Prepare War, Wake Up the Mighty Men!
February 7, 2007
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Syria, Iran, Hizbullah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah, al-Qaeda, and every other terrorist nation or group in the Middle East, along with those who are moderates, are arming themselves to the teeth.
Does this pattern seem to fit the following prophecy of Joel?
Joel 3:9-14 – Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: [10] Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. [11] Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.
[12] Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. [13] Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. [14] Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
Begin Fox News Article
Israeli Official: Foreign Sources Arming Hizbullah, Hamas at Alarming Rate
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily Alert
James Rosen
February 7, 2007
Hizbullah is presently receiving a “constant stream of armaments” from Syria, Iran and other foreign sources, senior Israeli officials said Tuesday.
“They are getting all kinds of rockets, advanced anti-tank missiles, command-and-control systems, training, finance,” an Israeli official said. The official said Hizbullah maintains an “operational” presence along the Lebanese-Israeli border. Enabling Hizbullah’s rearmament is the “open border” Lebanon shares with Syria, and the lack of “real teeth for enforcement” in UN Security Council Resolution 1718, which established a ceasefire in the Israeli-Hizbullah war last August.
At the same time, and in a similar way, foreign sources are providing Hamas with anti-tank missiles, high-trajectory rockets, rocket-propelled grenades and their launchers, explosive devices and automatic rifles.
The armament of the Hamas commanders is “intensive” and “incessant,” and intended for use against both their Fatah rivals and the Israelis. The official said the IDF has had “no operational activity whatsoever” in Gaza for the last three months, but that in
the same time Hamas has launched more than 100 Kassam rockets at Israeli civilian targets.
The official was skeptical about Western plans to shore up the Fatah security forces loyal to Mahmoud Abbas. “Every meeting we have on this subject always ends in the conclusion, ‘Bolster Abbas,’ as if that will solve all the problems.
He was in power two years ago [before Hamas came to power], wasn’t he? What did he do then?” The official said the Israelis provided Abbas with weapons and some have wound up in the hands of Hamas. (FOX News)
End Fox News Report
The joy of my life is that I know how all this is going to end from the same Scripture that tells me it is on our doorstep, as Joel’s prophecy continues to inform us.
Joel 3:14-21 – Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. [15] The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. [16] The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. [17] So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion,
my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. [18] And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall
come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim. [19] Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. [20] But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
[21] For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwelleth in Zion.
The time of Jacob’s trouble is waiting in the wings of destiny as three and one-half years of great tribulation, after which Israel will return from the Negev Wilderness, delivered by the hand of God.
Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
Revelation 12:6 – 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.
Jeremiah 30:7 – Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Zechariah 13:9 – 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.
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