Prophecy Update: Friday June 23, 2017

The war is widening in Syria and it seems to include the United States. As the government keeps saying that we are not going to war in the Middle East, the signs are that we are being dragged into more conflict. This past week the USA shot down a Sukhoi 22 jet from Russia, being flown by Syrian pilots. In the last few months we have dropped bombs on Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen and Libya. We still have troops in Germany and Japan from WW2 and troops in South Korea from the Korean war. Why are we still in Korea, Japan, and Germany? That was over 50 years ago. Do wars ever end for the USA?

On June 23rd 1950 the communist forces of North Korea crossed over the 38th parallel and began a war on the south. The United States committed to stop Soviet and communist aggression in those days so we went to war. After WW2 the United States had slashed its military and was not ready for a war. The communist Mao took China in 1948 and in 1950 the Soviets had a nuclear bomb so they were sowing their oats and trying to take some countries for worldwide communism. After the attack in South Korea, they took almost 90% of the country before the Americans acted. Our president Harry Truman, not a man I would mess with, made a commitment to come to the aid of the South Koreans. We landed in a place called Pusan and were literally surrounded. Seoul the capital of the South exchanged hands between the communists and the American/S.Korean armies five times. General MacArthur pushed the communists back into the North and even took much of the north until the Chinese entered the fight and pushed the Americans back across the 38th parallel. The war ended with an Armistice on July 27th 1953. We lost 35,000 soldiers in a war that we did not win. The cold war has brought 65 years of our people being in South Korea with a commitment to defend and protect the South. As South Korea has tasted freedom they have become an economic powerhouse. God used us to bless South Korea. The North is still a communist country with nothing. Pray for them.

The freedom and affluence of South Korea has given us the likes of Hyundai, Kia, LG, and Samsung. They are truly blessed but there is a problem. We did not win the war so we could not dictate terms of surrender in order to bless the North. The North has been a repressive evil country that kills and enslaves its people. The message was clear, the free world under US leadership was not going to bow to Soviet and Maoist communism! We stood watch to protect other Asian nations and especially Western Europe.

As war seems inevitable in the Middle East, so does war seem likely in the Korean Peninsula? We have 3 aircraft carrier groups in the waters off the coast of North Korea. North Korea is launching missiles to endanger the South and provoke America. This is a regime under Kim Jong Un—whom I call undone! He is a wicked and evil man who hates his people, mistreats them, enslaves them, and kills Christians! The last three months, the North has tested a new missile each week and has made the South very nervous. The South called a meeting for a war council in the country, they do not know if they are going to war. North Korea arrested a student from the USA and killed him. His name is Otto Wambier, this is an act of war. The North Koreans just sent a message to our president Donald Trump, like the Godfather of Italian Mafia lore, they sent a message by killing one of our own and sent him back like the Mafia sending a dead fish. The message is that you cannot not do anything to us we are more powerful than you. The USA has done nothing as of this moment accept to send threats. It used to be a terrible and scary thing to kill a citizen of the USA.

Fred Wambier, the boys father, said that North Korea brutalized and murdered his son. Where is the outrage? Well, Donald Trump ordered the Carl Vinson, Ronald Reagan, and Nimitz carrier groups off the coast of North Korea. That is a lot of fire power with little or no mandate to attack. That fire power is within range of Russia, China, and North Korea, what kind of message is it sending? Each Carrier is powered by two nuclear engines and they are three football fields long. Each of the three have more than 60 aircraft. The firepower of just one of the carriers is equal to or more than all of the bombs that went off in WW2! (mostly because of nukes) each carrier group has two destroyers so that means there are 6 off the coast of North Korea. The destroyers alone would put fear in my heart. The destroyers carry tomahawk and ballistic missiles with nukes. Even without the nukes there is a lot of fire power! Then there are the nuclear subs that tag along with the carrier groups. They have enough nukes on them to take out all of China. Three of them could take out all of Russia, China, and North Korea. (109 missiles on each sub!) Why so much firepower there? Things look ominous!

