democrats as there were no provocations by any of the presidents or their immediate predecessor, President Ford.

3. Who were the attacker

s? In each case, the attacks on the US were
carried out by Muslims.

4. What is the Muslim population of the World? 25%.

5. Isn’t the Muslim Religion peaceful?

Hopefully, but that is really not material. There is no doubt that
the predominately Christian population of Germany was peaceful, but under the dictatorial leadership of Hitler (who was also Christian), that made no difference. You either went along with the administration or you were eliminated. There were 5 to 6 million Christians killed by the Nazis for political reasons (including 7,000 Polish priests). (see http://www.Nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm)

Thus, almost the same number of Christians were killed by the Nazis, as the six million holocaust Jews who were killed by them, and we seldom heard of anything other than the Jewish atrocities. Although Hitler kept the world focused on the Jews, he had no hesitancy about killing anyone who got in his way of exterminating the Jews or of taking over the world – German, Christian or any others.

Same with the Muslim terrorists.

They focus the world on the US, but kill all in the way — their own people or the Spanish, French or anyone else. The point here is that just like the peaceful Germans were of no protection to anyone from the Nazis, no matter how many peaceful Muslims there may be, they are no protection for us from the terrorist Muslim leaders and what they are fanatically bent on doing — by their own pronouncements — killing all of us “infidels.” I don’t blame the peaceful Muslims. What would you do if the choice was shut up or die?

6. So who are we at war with? There is no way we can honestly respond that it is anyone other than the Muslim terrorists. Trying to be politically correct and avoid verbalizing this conclusion can well be fatal. There is no way to win if you don’t clearly recognize and articulate who you are fighting.

So with that background, now to the two major questions:

1. Can we lose this war?

2. What does losing really mean? If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two pivotal questions:

We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous as it may sound,
the major reason we can lose is that so many of us simply do not fathom the answer to the second question – What does losing mean?

It would appear that a great many of us think that losing the war
means hanging our heads, bringing the troops home and going on about our business, like post-Vietnam. This is as far from the truth as one can get.

What losing really means is: We would no longer be the premier country in the world. The attacks will not subside, but rather will steadily increase. Remember, they want us dead, not just quiet. If they had just wanted us quiet, they would not have produced an increasing series of attacks against us, over the past 18 years. The plan was, clearly, for terrorists to attack us until we were neutered and submissive to them. We would, of course, have no future support from other nations, for fear of reprisals and for the reason that they would see; we are impotent and cannot help them.

They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a time. It
will be increasingly easier for them.

They already hold Spain hostage. It doesn’t matter whether it was right or wrong for Spain to withdraw its troops from Iraq. Spain did it because the Muslim terrorists bombed

their train and told them to withdraw the troops. Anything else they want Spain to do will be done. Spain is finished.

The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that
they might see the light and realize that if we don’t win, they are finished too, in that they can’t resist the Muslim terrorists without us. However, it may already be too late for France. France is already 20% Muslim and fading fast! If we lose the war, our production, income, exports and way of life will all vanish as we know it. After losing, who would trade or deal with us if they were threatened by the Muslims.

If we can’t stop the Muslim terrorists, how could anyone else?

The radical Muslims fully know what is riding on this war, and
therefore are completely committed to winning, at any cost. We better know it too and be likewise committed to winning at any cost.

Why do I go on at such lengths about the results of losing? Simple.
Until we recognize the costs of losing, we cannot unite and really put 100% of our thoughts and efforts into winning. And it is going to take that 100% effort to win.

So, how can we lose the war?

Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by “imploding.”
That is, defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy and their purpose, and really digging in and lending full support to the war effort. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose. If we continue to be divided, there is no way that we can win!

Let me give you a few examples of how we simply don’t comprehend the life and death seriousness of this situation.

President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation. Although all of the terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men between 17 and 40 years of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow profiling.

Does that sound like we are taking this thing seriously? This is war! For the duration, we are going to have to give up some of the civil rights we have become accustomed to. We had better be prepared to lose some of our civil rights temporarily or we will most certainly lose all of them permanently.

And don’t worry that it is a slippery slope. We gave up plenty of
civil rights during WWII, and immediately restored them after the victory and in fact added many more since then.

Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton before him?

