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JIHAD will never accept a Middle East Jewish State

Islamic Figurative Expansion via a Washington Caliph,

And a New York City Cordoba Ground Zero 911 Mosque,

Obama won’t accept one Islamic Jihad Goal is to Conquer!

May 29, 2010

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Begin Excerpt from Israel Insider via World News

David Wilder: Caliph Abu Bama, John Brennan, and the Cordoba Initiative to Muslimize America

Posted by Israel Insider on May 21, 2010 in “Obama, Jews and Israel”

A friend of mine gave me a short article published in a New York newspaper, headlined, “Mosque Going Up in NYC Building Damaged on 9/11.” It didn’t take too long to discover that this building, adjacent to the Twin Towers, was making news, big time.

The thirteen story mosque, a $100 million dollar project, is being called the Cordoba Initiative.

What is the significance of this name Cordoba

? Here in Hebron, across from Beit Hadassah, we also have the Cordoba Girls School, teaching sweet little innocents how to win a place in the next world by killing Jews. What is the connection between the Cordoba initiative in New York and the Cordoba girl’s school in Hebron, you ask?

Cordoba was, for about 500 years, the capital of Islamic Spain. According to Wikipedia, “in the Middle Ages it was a capital of an Islamic caliphate and one of the largest cities in the world.”

What is the best way to keep such memories alive? Of course, to name important places after them. Why keep the memory alive. Because Islam believes that this city, Cordoba, still belongs to them.

Following the attack on Spanish trains in 1994 in Madrid, an Al-Qaeda associate, Brigade of Abu Hafs al-Masri, who took ‘credit’ for the bombings, wrote, “”This is part of settling old accounts with Spain, the crusader…” . In other words, there are still Islamic groups who blame Spain for the fall of Cordoba and the Caliphate hundreds of years ago.

As a result, mosques and schools are named, not only in memory of Cordoba, but as a means to maintain that memory in expectation of future conquest. And now New York will have the great honor, adjacent to the site of the most horrific crime in the United States, to conserve the name of those who perpetrated it.This has, of course, stirred great debate in the land of the free. But that’s old news now. Now there’s news of another big mosque being built in the same neighborhood.

“FOX News has learned that an effort to place a second mosque close to the hallowed site in New York City is in its advanced stages. The Masjid Mosque has raised $8.5 million and is seeking an additional $2.5 million to begin construction. While it apparently has not settled on a final location, it has told donors it plans to build very close to where 3,000 people were killed in the September 11 terror attacks. In fact, the website appealing for donations boldly states that it plans to “build the ‘House of Allah’ next to the World Trade Center. Help us raise the flag of ‘LA ILLAH ILLA ALLAH’ in downtown Manhattan.”

All in the name of freedom. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to kill anyone and everyone who doesn’t think like you.

But New Yorkers shouldn’t feel bad. Jerusalem too, the holiest city in the world, is also being maligned. Not only by extremist Islam, but from the highest echelons of America the Beautiful.

Following 9/11, President George W Bush initiated the Homeland Security act and added Homeland Security to his cabinet. This organization’s job is to protect the United States from terror such as struck nine years ago, and has almost struck again, numerous times.

Of course, there are many ways

to an end, to prevent such atrocities. Bush had his ways. America, 2010 has changed.

Today’s Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security is a fellow named John O.

Brennan, who recently remarked what an “interesting” group Hezbollah is, and how there’s a need to search out Hezbollah moderates.

Johnny grew up in my old haunting grounds, in New Jersey. He seems overly suitable for his position, having dealt with counterterrorism for many years. However, be it his own initiative, or that of his boss, Brennan seems to have developed a unique approach to fighting Islam. That is, if you can’t beat them, join them.

In a youtube video, Johnny Brennan says, and I quote, (at 1:00) “and in all my travels, the city I have come to love most is al-Kuds.”

Yes, he does mention Jerusalem, after al-Kuds.

