AND WITH MANY SHIPS!
September 12, 2006
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I believe the formation process of a fully equipped collection
of Arab nations has, and will continue to form, to the north of Israel in Lebanon and Syria, with the source of its strength being pumped in from Iran. All three of these countries do have navies, ranging from pathetic in strength in the case of Lebanon to moderate in the case of Iran.
So it is interesting to see the warships of other nations, under the guise of the United Nations Resolution 1701, patrolling coastal waters of Lebanon. It is possible that some of these other nations might turn their guns against the Israel navy and the coasts of Israel if the UN declared Israel to be in violation of Resolution 1701, which led to the cease fire between Israel and Hizbollah.
Daniel 11:40,41 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, AND WITH MANY SHIPS; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. [41] He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Israel concludes Two-Month Naval Blockade of Lebanon
HERB KEINON, YAAKOV KATZ and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST
September 7, 2006
Israel has begun to remove its naval blockade of Lebanon, imposed almost two months after Hizbullah launched its cross-border raid and kidnapped two Israeli soldiers.
Maj.-Gen. Alain Pellegrini, the French commander of UNIFIL, said government officials informed him Friday afternoon that the blockade was being lifted. Government spokeswoman Miri Eisin said she didn’t have immediate confirmation that the final order had been given to lift the siege, but said earlier Friday that the blockade would be ended within hours.
Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D’Alema, meeting with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, announced that a multinational task force, commanded by an Italian admiral, had begun patrolling Lebanese territorial waters.
The Italian Admiral, aboard an Italian aircraft carrier, received command of the patrols off the Lebanese coast and Israeli Naval ships began returning back to Israeli waters.
Israeli Naval officials said they knew the Admiral because they had conducted Naval exercises with him in the past. They were confident that he would command an effective force in enforcing an arms embargo off the Lebanese coast.
In addition to the Italians, ships from France and Greece have taken over the task of blocking weapons shipments from reaching Hizbullah.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced the decision to lift the air and sea closure on Lebanon following heavy international pressure – a decision that was in direct opposition
to an IDF recommendation to keep the siege in place.
The General Staff favored the blockade as a way to maintain pressure on Lebanon to enforce the arms ban on Hizbullah and to take action that would lead to the release of the kidnapped soldiers.
Closure was made following a request by the United States. He said Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora had asked the international force to take responsibility for the air and sea lanes.
“There will be rules in place to inspect goods, and the French and Germans will enforce them,” Peretz said.
Senior officials in the Prime Minister’s Office said Israel maintained all along that it would lift the blockade once international forces were present at crossing points to prevent arms smuggling.
German naval forces would join the Italian, French and Greek flotilla. Germany has volunteered to deploy warships to the Mediterranean Sea to patrol the Lebanese coast and ensure that weapons are not smuggled through the ports.
A German military source told The Jerusalem Post that Berlin viewed its role very seriously and believed that the navy patrols would be effective and meet Israeli standards. The German force is expected to arrive in about two weeks.
A senior source in the Prime Minister’s Office said that despite the lifting of the air and sea blockade, Israel would enforce the arms embargo along the Syrian-Lebanese border if needed.
“We reserve the right to stop any attempt to smuggle in weapons and supplies across the border from Syria to Hizbullah,” the official said.
Olmert’s decision to lift the siege, a member of the IDF General Staff said, came despite the military’s recommendation to the diplomatic echelon to keep the siege in place.
“Our recommendation is to keep up the blockade and to continue flying over Lebanon without restrictions,” he said.
Under the air siege, the officer revealed, the IAF was able to continue flying drones over Lebanon. They collected intelligence and kept a close eye on the Lebanese border with Syria to see if weapons were being transferred to Hizbullah, or if it was attempting to smuggle the kidnapped IDF reservists – Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev – out of Lebanon.
The assumption within the defense establishment, he said, was that the kidnapped soldiers were alive and were being held in Lebanon. The IDF, he said, was holding five “valuable” Hizbullah captives who could be used as a bargaining chips in a prisoner swap with Hizbullah.
