STEUBEN
I noticed that a von Steuben signed the Declaration of Independence and that fits the dream scenario as well.
GOG AND MAGOG
HOW SOON WILL IT HAPPEN?
compiled by Dee Finney
updated 10-19-08
updated 8-31-15
THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE JEWISH JUBILEE. starting
September 14, 2015 (ELUL 30) We have been told that every time there is a Jubilee (every 49 years) it means war for Israel. Today I got a sudden urging to go back to reading Tom Horn's book Zenith 2016, and I opened the book to where I had suddenly stopped reading several weeks ago. See how the events back then seem to line up with what is going on today. Beginning at Thessaly and spreading through the whole of Asia Minor, the cult of Asclepius - the Greek God of healing - became the chief competitor of Christianity. Asclepius was even believed by many pagan converts to Christianity to be a living presence who possessed the power of healing. Major shrines were erected to Asclepius at Epidaurus and at Pergamum, and for a long time he enjoyed a strong cult following in Rome. He was credited with healing a variety of incurable diseases. including raising a man from the dead. PERGAMUM was duplicated by both Adolf Hitler and President Obama in their inogurations. Besides that, President Obama screwed up his inoguration and had to do it twice, the second time in private, and did not use the Bible to swear his oath on. A Christian might resist the lustful wants of the carnal man, but in recent years, millions of people are practicing both apostasy against the Laws of God, and growing immorality of many kinds, right in full view of the public. In recent days, The United States Supreme court has passed a ruling that men can marry men, women can marry women, and afterward the whitehouse in Washington D.C. was lit up with rainbow lighting and even Vice President Biden dressed up in a rainbow cape with a laughing President Obama right next to him. Isn't this a little far to go for a Presidential office to show off? Were we supposed to be proud of our government for this display? For two supposed Christian political officials to do this in public is appalling, no matter what they think or do privately, which would be none of our business. This whole government program is apostasy to begin with. Leviticus 18:22 (ESV)22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. Leviticus 20:13 (ESV)13 If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (ESV)9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,[b] 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. Romans 1:26-28 ESV /For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Tom Horn also tells us that in the time of Ezekiel they had nasty drunken rituals of Bacchanalia where they participated in acts of bestiality, orgiastic cruelty, including lesbianism. pedophilia and sexual behavior between men were worse than between women. These days you can see those things on TV or the internet anytime you want to. He states on page 185, "Today, omophagia is practiced by certain voodoo sects as well as cult Satanists. possibly illustrating an ongoing effort on the part of Satan to distort the original revelation of God, as eating human flesh and drinking human blood to "become one" with the devoured is a demonization of the Eucharist or Holy Communion.He desribes the people as wearing bands on theor heads and arms such as this: Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: I am against your magic bands that you ensnare people with like birds, and I will tear them from your arms. I will free the people you have ensnared like birds Ezekiel 13:20 The Book of Ezekiel is all about this: Gog and Magog (/ɡɒɡ/; /ˈmeɪɡɒɡ/; Hebrew: גּוֹג וּמָגוֹג Gog u-Magog; Arabic: يَأْجُوج وَمَأْجُوج Yaʾjūj wa-Maʾjūj) are names that appear in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), the Book of Revelation and the Qur'an, sometimes indicating individuals and sometimes lands and peoples. Sometimes, but not always, they are connected with the "end times", and the passages from the book of Ezekiel and Revelation in particular have attracted attention for this reason. In some interpretations from ancient times to the late Middle Ages, Gog and Magog were identified with Eurasian nomads such as the Khazars, Huns and Mongols; in Islam, they were sometimes identified first with Turkic tribes of Central Asia and later with the Mongols, although others interpretations exist. Throughout this period they were conflated with various other legends, notably those concerning Alexander the Great, the Amazons, Red Jews, and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, and became the subject of much fanciful literature. In modern times they remain associated with apocalyptic thinking, especially in the United States and the Muslim world. How close are we to experiencing that? |
Here is a little something to chew on.
In this dream, I am visited by my aunt Doris who is deceased
many years. I don't think I've ever dreamed about her before.
1-14-07 - DREAM - I was in the living room of a house. We
were each sitting at a desk and working on taxes. A lawyer came in to help
Joe with the taxes. He was wearing a yellow shirt and light tan suit. It came
to me that he hadn't changed clothes in 4 days, so I tried to nail my little
blue calculator to the desk so he wouldn't steal it.
Just then, my aunt Doris came in. I was really excited to
see her. I wanted to tell her about my Mom and how well she is doing. (She is
also deceased- a year now)
She said, "Let's go into the kitchen so we can talk." I was
so anxious to tell her about my Mom, I jumped up and followed her to the
kitchen.
The kitchen was a mess. I obviously hadn't cleaned recently, and I grabbed
a rag from the counter and got it wet and started to wipe off the kitchen
table.
Aunt Doris sat down at the clean end of the table, while I was still wiping
up food crumbs and said, "Next week is the start of Gog - Ma Gog. My church
doesn't know exactly which day, but they wanted you to know because they think
you are the best psychic they have ever seen."
I didn't know what to say. I didn't even know she went to church or which
church if she did attend church.
She continued speaking, and said something about a Mr. Steuben being
involved.She may have given me his first name also but if she did, I didn't
catch it.
I noticed then, there was a row of about 12 black stick-pens laying side by
side on the table. I didn't move them but wiped the table around them.
I started to tell her the dream I had right before she came to the house,
but it came to me that the dream was not understandable to me, and it wouldn't
interest her, so I let myself wake up in mid-sentence.
End of dream
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Greek a dorian
woman, of the sea , A Sharp
Knife; Region of Ancient Greece ,
DORIAN masculine form of DORIS or short form of ISIDORE or possibly form of DARIUS. The name was first used by writer Oscar Wilde. DORIS "of Doris" (Greek). Doris was a region of ancient Greece where the Dorian tribe settled. Doris was also the name of a minor Greek goddess of the sea
Doris was a sea goddess in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of
Oceanus and
Tethys (who were also sea gods/goddesses). Doris had many, many
sisters. She was the wife of the sea god
Nereus, her half-brother. She had fifty daughters, called the
Nereids. Doris was not one of the goddesses who lived on Mt.
Olympus.