What is al-Kuds? That’s what Arabs call Jerusalem – ‘the holy.’ In the words and thoughts of a senior presidential advisor, one of the top anti-terror officials in the Obama Administration, Jerusalem is, first and foremost, al-Kuds.

Our Arab, Islamic neighbors have names for all Jewish places.

It makes no difference that Jerusalem was Jerusalem thousands of years prior to the advent of Islam. For the Arabs, Tel Aviv, a hundred and fifty years ago still sand dunes, is called, on a map of Palestine, Tell ar rabbee. And again, back in time, Hebron, al khalil. Just as Eretz Yisrael – Israel, is Palestine.

I guess I shouldn’t feel bad. After all, Washington DC Imam Abdul Alim Musa wants to establish an “Islamic State of North America no later than 2050″ http://goo.gl/lQTc.

With counter-terror chiefs like Brennan, and presidents like Hussein Abu Bama, who knows?

For more on the Cordoba Institute, Read Daniel Greenfield on the Ground Zero Mosque: First You Bomb, then you Occupy.”

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Middle East Media Review Institute (MEMRI)

Iraqi Columnist in Arab Liberal Online Daily Elaph: The Hostile and Provocative Name Chosen for the Planned Ground Zero Cordoba Mosque Symbolizes Dreams of Expansion and Invasion of the Territory of the Other

Special Dispatch No.

2981

May 27, 2010

Iraqi-American columnist Khudhayr Taher published an article in the Arab online liberal daily Elaph.com on May 18, 2010 in which he warns against the desire to turn the U.S. into a Muslim country. Taher called upon the American administration to ban the building of mosques, and especially the Cordoba Mosque, planned for construction near Ground Zero in New York, because, he says, these mosques pose a danger to the security of the U.S. as they are centers for spreading extremist and terrorist ideas.

Following is a translation of excerpts from the article:

“In these days, the issue of the Muslim decision to build a mosque near the place where the crime of the cowardly September 11 terrorist attacks took place has come up. We must note that a hostile and provocative name [Cordoba] has been chosen for this mosque. It is well known that the first Cordoba Mosque was built by Muslims in a city in Spain, after they occupied this Christian country, killing its men and capturing its women to bring them to Arab countries as slaves and servants to serve their sexual pleasure. The Arabs and Muslims have never ceased to take pride and bask in the glory of this imperialist history, which they consider to be a symbol of their strength and power, and they are unashamed of the fact that the annals [of their history] are full of shameful crimes.

“Today, it seems as though some Muslims in America are enamored of the dream of bringing back this ugly imperialist Muslim history, which is based on occupying peaceful peoples, on trying to force them to change their religious beliefs by the sword, on killing the men, and on abducting the women from their homes and bringing them to their own countries. Choosing the name ‘Cordoba House’ for the mosque to be constructed in New York was not coincidental or random and innocent.

It bears within it significance and dreams of expansion and invasion [into the territory] of the other, [while] striving to change his religion and to subjugate him…

“New York has many mosques, for Sunnis and for Shiites. Of course there is a significant infiltration of extremist terrorist ideology among some of the Sunnis, and likewise there is a significant infiltration of the Iranian intelligence [apparatus] among some of the Shi’ites. This infiltration, both among the Sunnis and among the Shi’ites, has spread across the U.S. New York State has many mosques, and doesn’t need any more of them – not to mention that for work reasons Muslims do not attend mosque every day, but only on Saturdays and Sundays.

Therefore, the Muslims have no real need for the construction of this mosque, which constitutes a provocation against the sensibilities of the Americans and a reminder for them of the Muslim imperialism in Spain and of the acts it committed against the Christians – such as murder, pillage, taking captives, and aggression against women.

“As a Muslim and as an American citizen, I hope that the U.S. government will issue a decision to confiscate the funds designated for the construction of this mosque, and to transfer them to a budget for rebuilding the towers of the World Trade Center in New York, [and also to] ban the building of [additional] mosques in the U.S., because there is no real need for them.

