Why the Jihad Attack against Israel Will Succeed!
July 15, 2006
When Israel is eventually attacked by ten Arab nations from the north, she will be driven into the Negev.
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.
Two-thirds of her population will perish during the Jihad and one-third will remain in the land in the wilderness of the Negev.
Zechariah 13:8 – 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.
The City of Jerusalem will be captured by the Islamic armies, where they will remain for three and one-half years while Israel is in the Negev with the two witnesses.
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.
Revelation 11:2,3 – 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. [3] And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
The Scriptures up to this point are the only reason I know that Israel will be defeated temporarily for some three and on-half years. And, to be quite candid, the Scriptures are the only reason I have to believe it. If you want to accuse me of basing everything I have written on the Scriptures, I will freely admit you’re accusation is valid. After all, just how could I believe the forces of Islam would be able to defeat mighty Israel after having lost to her over and over and over again in countless skirmishes and four wars since 1948, and why won’t the IAF be able to mow down the ground forces like shooting ducks in a gallery with a shot gun? I have addressed the answer to this question in several different Prophecy Updates, Birth Pangs, or Blogs, but we have issued thousands.
So, I considered how long it took me to find the first one, and then decided to include it, and repeat parts I could not find, but remembered were in others.
The first reference to the question’s answer I found in Archive Birth Pang Number 41, dated March 22, 2002, which follows.
BIRTH PANG NUMBER 41
The Remnant of Israel, Past, Present, and Future!
Part 6
March 22, 2002
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.
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.
The woman is Israel.
The place that God has prepared for her is the Negev wilderness. A time is one 360 day year, times are two 360 day years, and half a time is 180 days, which totals 1260 days or 3 and ½ prophetic years. Both these scriptures describe the time period of 42 prophetic months (30 days per month) before the end of the Tribulation Period.
When the antichrist launches his lightning Jihad from the north it will be a two pronged attack. Syrian and Lebanese troops will launch a blitzkrieg strike southward along the western lees of the Galilean and Samaritan Mountains. The Palestinians will zoom northward along the western lee of the Judean Mountains out of Gaza to link with their comrades coming down from the north. This will cut off coastal Israel from interior Israel. Some 70% of the Jewish population lives along the narrow coastal strip from Tel Aviv to Haifa. They will be kept pinned down by thousands of katyusha rockets being launched from the bluff top cities of Tul Karm and Qalqilya in the Samarian Mountains. It will eventually be necessary to air evacuate the population out of this area across the Mediterranean into the Negev, as stated in 12:14. The other battle prong, consisting of troops from Iraq, Syria, and Iran, will be directed southward along the west bank of the Jordan River in a lightning strike. The Palestinians will pour down the hundreds of dendritic valleys in the eastern lee
of the Samarian Mountains, armed with shoulder held antitank launchers. They will destroy many of the Israeli tanks coming north to intercept the southward moving Arab tank units of Syria, Iraq, and Iran. The Jewish population to the east of the coastal sections, and to the west of the Jordan River, will flee on land in whatever types of transportation may be available. This has long been the national Israel contingency plan that is to be carried out in the event of attack from the north, and the Negev has been their emergency contingency evacuation area since 1948. If you desire a detailed discussion of what I have just briefly covered, please review Prophecy Updates 5 through 11, which are found in our Prophecy Archives.
End Birth Pang Number 41`
As you may recall from many of our Archive Prophecy Updates, Birth Pangs, and Blogs, I have taught for years the great earthquake found in Revelation 6:12, the first in the Book of Revelation, will occur when the Jihad is launched from Lebanon and Syria. This earthquake, and the hundreds of aftershocks that accompany it, will severely damage Israeli aircraft and airfield runways, such that severe curtailment of the IAF to inflict heavy casualties on enemy troops and tanks will result. When considering the tectonic fault lines that cross the sea surfaces northwest of Israel, it is possible that tsunamis may make the coastal sections of Israel quite hazardous for Israeli naval gunboats.
And the atmospheric and astronomical conditions don’t look favorable for anything other than chaos.
Revelation 6:12-16 – 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; [13] And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. [14] And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
[15] And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
Ezekiel 38:16-23 – 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
? [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 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; [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.
Isaiah 29:6 – Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
There is going to be such chaos on the ground across all of Israel that Israeli aircraft are going to have a hard time separating out, from many entangled opposing forces, which are theirs and which are the enemies.
The same will be true for offshore shelling from Israeli ships and army land artillery.
Many Israeli civilians and soldiers will be the victims of friendly fire.
This is going to be a conventional “grunt” war and the Islamic forces will win by the weight of sheer numbers of weaponry and manpower.