Getting Ready for the Eventual Big One – “Prepare War” – “Assemble Yourselves.”
June 25, 2005
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Joel 3:9-17 – Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: [10] Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. [11] Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord. [12] Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
[13] Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. [14] 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.
I do not expect the war of Joel 3:9-16 to begin this year, but I do believe it will begin before 2013.
The three articles by Sam Goodenough in the Jerusalem Newswire give the latest news on preparations for this war which much eventually begin.
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Hizb’allah – 20,000 rockets and counting
Jerusalem Newswire
By Stan Goodenough
June 11, 2007
The Lebanese Hizb’allah continues to arm itself for war with Israel, and no international effort is likely to be made to stop it.
According to intelligence reports, the Iranian-armed and Syrian-supported Islamist group once again has more than 20,000 missiles in its arsenal.
This despite the fact that the United Nations ceasefire agreement signed by Jerusalem and Beirut last August stipulated that Lebanon would stop arms supplies reaching the Hizb’allah from Syria.
Hizb’allah had fewer weapons when it succeeded in forcing nearly one million Israelis from their homes, and dealt Israel’s economy a severe blow
as it rained rockets down on the north of the country last summer.
The small terror group also scored a major victory when the IDF was unable to root it out of southern Lebanon despite its overwhelmingly superior force.
Israeli officials believe there are a number of advanced missiles now in Hizb’allah’s hands, some able to hit the suburbs of Tel Aviv.
Estimates are that a renewed conflict with the group could break out as early
as this July.
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Military Intelligence: War could be triggered this summer
By Stan Goodenough
June 24, 2007
Take your pick, Israel’s Military Intelligence chief warned the cabinet Sunday.
War could be triggered this summer by any of the following parties or a combination of some of them: Iran, Syria, Hizb’allah, Hamas and World Jihad.
All are spoiling for a fight said Major-General Amos Yadlin, and any one of them “can bring about a deterioration in the situation this summer.”
News agencies reported that the head of Israel’s internal security service – the Shin Bet – also reported that Hamas, newly in charge of the Gaza Strip, is considering carrying out a terrorist attack which could draw the IDF into Gaza.
The overall assessment appears to be that while none of Israel’s enemies may actually choose to initiate a conflict just yet, one or more could miscalculate in a way that tips things over the edge.
In a Middle East malodorous with fumes of hatred and tension, one spark could ignite a conflagration.
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Cabinet paves way for Fatahland in ‘West Bank’
Jerusalem Newswire
By Stan Goodenough
June 24, 2007
The Israeli government Sunday set the Jewish state once more on course towards destruction by opening the door for the creation of a Fatah-controlled Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria.
In their weekly cabinet meeting, all except two of the ministers approved a proposal by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to recognize the newly appointed Palestinian Authority and release hundreds of millions of dollars in suspended tax funds to help get PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas on his feet.
Israel’s move – which is wholeheartedly approved by the US administration – comes after Abbas showed himself incapable of exercising what authority he had been given over the previously Hamas-controlled PA.
As such, Olmert has moved to establish an artificial Israel-and-US-created entity, and has provided it with a temporary life-support system in the hope that by doing so the Arabs on the street will swing their support behind Fatah and away from Hamas.
Apparently lost behind this smokescreen is the reality that Abbas and his Fatah are antisemitic terrorists whose hands are drenched with the blood of Jews, and who remain as committed as Hamas to eradicating the Jewish state from the Middle East albeit as secularites rather than Islamists.
Right-thinking Israelis and Christian Zionists have warned about the folly of continuing on a path whose premise has already been proven bankrupt, which has terribly eroded Israel’s security, and which has cost the lives of thousands of Jews.
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