Prophetic-Leaning Events in the News

Two interesting bits of news that reaffirm things we already know.

First, Russia is on a path that will soon lead it into judgment.  It is all but certain that Vladimir Putin will once again assume the most powerful position in the government when he is elected President of the Russian Republic in March. His most recent statements demonstrate that he is probably the key figure in the coming Ezekiel 38 & 39 war called “Gog and Magog.”  Putin has been very clear, stating that Russia will not allow any foreign intervention in its affairs. That includes its foreign affairs. Early this week Putin reiterated that any attack upon Iran, Russia’s strategic ally in the Middle East, would be considered an attack on Russia itself.

Yesterday, in a campaign rally, Putin challenged the throngs of people to stand up and resist foreign influence, likening the current outside pressure to the days of the Napoleonic wars when Russians rose up and defeated the little emperor. Only now, Putin’s words are meant to arouse Russian nationalism against the West. Saying that the honor of the motherland was at stake, Putin reminded the people that the defense of the homeland was “in the blood” of the Russian people. They need no one but themselves and the motherland.

These are the very sentiments of Ezekiel’s envisioned persona named Gog…a leader fully self-contained, without God, and ready to go to war. All he needs is a hook to be set in his mouth and he will attack.

Then,

Iran’s true intentions concerning their development of nuclear weapons again surfaced.

In what seems to belie Iran’s oft-repeated assertion that its nuclear program is designed for peaceful purposes, the wife of a nuclear scientist who was assassinated last month in Tehran said that the goal of her husband’s life’s work was the “annihilation of Israel,” the scientist’s wife told the Iranian Fars News Agency (FNA) on Tuesday. Based on comments made to the FNA by Fatemeh Bolouri Kashani, the report said her husband, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan “sought the annihilation of the Zionist regime wholeheartedly.” He also, “loved any resistance figure in his life who was willing to fight the Zionist regime and supported the rights of the oppressed Palestinian nation,” Fars said.

 Roshan, 32, an official at Iran’s nuclear-enrichment facility in Natanz, was killed in an explosion after attackers attached a bomb to his car in Tehran. The scientist, a graduate of Tehran’s prestigious Sharif University of Technology, was a chemistry expert involved in building polymeric layers for gas separation, the use of various membranes to isolate gases. He was also a deputy-director of the Natanz uranium enrichment plant.

 In a blog post published Wednesday, Elliot Abrams, a senior fellow at the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, wrote that Kashani’s “praise of her husband should help inform our debate over the nature and objectives of Iran’s nuclear program.” Abrams says, “The official U.S. position is that it is ‘unacceptable’ for Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, and this is a reminder that should be our actual policy as well.”

 Abrams suggested that Roshan’s wife had not gotten the regime’s official talking points sheet, and thus she spoke the truth.

It is amazing how the truth finds a way to come to light. The fact is Iran, Russia, Turkey, Libya, and much of the horn of Africa are already allied. That alliance has been formed for certain purposes, one of which is the destruction of the State of Israel.

We still have no idea how distant the War of Gog and Magog is in the future, but we do know we are on a path toward its fulfillment.

What would happen if Israel, or Israel and the United States attack Iran’s nuclear facilities? I believe that is exactly what Iran desires. Should that event occur, we will see the nations surrounding Israel become the first wave of battle against the Jews. Prophetic scripture is, in my view, clear. Those nations will be destroyed (See Psalm 83, Isaiah 17, Ezekiel 25, Jeremiah 12, Zephaniah 2, and Zechariah 9).  When that happens, Ezekiel 38 and 39 will be just around the corner.

In the meantime, we have work to do. Let’s get to it and bit about the Father’s business!

Jimmy

 

Signs of the Times in Full Bloom

Things I know….and Things I Don’t

Obama’s war on Christianity materialized in a big way with his “directive” that religious organizations provide “contraceptive” services to their employees. This, of course, includes abortive medications and procedures that are against the doctrine and conscience of said religious services. The supposed compromise made by Obama was simply semantic in nature. Insurance companies must provide the “contraceptive” service free of charge. Who pays for the insurance? The religious organization…which will be assessed hefty fines if they refuse.

