Fanning the Flames in
the North until the Right Time!
August 25, 2006
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I have never doubted that the final war of this age will initiate along the northern border of Israel. There is far too much Scripture to indicate that will be the case than to believe otherwise. But, the one unanswered question has always been “WHEN.” The DEBKAfile Report, which eventually follows this heading, certainly gives credence to the danger of an attack from Israel’s northern border, referring to it as “predictions of an impending revival of the Lebanon war.” But, once again, we get back to “WHEN” in the word “impending.” I do not see Iran and Syria triggering a confederated Jihad against Israel until the American troops are out of Iraq, which is the main reason I chose to guesstimate the time of such an attack as occurring at some point in time between 2008 and 2012. I doubt that such an attack would be launched until the Arab nations believed they had a good chance to drive Israel out of the land from Dan to Beersheba, and I
do not believe that would be possible prior to late 2008.
I taught, from 1978 to 2005, that I guesstimated the final war of this Gentile Age would begin just before 2008, but I left myself a four year margin of error, extending the possibility it might not occur until 2012.
I considered that the final battle of Masada occurred more than three years after the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70, and added four years to the 40 years from 1967 to 2007, giving myself a safety margin of four years.
I included this four year safety margin in one of our very first Archive Prophecy Updates in February of 2001, which was Number 7, and you may read it below.
PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 7
February, 2001
In Prophecy Update Number 6 we discussed the military buildup by Israel in her Negev wilderness. The Negev is the wilderness of Revelation 12:6, to which the woman, who is Israel, will flee in the tribulation period: “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.” Within the foreseeable future, Syria will lead an Islamic array of nations against Israel. The well coordinated effort of these nations, aided by the Palestinians within Israel, will be able to initially defeat the woman Israel, and she will be forced to remain in the Negev for three and one-half prophetic years, or 1260 days. According to Zechariah 13:9 to 14:2, only one-third of Israel will make it into the Negev, and the city of Jerusalem will fall to the Islamic conglomerate: “[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.” Considering the present number of Jews in Israel, about 4.8 million, if the attack were to occur now, that would mean about 1.6 million Jews would be hedged in the Negev for 1260 days. If the attack were to occur in the distant future that number could reach 2 million. I really do not expect such an attack to occur this year, because it has to first be secretly coordinated behind closed doors, between several Arab nations confederate with Syria, and with the terrorist groups they control. This will take several years. I feel confident the attack will not occur before 2003, but I do believe it will
occur before 2012, with the most likely time being between 2004 and 2005. But if 1.6 to 2 million Jews are to survive in the Negev, they must have enough water and food to sustain them for 3 and ½ prophetic years. Has God already been instrumental in assuring they will have it? More on this in Prophecy Update Number 8.
End Prophecy Update Number 7
I continued to guesstimate 2004 to 2005 to be the most likely time for the attack until February of 2005, at which time the situation in the Middle East did not lend itself to an attack occurring in the next two years. So, in 2005, I began to issue my best guesstimate for the attack to be at some point in time between 2008 and 2012. The question has never been “IF” but “WHEN.” I must say that, as the end of a forty year possession of the Temple Mount by Israel is drawing near, the current events in the Middle East certainly seem to be drawing to a final climax, and 2008 to 2012 certainly seems to be a reasonable guess for the players to come on the scene to initiate it.
Begin DEBKAfile Report
DEBKAfile reports Tehran and Syria jointly fan war tensions to undermine America’s Security Council positions on Iran’s nuclear program and the Lebanese ceasefire
August 24, 2006, 10:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
Our Washington and Jerusalem sources report intelligence predictions of an impending revival of the Lebanon war and its spread to the Golan.
Tehran and Syria are turning up the heat to obstruct Western moves to curb Iran’s advance on a nuclear weapon and nullify the embargo on arms for Hizballah.
A senior Iranian spokesman announced Wednesday night, Aug. 23 that his government was on the brink of a “dramatic” nuclear development. Some Tehran sources surmise an announcement will be made on significant Iranian advances in uranium enrichment following a breakthrough in activating P-2 centrifuges. This would constitute blatant defiance of the UN and an affront to the six powers and their offer of incentives for halting enrichment. Already, two days before Iran handed in its response to the offer, a Tehran official announced that
the Arak heavy water plant would soon be operational. Iran had thus set its feet squarely on two tracks for achieving the fuel for a nuclear weapon – enriched uranium and plutonium.
Damascus, for its part, has threatened three times in two days to close the Syrian-Lebanese border if a multinational force
is posted there to monitor the arms embargo’s implementation. DEBKAfile’s military sources expect Syria to make good on its threat by staging violent incidents against any peacekeepers posted on the Lebanese border, matching
them with skirmishes on the Syrian-Israeli border dividing the Golan. Hizballah will chime in with attacks on the Israeli troops deployed in South Lebanon until an international force can take over – and the UN-brokered ceasefire in Lebanon will come crashing down.
Wednesday night,
Damascus and Tehran were shown to be in tight coordination when an Iranian official in Tehran revealed the rise in Syria of a new guerrilla group dedicated to challenging the IDF on the Golan in the same way that Hizballah fights Israel.
He made it clear that Tehran was solidly behind Syria’ s military initiative
s. Amid deep pessimism in the White House,
the UN secretary Kofi Annan is being sent post haste to Israel, Lebanon and possibly Syria and Iran. Part of his mission will be to seek guarantees that Hizballah will refrain from shooting at multinational troops deployed in the south.
To hold water, those guarantees must emanate from Syria and Iran. The key to easing the rising war tensions would be a substantial bribe for Tehran, such as a promise from Annan to block American moves for sanctions in the August 31 Security Council meeting on Iran’s non-compliance with the enrichment ban. Since the UN secretary cannot make such a promise, the war tension will continue to escalate and the prospect of a multinational force for Lebanon will remain elusive. No government is prepared to place its soldiers in the line of fire.
But rather than blaming the impasse on the saber-rattling and intransigence of Tehran and Damascus, Israel will most probably be held to account for keeping its army in Lebanon and refusing to lift the air and sea embargo curbing the flow of arms to Hizballah.
End DEBKAfile Report
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