Israel has Pains in its Feet, its Stomach, and its Head!
Trouble in its Feet (Egypt), in its Stomach (West Bank), and in its Head (Hizbullah) – I do not see how this can continue into 2013 without War Beginning!
June 28, 2007
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A question unbelievers offer – “If you really believe there is only one way this can end, in a final great battle of Armageddon, and supposing you might be right, then why put out your Blogs, if there is nothing we can do to stop it from happening, or to prepare for such a holocaust? Of course, my answer is a simple one – You can prepare for it!
Romans 10:9-13,17 – That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. [10] For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. [11] For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. [12] For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. [13] For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. [17] So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
I Thessalonians 5:9 – For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Galatians 3:26 – For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
A question believer’s ask – I have been saved, so am I not prepared for the Second Advent of Christ? And if I am prepared, why tell me about this battle of Armageddon, because I will not be there? I will be coming back to earth with him in a glorified body in garments of white, with a robe and a crown. Well, Revelation is written to local churches! The expression, “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches,” appears seven times in chapters two and three of the book.
And the first and last chapters of Revelation clearly state it was written to churches.
Indeed, I will not question you will be coming back to the earth with the Lord at his Second Advent, but are you sure you will be wearing a robe and a crown
? I know I cannot lose my salvation, but I can lose my robe and my crown.
I ask myself daily, are you still watching, and are you daily putting on the new man, washing your outer garment in the same blood that washed and eternally saved your inner soul 63 years ago.
Revelation 12:15,16 – 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. The Hebrews considered a man to be “NAKED” if he was clothed only in an undergarment that looked liked a long, loose pullover that came down to his knees. This is not what we call “jay-bird naked.”
II Timothy 2:3-5 – Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
[4] No man that warr
eth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. [5] And if a man also strive for masteries, YET HE IS NOT CROWNED, EXCEPT HE STRIVE LAWFULLY.
And do you, as a believer, think that all bodies received in heaven will shine with the same glory whether they lived faithful or unfaithful lives?
I Corinthians 15:38,41,42 – But God giveth it a body AS IT HATH PLEASED HIM, and to every seed his own body. [41] There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
[42] SO ALSO is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
Daniel 12:3 – And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
And do you, as a believer, think that all will receive the same reward and live in the same place in heaven, no matter what we sowed after we were saved? Is not our new birth in Christ a workmanship of the Spirit of God to enable us to sow good works?
Galatians 6:7 – Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Ephesians 2:10 – For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus UNTO GOOD WORKS unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Revelation 22:16 – I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.
I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Revelation 22:12-14 – And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man ACCORDING AS HIS WORK SHALL BE. [13] I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. [14] Blessed are THEY THAT DO his commandments, that they MAY HAVE RIGHT to the tree of life, AND MAY ENTER IN through the gates into the city.
If there has ever been a time in history where all the prophesied things had come together to present a Middle East picture that Armageddon was not a far distant event, I am not aware of it. There have been many times in the past when great wars and conquerors have been on the verge of starting across the surface of this planet, but never have all the different parties which were involved been in the right places. The rise of Islam and the great caliphate that swept into Europe from Spain in the southwest and the Balkans in the southeast after Muhammad’s death in 632 AD, was the closest historical event that showed any chance of being the real thing, but it could not be because the Jews had not come back into the land after having been driven out in 135 AD by the Roman Hadrian. Basically, that is why I write these Blogs, and put this web site together in 2000.
I want to give an incentive to unbelievers to believe while there is still time, and for believers to get their act together before our Master arrives.
The three excerpts were taken from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily Alert on June 28, 2007, and give a partial testimony of the troubles of Israel from the top of her head in Lebanon to the tip of her toes in the Egyptian Sinai. The source of each excerpt appears at the end of it.
In Egypt, Fears that Muslim Brotherhood May Seize Power Like Hamas
Tariq Hasan, a columnist for the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram, wrote on June 23: “In Egypt there are those who are trying to reproduce what Hamas did in Gaza….In light of this severe threat…we must learn the lessons without delay.”
The editor of Al-Gomhouriya, Muhammad ‘Ali Ibrahim, wrote on the same day: “It is possible that Hamas will receive orders from Iran and will carry them out, and then it will drag the region into a destructive total war. It is also possible that Tehran will convince the Hamas leaders to repeat Hizbullah’s experience….All that Hamas is capable of doing is to be crack troops of suicide. Unfortunately, however, they are not committing suicide alone. They are forcing the entire people to commit suicide, and I fear that this is the same tactic and path that the Brotherhood in Egypt is taking.” (MEMRI)
News Resources – Israel and the Mideast:
Five IDF Troops Wounded in Nablus in West Bank
Yuval Azoulay
At least five Israel Defense Forces troops were wounded Thursday in clashes with Palestinian militants during an arrest operation in the West Bank city of Nablus. Soldiers entered Nablus’ Old City and a local refugee camp a little after midnight to search for wanted militants, weapons and ammunition.
At least 12 Palestinians were killed and two IDF soldiers wounded Wednesday in two separate IDF operations in Gaza. At least 10 of the Palestinians killed were militants. Roughly 40 Palestinians were wounded in the fighting, the heaviest between the IDF and Palestinians inside Gaza in months. (Ha’aretz)
Pushing Hamas Back
Ron Ben-Yishai
In recent days, the IDF Southern Command has noticed that Hamas fighters in Gaza are operating closer to the security fence and border crossings. The primary objective of IDF raids in Gaza on Wednesday was to push back Hamas fighters and the armed groups that joined them away from the border fence. After the bitter experience with Hizbullah’s deployment along the border fence in southern Lebanon, Israel decided to thwart a similar process in Gaza.
Therefore, the IDF is creating a “buffer zone” that is roughly 1,500 meters deep to prevent Hamas from digging tunnels in close proximity to Israeli communities, border crossings, and IDF troops. (Ynet News)
Hizbullah Preparing for Next War with Israel
Michel Moutot
“Immediately after last summer’s war Hizbullah began refortifying its positions and working on new ones,” said Judith Palmer Harik, author of the book Hizbullah: The Changing Face of Terrorism. “They are rearming….In fact, there has been no interruption in their receiving of more arms,” she said. A Western military observer in Beirut said, “Hizbullah has far stronger positions in the rear, north of the Litani river, that no one knows about and that they are fortifying all the time.” Even in the border zone, patrolled by blue-helmeted international peacekeepers and the Lebanese Army, Hizbullah is busy preparing for the next round of hostilities. The militants are so accepted by villagers in the area that no outsider gets to know what is really going on there. (AFP/Daily Star-Lebanon)
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