The False Peace Of the End Times Is Visible!
The Light of the End in Middle East Appearing
A Light now appearing at the end of the Tunnel
I now see a false peace light I have long Awaited
But it is a light of both great joy and intense Sorrow
Great Joy Because I Believe It Marks This age’s Finish
Sadness Because to Israel it’s an Ape with a Flashlight
Waiting For IDF To Come Down and Check Out The Light!
July 14, 2008
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The first spark of the light came on April 30th, it began to glimmer on May 13th, became like a distant star on June 20th, and now is appearing as a visible light at the end of a dark tunnel.
The First Spark
Heading from April 30th Blog
Will Message Produce Temporary Peace and Safety?
April 30, 2008
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I think it is quite possible that the message carried by the destruction of the Syrian Nuclear Building may bring a type of false peace to the Syria, Hizbullah, Hamas, and Israel section of the Middle East. However, if this happens to be the prophetic “peace and safety” of I Thessalonians 5:3,4, then after you read the two following articles, one thing is certain – It can only be very temporary in duration!
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.
Ezekiel 38:8,9 – After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains OF ISRAEL, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and THEY SHALL DWELL SAFELY ALL OF THEM.
[9] Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
Daniel 11:41 – He shall enter also into THE GLORIOUS LAND, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
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.
A Glimmer of Light
Excerpt from May 13th Blog
Leaning toward False Peace
A Six Months Truce with Hamas
Egypt will present to Israel this Week
If Israel says yes, it could initiate the Start
Of a process that one day produces False Peace
Fulfilling a prophecy found in I Thessalonians 5:3-5
May 13, 2008
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I Thessalonians 5:3-5 – 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. [5] Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
The three news excerpts that follow give a progression of developments over the last 48 hours which have ended with Israel leaning toward the acceptance of a six month truce which, if it holds, would likely lead into a longer term hudna.
Light from a Star
Excerpt from June 20th Blog
A Snuffy Smith Special – Great Balls Of Fire!
Hamas seems to be serious about what Transpired!
If this Tahadiyeh holds, a Lot of Prophecy may Unfold!
And I might get to be here when the Final Prophecy is Told!
But Disappointment is an Experience often known Growing Old!
June 20, 2008
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I have been disappointed before, but I believe this taladiyeh has backing from all radical Middle East terrorist nations and organizations because it fits in with their preparations for the elimination of Israel. I believe it is possibly the beginning of the prophesied false peace, which is to come in before the final Middle East war ending at Armageddon.
The two Jerusalem Post Articles which follow our heading, and others over the last month, have given me hope we are standing on the verge of the beginning of the following Scripture slipping into place. If so, it makes my guesstimate of the last major Middle East war beginning at some point in time between 2010 and 2015 look quite reasonable.
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.
End of theThree Excerpt Headings from Previous Blogs
I believe French President Nicola Sarkozy’s latest Midldle East attempts to bring peace to the area is now leading into the brief period of false peace that will precede an attack on Israel at some point in time between 2010 and 2015.
The French demands on Syria, Iran, Hizbullah, and Hamas are as loose as a goose compared to those offered by the United States, and French diplomats love to talk, talk, talk, and then talk, which allows the parties they address to prepare for war as they chatter. This is just what these four Islamic fanatics are looking for to promote their agenda in the Middle East.
This is a bittersweet moment in time for me. I have long hoped for this day, when I could actually feel confident false peace was on its way in, which is a very sweet sensation to my soul.
But at the same time I dread when the sudden destruction comes on Israel to end the false peace, and it gives a bitter taste to the sweetness as it goes down. I don’t know what was written in the little book
in the mighty angel’s hand in Revelation 10, but I have a strong suspicion we are about to find in the tribulation period when the seventh trumpet sounds. I have a sweet taste in my mouth about being taken up from this earth, but a bitter taste in my stomach for what is about to happen to Israel and all of the world’s unbelievers. Being caught up to heaven, before his wrath begins after the seventh trumpet sounds, will be the sweetest taste in my life up to that point in time, but knowing in advance what happens to those left behind is a bitter sensation to the inner man.
Revelation 10:7-11 – But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. [8] And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. [9] And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. [10] And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
[11] And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings. (See Archive Prophecy Updates 73D, 74A, 78A, 123B, 124A, 144A, 144F, and 147D) on Web Site
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Sarkozy’s Play For Mideast Peacemaker
PARIS, July 12, 2008
(CBS) This report was written by CBS News’ George Baghdadi, traveling with the Syrian President in Paris
French President Nicola Sarkozy is holding a rare meeting with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad on Saturday, believing he can secure a role for France in the ever-elusive quest for peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors before a new U.S. administration takes office.
Relations between France and Syria have been strained since the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in a February 2005 bombing in Beirut, blamed widely on Damascus.
Paris decided to shun Syrian officials after the murder, particularly in light of then-French President Jacques Chirac’s strong personal ties to Hariri.
Syria has consistently denied any involvement in the killing.
