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F inal Completion of Fence will create False Sense of Security

in 2008!

December 14, 2006

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The guesstimate of Israel being attacked at some point in time between 2008 and 2012 by an Islamic confederation of 10 nations seems to be more and more in order. Once the American troops are pulled out of Iraq and the Israeli Security Fence is completed, the attack can occur at any time thereafter. The two articles from the Jerusalem Post, which follow Special Prophecy Update Number 62D, give the latest update on the status of the Security Barrier.

SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 62D

April 10, 2002

Three years before I retired at the National Security Agency, in 1968, there was an Israeli security plan put forward by their Foreign Minister Yigal Allon.

It was drawn up by him, but never put into effect and, for that matter, I do not remember it being put forward as an official

proposal.

As I recall, the plan was to completely surround the West Bank with a security buffer zone. I retired in 1971 and, quite frankly, my memory may not recall the details specifically, but it seems to me that the security buffer zone was to be about three miles deep, except on the side facing the Jordan River, where I think it was to be seven to 10 miles in width. The Israelis seem to think this would provide them with security from the actions of the Palestinians enclosed within it. The more I think about it, the more it seems to me this was what was presented as a proposal under the Benjamin Netanyahu administration in a modified version. And what is now happening in Israel may also be a modified version of the old Allon Security Buffer Zone Plan. They would first eliminate or cripple the terrorist infrastructure in the cities and refugee camps, then pull back a few miles and establish a security ring around the individual areas, and then finally seal in most of the West Bank with a security buffer zone to give them a feeling of peace and safety from the terrorists within the West Bank.

That may, or may not, be Israel’s final objective, but I will guarantee you this, the Palestinians and all Islamic nations will hate it.

And if anything will cause a false peace to come in, this action will insure it.

A false peace is coming to the Middle East.

It may be a “forced peace” or a negotiated peace, or a combination of both, but it will be a false peace that gives Israel a sense of “Peace and safety,” and it will be broken with the agony and pain that suddenly comes upon a woman before giving birth to a child, and that pain and agony will last for some 1260 days.

I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in d

arkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

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High Court: A-Ram Security Fence vital to Israeli Defense

Dan Izenberg and JPost Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST

December 13, 2006

An expanded panel of nine High Court justices headed by retired Supreme Court President Aharon Barak rejected on Wednesday two petitions objecting to the route of the separation fence cutting off 58,000 Palestinians, including thousands with Israeli resident status, from Jerusalem.

The court ruled that although the presence of the security fence around the A-Ram neighborhood would interfere with residents’ freedom of movement, the absence of a fence would harm the security of Israel.

The court’s ruling acknowledged that the fence would make it difficult for Palestinian residents to earn an income and reach schools, health clinics, and family on the other side of the fence. However, the court noted that the fence would require residents to undergo security inspections on a daily basis, and that while this would perhaps cause the villagers undue inconvenience, it would also serve to protect Israeli citizens.

The petitions were submitted two-and-a-half years ago. In the meantime, the concrete wall has been completed on the understanding that the state will remove it if the court decides to uphold the petitions.

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‘Separation barrier will be completed by end of 2008′

Yaakov Katz and Dan Izenberg, THE JERUSALEM POST

December 13, 2006

Construction of the West Bank security barrier will be completed by the end of 2008, a senior defense official involved in the project told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.

The Defense Ministry has completed 402 kilometers of the barrier, and 106 kilometers are currently under construction.

The official said another 240 kilometers is currently tied up in court by some 40 petitions and also by the Justice Ministry, which is currently examining every stretch of the barrier which is before the court.

The final route of the barrier has been approved by the cabinet, including two finger-shaped enclaves surrounding the settlements of Ariel and Karnei Shomron.

Among the most complicated sections are the ones slated to surround the Gush Etzion settlement bloc and Ma’ ale Adumim, said the senior defense official.

Retired Supreme Court president Aharon Barak wrote on Wednesday that 115 petitions against the route of the barrier or related issues have been submitted to the High Court

of Justice.

The court has finished dealing with 69 of them, including 41 that ended with rulings and 28 that ended in compromise arrangements between the sides. The court still has to deal with 46 petitions.

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WILL YOU BELIEVE ME NOW?

December 12, 2006

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Joel C. Rosenberg’s fictional novel, “The Ezekiel Option” was published in 2005. Rosenberg points to Ezekiel prophecies in Chapters 36 and 37, which have largely been fulfilled. He then uses Chapters 38 and 39 to lay out a scenario that may be fulfilled in our generation.

The following is the publisher’s review of the book.

