The Biblical Prophecy of the Final Middle East War
Is most assuredly headed for fulfillment at a rapid Rate
Even if the Bible had nothing to say about the coming Battle
It is readily apparent that a major conflict is now about to Occur
July 9, 2008
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The actions of the radical Islamic nations and the many terrorist groups they support make it undeniable that a major war will eventually occur in the Middle East. The Bible has indicated for centuries that would be the case, and provides a detailed description of
the sequence of events which will be associated with the three and one-half years of the great tribulation associated with it. The one detail the Bible, and the leaders of the nations involved in it omit, is WHEN the final three and one half years will specifically begin. Any attempt to answer this question must of necessity be labeled OPINION, no more and no less. I do have an OPINION. Based on a multiplicity of factors now occurring, taking into account how the Bible indicated the war would start, I believe it will begin at some point in time between 2010 and 2015 and will last some three and one-half years, finally culminating in one great final battle of Armageddon, at which time Christ will appear at his 2nd Advent.
I believe Christ is the stone cut out of the mountain in Daniel 2:45, and is pictured returning at his Second Advent to bring in his Kingdom.
Of course, the toes on Daniel’s statue are ten Islamic ‘wild’ toes of Ishmael, which have always had trouble holding together long enough to defeat Israel, but they finally will do it in the near future. At the end of their three and one-half success under Antichrist, Christ will return to crush these ten kings and the Caliph Antichrist who rules them, and the King who was rejected by his own people on his First Advent, will establish a Kingdom of Righteousness, which will last on this present earth for a thousand years.
Daniel 2:42-45 – And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. [44] And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. [45] Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
The same scenario is pictured by Daniel using horns in Daniel 7:24-27.
Daniel 7:24-27 – And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. [25] 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.
I remember how it was before Hitler attacked Poland in 1939. A “peace at any price” group kept crying out for more diplomacy. The hawks, who were very small in number, said war was inevitable, so let’s join with the British and fight against this ungodly monster. But most of the American population just sat still and hoped it would all go away, and everything would be fine. I was totally in favor of what the first Bush did in Iraq, namely blow the devil out of Saddam’s army with primarily air power, and them immediately get out. Afterwards many of my peers said the first Bush should have stayed and finished the job, but I have never been in favor of trying to establish a democracy in Iraq, and I have been quite vocal in print as to why it will never work before the Second Advent. I wanted us to go in, get Saddam Hussein, and get out! Then let the Kurds, Sunnis, Shiites, Iranians, Syrians, Turks, and Nerds fight it out for the country. Everyone kept crying, “We don’t want to destabilize the Middle East!” Hey, that is just what was needed – It is better they fight each other rather than Israel and the United States!
At present, the Iraqi government is talking about a timetable for the full withdrawal of American troops from Iraq for the first time. The great President Ahmadinejad of Iran is threatening out of one side of his vile mouth while saying there will not be a war out of the other side. Isl amic Jih
ad, al Qaeda, and a few of the wilder terrorist groups seem to be the only ones doing the really violent dirty work at the present time. For the first time, I can see a conspiracy of false peace forming behind the scenes across the Middle East.
This Conspiracy is being used to lull Israel and the United States into a false sense of security before Islam moves in for the kill. I am growing more and more confident of my guesstimate that the final war of this Gentile Age will begin at some point in time between 2010 and 2015. All the horns and toes of Daniel are falling into place. We are not too far away from a vicious Jihad attack against Israel by Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Morocco, Algeria, Turkey, Tunisia, Libya, and Ethiopia.
I am including a rather large number of excerpts which seen to stand in contradiction to one another. I expect this sort of confused rhe toric
to continue right on up to the time the initial attack is launched against the nation of Israel. However, behind all the saber rattling, rumors of wars and attacks, vicious threats, diplomatic negotiations, political rhetoric, and lying tragic comedy, I do expect a sufficient lull in the Middle East activity, which will allow the forces of Islam, in a conspiracy mode, to ready themselves to attempt to wipe Israel off the face of the map.
