It is the Time of Jacob’s Trouble!
June 7, 2007
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
If we did not have a large contingency of American troops in Iraq at the present time, and if there was some possibility of a false peace coming in this summer, I would surely agree with this man’s prediction of Middle East war breaking out on a huge scale this summer or fall, especially since the 20th century found me saying the end of the 40 year period, since 1967, seemed to me to be the most likely time for the final war to begin. He is not alone in his prediction – they have been as numerous as Carter’s Little Liver Pills. However, until sufficient numbers of our troops have been taken out of Iraq, I do not believe an attack will be launched against Israel from the north. My guesstimate for the attack continues to be at some point in time after 2007, but prior to 2013.
The article which follows came from Arutz Sheva. It was written by Cale Hahn on June 5, and published by IsraelNN.com on June 6, 2007. My comments, which appear above, will be completed at the end of the article. This is the best assessment I have read on both the present and future situation concerning Israel.
Yirmiyahu’s statement is a perfect description of the situation in Israel today. And his other statements, which follow Cale Hahn’s article, are equally definitive.
Cale Hahn is an American Gentile living in Texas.
He worked as a journalist in Jerusalem in the late 1990s. His articles have appeared in several Israeli, US and international media publications
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THE WAR’S UPON US!
20 Sivan 5767, 06 June 07 09:48
by Cale Hahn
(IsraelNN.com)
Yirmiyahu 8:15 – “We hoped for peace, but no good has come. A time of healing, but there was only terror.”
We have come to the end of the road. No more initiatives. No more recycling under different names the same failed formula for Middle East peace. The end of the road is conflagration, not coexistence.
The peace process is dead. The time of wars has begun. Israel has been sufficiently weakened for the Muslim world to once again attempt annihilation of the Jewish state. The facade of Muslim desires for peace is lowered, and behind the curtain looms a violent and murderous religion that brooks no opposition.
Islamic peace is: no god on earth but Allah. Islamic honor may only be restored by the destruction of the Jewish nation.
Hence, their nakba is the “catastrophe” of Israel’s birth.
The Muslim nations are actively preparing for war; to declare there is hope for peace given the mountains of evidence to the contrary is manic delusion. Unfortunately, those who say these things are currently running the country.
This is precisely the reason the Muslims will soon attack. Israel is led by a coalition of political hacks who exhibit colossal incompetence and cinematic buffoonery. They possess no will to fight beyond a staged photo op. They are hollow men, empty shells without convictions and without courage beyond self-preservation.
As Ehud Olmert confessed, “We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies.”
In previous wars, Israel was armed with superior US weapons systems, while the Muslim armies fielded inferior Soviet-bloc material.
Though significantly outnumbered, Israel possessed enough of a qualitative advantage to overcome significant quantitative disparities.
Not so anymore. The Muslim nations are armed with the latest Western weapons platforms and, for the first time, possess not only numerical superiority, but qualitative parity with Israel in many areas. Under the auspices of enlisting Muslim support in participating in its “War on Terror,” the US has armed Israel’s enemies with its latest weapons systems. Examples include Harpoon anti-ship missiles, F-16 fighters, Apache helicopters, Abrams main battle tanks, JDAM bombs, AWACS radar planes and Avenger Air Defense Systems.
Israel has voiced deep alarm to Washington at Muslim weapons parity vis-a-vis the Jewish state, but to no avail. Washington continues arming Israel’s enemies, knowing these systems may soon be employed against the Jewish state.
Along with Western weapons, the Muslim armies possess advanced Russian, Chinese, Irani
an and North Korean rockets. These will target Israel from the Golan to Eilat, employing the successful strategies garnered from the Second Lebanon War. Utilization of chemical, biological or nuclear munitions cannot be ruled out.
The most likely casus belli is an Iranian terror proxy launching attacks against Israel’s borders, forcing Israel to respond in kind. The situation will quickly deteriorate to include rocketing from Syria, Lebanon, Hizbullah, Iran, Gaza and other Palestinian enclaves. These attacks will dwarf the Second Lebanon War in terms of intensity and accuracy.
The Muslim nations will then follow the rocket blitz with conventional forces to rid the Jews from Palestine. Dar-Al-Islaam, at last.
Indeed, this is precisely the reason the US has restrained Israel from responding to the rocket barrages on its southern border. The US is deeply concerned an Israeli invasion of Gaza will trigger a regional war or possibly World War III.
Knock one domino down and it is connected by a tripwire to others, which will blow from Gaza to Afghanistan in a quick succession of cataclysmic explosions.
Islamic war planners deliberately engineered the structure as such.
America is feverishly working to keep this from happening. US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack cautioned, “We’ve urged them [Israel] to consider the consequences of defending themselves.”
But global war is precisely the goal of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It is the prerequisite for the Islamic Messiah (the Mahdi) coming upon the world stage to lead the Islamic ummah (“nation”) to global victory. Ahmadinejad believes he is the one chosen to usher the Mahdi’s coming.
The whole of the Middle East is a mountain of munitions atop a rumbling, ash-belching volcano.
Late summer or fall appears to be the intended point of detonation. When it erupts, it will blow the US from
the Middle East and propel Israel to the brink of destruction.
These are heady days for the ummah. They are drunk on the power their oil wealth brings. They sense a moment of historic tectonic shift is soon to occur, an imminent glorious triumph over the infidel.
Iran is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons and is restoring Islamic honor by standing up to America. Every Muslim nation is undertaking a massive armament campaign, ironically provided in large measure by America. The US fatally misidentified their enemy as terrorism, when in actuality the enemy is Islam, from which terror springs.
The Muslim nations haven’t made the same mistake. They know America’ s veneration of it
s economy, and they intend to bring it down in a ruinous, smoldering heap. They intend to drive the US from the region and shut the oil taps to its markets.
The OPEC oil embargo of the 1970s is returning, only this time it will be utilized to a much greater effect, intended to destroy the US economy.
America should prepare for numerous terror attacks using conventional and non-conventional munitions. A Department of Homeland Security agent said Al-Qaeda has several South American training camps to instruct terrorists in Spanish and the Hispanic culture and infiltrate them across the US-Mexico border as illegal immigrants. He stated there are several thousands of terrorists who have successfully infiltrated the US and who are awaiting orders to strike.
The coming conflagration in the Middle East may be the trigger to activate these cells; almost certainly, should a shooting war develop between America and either Syria or Iran.
Since the Rabin-Arafat handshake fourteen years ago, 2,000 Israelis have been killed, 14,000 wounded and unnumbered hundreds of thousands psychologically scarred. Israel was willing to pay the price for peace. Time and again, Israel gave faith. Time and again, faith was violated. Time and again, Israel hoped. Time and again, Israel was targeted.
Israel will learn its lessons. After the war, all of Jerusalem will be free from Islamic domination.
No area will be off-limits to Jewish worship.
Israel will not fall.
He who keeps her will neither slumber nor sleep. HaShem is faithful to His promises and His people: “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth! The Lord of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.” (Psalms 46:10-11)
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The Prophet Yirmiyahu was one of Israel’s greatest Prophets, and he was quite definitive in his descriptions of the way it was just before the Babylonian captivity, as well as how it would be just before the coming of Messiah. We know him better in our English Bible as Jeremiah.
Yirmiyahu 5:31 – The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Yirmiyahu 8:20 – The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
Yirmiyahu 30:7 – Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
II Corinthians 3:15-18 – But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. [16] Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. [17] Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
[18] But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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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