Truth, then Retraction by Chirac!
February 1, 2007
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I have been waiting for years to hear French President Jacques Chirac make a single public statement with which I agreed. Well, he finally made it, only to quickly retract it once it had slipped out in a brief moment of truth from lips that routinely say one thing, but really mean something quite different – it is commonly referred to as guile – In his case mingled with pure deceit.
I am acutely aware that the elected President of Iran exhibits qualities of a recent escapee from the dark side of the moon, but he, contrary to several recent essays of his characteristics, is knowledgeable of the brief statement of truth initially uttered by President Chirac. It is more of a deterrent than recent articles by prominent officials have indicated.
Iran does not, repeat, does not want, a nuclear war with Israel or any other nation. They want a conventional war using high tech weapons, not nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons. Compared to Israel and the rest of the so-called civilized world, Iran and Syria’s abilities to send WMD’s against their enemies, is like comparing a bullet’s ability to stop a hurricane. The Islamic advantage against Israel is its sheer weight of human bodies it can throw against Israel, not the number of WMD it can launch against her.
Does the Iranian President want to create chaos and confusion in Israel and the rest of the civilized world – YES, YES, YES – and by the way, so far he has done a good job of creating it. Does he want to destroy the world in the chaos generated by a massive use of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of mass destruction – NO, NO, NO! So what does he want? His first objective is to drive Israel out of its existence in what is called the Middle East, and to establish an Islamic Empire that stretches initially from Morocco on its western extremity to India on its eastern border, afterwards to expand southeastward into Malaysia and north into southeastern Europe with time, and finally to convert all of the earth’s population to the Islamic faith.
I have taught, for some 30 years, that the Antichrist, after he finishes his first assault against Israel, will initially place his capital in Cairo. He will leave Israel in the Negev Wilderness. Then he will then rule from Cairo for a little less than three and one-half years. He will then return to Jerusalem to launch the final battle of Armageddon against Israel in the Negev, with the intent of destroying her forever. The Antichrist is not yet visible to the world, but he will become quite visible when he is the supreme ruler, the Caliph, over a vast Islamic Kingdom, which will initially occupy the known world of the southern flank of the ancient Roman Empire at its maximum extent. It will, within three years after Cairo becomes its capital, extend its Islamic controlling tentacles east into southeastern Asia, and north into southeastern Europe.
The only question I have ever had in the basic premises I presented, was not in the sequence of the events themselves, or the area which would be covered by the kingdom of the future Antichrist – The question has always been WHEN he would attack Israel and drive her into the Negev Wilderness. WHEN is still the question I address daily as I watch the Middle East? All I have ever been able to do is to simply make what I call a guesstimate and, for better or for worse, I will continue to guess at the time of the attack until I die. I am not hedging, fence straddling, or trying to cover my tail – I have always been honest in telling you what I thought was the most likely time frame in which the attack would occur.
My guesstimate for the attack to occur at some point in time between 2008 and 2012 has not changed for some time, and I see no reason to change it.
Daniel 11:42 – He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the l
and of Egypt shall not escape.
The political, geophysical, and military positioning of Syria, Iran, and Iraq, from a prospective of having world influence, literally stinks. But the position of Egypt’s Suez Canal, and Cairo, her capital, is outstanding. The antichrist is supposed to be a man of genius in all areas.
That being the case, he would be worse than a military academy dropout were he not to take the Suez Canal, and then make Cairo his empire’s capital.
Daniel 11:43 – But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
The three most “precious things” in Egypt are: the Suez Canal, the Nile River and its Delta, and Cairo, it’s capital. He will conquer the Suez Canal zone and all of Egypt. So just what is Egypt? Many are inclined to establish it as the land bordered on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, on the west by Libya, on the south by Sudan, on the southeast by the Red Sea, and on the northeast by its Sinai border with Gaza and Israel’s Negev. And, geographically, that is quite correct.
However, in reality, that is not Egypt. The real Egypt, where her people live, is much, much, smaller. Egypt is the land along her north and east coastlines up to about two miles inland, the Nile Delta, and the land along the Nile River extending about fifteen miles either side of its banks.
The antichrist will send messages to leaders of two of the original 10 nations confederated with him, namely Libya and Sudan, requesting them to mass their troops along the northern coastal border with Libya, and along the border where the Nile enters Egypt from Sudan.
