Could be a Preview of Coming Attractions!
Supplement to Archive Prophecy Update 74D
November 22, 2005
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Rather than asking you to scan back through our Prophecy Archives to 74D, I am repeating it here exactly as it was issued more than three years ago on July 3, 2002. The activity along the nor
thern border of Israel may be a preview of what will eventually cause the launching of a Jihad against Israel from that area by 10 Arab nations, perhaps as early as 2007.
The follow article by Arieh O’Sullivan in the Jerusalem Post may be practice for what could be the real thing in 2007.
Update 74D follows it.
BEGIN JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE
Top Brass Meets to Assess Violence in North
By Arieh O’Sullivan
November 21, 2005
Top security officials met Monday evening in order to reassess the state of security on Israel’s northern border following an afternoon of escalating violence.
An attack that began with a massive barrage directed against IDF posts on Mount Dov Monday afternoon quickly spread westward.
Shortly after the initial barrage, IDF troops prevented two infiltration attempts near the border town of Rajar. As gunbattles continued around Rajar, the mortar barrages moved westward, targeting northern Galilee towns and kibbutzim.
Hizbullah later extended the fighting across the entire northern border, as mortars landed near the western towns of Nahariya and Shlomi.
Eleven soldiers were reported wounded in Monday’s events, with two reported to be in moderate condition after undergoing operations at Haifa’s Rambam Hospital.
As a result of the shelling, residents of the north from the Mediterranean to Mount Hermon were ordered into bomb shelters Monday evening for the first time in years.
A house in Metulla was directly hit by a Katyusha. While family members were in the house at the time, no injuries were reported. Extensive damage was caused to the building.
In response, IAF aircraft bombed a building used by Hizbullah as a headquarters –
as well as a number of roads – in southern Lebanon.
Minister of Defense Shaul Mofaz, speaking from his headquarters in Tel-Aviv, said the Hizbullah attack on the northeastern border throughout the afternoon was a coordinated combination gunfire, mortar fire and kidnap attempt.
“Syrian and Iranian interests are behind this event. Their interest is to escalate the situation in the north to alleviate the pressure off Syria,” Mofaz said.
The defense establishment, he said, will meet to discuss the attack. “Our aim is to come up with the best solution to provide the residents of northern Isr ael w
ith the best possible protection,” he added.
Deputy Defense Minister Ze’ev Boim, speaking on Channel 1 TV, reiterated Mofaz’s analysis that Hizbullah’s actions were aimed at releasing pressure from Syria – which is implicated in the assassination of former Lebanese leader Rafik Hariri.
Earlier Monday, soldiers killed three Hizbullah terrorists who were trying to infiltrate Israel through the border town of Rajar Monday evening under heavy barrages by Hizbullah.
The terrorists were riding on motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and opened fire on the building that houses the local councils. IDF forces intercepted the terrorists and returned fire, killing three.
Hizbullah terrorists also reportedly tried to hijack a vehicle in Rajar.
A fourth terrorist was killed in a second infiltration attempt aimed at an IDF position in the same sector.
The infiltration attempt followed an afternoon of heavy barrages by Hizbullah terrorists against IDF posts on Mount Dov, during which dozens of mortars, anti-tank rockets and light arms were fired.
In response, IDF artillery returned fire alongside IAF air strikes from helicopters. Israeli warplanes also fired missiles at suspected terrorist hideouts about 500 meters from the Lebanese-Israeli border, Lebanese security officials in south Lebanon said.
According to the sources, Hizbullah had been detected taking unusual steps near Mount Dov, which intelligence officers here interpret as preparations by the Iranian-backed group to stage a “quality attack,” a combined assault similar to Monday’s events.
“Hizbullah is scrambling things up on the northern border at this moment. Hizbullah understands that it is playing with fire, but this is because the firefighters in Lebanon aren’t working. These firefighters are the government of Lebanon and no one else.”
Halutz also said that Syria was aiding Hizbullah both directly by arming them and indirectly by “synchronizing” their actions.
AP contributed to this report.
END JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE
BEGIN 2002 UPDATE NUMBER 74D
SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 74D
July 3, 2002
THE INTERNATIONAL JUSTIFICATION BLAME GAME!
WE DID IT BECAUSE THEY ATTACKED US FIRST!
The age of so-called civilized warfare really began in the era of the Napoleonic Wars of 1803 to 1815. And, with the passage of time, it has become increasingly important for the two countries involved in a conflict to convince the rest of the world the other is the culprit who started the conflict. Every time Hitler, in his early conquests, marched his troops into countries to take them over in bloodless battles, he always had an excuse to justify his attacks. Finally, when he came to his planned conquest of the Poles, he could not really find what even remotely seemed like a justifiable reason. So he manufactured one.