No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can maintain all of our
Political Correctness, and all of our civil rights during this conflict and have a clean, lawful, honorable war. None of those words apply to war. Get them out of your head.

Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or the
Administration that it almost seems they would literally like to see us lose. I hasten to add that this isn’t because they are disloyal.

It is
because they just don’t recognize what losing means. Nevertheless, that conduct gives the impression to the enemy that we are divided and weakening. It concerns our friends, and it does great damage to our cause.

Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians and
media regarding the treatment of some prisoners of war, perhaps exemplifies best what I am saying. We have recently had an issue, involving the treatment of a few Muslim prisoners of war, by a small group of our military police.

These are the type prisoners who just a few months ago were throwing their own people off buildings, cutting off their hands, cutting out their tongues and otherwise murdering their own people just for disagreeing with Saddam Hussein.

And just a few years ago these same type prisoners chemically killed
400,000 of their own people for the same reason. They are also the
same type of enemy fighters, who recently were burning Americans, and dragging their charred corpses through the streets of Iraq.

And still more recently, the same type of enemy that was and is providing videos to all news sources internationally, of the beheading of American prisoners they held.

Compare this with some of our press and politicians, who for several
days have thought and talked about nothing else but the “humiliating” of some Muslim prisoners — not burning them, not dragging their charred corpses through the streets, not beheading them, but humiliating” them. Can this be for real

?

The politicians and pundits have even talked of impeachment of the
Secretary of Defense. If this doesn’t show the complete lack of
comprehension and understanding of the seriousness of the enemy we are fighting, the life and death struggle we are in and the disastrous results of losing this war, nothing can.

To bring our country to a virtual political standstill over this
prisoner issue makes us look like Nero playing his fiddle as Rome burned — totally oblivious to what is going on in the real world. Neither we, nor any other country, can survive this internal strife. Again I say, this does not mean that some of our politicians or media people are disloyal. It simply means that they are absolutely oblivious to the magnitude, of the situation we are in and into which the Muslim terrorists have been pushing us, for many years.

Remember, the Muslim terrorists stated goal is to kill all infidels!

That translates into ALL non-Muslims — not just in the United States, but throughout the world.

We are the last bastion of defense.

We have been criticized for many years as being ‘arrogant.’ That charge is valid in at least one respect. We are arrogant in that we believe that we are so good, powerful and smart, that we can win the hearts and minds of all those who attack us, and that with both hands tied behind our back, we can defeat anything bad in the world! We can’t! If we don’t recognize this, our nation as we know it will not survive, and no other free country in the world will survive if we are defeated.

And finally, name any Muslim countries throughout the world that
allow freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, equal rights for anyone — let alone everyone, equal status any status for women, or that have been productive in one single way that contributes to the good of the world.

This has been a long way of saying that we must be united on this
war or we will be equated in the history books to the self-inflicted fall of the Roman Empire. If, that is, the Muslim leaders will allow history books to be written or read.

If we don’t win this war right now, keep a close eye on how the
Muslims take over France in the next 5 years or less. They will continue to increase the Muslim population of France and continue to encroach little by little, on the established French traditions. The French will be fighting among themselves, over what should or should not be done, which will continue to weaken them and keep them from any united resolve. Doesn’t that sound eerily familiar

?

Democracies don’t have their freedoms taken away from them by some external military force. Instead, they give their freedoms away, politically correct piece by politically correct piece.

And they are giving those freedoms away to those who have shown,
worldwide that they abhor freedom and will not apply it to you or even to themselves, once they are in power.

They have universally shown that when they have taken over, they
then start brutally killing each other over who will be the few who control the masses. Will we ever stop hearing from the politically correct, about the “peaceful Muslims”?

I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we are
united, there is no way that we can lose. I hope now, after the election, the factions in our country will begin to focus on the critical situation we are in, and will unite to save our country. It is your future we are talking about!

Do whatever you can to preserve it.

After reading the above, we all must do this not only for ourselves,
but our children, our grandchildren, our country and the world. Whether Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal and that includes the Politicians and media of our country and the free world!

Please forward this to any you feel may want, or NEED to read it.

Our “leaders” in Congress ought to read it, too. There are those that find fault with our country, but it is obvious to anyone who truly thinks through this, that we must UNITE!”