Also, [we must] take into account the danger that they [i.e. the mosques] pose because they are hothouses for extremist terrorist ideology and for hatred of the other, and because they carry out open missionary activities considered a violation of the freedom and religion of others.”

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Zechariah 13:8 will begin by 2015!

Disastrous Results ARE Awaiting!

Israel’s Next push into Lebanon,

Will Be Different From ALL Past

Penetrations Made by the IDF.

Daniel king of South is Israel,

Daniel king of North is Syria,

Lebanon is ‘Greater Syria’!

Attack and Counterattack,

Prophesied Daniel 11:40,

Plus a FINAL Battle in It,

In Daniel 11:45 to12:1!

May 28, 2010

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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.

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.

Daniel 11:45 to 12:1 – And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. [1] And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

Zechariah 13:9 – And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

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Analysis: Israel still paying for Lebanon pull-out

By YAAKOV KATZ

May 25, 2010

Israel ultimately gave Iran their first victory.

Ten years ago, on May 24, 2000, the IDF completed its unilateral withdrawal from southern Lebanon. This year on May 24, the IDF, some might say, was busy paying the price for its rushed pullout, as some 40 local councils ran civil defense drills to prepare for the next war with Hizbullah.

Back in 2000 very few politicians or military officers argued against the withdrawal. The consensus was then, and appears to still be today, that Ehud Barak made the right move by pulling Israel out of Lebanon and ending the IDF’s costly 18-year presence in the security zone there.

Those who did argue against the pullout at the time foresaw what eventually happened. They did not argue against the actual withdrawal but were more opposed to the way it was done – hastily and in the middle of the night.

Israel, these officials argue, was perceived as running away from Lebanon due to its military losses and ultimately gave Iran – and its number one proxy Hizbullah – their first victory in an ongoing war between Israel and the Iranian-led axis of evil.

The price for the pullout was paid fairly quickly when in October 2000 three soldiers were kidnapped at Mt.

Dov, their bodies only returned over three years later. Israel’s policy of restraint – or “containment” as it was later called – allowed Hizbullah to continue building up an army and rocket arsenal that it would later face off against in the Second Lebanon War in 2006.

Disregarding who is right in the argument of what should have happened 10 years ago, the fact of the matter is that today Israel is facing a growing threat in Lebanon.

Hizbullah has tens of thousands more rockets today than it had in 2000 and in 2006.

In 2000 it did not have a single rocket that could hit Tel Aviv.

Today it has hundreds.

Hizbullah’s purpose for existence before the 2000 pullout was to fight against the Israeli occupation.

Since Israel’s withdrawal, while Hizbullah might say publicly that it is still fighting against the IDF presence in the Sheba Farms and in the northern section of Ghajar, in reality it continues to exist because Syria and Iran want it to.

Both countries are Hizbullah’ s patron

s and primary supporters. The Scud missiles recently transferred to Hizbullah came from Syria. The M600 missiles were manufactured in Syria and based on an Iranian design.

Turning Point 4, the civil defense exercise that Israel is holding this week, is not based on scenarios including threats that could materialize in the future but rather is meant to prepare the public for threats it faces today.

All of Israel’s enemies, including Iran, Syria, Hizbullah and Hamas, have significantly increased production and procurement over the past year of long-range missiles capable of striking the center of the country and Tel Aviv. If war were to break out tomorrow, all assessments are that Israel would come under an unprecedented rain of missiles mostly aimed at Tel Aviv.

In recent weeks there has been talk about the possibility of a renewed conflict with Hizbullah sometime this summer. The catalyst for such a war is likely one of the following three scenarios – either Hizbullah attacks Israel in response to an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities; Hizbullah succeeds in exacting revenge for the 2008 assassination of its military commander Imad Mughniyeh; or Israel decides to attack a weapons convoy like it reportedly almost did last month when Syria was transferring Scuds to Hizbullah.

