Ezekiel 35, the Arab-Israeli War Before Ezekiel 38 | Bible Prophecy Blog
By Bill Salus
Prophecy Depot
Many end times experts believe the “Gog of Magog” invasion described in Ezekiel 38 and 39 is nearing the time of its prophetic fulfillment. Russia’s seemingly inseparable alliance with Iran, Turkey’s increased disdain toward Israel, and Libya’s uncertain future all suggest that the stage is rapidly setting for the fulfillment of the Magog invasion of Israel. All of these countries along with several more appear to be part of the Russian coalition that mounts this massive attack.
Putting the icing on the cake is the fact that Iran’s apocalyptic leadership wants to wipe Israel off the map and is on the verge of producing nuclear weapons. Certainly all the above, coupled with a host of other unmentioned indicators provides just cause to consider that the Ezekiel 38 prophecy could soon occur. But what about the war prophesied in Ezekiel 35? Is it conceivable that the war of Ezekiel 38 could precede the last days Arab–Israeli conflict predicted three chapters earlier?
Jerusalem concerned: Saudi Air Force to outnumber Israel’s advanced US jet fleet
With its latest acquisitions from Washington and Europe, the Saudi Air Force will have more fighter-bombers of more advanced models that the Israeli Air Force. Deep concern over this was recently relayed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak to President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.
West displays Gulf military power to defiant Iran – Yahoo! News
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Military power near the strategic Strait of Hormuz could be bolstered by additional British forces, the country’s defense secretary said Tuesday, as a defiant Iran shrugged off Europe’s oil embargo and moved ahead with plans to hold naval exercises alongside the oil tanker shipping lanes it has threatened to block.
India Fingerprinting, Iris Scanning Over One Billion People | Global Research TV
The Indian government is ramping up efforts to fingerprint and iris scan the entirety of its 1.2 billion citizens in an ambitious scheme to issue national ID cards with biometric details. The plan has so far already enrolled 110 million people and issued 60 million numbers, with the aim of enrolling 200 million by this March and 600 million by 2014.
Iran preparing now for Armageddon
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has held several secret meetings with his economic and military advisers in recent days to prepare for the possibility of war with the United States.
Sources report the preparations are to include the execution of those Iranians who oppose the regime.
Khamenei has been heard to say that the coming of the last Islamic Messiah, the Shiites’ 12th Imam Mahdi, is near and that specific actions need to be taken to protect the Islamic regime for upcoming events.
Mahdi, according to Shiite belief, will reappear at the time of Armageddon.
PA Mufti Denies He Called to Kill Jews
The principal Palestinian Authority’s religious leader, the Mufti Muhammad Hussein, denied on Sunday that he advocated for genocide of Jews in a speech two weeks ago.
At an event marking the 47th anniversary of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement, Hussein said that the killing of Jews by Muslims is a religious Islamic goal. The event was broadcast on PA TV, translated by the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) research organization and presented on its website.
Gaza’s Terror Groups Negotiating Merger
Jerusalem – Hamas is working to merge with the terrorist Islamic Jihad organization, according to Hamas’ co-founder Mahmoud Zahar.
He said the merger would allow the two groups to run in Palestinian elections, expected to be held in May, the Iranian Fars News Agency reported.
A merger of the two could mean the death of the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, as both groups are committed to Israel’s destruction and replacing it with an Islamic Palestinian state. Zahar called the merger “a political and religious must,” the report stated.
Netanyahu: Israel must prevent the elimination of the Jewish people – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
The Israeli government has the “right, duty and capability” to prevent the elimination of the Jewish people and the Jewish state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday’s weekly cabinet meeting.
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Ex-CIA chief: Bomb Iranian Revolutionary Guards
The United States should consider military strikes against not just Iran’s nuclear sites but the entire Iranian Revolutionary Guard infrastructure, argued former CIA director James Woolsey in a radio interview today.
Comparing the Guards to Adolph Hitler’s blackshirts, Woolsey named several “fair game” Guard-related targets, including Iran’s space program, ballistic missile program, training facilities and the Guard’s substantial commercial interests.
Mexican Trucks Are on Our Roads
After years of negative votes in Congress and the opposition of the American people, on Oct. 21 Barack Obama allowed the first Mexican truck to cross the border at Laredo, Texas, and head north to deliver door-to-door service of its industrial equipment. This was implemented by an agreement quietly signed by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in Mexico City on July 6 with Mexico’s secretary of Communications and Transportation.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., calls this deal a major anti-jobs program saying, “We’re literally taking good jobs here in America and passing them over the line to Mexico.” Todd Spencer, executive vice president of the Independent Drivers Association, a non-union trade association, said 100,000 trucking jobs will be lost.
What the Bible Says About Illegal Immigration
By Joseph Farah
WorldNetDaily
With illegal immigration re-emerging as a major issue of the Republican presidential candidates, I thought it would be a good time for a review of the moral dimensions underlying this problem – using the wisdom and inspiration of the Bible as our guide.
I’m often surprised by how many Christians and Jews are confused about what the Bible tells us about national borders, foreigners, citizenship and the law.