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In every war we have ever fought we have made mistakes, and we will continue to do so, but in no case should we stop our fight against our enemy. If we had stopped fighting in any war using this logic, we would not be a free nation today. People who make mistakes learn from them, but they don’t stop fighting. We should not unmercifully hammer those who made mistakes. We should keep them and support them because they have learned from them, and are much less likely to make the same mistake twice than someone who never the opportunity to make it in the past.

My major concern about our current “war” is that many people think it will go away if we bring all troops home as soon as possible. We did not want to fight the Germans on American soil. If we do not fight terror in the Middle East, we will fight the next World War against Islam on our own soil.

AND WITH MANY SHIPS!

September 12, 2006

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I believe the formation process of a fully equipped collection

of Arab nations has, and will continue to form, to the north of Israel in Lebanon and Syria, with the source of its strength being pumped in from Iran. All three of these countries do have navies, ranging from pathetic in strength in the case of Lebanon to moderate in the case of Iran.

So it is interesting to see the warships of other nations, under the guise of the United Nations Resolution 1701, patrolling coastal waters of Lebanon. It is possible that some of these other nations might turn their guns against the Israel navy and the coasts of Israel if the UN declared Israel to be in violation of Resolution 1701, which led to the cease fire between Israel and Hizbollah.

Daniel 11:40,41 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, AND WITH MANY SHIPS; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. [41] He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

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Israel concludes Two-Month Naval Blockade of Lebanon

HERB KEINON, YAAKOV KATZ and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST

September 7, 2006

Israel has begun to remove its naval blockade of Lebanon, imposed almost two months after Hizbullah launched its cross-border raid and kidnapped two Israeli soldiers.

Maj.-Gen. Alain Pellegrini, the French commander of UNIFIL, said government officials informed him Friday afternoon that the blockade was being lifted. Government spokeswoman Miri Eisin said she didn’t have immediate confirmation that the final order had been given to lift the siege, but said earlier Friday that the blockade would be ended within hours.

Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D’Alema, meeting with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, announced that a multinational task force, commanded by an Italian admiral, had begun patrolling Lebanese territorial waters.

The Italian Admiral, aboard an Italian aircraft carrier, received command of the patrols off the Lebanese coast and Israeli Naval ships began returning back to Israeli waters.

Israeli Naval officials said they knew the Admiral because they had conducted Naval exercises with him in the past. They were confident that he would command an effective force in enforcing an arms embargo off the Lebanese coast.

In addition to the Italians, ships from France and Greece have taken over the task of blocking weapons shipments from reaching Hizbullah.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced the decision to lift the air and sea closure on Lebanon following heavy international pressure – a decision that was in direct opposition

to an IDF recommendation to keep the siege in place.

The General Staff favored the blockade as a way to maintain pressure on Lebanon to enforce the arms ban on Hizbullah and to take action that would lead to the release of the kidnapped soldiers.

Closure was made following a request by the United States. He said Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora had asked the international force to take responsibility for the air and sea lanes.

“There will be rules in place to inspect goods, and the French and Germans will enforce them,” Peretz said.

Senior officials in the Prime Minister’s Office said Israel maintained all along that it would lift the blockade once international forces were present at crossing points to prevent arms smuggling.

German naval forces would join the Italian, French and Greek flotilla. Germany has volunteered to deploy warships to the Mediterranean Sea to patrol the Lebanese coast and ensure that weapons are not smuggled through the ports.

A German military source told The Jerusalem Post that Berlin viewed its role very seriously and believed that the navy patrols would be effective and meet Israeli standards. The German force is expected to arrive in about two weeks.

A senior source in the Prime Minister’s Office said that despite the lifting of the air and sea blockade, Israel would enforce the arms embargo along the Syrian-Lebanese border if needed.

“We reserve the right to stop any attempt to smuggle in weapons and supplies across the border from Syria to Hizbullah,” the official said.

Olmert’s decision to lift the siege, a member of the IDF General Staff said, came despite the military’s recommendation to the diplomatic echelon to keep the siege in place.

“Our recommendation is to keep up the blockade and to continue flying over Lebanon without restrictions,” he said.

Under the air siege, the officer revealed, the IAF was able to continue flying drones over Lebanon. They collected intelligence and kept a close eye on the Lebanese border with Syria to see if weapons were being transferred to Hizbullah, or if it was attempting to smuggle the kidnapped IDF reservists – Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev – out of Lebanon.

