An Excellent Middle East Intelligence Assessment!
February 26, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
This is one of the best intelligence assessments of past, current, and predicted events in the Middle East I have read in a long time.
It is well worth the read. The Middle East situation is setting up for the initial attack of the final war of the age of the Gentiles. I believe this initial attack, which will drive Israel into the Negev Wilderness for three and one half prophetic years, will occur at some point in time between 2010 and 2015. This timing guesstimate blends quite well with Chief Major General Amos Yadin’s estimate on the earliest date Iran could develop a nuclear weap
on.
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BIRTH PANG UPDATE NUMBER 43
The Remnant of Israel, Past, Present, and Future!
Part 8
April 5, 2002
Revelation 12:5,6,17 – And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. [6] And the wom an fled into the wilderness, where she h
ath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. [17] And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
The man child seed of the woman is Jesus Christ. God promised in Genesis 3:15 that this seed would one day crush the power of Satan, but in so doing would suffer for the price he paid while walking and dying on this earth. Even though the woman is herself a Jewish remnant, there will also be a Jewish remnant within the remnant, a living remnant of believers who testify to the unbelieving Israelis that Jesus is the Messiah, and keep the commandments delivered to them by Jesus Christ. They are a sealed believing remnant of 144,000 Jews living among the one-third of Israel that flees to the Negev. This one-third will number between 1.9 and 2 million.
Revelation 7:4 – And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left
therein.
Through the testimony of the 144,000, and the preaching of the two witnesses who lead them, it will cause all Israel to be saved when Jesus returns, and a spiritual nation shall be born in a day.
Romans 11:25-27 – For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
[26] And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: [27] For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Zechariah 13:9 – And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Revelation 11:2,3 – But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. [3] And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
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MI Chief: Terrorists trained in Syria and Iran have infiltrated Gaza
February 26, 2008
By Sharar Ilan, Haaretz Correspondent
Military Intelligence Chief Major General Amos Yadlin on Tuesday said
that while the border between Gaza and Egypt was breached last month, terrorists trained in Syria and Iran had infiltrated the Strip.
Referring to an incident last month when Hamas militants blew holes in the border fence between Gaza and Egypt, allowing hundreds of thousands of Gazans to cross the border freely, Yadlin said that this breach also allowed terror activists, trained in Syria and Iran, to infiltrate the Strip. He said these activists had undergone workshops and intensive training in all military fields.
Presenting the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee with a general security assessment, Yadlin estimated that large amounts of money and ammunition also made their way into the Gaza Strip during the 12 days in which the border was breached.
Army Radio quoted Yadlin as saying that Al-Qaida operatives had also infiltrated the Strip through the breach.
Yadlin said that Gazans that had entered Egypt through holes in the fence had spent $150 million on various products.
Yadlin spoke one day after a demonstration against Israel’s blockade on the Gaza Strip, expected to be tens of thousands strong, turned out a disappointing 5,000 people. Hamas vowed early Monday to use any means to end the Israeli embargo on the Gaza Strip, and Israel was concerned that the demonstrators would attempt to breach the border.
He said that the Palestinians have not abandoned the plan to hold a mass protest along the Strip’s borders with Israel and Egypt.
Military Intelligence: Iran could have nukes by 2010
Yadlin also told the Knesset committee Tuesday that Iran could conceivably develop a “nuclear option” within two years.
The intelligence official added that the Iranians were continuing the development of nuclear material as well as nuclear weapons and will likely achieve a viable weapon in 2010.
Yadlin presented a list of existing Iranian weapons and those in development. Among other things, Iran has an arsenal of Shihab 3 missiles with a 1,300 kilometer range, Yadlin said. These missiles could potentially strike Israel.
The Iranians are also developing an upgraded version of the Shihab, which will have a range of 2,000. This kind of range would allow the firing of missiles at Israel from deep inside Iran, rather than close to the border, Yadlin explained.
Yadlin also said that a missile that Iran officially presented as a means to propel satellites into space, was actually an upgraded Shihab missile painted with civilian colors.
In addition to the Shihab missiles, the Iranians are developing a weapon propelled by solid fuel that would also have a 2,000 kilometer range, Yadlin said. He added that the Iranians were assembling BM25 missiles that were arriving dismantled from North Korea.
These missiles are believed to have a range of 2,500-3,000 kilometers, but the North Koreans never tested them.
Yadlin on Hezbollah: Vengeance is an integral part of Shiite culture
Referring to the February 12 car bombing assassination of Hezbollah terror mastermind Imad Mughniyah, Yadlin said that vengeance
is an integral part of Shiite culture.
Speaking to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Yadlin said that in seeking to retaliate for the assassination, which it has publicly blamed on Israel, the group’s goal is to generate deterrence and to strike Israel with severity.
At the same time, he added, Hezbollah is having great difficulty moving in south Lebanon due to the presence of the UNIFIL peacekeeping force.
It also must contend with unwanted comparisons to Al Qaida if it strikes targets abroad, Yadlin said.
According to Yadlin, Hezbollah is not interested in confrontation in Lebanon and does not want a “second round” with Israel, as it has yet to complete the rebuilding of its forces following the 2006 war.
Neither does Hezbollah desire a civil war because “it understands what the results would be.”
Yadlin said that Hezbollah may wait until the end of the traditional 40-day mourning period to avenge the death of Mughniyah.
He based his assessment on past instances in which the organization has promised to retaliate for the slaying of a commander. He cited the 1992 truck bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, which followed the IDF assassination of then-Hezbollah leader Abbas Musawi. The blast killed 29 people.
Labor MK and former Mossad chief Danny Yatom responded that “Israel must be prepared prior to the end of the 40-day period as well.
Yatom also reacted to a Monday report that Mughniyah’s widow blamed Syria for the killing. “The Syrian traitors are responsible for his death,” Army Radio quoted her as telling a press conference in Tehran. “Damascus’ refusal to allow Iran to investigate the incident is further proof,” she said.
Hezbollah has no leads,” Yatom said.
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