BLOG 9 – Current and Prophesied Chronological Biblical Events
April 9, 2006
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What is Happening Now and What is Likely to Begin Between 2008 and 2012!
(1) HAPPENING NOW!
One of the major concerns, held by the United States, Europe, Israel, and the moderate Arab nations in the Middle East, is an Iranian take over of Iraq after a civil war. It is certainly warranted, because Iran is truly waiting in the wings for just such a performance.
DEBKAfile Report
April 8, 2006, 10:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
In an Al Arabiya TV interview Saturday, April 8, the Egyptian president, who rarely speaks about Iraq publicly, asserted that the first loyalty owned by a Shiite regime in Baghdad would be to Tehran. The report from DEBKAfile, which follows, alludes to the possibility of such an event.
DEBKAfile’s Exclusive Sources reveal: Arab intelligence chiefs conferred in Cairo urgently and secretly a few hours earlier on ways to put a stop to Iran’s advancing takeover of Iraq. Egyptian intelligence minister Gen. Omar Suleiman called together colleagues of the key Middle East and Gulf Sunni regimes to align positions on the US-Iranian talks opening in Baghdad on Iraq’s future. They fear Tehran will make the running because of the ground Washington lost when on April 4 US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and UK foreign secretary Jack Straw failed to achieve a breakthrough in the stalled Iraqi talks on a national unity government four months after Iraq’s general election.
Present at the Cairo conference were the secret services directors of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Tunisia, Morocco and Turkey. Syria and Lebanon were absent. Their concern is that a second Shiite power after Iran will rise in Baghdad. This transformation will boost fundamentalist Islamic forces and the Shiite minorities in all the Arab countries.
Hence Mubarak’s warning.
Egypt is worried about the effect on the opposition Muslim Brotherhood; Israel, though not invited to the conference, has much to fear from
the impact on the Palestinian Hamas.
Now in government, the Hamas terrorist group has been continuously nurtured by Saudi and Egyptian intelligence as a Sunni barrier against the Shiite Hizballah in Lebanon.
However, Hamas’s booming relations with Tehran and the Allawite regime of Damascus (a sect which is closer to the Shia than the Sunna), plus Iran’s creeping penetration of the Palestinian terrorist movement, places Hamas in an advantageous middle position athwart the Sunni and Shiite sects of the region. The Palestinian fundamentalists will gain further clout on the international arena if Iran takes control of the Baghdad regime.
(2) LIKELY TO BEGIN BETWEEN 2008 AND 2012 AND LAST 1260 DAYS THEREAFTER
Events 1 to 8 were covered in Blogs 1 through 8
Event 9 – The Final 1335 Days Prior to Armageddon
Luke 21:24 – And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Jerusalem’s inhabitants fell by the edge of the sword in A.D. 70 as Christ predicted some 40 years earlier, and were then led away captive into all nations by the troops of Titus, the Roman Prince, son of Vespasian, the Emperor of Rome. And the old city of Jerusalem was indeed trodden down continuously by non-Jews (Gentiles) until June of 1967, at which time Jewish troops took it back for the first time since A.D. 70.
Revelation says that the old city will once again be conquered by the Gentile nations for a brief period of 1260 days.
Zechariah advises us the casualty count across Israel will be high when the city falls, but that a remnant (residue) will not be cut off forever. The remnant will return to the city at the end of the 1260 days. Revelation advises us Israel will be driven into the Negev wilderness for 1260 days and the two witnesses will testify a message among the remaining one-third during that same period.
It is quite likely that the 144,000 in Revelation 7 are the remnant of the woman’s seed in Revelation 12, her seed being Jesus Christ, and the two witnesses are
the leaders of the 144,000.
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.
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.
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.
Revelation 11:3 – And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Revelation 7:4 – And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Revelation 12:17 – And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
In Prophecy Updates 55, 56, 57, and 58, I gave a scriptural exposition as to why I believe what we call the tribulation period, or the unfulfilled part of Daniel’s 70th week, is only 1335 days in length.
In Prophecy Updates 73A, 77, 77A, 77B, and 77C I gave an exposition as to why I believe the rapture will not occur until the blowing of trumpet number seven.
In the book of Daniel three interesting numbers are introduced for the first time in the Bible, a time, and times, and the dividing of time, which equals 1260 days, plus the two other numbers, 1290 and 1335.
Daniel 7:25 – And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Daniel 12:11,12 – And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. [12] Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
I Thessalonians 5:2,3 – For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. [3] 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.
When the time comes that Israel actually believes it has relative peace with security, it will mark the beginning of the last 1335 days of Daniel’s last week. Israel will be attacked 75 days later. It will be 1290 days from the time she thinks she has relative peace until the abomination of desolation, in the person of antichrist, sits on the temple mount, claiming to be God When he sits making this claim the seventh trumpet blows, the rapture occurs, and some 45 days of the vials of God’s wrath are poured out on the earth.
I suspect those Jews who survive it are the “blessed” of Daniel 12:12 and Zechariah 13:9.
Zechariah 13:9 – 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.
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