The assumption within the defense establishment, he said, was that the kidnapped soldiers were alive and were being held in Lebanon. The IDF, he said, was holding five “valuable” Hizbullah captives who could be used as a bargaining chips in a prisoner swap with Hizbullah.

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A comparison of Daniel 11:40 with Ezekiel 38:14,15 is very interesting. I have always believed they both describe the same event, namely, the initial Jihad attack against Israel from the north by 10 Arab nation, the main contributors to the confederation being Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria. Oddly enough, I exposited on Ezekiel 38:14,15 the week that 9/11 occurred in Archive Prophecy Update Number 33, so I am including the excerpt from it.

Daniel 11:40 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and THE KING OF THE NORTH shall come against him like a whirlwind, WITH CHARIOTS, AND WITH HORSEMEN, AND WITH MANY SHIPS; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

Ezekiel 38:14,15 – Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it

? [15] And thou shalt come from thy place OUT OF THE NORTH PARTS, thou, and many people with thee, ALL OF THEM RIDING UPON HORSES, a great company, and a mighty army:

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PROPHECY UPDATE 33

September 16, 2001

We concluded Prophecy Update Number 32 expositing on Ezekiel 38:13, which we have done continuously from Ezekiel 37:1 for the past several weeks.

We will continue this exposition, beginning with Ezekiel 38:14, and will close it by aligning it with the fanatical, cowardly act of war inflicted this week by Islamic terrorists on America.

Ezekiel 38:14 – Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?

The question of verse 14 is directed personally by God to Gog . It is a question to which both know the answer, as attested by “shalt thou not know it?” Gog will be well aware of it, because he will have made the agreement allowing Israel to dwell in safety. And this will be one of the reasons the antiChrist’s blitzkrieg attack will be so successful. It will catch them by surprise.

Ezekiel 38:15 – And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:

Verse 15 reveals some very important new information when it states: “And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts.” When Ezekiel wrote his prophecies, the expression “the north parts,” to those who read it in those days, meant the area we call Syria and Lebanon today. I am certain that the antiChrist will arise to power as the head of some country which satisfies the requirements of being from “the north parts” as they were identified in Ezekiel’s day. AntiChrist may arise in southern Turkey or northwestern Iraq, but in Ezekiel’s day “the north parts” encompassed the area occupied by Lebanon and Syria today.

His army will be composed of troops from ten Arab nations. The initial attack will be conducted primarily by Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran, but others will participate in various ways. When the Scripture says: “all of them riding upon horses,” it is picturing to the readers of Ezekiel’s day what would be a “fully equipped” army. His army will be equipped with all of today’s modern weapons to meet this requirement.

What we have witnessed this week, as grim and terrible as it is, and as much as it has shaken our nation to a state of coming together against a common enemy, it has also made us acutely aware that we cannot stop ALL attacks by tightening security. We can stop MOST of it, but we cannot stop ALL of it. We will avenge the loss of those precious American lives, and we will obtain justice for this cowardly act of war against our citizens. But after we rightly avenge this ungodly act against us, and have obtained justice against these murderers of humanity, we will still be under the threat of terrorism by the many Islamic groups that populate the Arab world. Countless billions will be poured into travel security at all sorts of levels in our national transportation net, and perhaps even more into our state of military alertness for such occurrences as we have just experienced.

We can ill afford such expenditures with such a delicate economy at this time. But since we must, and should, make them, I am certain it will cause American, as well as all free world pol

iticians, to more actively find ways to bring the Middle East Conflict between Israel and many of the Islamic nations to a closure. Only then will the terrorist leaders be held in check temporarily by the several Arab countries that sponsor, train, and supply them.

There can never be a true and lasting peace in the Land of the Bible until Jesus returns to reign on this planet. However, out of this ungodly act of infamy against an America at peace, there will eventually come a brief period of peace, and many will believe it will be genuine and lasting. But the terrorist groups will only hold off their activities for a short period of time, and they will do this only as a ruse to lead Israel, and the rest of the free world, into a false sense of security. But this brief period of f alse pe

ace will be broken by a blitzkrieg attack from the north of Israel.