.  The Occupy Wall Street movement, OWS, is petering out after having squatted on public property for months. Vandalism, public defecation, rape, and squalor accompanied the movement that was backed by President Obama. Little was done by law enforcement to curb the disgusting and absolutely illegal behavior of OWS participants.  But, stunningly, a small group of people was arrested this week and taken to jail in Washington D.C. Their crime…..gathering in front of the White House in Layfeyette Square and praying for our nation. 

President Obama, in the midst of numerous and growing crises around the world, has decided that it is time to honor his campaign pledge of eliminating America’s nuclear arsenal. This week, Obama declared he would unilaterally reduce the number of nuclear warheads (including delivery systems) from the current number of approximately 1400 to less than 400.  This while Russian Chief of Staff, General Nikolai Makarove said on Wednesday that Russia would use nuclear weapons in response to any imminent threat to its national security, “We are certainly not planning to fight against the whole of NATO,” Makarov said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio, “but if there is a threat to the integrity of the Russian Federation, we have the right to use nuclear weapons, and we will.”   Remember that Russia declared in January that any attack on Iran will be considered an attack against the Russian Federation!

Iran draws ever closer to developing nuclear weapons while the West sits on its hands. Sanctions will only work if a nation can be deterred in its direction. Iran’s political and religious leadership, which is one and the same, believes its mission is to launch an all-out war with Israel and America. Why? Radical, Shia theology is based on the belief that the Islamic messiah, the Twelfth Imam (Mahdi), will return during a cataclysmic event and subdue the world, Israel, and all infidels. He will then establish a worldwide caliphate and rule with severity. The Iranian radicals (not all of Iran is made up of radicals) are willing to sacrifice themselves and their country in order to initiate the Mahdi’s return. No amount of sanctions will force them to change their course. To them, it is persecution, and this they crave as a motivation to continue towards their apocalypse.

Barack Obama is doing all he can to dissuade Israel from striking the Iranian nuclear facilities. This includes leaking Israel’s plans to the media, dispatching his diplomatic corp to threaten and cajole Benjamin Netanyahu into submission, slowing military aide, and more.   Still, most of the public remains oblivious to certain realities. First, Barack Obama cannot be trusted to aide or protect our only democratic ally in the Middle East.  Second, two US Aircraft Carrier battle groups have sailed through the Straits of Hormuz (off the Iranian coast) in a show of force.  However, I believe the show of force is directed toward Israel.  Obama is either attempting to stall the Israeli’s, or to discourage them entirely. Remember, the bunch in the White House is the same group of left-wingers that declared, through former National Security Advisor Zbigneu Brezenski, that if Israel attacks Iran, the US should shoot down their planes. Has Obama positioned US warships in a way that threatens Israel?  If so, we are in BIG TROUBLE!

(I fully admit I am praying for Barack Obama in two ways: That he wake up to the course he has placed this nation upon, which is moving us toward a showdown against the covenants of God, and…that if he does not change, the Lord remove him from the White House.)

I DO NOT know when the Biblically prophetic events of the Psalm 83 or Ezekiel 38 &39 wars will begin. I DO NOT know how they will begin.

I DO KNOW they have moved off the distant horizon and are fast approaching.

These are the signs of the times!

Jimmy

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The Ayatollah Speaks: Israel Prepares

Word was leaked this week by the US Secretary of Defense through Washington Post columnist, David Ignatius, that Israel was preparing to attack Iran to prevent it  from being able to build a nuclear bomb.

According to his Post opinion page colleague Charles Krauthammer, based on  the source behind Ignatius’ claim it is likely an attack will occur.

On this weekend’s broadcast of “Inside Washington,” Krauthammer explained his  thought process.

“I think it’s fairly certain the Israelis are going to attack or you would  not have had this leak, deliberately coming this week from secretary of Defense  through David Ignatius of The [Washington] Post saying that he thinks there is a  high likelihood Israel is going to attack, and then he went ahead and specified  when. He said three months, April, May or June. And you don’t say that unless  there is obviously indications from the Israelis that they are going to do this  even if they get and they are getting a signal from the United States not to do  it.”

I find it interesting that Israel’s supposed “best friend” would openly broadcast the IDF’s intent to protect itself, and then give the probable dates of Israel’s attack on Iran. I find it very difficult to believe that Benjamin Netanyahu would let something of that magnitude be leaked to the Obama administration. I am convinced Netanyahu knows Obama would betray the confidence. Therefore, I can only surmise that Israel has other plans that they will hold close to the vest. We’ll see.