STEUBEN I noticed that a von Steuben signed the Declaration of Independence and that fits the dream scenario as well. |
Re: Israel is Gog | |
You see you right, almost about the location. But you don't realize one thing about it. The Khazars who converted to Judism and became the Ashkenazi Jews who make up 95 percent of the Jews today. They sat in the lands of Gog and Magog and latter after holding out against the Monguls where finally pushed north by the Muslims into the lands of Poland, Germany and Russia later to flee to the United States and what is now Israel. 5 million in Israel and 6 million in the United States. This is how these Jews are Gog and Magog. This is from Jewish sources. Jewish sources A letter in Hebrew dated AM 4746 (985–986) refers to "our lord David, the Khazar prince" who lived in Taman. The letter said that this David was visited by envoys from Kievan Rus to ask about religious matters — this could be connected to the Vladimir conversion which took place during the same time period. Taman was a principality of Kievan Rus around 988, so this successor state (if that is what it was) may have been conquered altogether. The authenticity of this letter, the Mandgelis Document, has however been questioned by such scholars as D. M. Dunlop. Abraham ibn Daud, a twelfth-century Spanish rabbi, reported meeting Khazar rabbinical students in Toledo, and that they informed him that the "remnant of them is of the rabbinic faith." This reference indicates that some Khazars maintained ethnic, if not political, autonomy at least two centuries after the sack of Atil. Petachiah of Ratisbon, a thirteenth-century rabbi and traveler, reported traveling through "Khazaria", though he gave few details of its inhabitants except to say that they lived amidst desolation in perpetual mourning. He further related: Whilst at Baghdad saw ambassadors from the kings of Meshech, for Magog (medieval Christian writers said that the Khazars lived in the land of Gog and Magog) is about ten days' journey from thence. The land extends as far as the Mountains of Darkness (a term often used to describe the Caucasus). Beyond the Mountains of Darkness are the sons of Jonadab, son of Rechab (an official in the court of King Josiah of Judah). To the seven kings of Meshech an angel appeared in a dream, bidding them to give up the laws and statutes, and to embrace the laws of Moses, son of Amram. If not, he threatened to lay waste their country. However, they delayed until the angel commenced to lay waste their country, when the kings of Meshech and all the inhabitants of their countries became proselytes, and they sent to the head of the academy (i.e., the Gaon of Sura or Pumbedita) a request to send them some disciples of the wise. Every disciple that is poor goes there to teach them the law and Babylonian Talmud. From the land of Egypt the disciples go there to study. He saw the ambassadors visit the grave of [the prophet] Ezekiel…" The account of the conversion of the "seven kings of Meshech" is extremely similar to the accounts of the Khazar conversion given in the Kuzari, and in King Joseph's Reply. It is possible that Meshech refers to the Khazars, or to some Judaized polity influenced by them. Arguments against this possibility include the reference to "seven kings" (though this, in turn, could refer to seven successor tribes or state micropolities). |
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And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom [is] as the sand of the sea. | |
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And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. | |
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And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet [are], and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever |
E-mail from a reader:
The Jewish calendar has 12 months of 30 days each. As represented by the camp positions of the 12 tribes in Numbers 2, it is a reflection of the Zodiac. The basic idea is to make things on earth like those in Heaven. The New Jerusalem is based on the same pattern as expressed in Revelation 21.
The New Jerusalem
Rev 21:12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
Rev 21:13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
Rev 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Rev 21:15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
Rev 21:16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
Rev 21:17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
Rev 21:18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
Rev 21:19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
Rev 21:20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
Rev 21:21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
Rev 21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
Rev 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Rev 21:24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Rev 21:25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
Rev 21:26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
This volume examines the Zarahite reign in Egypt; they were known as Hyksos, which means the Shepherd Kings. It covers the flights of this Zarah Branch of Judah and the sailing Tribe of Dan to Greece, Troy, Spain, Britain, Ireland, etc. Particular attention is paid to the Hebrew voyages of Danaus, Cadmus, Chalcol, Darda, Brutus and Corineus, and the Danaans. Source material includes the ancient histories and legends of Egypt, Greece, Ireland, and Britain. The reader will learn that the greatest Grecian stories, such as Jason and the Argonauts and the famous Trojan War, actually involved descendants of these first groups of Israelites that left Egypt prior to the Exodus. This volume also contains a basic history of Jacob's Pillar, which is the Stone of Destiny used in British coronations.
This volume introduces the reader to the House of Judah and the House of Israel. It examines the House of Israel's deportations to the Assyrian buffer zones. It covers their war with Urartu, their break away from the buffers, their conquests in Phrygia and Lydia, their arrival at Arsareth, Moesia, and Scythia, and their migrations to Scandinavia and Western Europe. Special attention is given to their changing names as discovered in the archives of Assyria, on the monuments of Persia, and in the writings of the ancient Greeks. Their names include Beth Khumri, Ghomri, Gimira, Cimmerians, Celts, Isaac, Isaaca, Iskuza, Sacae, Skuthae, Scythians, Germani, and Saxons.
Volume III examines the history of the House of Judah with King David's perpetual throne. It traces Jeremiah's journey to plant the Hebrew Princess Tea Tephi in Ireland, as found in Irish tales. It also takes a detailed look at the Hebrew Milesians that were in Egypt during the reigns of Pharoahs Psamtik I and Hophra. The reader will follow Gallam the Milesian from Scythia to Egypt, where he acquired the Hebrew Princess Scota; Gallam and Scota's voyage from Egypt to Spain; and the Milesian invasion of Ireland from Spain. The evidence will show that King David's dynasty survives today in Britain, with Jacob's Pillar.
This Volume examines Christ's connection to the divorced House of Israel. Using the histories and legends recorded in Southern France and Britain, the miracle voyage of Joseph of Arimathea, Mary Magdalene, Lazarus, etc. is traced from Caesarea in Palestine to the Lost Tribes living in Gaul. Joseph's journey to Glastonbury in England is shown on the map. The reader will also learn data on the Hebrew kings Bran, Caractacus, and Arviragus in the days when these famous Silures fought the Romans for control of Britain. The Apostle Paul's connection to the Silurian royal house of Caractacus, Claudia, and Linus is examined, along with Paul's mission and letters (Biblical Epistles) to the Lost Tribes. Paul's trip to Spain, Britain, Belgae, Helvetia, and Mount Julius is traced using clues found in the Sonnini Manuscript, which is a document known as the Lost Chapter of Acts.
FROM; http://www.angelfire.com/biz/celtica/losttribes.html
The 12 tribes of Israel were seeded into the DNA of the genome of all human creations. Is-Ra-El is not Hebrew. It is the knowing bestowed to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as: Is = The I Am Presence, Ra = the Greater Light, and El = the conversion of Light into matter.
24:3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
24:4 He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling [into a trance], but having his eyes open:
24:5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, [and] thy tabernacles, O Israel!
24:14 And now, behold, I go unto my people: come [therefore, and] I
will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the
latter days.
24:15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the
son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
24:16 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, [which] saw the vision of the Almighty, falling [into a trance], but having his eyes open:
24:17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
24:18 - And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
24:19 - Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
Specific names given in the Bible had cryptic meanings and the fact
that she was known as the Tender Twig in the Bible, and as Tea Tephi
in the Annals of the Irish Masters, signifies TT - connected with the
Twin pillars of Moses - the Ark of the Covenant and Freemasonry. She
was the young 'twig' of the vine of the House of David. [note: Moses
was Ahkenaten; See:
http://www.greatdreams.com/moses.htm ]
Gog and Magog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog
Magog in Genesis
The first occurrence of "Magog" in the Bible is in the "Table of Nations" in
Genesis 10, where Magog is the eponymous ancestor of a people or nation (without
any accompanying apocalyptic symbolism, or mention of Gog, although "Magog" may
mean "the land of Gog"):
2. The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and
Tiras
3. The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. (Genesis 10:2-3)
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Gog and Magog in the Book of Revelation
Gog and Magog are mentioned again in Revelation 20:7-8:
7. And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his
prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters
of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of
whom is as the sand of the sea.
8. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the
saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven,
and devoured them. (KJV)
Here, Gog and Magog are identified as the nations in the four corners of the
earth, and their attack is represented as an eschatological crisis after the
Millennium, to be vanquished by divine intervention. The language of Gog and
Magog's destruction is very similar to that of their mention in Ezekiel.
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In terms of extra-biblical Jewish tradition, Gog the 'prince' has been
explained being one of the 70 national angels — of whom all except one, Michael
(the guardian angel of Israel), are fallen angels. According to this
interpretation, Gog is the angel of a nation called Magog (literally meaning "of
Gog" or "from Gog"). Gog in this view represents an apocalyptic coalition of
nations arrayed against Israel.
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Josephus identifies Magog with the Scythians, but this name seems to have been
used generically in antiquity for a number of peoples north of the Black Sea.
According to one modern theory of dispensationalist Biblical hermeneutics, Gog
and Magog are supposed to represent Russia. The Scofield Reference Bible's notes
to Ezekiel claim that "Meshech" is a Hebrew form of Moscow, and that "Tubal"
represents the Siberian capital Tobolsk. During the Cold War this identification
led Hal Lindsey to claim that the Soviet Union would play a major role in the
End Times.
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Some legends of Hungarians and certain Celtic peoples say they are descendants
of Magog. Poseidonius, for example, mentions that the Cimmerians, considered to
be the original ancestors in Celtic traditions, were derived from gug and guas.
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This stopped Gog and Magog from threatening them. Contemporary scholars believe
that this wall might be in the Caucasus Mountains at Dariel Pass.[4]
Gog and Magog are also mentioned in the sayings of the Prophet of Islam,
Muhammad, as the sign of the nearness of the Doomsday, and that they will
destroy the civilizations (The Books of Sahih Al Bukhari and Sahih Al Muslim).
These reflect the Qur'anic prophecies:
“ But when Gog and Magog are let loose and they rush headlong down every height
(or advantage). Then will the True Promise shall draw near - (Qur'an 21:96-97)
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Gog and Magog as Ashkenazi Jews
Islamic scholar Ibn Kathir, in his historical work, Al-Bidayah wa'l-Nihayah (The
Beginning and the End) located the tribes of Gog and Magog between the Black Sea
and the Caspian, stating that they refer to the Khazars.
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According to the Lord Mayor, the giants Gog and Magog are traditional guardians
of the City of London, and images of them have been carried in the Lord Mayor's
Show since the days of King Henry V.
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Gog Magog Hills
The Gog Magog Hills are about three miles south of Cambridge, said to be the
metamorphosis of the giant after being rejected by the nymph Granta (i.e. the
River Cam).
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Gog and Magog in Ireland
Works of Irish mythology, including the Lebor Gabála Érenn (the Book of
Invasions), expand on the Genesis account of Magog as the son of Japheth and
make him the ancestor to the Irish. His three sons were Baath, Jobhath, and
Fathochta. Magog is regarded as the father of the Irish race, and the progenitor
of the Scythians, as well as of numerous other races across Europe and Central
Asia.
Partholon, leader of the first group to colonize Ireland after the Deluge, was a
descendant of Magog. The Milesians, or people of the 5th invasion of Ireland,
were also descendants of Magog.
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Ezekiel 38 through 39 tells of a future invasion of Israel by a vast coalition of nations that surround it. As we read the headlines in the newspapers of today, and witness the conflict in the Middle East, it's not hard to imagine that this invasion prophesied over 2600 years ago, could be fulfilled in our lifetime. Ezekiel 36-37 predicts a gathering of the Jews to the nation of Israel, which will be followed by this massive invasion. For 19 centuries the Jewish people were scattered throughout the world, and until May 14, 1948 there was no nation of Israel to invade. With the nation of Israel now a reality, the stage seems set for the war that will usher in the tribulation and the rise of the Antichrist; a war that will end with the destruction of Israel's enemies by God Himself, and lead to the signing of a peace treaty with the Antichrist. As you read Ezekiel 38 and 39, it isn't just the creation of the nation of Israel that makes this prophecy seem likely to be fulfilled in the near future. The nations that God tells us will form this coalition against Israel seem more likely now than perhaps ever before to form just such an alliance. To understand the prophecies of Ezekiel about this future invasion, it's important to understand who the players will be. There are many theories as to who will join in this future invasion of Israel. Before going through a list of the individual nations, I'll list some of the more common theories you'll hear when studying the prophecies from Ezekiel 38. Ezekiel 38:1-6 The word of the Lord came to me; Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; prophesy against him and say: 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army - your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords. Persia, Cush and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets, also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops - the many nations with you.' 1. Hashemite Kingdom Theory: The Islamic Nations will come against Israel either by an Iraqi-led, Jordanian led, or Turkish led coalition. The enemy from the north refers to the areas of Syria, Turkey, and Iraq. These Islamic nations make up the lands occupied by Magog, Gomer, Togarmah, Meshech and Tubal. 2. Caucus Theory: Gog and Magog are the Arab nations in an alliance with the Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union. This theory leaves out most of Russia, and includes only the southern part. 3. All Europe theory: Gog and Magog are the sons of Japeth thus the originators of the European races. Gog and Magog therefore indicates all of Europe. This is not a widely held theory and I could find little support for it. 4. Russian Theory: The Hebrew word 'rosh' in verse 3 is identified with Russia, 'Tubal' with Tiblisi or Tobolsk and 'Meshech' with Moscow, therefore Gog and Magog refers to Russia. This is one of the most commonly held views and is based on a different interpretation of the Hebrew word Rosh (used as a noun rather than adjective), similarities in the pronunciation of words, and the Greek translation of Rosh referring to a tribe of people found in what is now Russia. 5. Indo-European Theory: Gog and Magog include the nations descending from Japheth: Russia, the Caucasus(Turkey), Iraq, and the Islamic republics of Central Asia. The coalition is an alliance of Arab nations, Muslim republics, Georgia, southern Russia and the Black sea area. These are some of the theories you will find if you do any research into the prophecies of Ezekiel 38. You may also find interpretations that are a combination of these, and in fact, I tend to find more evidence for a version of the Indo-European and Caucacus Theory. Before looking at the participants of this invasion in more detail, it's important to understand that the war described in Ezekiel 38 is not the same as the war that will come at the end of the tribulation when Jesus returns to defeat the Antichrist and establish his millennial kingdom. How do we know this? The war at the end of the tribulation, known as Armageddon, is a world war. Revelation tells us that this battle will involve all nations. The war described in Ezekiel includes specific nations that invade Israel. Also, Armageddon is at the climax of the tribulation, while the war described in Ezekiel comes well before then. Ezekiel 38:1-7 gives 10 names as participants in the invasion of Israel that will follow the regathering of the Jews to their homeland. First mentioned, is the land of Magog. The most common identity for Magog is in Central Asia. The Jewish historian Josephus said, "Magog founded the Magogians, called Scythians by the Greeks. Scythians