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Lebanon must be a Puppet to Syria and Iran for Islamic Forces to win a War against Israel!

September 25, 2007

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I have taught for more than 30 years that Lebanon cannot have a pro-western Government in power when the Antichrist attacks Israel some three and one-half years before the battle of Armageddon. By hook or crook, cunning, assassination, election, coup, or brute force, when the final jihad attack comes against Israel, Lebanon will be a subdued horn on the head of Daniel’s fourth beast as part of a regenerated caliphate of 10 Arab/Persian nations. Lebanon will be one of the three horns the Antichrist subdues and plucks up by the roots. The great Caliphate or Kingdom of Antichrist will stretch from French Morocco to India.

Daniel 7:8 – I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

Daniel 7:23 – Thus he said, T

he fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

The expression “the whole earth” is a hyperbole, and refers to the world as it was known to be occupied when Daniel wrote his prophecies.

We know the Kingdoms of Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome did not dominate the entire “world” as we know it today. God uses the hyperbole frequently in prophecy. (Consult Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 77, 77A, 77B, and 77C)

When a best selling book was written in the fifties about six emerging European Common Market nations, it began to cause many theologians to quickly change their minds

as to where the antichrist would eventually arise. Prior to that time most had believed he would arise out of the old Seleucid dynasty, which was formed by one of the generals who divided Alexander’s Grecian Empire into four sections. Many believed the Assyrian, in the fifth chapter of Micah, would be the antichrist, and that he would arise in, and come out of, modern day Syria. (Consult Whole Number Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 62 through 69)

Before the European Common Market theory arose, many believed antichrist would come out of the southern half

of the old Roman Empire, rather than out of the European northern half. But the great popularity of the aforementioned book ascended to the highest levels of acceptability, and previous beliefs were dwarfed to obscurity. The book indicated that the six original members of the Common Market would soon be joined by four other nations to reach ten, and then be joined by the eleventh horn, who would be the antichrist of Daniel’s fourth beast in chapter seven.

However, soon there were ten horns, then there were eleven, then fifteen, then twenty-five, and more may be added. But the astounding popularity of this book, and the thousands of preachers and other teachers who have taught it, have left a legacy that is very difficult to convince they might not be correct in what they have taught, and are still teaching.

I have been concerned, since the book was first published, about the possibility it might cause many to be deceived when he does not arise in Europe, but in Syria.

Quite frankly, I watch both Europe and Syria just like a hawk, and, if I do see him rising in Europe, I most assuredly will accept it. I am prepared for both. But many are so convinced he must come out of Europe, I doubt if anything would change their minds. In any case, in future updates I will show my reasons for believing he will come out of the Syria area.

The beast of Daniel 7:23 does indeed represent the old Roman Empire, and it certainly did tread down “the whole world,” that is, the “known” world of Daniel’s day. Have you ever thought that perhaps we were meant to take the expressions of Daniel’s day concerning the world, and believe that is the only part of the present world the antichrist will dominate completely? The ten horns will arise out of “the whole world” of Daniel’s day. But why do they have to be European nations? Were not Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Jorda

n, Egypt, northern Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and northern Sudan part of the old Roman Empire under the Emperor Trajan? And are not these countries the descendants of Ishmael, the first son of Abraham, and Keturah’s six sons by Abraham, and the two sons of Abraham’s nephew Lot, Moab and Ammon by his two daughters? Are not these descendants of Abraham the ones who have hated and battled the sons of Abraham through Israel for many centuries? In any case, since I believe the attack is likely to occur before 2013, most likely between 2010 and 2013, I expect to know where he will arise one way or the other in the next few years, that is, if I survive the grave before Jesus returns.

I do not question that Europe will come down as part of the mass of many nations that join antichrist in Jerusalem for the final battle of Armageddon, but I am confident that the initial attack of the tribulation period will be by the antichrist leading Islamic nations against Israel, some three and on-half years before Armageddon.

Daniel 7:24,25 – 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 the 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.