Begin Excerpt from BBC News
Iran leader plays down war talk
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has played down the threat of an armed conflict between his country and the United States or Israel.
“I assure you… there won’t be any war in the future,” he said in Malaysia.
Earlier, an aide to Iran’s supreme leader said Tehran would strike Israel or the US navy in the Gulf if it was attacked over its nuclear programme.
The comments come amid reports of possible Israeli or US plans to strike Iran’ s nuclear facilitie
s.
Tehran denies Western claims that it is seeking to build a nuclear weapon.
It has repeatedly rejected demands to halt enriching uranium, which can be used as fuel for power plants – and as material for weapons if refined to a greater degree.
The European Union imposed new sanctions on Iran in June.
But it has offered a package of incentives to persuade Iran to suspend uranium enrichment.
Iran has said it is prepared to negotiate with major world powers, but insisted the talks had to address Iran’s nuclear rights.
‘Greatest threat’
President Ahmadinejad was speaking through an interpreter at the end of a summit of the D8 Islamic developing nations in Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur.
He said he believed that people in America would not let President George W Bush authorize an attack on Iran because it would be “political suicide”. “The economic, political and military situation will not let Mr Bush do that,” he said.
But Mr Ahmadinejad warned that Iran was ready to defend itself, saying that “the greatest threat in the Middle East and the whole world… is the United States’ intervention in other countries”.
He also suggested that Iran would not launch any attack on Israel – America’s ally in the Middle East.
“There is no need for any measures by the Iranian people” to bring about the end of the “Zionist regime” in Israel, Mr Ahmadinejad said.
And asked if he objected to the government of Israel or Jewish people, he said that “creating an objection against the Zionists doesn’t mean that there are objections against the Jewish”.
He added that Jews lived in Iran and were represented in the country’s parliament.
Mr Ahmadinejad’s comments came after he was asked to clarify the statement that he wanted to “destroy” Israel.
‘Jihad and martyrdom’
On Monday, a senior Iranian official warned that Tehran would retaliate if attacked by the US or Israel over its nuclear programme.
“The first US shot on Iran would set the United States’ vital interests in the world on fire,” Ali Shirazi, an aide to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying
by Iranian news agencies.
“Tel Aviv and the US fleet in the Persian Gulf would be the targets that would be set on fire,” he said.
“The Zionist regime is pressuring White House officials to attack Iran. If they commit such a stupidity, Tel Aviv and US shipping in the Persian Gulf will be Iran’s first targets and they will be burned in Iran’s crushing response.
“The Iranian nation will never accept bullying.
The Iranian nation is a nation of believers which believes in jihad and martyrdom. No army in the world can confront it,” Mr Shirazi said.
Last week, the top US military officer said opening up a new front in the Middle East – after Iraq and Afghanistan – would be “extremely stressful” for US forces.
Adm Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was commenting on the likelihood of US or Israeli military action over Iran’s nuclear programme.
President Bush has maintained that all options are on the table but
that military action against Iran will not be his first choice.
End Story from BBC NEWS:
Begin Excerpt from Jerusalem Post News
‘Israel, US wouldn’t dare attack Iran’
July 7, 2008
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST
Israel and the US would not dare to attack Iran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying in an interview with a Malaysian media outlet on Monday.
Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, reported that Ahmadinejad spoke in Kuala Lumpar, where he is to attend the sixth Summit of the Eight Islamic Developing Countries (D8).
“Not only the US and Israel, but a hundred others like them cannot attack Iran and they know it themselves,” the Iranian president was quoted as saying.
He went on to say that US President George W. Bush “has many satanic and inhuman wishes, including confrontation with Iran,” and that “none of his wishes have come true.”
“They know the Iranian nation and are aware that they cannot talk to us with the language of force and threats. They must give in to the will of the Iranian nation,” he added.