In the meantime, Iran is springboarding off of Obama’s big mouth.  The Iranian government, through a website proxy, has laid out the legal and religious justification for the destruction of Israel and the slaughter of its people.

The doctrine includes wiping out Israeli assets and Jewish people worldwide.

Calling Israel a danger to Islam, the conservative website Alef, with ties to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the opportunity must not be lost to remove “this corrupting material. It is a ‘jurisprudential justification” to kill all the Jews and annihilate Israel, and in that, the Islamic government of Iran must take the helm.”

The article, written by Alireza Forghani, a conservative analyst and a strategy specialist in Khamenei’s camp, now is being run on most state-owned conservative sites, including the Revolutionary Guards’ Fars News Agency, showing that the regime endorses this doctrine.

Because Israel is going to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, Iran is justified in launching a pre-emptive, cataclysmic attack against the Jewish state, the doctrine argues.

Where is world outrage at such remarks?

While the positioning of Iran within the Ezekiel 38 and 39 coalition is clear, what remains unclear is the series of events that will lead to the Gog/Magog attack. Will Iran pre-emptively strike Israel? Will Iran’s puppets go into greater action? Will the US assist, or hinder Israel?

I am certain that any Israeli strike against Iran will start a cascade that will eventually end in Ezekiel’s prophesied war of Gog and Magog. That means we are in for a wild ride in the next few weeks and months. Hold on tight.

Jimmy

 

The Biggest Waffle Ever

Not too long ago, at a popular breakfast restaurant, I decided to eat something beyond my normal 200 calorie meal. I ordered super-humungous waffles!  The exact amount of syrup, along with the exotic flavor of the waffles made them supurb in taste. mmmm  They were so big I didn’t have to eat again for the rest of the day. (Note: I did eat again, but didn’t need to.)  You know how it is; waffles were empty calories. I was tired, drained of energy, listliss, and unconcerned about life all day long.

Such is the case with the lastest, super-sized waffling being committed by the United States and the European Union when it comes to preventing Iran from completing their manufacture of nuclear weapons.

I am convinced, and have been for some time, that Israel MUST perform whatever air strikes is necessary to slow or destroy Iran’s nuclear factories…before it is too late. I am convinced, though will be glad if I’m wrong, that Barack Obama is content with a nuclear Iran and will do nothing to stop them. Even Joe Lieberman agrees with me. Listen to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:

“The US is committed to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and is prepared to use force to that end, but a military strike against the Islamic Republic would be ‘premature’ at this juncture,” Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in an interview with the National Journal on Thursday. “I do think the path we’re on – the economic sanctions and the diplomatic pressure – does seem to me to be having an effect,” Dempsey said. “I just think that it’s premature to be deciding that the economic and diplomatic approach is inadequate.”

WAFFLE…. sounds filling, smells good, tastes great, but is empty!

The banner headline this week came when the EU announced it had decided to place an oil embargo on Iran. Wow! Wonderful! Problem: It won’t be put in place until July 1st.  Israeli intelligence says that Iran is stumbling across the finish line and could have the first bombs completed any day.

Not to be out done, the Obama administration anounced it is ratcheting up its sanctions against Iran by sanctioning its third largest bank…..sometime in March.

Now, suddenly, Iran wants to talk.  Here is how Carolyn Glick of the Jerusalem Post opines on the issue….and she is right.

At the same time as the Europeans and the Americans  announced their phony sanctions, they reportedly dispatched their Turkish  colleagues to Tehran to set up a new round of nuclear talks with the ayatollahs.  If the past is any guide, we can expect for the Iranians to agree to sit down  and talk just before the oil embargo is scheduled to be enforced. And the  Europeans – with US support – will use the existence of talks to postpone  indefinitely the implementation of the embargo.

In other words, Israel is alone!  We know it. They know it. God knows it.

Jimmy

 

A Sad State of Afairs

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On a day when President Barack Obama celebrates the abortion deaths of 54 million children, Israel demonstrates its complete distrust of America’s leader, for the second time in two weeks.