A Time = 1 year Times = 2 Years Dividing of Time = ½ Year

What nations represent the 10 horns? My guess would be Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Sudan, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

What nations represent the three which are subdued? My guess would be a “take your pick” after Lebanon and Iraq between Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. I do not believe Egypt, Saudi Arabia, will be a part of the original ten nations, and I know Egypt will be conquered by the Antichrist, and Jordan by-passed, in his advance across Israel into the land of the Nile.

Daniel 11:41 – 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.

Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran will move rapidly southward through the “glorious land” of Israel like a fast moving thunderstorm, bypassing the land where the people of Moab, Ammon, and Edom were settled when Daniel wrote his prophecies in about 600 B.C. The descendants of Edom (Jacob’s brother), and Ammon and Moab (the sons of Lot), as found on every published map for this time period, were settled immediately to the southeast, east, and northeast of the Dead Sea, precisely in the country we know as Jordan today. Hence, we can know that the antichrist will bypass Jordan as he moves south through Israel. Why would he bypass Jordan? She has no strategic, political, or economic advantage to offer him, but the Suez Canal and Egypt do, so he will head southwest toward that area after having driven the woman Israel into the Negev Wilderness south of Beersheva.

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.

Daniel 11:42,43 – He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. [43] But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

The three most “precious things” in Egypt are: the Suez Canal, the Nile River and its Delta, and Cairo, it’s capital. He will conquer the Suez Canal zone and all of Egypt. So just what is Egypt? Many are inclined to establish it as the land bordered on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, on the west by Libya, on the south by Sudan, on the southeast by the Red Sea, and on the northeast by its Sinai border with Gaza and Israel’s Negev. And, geographically, that is quite correct. However, in reality, that is not Egypt. The real Egypt, where her people live, is much, much, smaller. Egypt is the land along her north and east coastlines up to about two miles inland, the Nile Delta, and the land along the Nile River extending about fifteen miles either side of its banks.

The antichrist will send messages to leaders of two of the original 10 nations confederated with him, namely Libya and Sudan, requesting them to mass their troops along the northern coastal border with Libya, and along the border where the Nile enters Egypt from Sudan. This will cause the diversion of some Egyptian troops away from Cairo and the Suez Canal in order to protect their western and southern borders. And this will allow the antichrist to rapidly push across the Suez Canal into Cairo and along her western and eastern coastlines, then to quickly progress southward down the Nile with little resistance. I believe he will control Egypt within two weeks after

he reaches the Suez Canal.

Once he has conquered Egypt, he will make an assessment of his geopolitical position. After having done so, he would be a military fool to return to his home country.

He will establish his capital at Cairo, and will remain there for more than three years. After three years he will receive news that causes him to quickly return to Jerusalem.

Begin Article from The Australian

Lebanon postpones president vote

From correspondents in Beirut

September 25, 2007

LEBANON’S deeply divided Parliament failed to elect a new president today and speaker Nabih Berri deferred the vote until October 23.

The Opposition stayed away from the session to elect a successor to pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud, blocking the anti-Syrian majority from choosing a new head of state.

Parliament needs a two-thirds majority to elect a president in a first round of voting.

“Despite everything, we continue to seek constructive dialogue and practical discussion with the various opposition blocs to salvage the presidential election and save Lebanon from the danger of falling into a vacuum … and internal division,” said Farid Makari, deputy house speaker, reading a statement in the name of the governing anti-Syrian bloc known as March 14.

Thousands of Lebanese troops and police protected the assembly building in central Beirut where pro-government deputies arrived under armed escort from a heavily guarded seafront hotel where many had been staying.

The Western-backed March 14 alliance fears more assassinations to reduce its slim majority after last week’s car bombing that killed Christian MP Antoine Ghanem.

Some Opposition MPs went to parliament and mingled with their opponents but had no intention of attending an electoral session for lack of prior consensus on a new president.

Disputes over the election reflect deep fissures in Lebanon between factions which want to align the country with the West and those which favour close ties with Syria and Iran.

