2008 to 2012 Guesstimate for the start of an Initial Syrian Led Islamic Jihad attack against Israel is looking more like a viable Reality!
December 18, 2006
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As those of you who read my Blogs and Prophecy Updates know, for more than 39 years I have believed the year 2007 to be the year of destiny
for Israel, and have believed Israel will be attacked by 10 Arab nations in conjunction with a time table
on either side of that date.
In the last century I considered the best guesstimate to be at a point in time between 2003 and 2012. The following quote from our morning Blog of December 5th gives a brief history of my 1967 forty year romance with a generation beginning with that date.
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Israeli Military Intelligence for 2007 – High Probability of Two Fronted War!
December 5, 2006
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In the last six months the Israel Military Intelligence has begun to issue their own predictions as to when their next major conflict with their Islamic enemies will occur. I have issued several blogs on their guesses since their last battle with Hizbollah.
What follows is their best estimate of such an attack. I hope their latest estimate is on target, although I do believe the best time frame for such an attack to be between 2008 and 2012.
Israel conquered the old city of Jerusalem in 1967 to recover her ancient Temple Mount. Since the last century, I have believed the most likely time for the old city to be retaken by the forces of Antichrist to be between 2003 and 2012, as I stated in our Archive Prophecy Update Number Seven in February of 2001 – “I feel confident the attack will not occur before 2003, but I do believe it will occur before 2012.” I simply added 40 years to 1967 to obtain 2007 as the year of destiny, and went four years before and after it to make a guesstimate of the time frame in which the attack would likely occur.
If the Israeli Military Intelligence Analysis, given in the Jerusalem Post article by Yaakov Katz turns out to be correct, 2007 will indeed be Israel’s year of destiny. As I indicated in my guesstimate of 2001, the attack did not occur prior to 2003 and, based on events since 2003, the time frame guesstimate from 2008 to 2012 for a Jihad from the north is on target.
The reason I chose such a wide guesstimate in the first place is a very simple one, which I explained quite graphically in the following quote from Archive Prophecy Update Number 238A, August 28, 2005, titled “Armageddon – Not in the Distant Future – Part One.” The events from 2003 to 2005 had convinced me by the summer of 2005 that the time period from 2007 to 2012 was the best guesstimate, and that 2007 might be the year of destiny. In Prophecy Update Number 238A I made the following statement:
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“It is impossible at this time to predict the precise year of the final battle of Armageddon, which is the last battle in a period of time that lasts 1260 days. However, the Scriptures do indicate that we can know the time when it looms as an event that lets us know it is “at our doors.” I cannot tell you the times, the seasons, the year, or the day the 1260 days will begin, but I assure you that it is not an event of the far distant future. I have long believed the 1260 days are likely to begin in 2007, and I may well be wrong, but I am certain that it is not something that is a long way off in the future.”
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I have no intention of extending the time frame of 2012. I will go down with the ship and sink or swim with that time frame. I do not believe
I will have to adjust it again.
If I am still alive and it has not occurred by 2012, I will simply say, “that was a lousy guesstimate, and state it will be “soon” until I die or it occurs.
If you would like to understand why I orig inally chose 2007 as the year of dest
iny, and went four years prior
and after it as a guesstimate, you may read my Scripture exposition on the subject in Archive Prophecy Update Number 206B.
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Note the dates in the following Mossad Report that do point to things coming to a head in the Middle East during the time period of 2008 to 2012.
Begin Jerusalem Post Mossad Chief Report
Dagan: Syria more willing now than ever to attack Israel
Sheera Claire Frenkel, THE JERUSALEM POST
December 18, 2006
Despite Syria’s peace overtures it is “more willing now than ever before” to take military action against Israel, Mossad Chief Meir Dagan told the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday.
Dagan said that following Israel’s war with Lebanon, Syria felt more secure and confident in having its own personal confrontation with Israel.
He went on to say that the Syrian army was building up its anti-tank missile units, after having seen that this was Israel’s Achilles’ heel in the Second Lebanon War. He also told the committee that Syria was secretly buying stocks of anti-tank missiles from Russia.
Dagan stressed that the condition was so volatile that if Israel were to send a warning signal to Syrian President Bashar Assad – as it did in June when IAF jets buzzed his summer palace while he was present – this would be reason enough for Syria to wage war.
Dagan reminded the FADC that Assad’s modus operandi was to “whip out a white rabbit of a peace overture” to dispel international pressure coming from the US.
In fact, said Dagan, on Sunday, when Foreign Minister Walid Moallem was interviewed by The Washington Post, saying that Syria was willing to start negotiations without preconditions, the Arab press printed the exact opposite; that Syria would not return to the negotiation table.
Dagan summarized the Syria enigma by saying that the Israeli government had no reason to believe that Syria was making any real moves towards peace.
The next most pressing issue on Israel’s agenda, Dagan said, was the Iranian nuclear threat.
“Iran is approaching nuclear ability. The Iranian president wants 3000 centrifugal processors in bunkers by March 2007.”
However, Dagan asserted that the Mossad did not believe Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was capable of meeting the deadline, saying that the Mossad believed it would take until the end of 2007.
He explained that if there were “no sanctions on Iran and no technological holdups,” by 2008 Iran would have 25 kilograms of enriched uranium and by 2009-2010 they would already have nuclear warheads.
Dagan finished his address by saying that the Iraq civil war was “dangerous” and that the day the US left, Iraq would go back to being an Islamic extremist state, which would be “a geopolitical change that will harm Israel.”
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