Setting the stage for Failure,
For the final battleground Scene,
Of a GREAT FLOOD of Islamic Troops,
From within and without against Israel,
As the world watches God stop the Flood,
At Beersheba diverting the flood into Egypt,
Leaving a remnant of Israel in the vast Negev,
Until Messiah returns to save it at Armageddon,
Lookout World, pieces of the puzzle are Merging,
And A Point IN TIME Between 2010 & 2015 Looms
Large as the most logical time for a flood to Begin!
April 28, 2009
BIRTH PANG NUMBER 42
The Remnant of Israel, Past, Present, and Future!
Part 7
March 29, 2002
Revelation 12:6,15,16 – 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. [15] And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. [16] And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
I have already exposited on all the verses prior to verses 15 and 16 in Parts 1 through 6 of previous Birth Pang Updates. The woman, Israel, has received a population decrease of two-thirds, evacuated the city of Jerusalem, and is in the act of fleeing into the Israeli land south of Beersheba, which is the Negev. But the Scriptures indicate that this remnant will one day return, and at that time they will call God their God, and He will once again call them His people. The “residue” (remnant) will not be “cut off” from Jerusalem forever, but will come north out of the Negev, following the battle of Armageddon, to retake the city.
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. [1] Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. [2] For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
The confederation of 10 nations, led by antichrist, is moving like a rolling flood in hot pursuit of Israel in verses 15 and 16. The word “flood” is used several times in the Old Testament to refer to an army advancing like a flood. One use is in Jeremiah 46:8.
Jeremiah 46:8 – Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
The antichrist has been brought down by God to drive Israel into the Negev.
Ezekiel 38:3,4,14-17 – And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: [4] And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: [14] Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? [15] And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: [16] And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
[17] Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
Revelation 12:16 – And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
After God has put hooks into antichrist’s jaws to bring him into Israel, the Devil is cast out of heaven, and immediately directs the antichrist’s armies southward from Jerusalem toward the entrance city to the Negev, namely Beersheba.
Across southern Israel, from Hebron to Beersheba, are numerous topographical folds in the rock strata oriented northeast to southwest, and in these folds are hinge faults with the same orientation. This type of fault is capable of suddenly opening during a period of earthquake activity. An army passing through this zone in hot pursuit, if large earthquakes suddenly rippled through it from Israel’s Arabah Fault in the Jordan Valley, could suffer many casualties by being swallowed up in this type of geological structure.
This is probably the earthquake that begins the last 3 and ½ years of the Tribulation Period, which occurs on the opening
of the 6th Seal.
Revelation 6:12 – And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Ezekiel 38:18,19 – And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my fury shall come up in my face. [19] For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
Once the series of earthquakes have depleted his army, the antichrist, who will know the strength of Israel in the Negev, will halt his advance at Beersheba, and head for Egypt.
This will leave between 1.9 and 2 Million Israelis trapped in the Negev for about 3 and ½ years.
Daniel 11:42,43 – He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. [43] But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
Antichrist will conquer Egypt and then began set up his Caliphate Kingdom from Morocco to Indonesia, which will last for some three and one-half years.
END BIRTH PANG NUMBER 42
Iran would love to see a two state government in place in Israel, because the millions of Palestinians born since 1948 could return to
the Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank. This would greatly increase the number of terrorists that would pour outward from the West Bank Mountains onto the narrow Jordan River Banks and coastal banks of the Mediterranean Sea. Israel would be attacked from the north by a huge Islamic force consisting of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and by a PA Arab force coming out in all directions from the West Bank, plus from the south, west, and southwest of the Gaza Strip.
Begin Excerpt 1 from Jerusalem Post
‘Iran will honor any two-state decision’
April 26, 2009
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview broadcast Sunday that the Islamic republic would honor any decision made by the Palestinians with regards to a two-state solution in a future peace deal with Israel.
“Whatever decision they take, we will support that. We think that this is the right of the Palestinian people,” he told ABC’s This Week in a rare face-to-face interview with an American news network.
He also called on other nations, specifically the US and European governments, to respect the Palestinians’ right to determine their fate.
Ahmadinejad went on to say that while the Islamic republic believes “in talking, in negotiating, based on sincerity, respect and justice,” the country would not hold talks with the Obama administration unless “a clear-cut framework” and “clear agenda” were agreed upon beforehand.
In the interview, which took place Wednesday in Teheran, Ahmadinejad said that while Iran welcomed the recent overtures from US President Barack Obama, “an administration which, up until yesterday, was saying that I’m going to kill you, and today says that I’m not going to kill you, is that sufficient?”
Ahmadinejad stressed that he had “no reservations when it comes to talking,” but that the nuclear program was “a special issue.”
“We think that the nuclear issue needs to be resolved in the context of the agency and regulations.
We are just utilizing our legal rights,” the Iranian leader said.
The Iranian president went on to say he had “fully expected” Obama to participate in the UN racism follow-up conference held in Geneva last week, noting that while he didn’t believe Obama supported racism, he “should have been there and should have condemned outright racism and racial discrimination.”