Two pro-government MPs walked into Parliament carrying a red banner with pictures of Ghanem and five other anti-Syrian MPs slain in the past two years, including former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri.

“Don’t boycott the nation,” the banner read.

Inside the chamber, a Lebanese flag and portraits of the assassinated deputies were placed on six empty seats.

Despite the impasse over the election, Berri, a close Syrian ally and opposition leader, met March 14 leader Saad al-Hariri in his office for 15 minutes.

They had not met for months.

“The climate is not as grim as everyone imagines,” Berri said on yesterday after talks with Maronite Christian Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir. “There will be a president for Lebanon before November 24 with the consensus of all the Lebanese, God willing.”

The March 14 bloc had hoped to elect one of its own members in the first presidential election since Syrian troops were forced to leave Lebanon in 2005 after Hariri’s assassination.

Syria’s al-Baath newspaper said March 14’s insistence on choosing the president meant that it was “pursuing its scheme for Lebanon to fall in the grip of US-Israeli projects”.

Troops and police lined the streets leading to parliament to provide safe passage for MPs, while others deployed across central Beirut, blocking off roads and removing parked cars.

The Parliament building is a short walk from a tented camp set up in December as part of an opposition campaign against Prime Minister Fouad Siniora’s Western-backed government.

The political crisis, Lebanon’s worst since the civil war, spilled into street clashes in January that recalled the 1975-1990 conflict.

Failure to agree on a president could result in two governments, which could spark new instability.

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As Long as American Forces are in Iraq there will be no Major Middle East War!

September 25, 2007

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Since American troops invaded Iran I have not believed there would be a major Middle East war until they departed.

I also knew that the key to when

they would be withdrawn was the person of President Bush, not the United States Congress, because the only way the Congress could get them home was to withdraw funding to support them in Iraq, which is about as likely as having ten inches of snow at Key West in August. So I particularly enjoyed the following article from the Los Angeles Times, which makes that point very concisely. And since I don’t believe our President is in any great hurry to see a disaster during a quick erratic withdrawal on his watch, nor will his replacement wish to see such a catastrophic event early on his or her watch, I do not see the possibility of a major Middle East war until late in 2009, with the most likely time for it guesstimated to begin at some point in time between 2010 and 2013.

Iran and Syria have no desire to start a war with a large number of American troops along vast stretches of their borders.

They know even a Democratic Congress would be likely to join Israel against them if our troops were still there, but if they had already been withdrawn at the time of Israel being attacked, it is quite unlikely that a liberal Congress and/or President would send them back in.

Begin Los Angeles Times Excerpt from World News

War and impotence

Having ceded control over Iraq policy to Bush, Congress must find a way

to influence him anyway.

September 24, 2007

As the Democrats rediscovered to their chagrin last week, Congress has little real power either to declare a war or to end one.

Having authorized the president to use force in Iraq, Congress has found itself stymied. The weak Democratic majority lacks the political power to compel President Bush to start bringing substantial numbers of troops home, yet it is afraid to use the constitutional clout it does have: the authority to cut off war funding.

Most Americans say they want the U.S. engagement in Iraq to be dramatically downsized or ended soon. But unless the antiwar forces in

the Senate can attract the so-far elusive, filibuster-proof 60 votes — and as of Friday, they were at least 12 votes short — the Iraq war may drag on well beyond the Bush presidency.

The Democrats’ current predicament is a testament to the enormous strength of the executive branch and the erosion of the powers of Congress, which hasn’t declared a war since 1941 and hasn’t gone to the mat with the president over any war since Vietnam. Since World War II, U.S. presidents have generally ignored what they considered to be congressional meddling, such as the War Powers Act of 1973 and the law cutting off U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan Contras.

And, generally, Americans have liked it this way.

In the Atomic Age, they reckoned a commander in chief would never have time to consult Congress before deciding whether to launch nuclear weapons.

And most preferred to have a strong president in charge of national security and trusted the military, not the politicians, to manage military operations.

Now, however, a Democratic Congress and a Republican president are themselves at war over a host of issues, including Iraq. Their conflict accurately reflects the bitter and sometimes frightening schism in our nation.

