SUPPLEMENT TO THE FOLLOWING ARCHIVE UPDATES
(1) Update 71A – What Will the U.S. Do During the Jihad?
(2) Update 32 – Exposition of Ezekiel 38:13
(3) Update 120B – Unwalled Cities – Walled in State
(4) Update 120E – Jerusalem Falls Again by 2008
(5) Update 121A – Behold the Fig Tree Generation
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The Coming Jihad from Within & Without the Israeli Borders
July 14, 2005
The next 24 months in Israel will be a time of widespread confusion and consternation between the Israel government, the Jewish settlers being forced out of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority, and the terror groups, but after all the bullets have been fired, the Kassam rockets launched, the bombs exploded, and the lives lost, before 2008 the Israelis will have effectively put a security barrier of separation between themselves and their enemies. But I expect their real troubles could arrive as early as 2007, and that they may be in shock by their inability to quickly do what they did in 1948, 1967, and 1973. Israel simply does not believe it can ever be defeated by the Arab nations, because it has quickly and soundly defeated them in three wars. The natural distrust, animosity, and lack of coordination between the Arab countries that fought against Israel in these three wars, was a large part of why the quick victories by Israel occurred. I believe a surprise well coordinated Jihad could be launched against Israel in the second half of 2007. As I have stated many times, a Jihad is coming, and Israel will be driven into the Negev Wilderness. I do not consider that speculation. But as to WHEN the Jihad will be launched, that is indeed speculation on my part, and I have always freely admitted that as a fact of life. I am one of those who believe that just as it was some 40 years from the time that the first desolation of Jerusalem, after Jesus said it would occur, that it would be 40 years from the time that Israel recaptured Jerusalem until it was overrun by the antichrist of II Thessalonians 2:4. However, I readily confess that is a guesstimate on my part, and 2007 is only my best guess as to the time of the Jihad attack.
Sadly, I have watched world opinion slowly shift against Israel since 1948, even in the face of horrific terrorist acts against them and the rest of the free world. Opinion has shifted to an un founde
d assumption that they are
the cause of the terrorist attacks and all the horror and mass confusion in the Middle East, that is, if they were not there, the terrorist attacks would never have begun, and if they were not a free state in the middle of Islamic Fundamentalism, then somehow all the great world consternation would cease.
As you have no doubt read, in the past year, some of the Christian organizations no longer support them against the Arab world. I realize that to many Christians, who are certain Israel is still the apple of God’s eye, and that he will surely restore them to more greatness in the Millennial Reign of his Son than they have ever known, it seems impossible to believe that when push does come to shove, and the Jihad, whenever it is launched, does occur, the world will see Israel stand alone against numerous Islamic nations. But I am afraid that will be the case.
The Archive Prophecy Updates I have listed above define how I came to this conclusion from Scripture long ago.
The following extract from an article in the Jerusalem Post Online by Evelyn Gordon, titled “Terrorism Works,” is well worth reading, and seems to be an accurate assessment of the situation in the Middle East and, as far as Israel is concerned, the degree to which world opinion has shifted to wishing it wasn’t there as a country.
Begin Extract from Jerusalem Post
Terrorism Works
By Evelyn Gordon, THE JERUSALEM POST
July 14, 2005
In Israel’s case, for instance, Hamas, which pioneered suicide bombings inside Israel, has never concealed the fact that its goal is Israel’s eradication. And many Palestinians share this goal: Opinion polls repeatedly found that while 40-50 percent of Palestinians viewed the intifada’s goal as expelling Israel from the territories, the other 40-50% (exact proportions varied) viewed the goal as “liberating all of historic Palestine,” including pre-1967 Israel.
Rephrasing the question produced even larger majorities: In a Pew Research poll published in June 2003, 80% of Palestinians said their “rights and needs” cannot be met as long
as Israel exists.
