Prophecy Update: Sept.15th 2017
Last week the Israeli’s attacked a chemical weapons facility in Syria’s Hama province. Reuters reported: “Israel hits Syrian site said to be linked to chemical weapons.” The report further said, “The air strike killed two soldiers and caused damage near the town of Masyaf, an army statement said. It warned of the “dangerous repercussions of this aggressive action to the security and stability of the region”. When the army warns us of dangerous repercussions, I almost have to laugh. Let us get this straight, a nation that has been at war for almost six years with 475,000 dead and about 11 million who have been displaced and 5 million have left the country, your worried about further repercussions?
“The Observatory said strikes also hit a military camp next to the center that was used to store ground-to-ground rockets and where personnel of Iran and its ally, the Lebanese Hezbollah group, had been seen more than once. Syria’s foreign ministry has sent letters to the U.N. Security Council protesting against Israel’s “aggression” and saying anyone who attacked Syrian military sites was supporting terrorism, Syrian state TV reported. While Syria complains, Israel has a moral duty to defend herself from Hezbollah and Iran who have set up shop in Syria to attack Israel.
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said, “We have won in the war (in Syria),” he said in comments reported by the Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar. Referring to Assad’s opponents, Nasrallah said “the path of the other project has failed and wants to negotiate for some gains”. Military backing from Iran and Russia has proven critical to Assad in the war with insurgents including rebels who have been backed by Gulf Arab states, Turkey and the United States, which has decided to end a programme of covert support to rebels. As Assad and Russia win the war in Syria, Iran sets up shop for its eventual attack of Israel. Do not forget that the Iranians every Friday chant death to America and death to Israel at all of their mosques. The leader of Iran wrote a book on destroying Israel.
The Besa Center reported this past week that the Middle East is in a tremendous upheaval because the lone superpower in the world has been absent. They said of Iran: “The Iranian-North Korean collusion, in defiance of all international countermeasures, is not merely transactional but cooperative. Tehran is both a contributor to and a benefactor of Pyongyang’s thirst for nuclear prowess, and is thus a major threat to both the Sunni Arab states and Israel. If Iran is not, even at this late stage, decisively and successfully encouraged to assume a less belligerent stance, Shiite supremacy is unavoidable.” With the destruction of ISIS, the Middle East is being dominated by the Iranians. Saudi Arabia has lost a great deal of power and significance in the Middle East because of the failure of ISIS and many Sunni terrorist groups. A Shiite front will soon surround the Sunni bloc (excluding Turkey), extending from Lebanon-Syria, around Iraq-Iran, up to Yemen and perhaps beyond. That front is now busy gluing together all the hitherto disconnected Shiite elements in the region. Although Sunni and Shiite Islam are united in their desire to destroy Israel, they are still in competition with each other and kill each other whenever they can. The power of Israel has caused Saudi Arabia to be less belligerent to Israel and maybe to see them as an ally against Iran.
The North Koreans and the Iranians help the Palestinians so they can use them to kill Jews. The Besa report said, “As for the Palestinians, North Korean military advisors provided the PLO with instruction and training in paramilitary and terrorist operations in the Middle East and in North Korea. On this year’s remembrance day of “Korea’s” victory over Japan in 1945, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sent a telegram to Pyongyang to voice the Palestinians’ admiration of “the great sacrifices [endured by the DPRK] for the sake of its freedom and dignity.” Do not forget that the momentum is with China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. What this means for Israel is war plain and simple. These groups realize that Nato cannot stop them and America is alone. The forces of Nato are weak and ineffective because the West in general has adopted a spirit of Neville Chamberlain. They have given in to the jihadist Muslim movement in Europe!
