DAMASCUS CONFERENCE JOY!
HAMAS SCORED A SOUTHERN VICTORY in 2008!
HIZBULLAH SCORED A NORTHERN VICTORY in 2007!
ISLAM COULD SCORE A DAN TO BEERSHEBA VICTORY AT A POINT IN TIME BETWEEN 2010 AND 2015!
BUT GOD WILL SCORE THE FINAL VICTORY FOR ISRAEL AT THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON!
January 31, 2008
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Zechariah 14:1-5 – Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. [2] For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. [3] Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. [4] And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. [5] And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
Revelation 19:19-21 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. [21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
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.
An assessment drawn in the last paragraph of the UK Guardian Article by Azzam Tamimi is, in my opinion, quite possible, and could bring a short lived Hudna (truce) between Israel and the Arab terrorist groups.
Begin UK Guardian Article
Blessing in disguise for Hamas
Azzam Tamimi
January 30, 2008 8:00 AM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/azzam_tamimi/2008/01/blessing_in_disguise_for_hamas.html
The opening of the Palestinian National Conference in Damascus could not have come at a better time. January 23 was the day when the people of Gaza could no longer tolerate the world’s indifference and the inaction of their fellow Arabs next door.
The women’s march on the previous day, which ended with a confrontation at the gate separating Palestine from Egypt, seemed to have been the trigger. Hours later, under the cover of night, young Gazan men blew up the wall that had been contributing to the suffocation of 1.5 million people.
Between sessions, delegates at the Damascus conference rushed to the lobby of their hotel to watch al-Jazeera’s live coverage of the crossing into Egypt and back into Gaza of thousands of Palestinian men and women – an event unprecedented since Gaza was occupied by Israel in June 1967.
The Damascus conference was originally supposed to be held in parallel with the Annapolis conference last autumn. However, the Syrians asked Hamas, the principal convener, to postpone it until Annapolis revealed itself to the world.
The meeting turned into an opportunity to express solidarity with Gaza and reaffirm what Hamas and its allies describe as the fixed or unalterable principles: Palestine is from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River, Israel is an illegitimate colonial entity and resistance is the only means of regaining Palestinian rights.
A significant outcome of the conference was the endorsement of Hamas as leader of the Palestinian struggle.
This is reminiscent of what happened in the late 1960s when, after the Karamah battle in the Jordan valley in August 1968, the Arafat-led Fatah movement rose to prominence, took over the leadership of the PLO and gained recognition from Palestinians and Arabs alike as the legitimate leader of the struggle against Israeli occupation.
The cross-border breach has brought Hamas another significant victory. Israel’s campaign against the movement has not broken its resolve and the US-led sanctions against Gaza have not, despite the suffering, turned the people against Hamas.
Having shunned Hamas for months, both Egypt and Saudi Arabia are now keen to work with the movement to resolve the crisis. Egypt has invited Hamas and Fatah to Cairo for talks and Saudi Arabia invited Khalid Mish’al, Hamas’s political bureau chief, to Riyadh where he has had talks with top officials. The primary concern for all parties now is restoring order to the borders between Egypt and Gaza.
Hamas wants an end to the sanctions and believes the Arabs are capable for breaking the siege imposed by the world community should they will to do so. To achieve this, the movement is willing to negotiate a deal to manage
the Rafah crossing in cooperation with the Egyptian authorities and the PNA presidency. However, the movement would never allow a return to the 2005 agreement between the PNA and Israel that accorded Israel, with European collaboration, final say on who and what comes in or out of Gaza.
The Egyptians know well that if their borders with Gaza were breached once they could be breached many times more should the population of the strip continue to be subjected to sanctions and forced to act in this way. They know well too that Hamas is in charge and that nothing could be done without its involvement. They do, however, wish to see Mahmoud Abbas involved so as to bestow some form of “legitimacy” on what they do. The prerequisite would be for Abbas and Hamas to reconcile their differences – an eventuality that is so far vetoed by both Israel and the Bush administration who insist that Hamas must first acquiesce to the demands of the Quartet. Abbas has an extra condition; he insists that Hamas should restore things in Gaza the way they were before June 14, 2007. Hamas is unlikely to ever do that or to accept any of the three Quartet conditions although it would be willing, as declared repeatedly, to meet Abbas and his Fatah comrades without preconditions.