At the moment, neither side appears to be interested in a renewed conflict. Israel prefers quiet, particularly now that it has just renewed peace talks with the Palestinians. Hizbullah is interested in continuing its rearmament and at the same time at bolstering its political power in Beirut.

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BIRTH PANG NUMBER 25

May 28, 2010

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The great earthquake of Revelation 16 is the great shaking of Joel 3 at the final battle of Armageddon. The earthquake creates the spring flowing east from where the Temple once stood. It is the spring of Joel 3:18, Ezekiel 47, and Zechariah 14.

Revelation 16:15-19 – Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. [16] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

[17] And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. [18] And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. [19] And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

Joel 3:14-18 – Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. [15] The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. [16] The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

[17] So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. [18] And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains

shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, AND A FOUNTAIN SHALL COME FORTH OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD AND SHALL WATER THE VALLEY OF SHITTIM.

Ezekiel 47:1 – Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, WATERS ISSUED OUT FROM UNDER THE THRESHOLD OF THE HOUSE EASTWARD: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.

Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in that day, THAT LIVING WATERS SHALL GO OUT FROM JERUSALEM; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

[9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.

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Chapter 27 – God Forms a Spring on a Temple Mount

November 30, 2001

Ezekiel 47:1 – Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.

Birth Pang Number 24 ended with the creation of the fault scarp shown in Figure 42 (click on Figures above). God has been creating thousands of fault scarps, just like this one, all across the earth since the dawn of creation. Figure 42, in the lower right hand corner, pictures an extract, from a standard geological text, that shows a normal fault scarp. Please note that God has been using fault scarps for countless centuries to produce springs of water.

The text states: “A fault line is sometimes indicated on the surface by a succession of springs which emerge along the line of displacement.” It was not by accident God made a basic limestone formation as the first one thousand feet of rock strata under Jerusalem.

Limestone is the perfect rock for the generation of beautiful, clear springs, when uplifting of limestone layers occurs.

When rain falls upon limestone it forms a weak, carbonic acid, which slowly eats away at the basic composition of

limestone, so that the water permeates downward through the limestone. It is this process which eventually forms vast underground water reserves and streams on top of impermeable rock layers

below the limestone. The topography of Jerusalem and its environs is one of permeable limest

one over impermeable rock layers. This karst type of landscape has produced a system of underground water reserves and streams. This system slopes downward from the middle ridge of the Judean Mountains eastward under the city of Jerusalem. It is the watershed zone for the springs in and around Jerusalem. The royal cistern of Solomon’s Temple, which now underlies the courtyard immediately to the north of the Dome of the Rock, is supplied by permeation and limestone springs. This system is only a part of a vast underground water supply stretching north, west, and south of Jerusalem. Sorek Cave is located just fifteen miles west of Jerusalem within the Avshalom Reserve.

Permeation of water downward has created this great limestone cave, and upon the floor of this great cavern are pools of clear water. These types of underground water reservoirs exist all across the earth’s surface. Figure 43, from a geological text by Tarr shows the immergence of springs at the surface from underground reservoirs. In his text, New Physical Geology, Tarr states: “Water percolating through soluble rock, like limestone, dissolves the rock along joint planes and bedding planes. This often results in the formation of long, irregular, underground valleys, or caverns, such as the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.

In such places much of the drainage is underground. There are large surface streams and few tributaries, the chief water supply coming from the springs that bring the cavern water to the surface.” There are numerous springs to the immediate south, west, and north of Jerusalem, as well as one under it, and another under the old city of David.

Figure 42 shows the exposed scarp (or bluff) generated by the lifting along the line through the Tyropoeon Valley.

