In the Cedar Blue Ridged Mountains of Lebanon, Down the Trail of the Lonesome Pine – A Breaking and a Burning Fire!
July 22, 2006
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In the aftermath of the assassination of former Lebanese President Rafiq al-Hariri, a revolution broke out against Syria.
It is commonly referred to as “The Cedar Revolution” or “Lebanon’s Cedar Spring.” At that time Hassan Nasarallah initiated several large demonstrations expressing support for Syria.
The popular phrase from an old song, “In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Down the Trail of the Lonesome Pine” is, unfortunately, not a tranquil scene we see being played out on the “Blue Line” down across the southern border of Lebanon. The “Blue Line” represents a border, drawn by the United Nations, after Israel withdrew from its 18 year stay in southern Lebanon in 2000. The “cedars of Lebanon” is an oft repeated expression of the magnificent view afforded to them in the Old Testament and, at times, in prophecy.
The Blue Line is patrolled by just under 2,000 UN troops from the Ukraine, China, Ghana, France, Italy, Poland, India, and Ireland, which make up the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). They have been ineffective at best, with no control over Hizbollah.
At the present time the Blue Line is a scene of the manmade chaos of war generated by Hizbollah in its kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers and the launching of thousands of rockets on northern Israel. Also involved in the act of cunning and treachery are the puppet masters of Syria and Iran, who have pulled the strings of Hizbollah from the beginning of the escapade, as the following DEBKAfile report attests.
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DEBKAfile Exclusive: Syria placed its army on war preparedness, pointed Scuds at Israel from Thursday, July 20, the day Tehran took control of Lebanon War
July 22, 2006, 12:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
Our sources add Syrian fighter pilots are sitting in their cockpits.
These orders went out from Syrian president Bashar Assad July 20 when Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander Brig.-Gen Yahya Rahim Safavi (picture) assumed command of the Lebanon war from Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Tehran’s direct military intervention in the conflict was accompanied by an Iranian weapons airlift which began landing Wednesday, July 19, at the Abu Ad Duhur military airfield north of Homs. The deliveries include large quantities of new missiles, including the long-range Zelzal and Fajr 3 and Fajr 5 missiles, Katyusha rockets, anti-tank and anti-air missiles sent out from RG HQ in Bandar Abbas on the Persian Gulf.
Assad acted on the assumption that Israel, whose air force and ground forces are already hammering the cross-border supply routes north of the Litani River to block the passage of Iranian hardware to Hizballah, will soon decide to go for Iranian military operations in Damascus and Abu Ad Duhur.
Gen. Safavi has set up two forward command posts which coordinate war operations with Hizballah chief of staff Ibrahim Akil.
One center is working out of a cellar of the Iranian embassy in Beirut to regulate Hizballah rocket fire against Israel and direct the groups of 3 or 4 RG officers taking part in every Hizballah face-to-face engagement with Israeli ground troops in the south.
The second, housed in the basement of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, is in charge of communications, intelligence and getting hardware into Lebanon.
The deliveries were made to the Abu Ad Duhur airfield because it belongs to the joint Iranian-Syrian Scud missile factory which employs a large number of Iranian engineers and technicians.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that some of the Iranian arms have Hizballah in Lebanon notwithstanding intense Israeli cutoff operations and their impact will probably be palpable in the coming days.
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The long north-south valley through Lebanon has many spellings, each one a variation of transliteration between different languages, among them “Beqa, Beqqa, Beka, Bekaa, Bekka, and Bekaa.” The same is true with the name of “The Army of God,” which appears as “Hizbollah, Hizbullah, Hezbollah, Hezbullah,” and a couple of other variations.
The cedar ridges of Lebanon’s Beqa Valley were beautiful examples of God’s handiwork in biblical times, but their beauty has been marred by several events – (1) a civil war that left the country in shambles and economic chaos, (2) Syrian occupation, (3) the rise of Hizbollah in the south, (4) occupation by Israel in the south, (5) the departure of Israel, (6) Syrian control of the country, (7) forcing out of Syria, and now, (8) the war between Hizbollah and Israel.
Israeli artillery and air strikes are further damaging the cedars and pines of Lebanon. I look forward to the day when the voice of God will complete the breaking down of his own botanical creation by his word from the north end of Syria to its southern end, by the ripping apart of a great rift valley, which extends through it. The four Scriptures, from Isaiah, Zechariah, and the Psalms are a highly generalized picture of the power God possesses to both create and destroy his own beautiful creations, and to recreate them in an even more beautiful state as it suits his own pleasure. There is coming a time when the great rift valley, which plows northward under Israel and Lebanon and Israel, will suddenly spread apart during the tribulation period, and the cedars of Lebanon will be broken and burned by the God who made them.