Two Excerpts from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs – Daily Alert
July 4, 2008
Begin Haaretz Excerpt 1
Israel Faces Missile Fire from Syria, Iran, and Hizbullah
Yossi Melman
Maj.-Gen. (res.) Eitan Ben Eliahu, commander of the Israel Air Force from 1996 to 2000, this week surveyed the changes in Israel’s national security doctrine amid the changing nature of wars at a meeting of the Israel Missile Defense Association. Ben Eliahu estimates that in the next war, Syria and Iran might launch between 250 and 300 long-range missiles at Israel (Shahab and Scud missiles) and another 5,000 short-range missiles (mainly from Hizbullah in Lebanon).
To intercept a single long-range missile, one needs an average of two intercepting missiles and between 500 and 700 missiles in all. In addition, Israel must keep another 200 intercepting missiles in reserve. To destroy the short-range missiles, Israel will need mainly ground forces. And above all Israel must grant high priority to development methods for confronting the chemical and nuclear threat.
(Ha’aretz)
Begin Haaretz Excerpt 2
U.S. Admiral: Iran Likely to Attack Israel
Amir Oren
In an article entitled “Maritime Strategy in an Age of Blood and Belief” in the U.S. Naval Institute’s monthly Proceedings, Adm. James Winnefeld, commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, describes the possibility of an offensive barrage of ballistic missiles fired from Iran against Israel as being “by far the most likely employment of ballistic missiles in the world today, and it demands our immediate attention in the event of a need for a U.S. or NATO response.” In recent years, the missile boats of the Sixth Fleet practiced intercepting Shahab-3 missiles from Iran aimed at Israel, along with the Arrow batteries of the Israel Air Force and U.S. and Israeli batteries of Patriot missiles. (Ha’aretz)
Begin DEBKAfile Excerpt
Iran’s chief of staff expands threat of Strait of Hormuz closure
DEBKAfile Special Report
July 5, 2008, 1:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
Chief of staff Maj. Gen. Hasan Firuzabadi said Saturday, July, 5, Iran’s strategy is to keep the Strait of Hormuz in “southern Iran” open, but “if the country’s interests are jeopardized in the region, we will not let any ship pass through.”
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that this statement, quoted by the official IRNA agency, enlarges on earlier threats by the IRGC commander Ali Jafari that the waterway would be closed if Iran was attacked. Iran’s “strategic interests in the region” cited now by Firuzabadi could extend to attacks on its allies and terrorist arms, Syria, Hizballah or Hamas.
It is in keeping with Iran’s refusal to give up uranium enrichment in its reply to the six-power proposals for ending the nuclear standoff.
Iran offered nothing more than negotiations, its standard gambit for spinning out time to achieve progress on its nuclear bomb program.
The latest drumbeat from Tehran also posed a fresh challenge to Washington after Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned on July 2 that the US would not let Iran block the strategic waterway through which 40 percent of the world’s oil supplies are transported.
The New York Times Saturday quoted Tehran as stating: “The time for negotiations from the condescending position of inequality has come to an end,” in its response to the incentives package offered by the five UN Security Council members plus Germany. The letter made no reference to the proposal of preliminary talks to start with a mutual six-week “freeze” both on a fourth round of UN Security Council sanctions and on the expansion of Iran’s uranium enrichment program.
Further hardening its position, Tehran’s reply to the proposals presented last month by Europeam Union foreign executive Javier Solana denounces such sanctions as “illegal.” Chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili was named to lead the delegation in comprehensive negotiations.
By failing to address the “freeze-for-freeze” approach, in which high hopes of a more accommodating Iranian approach had been pinned, Tehran has put an end to the optimistic intimations emanating from Washington, Europe and Israeli officials in the last two weeks. Some American sources were certain that a closed Iranian parliamentary conference Monday, June 30, had endorsed the mutual freeze offer.
DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources add: The Iranian reply to Solana demonstrates that Tehran was not intimidated by the implied threats of an imminent US and/or Israel attack on its nuclear facilities published in the last two weeks; neither is Iran deterred from continuing to enrich uranium by the prospect of more sanctions. Even in accepting the offer of negotiations, the Islamic Republic stiffly denies any world power the right to strike a “condescending position.”
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