were a nomadic tribe who inhabited the ancient territory from Central Asia across the southern part of ancient Russia." Today this area is inhabited by the former Soviet Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and possibly northern parts of Afghanistan. All of these nations that make up the land of Magog have one thing in common - Islam. Militant Islam has been on the rise in these countries since the fall of the Soviet Union, when Islam no longer had to be practiced secretly. Radical Islamic groups such as the Islamic Renaissance Party, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islam are working to reunite central Asian nations and ultimately the entire Muslim world. It is from this part of the world that a leader will arise to bring together a great coalition of nations to invade Israel. Probably the most debated verse is Ezekiel 38:3. There are two main views on the identity of the Nations God is referring to in this verse. I'll list both here, and let the reader decide which sounds most reasonable. Rosh as Russia Some versions of the Bible translate the Hebrew word 'rosh' in verse 3 as a noun referring to a place in Russia. The least credible support for this view is that Rosh sounds like the modern-day name Russia and Meshech sounds like Moscow. In this translation they treat rosh as a proper name. The Greek translation translates Rosh as the proper name Ros. Because the ancient Sarmations were known as the Ras, Rashu, and Rus and inhabited Rasapu which is now Southern Russia, some feel this verse points to Russia as the prince of Rosh. Another support sited for this view is that verse 6 and 15 say the invasion will come from remote parts of the north, and Russia is more remote. Rosh as chief Other versions of the Bible translate 'rosh' as an adjective. The argument here is that in the Massoretic text the words 'chief prince' carry the accents Tiphha and Zaqeph-gadol. The Tiphha appears under the resh of the Hebrew word 'rosh'; the Zaqeph-gadol appears on top of the sin of the Hebrew word 'nish'. The Tiphha to the right, underneath the initial consonant of the world 'rosh', or chief, is prepositive and does not mark the tone syllable. The world 'nish' or prince has the accent Zaqeph-gadol which is disjunctive and indicates a pause. So, verse three would read: "Behold, I am against thee, o Gog, the prince, {pause} chief of Meshech and Tubal" Rather than: "Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal." Here 'rosh' is translated head or chief as it is 423 other times in the Old Testament. In short, if you believe 'rosh' should be translated as a proper noun you may find the interpretation that Russia will be a part of this coalition more reasonable. If you believe 'rosh' should be an adjective here, you need only concern yourself with who Meshech and Tubal are. I tend to have a problem with the "it sounds like Russia" theory, and find the translation of rosh as an adjective more believable, but to each his own. Meshech and Tubal in verses 2 and 6, were the names of the 6th and 5th sons of Japheth, the son of Noah (Gen. 10:2). Ezekiel 27:13 also mentions Meshech and Tubal as trading partners with Tyre (Modern Lebanon). It's likely that Meshech and Tubal refer to the ancient Moshi/Mushki and Tubalu/Tibareni who dwelled in the area around, primarily south of, the Black and Caspian Sea in Ezekiel's day. Today these nations would be in the modern country of Turkey, parts of Southern Russia and Northern Iran. All areas with a Muslim majority. Verse 6 adds Gomer and Beth-Togarmah to the coalition. "Gomer" was the first son of Japheth. The Gomerites were the ancient Cimmerians, expelled in 700 B.C. from the southern steppes of Russia into what is today Turkey. "Togarmah" is the 3rd son of Gomer and beth at the beginning of the name is the Hebrew word for 'house' or 'place of'. In Ezekiel's time there was a city in Cappodocia (Modern Turkey) known as Tegarma, Tagarma, Til-garimmu, and Takarama. The possibility that four of the names mentioned in Ezekiel are now in Turkey makes a pretty strong argument for Turkey being a part of the invasion of Israel. Current circumstances in that country also lend this view some credibility. Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, Turkey has been gaining inroads into Central Asia (Magog). It is also linked to Central Asia both ethnically and linguistically, and has a growing number of political parties that support opposition to Israel, establishment of a Turkish Islamic Republic, and the worldwide rule of Islam. Verse 5 brings three more names into the mix. God tells us that "Persia, Cush and Put will be with them". Persia is a pretty easy one. In 539 B.C. the Persians conquered the city of Babylon. You only need look at a map of the ancient Persian Empire to see that it was centered in the nation known today as Iran. In fact Iran was called Persia until 1935 when it was changed to Iran and then to the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979 during the Iranian Revolution. It's no secret that Iran is an archenemy of Israel and the West, and a supporter of the Palestinians. They are actively working to get other Arab countries to change camps in their cooperation with the U.S. and Israel. The ancient kingdom of Cush in Ezekiels time was the land just south of Egypt on the Nile River. Today this land is occupied by Sudan. Sudan is home to the National Islamic Front, is ruled by an Islamic military dictatorship, a strong supporter of Iraq, home to Osama bin Landen from 1991-1996, and harbors countless Islamic terrorist groups. Sudan would easily fit into the coalition as it is already close allies with Iran, trading military supplies for docking rights on the Red Sea shipping routes. Ancient Put was the land just west of Egypt, or what is today Libya. Libya is another sponsor of terrorism, and openly refuses to recognize Israel's right to even exist. When the coalition against Israel is formed, Libya won't have to be asked twice to join. Verse 6 adds "and many people with you." The nations listed specifically are all somewhat distant from Israel. By adding "and many people with you", God may have been indicating that those nations and peoples in closer proximity to Israel will join the Jihad. Other nations that might join the alliance are Iraq, Syria, Jordon, and Egypt. All of them are Islamic nations, and all of them would not hesitate to support the destruction of Israel were the opportunity to join such a vast coalition presented to them. Below is a list of the nations that are listed in Ezekiel as Israel's last-days enemies:
The reasons God gives us for the enemies' invasion of Israel are further proof that the attack will be an Islamic invasion. The first reason God gives for the invasion in Ezekiel 38 is a desire by the coalition to cover the Jewish land and wipe them off the face of the earth. Urged on by a hatred of the Jewish people they will seek to destroy them and the nation of Israel. This is the stated goal today of almost every Islamic nation in the Middle East. The only nations not currently in a declared state of war with Israel are Egypt, Turkey, and Jordan, yet they would certainly be glad to see Israel eliminated if presented with a willing leader and an opportunity to rid the Middle East of Islam's archenemy. God tells us that they also come to "seize plunder…and to capture great spoil". Many verses in the Quran advocated plundering for the benefit of Islam and there are several instances of this war tactic throughout the history of Muhammad's life. In fact, it is a common theme in his teachings. This invasion of Israel and attack on the Jewish people will indeed be a Jihad, but it will also be the final Jihad. Ezekiel 38:13 "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?'" As this invasion develops, a few countries will make a lame protest. This isn't hard to believe when you look at the indifference most nations display as Israel is repeatedly attacked by terrorists. The specific nations who question Gog's actions are "Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish". Sheba and Dedan are not hard to identify. These were ancient names for what is known today as Saudi Arabia. Tarshish is most commonly agreed to be ancient Tartessus or the area of present day Spain in Western Europe. In Ezekiels day, Tarshish was in the farthest west regions of the known world. By referring to Tarshish and all her merchants, Ezekiel could have been indicating that Western Europe will join with Saudi Arabia in denouncing the invasion. Interestingly, Saudi