So it is no surprise that the antiwar forces in Congress too are stalemated. Last week, Senate Democrats mounted an ill-conceived, backdoor effort to force the president to withdraw troops from Iraq faster than he wants by requiring troops to spend more time at home between deployments. Whether such a measure would be constitutional — and we have doubts — it’s the worst kind of congressional micromanagement of military affairs. For reasons of principle and precedent, we’re lucky it failed.

But that doesn’t mean Congress should stop trying to chart the least damaging exit from Iraq. It should provide advice, welcome or not, and it must act if necessary to constrain a president’s unwise choices. For without a clear show of congressional strength, this president has no need or inclination to negotiate or compromise.

Thus the Senate was right on Friday to bring to a vote a measure that would have ordered most troops home from Iraq in nine months. That the measure fell short on a 47-47 vote is unimportant.

What matters is that the Senate Democratic leadership, even knowing

that it would lose, was willing to hold an up-or-down, gimmick-free vote on the toughest issue facing Congress today.

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Russia’s Putin heads to Iran to Placate the Golden Goose!

September 24, 2007

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I retired from the USAF Branch of the National Security Agency at Fort George G. Meade in 1971, and began work on my first book, “Tectonic Chaos,” in the early seventies while still a student at the Missionary Baptist Seminary in Little Rock, Arkansas. I am certainly not one of the “Johnnie Come Lately” boys in bringing the Antichrist out of the Middle East Arab World.” I have believed he would come out of Syria or Lebanon from my youth. The following is a quote from my first book, which was published in the mid-seventies, more than thirty years ago.

Begin Quote

“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.

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

Oil is slowly replacing the dollar in international importance, and soon 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 while the Arab nations prosper in their midst.”

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I watched the above scenario begin in the late sixties while still in the NSA, and knew it would continue until the ten Arab nations attacked Israel,

which would be followed some three and one-half years later by China, and what was then the Soviet Union, coming down to join the Antichrist at the final battle of Armageddon.

I wrote my second book, “Tribulation Triad,” through encouragement by Dr. J.B. Powers, to whom I dedicated my third book, “Birth Pangs from the Bottomless Pit,” which was published in the early eighties.

Sure enough, the Golden Goose Middle East Arab countries have been protected from a take-over of their Golden Egg resources by the United States, Russia, and China not daring to take over the Golden Egg laying resources.

They feared what the other two would do, if one attempted to do so. But Russia has indeed been on a Golden Egg Easter hunt since the Soviet Union economy went to ground zero as the Union splintered into many countries. Russia rushed into the Middle East to offer all sorts of high tech military weapons, scientists, and builders to get the golden eggs, which they desperately needed to build up a non-existent Russian economy – and Iraq and Iran made it happen. North Korea and China did the same, but not on the same grand scale as Russia.

There are several reasons that Putin, as indicated in the article which follows from the DEBKAfiles, is heading for an October 16 meeting in Iran, but the main reason is to exercise damage control on the complete failure of the supposedly invincible Russian aircraft & missile detection & destruction system that was pawned off on Iran and Syria for a large number of golden oil revenue eggs. He wants more golden eggs from the Arab oil producing revenues.

The very strong ties between Russia, China, and North Korean with the fanatical factions of the Islamic nations of the Middle East world, will be made very plain at the final battle of Armageddon, when they all come down to get a piece of the possum oil pie.

Begin DEBKAfile Excerpt

Putin Turns His Face to Tehran, His Back to Bush and Sarkozy

September 23, 2007, 2:32 PM (GMT+02:00)

Iran’s suspect nuclear program is further polarizing the big powers.

As American and European officials discussed a third round of UN Security Council sanctions, Iran’s president M ahmoud Ahm

adinejad, more pugnacious than ever, addressed a military parade Sat. Sept. 22 marking the 27th anniversary of the onset of the Iraq-Iran war of the eighties.

“Those (countries) who assume that decaying methods such as psychological war, political propaganda and the so-called economic sanctions would work and prevent Iran’s fast drive towards progress are mistaken.”