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When the richest oil baron in Moscow is killed, Moscow suddenly teeters on the verge of political chaos. Tehran races to complete its nuclear arsenal. Washington finds herself dangerously divided from her European allies. And in the dead of night, in the hills overlooking Jerusalem, a senior White House advisor uncovers a chilling ancient conspiracy as real as the morning headlines. Woven through the writings of the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel, more than 2,500 years old, are eerily prescient descriptions of modern countries then unborn, modern alliances then unformed, and an imminent day of unspeakable terror.

Now, with the clock ticking down to war, two Americans are caught in the crossfire, wondering, Is the last judgment at hand?

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If you would like to read a non-fictional book on Chapters 37 to 39 of Ezekiel, I would encourage you to read the whole numbered Archive Prophecy Updates 22 to 39 at http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

I have written four books in the last 30 years warning that Antichrist would not come out of Europe, but out of Islam, and I made my case straight out of the Bible.

I have traveled worldwide to more than 600 churches, seminaries, colleges, and universities to present seminars to present my Scriptural case on this subject. We have maintained a Web Site at http://www.tribulationperiod.com/ for more than five years with thousands of updates on Middle East prophetic events as they relate to Middle

East Events.

The prophetic world is geared for an Antichrist coming out of Europe leading 10 European nations against Israel.

The recent fictional series called “Left Behind” has made billions.

It advocates a rapture before any of the tribulation period begins, and brings the Antichrist out of Europe. If they won’t believe a non-fictional work, but will accept the “Left Behind” series, perhaps they will believe the fictional novel, “The Ezekiel Option,” by Joel C. Rosenberg.

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Modern day Gog and Magog

Similarities between Ezekiel’s prophecies, today’s Mideast reality uncanny

Ines Ehrlich

Current world events are beginning to increasingly resemble the 2,500 year old bible prophecy made by Ezekiel in chapters 38-39. Ezekiel foresaw the rise of Russia (or Turkey, depending on the interpretation) in a coalition with Iran and other Middle Eastern countries (Sudan, Ethiopia and Libya).

The coalition is foretold to attack Israel from the north in a bid to destroy it during the earth’s “last days,” commonly known as the “war of Gog and Magog.”

Throughout history it was thought that the prophecy had been put on hold, until perhaps today when it seems frighteningly more feasible.

In Joel C. Rosenberg’s book “The Ezekiel Option,” the author points to Ezekiel’s prophecies in chapters 36-37, which have largely come true.

Rosenberg then asks the obvious question: If prophecies such as “the rebirth of the State of Israel, the return of the Jews to the Holy Land after centuries in exile, the re-blossoming of desolate desert land to produce abundant food, fruit and foliage, and the creation of an exceedingly great army” materialized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, then why shouldn’t the next prophecies come true in our lifetime

?

Let’s try and place the biblical names and locations into today’s reality, and see the parallel unfolding of events:

Gog is commonly believed to represent a person’s name rather than a place, a tyrannical leader who may hatch an evil plan – in today’s reality this “honor” could be most suited to the President of Iran, Ahmadinejad, or perhaps Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon .

Magog, according to some scholars, refers to Russia and the republics of the former Soviet Union, or perhaps Turkey. Others will argue that the exact location has not been fully ascertained and that the word Magog may simply be a generalization for an enemy of Israel, leaving the location open.

Under attack

According to the prophecy in question, “many peoples with you” who will attack along ” the mountains of Israel”

implies that other countries will be involved in the Russian (or Turkish), Iranian, Sudanese, Ethiopian and Libyan coalition,

and who border on the mountains of Israel. This includes Lebanon, Syria and possibly Jordan as well.

Is it so farfetched to imagine the axis between Hizbullah, Iran and Syria, especially after the second war in Lebanon when these three forces overtly united and continue to support each other’s goal to destroy Israel?

In his book, Rosenberg notes a conspicuous absence of Egypt and Iraq in the original prophecy, which also makes a lot of sense at this point in time. Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979 and Iraq is embroiled in its own war of survival and both are unlikely to join a coalition against

Israel.

According to the prophecy Magog “will build a military coalition and prepare a strike against Israel.” Gog “will use overwhelming force against Israel” – could this be referring to nuclear force? And his coalition will “come like a storm…like a cloud covering the land.”

But let’s not become hysterical. According to the prophecy, there is no need for Israel to become alarmed, “as the Lord God will bring judgment upon the enemies of Israel beginning with Gog (the tyrant).”

Ezekiel prophesizes a great earthquake and the turning of Gog’ s force

s against each other. The next step, which prophesizes God subjecting the enemy to “pestilence, blood, torrential rains, hailstones and fire from heaven,” is unclear and sounds like someone pressed the nuclear button, and if so, then who, and who in the region would survive it?