Giulio Meotti wrote a piece for Arutz Sheva this week called, “Where is the West’s courage? Young children, ostriches and Europe all have something in common: If they close their eyes or hide their heads in the sand, they think they are safe. In 1978, the great Russian writer Alexander Solzenitsyn delivered a famous speech at Harvard University. “The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society. Of course, there are many courageous individuals, but they have no determining influence on public life”. Solzenitsyn nailed what has happened in the USA the last 40 years. If we are lacking courage in the USA it is ten times worse in Europe. Russia and China see this and they are moving ahead aggressively. Giulio points out the problem after Spain was attacked: “I’m not afraid, is the slogan of anti-terrorism march in Spain. Time Magazine called them “Peace Marchers”. Peace? After 15 people have been butchered by a cell of the Islamic State? Why not announce instead a Spanish battalion to join the international coalition busy in freeing Raqqa, the de facto capital of Isis in Syria?”
You see, the West is busy saying peace and doing nothing to stop the murderers. He went on to say, “Our candor in front of all our dead murdered by terrorists, a mix of nihilism and phony optimism, is amazing. It is as if the West agreed to pay this price to radical Islam. We have our homegrown Jihadists, their handlers in North Africa and the Middle East, Iran and North Korea – all out to destroy the West. They don’t hide their intentions. We are the ones who hide.”
This is the state of affairs in Ezekiel 38-39, Israel is willing to fight and the west is not. Israel attacks a weapons facility in Syria, tells the world to take a hike and says they will do it again. In Ashland Ohio they have a march and rally to say we do not hate? Are you kidding me, where are our soldiers, fighters, are they not going to kill our enemies? Our war planners manage wars not fight to win wars. That is why we still have troops in the Iraq and Afghanistan. Let me be in charge of this war and it would have been over in 3 months!
Ezekiel 38:13 says, “Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will say to you, ‘Have you come to capture spoil? Have you assembled your company to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capture great spoil?’”’ You see the West is weak and ineffective because we do not prepare for war or for the violence of our opponents. We teach in the West that we have no opponents and that everyone is entitled to their beliefs. We justify the Jihadists behavior and even deny their Muslims? As we do these things, Russia and Iran are setting up for war!
Russia is today practicing to defeat NATO in their Zapad 2017 war games. As they do it, Turkey, a NATO member signed a deal with the Russians to buy their S-400 missile defense system! NATO is not ready to stop the Russians if their 100,000 troops turn and attack Latvia! What will NATO do if their troops attack Israel? The Bible says they will do nothing. After the Paris terror attacks, many people were inspired by John Lennon’s peace songs. It was a clear message to Jihadists: you can continue to butcher us, we don’t care. One nation that cares is Israel.
Have you asked yourself why Syria has not retaliated against Israel? It is because they know that Israel will kill them in minutes! The Muslim states only use terrorism on Israel because they have lost every war hands down! When Israel faced the Muslim nations in war, 1948, 56, 67, and 73, the Muslim nations were backed and funded by the Soviet Union. Each time the Jews won those wars and the Soviet equipment, planes and other things were no match for the Israeli’s. The Muslim nations are once again waiting for the client state, Russia, to attack Israel. The next big war in the Middle East will be Russia, Iran and their allies attacking Israel. Again it will be a loss for the evil forces from Russia and Iran. The Russians are practicing for war today. Zapad 2017 is suppose to use 12,700 Russian soldiers but already Russia has sent 100,000 troops. They lied to the West again—go figure that! “According to the Baltic States, the last Zapad-series exercise in 2013 involved 75,000 military personnel, six times higher than Russia disclosed,” says Janes Intelligence Review. According to a recent RAND Corporation analysis: “As currently postured, NATO cannot successfully defend the territory of its most exposed members. Across multiple games using a wide range of expert participants in and out of uniform playing both sides, the longest it has taken Russian forces to reach the outskirts of the Estonian and/or Latvian capitals of Tallinn and Riga, respectively, Is 60 hours. Such a rapid defeat would leave NATO with a limited number of options, all bad: a bloody counteroffensive, fraught with escalatory risk, to liberate the Baltics; to escalate itself, as it threatened to do to avert defeat during the Cold War; or to concede at least temporary defeat, with uncertain but predictably disastrous consequences for the Alliance and, not incidentally, the people of the Baltics.”
Russia is on the move and all students of Bible Prophecy are watching closely to see where Russia takes this military drill. We know that these forces of the Russian federation are going to end up on the northern mountains of Israel in the near future, please pray that God will give mercy and compassion!
