The Prophetic Arrival of 10 Horns Now rounding the Homestretch Turn!
September 13, 2006
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Revelation 13:1 – And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Thirty years ago, when all eyes had been fixed on Europe as the place from which the ten horns of this verse would come, I was crystal clear they were getting ready to arise as ten Arab nations in the Middle East, and I described how they would do it. The following quote is taken from the first edition of my first my first book, Tectonic Chaos, which I completed in 1976.
But I have had no major problems with teaching it in our work for all these years because I learned how to wear a flack jacket in Vietnam. But, I must say, it has been interesting to achieve the life of a old frog in a punch bowl among the brethren and my seminary classmates, and it has been a humbling experience.
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“The ten horns of Revelation 13:1 are ten Arab nations who will form the nucleus o the seventh kingdom, and the ten crowns are the kings that will rule them. For years we have pictured the typical Arab as a scrawny little fellow on a camel in the desert with a comic expression on his face. This viewpoint is quickly changing.
Oil is slowly replacing the dollar in international importance – and soon ten Arab nations will have gained economic control of much of the earth’s wealth. We will not try to stop them because of the Soviet Union – and the Soviet Union will not try to stop them because of us
and Red China. The world power block will block itself as the ten Arab nations prosper in their midst.”
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Well, thirty years have passed, and the Arab nations have prospered since America, Russia, and China were afraid to go down and take their oil because of what the other two would do to them if they should attempt to do so. This has allowed some the ten with large oil revenues to use them to purchase vast quantities of military hardware, some very high tech, and they have shared it with some Arab nations not blessed with great oil revenues.
Iran’s willingness to finance the terrorists, Syria, and Lebanon with the money from their oil revenues has built a steel shield across Israel’s northern border, which will one day be effectively used against them.
Iran has become far and away the most powerful of the Arab nations in the world. It has become the central hub for training Islamic terror groups, was much more advanced that any other Arab nations in high tech electronic that we ever dreamed, and has used its oil reserves to bring in Russian and Chinese advanced weapons and high tech personal to made military installations and nuclear facilities. This has caused many of the Arab nations to bow down in appeasement to them, and their President is becoming so bold he tells us soon the world will bow down to Iran. The following three articles of August illustrate what you have just read in this paragraph.
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Iran is becoming the World’s Central Hub for Training Islamic Terror Groups!
August 17. 2006
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Ir an to Launch Major Military M
aneuvers
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST
August 17, 2006
Iran will launch a series of large-scale military maneuvers across the country and has not made plans for an end to the ongoing war games, the army said Thursday.
“The maneuvers are aimed at introducing Iran’s new defensive doctrine,” military spokesman Gen. Mohammad Reza Ashtiani was quoted as saying by state-run television.
He said the exercises would begin on Saturday in the south east of the country. “It will continue in the whole of Iran, stage by stage for an unspecified period,” Ashtiani said.
The announcement came as Iran faces heightened international scrutiny because of its contentious nuclear program and for supporting the Lebanese Hizbullah guerrillas.
Iran denies Israeli accusations it is arming and training Hizbullah fighters.
Ashtiani praised Hizbullah for its month-long fight against Israel. “Human forces can decide fate of a war. We saw it in Lebanon,” the general said, echoing Hizbullah claims it won the war by resisting a massive bombing and ground offensive for more than a month before a UN-brokered cease-fire came into place earlier this week.
The military spokesman said Iran’s maneuvers reflected the current level of tension in the Middle East. “We have to be prepared against any threat and we should be a role model for other countries,” local newspapers quoted Gen.
Ashtiani, as saying. “Our army is ready to defuse all plots against Islamic Republic of Iran.”
The military exercise, involving 12 infantry regiments, is called “The Blow of Zolfaghar,” in reference to a sword that belonged to Imam Ali, one of the most revered figures of Islam for Shi’ite Muslims. A majority of Iran’s 70 million people are Shi’ite.
On Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said that Iran also plans to boost security patrols on its borders.
Ministry spokesman Mostafa Pourmohammadi said the move targeted smugglers. Drug traffickers killed 8 police officers during a firefight in southeastern Iran last week.
Iran has routinely held war games over the past two decades to improve its combat readiness and test locally made equipment such as missiles, tanks and armored personnel carriers. In April, Teheran launched its biggest military maneuvers so far, during which it said it tested several advanced weaponry including missiles.
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IRAN was More High Tech electronically than we Dreamed!
August 23, 2006
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DEBKAfile Exclusive: American electronic warfare experts in Israel to find out how Hizballah’s Iranian systems neutralized Israeli EW
August 23, 2006, 2:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKA-Net-Weekly 266 b> DNW issue out on Friday, Aug. 25.i> DEBKAfile on Aug. 23 adds: The American EW experts are interested in four areas.
1. The Israeli EW systems’ failure to block Hizballah’s command and communications and the links between the Lebanese command and the Syria-based Iranian headquarters.
2. How Iranian technicians helped Hizballah eavesdrop on Israel’s communications networks and mobile telephones, including Israeli soldiers’ conversations from inside Lebanon.
3. How Iranian EW installed in Lebanese army coastal radar stations blocked the Barak anti-missile missiles aboard Israeli warships, allowing Hizballah to hit the Israeli corvette Hanith.