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Ahab the Arab has changed to Mullah the Menace after Six Conflicts!

December 12, 2006

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The six conflicts in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, and 2006 have caused a 1948 sunrise cumulus creampuff of Arabs to grow into a menacing late afternoon cumulonimbus thunderstorm line of Mullahs in 2006, whose cells will one day move rapidly southward through Israel to darken the landscape from Dan to Beersheba.

Ezekiel 38:8,9 – After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. [9] Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.

Isaiah 29:6 – Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and

with earthquake, and great noise,

with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

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The Mullah Menace – Mortimer B. Zuckerman (U.S. News)

What’s the most dangerous geopolitical development in the 21st century? Iran’s emergence as the Middle East regional superpower. Why? Because it places the center of the world’s increasingly stretched energy resources more and more under the influence of an oil-rich, fundamentalist, pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic regime that has not only nuclear ambitions but the means to realize them.

Iran’s malign h and now reaches directly into southern Iraq, to Syria, to Hizballah in Lebanon, to Hamas in Gaza,

and to the shores of the Mediterranean. Iran’s long shadow now casts a deepening pall over the Sunni Arab countries of the region, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.

All the Sunni gulf states have sizable Shiite populations, which Iran could turn against them.

What once promised to be a seed for democracy in the despotic Middle East, a new free state of Iraq, has betrayed every hope in an increasingly violent religious schism aggravated by Iranian meddling.

The elections in Iraq led not to collaboration between different ethnic and religious groups but to a Shiite majority with a mandate to introduce what is, in effect, a radical Islamic republic.

The West will have to decide what is more dangerous – to attack the infrastructure of the Iranians sooner rather than later or to deal with an Iranian nuclear capability after the fact.

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Friday Showdown at the OK Assembly of Experts Tombstone Corral in Iran!

December 11, 2006

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This coming Friday, December 15th is the date of the election of the Assembly of Experts, which is the top political body in Iran. The results of this election will have tremendous influence on the future trek of the nation in the time of its plunging into war against Israel. If Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi is elected, then Iran will be even more hostile toward Israel and the West.

The Front Page Magazine article by Patrick Poole gives and excellent evaluation of the consequences of the Friday election.

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THE WAR AYATOLLAH

By Patrick Poole

FrontPageMagazine.com

December 11, 2006

A showdown over the control of the Islamic Republic of Iran is underway as the December 15th election of the Assembly of Experts, the top political body, rapidly approaches. The election of the Assembly of Experts has been a particularly contentious issue in Iran, as the traditionalist hardliners have already invalidated many candidates representing both the moderating party led by former President Hashemi Rafsanjani and the burgeoning extremist party led by President Ahmadinejad’s spiritual mentor, Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi.

But this election has now taken on even greater importance with a news report from Michael Ledeen that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seriously ill and may be near death.

Khamenei’s incapacity or death will require the Assembly of Experts to select a new Supreme Leader for the Islamic Republic, and Mesbah-Yazdi and President Ahmadinejad have been working relentlessly in recent weeks to secure alliances with a number of independent candidates in the Assembly of Experts election to possibly see Mesbah-Yazdi elevated to Supreme Leader.

The selection of Mesbah-Yazdi as Supreme Leader would undoubtedly herald a significant shift in Iran’s internal and external politics.

If anything, Mesbah-Yazdi’s elevation as Supreme Leader would mark an extremist turn in the Islamic Republic’s approach to the West, as it would reinforce his protégé’s, President Ahmadinejad, aggressive stance on the development of nuclear weapons.

Timothy Furnish, professor of Middle East History at Georgia Perimeter College, author of Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, their Jihads and Osama bin Laden and editor of Mahdiwatch.org, told me yesterday that the consequences of such a scenario could be even more drastic, saying that Mesbah-Yazdi’s selection as Supreme Leader and the policy shift that would follow would be an inevitable prelude to war with Iran:

“I think that his taking the helm there would virtually ensure eventual war with Israel and/or the U.S., for two reasons: Mesbah-Yazdi’s geopolitical views – which include approval of first-use of nuclear weapons – make him perhaps the ultimate Shi`ite jihadist; and his eschatological fervor, which brings to mind previous historical examples of bloody Mahdist movements, such as Ibn Tumart of 12th century Morocco and Muhammad Ahmad of 19th century Sudan.”