Sarkozy opened up to Damascus for believing that his moves and his friendship with the Jewish state will open doors for him. He trusts that Assad would pay him back as he crosses the gates of the Elysee Presidential Palace, a political extravaganza that could possibly signal the beginning of the end of Syria’s isolation.
After the set of talks, the Syrian leader will take part in a summit Sunday marking the launch of the Mediterranean Union, which will gather some 40 European and Mediterranean leaders in bids to boost cooperation between the European Union and Mediterranean rim states.
Most significantly, perhaps, Sarkozy’s Mediterranean Union initiative will mark the first time a Syrian president has ever sat at the same table as an Israeli delegation (although there will be no handshakes or souvenir photos for the participants).
Assad, accompanied by his wife Asma and several of his ministers, will stay in Paris after the summit for France’s Bastille Day celebrations. He will watch the massive military parade pass from the iconic Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde – his very presence truly unthinkable only a few weeks ago.
Syrian official sources told CBS News that Sarkozy was making plans to fly to Damascus next month to further ties with a country that was a former French colony.
Syria may represent Paris’ greatest possible sphere of influence in the Middle East.
Indeed, with U.S. mediation efforts in the Arab-Israeli conflict faltering, France could be striking at an opportune moment as it heads the rotating presidency of the E.U.
In an interview with the French daily Le Monde on Wednesday, Assad welcomed the French “break,” and said Syria was not prepared to offer any concessions to this U.S. administration.
“Frankly, we do not think that the current American administration is capable of making peace. It doesn’t have either the will or the vision, and it only has a few months left,” he said.
Politically, Sarkozy seems confident that by extending his hand to Damascus, he would eventually succeed in distancing Syria from Iran; the West’s key foe in the region.
“The French leader has realized that global isolation and dealing with Syria as an axis-of-evil country has turned to be more harming,” said political analyst Thabet Salem. “It brought Syria closer to Iran and made it more dependent on Tehran’s economic and political support.”
Economic considerations are likely to have played an important part in France’s openness and in Syria’s recent push for international respectability, which has included inviting the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit Syria and examine U.S. claims that the building bombed by Israel last September was intended to house a covert nuclear reactor. Most significantly, it agreed to hold indirect, Turkish-mediated talks with Israel after an eight-year freeze. The talks are expected to be upgraded soon to face-to-face negotiations, and Sarkozy seemingly wants to move fast to get a credit.
The last direct talks – between then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara – stalled in 2000 in a dispute over how much of the Golan Heights (which Israel captured in a 1967 war) should go back to Syria.
“The benefits for Mr. Sarkozy would also fasten down the prospect of major commercial deals: A French consultant is working on engineering designs for the Damascus metro, a project that would appear to be tailor-made for French contractors, and the Toulouse-based Airbus Industrie could be in line for a contract to re-equip Syria’s national airline, whose fleet is now down to just six serviceable aircraft,” according to Marwan Qablan, a Syrian political analyst.
“Resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict has always been beyond France’s capability, let alone its interests,” Oablan added. “The Barcelona process failed mainly because of the tension and lack of trust between the Arabs and Israel. The Mediterranean project might act as a catalyst to increasing European involvement to resolve the conflict; and from Sarkozy’s point of view protect Israel.”
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Sarkozy kicks off Mideast meetings
By Crispian Balmer
July 12, 2008
From Reuters
Paris – French President Nicolas Sarkozy met his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak on Saturday, kicking off a round of diplomacy with Middle East leaders ahead of an EU-Mediterranean summit on Sunday.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will mark his return to the European stage later in the day when he holds talks with both Sarkozy and Lebanon’s new president, Michel Suleiman, a day after a new Lebanese government finally took office.
Sarkozy strolled to his meeting with Mubarak in a central Paris hotel but was due to greet Assad and Suleiman with full pomp and ceremony at the Elysee Palace in the afternoon.
The three men were due to make a joint declaration at 6.40pm (local time) along with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, who helped broker a power-sharing deal among Lebanon’s feuding pro-Western and pro-Syrian factions in May.
France and many other western countries have shunned Syria in recent years, accusing Assad of destabilising neighbouring Lebanon and fuelling unrest across its borders with Iraq.
But following the deal that pulled Lebanon back from the brink of a new civil war, France decided to resume high level contacts with Syria and Sarkozy invited Assad to the EU-Mediterranean summit.
The high-profile gathering will give Assad the chance to hold his first meeting with Suleiman and, in a diplomatic first, take part in the Mediterranean Union summit alongside Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who flies into Paris on Sunday.
“This is an historic visit for me, an opening towards France and towards Europe,” Assad said in an interview with Le Figaro newspaper this week.
However, he said it would be premature to hold direct talks with Israel, apparently ruling out a face-to-face meeting with Olmert.
Assad’s appearance in Paris, and his invitation to attend Monday’s Bastille Day military parade, has been criticised by human rights activists and even French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has said it doesn’t make him “especially comfortable.”
Syria sent troops to Lebanon, a former French protectorate, in 1976 and had a powerful grip on Lebanese politics over the following three decades.
