Syrian Hate Ends at Second Advent!
March 15, 2008
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Blog has a double heading – One before a Jerusalem Post excerpt and the second before the San Francisco Chronicle excerpt.
Syrian hate will never be contained as they daily look west in shame to the mountains, where the sun goes down at sunset on the Golan Heights, which Israel took from Syria more than 40 years ago, in 1967. It is like looking on a sore that never heals. Syria is in for a much greater shock after the Second Advent, when they lose all of Syria south of Hamath to the Israelis. Biblical Hamath is modern Hama in today’s Syria.
Hama was the center of Syro-Hittite.
It was also the capital of the Aramean kingdom, as Hamath. Hamath is mentioned several times in the Old Testament.
In 720 BC Hama, as well as the rest of Syria was conquered by the Assyrians, followed by the Persians. Hama came to be known as Epiphania when it fell to the Seleucids in 200 BC. When the Romans and then the Byzantines took over, it was used as a center for administration until it fell to the Arabs yet remained weaker than the other Syrian states.
The Arabs took over Hama by capitulation in 636 AD.
When “this man,” the Messiah returns at His Second Advent, He will lead Israel to war and afterwards to “the peace” of Micah 5:5-9, and Israel will divide the land among the 12 tribes as prophesied in Ezekiel 47:13-21. (FOR A FULL EXPOSITION OF THIS PLEASE CONSULT WHOLE NUMBERED ARCHIVE PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBERS 62 TO 69)
Micah 5:5-9 – And THIS MAN shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. [6] And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall HE deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders. [7] And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men. [8] And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. [9] Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
Ezekiel 47:13-21 – Thus saith the Lord God; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions. [14] And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance. [15] And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad; [16] Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazar-hatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran. [17] And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of HAMATH. And this is THE NORTH SIDE.
[18] And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side. [19] And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward. [20] The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side. [21] So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
‘Damascus interested in peace talks’
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
March 15, 2008
Syria has conveyed a message to Israel via Turkey that it is interested in renewing peace talks, Lebanese paper Al-Akhbar reported Saturday.
According to the report, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has transmitted messages from Israel to Syria on several occasions expressing Israel’s interest in quick and intensive negotiations.
While Syria has responded positively, the Hizbullah-affiliated paper reported, Damascus set several conditions: That talks be conducted publicly and not secretly; that Israel show “serious signs” that it is willing to withdraw “from all occupied Arab territories;” that negotiations not be held “under fire” and while “Israel commits massacres against the Palestinians;” finally, that Israel simultaneously negotiate on other Arab tracks, although the report does not specify which.
The paper quoted an unnamed “informed source” as saying Damascus did not feel that the US was enthusiastic to achieve progress in negotiations between Israel and Syria, and there was no indication that Israel could override Washington’s will at this time.
End Jerusalem Post Article
Begin Second Heading by http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Syria has more active Jihad terrorist group headquarters contained in it than any other terrorist country in the world. The natural hatred for the Jews, which has grown steadily from the time Abraham chose Isaac rather than Ishmael as the son of the promise, was intensified to being unbearable when Bashar Assad’s father lost the Golan to Israel on his watch in 1967. I assure you this intensified hatred will continue until the Second Advent, and like it or not, its occurrence is not an event in the far distant future.
I have for 33 years attempted to warn that the Second Advent of Christ is not a distant event, and the day of the scoffers has intensified in both the number of them, and the intensity of their vocal cries. It has finally come to full bloom and is ready to be picked by the Lord.
II Peter 3:3,4 – Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, [4] And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
It will be a time of judgment on mankind for its ungodly attitude toward God and toward his fellow man.
Its intensity and horror is beyond our wildest imagination following the blowing of
the seventh trumpet. All the saved will be experiencing judgment in heaven for rewards, or the lack of them, while God’s judgment is poured on those who were not taken up when the last trumpet sounded, after which they will return to the earth with Christ at his second Advent.
This is what they will be missing on earth while they are being judged in heaven.
Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be
Luke 21:25-27 – And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26] Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. [27] And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
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.
FOR A COMPLETE EXPOSITION OF THE SEVENTH TRUMPET RAPTURE POSITION AND THE EVENT ASSOCIATED WITH IT, PLEASE SEE ARCHIVE PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBERS 73D, 74A, 76, 78A, 82A, 114A, 144A, 144F, and 219B.