End Archive Prophecy Update Number 33

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REMEMBERING 09/11/01

September 11, 2006

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I was conducting a Prophecy Lecture in northern Arkansas when 9/11 occurred. A Series of expositions (Ezekiel 37 to 39) was being issued on our Web Site at that time, and I had just completed Number 32 before leaving Dardanelle to do the Prophecy Lecture. When I returned to the home church on Saturday, I continued in the series on Ezekiel 38:14,15. The remarks at the end of that exposition are even more valid today, as one can see from the following article excerpt by Miral Fahmy.

The final remarks from Archive Prophecy Update Number 33 follow her Reuter’s article excerpt, which came from the Jerusalem Center for Public Information, September 11, 2006.

Begin Reuters Article Excerpt by Miral Fahmy

Al-Qaeda: Next Target Israel

By Miral Fahmy (Reuters)

In a video aired on the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on al-Jazeera television, deputy al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahri said Israel and the Gulf Arab states would be its next targets.

In remarks addressed to Western leaders, he said: “I tell them do not bother yourselves with defending your forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

These forces are doomed to failure. You have to bolster your defenses in two areas…the first is the Gulf, from which you will be evicted, God willing, after your defeat in Iraq and then your economic doom will be achieved…. And the next (target) is Israel. The current of holy war is closing on it.”

End Reuters Article Excerpt by Miral Fahmy

Begin Closing remarks from Archive Prophecy Update Number 33

September 11, 2001

What we have witnessed this week, as grim and terrible as it is, and as much as it has shaken our nation to a state of coming together against a common enemy, it has also made us acutely aware that we cannot stop ALL attacks by tightening security. We can stop MOST of it, but we cannot stop ALL of it. We will avenge the loss of those precious American lives, and we will obtain justice for this co wardly act of

war against our citizens. But after we rightly avenge this ungodly act against us, and have obtained justice against these murderers of humanity, we will still be under the threat of terrorism by the many Islamic groups that populate the Arab world.

Countless billions will be poured into travel security at all sorts of levels in our national transportation net, and perhaps even more into our state of military alertness for such occurrences as we have just experienced.

We can ill afford such expenditures with such a delicate economy at this time. But since we must, and should, make them, I am certain it will cause American, as well as all free world pol

iticians, to more actively find ways to bring the Middle East Conflict between Israel and many of the Islamic nations to a closure. Only then will the terrorist leaders be held in check temporarily by the several Arab countries that sponsor, tra

in, and supply them.

There can never be a true and lasting peace in the Land of the Bible until Jesus returns to reign on this planet. However, out of this ungodly act of infamy against an America at peace, there will eventually come a brief period of peace, and many will believe it will be genuine and lasting. But the terrorist groups will only hold off their activities for a short period of time, and they

will do this only as a ruse to lead Israel, and the rest of the free world, in

to a false sense of security. But this brief period of false peace will be broken by a blitzkrieg attack from the north of Israel.

End Closing Remarks from Archive Prophecy Update Number 33

As I indicated in the previous Blog, and in many before it, the Crescent Moon of Islam will continue to tighten its military bands to the north in preparation for an eventual Jihad attack against Israel from the north. I believe that the “brief period of peace,” which I indicated in the final remarks of Archive Update 33, five years ago, will eventually come on the scene in Israel, will do just that at some point in time between 2008 and 2012. Indeed, concerning Israel, as the deputy al-Qaeda head says, “the current of Holy War is closing on it,” and soon it will flood the land from Dan to Beersheba. That “current” will be a flood of Arab forces flooding south to the gates of Beersheba.

Revelation 12:15,16 – And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

[16] And the earth helped

the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. (Please take the time to click back in our Birth Pang Archives to Number 42 for a full exposition of this verse)

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LAYING THE LOGISTICS OF WAR!

When American Troops withdraw there will be a linking up of Terrorist States and Groups from Afghanistan to Iran

to Iraq to Syria and to Lebanon. The greater population of southern Iraq is Shiite, and they control the Iraqi government.

Once the American troops move out of Iraq, which I expect to be completed in 2008, the Crescent Moon of Islam will wrap itself from the Persian Gulf across central Iraq into Syria and Lebanon’s headwater tributary system of the Jordan River valley, forming an iron band across northern Israel of the ancient moon god of Persia and Babylon, who was replaced by Allah.