This lifted zone consists of layer after layer of permeable limestone, and at its base is a thick layer of impermeable flint and hard dolomite. When this layer of permeable limestone is lifted, its water zone, flowing above the flint and dolomite, will suddenly burst forward as a limestone spring just to the north

of the Dome of the Rock. This is the spring of Ezekiel 47:1. Figure 44 shows the geological formation that will exist after the lifting. There will be a continuous feeding of meteorologic

ally stored water into the system throughout the millennial reign of Christ. As rain falls upon uplifted western Jerusalem, and its Judean watershed, it will seep slowly downward through the limestone to constantly re-supply a great invisible reservoir perched above an impermeable layer of rock. This is quoted from a standard earth science text, concerning this type of spring: “However, one type of hillside spring is likely to flow continuously.

This is a spring formed at the zone of contact between permeable and impermeable rocks. Water filters down through the permeable rock and comes to the surface on a hill side when it meets the impermeable rock layer.” The Bible indicates Ezekiel’s spring will flow continuously throughout the millennial reign of Christ, and this is exactly what happens when strata, like that under Jerusalem, is lifted.

There are some commentaries that identify the waters found in Ezekiel 47 as “spiritual” waters, not literal waters. But this is not the case, for we are told in this chapter that: (1) the waters empty into a river, (2) the river empties into a salty sea, (3) the fresh water eventually removes most of the salt, and (4) fish will live in the freshened water. I have great difficulty in accepting “spiritual” water that has “physical” fish living in it.

Once the spring has been formed, the remnant of Israelites, which God brought through the Tribulation Period, will see the spring where Solomon’s Temple once stood. They will take the blueprint narrative instructions, contained after chapter 39 in Ezekiel, and will build the Millennial Temple such that the waters will issue out “from under the threshold of the house eastward,” and such that they come “down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.”

The followers Of False Islamic God Allah

Do still Declare God’s Holy City Occupied,

And will go to war prior to 2015 to free It,

Nothing can stop this final prophesied War,

The only uncertainty is WHEN it breaks Out!

Military Sirens Practicing a Future Occurrence

Now wail across Israel and 1,000 Syrian Missiles

Are fixed on designated Israeli targets to its South,

While Hizbullah awaits command from Iran and Syria

As to When to Begin Firing a stock of 40,000+ Missiles!

May

27, 2010

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Even though saber rattling has never been louder since 1948 and 1967, and I am very confident the final war of the Age of the Gentiles will begin prior to 2015, I do not believe it will begin this summer as many predict.

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Sirens wail across Israel as military drill hits climax

By Agence France Presse (AFP)

Thursday, May 27, 2010

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Air raid sirens wailed across Israel on Wednesday at the peak of a five-day civil defense exercise to test the country’s defenses in the event of war,

the army said.

The sirens sounded at 11:00 am for 90 seconds, sending civilians across the country scurrying into their nearest bomb shelter or protected space where they waited for 10 minutes until the all-clear.

Radio stations broadcast a pre-recorded message saying the sirens were part of a drill but asking people to go down to the shelters.

Motorists, however, were not expected to participate in the nationwide exercise. Dubbed Turning Point 4, it kicked off on Sunday with the aim of preparing the country for any future rocket attack from Gaza, Lebanon or Syria.

In the Jewish settlement of Elon Moreh, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, officials acted out a scenario in which large numbers of “refugees” arrived from Tel Aviv in search of a haven from rockets hitting the coast, an AFP correspondent said.

But Israel has sought to reassure neighboring Lebanon and Syria that the exercise, which ends on Thursday, is not hostile.

“This is a routine exercise which has been scheduled for a long time and is not the result of any unusual security development,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said as the exercise began on Sunday.

“Israel seeks calm, stability and peace but it is no secret that we live in a region where there is a threat from missiles and rockets,” he added.

It is the fourth such drill held since a 2006 war with Lebanon’s Hizbullah and aims to fine-tune emergency procedures in the event of a new rocket barrage against Israel.

During the Lebanon war, some 300,000 Israelis fled from border regions under relentless Hizbullah rocket attacks.