“The Iranian nation is ready to bring any oppressive power to its knees,” read a slogan from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, inscribed on a massive board on a truck as a new, improved long-range, 1,800-km range surface missile trundled by.

Other slogans called for “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.” Western military attaches, apparently warned in advance, boycotted the rally for the second year running.

But there is no escape: These are the messages Ahmadinejad takes with him this week to the UN General Assembly and Columbia University in New York.

The French president Nicolas Sarkozy meanwhile stands shoulder to shoulder with President George W.

Bush. Friday, Sept. 21, he said: “Iran is trying to obtain an atomic bomb.

That is unacceptable and I tell the French people it is unacceptable.”

A week ago, French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner warned that the world faced war if diplomacy and sanctions failed to curb Iran’s nuclear activities.

But Vladimir Putin pulled in the opposite direction from his two fellows in the UN Security Council when he decided to be the first Russian president to visit Tehran on Oct. 16. The visit, in the framework of the Caspian Asian Summit, is planned to encompass much more than state ceremonial and ritual photo-ops, although there will be plenty of that too.

The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO), Reza Aghazadeh, said a document would be signed setting the timeline for Russia to complete the long-delayed Bushehr nuclear plant and deliver the fuel to activate it.

Last week, at the general conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iranian and Russian teams began formulating the document to be signed by their heads of state. Reporting this, Aghazadeh also described a most useful conversation he had with the head of Russian’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency, Sergei Kiriyenko.

In its long dispute with Moscow, Tehran claims Russia had contracted to commission the Bushehr plant in 2000. This was later amended and under the fifth agreement negotiated between Tehran and Moscow, Russia undertook to deliver 90 tons of fuel by March 2007 and commission Bushehr nuclear plant by September 2007.

According to DEBKAfile’s sources in Moscow and Washington, the Russian president had four goals in sight when he decided to settle his dispute with the Islamic Republic and join the rulers of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan at the Caspian Sea Summit in Tehran:

1. He will be on hand to underscore Moscow’s concern and conviction that the last two or three months of 2007 will take the controversy over the Iranian nuclear program to crisis point and could determine whether or not America resorts to the military option.

The Russians have marked this period as crunch time for the international community. The UN and its Security Council will have to decide then between two options: endorse the IAEA chief Mohammed ElBaradei’s deal with Tehran, under which Iran promises to open up secret compartments of its program to international inspection, or else support the tougher economic sanctions advocated by the United States.

Our Washington sources report that administration heads accuse ElBaradei of practicing deceit and underhand machinations for the sake of giving Iran more time for large-scale uranium enrichment up to weapons grade, safe from the threat of a third round of sanctions until after President Bush departs the White House in Jan. 2009.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made no bones about the low esteem in which the chief nuclear inspector is held by the administration when she said Sept 19: “Diplomacy is best left to diplomats, not a technical body such as the International Atomic Energy Agency.”

This view is fully endorsed by Israel.

2. The Russian and Iranian presidents will publicly sign a new nuclear accord, attended by international television and media hype. This is a ploy to reposition Russia in Arab and Muslim eyes. Putin wants to demonstrate that Moscow has no objection to supplying a Muslim nation with a nuclear reactor, technology and fuel, in contrast to Washington, which is willing to go as far as military action to thwart such acquisitions.

3. The Russians are uneasy about the new Washington-Paris alliance. They were alarmed by the outspoken rhetoric coming from Sarkozy and Kouchner slamming Iran and aligning with the US – up to and including military conflict.

Putin sees the French president moving into position as Bush’s leading foreign partner in place of Britain’s Tony Blair as a portent of a potential American-European fence to block off Moscow’s influence in Europe. He links this potential with Washington’s plan to set up missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic and perceives a strong line forming on the map of Europe that threatens to reverse his diplomatic gains on the continent and circumscribe his drive for the control of its supplies of energy.

These issues were undoubtedly thrashed out when the French foreign minister met his Russian opposite number Sergey Lavrov in Moscow last week.

