While America Whistles in the Dark
When Push Comes to Shove at End
God’s Michael will stand Up for Israel
Against Antichrist’s Armageddon Army
And God’s Power will achieve the Victory
We stand on brink of final Middle East War
While a planet’s masses whistle in Darkness
Believing God and his Word to be ancient Relics
July 16, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Joel 3:9-11 – Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: [10] Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
[11] Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.
Revelation 16:16 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
Daniel 11:44 to 12:1 – But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. [45] And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. [12] And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Zechariah 4:6 – Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord
of hosts.
Isaiah 41:20 – That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
Zechariah 14:3-5 – Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
[4] And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. [5] And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
Most of the deals reached with Islamic nations are reached by secret negotiations which are eventually allowed to surface for international acceptance. After the initial attack against the Israelis it will become quite clear that the only real support we will provide will not be to fight in direct combat alongside them, but to airlift them to the Negev and provide humanitarian support to them in that locale for some three and one half years. We have tired of our position of world leadership in this era of constant
international criticism and internal political confusion, and are longing to return to an isolationist doctrine. I believe the next election will provide that for us, and we will watch Israel go down the tubes in spite of our many years of bravely declaring we would stand with them.
Begin DEBKAfile Excerpt
High US official to attend nuclear talks with Iran, capping secret US-Tehran diplomacy
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
July 16, 2008, 8:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
The announcement that US Under Secretary of State William Burns will join the meeting the European Union’s Javier Solana holds with Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili in Switzerland this week makes official the secret diplomatic track afoot between Washington and Tehran, which was first disclosed by DEBKA-Net-Weekly on June 27.
Our US sources confirm that this step distances the Bush administration still further from Israel’s policy position, which calls for the curtailment of Iran’s drive for a nuclear bomb by all means, including military action.
It leaves Jerusalem alone in the arena against Iran on the nuclear and other security issues, such as Hizballah, Syria and the radicalized Lebanese government.
The Washington announcement came a day after Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama reiterated he was willing to engage Iran’s leaders in direct talks.
In its June 27 issue, DEBKA-Net-Weekly 354 reported (Secret US-Iran Talks: Bush Pulls Iran Diplomacy Carpet from under Obama) that President George W. Bush had hijacked Obama’s opening to Iran to fashion a diplomatic legacy for his successor and help John McCain get elected.
This secret dialogue had yielded deals on pricing oil up to a $150 ceiling and a helping h
and from Tehran in Iraq.
Revolutionary Guards intelligence officers serving under cover in Iraq were instructed to hold back radical Shiite militias from attacking US forces and to share intelligence with the American military.
This did not stop Hizballah cells in Iraq from going for American targets. One of their operatives, trained in Iran as an explosives expert was captured in Iraq, according to a disclosure on Tuesday, July 15.
The understandings US and Iranian diplomats achieved in their undisclosed talks over several weeks were far-ranging. Our Middle East sources reveal they included Lebanese political stability under a new national government in which Iran’s surrogate, Hizballah won veto power and Syria’s violent proxy a ministerial seat; and Syrian ruler Bashar Assad’s res toration
to center position on the Middle East stage with honors heaped on him by French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
This new White House orientation has thrust Israel to the outer edge of its Middle East policy in favor of placing its most extreme enemies at the center.
Prime minister Olmert, foreign minister Tzipi Livni and defense minister Ehud Barak find their foreign policies bankrupted.
The indirect peace talks Olmert initiated with Syria through Turkey are now revealed as a smoke screen which he laid down unwittingly to cover Washington’s pursuit of a secret rapprochement with Tehran and Damascus.
A further sign that the secret US-Iran dialogue was about to surface came from a surprisingly mild statement by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Monday that his government is willing to hold direct contacts with US officials on the understanding that Iran retains the right to enrich uranium.
Last week, William Burns told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee that he was optimistic about the prospects of nuclear negotiations with Iran.
He played down the fact that Tehran had not given an inch on the enrichment issue or halted its advance towards nuclear weaponization.
The official US statement Wednesday said Burns “will be there [at the big power talks in Switzerland] to listen, not negotiate.”
DEBKAfile’s sources add: The real negotiations are still go ing forward
in the realm of secret diplomacy.
Begin New York Times Excerpt from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs – Daily Alert
July 16, 2008
U.S. Envoy to Join Meeting with Iranian on Nuclear Program
Steven Lee Myers
President Bush has authorized the most significant American diplomatic contact with Iran since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, sending the State Department’s third-ranking official to Geneva for a meeting on Saturday on Iran’s nuclear program, administration officials said Tuesday. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William J. Burns will attend the meeting with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Iran’s nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, who is expected to present Iran’s formal response to a package of economic and diplomatic incentives presented to Iran in June.
The decision appeared to bend the administration’s insistence that it would not negotiate with Iran over its nuclear programs unless it first suspended uranium enrichment.
Clifford Kupchan of the Eurasia Group, a consultancy in Washington, said, “Disclaimers notwithstanding, the precondition that Iran must suspend [enrichment] before the U.S. will talk about the nuclear issue will by every standard have been dropped.” (New York Times)
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