Since then, Israeli military experts believe Hizbullah has stockpiled more than 40,000 rockets. Israeli officials have also charged that Syria has supplied the militia with Scud missiles, something Damascus has denied.

In the 1991 Gulf war, then Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein fired more than 30 Scud missiles at Israel, killing one person, wounding over 170.

– AFP

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Syria has 1,000 ballistic missiles zeroed on Israeli targets

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

May 26, 2010, 12:16 PM (GMT+02:00)

A colossal Iran-funded and directed armament program has enabled Syria to field 1,000 ballistic missiles and Hizballah 1,000 rockets – all pointed at specific Israeli military and civilian locations, including the densely populated conurbation around Tel Aviv, DEBKAfile’s military sources reveal. Syria has smuggled most of its stock of liquid-fuel powered ballistic missiles over to Hizballah in Lebanon, while its own production lines have been working day and night for five months to upgrade its stock solid fuel-propelled missiles, so improving their accuracy. North Korean military engineers and technicians are employed on those production lines.

According to Western military sources, a command center for coordinating a missile offensive against military and civilian targets in Israel has been operating at Syrian general staff headquarters in Damascus since early March with the help of Iranian, Syrian, Hizballah and Hamas liaison officers.

The command center, operating under direct Iranian command, was formally established at a gala banquet attended by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Syrian President Bashar Assad, and Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Damascus on February 25.

Its primary mission was defined as “target unification” – military lingo for interaction at the command level to make sure that Tehran, Damascus, Beirut and Gaza do not send short-range missiles flying toward the same Israeli target at the same time.

Each of the four has been assigned one of four Israeli sectors and given specialist training in its features.

The new joint command gave Hizballah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah the confidence to sneer at Israel’ s five-day, countrywide home front mi

ssile defense exercise, which ends Thursday, May 27.

In a speech on Tuesday, May 25, he said: ‘Israel wants to reassure its people and make them feel strong and properly prepared to stand up to all possible war situations. But this assurance is false. So carry on with your drills,” he said, “but when the rockets start falling on the occupied territories, we’ll soon see how much good they are.”

The command center’s central strategy, say our military sources, is to eliminate the Israel Air Force’s edge by releasing a simultaneous deluge of missiles and rockets from hundreds of stationary and mobile launching sites in remote parts of Syria, Lebanon, Iran and the Gaza Strip.

Most of the projectiles in the Syrian, Hizballah and Hamas arsenals are propelled by liquid fuel and therefore take 50 minutes to 1 hour to load and loose at assigned targets. During this time gap, they are vulnerable to air attack.

As a bridg ing device, western

intelligence sources believe the joint command in Damascus plans to attack Israel with synchronized missile fire from Iran and Syria during the time Israeli warplanes are hammering, say, Hizballah batteries in Lebanon.

The thinking in Tehran and Damascus is that the Israeli Air Force will find it hard to tackle three or four fronts simultaneously.

Tehran and Damascus are therefore building air shields around their missile bases and launching sites, for which purpose Assad asked Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to speed up the delivery of the advanced Russian Pantsir anti-aircraft missiles when the latter visited Damascus on May.

Medvedev promised to accede to this request.

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BIRTH PANG NUMBER 24

May 27, 2010

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Chapter 26 – God Lifts His Land and His City

November 22, 2001

Zechariah 14:10 – All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon

south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses.

Because of its exacting detail as to the section of land that would be lifted up, this is perhaps the most remarkable geological prophecy in the Old Testament. We are advised that, along a line from Geba to Rimmon (See Figure 39), God intends to produce a fantastic geological transformation of the landscape. When this violent transformational action is completed, there will be a plain like zone from from Geba to Rimmon and, at the same time, a lifting movement will have elevated the two hills of western Jerusalem.

This Scripture indicates that all of the land, immediately to the west of the line from Geba to Rimmon (See Figure 39), will be “lifted up” to a higher elevation, while all the land, immediately to the east of this line, will be lowered to form what appears “as a plain.” The lifting of the land from Geba to Rimmon will include the city of Jerusalem. The sections west of the Tyropoeon Valley

will be lifted up, and those sections to the east will collapse into a plain (See Figure 40).

