False Peace Much More Likely in Middle East,
AS Iranian Regime IS Weakened BY Protests!
Loss of Revenues by Iranian Sponsored Terror
Groups in and around the state of Israel Would
Be more likely to lead them to make false Peace!
It’s Unlikely the Mullah Regime Will Totally Collapse,
But it now seems certain it will weaken its Dictatorial
Stranglehold on the people and demolish the Economy!
So whether the regime collapses or is merely Weakened,
Chances for False Peace are on the rise in the Middle East!
June 22, 2009
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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 38:14-17 – 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?
Ezekiel 38:14 – 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
?
The question of verse 14 is directed personally by God to Gog . It is a question to which both know the answer, as attested by “shalt thou not know it?” Gog will be well aware of it, because he will have made the agreement allowing Israel to dwell in safety. And this will be one of the reasons the antiChrist’s blitzkrieg attack will be so successful. It will catch them by surprise.
Ezekiel 38:15 – 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:
Verse 15 reveals some very important new information when it states: “And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts.” When Ezekiel wrote his prophecies, the expression “the north parts,” to those who read it in those days, meant the area we call Syria and Lebanon today. I am certain that the antichrist will arise to power as the head of some country which satisfies the requirements of being from “the north parts” as they were identified in Ezekiel’s day. Antichrist may arise in southern Turkey or northwestern Iraq, but in Ezekiel’s day “the north parts” encompassed the area occupied by Lebanon and Syria today. His army will be composed of troops from ten Arab nations.
The initial attack will be conducted primarily by Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran, but others will participate in various ways. When the Scripture says: “all of them riding upon horses,” it is picturing to the readers of Ezekiel’s day what would be a “fully equipped” army. His army will be equipped with all of today’s modern weapons to meet this requirement.
Ezekiel 38:16 – 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.
We are advised that the character of the attack will be like a lightning blitzkrieg strike. His armies shall move south across the land like a fast moving thunderstorm cloud races across an area, leaving havoc in its wake. It is to occur in “the latter days” of this Gentile age. We are advised that God, not Gog, will determine when the attack occurs. When the final battle of the 3 and ½ years of the conflict is finished at Armageddon, God will have been set-apart (sanctified) in the eyes of all nations as being King of kings, Lord of lords, and God of gods. For 1000 years it will be remembered what God performed before the eyes of all survivors of the conflict.
God is in charge! He will determine the time of the attack by putting it in the minds of the attackers. These 10 Arab nations will surrender their power to the antichrist, but after Israel has suffered in the Negev for some 3 and ½ years, Christ will then return with the saints to end the Battle of Armageddon, and God will the sanctified (set-apart) in Christ as the all powerful King of kings.
Revelation 17:12-14 – And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power
and strength unto the beast. [14] These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
It will be highly advisable to watch the efforts of Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Lebanon to reconcile any political and military differences during the coming months. They, along with the terrorist groups they control, will finally come to realize that in order to come up with a plan to meet their common objective (the end of the Jewish state), they must fully cooperate and coordinate with one another.
They want to get Israel out of the land from Dan to Beersheba. The continuation of terrorist attacks, no matter how numerous or violent they become, will never accomplish their objective.
If they will stop the terrorist attacks, and then settle for whatever they can get in concessions for the Golan Heights and the West Bank, Israel can be led into a false sense of security after a short period of what seems to be a genuine peace. Only then can Israel be driven into the Negev by a blitzkrieg attack from “the north parts.”
This prophecy has been around for a very long time!
Ezekiel 38:17 – 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?
Muhammad even copied his version of it from the Old Testament when he wrote the Koran.
The Prophets 21:92-97 – Your religion is but one religion, and I am your only Lord. Therefore serve only me. Men have divided themselves into schisms, but to Us they shall all return. He that does good works in the fullness of his faith, his endeavors shall not be lost: We record them all. It is ordained that no nation We have destroyed shall ever rise again. But when Gog and Magog are let loose and rush headlong down every hill; when the true promise nears its fulfillment; the unbelievers shall stare in amazement crying: ‘Woe to us! Of this we have been heedless. We have done wrong.’