Toward this goal, terrorism has produced substantial progress – because a necessary precursor to eradicating Israel is destroying its international legitimacy, which is precisely what has been occurring over the last five years. For the first time since Israel’s founding, the question of whether Israel has a right to exist has become an open and acceptable topic of debate in the West. And even when not discussed explicitly, the idea of Israel’s illegitimacy is gaining ground implicitly – as in the Christian divestment campaign, or the famous December 2003 poll in which 59 percent of Europeans deemed Israel the greatest threat to world peace.
Clearly, eradicating a major threat to world peace would be less objectionable than
eradicating a harmless nation. And this change in the West’s view of Israel has occurred not despite, but because of the terrorist attacks against it: Israel is viewed not as the victim, but as the cause of the violence. Hence Israel, not the terrorists, is the major threat to world peace; hence Christian churches are divesting from Israel rather than from the Palestinian Authority, which has consistently refused to act against terrorists.
In fact, as polls, media reports and diplomatic pronouncements reveal, Israel is viewed as the cause twice over. First, it provoked the terrorists via “the occupation”: That the violence erupted in response to Israel’s offer to end the occupation appears to have been completely forgotten. Then, it provoked the terrorists again by responding to their attacks with military action that succeeding in drastically reducing Israel’ s body count.
THE SAME paradigm holds for al-Qaida’s attacks on America. While initially America was viewed as the victim, that view quickly shifted. Even in the West, opinion polls in recent years have consistently ranked America second only to Israel on the list of most hated countries and greatest threats to world peace. Just last month, a Pew poll found that most Europeans – even in Britain, America’s closest ally – view repressive China more favorably than America. Moreover, while Europe once largely accepted America’s global leadership, it now overwhelmingly rejects it.
Again, this shift has occurred not despite but because of the terrorist attacks: America is widely accused of provoking terrorism by invading Afghanistan and Iraq. As with the intifada, the fact that 9/11 preceded these invasions appears to have been completely forgotten. And this shift constitutes major progress toward al-Qaida’s ultimate goal of global Muslim dominance – because for this purpose, a divided West, immersed in blaming itself (or parts of itself) rather than focusing on the real enemy and with its leading power discredited and delegitimized, is essential.
Now, this same process is occurring with the London attacks: A growing number of media pundits and politicians, both in Britain and abroad, have already shifted the blame from the terrorists to Britain’s “provocative” presence in Iraq.
Even Tony Blair has proclaimed that Arab-Muslim grievances must be addressed.
While these intangibles are their greatest success, the terrorists have also reaped some tangible achievements. One, obviously, was the upset victory for Spain’s socialists and the subsequent withdrawal of Spanish forces from Iraq produced by the 2004 Madrid bombings. Another is Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza without getting anything in exchange, which 72 percent of Palestinians rightly deem a victory for terror.
But no such concession will ever end terrorism, because new grievances can always be found. Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000 offers a prime example: Hizbullah, instead of ending attacks on Israel, invented a new bit of “occupied Lebanese territory,” the Shaba farms, to justify their continuation.
And true to form, despite Hizbullah’s refusal to honor the UN-certified international border, the EU still has not declared it a terrorist organization – while media reports routinely term Shaba “disputed territory,” forgetting the UN’s determination that the area is not Lebanese.
Individual terrorists may be irrational, but terrorist organizers and leaders generally are not: They launch attacks out of a cold-blooded calculation that such
attacks serve their goals.
And terrorism will continue to serve their goals for precisely so long as the world, despite its lip-service condemnations, responds by blaming the victims and seeking to address the terrorists’ “grievances.”
End Extract from Jerusalem Post
Daniel indicated 70 prophetic weeks of years would be accomplished in the desolations of Jerusalem. The final desolation will occur when the Holy City is overrun by the antichrist. (See Archive Prophecy Updates 138C, 138D, and 140A in series “From Now to Armageddon”).
Daniel 9:2 – In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. (See the last four Archive Prophecy Updates).
But Israel will steam northward out of the Negev some three and one half years later to retake Jerusalem, and it will never suffer any future desolations. (See Whole Number Archive Prophecy Updates 62 to 69).
Isaiah 62:1-4,11,12 – For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. [2] And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name. [3] Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. [4] Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. [11] Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. [12] And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
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