The prophet Zechariah knew nothing about the existence of the many structural weaknesses in the crust of the land of Israel, nor did anyone else in his day.

There was only one being who did, the God who made

the earth. The same God, who inspired Zechariah to write of this event, placed a structural weaknesses in the crust of the earth from Geba to Rimmon long before the prophets were born. It was an appropriate type of weakness; one that went up and down in response to shakings in the earth. It is only within the last century that men have begun to understand how this particular type of mechanism works in the earth’s crust. Within the last 50 years, geologists uncovered a structural weakness, within the crust of the earth, that passes through Jerusalem on its run from Geba to Rimmon. It is a structural weakness, embedded within the Judean Folds, and has a long history of upwarping. This upwarping zone is known as the Shekhem Syncline, which is one of the lineaments within the Levantine faulting and

upwarping system of the Holy Land. Along the part of this lineament, that extends from Geba to Rimmon, there is a historical pattern of lifting to the west of it, and of downwarping to the east of it.

Concerning the uplifting and downfaulting, along the Shekhem Syncline, and the Jordan-Arabah Rift Valley, Horowitz, in his 1979 text, “The Quaternary of Israel,” states: “It should be noted that the age of uplifting and upwarping is synchronous with the

age of major downfaulting of the Jordan-Arava Rift Valley, and the opening of the Bay of Elat. It seems, therefore, that these two lineaments acted simultaneously, but in opposite directions.” When violent upwarping begins along the line from Geba to Rimmon, then a simultaneous downfaulting to its east will occur through the Mount of Olives.

God has been lifting and lowering large sections of the earth’s crust, across the entire earth, along these types of weaknesses, for many centuries. It was along a weakness like this that the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range of California was formed (See Figure 41). I believe the immediate land sections, west of a line from Geba to Rimmon, will be lifted like fault block mountains, and the land, immediately to the east

of it, will collapse into a narrow valley plain. Please note the two mile high fault scarp

in Figure 41. The fault scarp in Israel will not be nearly as high, perhaps ranging from increases of 500 to 2500 feet in height.

Please observe, in Figure 40, the upwarping structural weakness line that separates the two western hills of Jerusalem

from its three eastern hills. This topographical feature is known as the Tyropoeon Valley.

The zone “from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses” is that section of land which includes the two western hills of Jerusalem.

It is not by accident that this structural line of weakness extends north to south directly behind where Solomon’ s Temple wa

s located. If you visit Jerusalem, go north through the Dung Gate and walk straight north until the Wailing Wall is visible to your right. Then turn and face west, with your back to the Wailing Wall.

You will be f acing

a fault scarp that has been lifted many times in the past. Soon it will be lifted again when great earthquakes ripple through the Jordan Valley.

When the critical pressure is reached in the Gulf of Aqabah (See Figure 25), then the Arabah Fault will rip open northward across Israel.

It will generate the greatest earthquakes and topographical transformations in recorded history.

Revelation 16:18,19 – And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. [19] And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

The structural weakness from Geba to Rimmon, with its branch through the Tyropoeon Valley, will undergo massive uplifting to its west, and downfaulting to its east. This prophecy will soon be fulfilled by the God who led Zechariah to write it. Figure 42 visually displays the city of Jerusalem after the lifting has occurred. The exposed bluff, created by the uplifting, is what geologists call a fault scarp. There will be a massive fault scarp extending all the way from Geba to Rimmon.

During earthquake activity down through the ages, God has created thousands of fault scarps across the surface of His earth. In this instance God has chosen to give us the exact location where He will perform His handiwork. And he has told us thousands of years before he does it.

Ezekiel 38:19,20 – For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; [20] So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

Zechariah 14:4,5 – And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. [5] And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.