4. Sitting together at the head of the table at the Caspian Sea Summit next month, Putin and Ahmadinejad will be broadcasting a message to Washington and the nations of Central Asia that the future and security of Caspian and Central Asian natural resources and oil do not depend entirely on their relations Washington, or even the US military bases going up on their soil. Russia will be posing a stiff challenge to America in Central Asia by holding out the offer of joint-strategic sponsorship with Iran.

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No Major Middle East War this Year!

September 24, 2007

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Years ago I analyzed a collection of many estimates from intelligence sources across the broad specter of international intelligence agencies, and accepted the lowest estimate of when a nuclear weapon could be developed by Iran. There has never been any question in my mind Iran would dare attack Israel before they had a deterrent nuclear warhead.

Why? Because Iranians know Israel has a vast armada of Jericho II missiles with nuclear warheads in the Negev Wilderness, pointed at a multiplicity of targets across Iran which, if launched, would end the existence of the nation we identify on a map as Iran (Consult Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 4 through 7 for Details of Israeli Military Negev Capabilities). I accepted the first estimates of the earliest time Iran could possibly develop its first nuclear warhead several years ago, which was 2008, and from that time forward gave readers of this Blog on http://www.tribulationperiod.com/ the guesstimate of a time frame from 2008 to the end of 2012 as the most likely time for a major Middle East War to begin.

I have held to that estimate, assuring readers I did not expect a major Middle East war before 2008, and have tenaciously clung to that conclusion through constant predictions, coming from a multiplicity of sources, that we would have such a war this year.

There are three things I consider essential for a huge Middle East War to begin, which a conglomerate of 10 Arab nations and terrorist groups, led by Syria and Iran, must have in place before they begin a war with the nation of Israel, in order to have any possibility of winning.

Those three things are: (1) A deliverable arsenal of nuclear warheads which are for deterrent purposes, (2) American troops out of Iraq, and (3) Israel not on the alert for an attack. If these three th ings, or at least the first two, are not

in place, the Arab forces will lose the war just as they have in all their previous wars with Israel.

I do not believe these three conditions could be in place before late 2009, so I do not expect a major Middle East war in 2008, because Islamic forces would lose it, and Zechariah 13:8 and Revelation 12:6 could not be fulfilled.

Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

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.

Based on developments which have occurred since I first guesstimated a time frame of 2008 to the end of 2012, it now seems evident to me that the latter portion of it, from 2010 to 2013, is the better guess for a major Middle East war to begin.

However, many expect it to occur before 2010, and I certainly hope they are correct.

Begin Jerusalem Post Article

‘Chances of war with Syria still high’

Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST

September 24, 2007

The IDF continued to maintain a high level of alert along the northern border on Sunday as senior defense officials told The Jerusalem Post that while close to three weeks have passed since Israel’s alleged air strike in Syria, there is still a chance war could break out.

Reflecting the escalation in tension, IDF troops were alerted to the northern border fence Sunday morning after the electronic alarm was activated, sparking fears of a possible infiltration from Syria.

The army said the alarm went off after the fence was touched, and that tracks were spotted on the Syrian side of the border. Soldiers who arrived on the scene ruled out an infiltration,

and the IDF said it was possible that a roving animal had triggered the alarm.

Sunday’s incident followed the scrambling of two fighter jets on Saturday to the northern border after a Syrian military jet that was being tracked by Israel disappeared from military radar systems. A short time later, the IAF discovered that the Syrian jet had crashed in Syrian territory.

“The tension is still high and so is the level of alert,” a defense official said Sunday. “What is reassuring is that the Syrians have not yet responded to the alleged strike, which hopefully means that they will continue to demonstrate restraint.”

IAF chief Maj.-Gen. Elazar Shkedy said Sunday that Israel was currently in a “complex” situation and that the air force was prepared for all developments.

“The IAF has relevance in all types of conflicts – some that are nearby with countries that we share a border with and some that are farther away,” he said during a tour of a Jerusalem high school.