The first exhibit was Israel’s cancellation of a joint Israeli/American anti-missile exercise just last week. Israel’s reason for cancelling the huge drill that would have prepared Israel for a combined missile attack perpetrated by its surrounding enemies?  The Israelis do not believe Obama is serious about preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons that will end up being used against them.

Now, Arutz Sheva is reporting tha, on his first official visit to Israel, new Joint Chiefs of Staff leader, Martin Dempsey was told this weekend that Israel would give President Barack Obama no more than 12 hours notice if and when it attacks Iran. The London Times said its sources explained that Israel fears that President Obama would try to torpedo an Israeli attack if more notice were given because he is concerned that Iran will respond by blocking the Strait of Hormuz, sparking a rise in the price of oil that could cripple Western economies. If the attack were to occur in the next 10 months, it would put President Obama in a tight spot on the eve of his bid for re-election.

For many of us who have been watching the President’s Middle East policies, this reaction by Israel is no surprise. The President has openly taken the side of the Palestinians against the existence of Israel. He has openly belittled the Israeli Prime Minister. He has refused to involve himself in a grassroots, democratic uprising against the radical tyrants in Iran. He has whole-heartedly supported the expansion of the Muslim Brotherhood as they orchestrated the take over of the Egyptian government, the Lebanese government, and now the ongoing attempt to possess Syria as its own.

The fact that the president is celebrating the Roe v. Wade decision that has killed 54 million children in America should make us stand and shout for new leadership. Trashing Israel will either accomplish that task, or bring about God’s curse on America.

It is time to wake up, if you haven’t already.  Pass this blog along.

Jimmy                           PS…. My second book in the Lightning Chronicles series, Magog Rising, will be available for all e-book readers within a week. Kindle, Nook, Sony e-Reader, it will be available to all.

 

Ezekiel 38 Coalition Solidifies

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As two American carrier strife forces move toward the Straights of Hormuz, the world seems to be chosing sides. Nations that had backed President Obama’s weak sanctions against Iran are abandoning the Israel/America ship and beginning to side with Iran. Sounds a bit like Ron Paul….whiney voice and all.

We have been witnessing the formation of the Ezekiel 38 and 39 coalition for several years, but the coalition is solidifying rapidly. Will a strike on Iran lead to one of the greatest fulfillments of prophecy in history?  I think so, but not immediately.

The following article reinforces the importance of keeping our eyes open to events in the Middle East, Bible prophecy, and hard work for the kingdom of Christ.

Russia: Attack on Tehran is Attack on Moscow

Russia has given Iran its bear hug and warns Israel and the West that an attack on Tehran would be considered an attack on Moscow.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

Russia has given Iran its bear hug and warns Israel and the West that an attack on Tehran would be considered an attack on Moscow. The threat heightens the prospect of World War III in the event of a military strike on Iran.

“Iran is our neighbor,” Russia’s outgoing ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, told reporters in Brussels. “And if Iran is involved in any military action, it’s a direct threat to our security.”

Kremlin Security Council head Nikolai Patrushev accused Israel of provoking the United States towards war against Iran, the Russian Interfax news agency reported Friday. “But at the same time, we believe that any country has the right to have what it needs to feel comfortable, including Iran,” he added.

Rogozin warned on Friday that more attacks on Iran could cause “a scorching Arab Summer.”

Russia also has come to the defense of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, warning Western nations not to intervene in Syria with military forces. Russia is a major arms supplier to Syria and has a heavy investment in Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Japan also is drifting towards Iran, backtracking from its promise last week to back American sanctions aimed at persuading Iran to halt its unsupervised nuclear development.

Last week’s assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist has aroused more “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” protest rallies in Iran, where the scientist was buried on Friday.

Iranian state radio said the 32-year-old scientist was involved with enriched uranium, a key ingredient for a nuclear weapon.

 

Is the World Waking Up?

This just in from Vienna, Austria.

VIENNA (AP) — Diplomats on Monday confirmed a report that Iran has begun uranium enrichment at an underground bunker and said the news is particularly worrying because the site is being used to make material that can be upgraded more quickly for use in a nuclear weapon than the nation’s main enriched stockpile.