Begin San Francisco Chronicle Article
Syria angles to reclaim Golan from Israel
Julian Barnes-Dacey. Chronicle Foreign Service
Thursday, March 6, 2008
(03-06) 04:00 PST Damascus, Syria — As a visitor enters Ali al-Zaher’s office, a photo of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon’s Shiite militant group, Hezbollah, looms prominently. A scribbled message scrawled across the picture praises al-Zaher’s commitment to the struggle against Israel.
Al-Zaher, editor of the state-backed Golan newspaper, aims to remind readers of Syria’s claim to the Golan Heights, a 690-square-mile plateau captured by Israel during the 1967 Six Day War.
After years of unsuccessful negotiations, al-Zaher and other experts say Syria has decided to ratchet up the pressure on Israel by following Hezbollah’s example of expanding its political and military authority in southern Lebanon.
A political analyst in Damascus, who asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of the issue, said that Syrian leaders – emboldened by Hezbollah’s surprising military strength against Israel during a monthlong war in 2006 – are increasing the nation’s influence near the Golan border.
“Inspired by Hezbollah’s ability to resist the Israeli advance, the government wants more people to inhabit and know the region,” the analyst said. “The government saw that without popular resistance, the Israelis could easily send their tanks through the Golan on the road to Damascus” (some 30 miles from the Golan border).
While both Syria and Israel say they are ready to negotiate the territory’s status, peace talks ended after a U.S.-brokered peace agreement was nearly reached in 2000. At that time, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered to return most of the Golan to Syria in exchange for normalization of relations. But talks broke off after Syria insisted on returning to the entire pre-1967 war frontier, which included 328 feet where Israel would not cede control.
“A peace deal is only possible if we regain our full rights,” President Bashar Assad told a Tunisian newspaper recently. “Complete rights and sovereignty on this land and nothing less.”
For its part, Israel now conditions renewed dialogue on Syria severing ties with Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, the latter a militant group that governs the Gaza Strip and calls for the destruction of Israel.
Like many Golan natives, Mahel Awad, a 27-year-old student at Damascus University, is frustrated by the lack of negotiations.
“We support peace, but when is it going to happen?” he told a reporter in his dormitory room adorned with photos of Golan. “We are used to talk of negotiations, but at the end nothing materializes.”
Today, Golan has a population of about 39,000, including 19,000 Arab Druze, 2,000 Muslims and 17,000 Jews. The territory has Israel’s only ski resort, on Mount Hermon, thriving agriculture and military bases. Some say it provides as much as 30 percent of Israel’s water supply. Since 1967, Israel has constructed 32 settlements, even annexing the territory in 1981 in violation of U.N. Resolution 242, which considers Golan part of Israel’s occupied territories.
The sovereignty over Golan lay dormant until Syria – in a move that surprised many Middle East observers – opted to participate in the U.S-sponsored Middle East peace summit in Annapolis, Md., in November.
“By participating at Annapolis, Syria showed it wants to put Golan on the peace track,” said Methat Saleh, director of the state Bureau of Golan Affairs. “With (Israeli) withdrawal, many problems in the region would be solved.”
In the meantime, Syria is using the Hezbollah model in southern Lebanon to reclaim Golan.
Through its state-run Popular Commission for the Liberation of Golan, Damascus provides financial support and educational opportunities at Syrian universities
for hundreds of Golanese living under Israeli control. The state requires them to return home after completing their studies to ensure territorial ties to Golan.
Last year, the government began constructing 1,000 apartments along the Golan border for an estimated 600,000 refugees.
The Syrian government says the housing will face Israeli villages, with more units to come.
In January, the government began issuing Syrian national identity numbers to the 19,000 Druze residents “to strengthen ties of the Golanese people with their mother country,” said Saleh. Tel Aviv has long offered the Druze citizenship, which has been accepted by nearly 2,000, according to the Israeli government.
Moreover, al-Zaher says the Golan newspaper will open bureaus in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan this year and even launch an English edition. “The resistance media will play its role in ensuring that the young generation will not forget their Golan,” he said.
To be sure, most observers in Syria and Israel say Syria does not want a war over Golan. “We have made a strategic choice for peace,” said Nadim Merze, director of the Golan Research Center in Damascus.
“The Syrians are trying to follow the model set up by Hezbollah, but I do not think they are interested in any confrontation,” said Eyal Zisser of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. “There is a limit to what extent a regular army can follow the tactics of a small organization like Hezbollah.”
But al-Zaher says Syria is prepared for all options.
“We believe that in the end what others obtain by force we will reobtain by force,” said al-Zaher. “A small group of resistance men similar to Hezbollah could achieve victory in a Golan war.”
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