It withdrew its troops in 2005 in the face of international pressure and Lebanese street protests following the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, which France believes was orchestrated from Damascus.
Assad has denied Syria ordered the killing of Hariri, a close friend of former French President Jacques Chirac.
French officials say it is important to re-establish high-level ties with Syria and say its recent decision to embark on indirect peace talks with Israel shows that attitudes are changing in Damascus.
Sunday’s summit will draw more than 40 heads of state and government to Paris and is aimed at breathing new life into the existing Euro-Med partnership, creating a more equal dialogue between countries lining the Mediterranean.
Reuters
Published on the Web by IOL on 2008-07-12 14:35:37
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Olmert Optimistic on Mideast Peace Deal
By AMY TEIBEL,
AP
Posted: 2008-07-13 20:28:41
Filed Under: World News
PARIS (July 13) – Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared Sunday that Israel and the Palestinians have never been closer to making peace — even as a widening corruption probe brings him closer than ever to being ousted from office.
To help build confidence between the two sides, Olmert agreed in a one-on-one meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to release an unspecified number of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, an Israeli official said.
Abbas, who met with Olmert at the French presidential palace ahead of a summit of European, Middle Eastern and African leaders, also sounded a positive note about the troubled peace talks, saying both sides were “serious and want to achieve peace.”
The two men met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy before sitting down together one-on-one.
“We have never been as close to a possible (peace) agreement as we are today,” Olmert told reporters before the three leaders entered their meeting.
Repeated rounds of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks since a peace conference in Annapolis, Md., last year have produced little change on the ground.
Israel has continued its contentious construction of homes on lands the Palestinians want for a future state, and has done little to scale back a network of roadblocks in the West Bank that hinder Palestinian movement and have severely handicapped prospects for the Palestinian economy.
Israel, meanwhile, says Abbas hasn’t done enough to curb militants bent on attacking Israel, and the Palestinian president remains powerless against Hamas militants who wrested control of the Gaza Strip last year. Abbas rules only the West Bank, but Israel says no peace deal could be implemented as long as Hamas holds sway in Gaza.
Despite the troubles on both sides, the atmosphere was friendly when Olmert and Abbas posed on the steps of the Elysee Palace with Sarkozy in the center.
Olmert and Abbas each rested an arm on the other’s back.
After the meeting, Olmert spokesman Mark Regev said Israel was committed to “try to reach a historic agreement by the end of this year.” Such an agreement, he said, “would outline what a two-state solution would look like.”
That’s a far less ambitious aim than the original objective set at the U.S.-hosted conference of reaching a detailed final deal by December.
As a “gesture” to Abbas, Olmert “agreed in principle” to release some of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners it holds, Regev said.
Because many Palestinian families have members in Israeli jails, prisoner releases are of paramount importance to the Palestinian people. Previous releases designed to bolster Abbas’ standing among the Palestinian people haven’t satisfied the Palestinians, because they have numbered in the dozens or hundreds.
Regev had no details on how many prisoners would be released or when, adding only that these prisoners would be separate from any freed as part of any prisoner swap for captured Israelis.
Israel plans on Wednesday to free five Lebanese prisoners in exchange for two soldiers captured by Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas in 2006. The soldiers are believed to have been killed during or shortly after their capture, which touched off a monthlong war between Israel and Hezbollah.
In addition, Gaza’s Hamas rulers have demanded the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Gilad Schalit, an Israeli sergeant with French citizenship whose release Sarkozy has urged.
Talks on Schalit’s release are to be stepped up as part of a rocky truce Israel reached with Gaza militants last month.
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat confirmed that Olmert promised to review Abbas’ request for a prisoner release “very positively.” He said the meeting — one of a series of get-togethers the two leaders hold every few weeks — was conducted in a “good atmosphere.”
Asked to comment on Olmert’s observation that the two sides were closer than ever to clinching a deal, Erekat replied, “We are having serious, in-depth negotiations on all issues.”
The main issues that have tormented peace talks for years have been the final borders between Israel and a future Palestinian state, the status of disputed Jerusalem and the fate of Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes in the Arab war on Israel that followed the Jewish state’s creation in 1948.
Erekat said peace talks weren’t affected by Olmert’s domestic troubles. On Friday, police announced that a corruption probe of Olmert had branched out into a new direction, and that the prime minister was suspected of billing multiple sources for identical trips, and pocketing the difference.
In May, Olmert saw his political fortunes plunge when a Jewish-American businessman testified in a Jerusalem court that he gave the Israeli leader hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash before he became prime minister in 2006 — testimony that has raised suspicions of influence peddling. Some of the money, businessman Morris Talansky claimed, bankrolled Olmert’s lavish tastes in cigars, pens and travel.
Olmert’s lawyers are to cross-examine Talansky this week, but Israeli political commentators have predicted that Olmert will not be able to survive the latest allegations against him.
Olmert has denied wrongdoing and promised to resign if indicted, but in the meantime, rivals in his governing Kadima Party are working on holding primaries in September to replace him as party leader.
Under Israel’s political system, the leader of the governing party usually serves as prime minister.
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