Begin Excerpt 1 from Jerusalem Post
Analysis: Most Arabs won’t miss Iran’s ayatollahs if they fall
June 22, 2009
Khaled Abu Toameh , THE JERUSALEM POST
Many Arab governments, including the Palestinian Authority, are quietly hoping that the latest crisis in Iran will mark the beginning of the end of the radical regime of the ayatollahs and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Frustrated with Teheran’s long-standing policy of meddling in their internal affairs, representatives of the relatively moderate, pro-Western governments in Ramallah, Cairo, Beirut, Riyadh and other Arab capitals are hoping that regime change in Iran would undermine radical Islamic groups such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hizbullah.
These proxy groups, together with Syria – Iran’s strategic ally and facilitator in the Arab world – have long been viewed as a main source of instability in the Middle East.
Yet the Arab heads of state and their government officials appear to be doing their utmost to downplay the Iran crisis.
They are obviously concerned that their constituents would follow suit and demand reforms and free elections.
Invoking Palestinian terminology, Arab editors and columnists have been describing the anti-government protests in Iran as an intifada.
“The pro-Iran camp in the Arab world is very worried,” said Abdel Rahman Rashed in an op-ed in the London-based Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat. “It’s natural for Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other pro-Iran groups to be afraid because their existence depends solely on the radical regime in Iran. If anything bad happens to this regime, they will suffer even more.”
Rashed hailed the Iranian protesters for opposing their government’s policy of funding Hizbullah and Hamas at a time when the economy in Iran is not doing well.
A number of Palestinian officials in Ramallah said they expected the collapse of the regime in Iran to have a “positive” impact on what’s happening in the PA-controlled territories.
“The Hamas leaders must be in a state of panic,” said an adviser to PA President Mahmoud Abbas. “Without Iran’s support, Hamas couldn’t have staged a coup in the Gaza Strip two years ago.”
The official claimed that the Iranian government had given Hamas more than $150 million in the past three years, enabling the radical Islamic movement to maintain its tight grip on the Gaza Strip. He said that more than 80% of Hamas’s weapons come from the Iranians.
“Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollahs have long been working hard to export their radical Shi’ite ideology to Palestine,” said another PA official in Ramallah. “We will be more than happy to see the regime in Teheran disappear, together with Hamas and Islamic Jihad.”
But there is also concern in Ramallah that the crisis would force US President Barack Obama to focus on Iran rather than the Israeli-Arab conflict.
The “intifada” in Iran erupted just when it seemed that the issues of West Bank settlements and the two-state solution had been placed, thanks to the Obama administration, at the top of the world’s agenda.
Unlike former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Ahmadinejad never succeeded in winning the hearts and minds of the Palestinian masses despite his fiery rhetoric and threats to eliminate Israel.
Teheran’s open support for Hamas in the power struggle with Fatah, as well as its continued attempts to undermine the relatively moderate regimes in Egypt, Jordan and the Gulf countries, have alienated many Palestinians. Echoing these sentiments, Hafez Barghouti, editor of the PA-funded Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, held Teheran responsible for the ongoing sharp differences between Hamas and Fatah.
Egyptian mediation efforts between the two rival parties have failed because of the Iranians, who have turned Khaled Mashaal into another ayatollah, he said, referring sarcastically to the Syrian-based Hamas leader as “Ayatollah Mashalati.”
Like many of his colleagues throughout the Arab world, Barghouti expected the crisis in Iran to escalate, resulting ultimately in the downfall of the ayatollahs. “The winds of change will eventually reach the top brass of the Iranian regime,” remarked Palestinian columnist Muwafak Matar. “What’s happening there is more than a power struggle in the regime. It could be the beginning of a new era of awareness among the young people, who are aspiring for stability and rejoining the international community. They want a new Iran that does not interfere in the internal affairs of its neighbors or countries that are far away.”
Noting that Teheran had been meddling in the internal affairs of the Palestinians, Lebanese and Egyptians over the past few years, another Palestinian columnist, Rajab Abu Siriyyeh, said he did not rule out the possibility that Obama’s conciliatory approach to the Arabs and Muslims could have been one of the main reasons why tens of thousands of Iranians decided to take to the streets.
“They see the last election as an opportunity for real change in Iran,” he said. “Ahmadinejad’s policies have strained relations between his country and the Arab countries. We saw how Teheran recently dispatched a Hizbullah cell to attack Egypt.”
