Prophecy Update: July 12th 2018
In the last three years, Russia’s intervention in Syria has been a cause of concern for many in the United States. The inability of the US to intervene in Syria caused a vacuum of power that Russia was only too happy to fill. The result was the intervention of Russia in the Syrian civil war. The Russians came in on the side of the Syrian President Bashir Assad. Iran, China, and most Shiite groups support the Assad regime. In 2016 the British paper the Independent had this headline: Oct.17, 2016:
US and Russia could ‘start Third World War over Syria conflict’, says Turkey
‘If this proxy war continues, let me be clear, America and Russia will come to a point of war’
They called it a proxy war and most of it has been a proxy war except for one cold hard truth: Russian forces are fighting in Syria on the border with Israel. In the last two years Russian troops have not only supported Syrian troops but have also assisted and fought alongside with Iranian troops! This is why I am very skeptical of the meeting going on in Russia between Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Vladimir Putin of Russia. This is the ninth time that they have met in three years.
Ezekiel 38 says, vs.8 “After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but its people were brought out from the nations, and they are living securely, all of them.” We learn from this verse that God is going to call Russia someday to the mountains of Israel to fight against Israel. Russia entered Syria in Sept.2015. This is the date that God began the fulfillment of Ezekiel 38:8. Yet, Israel meets with Putin and they think he is an ally. Netanyahu said he “very much appreciates the excellent direct contact I have with President Putin. It is very important to Israel’s national security.” Netanyahu is expected to stress Israel’s continued opposition to any Iranian presence in Syria. While that is Israel’s public position, the talks are expected to concentrate on ensuring that Iranian forces, Hezbollah or Shia militia forces do not penetrate into southern Syria along with Syrian Resident Bashar Assad’s forces.’
So you see my problem: for eight of the meetings that Israel had with Russia, nothing has stopped Iran from setting up shop on the mountains of Israel in the Golan Heights. Has God already put it on the mind of Putin to attack Israel? Putin has done nothing of any significance to stop Iran from fighting in southern Syria, and attacking Israel. In fact, Iran attacked Israel today (Wed.7/11/2018) sending a drone into Israel which Israel blew up. The last week, Russia has conducted air strikes in southern Syria with the help of the Iranians. The Iranians are now dressing in the Syrian army fatigues so that Israel cannot distinguish between Iranian troops and Syrian troops. Do you think Russia is going to help stop that? Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, Iran is one of the key players in the region and it would be absolutely unrealistic to expect it to abandon its interests.” One of its highest interests are to destroy Israel! Ezekiel goes on to say:
“Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “On that day when My people Israel are living securely, will you not know it? You will come from your place out of the remote parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great assembly and a mighty army.” Ezekiel 38:14-15
As Israel and Russia meet in Moscow, will Netanyahu point out the obvious that Russia has done nothing to stop Iran from moving into the Golan area and attacking Israel? Does not Russia know that Israel is living securely? Do not the Arab/Muslim states complain all of the time that Israel is too powerful and use disproportionate force against her enemies? Israel was just listed as the 8th most powerful nation in the world by U.S. News and World Report. They studied 80 countries and Israel was pointed out to have success in pharmaceuticals, technology equipment, innovation, and diamonds.
Notice that at the time Israel is growing in power and strength, NATO is failing as a military alliance. For many years, Russia has been the focus of NATO cooperation, but when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, what purpose was there for NATO? That has been the source of much debate over the last 27 years and many in America have pointed out that NATO has become obsolete. From a speech in 2011, listen to this:
“In one of his last major addresses, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a Republican who served the administrations of both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, warned of a “dim, if not dismal future” of “military irrelevance” for NATO if Europeans didn’t invest more. Under NATO bylaws, members are supposed to spend 2 percent of their GDP on defense. Apart from the U.S., only four of the 27 other member countries do.
“The blunt reality,” Gates said in the 2011 speech in Brussels, “is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. Congress — and in the American body politic writ large — to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense.”
This argument has been around for awhile, President Trump is stating the obvious when he questions the reason for NATO. His argument against the socialist states of Europe not paying what they promised is an old criticism. Europe has always depended on Americans for their defense and Trump pointing it out does not make him the enemy. It is the reality; if Russia attacked Europe, Germany and France are not coming to the aid of anyone, period! They want America to do it. European pacifism encourages Russian aggression. We have been warned and many are not listening. In 2017, General Sir Richard Shirreff, former head of NATO wrote a book about a war with Russia in 2018. Much of the book was about Kalingrad being the center of the war. Consider this headline today:
New Satellite Images Show Russia is Secretly Preparing for War www.neonnettle.com/news/ © Neon Nettle. “Several reports have detailed a disturbing new trend of Moscow’s rapid modernization efforts to improve its westernmost military facilities in Kaliningrad ahead of the summit. The area is a strategic enclave of Russian territory located between Poland and the Baltics.”
The book I read last year was described like this in the press:
Former Nato commander’s new book predicts invasion of Baltic as Putin bids to ‘make Russia a great power again’ 2017 War with Russia, by General Sir Richard Shirreff, paints a disturbing picture of potential nuclear conflict taking place next year (2018). Russia has been preparing for war in very open and clear ways. Problem is that Europe is not preparing but appeasing. Moscow ordered millions of people to practice going into bomb shelters. When have we done that in America? Do we even have bomb shelters anymore?
When Nato was started it had two purposes, to counteract a strong Germany because they started two world wars and to oppose the Soviet Union. The reason NATO was formed was because the UN had no power to stop the USSR. Germany was divided into West Germany and East Germany, so it was in the interest of West Germany to stand with America. Today, that is not the case. After the Soviet Union fell, NATO expanded into East Europe. Russia has said that this was a provocation because NATO wanted to overthrow Russia. The Gaurdian reported: In April 2009, Mikhail Gorbachev expressed his outrage at the way Russia had been hoodwinked by the west in the years following German unification in 1990. After all, he told the German tabloid Bild, the western powers had pledged that “Nato would not move a centimetre to the east”. The failure to honour this commitment had poisoned Russia’s post-cold war relations with the west. “They probably rubbed their hands, rejoicing at having played a trick on the Russians,” he said. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, agrees. At the Munich security conference in 2007, he pointed to the threat posed by Nato’s expansion and asked: “What happened to the assurances our western partners made after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact?” In March 2014 he repeated the accusation that “they [the west] have lied to us many times, made decisions behind our backs … This has happened with Nato’s expansion to the east.”
Russia is bitter against the West and they sense the weakness. NATO cannot win a war against Russia because it is divided and weak. Turkey has turned to be an enemy of the USA and Israel and they are the largest army in NATO. I do not see the Turks fighting Russia anytime soon do you? I do see Turkey joining Russia when they attack Israel. That is biblical prophecy and it perfectly pictures the day in which we live. This is why the NATO meeting and Israel Russia meeting this week are so important.
In a spate of interviews ahead of the summit, NATO Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchinson enumerated the many ways that Russia threatens Europe and U.S. interests. But while the threats she mentioned – political subversion through social media, nerve agent attacks in Great Britain, support for Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, violations of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) treaty, and annexation of Crimea – are all major threats, they are not the main threats that the U.S. faces today. Moreover, NATO has been ineffective in confronting these malign actions by Russia. Russia is growing in its brazenness and it will attack Israel in the near future—God said it 2500 years ago. Caroline Glick said this week: As for President Trump, despite the bloviations of his critics, he bears no responsibility for NATO’s irrelevance. Trump did not cause NATO to have little role to play in fighting the key threats to American and global security. NATO has had nearly three decades to figure out how to do that. But it failed.