This will cause the diversion of some Egyptian troops away from Cairo and the Suez Canal in order to protect their western and southern borders. And this will allow the antichrist to rapidly push across the Suez Canal into Cairo and along her western and eastern coastlines, then to quickly progress southward down the Nile with little resistance. I believe he will control Egypt within two weeks after he reaches the Suez Canal.
Once he has conquered Egypt, he will make an assessment of his geopolitical position. After having done so, he would be a military fool to return to his home country. He will establish his capital at Cairo, and will remain there for more than three years. After three years he will receive news that causes him to quickly return to Jerusalem. If a military leader plans to put down his roots for a while, what would be one of his major concerns
? The relationship he has with the rulers of the nations that are on his immediate borders. That is, how sure he is they will not pull a surprise attack on him. So, through the prestigious position he has gained in the eyes of the Islamic world by this time, it will allow him to use the terrorist groups, already in Sudan and Libya, to overthrow their leaders, and in their place to install two of his stooges, where they will remain in control for some three years. He will already have plucked up the ruler of Lebanon, and replaced him with a stooge.
It will surprise me if Lebanon, Sudan, and Libya are among the countries from which his stooges will rule.
Daniel 11:43 – But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
“At his steps” means “companionship” (Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance & Wilson’s O.T. Word Studies). This expression also appears in Judges 4:10, where it appears as “at his feet.”
Judges 4:10 – And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
It represents an Old Testament word picture of a conquered leader or country laying yearly tribute payments before the king of the conquering country, who is setting on his throne, and the tribute is being placed at his feet on the steps leading up to his throne. So I believe the antichrist will place his puppet rulers on the thrones of Lebanon, Syria, and Sudan as those who are in “companionship” with him.
For more than three years, with the Suez Canal under his control, he will gain worldwide recognition and acclaim in his capital city of Cairo.
Israel will be trapped in the Negev for more than three years (See previous updates), and stability will have come to the troubled Middle East. He will supposedly have done what all nations say they are seeking, that is, brought stability to the Middle East. But, between the third and fourth year of his rule, something will cause him to quickly head for Jerusalem.
Daniel 11:44,45 – But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. [45] And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
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Chirac retracts Remarks on Iran Threat
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST
February 1, 2007
French President Jacques Chirac said in an interview with three newspapers that Iran’s possession of a nuclear bomb would not be “very dangerous” and that if it used the weapon on Israel, Teheran would be immediately “razed,” according to a newspaper report.
However, Chirac – who made the comments during a Monday interview with The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune and Le Nouvel Observateur, a weekly magazine – called reporters back the next day to try to have his quotes retracted.
In an article posted on its Web site Wednesday night, the New York Times said the Monday interview was tape recorded and on the record.
Chirac’s initial remarks would mark a big departure from France’ s official policy of deterrence and work in preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapon
s.
“I should rather have paid attention to what I was saying and understood that perhaps I was on the record,” Chirac said in the second interview on Tuesday, according to the New York Times.
On Monday, Chirac said of Iran and its nuclear program: “I would say that what is dangerous about this situation is not the fact of having a nuclear bomb. Having one or perhaps a second bomb a little later, well, that’s not very dangerous.”
Instead, Chirac said, the danger lay in the chances of proliferation or an arms race in the Middle East should Iran build a nuclear bomb. Possessing the weapon would be useless for Iran – whose leader has called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” – as using it would mean an instant counterattack.
“Where will it drop it, this bomb? On Israel?” Chirac asked. “It would not have gone 200 meters into the atmosphere before Teheran would be razed.”
In the second interview with the same newspapers, Chirac retracted his comment about Teheran being razed.
“I retract it, of course, when I said, ‘One is going to raze Teheran,”‘ he said.
Chirac also said other countries would stop any bomb launched by Iran from reaching its target.
“It is obvious that this bomb, at the moment it was launched, obviously would be destroyed immediately,” he said. “We have the means – several countries have the means to destroy a bomb.”
Regarding his comments that Israel could be a target of an Iranian weapon and that Israel would retaliate, Chirac said: “I don’t think I spoke about Israel yesterday. Maybe I did so but I don’t think so.
I have no recollection of that.”
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