The diplomats said that centrifuges at the Fordo site near Iran’s holy city of Qom are churning out uranium enriched to 20 percent. That level is higher than the 3.5 percent being made at Iran’s main enrichment plant and can be turned into fissile warhead material faster and with less work.

The move was expected, with Tehran announcing months ago that it would use the Fordo facility for 20 percent production. Iran began to further enrich a small part of its uranium stockpile to nearly 20 percent as of February 2010 at a less-protected experimental site, saying it needs the higher grade material to produce fuel for a Tehran reactor that makes medical radioisotopes for cancer patients.

But with the time and effort reduced between making weapons-grade uranium from the 20-percent level, the start of the Fordo operation increases international fears that Iran is determined to move closer to the ability to make nuclear warheads — despite insistence by the Islamic Republic that it is enriching only to make reactor fuel. Its dismissal of findings by the International Atomic Energy Agency of secret experimental work on a nuclear weapons program also worries the international community.

All signs are pointing to WAR…yes, another war. Israel no longer has the luxury of waiting for Barack Obama to do something about the Iranian threat. However, giving Obama some modicum of credit, a massive US/Israeli military excersize is now underway in the Mediterranean Sea, with warplanes from both countries participating in refueling, attack, and long distance sortee training. Also, some 2,500 American missile and radar technicians have been deployed to Israel, indicating preparations are being made to protect the tiny country from the inevitable counter-strike against the Jews should either Israel or the US bomb Iranian nulcear targets.

This is a “stay-tuned” moment. The paradox is found in the fact that Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu are still at lengthening odds. They do not like, or respect one another. Obama has taken up the Palestinian cause without reason, and has thrown Israel under the bus on mulitple occasions.

So, what is this seemingly new stance by Obama to actually defend Israel?  Pardon me, but the only motive I can see is the coming 2012 elections. Obama desperately needs the American Jewish vote to win, and that vote has been steadily eroding. Is the President suddenly an Israeli backer, or is this a desperate attempt to stay in power?  You decide……by voting.

However, all things remain in God’s hand and his design. Israel, according to Bible prophecy, will soon endure two waves of attacks. The first may come as a result of a strike against Iran, but will be perpetrated by the countries that now border Israel. Oddly enough, most of those countries are now in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood, the father organization of Islamic radicals such as Hamas and Hezbollah. (Read earlier blogs to see the Biblical prophecies concerning this Inner Ring War.)

The second wave will be catastrophic, and will include Russia, Turkey, Iran, Libya, and the peoples of the Horn of Africa. Ezekiel 38 and 39 is the prophetic site. Read it.

All told, it seems like 2011 was just the warm-up to what is coming, and could come in the next few weeks and months.

Oh, things are fixin to get exciting!  Will the world wake up in time?   Probably not.

Jimmy

 

2012 The End of the World?

As the final few days of 2011 wind down into history, the coming year is on the minds of many.

Much has been made of the Mayan calendar and its supposed “reset of history.” Some have interpreted this to mean an apocalypse will happen in December of the coming year. Movies have been made to portray the end of the world. But, will that actually happen in 2012?

This year has been the most cataclysmic in history. Global insurer Munich Re says natural catastrophe losses for the first nine months of 2011 totalled $310 billion, a record, with 80 percent of all economic losses occurring in the Asia-Pacific region. Since 1980, weather-related disasters globally have more than tripled.

The United States set a record with 12 separate billion-dollar weather disasters in 2011, with an aggregate damage total of approximately $52 billion, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said this month.

We’ve seen earthquakes that moved islands, tsunamis that washed away thousands of people, storms that have shut down countries, floods, droughts, fires, tornadoes, and more..like wars and rumors of wars about to begin. And then there is the powder keg of the Middle East and the survival of Israel. The world is ripe with apprehension at what 2012 will bring. Will it be worse? Will it all end? FEAR!   And then we watched the Rev. Harold Camping fall flat on two predictions of the end of the world, and our culture laughed itself back into complacency with all things “Christian.”

Sadly, many believers have fallen into the mentality of fear. The natural result of living in fear is to go into a shell, or a hole, or a hold-the-fort lifestyle that does absolutely no good for the Kingdom.

So, will the world end in 2012?      NO… again, NO NO NO.

