Mopping Up in Advance of UN Resolution 1701 Cease Fire!
August 12, 2006
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A very important phase of the implementation of UN Resolution 1701 is underway while Israel waits for the deployment of their replacement forces from the UN and Lebanon. They are now mopping up the forces and installations of Hizbollah in sou
thern Lebanon. It is very important because the degree to which they are successful in this last operation in Lebanon, will determine how long it will take Hizbollah to regroup and cause Israel to launch another offensive.
Since I believe the next time Israel launches an offensive across its northern border will trigger three and one-half years of tribulation in Israel, how well they are able to clean Hizbollah out now, determines how long it will take the ten toes of Daniel 2 to get ready to lure Israel back across the border to launch a surprise Jihad against her.
I believe we are getting ready to enter the prophetic phase of the Tribulation Period described in I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – the time when Israel will be lulled into a false sense of safety and security in her own might and ability to defend her borders. But she will be stunned and defeated the next time she crosses into Lebanon, and driven into the Negev Wilderness. My guesstimate as to when she will cross again in
to Lebanon to trigger the final three and one-half years before Armageddon is indeed a guess, no more and no less, but I believe it will occur at some point in time between 2008 and 2012.
It will occur, but precisely when can only be a guess until it does. When it does, it will set a chronological series of events that will culminate some three and one-half years later at Armageddon.
There are two things I will be watching over the next couple of years, Lord willing, that I believe will reveal how “safe” Israel begins to feel in her own mindset, (1) The completion of the border security barrier wall between herself and the Palestinian terrorists, and (2) The creation of a DMZ barrier between herself and Hizbollah.
If Israel comes to the point she believes she can maintain a reasonable degree of peace and safety along these two zones by her own military forces and expertise, then I Thessalonians 5:3 will kick in, and the chronological sequence of events listed following it will begin to be fulfilled.
I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – 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. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. (Please See Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 12 and 67A).
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.
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. (Please See Archive Birth Pang Numbers 36, 41, 42, and 43).
Jeremiah 30:7 – Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
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.
Luke 21:25-28 – And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26] Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. [27] And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
[28] And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
The following article by Yaakov Katz, the JPost. com Staff, and the AP, was extracted from the Jerusalem Post.
It gives an excellent description of the current mop up operation now being conducted by the IDF in southern Lebanon.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
IDF Moving to Gain Ground ahead of Cease-Fire
Yaakov Katz, JPost.com Staff and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST
August 11, 2006
IDF operati ons in Leban
on continued to expand on Saturday.
Government officials said IDF operations would not stop until the army’s goals were reached, despite the passage of UN Security Council resolution 1701.
Senior army officers said that until the cabinet – set to convene on Sunday to approve the resolution – orders them to halt the operation, the army would continue pushing northward.
It is believed that the IDF would use all the means at its disposal to gain as much ground as possible until it is ordered to stop, a decision expected to be taken in the coming days.
If the cabinet approves the cease-fire, the army would have to halt all “offensive operations,” according to the text of the UN resolution, but would be allowed to respond if attacked.
Early Saturday, the IDF was ordered by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to take over all areas in south Lebanon from which rockets have been fired at Israel. Later in the day, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz said that Israel has nearly tripled the number of forces in Lebanon as part of its expanded ground war in Lebanon, and expects to fight for another week.
Defense Minister Amir Peretz, Chief of Staff Halutz and senior IDF officers visited the Northern Command headquarters in Safed overnight Friday in order to oversee the beginning of the IDF incursion meant to carry out the government’s order.
According to the IDF, troops were advancing north and west toward the Litani River, some 30 kilometers from Israel. Taking the territory would take several days, the army said, following which the IDF would operate in the area to remove the terror infrastructure and to destroy rocket launchers.
IDF forces have killed at least 20 Hizbullah fighters in Saturday fighting, the IDF said. Reports also indicated IDF casualties in fierce gun battles raging in south Lebanon.
According to Northern Command Chief of Staff Brig.-Gen. Alon Friedman, the last part of the operation could take several weeks. In an interview with Israel Radio on Saturday, Friedman said the IDF could expand its operations past the Litani if it was ordered to do so by the government, and emphasized that the IDF would continue to operate in south Lebanon until the cabinet gave different instructions.
A senior IDF source said on Saturday morning that the army believed the operation to clear launchers from south Lebanon would last several days. Senior government officials reportedly have said that the IDF could succeed in taking all the territories from which rockets had been fired despite the short timeline given to continued military operations by the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.
Israeli officials expressed satisfaction with the resolution, and the government was scheduled to vote on the cease-fire at its weekly cabinet meeting Sunday morning.
The IDF had started a widened operation in south Lebanon after Wednesday’s cabinet decision that authorized the army to carry out a massive ground offensive “to deal with the Hizbullah positions in south Lebanon, from which barrages of missiles continue to be launched against the Israeli civilian population,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said.
“Our action does not exclude a diplomatic option,” Regev said before the Security Council vote. “But… it is incumbent upon the government to defend its citizens.”
According to military sources, close to 70 percent of the Katyusha rockets raining down on Israel are fired from just south and north of the Litani river. It is in these parts of Lebanon that the Hizbullah’s Nasser Unit is waiting with thousands of fighters and functioning command and control centers.
End Jerusalem Post Article
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