Opps! There Goes Another Rubber Tree Plant!
October 13, 2005
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I strongly suspect that the number two power man in Syria committed involuntary suicide. He was most likely given the same choice the great Field Marshal Rommel was given when Hitler discovered he was one of the generals involved in an attempt on his life.
Rommel had to choose between sacrificing all his family and relatives or, taking his own life by his own hand. I believe that is the choice Syrian Interior Minister Ghazi Kenaan faced on Tuesday in Damascus. Shortly before he supposedly committed suicide, Christian Radio Lebanon aired an interview with Kenaan, taped on Monday. Kenaan was for many years the chief of all Syrian military intelligence in Lebanon and, as such, was interviewed in connection with the murder of Lebanese leader Rafiq Hariri in advance of the UN investigation team’s report, which is due soon for release. At the close of the Christian Radio’s interview, he concluded by saying: “This is my last statement” – And indeed it was!
Kenaan has been a tower of strength in the Assad regime from the beginning of the iron fisted rule of Bashar Assad’s father, Hafez, who maintained rule by brute force for many years. Kenaan supposedly committed suicide just hours before Bashar Assad appeared on a CNN interview.
Instead of the “buck” stopping at the desk of President Bashar Assad, I strongly suspect that Bashar choose to have it stop at the desk of Ghazi Kenaan. I hardly think that Kenaan carried out the Hariri assassination without the full approval of Assad. Knowing the corruption and ineffectiveness of the United Nations, who knows what their final report will contain on the murder of Hariri, but I do not believe Assad was willing to take a chance, and Syrian officials may have already pointed the arrow toward Kenaan in their interviews by UN representatives.
Bashar Assad is desperate to relieve some of the international pressure being put on him from many different fronts for several different areas of Syria’s domestic and foreign actions
and policies, particularly from the United States. I believe the death of Kenaan was arranged in the event the UN Report, soon to be released, casts any degree of blame on Assad.
If the report does, Kenaan will likely be the prepared sacrificial goat for Assad on which he lays the blame for all his sins in the entire affair, while Assad escapes into the wilderness of international politics. If the report does happen to be favorable to Syria, then all they have sacrificed is the number two rubber plant.
I do confess that the use of Leviticus 16:7-10 was in no way biblically meant to have any connection with Assad or Kenaan, but it does illustrate my point – Assad being the scapegoat set free, and Kenaan
being the sacrificed goat.
Leviticus 16:7-10 – And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. [8] And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other
lot for the scapegoat. [9] And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lord’s lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering. [10] But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
Jesus pictures both the sacrificial goat and the scapegoat. He took all my sins in his own body on the tree and died for me as my sacrificial goat and, as my scapegoat he arose from the dead without sin, having already forever carried them as far from me as east is from west. He lives in me as my eternal intercessor, and will never impute any sin to me that would place me back under the condemnation of God!
Galatians 2:20 – I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me,
and gave himself for me.
I Peter 2:24 – Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
II Corinthians 5:21 – For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Psalm 103:12 – As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
Hebrews 9:24-28 – For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: [25] Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; [26] For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. [27] And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: [28] So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
John 5:24 – Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Romans 4:8 – Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.