As I noted in an article published in August by FrontPage, Ahmadinejad’s Apocalyptic Faith, the extremist worldview promoted by Mesbah-Yazdi centers on the belief of the imminent return of the Shia’s 12th Imam, the cardinal element to

the Hojjatieh faith. It is the implications I describe in that article of what they believe about the return of the 12th Imam, however, that should give Western leaders concern:

“But rooted in the Shi’ ite ideology of martyrdom and violence, the Hojjatieh sect adds messianic and apocalyptic elements to an already volatile theology.

They believe that chaos and bloodshed must precede the return of the 12th Imam, called the Mahdi. But unlike the biblical apocalypse, where the return of Jesus is preceded by waves of divinely decreed natural disasters, the summoning of the Mahdi through chaos and violence is wholly in the realm of human action. The Hojjatieh faith puts inordinate stress on the human ability to direct divinely appointed events.

By creating the apocalyptic chaos, the Hojjatiehs believe it is entirely in the power of believers to affect the Mahdi’s reappearance, the institution of Islamic government worldwide, and the destruction of all competing faiths.”

In the event that Mesbah-Yazdi/Ahmadinejad faction can garner enough votes to secure the ayatollah’s selection as Supreme Leader, one internal development that is sure to follow is the political consolidation of power in Iran gravitating even more to the clerics even more than it has been since the death of Ayatollah Khomenei, the founder of the Islamic Republic. Under his successor, Ayatollah Khamenei, some political power has been shifted to lower institutions, but Mesbah-Yazdi has complained about the loosening of the political and social reins from the clerics and has made no secret for his distaste of democracy.

The news concerning Ayatollah Khamenei’s health is sure to increase the political jockeying in the last week before the December 15th election between the three major factions: the majority traditionalist hardliners, which have been led by Khamenei; the reformist faction, led by former President Rafsanjani; and the Mahdist faction, led by Mesbah-Yazdi and Ahmadinejad.

Last month, the traditionalists attempted to shift the Assembly of Experts election their way by having almost 350 potential candidates ruled unsuitable – leaving only 144 candidates for the 86 seats in

the Assembly. Most of those ruled ineligible came from Rafsanjani and Mesbah-Yazdi’s supporters, including Mesbah-Yazdi’s son, Ali Mesbah-Yazdi. But in response, the political organization established in October to promote the Mahdist candidates, the Elite of Seminaries and Universities, has been in recent weeks soliciting approved independent candidates running unopposed in their respective areas for support of Mesbah-Yazdi for Supreme Leader when Khamenei dies or is removed from office.

The three competing factions within Iran have been clashing in other arenas outside of the Assembly of Experts election.

As Ledeen notes in his article, the National Assembly last week voted to cut Ahmadinejad’s term of office as President by one year – a victory for Rafsanjani’s reformist faction. And then the traditionalist hardliners, many of whom have grown concerned at Ahmadinejad’s saber-rattling directed towards the U.S. and Israel, have seized the opportunity to stir-up criticism in recent days of Ahmadinejad’s videotaped attendance at the opening ceremonies of

the Asian Games in Qatar, which featured scantily-clad dancing girls.

The efforts by both the reformist and traditional hardline factions to damage Ahmadinejad and his allies are a testament to the sudden rise and growing influence of the Mahdist elements inside the Iranian government.

Ahmadinejad’s election as president last year, helped in no small measure by a fatwa issued by Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi in support of his candidacy, came as a surprise to many of Iran’s ruling elite; and the popular support Ahmadinejad enjoys has been considered an important shift in power from the traditional hardliners to the Mahdist faction.

But in the event that Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi is selected as Khamenei’s successor, this would mark an even more decisive shift in favor of the extremist elements in Iran’s government – making next week’s election of the Assembly of Experts, who will select Iran’s new Supreme Leader, all the more important.

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Not to Worry – Just a Little more than 100 Million!

December 11, 2006

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Wh at

a relief! We only have just over 100 million Jihadists willing to participate in terror at the present time.

I wonder how many there were in 1946? The 100 million plus are a major problem, but the real problem is how many will there be in 2008 and 2012.

The problem is the rate of increase!

Islam and Violence

December 5, 2006

Daniel Allott In a recent survey on global conflict, Monty Marshall and Ted Burr of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management found that of the 24 major armed conflicts taking place worldwide in 2005, more than half (13) involved Muslim governments or paramilitary groups on one or both sides of the fighting. What’s more, among six countries with “emerging armed conflicts,” four are predominantly Muslim and another, Thailand, involves a Muslim separatist movement. Experts assure us that only a small percentage (perhaps 10 percent) of Muslims are willing to participate in terror; with 1.2 billion Muslims globally, that’s more than 100 million jihadists.

(Washington Times)

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