Arabia is the only Arab nation to consistently side with the West against radical Islamic elements around the world. The royals of Saudi Arabia mostly side with the West out of an interest in self preservation, and at times oppose us behind the scenes, but they would most probably put on a show of opposition to radical Islam in order to maintain the support of western governments. A similar alliance has been seen once before during the Gulf War of the early 1990's. The U.S., Western Europe, and Saudi Arabia were allied against Iraq, while Russia, Iran, Sudan, Libya, and most other Middle East nations either aligned with Iraq, or against the U.S. either by directly opposing it, or by remaining neutral. The good news is that God wins. God will come against the invaders Himself and destroy them. Verses 19-20 say that there will be an earthquake so great that people all over the world will tremble. In the ensuing chaos, nations will begin to turn on each other. The confusion will lead to the largest case of death by friendly fire ever seen. Verse 22 of Ezekiel tells us that there will be plagues, torrents of rain, hailstones, and burning sulfur. Just as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, he will destroy these invading forces. Once again, God will make it known to all the nations that He is the Lord. He will give the nations proof that He is the Holy One in Israel. This war against Israel will pave the way for the Antichrist's military rule over the world and his demand that the world worship him as God. With Islam defeated and the Christian Church raptured, opposition to worshipping a man as God will be greatly reduced. Those who are left would have no army with which to mount much of a protest. So, how should Christians respond to this prophecy? In Ezekiel 39:6,7, and 28 God says that this end-times battle will happen that "they will know that I am the Lord". This message that God's purpose is to cause Israel and the other nations to know He is Lord is repeated over 60 times in Ezekiel. By learning about prophecy and teaching it to others, people will be able to see the glory, majesty, and sovereignty of God in the fulfillment of His divine word. By knowing our Bible and teaching it to others, they will be able to see that there is a divine creator, and a plan for them. Through Jesus Christ and the salvation he offers us freely, there is victory and an eternity more glorious than they can imagine. |
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A terrifying
scenario of an upcoming Middle East war is being discussed in Israeli
political circles. As the American terror death toll may surpass that of
Hiroshima, the consensus among public opinion and top ranks of the
military, untouched by the ruling illuminati caste, will be to strike back
at Islam where it hurts the most. Background Three days ago, someone (that will do until he chooses to accept credit) left over a thousand sensitive documents concerning the Rabin murder at my home. I called the economics writer Yaacov Verker and asked him to drive by and look at the material. He would have arrived the next day but it was too tragic for both of us. The day after the bombings in New York and Washington, he speed-read the material and discovered the smoking gun. It is the results of tests on Yigal Amir's hands, a half hour after he supposedly shot Yitzhak Rabin. Inspector Arieh Moshe, of the Israel Police Crime Laboratory, conducted a Feroprint test of Amir's hands to measure the amount of gunpowder on them and compare the composition of the gunpowder with that of the bullet casings. He found that, "The results of the testing were insignificant." NO GUNPOWDER WAS ON AMIR'S HANDS. This is an impossibility if he shot Rabin with real bullets. After almost six years, we had the proof that Amir did not murder Rabin. Yaacov phoned Knesset Member, Michael Kleiner and told him the stunning news. Mr. Kleiner is head of the Herut Movement, for most of Israel's history, the country's most powerful opposition party. Today, it has been neutralized by forces led by Ariel Sharon. The next day, Mr. Kleiner's secretary called and requested that I meet MK Kleiner at a gathering of Herut Party members in Tel Aviv. I just returned from the meeting with Mr. Kleiner and numerous party leaders. A few told me that those behind the slaughter in America were the same people who brought us the Oslo "peace" process and the Rabin murder. They described the next stage of the Hell to be brought upon this planet. The Scenario 1. America will demand proper retaliation for the grotesque loss of its citizens, for the wrecking of its economy and for the destruction of its most potent monolithic symbols. Only the bombing of Islam's most potent symbol, the Kaabah in Mecca, will satisfy the calls for equivalent justice. 2. Saudi Arabia will be taken over, its oilfields will repay America's losses, and rebuild the twin towers, as well as the wrecked economy. (Which may have been the real motive of the destruction of the buildings. Somebody was behind the theft of trillions of dollars from the American economy in the last few years. No one will ever know who after this week). 3. The American public will not allow the oil companies to exploit them and the Saudi profits will go directly to rebuilding lower Manhattan and then straight into the people's pockets. 4. Naturally, most Moslems will object to the American takeover and that will slowly lead to the destruction of Islam. But not before the world is engulfed in violence comparable to that of World War II. Request After the grief and shock subside a tiny bit, in November, I want to come to New York. I want to speak to those victims, Jewish and gentile, of the tragedy and tell them a side of their misery no one else will; why Israelis and Americans are dying to ignite a war to change the ruling status quo of the planet. And why the Rabin murder may hold the key to exposing and defeating these evil forces. If any organization or group, no matter how small, will be willing to sponsor me, I'll come. If there is no budget, I'll cover the expenses. If you think I should be heard where the bombs struck, please contact me. |
Taken from the cache copy of an article that is no longer on the
internet:
www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml
“Israel cannot allow Iran to be nuclear, and America cannot allow Iran to be nuclear.”
JOHN HAGEEJohn Hagee and Stephen J. Stein are of completely different minds when it comes to predicting whether the world is fast approaching the biblical “last days.”
Hagee, an author of 21 books and a San Antonio pastor with a worldwide radio and television ministry, is convinced recent armed conflict in the Middle East and the specter of Iran are proof that the apocalyptic battle of Armageddon — the war to end all wars to be fought in Israel — is not far off.
“The end of the world as we know it is rapidly approaching,” Hagee writes in Jerusalem Countdown, the latest of his six books on the end times.
Stein, on the other hand, is an Indiana University emeritus professor who has made a study of the apocalyptic predictions held by people like Hagee, and to date, he contends, they’ve all been wrong.
“There have been evangelical preachers in America talking about the end times for more than 2 1/2 centuries,” said Stein, author of The Continuum History of Apocalypticism. And the end has yet to come.
Historically the volume of talk of “end times” prophecies, of the “final days” and of Armageddon increases when armed conflict breaks out in the Middle East, such as the recent war between Israel and Hezbollah. And now, for Hagee in particular, the standoff involving the United States, Israel and Iran is a sign of biblical prophecy.
To arrive at these predictions, conservative Christian pastors like Hagee and the Rev. Jerry Falwell interpret sections of the Old Testament, particularly the books of Ezekiel and Daniel, as prophecy, or predictions, of coming events.
Falwell recently said that “the present-day events in the Holy Land may very well serve as a prelude or forerunner to the future battle of Armageddon and the glorious return of Jesus Christ.”
Christians who subscribe to this biblical interpretation generally come from the conservative Protestant wing of Christendom. Other branches of Christianity, such as Roman Catholics and many mainline Protestant denominations, express little interest in end-times discussions. Among those who believe certain world events point back to biblical prophecy, not all agree about how it will come or when.