4. Why Israeli EW was unable to jam the military systems at the Iranian embassy in Beirut, which hosted the underground war room out of which Hassan Nasrallah and his top commanders, including Imad Mughniyeh, functioned.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly 266: Until the watershed date of July 12, 2006, when the Hizballah triggered the Lebanon War, Israel was accounted an important world power in the development of electronic warfare systems – so much so that a symbiotic relationship evolved for the research and development of many US and Israeli electronic warfare systems, in which a mix of complementary American and Israeli devices and methods were invested. In combat against Hizballah, both were not only found wanting, but had been actively neutralized, so that none performed the functions for which they were designed. This poses both the US and Israel with a serious problem in a further round of the Lebanon war and any military clash with Iran.
DEBKAfile’s military sources add: Both intelligence services underestimated the tremendous effort Iran invested in state of the art electronic warfare gadgetry designed to disable American military operations in Iraq and IDF functions in Israel and Lebanon. Israel’s electronic warfare units were taken by surprise by the sophisticated protective mechanisms attached to Hizballah’s communications networks, which were discovered to be connected by optical fibers
which are not susceptible to electronic jamming. American and Israeli experts realize now that they overlooked the key feature of the naval exercise Iran staged in the Persian Gulf last April: Iran’s leap ahead in electronic warfare. They dismissed most the weapons systems as old-fashioned.
But among them were the C-802 cruise missile and several electronic warfare systems, both of which turned up in the Lebanon war with deadly effect.
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Iranian President Demands World Bow to Iran!
Arutz Sheva, Israel National News
Iran Opens Nuclear Facility
By Ezra HaLevi
August 27, 2006
Ahmadinejad appeared at the opening of a nuclear facility in the city of Arak, south of Tehran, which will produce the plutonium needed to build nuclear warheads. The complex was surrounded by anti-aircraft batteries during Ahmadinejad’s press conference, and journalists were barred from photographing certain areas.
“There are no talks of nuclear weapons in Iran,” President Ahmadinejad said with a smile as he inaugurated the plant. “And we are not a threat for any country, even the Zionist regime – the enemy of the countries in the region.”
Ahmadinejad followed up his conciliatory words with a threat to “use force” against any country that tries to stop Iran’s nuclear bid. “We tell Western countries not to cause trouble for themselves, because the Iranian people are determined to take big steps,” he said.
Iran still officially claims the nuclear plants are for the sake of producing nuclear power. The Islamic Republic, though, is the world’s fourth-largest oil producing country and is in no need of alternative energy sources.
In response to UN demands that it stop enriching uranium, Ahmadinejad demanded last week that the world bow to Iran. “If you want to have good relations with the Iranian people in the future, you should acknowledge the right and the might of the Iranian people, and you should bow and surrender to the might of the Iranian people. If you do not accept this, the Iranian people will force you to bow and surrender.”
Iranian Deputy Parliament Speaker Mohammad Reza Bahonar threatened that too much pressure on Iran would lead to calls from Iranian citizens themselves for the government to embark on a nuclear weapons program. “Our country is confronted with illogical countries that have nuclear weapons,” he told an Iranian paper.
“If they put too much pressure, our people might ask the government to produce nuclear weapons as a deterrent.”
Nuclear weapons can be produced either using plutonium or enriched uranium as the explosive core.
A reactor using enriched uranium uses regular water in the energy-producing process. A heavy-water reactor like the one just inaugurated is able to run on natural uranium, which can be mined in Iran and bypass the enrichment process currently the focus of UN Security Council ire.
Plutonium can be extracted from the spent fuel of the heavy-water reactor and used in a bomb.
Iranian Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadeh says the heavy-water facility is to be used to treat AIDS and cancer, as well as for other medical and agricultural uses.
Iranian expatriate commentator Amir Taheri wrote a biting response to Iranian claims that it is pursuing nuclear capabilities for purposes other than nuclear weapons, in Saturday’s Arabic Al-Shark Al-Awsat:
“Iran does not have any working nuclear power plant and thus has no immediate need of enriched uranium even as fuel. The only Iranian nuclear power plant under construction in Hellieh on the Bushehr Peninsula is not scheduled to come on stream before next spring. And when it does, it will have enough fuel for the first 10 years of its operation. Russia, which is building the station, has offered to provide all the needed fuel for its entire lifespan of 37 years…
“Iran does not need any enriched uranium at least until next March. After next March, it would still need not produce any enriched uranium until the year 2017. Even after 2017, Iran would still have no need of domestic uranium enrichment for the Hellieh plant until 2044…
“It is hard to argue a case in favor of nuclear power plants in Iran. Iran has the world’s second or third largest oil reserves and the second largest reserves of natural gas. Even if Iranian domestic consumption of energy were to reach average Western levels in the next decade or so, Iran would still have enough domestic energy resources to last it more than 400 years. As several studies by Iranian academics have shown, nuclear power would be at least 27 per cent more costly to produce and distribute than electricity generated by oil, gas or hydroelectric
power plants.
“There is yet another argument against nuclear power plants in Iran. The whole country is located on one of the most active earthquake zones in the world. Hellieh, the place where the first nuclear power plant is being built, has been destroyed by earthquakes on at least three occasions in the past century or so…
“The obvious answer is that the Islamic Republic wants to put itself in a position to build an arsenal of nuclear weapons.”
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