Abu Siriyyeh said that the Arab world, which is worried about Iran’s territorial ambitions in the Middle East, would not tolerate another four years of Ahmadinejad’s rule.
“The Arab countries will benefit in many aspects from the collapse of the current regime in Iran,” said Mohammed Husseini, secretary-general of the Arabic-Islamic Council in Lebanon. “The demise of the regime will remove a real threat to Arab national security and put an end to Teheran’s meddling in the internal affairs of others.”
Husseini voiced hope that the next regime in Iran would learn from the mistakes of its predecessors and refrain from “sticking its nose” into the Arab people’s affairs. He said that Iran’s proxy groups in the Arab world will then realize that they had made a “huge mistake” by placing Teheran’s interests above the interests of their own people.
Begin Excerpt 2 from Jerusalem Post
Iran clashes renew as army threatens to quash protests
June 22, 2009
jpost.com staff and ap , THE JERUSALEM POST
Protests in Iran renewed Monday afternoon, with police reportedly attacking hundreds of demonstrators with tear gas and firing in the air to disperse the Teheran rallies.
Helicopters hovered overhead as about 200 protesters gathered at Haft-e-Tir Square Monday. Hundreds of anti-riot police quickly put an end to the demonstration.
Witnesses said police at the scene tried to prevent any gathering, even among small groups.
At the subway station at Haft-e-Tir, police did not allow anyone to stand still, asking them to keep walking and separating people who were walking together.
Just before the clashes, an Iranian woman who lives in Teheran said there was a heavy police and security presence in another square in central Teheran. She asked not to be identified because she was worried about government reprisals.
“There is a massive, massive, massive police presence,” she told the Associated Press in Cairo by telephone. “Their presence was really intimidating.”
Following the outbreak of violence, Britain began to evacuate
the families of staff based in the country, the UK Foreign Office announced on Monday.
According to the ministry, family members of diplomats and other officials had been unable to continue their lives as normal because of the rioting.
However, a spokesman said that the staff based in Iran are not being withdrawn.
The ministry said Monday it is not advising other British nationals to leave, but confirmed that it is monitoring the situation with “the utmost vigilance.”
The renewed clashes came as Iran’s Revolutionary Guard threatened to crush any further opposition protests over the disputed presidential election and warned demonstrators to prepare for a “revolutionary confrontation” if they take to the streets again.
The country’s most powerful military force ordered demonstrators to “end the sabotage and rioting activities” and said their resistance was a “conspiracy” against Iran.
A statement posted on the Guard’s Web site warned protesters to “be prepared for a resolution and revolutionary confrontation with the Guards, Basij and other security forces and disciplinary forces.”
The announcement came after opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi vowed Sunday night to keep up the protests, charging that the June 12 presidential election was a fraud.
Iran’s Guardian Council admitted to irregularities in the election, implying that the number of votes collected in 50 cities surpassed the number of eligible voters.
Council spokesperson Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei, speaking on the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Channel 2 on Sunday, made the remarks in an attempt to play down accusations of election fraud launched by failed presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaei.
“Statistics provided by the candidates, who claim more than 100% of those eligible cast their ballot in 80-170 cities are not accurate – the incident happened in only 50 cities,” Kadkhodaei was quoted on the Iranian state-funded Website Press TV.
At the same time, Press TV quoted the spokesman on another Web site, Khabaronline, where Kadkhodaei said that it could not yet be determined whether the “possible change in the tally” of the affected ballots would indeed change the vote’s results.
Meanwhile, Al Arabiya reported that Iranian religious leaders were considering an alternative to Iran’s ayatollah structure.
As well as coming in the wake of the bloody protests – in which at least 17 people have been killed – the report also follows the arrest and ensuing release of family members of former president Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
According to the Al Arabiya report, Iranian religious clerks in Qom, as well as members of the Assembly of Experts headed by Rafsanjani were behind the move.
Among the relatives of Rafsanjani who were detained was his daughter Faezeh, a 46-year-old reformist politician vilified by hard-liners for her open support of Mousavi.
All the detainees were released after a few hours.
Iranian police said in a Monday statement that 457 people were arrested on Saturday.
It did not say how many had been arrested during the rest of the week or how many remained in custody.
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