Is Iran Magog?
Earlier this week President Bush and Iran’s president spoke separately to the United Nations. One issue on which the men disagreed is whether Iran should be allowed to develop its nuclear energy program, with the possibility it could build a nuclear weapon.
Iran plays a major role in how Hagee sees Old Testament prophecy playing out in the present.
“Israel cannot allow Iran to be nuclear,” he said in an interview, “and America cannot allow Iran to be nuclear.” Stopping Iran could mean some kind of conflict.
“Just before us is a nuclear countdown with Iran,” he wrote in Jerusalem Countdown, which came out earlier this year, “followed by Ezekiel’s war (as described in Ezekiel, chapters 38 and 39), and then the final battle — the battle of Armageddon.”
To Craig Koester, however, Hagee and others are reading too much into the Bible. That approach, said the author of Revelation and the End of All Things, “generally involves arranging verses from the Bible in different ways to create scenarios of the future.”
“Sometimes,” said Koester, who teaches New Testament at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minn., “they try to link specific verses with events happening in the news today.”
Hagee, however, is not the only author who sees Iran having a major role in the final days. Best-selling Christian author Joel C. Rosenberg, whose novels deal with Bible prophecies, said the next war on the prophetic timetable will be what Bible scholars call the war of Gog and Magog.
Rosenberg foresees this fight “involving a military alliance between Russia, Iran and a group of other Mideast countries who try to wipe Israel off the map. Russia and Iran have never had a military alliance in the 2,500 years since the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel wrote that prophecy, but they are forming one today.”
Armageddon
To the keepers of the Countdown to Armageddon Web site ( www.countdown.org), Armageddon is actually a battle “where God finally comes in and takes over the world and rules it the way it should have been ruled all along.”
In his book The Shadow of the Apocalypse, Paul Crouch, co-founder of the conservative Christian-oriented Trinity Broadcast Network, writes, “Jesus Christ … will rescue Israel, avenge those who have suffered in his name, punish the wicked, redeem the earth, imprison Satan and reign victorious over the earth.”
The name Armageddon is found in Revelation 16:16. It is part of a vision of the Apostle John in which kings from the East gather to oppose God. The name in Hebrew means Mount of Megiddo.
“Since Megiddo was a place where various armies were defeated (in history),” Koester said, “the name Armageddon is suitable for the battle at which the forces of evil are defeated at the end of time.”
The battle represents the final showdown between the forces of good and evil, said Cathy N. Gutierrez, religion professor at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, who writes on religion topics.
“While all three major monotheisms — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — believe in some version of an ultimate conflict between these forces, the use of the word Armageddon itself usually denotes a Christian understanding of these events,” she said.
“The second half of the Book of Daniel (chapters 7-12) is the original Judaic source for an apocalypse, or the final confrontation,” she said. “The Book of Revelation in the New Testament relies heavily on the predictions in Daniel, and many people have tried to use the two in conjunction to predict the arrival of the end time.”
In addition to Revelation 16:16, the chapters of Isaiah 63, Joel 3 and Zechariah 14 also speak of the final victory of God, Koester said.
“The battle itself is pictured in Revelation 19:11-21, where Christ appears as a rider on a white horse,” he said. “Literalistic interpreters generally focus on the devastation of the battle and link it to modern military technology, though they usually have to ignore the fact that the people in the vision are riding on horses.
“Interpreters who read Revelation literalistically will argue that armies will gather at the site of the ancient town of Megiddo,” Koester said. “… Other interpreters point out that the Old Testament names used in Revelation frequently have a symbolic meaning.”
Signs
During the recent fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, author Rosenberg told CNN that he sees Bible prophecy unfolding bit by bit in the Middle East right now. He has put forth his theories of events leading to the last days in novels such as The Ezekiel Option and The Copper Scroll and an upcoming nonfiction book, Epicenter: Why the Current Rumblings in the Middle East Will Change Your Future.
“There’s no question that we’re living in what the Bible calls the last days,” he said.
But Gutierrez said that throughout history the end-times prophecy passages have been interpreted to relate to many different times and events.
“In the 20th century the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union were seen as signs,” she said. “With the uncertainty in the world and particularly with any crisis in the Middle East, people reach to the idea of Armageddon in order to explain contemporary suffering and to fit scary events firmly into a divine plan so that history at least does not seem random or out of control.”
Stein added, “Some Christians have talked about the re-establishment of the state of Israel, the rebuilding of the temple in Israel, the conversion of the Jews to Christianity, etc., as signs of the times that precede the final struggle,” he said. “Others have identified the defeat of secular forces as the result of the battle. Any opponent or enemy can be linked to the evil side.”
Koester said he doesn’t think the Bible gives a step-by-step description of events that will take place at the end of time.
“Biblical prophecies give Christians the confident hope that God will defeat evil in the end,” he said. “… The Scriptures call Christians to put their faith in God rather than in their abilities to know where we are on God’s time line.”
But Hagee is unwavering in his faith that his assessment that Ezekiel’s prophecy is coming to life today.
“Following Ezekiel 38, Russia will give military leadership to the radical Islamics who want to destroy the state of Israel and control Jerusalem,” he said. “That is the battle of Gog and Magog. And God himself will destroy the Russian-Arab coalition. The world will see God defending Israel as it hasn’t seen since Pharaoh.”
NEWS
Israeli Nuclear Strike On Iran Turned Back
By
William Thomas A recent strike
by nuclear-armed Israeli Air Force
fighter-bombers bound for targets in Iran was
turned back after being intercepted by U.S.
fighters over Iraq, this reporter has learned.
Two sources
have independently confirmed the encounter,
which took place on January 7, 2007. Though the
first informant offered few details beyond an
initial tip, a second source long-known by this
reporter to have well-placed U.S. and “non-U.S.”
military and government contacts provided
specific information regarding the raid, which
was aimed at the radical religious ayatollahs
holding ultimate power in Iran. Israeli nuclear
strikes are not unprecedented. Soon after Desert
Storm, U.S. Navy pilots told this reporter in
Kuwait how in late 1990 Israel made good on its
pledge to respond in kind to WMD attacks by
launching nuclear-armed aircraft against Baghdad
following a lethal assault on Tel Aviv by Scud
missiles tipped with chemical warheads. That air
strike was called off when the Americans refused
to provide the vital IFF codes needed to fly
through U.S.-controlled airspace. When questioned
concerning the “Identification Friend or Foe”
transponder codes needed to overfly Iraq today,
this source said that allied Israeli aircraft
are routinely provided “squawk codes” when
flying missions aimed at acquiring the
characteristics of air defence radars triggered
by their approach to Syrian, Jordanian, Iranian
and U.S.-controlled Iraqi airspace. This source
added that visiting IAF warplanes are routinely
“topped off” by American aerial refueling
tankers, but only on condition that the Israeli
jets fly a “racetrack” holding pattern—and do
not continue “downtown” toward Iran. The designated
turn back point is the “160 station”—a clearly
charted tapline road located 160 kilometers from
Baghdad. Any aircraft proceeding beyond this
point must declare its intentions. Otherwise, a
USAF F-15 will take position off its wingtip.