Several nations, including the US, boycotted the conference as they feared it would serve as a stage for attacking Israel, which was in fact the focus of Ahmadinejad’s speech.
However, the Iranian leader said that when he was talking against “the Zionist regime, the first proviso for successful talks would be to give the other party the freedom to speak. Mr. Obama has the right to have his own opinion, obviously.”
“My point of view is that the Zionist regime is the manifestation of racism,” Ahamdinejad stated.
He went on to say that Western diplomats who walked out during his speech in Geneva “are free to have their own points of view,” but noted that he did not understand “why they want to deny me my ideas.”
He also criticized Obama’s support for the IDF’s Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip.
“The gentleman’s support of the massacre of Gazans in support for the criminals who were responsible for that atrocity was a major mistake on the part of the gentleman,” Ahmadinejad said.
When asked why he insisted on questioning the Holocaust even when it has established as an historical fact and even though Iranian politicians worry that this kind of talk isolates Iran, Ahamdinejad explained why he believed the issue was not being treated fairly.
The two main problems with the way the world regards the Holocaust, the Iranian president said, were that the Palestinians were expected to pay the price for European racism, and that research that questions the Holocaust was not permitted.
“If this is a historically documented event, why do Western states show so much sensitivity toward a historical event? They do not want the lid to be taken off. I am asking them to permit studies,” he said.
Begin Excerpt 2 from Jerusalem Post
‘Without benchmarks, US dialogue with Iran will fail’
April 27, 2009
Yaakov Katz , THE JERUSALEM POST
Without a clear time frame and set benchmarks, the dialogue US President Barack Obama plans to hold with Iran will fail to stop the Islamic republic from obtaining nuclear weapons, Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon has told The Jerusalem Post.
In an exclusive, wide-ranging interview, his first since becoming a government minister on March 31, which will be published in Friday’s Upfront magazine, the former IDF chief of General Staff said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s appearance at the UN conference on racism in Geneva last week was reminiscent of the way the world treated Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
“I have no doubt that the Iranians will use any dialogue to stall for time if there will not be a clear time frame and clear benchmarks like telling them that they have two months to stop the enrichment,” Ya’alon said.
“These are the type of benchmarks that can test the Iranians, since anything else will be a waste of time. This time will be used by the Iranians to continue to move towards a nuclear military capability.”
The West has to understand that it needs to confront the Iranians and cannot make concessions, he said.
“What is happening between the Western world and the Islamic jihadists of Iran is a process that is built on previous surrenders and concessions,” he said. “What the West needs to do is stand up against this wave and confront it.”
Regarding the Palestinian conflict, Ya’alon stressed several times throughout the interview the PA’s refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
He said that even at the Annapolis Conference in November 2007, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas refused to insert the words “two states for two peoples” into the mutual statement and only allowed the words “two states.”
“That is why the prime minister says that we want them to recognize Israel’s right to be a Jewish state,” he said. “This right does not depend on them but if they don’t recognize it then there is nothing to talk about.”
Ya’alon also rejected the Saudi initiative, which calls for an Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 borders.
“From our perspective, the pre-1967 borders are not defensible. To go onto this track is dangerous. I am in favor of doing things that are creative, but not this way,” he said.
The government, he said, was currently completing its policy-evaluation and supported a “bottom-up” approach to the conflict under which, as a first step, the Palestinians would need to implement serious education, political, security and economic reforms.
Ya’alon refused to comment on whether the IDF could stage an effective strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.
“We need to hope that the job will be done by someone else and at the same time, as the Talmudic sage Hillel said, ‘If I am not for myself who will be?'” he said.
Despite US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s statements last week that Israel runs the risk of losing Arab support for combating threats from Iran if it rejects peace negotiations with the Palestinians, Ya’alon said he rejected such linkage, calling it “superficial.”
“I believe that this whole idea is wrong at its core,” he said.
“Firstly, if you solve the Israel-Palestinian conflict it will not stop or even soften the Islamic jihadists. The Islamic Revolution [in Iran in 1979] did not erupt because of us.
Al-Qaida was not created because of us and even Hizbullah did not rise up because of us.”
What was needed was for the West, led by America, to “confront” Iran, and if the US decided to conduct a dialogue or impose additional sanctions, to do so while holding a “stick of military pressure,” Ya’alon said.
“The fact is that in 2003, Iran stopped its program without being attacked. This was basically due to a combination of diplomatic pressure and the threat of sanctions, but mainly due to the threat of military action,” he said.
Despite predictions that the policies of the Netanyahu government will create a clash with the Obama administration, Ya’alon said he did not recall a single incident during his adult life of Washington imposing something on Israel that undermined its security interests.
On Sunday, Ahmadinejad said that while Iran believed “in talking, in negotiating, based on sincerity, respect and justice,” Teheran would not hold talks with the Obama administration unless “a clear-cut framework” and a “clear agenda” were agreed upon beforehand.
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