A Final War in the Middle East is a Bible Conclusion – Should be Soon!
October 30, 2006
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
I have, for some time, been guesstimating the most likely time for a war to occur between the forces of Islam and Israel to be at some point in time between 2008 and 2012. When we first began our Web Site in the last century, I did not believe the attack would occur before 2003. I guesstimated the outer limit time would be 2012, but more likely before 2008, and the most probable between 2004 and 2006. There are a group of experts that are now making that outer range guesstimate of 2012 appear to be in the range of good probability.
When we issued Archive Prophecy Update 7 five years ago, I believed it likely that things would really start to heat up between 2004 and 2006, and the attack was most likely to occur before 2008, but I did extend its outer limit time of probability to 2012.
Archive Prophecy Update Number 7 was issued in February of 2001. The article by Yaakov Lappin, which follows, came from Y Net News, October 25, 2006.
Begin Archive Prophecy Update Number 7
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, it 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 will 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 Archive Prophecy Update Number 7
Begin Y Net News Extract
Expert: Prepare for War
Y Net News
Yaakov Lappin
October 25, 2006
Middle East experts give their forecasts for the coming months in the region, warning of ‘terrible deterioration’ on Israel’s northern border.
The coming months will present Israel with strategic threats from three different directions, Dr.
Boaz Ganor, founder of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism told Ynetnews.
The first threat, stemming from the Shiite alliance of Iran and Hizbullah, will result in “terrible deterioration” on Israel’s northern border, according to Ganor.
“The year 2007 is going to be a critical year, as the international arena will do its utmost to narrow down the nuclear capabilities of Iran.
It could be done by using more affirmative sanctions, or even a military campaign,” Ganor said. “And the ramification of such an attempt, even if it’s only sanctions, will cause a terrible deterioration of the situation on the northern border, where Iran will use its proxy Hizbullah to retaliate against Israel, and make clear that Israel has to pay for any activities against Iran,” Ganor added.
Turning to the Palestinian arena, Ganor said that “the Palestinians are now at the stage of shaping their self-identities,” a process he described as ultimately “positive.” They are torn between “terrorism and violence against Israel, definitely the concept used by Yasser Arafat under the Oslo accords,” as well as today’s “Islamic radical terrorist organizations,” and the “alternative option, which is actually being represented by (PA President Mahmoud Abbas) Abu Mazen,” based on the idea that “terrorism and violence will never fulfill the Palestinian national interest.”
“The problem is that this is not a smooth process. It involves battles within the Palestinian arena. And I think in the coming months this may spill over into Israel,” Ganor said.
Ganor then pointed out the “third process, which I have to admit that many Israelis, including decision makers and security services in Israel underestimate, is the threat of global jihadists against Israel,” posed by al-Qaeda and its affiliates.
“In my view, in the coming months, global jihadists will try to launch what we call a major attack against Israel. Zawahiri (deputy leader of al-Qaeda) has announced that.
I tend to believe him.
The activities of al-Qaeda and global jihadist movements are surrounding Israel, from Sinai, Amman, Jordan, some involvement in Lebanon, and ongoing and growing involvement in Gaza Strip. And it’s only a matter of time before they infiltrate Israel soon. So this is in my view a very negative process and I have to admit that… we are under-prepared,” Ganor added.
‘Very little time until next war’
In a document made available to Ynetnews by Professor Moshe Sharon, an expert on Islamic history at the Hebrew University, Sharon declared that the next war Israel would have to fight was almost here.
“Today it is clear to everyone who is prepared to confront unadorned reality, and they are the majority of people in Israeli society with the wish to live, that we have to take advantage of the short period of time left to us to prepare the army for the inevitable next war. It is already on the way,” Sharon wrote.
He added: “Hizbullah is the immediate enemy.
No one will disarm it because it has no intention of disarming and there is no one to coerce it to do so.
The UN is collaborating with Hizbullah and none of its member nations has any interest in dealing with it.”
“The Shiite of Hizbullah has taken control of Lebanon with the generous help of Iran and Syria and it will not relinquish it even if this means bringing about its total destruction. Lebanon will gradually be emptied of its remaining Christian population and zealous Islam will have achieved an important objective: One of the only two non-Muslim countries in the Middle East will just disappear,” Sharon said.
“Islam came into being as a fighting religion. Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, imposed his authority, first and foremost, by means of his military strength. He understood that even when speaking in the name of Allah, this must be accompanied by tens of thousands of fighters with drawn swords,” the professor added.
FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included in formation
for research and educational purposes. For more detailed information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. You may use material originated by this site. However, if you wish to use any quoted copyrighted material from this site, which did not originate at this site, for purposes of your own that go beyond ‘fair use’, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner from which we extracted it.