Some clerics are adding to the confusion by denouncing efforts to protect our borders, safeguard our citizens and enforce our duly enacted and just laws as some kind of hateful, non-compassionate, anti-Christian or anti-biblical agenda.
We even have Christians and Jews misrepresenting what the Bible clearly teaches on these subjects by selectively citing a few out-of-context verses rather than the big picture. Read more.
God Does NOT Answer Prayers!
By Dave Miller in Bible & Theology
No, keep your stones in your pocket!
I do not believe that I am advocating heresy and I an certainly not recommending that we abandon prayer. I know the title was shocking – that part was intentional. I think that there is a simple principle about prayer that we need to remember. Actually, if you get a hold on this principle, it might actually be a blessing. So sit for a minute, read this, and then if you still want to stone me with stones afterward, well, do what you have to do!
God does NOT answer prayer. We tend to miss the point when we make statements like that. Let me explain.
How Much Can You Make As a Truck Driver?
I talked to a Swift driver today to see how he was doing on the road. He had been running several months and gave me some figures so I did some calculating to see how some of the other drivers are doing.
The driver said he was getting about 2000-2200 miles per week at $.30 per mile. Knowing a lot of new drivers are taking out loans to attend truck driver training and getting on the road, I did some calculating to see if it was worth the time and money these days for new drivers. Here is what I came up with:
$.30 per mile
2000-2200 miles per week
Time approx 11-12 hrs per day= 60 hrs per week average (including fueling time, paperwork, loading and unloading time, etc.)
Gross Income: $ 600- 660 per week
Food Costs: $150-$200 per week
Gross income after food = $400-$510
Hourly rate: $ 6.66- $8.50
This is assuming you can get 2000-2200 miles per week. Some of the drivers I have talked to with various companies are having a hard time getting that many miles.
Can you and your family live on that? Can you pay your family’s food, rent or mortgage, insurance, etc?
Think twice before you take the dive.
THE FLASH MOB METHOD OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY
By Ann Coulter
The definition of hell is being condescended to by idiots. It will probably be MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and Contessa Brewer sneering at you for all of eternity for not believing in evolution.
Roughly one-third of my 2006 No. 1 New York Times best-seller, “Godless: The Church of Liberalism,” is an attack on liberals’ creation myth, Darwinian evolution. I presented the arguments of all the luminaries in the field, from the retarded Richard Dawkins to the brilliant Francis Crick, and disputed them.
But apparently liberals didn’t want to argue back.
Despite Matthews’ obsessive fixation on the topic, manifested by his constantly asking elected Republicans if they believe in evolution, in a one-hour interview with me on “Godless” — the very book that is chockablock with attacks on Darwinism — Matthews didn’t ask me a single question about the subject.
No liberal did. Matthews doesn’t even know what evolution is.
Just two years later, at a 2008 Republican presidential candidates’ debate, Matthews asked for a show of hands of who believed in evolution. No discussion permitted! That might allow scientific facts, rather than schoolyard taunts, to escape into the world.
Evolution is the only subject that is discussed exclusively as a “Do you believe?” question with yes-or-no answers. How about conservative journalists start putting mikes in front of liberal candidates and demanding, “Do you believe in the Bible — yes or no?” “Is an unborn baby human — yes or no?” and “Do you believe teenagers should have sex — yes or no?”
This is the flash mob method of scientific inquiry. Liberals quickly surround and humiliate anyone who disagrees with them. They are baffled when appeals to status (which would work on them) don’t work on everyone else.
Now that Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry has said there are “gaps” in the theory of evolution — or “gas” as The New York Times originally reported, before issuing a correction — we’re in for another round of fact-free mocking of fundamentalist nuts.
In fact, however, it has not been advances in Christianity (which is pretty much settled), but in science that have completely discredited Darwin’s theory of evolution.
‘Israel to Give Obama 12 Hours Notice on Attacking Iran’
The London Times said its sources explained that that Israel fears that President Obama would try to torpedo an Israel 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.
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Personally, I wouldn’t give Obama squat if I were Israel. If I were Israel, I might tell him after the planes had taken off for their mission. This is because of the following reasons:
1. Israel is a sovereign nation and has a right to defend itself anytime it needs to.
2. Iran is an existential threat to Israel. Anyone who does not believe or understand this has no conception of the Iranian ideology and mindset.
3. Iran and other extremist countries have repeatedly threatened to annihilate Israel. It is even taught in the Koran. Those who think otherwise are either ignorant, in denial, or liars.
4. Obama has repeatedly kowtowed to the Muslim nations in detrimental ways to Israel. Just review his actions since he has been in office.
5. Most of Israel admittedly does not trust our President to do the right thing for Israel- just view the latest Israeli polls.
Will the United States stand behind Israel if Israel does attack? I certainly hope so. A war will ignite the Middle East and send oil prices through the roof, but the alternate is even worse in my opinion. A nuclear armed Iran will certainly use that power in the near future. The Islamic theology believes that an apocalyptic war will bring in their Madhi (Messiah). Ahmadinejad has already stated several times he believes he is the one to initiate the situation which will bring about the appearance of this final Imam.