Biblically speaking, the world will not end for at least another millenia (thousand years..plus a few). But, the odds are conditions in the world WILL get worse. The world economy is teetering on the edge of an abyss. Hunger and poverty are as rampant as ever. Jesus told us all in Matthew 24 that earthquakes, disasters, disease, and famine would increase like birth pangs until the Kingdom is revealed. In other words, although we do not know what 2012 will hold, it could be worse than 2011.

What should we do about it as believers in the Lord Jesus Messiah?

1. See everything as an opportunity to share the truth. People are afraid and asking questions. Give them the answer….not so much theologically, but experientially. Who is Jesus? What did he come to do? How has he changed you? How can he change the seeker?

2. Find ways to be compassionate. This will demonstrate the compassion of Jesus. We are supposed to look like him in character and action. 2012 is a good time to really do that full-time.

3. Pray for a new awakening in America.  Pray for the Church to wake up.  Pray for Muslims to find Jesus. Pray for cultures to receive a new witness. Pray for an end-times harvest of souls.

4. Be generous with money.  Yes, the economy is heading toward disaster. Investments in stocks, retirement, and even gold will be worthless when everything crashes….and it will crash eventually. But, investment in the Kingdom that comes by way of faithfulness and generosity with your money will pay huge dividends when the world goes bankrupt. You cannot outgive God, but you can hinder what you reap by sowing stingily.

Do these things, and nothing will stand in the way of your best year ever for the Lord and his Kingdom. And isn’t that what we are to be about?

On a PERSONAL NOTE:  I have been somewhat AWOL of late. The reasons are personal as well as ministerial. God is at work and I have had to re-shuffle priorities according to His directions. However, you will have noticed that very little has been said by any prophecy “buffs” over the last few months. We seem to be in a lull that could be a breath before the real race begins.  During this time I have been busily engaged in finishing a major building project, taking care of new challenges in a growing church, and I have become a Grandfather.

Look for greater frequency in the Last Days Alert blog, and share it with everyone you can. I’m positive it will be insightful and encouraging…. less politically motivated, and more Biblically driven.

Jimmy

 

When Will Israel Strike?

The question remains lodged in the minds of just about everyone who has an eye to Midle Eastern events and Bible prophecy. When will Israel finally launch the inevitible strike against Iran in order to slow or destroy its march toward the development of nuclear weapons?

Frankly, no one knows when it will occur. There really isn’t even a good guess available.

Things we know and things we don’t.

1. We know that Israel will not rely on the United States for help in launching a strike. President Obama has made it clear he has no intentions of using a military option against the Mullahs. His path is the implementation of weak, pathetic, unilateral sanctions that are laughable. What Mullah is going to give up the progress made so far because of a slap on the wrist?

2. Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has informed the White House that it will NOT notify the US of, or if there is an impending attack. In other words, Obama cannot be trusted to keep his mouth shut. Plus, if Obama has no knowledge of an Israeli attack, he can then deny American involvement when the Shi’ites it the fan and go into a radical rage.

3. Israel is moving its advanced, Jericho III medium-to-long-range missiles into positions around the country.  This report from today’s headlines:

JERUSALEM — Multiple eyewitnesses reported seeing Israeli military trucks in recent days transport and station large missiles at the periphery of Jerusalem and in locations inside the West Bank. The descriptions of the projectiles are consistent with the Jewish state’s mid-to-long range Jericho ballistic missiles. The missile movement, if confirmed, would be considered unusual.

This could be the most important sign yet that an offensive launch is being prepared. Or, it could just be a drill to keep the IDF ready in case a quick deployment of the Jerichos is needed.

What we don’t know:

1. Why is Israel waiting? I think they already know they will be held in disdain whatever they do. If they attack, the world will react negatively, and possibly forcefully. If they don’t attack, the possibility of Iran using a nuke against Israel is almost certain. The world would shrug, maybe throw a little fit, but shrug nonetheless.

2. Why is God waiting?  Ah, now that is the REAL question. Circumstances have been ripe for the Psalm 83 Inner Ring War for months. Ezekiel 38 and 39 is already set up for fulfillment. What is the hold-up?

My take is that God is still calling to people in the region. Yes, the Lord loves Palestinians…just as much as he loves the Jews. He is no respecter of persons. He IS a respecter of covenants, but he will withhold his prophesied events as long as it take. That is why we must be praying for both Jews and Arabs to come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ before the end-all wars break out.