But, after the breaking and burning, no enemy will come against Israel for a thousand years, and God will refurbish the valleys and mountains with trees exceeding the current ones in number and beauty. The current confusion mixed with chaos along the Blue Line cannot be compared with the chaos that will soon come up from below, and down from above, by the mighty hand of God. As I have repeated many times, sounding like a broken record, it is my guesstimate that the best estimate for this ripping to suddenly occur is at some point in time between 2008 and 2012.
Psalm 29:4,5 – The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. [5] The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
Zechariah 11:1 – Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
Isaiah 14:8 – Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
Isaiah 41:19,20 – I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together: [20] That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
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SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 179A
July 4, 2004
The Book “Tectonic Chaos” – Chapter 1 – The Great Split
I began work on this book immediately after graduating from the MBS in Little Rock, Arkansas, and completed it in 1977 while doing post graduate work at ATU in Russellville, having graduated from ATU in 1976. I have received numerous requests to reprint it as I
have been lecturing across the globe. Because there was considerable duplication between it and my second book, “Tribulation Triad,” I deliberately let it go out of print, feeling some might feel cheated because of the volume of duplication. However, since many of my brethren kept bugging me for a copy, and since I only have two, one soft back, and one hard back, I decided to reprint and update it on our web site and, Lord willing, I will eventually put up all 36 chapters as time permits.
Chapter 1 – The Great Split
Zechariah 14:4 – And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
For hundreds of years preachers have proclaimed from God’s word this event would occur during the tribulation period, and the proclamation, as is normally the case, has been met will rolls of laughter from most of the scientific world. Oddly enough, these scientists have, and still are, fulfilling a prophecy made by God through the prophet Daniel.
Daniel 12:4 – But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Daniel’s prophecies concerning pre-tribulation events have, and are, being fulfilled, and indeed men and women have run “to and fro across”
the earth’s surface, “to and fro” into the universe, and “to and fro” in places beneath the earth’s land and water surface. This has produced a fantastic knowledge explosion in our understanding of the form and contents of God’s creation. The continuing fulfillment of Daniel 12:4 has convinced me that we are living in the days of “the time of the end.” And I am equally convinced these “to and fro” geological discoveries have so increased man’s knowledge that we now understand the basic form in which God designed the outer and enter crust of earth. These discoveries are in perfect agreement with what God revealed to the prophet Zechariah more than 2400 years ago.
Man has, in recent times, discovered a long, deep fault or “crack” in the earth’s crust that extends northward from the Red Sea through the Gulf of Eilat (Aqabah) into Israel and Lebanon. The Arabs identify it as the Gulf of Aqabah, and the Israelis call it the Gulf of Eilat. The fault itself is known to both as the “great rift valley fault”. It is a double fault in the sense that the two parts of it are separated by the valley floor between the two fault block mountains on it two sides. The vast majority of earthquakes occur along both sides
of the valley from Eilat to the Lebanese border. (See Figures 24 and 25 found under our Birth Pangs Menu as Birth Pang Figures). It is the ripping open of this rift valley that will produce
the earthquake responsible for the splitting of the Mount of Olives, which will itself be divided into a mini-rift valley as it spreads apart. (See Figures 30 to 33 in Birth Pangs).
The faults or “two cracks” in the earth’s surface are the northern part of a deep rift, or graben valley, which extends the length of the Red Sea, then southwestward through southeastern Africa. (See Figures 29 and 30 in Birth Pangs). The double cracks extend downward into molten magma beneath the earth’s surface. (See Birth Pang Figures 26 to 28). Widespread scientific exploration during the seventies fully exposed the spreading of the earth’s surface occurring in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and in southeastern Africa. Soon this splitting will extend northward unto the Jordan Valley, and, according to Zechariah 14:4, its effect will be sudden and dramatic. The fantastic earthquake produced in this Jordan Valley Rift, some 30 miles east of Jerusalem, will be sudden and abrupt, as will be its effect on the Mount of Olives, which will be torn into two parts during that terrible time in the tribulation period. This “suddenness” is certainly in accord with the geologic structure of today. At the present the rift valley fault is spreading apart in the Red Sea at a rate of several centimeters each year, but the northern extension of the fault through Israel and Lebanon has been locked or “frozen” in place by tremendous tectonic forces. When the spreading of the Red Sea fault reaches a certain critical (known only by God) both sides of the Jordan Valley will rip apart with a tremendous earthquake.
This earthquake will cause the two faults, which now exist through the northern and southern flanks of the Mount of Olives, to move slightly, one north, and one south, and a new mini-graben valley will be formed between them as the middle of the mountain falls down between them. (See Birth Pang Figures 30 to 33).
When the northern and southern parts spread apart one part will be carried north with the Arabian tectonic plate, and the other will be carried south with the African tectonic plate. (See Birth Pang Figures 33 and 34).
Zechariah 14:5 – And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
For a full exposition of Zechariah 14:5, please look in our Prophecy Update Archives at Updates 130 and 131.
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