Blog 3 – Current and Prophesied Chronological Biblical Events
April 2, 2006
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What is Happening Now and What
is Likely to Begin Between 2008 and 2012!
(1) HAPPENING NOW!
The two following articles from DEBKAfile give a general description of the types of rockets, missiles, and projectiles now in the possession of the Palestinians. Once the defensive barrier is completed and Palestinians are confined inside it, there will be a brief period of false peace, but the buildup of surface to surface, surface to tank, and surface to aircraft projectiles, will be unleashed over and along the security barrier against Israelis, when the Arab armies pour down both sides of the Samarian Mountains from the north.
Begin DEBKAfile Reports
DEBKAfile Exclusive: Palestinians are manufacturing new multiple-rocket launchers with Palestinian Authority funding
March 30, 2006, 10:14 AM (GMT+02:00)
The broad program involving all the armed Palestinian organizations is close to producing a facsimile of the Russian-made Grad, renamed Quds-3, supplied by Iran, which can simultaneously fire 10 rockets from a truck to a distance of 18-30 km. The system weighs 13 tons and enables a crew of 7-10 Palestinians firing from the Gaza Strip to hit not only the Israeli port of Ashkelon, but Ashdod to the north too, as well as the towns of Netivot and Ofakim to the east.
The system was proudly displayed to Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas when he visited the Gaza Strip last week.
DEBKAfile’s military sources: The new 122mm rocket, test-fired against Ashkelon on Israel’s election-day, Tuesday, March 28, weighs 66 kilos and carries 17 kilos of explosives. It was developed in Palestinian workshops in the Gaza Strip on instructions from Iranian instructors using the Russian-Made Grad and BM21 Katyusha as their model. Several dozen rockets are already in stock, substantially upgrading the Palestinian war arsenal with a heavy artillery system and extending its long-range assault capability. The product currently produce is wire-operated. The crew pulls back some 60 meters from the launcher and releases the rockets by pulling the wire.
A ten-rocket volley has a far better chance of hitting an Israeli target than the hit-or-miss, primitive Qassam missiles fired daily from the Gaza Strip.
Our military experts point out that, as the Americans discovered in Iraq, sophisticated weaponry, including drones and electronic surveillance, offers no solution to countering roadside bombs and rockets fired on the ground. The Palestinians have concluded that, even if the Israeli air force knocks out some of their Quds-3 rocket systems, they will still be left with enough launchers to cause heavy Israeli casualties and damage in the towns within range
of Gaza.
End DEBKAfile Reports
(2) LIKELY TO BEGIN BETWEEN 2008 AND 2012 AND LAST 1260 DAYS THEREAFTER
Event Number 3 – Occurrences Associated With the Attack
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.
The antichrist’s initial thrust from the north into the glorious land of Israel will be a two-pronged attack. The Lebanese and Syrian troops will move rapidly south along the base of the western mountains of Galilee and Samaria, and then dig in along the foothills of these two ranges. The Palestinian troops will move quickly north from the Gaza Strip along the base of the western mountain bluffs of Samaria to link up with the Lebanese and Syrian Units, and then they will dig in below the bluffs. The Palestinians will also slide westward down the western slopes of the West Bank to join the dug in forces from the north and the south. The whole purpose will be to box in the coastal zone from Tel Aviv to Haifa, where some seventy percent of the Jewish population abides. A constant hammering of Katyusha rockets will shower down from the high interior elevations around Tulkarm, Qalkilya, and Jenin onto the coastal plain from Tel Aviv to Haifa. This is the first prong of the attack in a plan to “divide and conquer,” one of the oldest military strategies in the manual.
The smuggling of shoulder held anti-tank weapons, several types of rockets, and some anti-aircraft missiles through the Gaza Strip via way of the Egyptian Sinai is well known and continuing at the present time.
It will keep the Israeli coastal plain forces bottled up while the second prong attack sweeps south along the eastern slopes of the mountains of Galilee and Samaria. Syrian, Iranian, and Iraqi troops will employ a lightning blitzkrieg Jihad strike down the Jordan Valley.
The forces of the Palestinian Authority, which have long been smuggling shoulder held anti-tank missile weaponry across the Jordan at night, will come down eastward out of the hundreds of erosion valleys of the Samarian hills, and attack all Israeli tank units proceeding north to intercept the Arab tank divisions.
Israel, which has the best Air Force in the world, will be faced with a literal flooding of the skies with inferior aircraft and pilots, such that they will have a turkey shoot. However, their preoccupation with the destruction of Islamic aircraft will greatly hinder the destruction of the mechanized Arab ground forces. Furthermore, the closeness of the battlefield array of Israeli and Islamic tanks will afford Arab tanks a form of protection from air attacks, in that a fear of casualties from friendly fire will be fully justified. As the forces of antichrist advance down the Jordan Valley, they will not attack Jordan, but will bypass it. You may use any map showing the lands occupied in 600 B.C. by the descendents of the two sons of Lot, Ammon and Moab, and by the descendents of Jacob’s brother, Esau or Edom, and it will be readily apparent to you that the descendants of these three men were all living within the confines of the modern day country we know as Jordan. The country of Jordan has no real military, political, or economic value to the antichrist, so it will be bypassed, much as the Japanese held islands of the Pacific were bypassed on the way to Japan. Later, after Jerusalem falls, Jordan will of course pledge allegiance to him and become a part of his empire, but only after he has plucked up their ruler. The antichrist’s troops will reach the midst of Israel within four days after the Jihad attack begins and Jerusalem will fall.
The United States is absolutely confident, based on Israel’s victories over the Arabs in 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973, that what I have just described cannot happen. They will do nothing for this reason, and before they get over their shock, Israel will have been driven into their war contingency evacuation area south of Beersheba.
As has been the case in Israel’s four previous conflicts with the Arabs, a truce will be called for by the United Nations, and both the Arabs and Israel will agree to it. Modern day Israel, as they were in
the time of the Prophet Moses, will once again be in the wilderness of Israel, with their enemies holding the land from Dan to Beersheba.
But this time they will not have to wait for 40 years to go in and possess it, having only to wait for some three and one-half years.
Zechariah 14:1,2 – 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 Islamic forces from the north will link up with the Palestinians at Jericho and they will attack Jerusalem from the east. A second group of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip will attack Jerusalem from the west. And the city of Jerusalem will be trodden down of the Gentiles during the last 1260 days before Armageddon. Israel will flee into the Negev and remain there for the same period.
ONE PROPHETIC YEAR = 360 DAYS
ONE PROPHETIC MONTH = 30 DAYS
3 AND ½ PROPHETIC YEARS = 42 PROPHETIC MONTHS = 1260 DAYS
TIME = 1 PROPHETIC YEAR
TIMES = 2 PROPHETIC YEARS
HALF A TIME = ½ PROPHETIC YEAR
Revelation 11:2 – But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
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.
It will be necessary for the Israelis trapped in the coastal section from Tel Aviv to Haifa to be air evacuated to the Negev. Lord willing, I will talk about this in a future Blog.
Revelation 12:14 – And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
This particular phase of the attack was first partially introduced in our Blog 2.
I believe it likely that this attack will be launched at some point in time between the years of 2008 and 2012, and will be followed some 1260 days later by the final battle of Armageddon.
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