After waggling its own wings to attract
attention, if the interloper fails to turn back,
the American Eagle “drops behind and gets tone”
by locking a Sidewinder anti-aircraft missile
onto the offending plane. According to
this very reliable source, on two previous
occasions Israeli fighter-bombers armed with
nuclear bombs have headed “downtown” before
being turned back over Iraq. The atomic
detonation that razed the city of Hiroshima and
killed 140,000 people outright was a 13-kiloton
blast. [Agence France-Presse Aug 6/05]
DEADLY
DEFENCES The latest
model F-15 can carry as much ordnance as a
neighborhood-flattening World War II B-17 heavy
bomber. As the independent think tank Strategic
Forecasting points out, the IAF “has repeatedly
demonstrated the ability to conduct long-range
strikes”—including the 1976 raid on Entebbe,
2,600 miles from Israel, and a 1985 attack on
the PLO headquarters in Tunis, 1,500 miles away.
[www.stratfor.com] But Iran’s air
defenses are far more formidable than any the
Israeli Air Force has yet faced. Manufactured at
the KBM factory near Moscow, Russian-supplied
SA-18 Igla-S mobile missile batteries are said
to be highly effective against low-flying jets.
According to Russian intelligence sources known
as DEBKA, the Igla’s mobility “makes them
difficult to target and limits the
maneuverability of Israeli planes.” DEBKA has also
revealed that Russian advisers from the Raduga
OKB engineering group based in Dubna near Moscow
have completed installing two advanced radar
systems around the Bushehr nuclear reactor on
the Persian Gulf. Codenamed “Tin Shield”, the
mobile 36D6 systems are modified to protect
Iran’s Russian-supplied nuclear facilities from
American or Israeli aircraft, stand-off
missiles, and cruise missile attacks. On January
12, 2006, Tin Shields also went operational
around the uranium enrichment plants at Isfahan
in central Iran.
Other
air defenses supplied by Moscow to Syria—and
most likely Iran—include advanced mobile SS-26
Iskander-E surface to surface missiles carrying
a 1,000-pound multiple warhead capable of
dodging air defense radars and electronic
jamming, as well as surface-to-air SA-10
“Grumble” missiles capable of engaging several
targets simultaneously at various altitudes, and
SA-18 “Grouse” shoulder-launched anti-aircraft
missiles fitted with a 4.5-pound high-explosive
warhead. The SA-18 has a maximum range of 5.2
kilometers and a maximum altitude of 3.5
kilometers.
“The
Iranians’ space programme is a matter of deep
concern to us,” said an Israeli defence source
at the time. “If and when we launch an attack on
several Iranian targets, the last thing we need
is Iranian early warning received by satellite.”
Moscow has also
supplied an estimated $1 billion worth of
advanced Tor-M1 anti-missile systems capable of
destroying guided missiles and laser-guided
bombs dropped from high-flying aircraft. “Once
the Iranians get the Tor-M1, it will make our
life much more difficult,” worried an Israeli
air force source. “We can’t waste time on this
one.” [www.envirosagainstwar.org; Sunday Times
Dec 11/05; WorldNetDaily.com Dec 11/05] OSIRIK,
THE SEQUEL Fitted with
modified drop tanks to extend their range, a
trio of smaller, more agile F-16s presents a
much more difficult challenge to Iran’s
defenders than a larger force of twin-engine
F-15s. Renowned for their ability to “tweak”
American-supplied weapons, the Israelis have,
according to my inside source, managed to reduce
the F-16’s radar profile “to the size of a kid’s
tricycle.” As he described
it, “We fuel ‘em up and they go off the
reservation, hit afterburners, hit the deck, and
vanish...” Also unlike
their USAF counterparts, Israeli F-16s can
simultaneously jettison their spent underwing
fuel tanks without the risk of a tumbling drop
tank striking live ordnance suspended under the
fighter’s wings. ONE-WAY
MISSION On January 7,
after crossing into Iranian airspace, the three
ground-hugging nuclear-armed Israeli F-16s would
have turned north. Using conventional munitions,
the jets would have attacked the 3rd Tactical
Air Base at Hamadan to preclude pursuit by the
obsolete Iranian air force F-4s stationed there.
This source
further stated that the crowded Iranian capitol
and the “huge” Revolutionary Guard training
facility at Hamadan are “defined targets.” He
added that Hamadan is also the Revolutionary
Guard’s “central depository for WMD.” IRAN’S
WMD Already
targeted by allied war planners, the al-Jesira
Factory produced the uranium hexaflouride used
in the difficult technical task of turning
low-grade uranium into highly enriched uranium
for weapons purposes. License plates
obscured with mud, and traveling only at night,
the trucks drove south to a second loading stop
in Baghdad, before turning east into Iran.
According to a declassified U.S. military
intelligence report, the containers sent to
Shiite Teheran by Saddam’s dissident Shiite
generals were clearly labeled: “Tularemia,”
“Anthrax,” “Botulinum” and “Plague”. Their gift
package also included an advanced Hewlett
Packard computer, and a Linatron X-ray machine
marked “pbg”. Both were shipped from Iraq’s
nuclear weapons facility at Mosul, along with
sealed containers of uranium hexafluoride.
Details of these WMD transfers were contained in
a September 30, 2004 U.S. Department of Defence
intelligence report widely distributed among
U.S. government and military leaders:
Filename:22010744.91r, PATHFINDER RECORD NUMBER:
11224; SUBJ: TRANSFER OF NUCLEAR, BIOLOGICAL,
AND CHEMICAL (NBC) MATERIEL DURING DESERT STORM
[original text:
www.gulfwarvets.com/gulflink/95071920.txt]
DECAPITATION “This cuts off
the head of the snake and makes response
impossible,” my source said. “Decapitating” the
country’s top leaders is possible, he went on,
because they tend to feel safer by congregating.
“Iranians are so untrusting of the
communications networks and methodologies most
other people use, they don’t use the Internet,”
he asserted. “They use the ‘sneaker net’ to walk
the message over.” But my source
described “years” of insertions of Israeli
agents into Iran. Besides locating that
country’s underground nuclear installations,
Israeli “moles” are principally charged with
“pinpointing individuals that would have to be
taken out,” he said. “To assure that the
government is nonfunctional, you have to go at
least 10 people back” from Iran’s top religious
and political leaders. So will
everyone caught in the initial blast wave and
firestorm extending more than a dozen miles from
the mushrooming blast’s epicenter, as well as
all those caught in the radioactive fallout that
follows. Ensuring regional radiation sickness,
the sharkay day wind blows from NW to SE over
Iran and surrounding countries, before shifting
180 degrees during the nighttime shamal.