“We need to be well prepared and sharp as a razor ahead of anything that might happen.”

Speaking at a Yom Kippur War memorial ceremony at Mt. Herzl on Sunday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak also warned that the relative calm and quiet could not be understood at face value.

“If there is one lesson that can be learned from the Yom Kippur War, it’s that we should not be mislead by deceptive periods of calm,” he said in reference to the tension with Syria as well as diplomatic developments vis-à-vis the Palestinians.

“The spirit of Israel must be prepared at every moment as if the next war is around the corner.”

Barak’s remarks came hours after Britain’s Sunday Times reported that soldiers from the IDF’s elite General Staff Reconnaissance Unit (Sayeret Matkal) had seized North Korean nuclear material from a secret Syrian military installation before it was bombed by IAF jets.

Quoting “informed sources in Washington and Jerusalem,” the paper claimed that the alleged IAF attack on September 6 was sanctioned by the US after the Americans were given proof that the material was indeed nuclear-related.

The sources confirmed to the paper that the materials were tested after they were taken from Syria and were found to be of North Korean origin, which raised concerns that Syria may have been trying to come into the possession of nuclear arms.

The commandos, accord ing to the report, may have been disguised

in Syrian army uniforms.

It was also stated that Barak, who used to head the unit, personally oversaw the operation.

Israeli sources admitted that special forces had been accruing intelligence in Syria for several months, the report said, adding that evidence of North Korean activity at the installation was presented to President George Bush during the summer.

According to the Times, North Korea and China believed that North Koreans were among the dead in the subsequent alleged IAF air strike. On Friday, the Washington Post reported that Israel and the United States had collaborated on intelligence ahead of the alleged IAF raid.

According to the Post report, Israel informed the US over the summer that North Korean personnel were in Syria in order to assist the country’ s nuclear weapon

s program. The intelligence in question reportedly included satellite imagery.

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Syrian and Iranian Military Confidence is staggered after IAF and Commando Success!

September 23, 2007

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All the wild screaming coming out of Iran’s President Ahmadinejad is a cover for a blow to his confidence in Iran’s military capabilities.

There are two factors working in the Middle East that are currently appearing in print, which have future implications:

FIRST

Syria, Iran, and Russia are all terribly shocked and embarrassed by the obvious great success of Israel in avoiding what they thought was a magnificent high tech aircraft and missile system, which could not be penetrated.

AND SECOND

Russia’s Putin is rushing to Iran to assure t hem everything will be just fine, because

he does not want the oil laying golden egg goose to stop sending its gold eggs from oil revenues to Russia. He desperately needs them for the Russian Economy.

All this will have a direct affect on the timing of a major Middle East War which, Lord willing, I will discuss in the next Blog.

‘Commandos captured nuclear materials before air raid in Syria’

JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST

September 23, 2007

Soldiers from an elite Israeli unit captured nuclear material originating in North Korea from a secret Syrian military installation before IAF jets bombed it, a report by Britain’s Sunday Times wrote Saturday night, quoting “informed sources in Washington and Jerusalem.”

According to the sources quoted by

the report, the alleged IAF attack was sanctioned by the US on September 6, after the Americans were given proof that the material was indeed nuclear related.

The sources confirmed that the materials were tested after they were taken from Syria and were found to be of North Korean origin, which raised concerns that

Syria may have been trying to come into possession of nuclear arms.

The report said that the commandos, from the legendary General Staff’s Reconnaissance Unit (Sayeret Matkal), may have been disguised in Syrian army uniforms.

It also stated that Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who used to head the unit, personally oversaw the operation.

Israeli sources admitted that special forces had been accruing intelligence in Syria for several months, the report said, adding that evidence that North Koreans were at the site was presented to President George Bush during the summer.

The report said North Korean and Chinese diplomats believed that North Koreans were also killed in the subsequent “IAF air strike.”

Meanwhile, Newsweek quoted Binyamin Netanyahu adviser Uzi Arad as saying, “I do know what happened, and when it comes out it will stun everyone.”

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