Also, as some have mentioned, could it be that God is holding back the attack on Iran because of the way the prophetic aftermath falls into the timing of the Rapture?  If so, we are seing God’s great patience, “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentence.”

God is merciful and patient, but we are certainly in the last days of history and on the cusp of the birth of the Kingdom of God as revealed in the Scriptures.

Keep looking up!

Jimmy

NOTE: Many have wondered why the blogs have not been coming so hot and heavy lately. I appologize. More urgent matters have kept me away from the blogosphere. However, over the last few weeks we have basically been seeing the “same ole same ole” in regards to Middle East movement toward prophecy. In fact, few prophecy buffs have had anything substantive to say over the last two months. Why?  Is this like the breath before the action, or similar to the half hour silence in heaven during the Tribulation? Maybe, maybe not. My suggestion is to rely on the Word, Pray Hard, and share the Truth of Christ with everyone. That is what I have been up to.

 

Probability of Israeli Attack on Iran Increases

Any eyes that can forefully tear themselves away from the “exhilirating” Rebublican debates will probably be gazing at the latest events of the Middle East…particularly the growing tension between Iran and Israel.
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For the second time in four days, Iran has threatened to annihilate Israel. Sunday, Nov. 6, Tehran said four missiles would be enough to kill a million Israelis. Wednesday, Nov. 9, Gen. Masoud Jazayeri, deputy commander of Iran’s armed forces, said an American or Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities would not only result in the Jewish state’s extinction – “Dimona is the most accessible target” – but generate a response that “would not be limited to the Middle East.”

debkafile’s military sources interpret this to mean a missile attack on American bases in Europe and US Sixth Fleet vessels in the Mediterranean. “The smallest action by Israel [against Iran] and we will see its destruction,” Gen. Jazayeri went on to say. “We have plans of reprisal ready for any attack.”

In other words, Iran is growing more confident that its baiting Israel into a pre-emptive attack is actually going to work. Understand that Iran wants Israel to bomb its facilites…is begging Israel to unilaterally attempt to save itself…is dying to become the martyr. (Sorry for the pun.)
Where is Obama in all of this? Our President continues to use “cost-to-benefit” terminology to cover is utter reluctance to involve the US military in any attack that would aid Israel. By accident we all heard what Obama really thinks of Benjamin Netanyahu, how he sees working with the Israeli Prime Minister as being something he must “put up with” rather than being an actualy partner in Middle Eastern democracy.
In other words, count Obama out. (Hope that goes for 2012 too.)
So, Israel is alone….and knows it.
Today, Israel began testing the Jericho 3 nuclear-capable ballistic missile system while, at the same time, launching public missile defense drills throughout the country.
Why?
For one, Israel is demonstrating to Iran that it is serious about protecting itself even if it means using a preemptive nuclear strike.
But the Israelis also know that any attack on Iran is going to be the perverbial gas thrown on the fire. Israel is surrounded by Muslim Brotherhood ruled nations that possess nearly 150,000 short and medium ranged rockets that will rain down on the Jewish population. This is the same Muslim Brotherhood that has taken over Egypt, Gaza, Lebanon, Lybia, and is currently running the uprisings in Syria. This is the same Muslim Brotherhood that our President calls a moderate, workable, partner in Middle East peace.
So, the baiting by Iran continues.
The stupidity in the White House grows.
And, the preparations in Israel for war is increasing exponentially.

What does the Bible say about Iran and this coming war?
NOTHING!
But, the coming Inner Ring war will be orchestrated by Iran, have no doubt. Even if Israel strikes at Iran’s capabilities, the Iranians will not commit its own military to full scale action against Israel. They will use their puppet regimes in the afore mentioned nations.
Should war break out because of an Israeli attack, I see a few things happening.
1. Israel will be condemned by the world.
2. The Palestinians will win their beloved UN recognition.
3. Obama will continue to be Obama.
4. Iran will complete its takeover of Iraq.
5. Russia will solidify its support of Iran and the Muslim world.
and we will be well on our way down the path to the Ezekiel 38 & 39 Outer Ring war of Gog and Magog.

These are perilous times, yes, but it is also the time of great harvest.
Get to harvesting!

Jimmy