North Korea has no destroyers and only about 40 attack aircraft. The 200 F-18 alone are enough to take out the whole air force of North Korea in about an hour and a half! Just as China came to the aid of North Korea in 1950, they better do it again or else North Korea has no chance. The Pentagon is calling this a regular scheduled deployment, I can tell you that it has never happened before of course not counting WW2! North Korea’s Foreign Minister said yesterday that they are ready for war with the USA. China deployed 150,000 troops to the border of North Korea. Six Russian bombers set off towards Japan and Japan had to send up fighter jets to stop them. Russia began deploying her navy to the north of Japan to counter what the USA was doing. Seal Team Six was sent to South Korea—why? Kim Jong Un ordered that parts of the capital city, Pyongyang should be evacuated. This is the definition of wars and rumors of wars.

Meanwhile in Syria, The British are reporting that the way things stand now, war is inevitable between the US and Russia. I do not believe that the biggest threat is the US—Russia tension in Syria. I believe that the greatest threat of war is Qatar! The reason is because the Gulf States have presented Qatar with 10 demands which seem impossible for them to abide by. Several weeks ago, Saudi Arabia and Egypt led a group of nations to shut off diplomatic relations with Qatar. The claim is that Qatar supported terrorism with Turkey, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood. The Saudis always had a good relationship with Egypt because Egypt always kept the Muslim Brotherhood at bay under Mubarak. When Mubarak fell, Pres. Obama put his trust in the Muslim Brotherhood which enraged the Saudis. Now that Trump is in office that all changed! One of the demands is that Qatar kick out the Turkish army base, that is not going to happen short of war. America and Russia cannot stop these groups. Iran wants to get rid of the Sunni groups that stand with the Saudis. The Saudis gave Qatar 10 days to meet their demands such as including calls for it to expel Turkish military forces from its territory and sever all connections with the Muslim Brotherhood. The ultimatum said Qatar must also pay reparations to its neighbours, hand over fugitives wanted by other Middle Eastern states and immediately cease financing terrorists groups like Hizbollah and Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate. The biggest demand is for them to close the news channel Al Jazerra! We are four days into the demands and it is not looking like they will meet the demands.

Do the Saudis have the military ability to fight and win a war with Qatar and her allies? Qatar is very small with only 2.2 million people. It imports all of its food but has a lot of money from oil and gas. “Saudi Arabia and UAE know Qatar won’t accept the list of demands as offered,” said Michael Stephens, a research fellow at the Royal United Services. Saudi Arabia and the other nations leading the blockade – the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt – launched an economic and diplomatic blockade on the energy-rich country a fortnight ago, initially claiming the Qatari royal family had licensed the funding of terrorism across the Middle East for decades. Since then, the allies appear to be pushing for the isolation of Iran and the suppression of dissenting media in the region. “Perhaps the idea is that these demands are a starting point for negotiation on more core issues.” Al-Jazeera, which is wholly owned by the Qatari state, struck a defiant note in the face of calls for the closure of both its English and Arabic services saying it was “an attempt to silence the freedom of expression in the region.” This is where it gets really strange–US policy towards Qatar so far has been marked by confusion. President Donald Trump has appeared to take credit for the Saudi embargo and described Qatar as a haven for terrorism. By contrast, the State Department under Rex Tillerson has twice upbraided Saudi Arabia’s approach to Qatar and questioned its true motives in sparking the diplomatic crisis. The US has a major military base in Qatar and risks seeing Qatar forced into an alliance with Iran if its enforced isolation continues, an outcome that would be a major strategic blow to Washington as well as a further threat to the security of the region.
Qatar is already in league with Iran so we are in a very bad situation. The lines for a future war are being drawn. Countries will line up behind Saudi Arabia or Iran. This is the more important threat to war than what is happening in Syria, as tragic as that is. Turkey is with the Russians and Iran and that fits the prophecy of Ezekiel 38-39. This is the first time in many years that Turkey has shown its hand, it is fulfilling biblical prophecy! Pay attention to the next two weeks and what happens with the Saudi’s? Will they lash out or will they wilt from the pressure?