September 11, 2006

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In all of the many Archive Prophecy Updates where I listed the ten Arab nations I expected to make up the ten toes of Daniel 2, I always included Iraq as one of them, even after we took over the country. I have never doubted they would be one of them. The two articles which follow, and Archive Prophecy Update Number 176B, which follows them, is the reason I believe Iraq is destined to be one of them.

Begin Article 1 from the Jerusalem Post

Iraqi PM to start two-day visit to Iran on Monday

Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST

September 9, 2006

Iraq’s prime minister will visit Iran on Monday, the government said Saturday.

Nouri al-Maliki’s two-day visit will focus on security and bilateral relations, the Cabinet said in a statement.

The visit will come a week after al-Maliki’s deputy prime minister, Barham Saleh, visited Teheran.

The trip “is to confirm the establishment of friendly and balanced relations based on common interest and respect of the sovereignty of the two countries without any interference in internal affairs,” the statement said.

Iraq’s new Shiite Leaders have close ties to Iran.

End Article 1 from the Jerusalem Post

Begin Supplement to Archive Prophecy Update 176B

SUPPLEMENT TO ARCHIVE PROPHECY UPDATE 176B

May 18, 2005

The article which follows from the New York Times by John F.

Burnes was extracted from the DEBEKA Files. In Archive Update 176B I gave the expectation that Iraq would indeed turn against Israel and the U.S. with renewed hatred.

There is no question in my mind that Iraq will be one of the 10 toes that attack Israel in

the not too distant future.

IRAQ WILL BE ONE OF THE 10 TOES OF DANIEL’S PROPHECY!

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BEGIN NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE

Registering New Influence, Iranian Foreign Minister Visits Iraq – John F. Burns (New York Times)

Iran sent its foreign minister, Kamal Kharrazi, to Baghdad on Tuesday. Almost 25 years after Iraq and Iran started an eight-year war that left a million people dead, the government in Baghdad is now led by officials with close personal, religious, and political ties to Iran’s ruling Shiite ayatollahs. Kharrazi appeared eager to put the U.S. on notice that Iran expects to wield influence in Iraq, especially in the long term: “The party that will leave Iraq is the United States, because it will eventually withdraw, but the party that will live with the Iraqis is Iran, because it is a neighbor to Iraq.”

End Supplement to Special Prophecy Update Number 176B

Begin Special Prophecy Update Number 176B

Special Prophecy Update Number 176B

June 16, 2004

Ten Toes Are Beginning to Wiggle

Daniel 2:42-44 – And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

[44] And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

This Kingdom and its Lamb King, who Daniel’s people rejected at his First Appearance, will soon return for his Second Appearance to bring in his Kingdom as its Lion King of Judah. I have always believed these ten toes would indeed arise out the territory once controlled by the two legs to which they were attached, namely, the southern flank of the old Roman Empire. The two legs of Daniel’s statue, during the time of their existence as an empire, stretched their long toes into the nations now identified as Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Soon there will be a new state, which will emerge among the ten, namely the new Palestinian state that is likely to come out of Israel’s disengagement plan before 2012.

I believe these 11 nations will be directly involved in the coming Jihad against Israel.

I believe the 10 toes found in chapter 2 of Daniel are 10 of the 11 horns found in chapter 7 of Daniel, and that the “little horn” of Daniel 7 comes out of Syria or its immediate surrounding area.

Daniel 7:24-27 – And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from t

he first, and he shall subdue three kings. [25] And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

[26] But the judgment shall sit, and

they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. [27] And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

I believe the three kings that he initially plucks up, and replaces with his subordinates who will do his bidding, will probably be implanted as rulers of Lebanon, Libya, and Sudan. He will first bypass Jordan, then conquer Egypt, and leave Saudi Arabia alone, but it is inferred that the three he subdues are part of the original 10 toes, and I do not believe that Egypt, Jordan, or Saudi Arabia will be part of the original 10. (See Prophecy Update 46 in our Prophecy Archives)

For a fuller exposition of the 10 toes of Daniel 2:42-44 and the 11 horns of Daniel 7:24-27, please consult the following Updates in our Prophecy Archives: 54, 66, 71, 74B, and 78.

Turkey is now pulling away from very friendly relations established with Israel over the past several years.

Iraq will be as anti-Israel as ever after American troops pull out. I believe the aforementioned 11 nations will attack Israel at some point in time between 2008 and 2012.

End Special Prophecy Update Number 176B

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