WHEN WILL IT ALL EXPLODE?
WHEN WILL EZEKIEL 38:13 0CCUR?
MY GUESS IS NOT NOW, BROWN COW!
April 3, 2008
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This morning, I took these first five excerpts listed in the Syrian Daily, which follow our heading. As has been the case in the past, the articles, and many others in today’s headlines across the globe, make it appear that the last great war of this age could break out at any moment – And, who knows, it might! But my guess is that more preparation will take place on the part of Syria and Iran before such an explosion occurs. It must happen according to Biblical prophecies, but the question to those who follow has never been “IF,” but “WHEN.” The “IF” is definite. But the “WHEN” must always be a guess until it actually happens
My guess, as to “WHEN” it will initially suddenly explode by a ground conflict between Israel and Islamic forces, is that it will begin at some point in time between 2010 and 2015, but I would love to see it begin at this very moment. I have had a few of those who read my articles ask me, “Aren’t you afraid some Islamic fanatic will kill you for saying the things you say about Allah and Muhammad?” My answer is a simple one – “What a great way to go!”
I was asked many years ago what I thought the reaction of the nations not participating in the initial attack would be to it. So, after we put up our Web Site again after a hacker destroyed our first one, I put up a Prophecy Update in a series about the attack, with a Scripture that I believe describes their reaction. It was Prophecy Update Number 32, which follows the five excerpts from the Syrian Daily, and
I still believe it today. We issued it a week before 911.
Begin Series of Excerpts from the Syrian Daily
Daily Star Lebanon
Security forces on high alert against any possible violence
Excerpt 1
By Hussein Abdallah Daily Star staff
Thursday, April 03, 2008
BEIRUT: Amid fears that the security situation will deteriorate and violence will erupt after the Arab summit ended without achieving a… (photo: AP Photo / Ahmad Omar)
Excerpt 2
Ha’aretz
Syrian army moves worry Israel
Israel is concerned that recent actions by the Syrian armed forces are a possible preamble for a Hezbollah operation against the northern border and a broader conflagration. The Deputy Chief of Staff,… (photo: AP/Ben Curtis)
Excerpt 3
Middle East Online
Israel plays down risk of conflict with Syria
TEL AVIV – Israel on Thursday played down media reports of heightened tension along the Syrian border, insisting that there was little likelihood of military confrontation between the two neighbors…. (photo: AP Photo)
Excerpt 4
Khaleej Times
Flurry of Arab diplomacy after Damascus summit
CAIRO – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said after talks with Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak on Wednesday that efforts to de-escalate the situation in the Gaza Strip were continuing but… (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Begin Archive Prophecy Update Number 32
PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 32
September 4, 2001
Ezekiel 38:13 – Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil
? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
Verse 13 mentions three other descendants which were not mentioned previously as being among the horde that attacked Israel, namely, Sheba, Dedan, and Tarshish.
Sheba and Dedan settled in the land we know as Saudi Arabia, later colonizing across the Red Sea in the horn we know today as Ethiopia.
Tarshish is much harder to nail down to a specific location. The descendants of Tarshish were sea merchants who became the peoples of the Mediterranean Sea coast.
The headquarters of the descendants of Tarshish is now generally accepted by most biblical authorities as a district in the south of Spain where the city of Tartessus once existed. The merchants of Tarshish then scattered their descendants in village settlements along the majority of the coastal sections of Europe.
I am persuaded that Europe represents the descendant offspring of Tarshish. It is quite possible that God may look upon the rest of Western Civilization as being the offspring (descendants) of Europe (“the young lions thereof”). The countries of the New World became the “melting pot” of Europe.
It is very interesting what Saudi Arabia, Europe, and the rest of Western Civilization have to say to Gog about his attack on Israel: “Art thou come to take a spoil? Hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? To carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?” This is no more or less than the perfect description of a diplomatic protest to Gog’s actions. When the anti-Christ and his armies roar south into Israel in a blitzkrieg lightning strike, the rest of the free world will protest, protest, protest – and do nothing about it. The anti-Christ will take Jerusalem soon after his initial strike in the north, and within three weeks most of Israel will have fled into the Negev south of Beersheva, where she will remain for some three and one-half years.
Jerusalem will fall and only one-third of Israel’s population will make it safely into the Negev.
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.
Daniel 7:25-27 – And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
[26] But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. [27] And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Zechariah 13:8 to 14:2 – 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. [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.
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