He had his own SS troops dress up in Polish uniforms and attack a German border outpost. Then the SS put dead Polish bodies in the immediate vicinity of the outpost and had photographers and reporters in to verify their story. Using t his farce as justification for
his actions, he attacked Poland in September of 1939, and World War II began.
Some interesting developments, involving Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and the terrorist groups, particularly Hizbollah, have been occurring along the northern border of Israel with Lebanon.
I do not believe what I am now observing in that area will lead to an immediate war, but I suspect it may well do so in the not too distant future. And, if I am correct in my assumptions, it could give Syria justification for attack
ing Israel in the eyes of most of
the international world.
President Bush has demanded that Syria cut it’s backing for the Hizbollah terrorists that operate along the southern border of Lebanon, and that it expel the other Palestinian terrorist groups it currently has operating out of Syria. Damascus now hosts 10 Palestinian terrorist groups, which include the extremist groups Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. In response to the demands of President Bush, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said: “Syria supports the Lebanese national resistance, including Hizbollah, in resisting Israeli occupation and liberating land.” Concerning the demand that the other terrorist groups in Syria be removed, he said: “Their work is limited to political and media activities, and their offices in Damascus provide political representation to the 400,000 Palestinians who look to attain their rights and return to their land.” Israel has repeatedly warned Syria that if Hizbollah continued its border attacks on Israeli civilians and troops on its northern border, they would start hitting targets in Syria in retaliation. Bashar has responded by saying that Syria would defend itself against any Israeli action. He said: “If the Israeli government involves itself in waging aggression on the territory of Syria, then Syria will defend itself.”
So far Israel’s policy against recent Hizbollah attacks has shown remarkable restraint, probably because of not wanting to open a second front of conflict to the one they now have going in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Even though seven Israeli soldiers were killed by a Hizbollah terrorist team that penetrated the border fence, Israel has held back from violent retaliation. And now Bashar al-Assad has joined with Iran to provide heavier rockets for the Hizbollah arsenal of terror. Israeli officials have w atched Hizbollah deploy thousands of new missiles and rockets th
at are aimed at Israeli civilian population centers.
Once Israel has completed its long buffer zone fence around the West Bank, and beefed up the one it already has around the Gaza Strip, it will become confident it has finally achieved the impossible, it will say it has “peace and safety.” And all the time that it was tied up internally in so doing, Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon will have been slowly slipping troops in position for a lightning Jihad from the north. Israel’s preoccupation with its internal safety is going to cause them to slack off in their gaze on what is going on externally.
During the time that Alexander’s great empire had been divided into four sections, the Syrian section (Seleucid) held Israel some of the time, and the Egyptian section (Ptolemy) held it when they took it from the Syrians. Israel was, at times, a part of the Egyptian section, at times, a part of the Syrian section, and, at times, a part of both. Daniel lists a very long series of battles between the king of the north (Syria) and the king of the South (Egypt). Most of Daniel’s prophecies about these two kingdoms were fulfilled by their many kings from Daniel 11:4 through 35, but there remains one war yet to be fulfilled, and I believe it is the aforementioned Jihad that begins in Daniel 11:40. Since Israel was once part of the section occupied by Ptolemy, I am persuaded that Israel is the king of the south and Syria is the king of the north in Daniel 11:40-45.
I suspect that after Israel has lulled itself into a false sense of peace and safety by its military might, it will have gained even more confidence in its great ability to take care of any Islamic intrusion.
It may well be that Syria will get Hizbollah to kick up a storm of activity along the northern border by launching a massive missile and rocket attack across the border into the populations of northern Israel. Syria will do this knowing that Israel will cross the border into Lebanon and hit Syrian targets from the air. But this time Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran will be waiting for it, and six other Islamic nations will be poised to supply logistical support. The Islamic nations can cry out while they head south: “We were attacked first, we are justified in this response to the Israeli invasion of our sovereign territory.” This will cause a hesitation by the western world at first and, by the time it wakes up, Jerusalem will have fallen, and Israel will be fleeing into the Negev.
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.
Daniel 11:40 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
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.
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
First comes a time when Israel actually believes it can maintain “peace and safety.” Then a time of false “peace and safety” sets in for a brief period. Then a border incident!
Then a response! Then a Jihad, and the last 1260 days of the tribulation period are under way.
END 2002 ARCHIVE UPDATE 74D