Shades of the Spanish Armada
June 22, 2007
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All these massive movements of U.S. Ships in the waters of
the Middle East bring to mind one of the oldest prophecies in the Bible on end time events, the last part
of the prophecy of Baalam the son of Beor.
Numbers 24:23-25 – And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this! [24] And ships shall come from t he coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and
he also shall perish for ever.
[25] And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.
Some say “coast of Chittim” represents ships using the ports of Cyprus to launch attacks against the lands of Assur and Eber, while others say they represent ships using the ports of Italy, referring to the Romans as the “legions of the white knights.” I feel confident the ships are at least using the coastal ports of the Mediterranean to operate out of for their attack on Assur and Eber. The “Table of Nations and the Origin of Races” lists Asshur, whose sons were Mirus and Mokil, as the father of the Assyrians and northern Iraqis. The same source identifies both Jews and Sunni Arabs as descendants of Eber, the great-gr
andson of Shem.
Six generations down the line from Eber, Abraham was born in southern Iraq in Ur as a son of Terah, making Abraham both a Hebrew and a Shemite, born of the line of Eber and Shem. This would seem to indicate that these ships, in some way, would severely afflict the Arab world around Israel, when one considers that the Assyrian Empire, at its maximum extent, wrapped itself around the northern and western quadrants of Israel, while their descendant relatives, the Sunni of Eber, blocked their eastern quadrant. I am persuaded Numbers 24:23-25 is referring to a gigantic gathering of ships from the western hemisphere, aerially blasting the Islamic nations around Israel with aircraft and missiles at the final battle of Armageddon, which I believe will occur some three and one-half years after a Jihad of 10 Islamic nations comes against Israel from the north. (Please consult Archive Prophecy Update Number 74)
I do not expect this aerial plastering to occur when the initial Jihad attack is launched to drive Israel into the Negev Wilderness.
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DEBKAfile: A third US carrier, the nuclear-powered USS Enterprise Strike Group is speeding towards the Persian Gulf
June 21, 2007, 12:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
According to DEBKAfile’s military sources, the US naval build-up off the shores of Iran marks rising military tensions in the region, accentuated by last week’s Hamas victory which has endowed Iran with a military foothold on Israel’s southwestern border.
The USS Enterprise CVN 65-Big E Strike Group, the US Navy’s largest air carrier, will join the USS Stennis and the USS Nimitz carriers, building up the largest sea, air, marine concentration the United States has ever deployed opposite Iran. This goes towards making good on the assurances of four carriers US Vice President Dick Cheney offered the Gulf and Middle East nations during his May tour of the region.
The “Big E” leads a strike group consisting of the guided-missile destroyers USS Arleigh Burke DDG 51, USS Stout DDG 55, Forrest Sherman DDG 98 and USS James E. Williams DDG 95, as well as the guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg CG 64, the SS Philadelphia SSN 690 nuclear submarine and the USNS Supply T-AOE 6.
On its decks are the Carrier Air Wing CVW 1, whose pilots fought combat missions in the Gulf and Arabian Sea during 2006.
The Air Wing is made up of F/Q-18 Super Hornet strike craft, the Sidewinders Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-86,
the 251st Marine Fighter Attack Squadron MFA, and the Electronic Attack Squadron VAQ 137.
The 32nd Sea Control Squadron VS consists of S-3B Vikings. The Airborne Early Warning Squadron VAQ 3 flies E-2C Hawkeye craft.
The Fleet Logistics Support Squadron VRC is based on C-2A Greyhounds.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report Washington is considering deploying the fourth US carrier for the region in the Red Sea opposite Saudi Arabian western coast to secure the three US carriers in the Gulf from the rear as well as the Gulf of Aqaba and Suez Canal.
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