Long Range Planning for Future Islamic Jihad Attack against Israel
March 20, 2006
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The coordination between all the terrorist groups surrounding Israel in a crescent moon from Iran across Baghdad to Damascus to Hizbollah in southern Lebanon
to Hamas in Gaza and to the Egyptian Sinai, has long and short range projects and goals, but the end result of all cooperation between them has a final goal – to drive Israel out of the land from Dan to Beersheba. I am of the opinion that once all foreign troops are out of Iraq and Afghanistan, the result of all this planning will be a lightening Jihad against Israel from the north at a point in time between 2008
and 2012.
Hamas leaders visited Iran earlier this month, as did the President of Syria and other high ranking Syrian officials. Now, according to the following DEBKAfile reports, Ayatollah Sadr of Iraq, and Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah were secretly summoned to Iran last week.
It is like a gathering of vultures to divide the prey. It is not by chance that the spreading of the Afar Triangle in the southern Red Sea, and the spreading of antichrist-like treachery are both pre-tribulation events – one before the army of antichrist comes into Israel, and the other before a very great shaking begins in the land of Israel. I know that Gog is the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and I believe he is the antichrist. I believe the DEBKAfile reports, which follow Scriptures from Ezekiel 38 are, in my opinion, part of a long range plan which will culminate in the eventual fulfillment of Ezekiel 38. (See Prophecy Update Number 27 in our Prophecy Update Archives).
Ezekiel 38:1,2 – “And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him.” Gog (high extension) appears for the first time in Ezekiel. He is the Anti-christ of whom so much has been written. Please note that he is identified as the “chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.” Many commentators, especially in the last 100 years, have not identified him as the Antichrist, but have identified him as the ruler or chief prince of the land of Magog, which I do not believe Scripture justifies. Before the 20th Century, most identified him as the Antichrist. In verse 2 Ezekiel is told to set his face against two separate things, a person and a place.
The person is Gog (Antichrist), and the place is the land of the descendants of Magog where it existed in Ezekiel’s day. If we do not locate the territories of Magog, Meshech, and Tubal as they existed in Ezekiel’s day, then we can have no idea as to where the Antichrist will soon rear his head, or the area from which his attack will be launched. Why? Because more than 2500 years have slipped by since Ezekiel wrote his prophecies, and the bloodlines of all three men been distributed across the entire planet. In order to correctly identify the area, from whence the Antichrist will attack Israel, we must identify where the descendants of Meshech and Tubal were residing in 500 and 600 B.C. Why? Because the Antichrist is not the chief prince of Magog, he is the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
He will come from the area where their descendants were settled in 500 and 600 B.C.
I will attempt to use two different sources to locate where the descendants of Meshech and Tubal were clustered at the time of Ezekiel’s writings. The first is found in the 27th chapter of Ezekiel, and the second is from the Assyrian monument stones of that period. Ezekiel 27:3 – “And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.” Tyrus (Tyre) was a seaport on the southern coast of what we know today as Lebanon, which is directly north of Israel. Tyrus built its first great sea wall to protect its harbored ships more than 3000 years ago, and was a thriving seaport in Ezekiel’s day. Its ships carried merchandise from the countries of the east across all the Mediterranean, and even as far north as the shores of the English Channel. Zidon (Sidon) was also a sea port, and less than 20 miles separated the two cities.
The wise men of Tyrus were the navigators of the ships, and the men of Zidon were the deck hands, as portrayed in Ezekiel 27:8 – “The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.” Now, bearing all this in mind, let us look at Ezekiel 27:13 – “Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.” Meshech and Tubal were warlike tribes, who often took their captives (persons of men) and the vessels of brass they had captured, or hammered out themselves, and carried them to the NEAREST seaport for trading.
The captives were, of course, loaded on the ships and sold as slaves in foreign ports of trade. Why the NEAREST seaport
? Because, in Ezekiel’s day, travel was by foot, donkey, camel, and horse. People always carried their trading goods to the nearest port, particularly slaves. Therefore, I conclude that Meshech and Tubal must have roamed in the area we know today as Syria, Lebanon, northwestern Iraq, and southern Turkey. Meshech and Tubal are the Mushki and Tabali of the Assyrian stone monuments. In the time of Sargon and Sennacherib (700 B.C.) the territory of Tubal adjoined southern Cilicia, while that of Meshech filled the highlands to the east of Tubal. Considering the locations derived from the Bible and stone tablets, it appears that the Antichrist, as the chief prince of the area once occupied by Meshech and Tubal, is likely to arise, and eventually to attack Israel, from Syria or Lebanon.
And, since Lebanon is virtually controlled by Syria, it appears Syria is the best guess for his homeland.
Ezekiel 38:17-20 – 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
? [18] 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 me 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; [20] So that the fishes of
the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
BEGIN DEBKAfile Reports
DEBKAfile reports:
Tehran hatches plan for coordinated terrorist attacks in Iraq on US targets and from Lebanon against Israel
March 19, 2006, 5:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
To this end, radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Ayatollah Moqtada Sadr, commander of the Mehdi Army, and Lebanon’s Hizballah secretary, Hassan Nasrallah, were secretly summoned to Tehran last week. Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz toured military defense line Sunday, March 19, on alert since March 12, while chief of staff Lt.Gen. Dan Halutz reported to the government session in Jerusalem on preparations for large-scale Hizballah action.
DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report the visit by Sadr and Nasrallah was important enough to rate an audience for the two Shiite leaders with Iran’s supreme ruler Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and talks with two high-flying Iranian generals: Qasim Suleimani, commander of the Revolutionary Guards al Quds force, which runs Iranian Middle East terrorist operations and Ismail Dekaiki, recently named head of Iranian terrorist networks in Iraq. The combined Tehran-instigated offensive against US troops in Iraq and northern Israel is aimed at easing US pressure on the Iranian nuclear question. The prospect prompted a high Israeli alert on its northern border with Lebanon from March 12 up until the present.
END DEBKAfile Reports
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