The turmoil in the region could have been averted in January 2006 if – after Hamas won the elections – Israel and the US had acknowledged the new reality and agreed to deal with Hamas rather than its losing rival.
Voices in Israel, especially those of retired generals and former politicians, can be heard from time to time advising the Israeli establishment to come to terms with reality and negotiate a ceasefire
with Hamas. It seems unlikely that this will happen any time soon.
If – and when – it happens Hamas would be willing to enter into a medium or long-term truce depending on what Israel is willing to give back to the Palestinians. In the meantime, whatever Israel resorts to in order to weaken Hamas is only likely to strengthen it further.
This has been the trend since the summer of 1988 that saw the first major mass detention campaign against Hamas by Israel in the West Bank and Gaza.
End UK Guardian Article
I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
Continuation of 5 Part Blog Exposition of Daniel 11:41-45 – Part 5
WHEN NO ONE CAN HELP THE ANTICHRIST!
Daniel 11:45 – And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The inspired word for “tabernacles” is “ohel,” which always means “tents.” The “ohel” in the wilderness was a “tabernacle” that was a huge tent. These tents house the many millions that will have come to Israel for the final onslaught against the small Jewish remnant in the Negev, which the Scripture identifies as the battle of Armageddon. He will issue a call to all the nations of Europe, Eurasia, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa to come
and join him in this great battle, and the demonic frog spirits of the father, son, and unholy false prophet will influence them to come to this final battle of Armageddon.
Revelation 16:13-16 – And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. [14] For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. [15] 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.
Daniel 11:45 – And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
The inspired word for “palace” is appeden, and it appears only once in this particular form throughout the Bible. At the time this Scripture was written all the great kings carried portable command post buildings with them when they went forth to conquer.
They included a royal throne, on which the king would set issuing the commands to his troops in the field. This is what an “appeden” is – a portable command post from which the king issues battle directives to his troops in the field.
The king of the north, the antichrist, will set his command post on the glorious holy mountain, which is Mount Moriah, the center hill of the three hills of eastern Jerusalem. This Mount lies between the Mediterranean and Dead Seas. His millions of troops will blanket all of Israel north of Beersheva, with the heaviest concentrations filling
the two valleys that join at the Tel of Megiddo, the Plain of Esdraelon and the Jezreel Valley. Most of the incoming troops will disembark at the port of Haifa, then proceed southeastward down the Esdraelon-Jezreel Valley into the Jordan Valley, and hence southward to Jerusalem and the border of the northern Negev.
Millions will stand in place and await the command of antichrist to start the attack on the small remnant of Israel in the Negev.
One would be inclined to think that the antichrist, with millions of troops behind him, would be absolutely unstoppable, and that God’s chosen people, the nation of Israel, would be killed to the last man by this massive onslaught. That is what makes the last part of this verse so strange, as Daniel states: “yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”
I remember that several years ago, an old friend of mine, Dr. I.K. Cross, who was presenting a message at the annual Pastors and Missionaries Conference in Texarkana, delivered a sermon titled “We’re ‘Gonna’ Win.” And the crux of his message made clear that
the reason we were going to win was because of what Christ had already done, was doing, and would do in the future.
It is Jesus Christ, returning to the earth with all his power, who will use His earth, atmosphere, and universe to forever destroy the antichrist, his false prophet, and his vast army. I believe the following Scriptures attest to that fact:
Revelation 16:16-21 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. [17] And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. [18] And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. [19] And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. [20] And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. [21] And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
Zechariah 14:12 – And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Malachi 4:1-3 – For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. [2] But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. [3] And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.
Revelation 19:16-21 – And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. [17] And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; [18] That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and
the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. [19] And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. [21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
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