End Jerusalem Post Article
A comparison of Daniel 11:40 with Ezekiel 38:14,15 is very interesting. I have always believed they both describe the same event, namely, the initial Jihad attack against Israel from the north by 10 Arab nation, the main contributors to the confederation being Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria. Oddly enough, I exposited on Ezekiel 38:14,15 the week that 9/11 occurred in Archive Prophecy Update Number 33, so I am including the excerpt from it.
Daniel 11:40 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and THE KING OF THE NORTH shall come against him like a whirlwind, WITH CHARIOTS, AND WITH HORSEMEN, AND WITH MANY SHIPS; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
Ezekiel 38:14,15 – Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it
? [15] And thou shalt come from thy place OUT OF THE NORTH PARTS, thou, and many people with thee, ALL OF THEM RIDING UPON HORSES, a great company, and a mighty army:
Begin Prophecy Update Number 33
PROPHECY UPDATE 33
September 16, 2001
We concluded Prophecy Update Number 32 expositing on Ezekiel 38:13, which we have done continuously from Ezekiel 37:1 for the past several weeks.
We will continue this exposition, beginning with Ezekiel 38:14, and will close it by aligning it with the fanatical, cowardly act of war inflicted this week by Islamic terrorists on America.
Ezekiel 38:14 – Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
The question of verse 14 is directed personally by God to Gog . It is a question to which both know the answer, as attested by “shalt thou not know it?” Gog will be well aware of it, because he will have made the agreement allowing Israel to dwell in safety. And this will be one of the reasons the antiChrist’s blitzkrieg attack will be so successful. It will catch them by surprise.
Ezekiel 38:15 – And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
Verse 15 reveals some very important new information when it states: “And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts.” When Ezekiel wrote his prophecies, the expression “the north parts,” to those who read it in those days, meant the area we call Syria and Lebanon today. I am certain that the antiChrist will arise to power as the head of some country which satisfies the requirements of being from “the north parts” as they were identified in Ezekiel’s day. AntiChrist may arise in southern Turkey or northwestern Iraq, but in Ezekiel’s day “the north parts” encompassed the area occupied by Lebanon and Syria today.
His army will be composed of troops from ten Arab nations. The initial attack will be conducted primarily by Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran, but others will participate in various ways. When the Scripture says: “all of them riding upon horses,” it is picturing to the readers of Ezekiel’s day what would be a “fully equipped” army. His army will be equipped with all of today’s modern weapons to meet this requirement.
What we have witnessed this week, as grim and terrible as it is, and as much as it has shaken our nation to a state of coming together against a common enemy, it has also made us acutely aware that we cannot stop ALL attacks by tightening security. We can stop MOST of it, but we cannot stop ALL of it. We will avenge the loss of those precious American lives, and we will obtain justice for this cowardly act of war against our citizens. But after we rightly avenge this ungodly act against us, and have obtained justice against these murderers of humanity, we will still be under the threat of terrorism by the many Islamic groups that populate the Arab world. Countless billions will be poured into travel security at all sorts of levels in our national transportation net, and perhaps even more into our state of military alertness for such occurrences as we have just experienced.
We can ill afford such expenditures with such a delicate economy at this time. But since we must, and should, make them, I am certain it will cause American, as well as all free world pol
iticians, to more actively find ways to bring the Middle East Conflict between Israel and many of the Islamic nations to a closure. Only then will the terrorist leaders be held in check temporarily by the several Arab countries that sponsor, train, and supply them.
There can never be a true and lasting peace in the Land of the Bible until Jesus returns to reign on this planet. However, out of this ungodly act of infamy against an America at peace, there will eventually come a brief period of peace, and many will believe it will be genuine and lasting. But the terrorist groups will only hold off their activities for a short period of time, and they will do this only as a ruse to lead Israel, and the rest of the free world, into a false sense of security. But this brief period of f alse pe
ace will be broken by a blitzkrieg attack from the north of Israel.
End Archive Prophecy Update Number 33
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