CROSSING THE RED LINE According to my
informant, the three “warning” nuclear strikes
launched against Iran and aborted by Israel came
in response to threatening military moves that
accompanied belligerent public statements by
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“When they
start to deploy, you decapitate so they can’t
issue a go order,” he said. “What would you do
if your country was as small and vulnerable as
Florida? If someone keeps saying they are going
to punch you in the face, and then they start to
get up out of their chair, what are you going to
do? When it’s the survival of your family, the
survival of your [race], there are no rules.” Though this
source would not confirm the other two dates,
one Israeli nuclear strike might have been
launched
shortly after December 14, 2005, when Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the
Holocaust a “myth” and suggested that Israel’s
Jews be relocated to Europe or Alaska. Dubbing
Ahmadinejad, “Admin-job”, this source
dismissingly described the Iranian President’s
role as “tech support” for the radical
ayatollahs, whose national constitution calls
for unremitting terror attacks against Israel
and the United States—despite near unanimous
opposition by Iran’s predominantly younger
demographic. Because
Ahmadinejad “does what the black robes tell
him,” the Iranian president’s pre-approved
public utterances are taken seriously by
Israelis, who reportedly became alarmed just
prior to Likening Israel
to a tiny white desert scorpion that is “utterly
fearless” in its own defense, this source
emphasized that its leaders are “more than
deadly serious” in defending their UN-imposed
homeland. Determining the point where Iran
becomes “a mortal threat” to Israel’s security
by crossing the so-called red line “is a minute
by minute decision,” he said. That red line
was said to be breached in March 2006, when an
Israeli army assessment warned that Iran was
capable of enriching enough uranium to start
producing nuclear weapons within three years.
The previous December, Israeli President Ariel
Sharon had declared, “Israel—and not only
Israel—cannot accept a nuclear Iran. We have the
ability to deal with this, and we’re making all
the necessary preparations to be ready for such
a situation.” [www.stratfor.com]
DESPERATION IN THREE ALLIED CAPITOLS Despite Israeli
President Ehud Olmert’s misadventure in Lebanon,
which has inflamed public sentiments against
Israel and vastly strengthened Hammas—as well as
Tony Blair’s deepening disgrace, and the
resounding defeat of Bush’s war policies in the
November 7, 2006 congressional elections—the
three leaders have recently conducted private
discussions: Olmert meeting with Bush on
November 13, Blair visiting the White House on
December 7, and Blair conferring with Olmert in
Israel on December 18. Sources close
to Parry say “the three leaders are frantically
seeking options for turning around their
political fortunes as they face harsh judgments
from history for their bloody and risky
adventures in the Middle East.”
But
the veteran correspondent adds, “There is a
clock ticking… If the Bush-Blair-Olmert
triumvirate has any hope of accomplishing the
neoconservative remaking of the Middle East,
time is running out. Something dramatic must
happen soon.” Parry refers to
that “something” as “Armageddon.” “I would expect
an attack in the next six months,” concurred
Larry Johnson, a former deputy director in the
State Department’s counter-terrorism office,
earlier this month. “This is not just planning
for possible military contingencies. There is
real planning underway for carrying out a
military strike against Iran”—a strike the
Israeli military has reportedly already
attempted three times. [Consortium News Jan
8/07] According to
DEBKA, after stating in April 2006 that U.S.
intelligence does not believe Iran could produce
a nuclear weapon within a decade, then Director
of National Intelligence John Negroponte
“infuriated neoconservative hardliners who
wanted a worst-case scenario on Iran’s nuclear
capabilities, much as they pressed for an
alarmist view on Iraq’s weapons of mass
destruction before the U.S. invasion in 2003.”
As DEBKA sees
it, “Bush’s neocon advisers fear that if Bush
doesn’t act decisively in his remaining two
years in office, his successor may lack the
political will to launch a preemptive strike
against Iran. “Attacks on
Iran and Syria also would fit with Bush’s desire
to counter the growing Shiite influence across
the Middle East, which was given a boost by
Bush’s ouster of the Sunni-dominated government
of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.” [www.debkafile.com
Jan 24/05] The Washington
Post agrees, reporting how “Bush began pondering
how best to throttle Shiite expansionism” after
the neocon fantasy “of a U.S.-orchestrated
transformation of the Middle East had turned
into a nightmare of rising Shiite radicalism.”
[Washington Post, July 16/06] By summer 2006,
Israeli sources were describing Bush’s obsessive
interest in finding a pretext to take down Syria
and Iran. Toward this end, he removed the
American Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad
when that moderate Muslim objected to Bush’s
decision to hang Saddam Hussein. (While governor
of Texas, Bush set an all-time record for
hangings there.) Parry also
notes that on November 8, two days after Donald
Rumsfeld’s memo urging a “minimalist” U.S.
presence in Iraq, and the day after American
voters threw the Republican majority out of the
House and Senate, Bush fired his Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld “for going wobbly on the
war.” [Consortium News Jan 8/07] On January 4,
2007 Bush replaced his two top Middle East
commanders after Generals John Abizaid and
George Casey opposed his military escalation in
Iraq. Alluding to upcoming attacks on Iran and
Syria, Bush stated, “I’m not predicting any
particular theater, but I am predicting that
it’s going to take a while for the ideology of
liberty to finally triumph…” [Consortium News
Jan 8/07] By then, he had
already dispatched U.S. marines and two carrier
task forces to the coast of Iran.
STRIKING
POWER Now on station
in the Persian Gulf, “Expeditionary Strike Group
5” includes more than 2,000 marines from the
15th Marine Expeditionary Unit. Equipped with
landing craft and 38 helicopters, the marines
are not going to bolster U.S. forces inside
Iraq. Instead, they are prepared to “rapidly
deploy” on orders received from either of
two-men comprising the National Command
Authority—the President, or the Secretary of
Defense. Leading this
attack armada is the nuclear carrier USS
Enterprise escorted by the destroyer USS McFaul,
the frigate USS Nicholas, the battle cruiser USS
Leyte Gulf, the attack submarine USS Alexandria,
and the fast combat support ship USNS Supply.
A second
powerful Strike Group comprises the similarly
escorted nuclear aircraft carrier USS
Eisenhower. One of these naval strike groups is
steaming in the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian
Sea; the second is bottled up in the Persian
Gulf. In addition,
Iran’s huge hovercraft fleet is augmented by
missile-firing drones and helicopter squadrons,
silent submarines, and new “Joshan” PT boats
capable of speeds in excess of 45 knots.
Equipped with a variety of missiles striking
beyond 62 miles, the Joshans’ rapid-firing 76-mm
shells can shred sea and air targets within 19
kilometers at altitudes up to 23,000 feet. While such a
pornographic catalogue of costly killing
machines reads like a Tom Clancy thriller, the
results of war in the Persian Gulf will be
widespread death and chaos ashore, major
casualties for the U.S. and Canadian navies, and
worldwide economic and political spasm following
the closing of major oil tanker routes through
the Strait of Hormuz Anticipating
heavy losses, overall command and control of
both Carrier Air Groups has for the first time
been transferred onshore. The U.S. Coast Guard
vessel USS Midgett has also been dispatched to
assist U.S. and Canadian naval vessels wrecked
by the Iranian armed forces. Retired Colonel
Gardiner, who once taught military strategy at
the U.S. National War College, declares that the
U.S. carrier deployments are “very important
evidence” of Bush’s intentions to wage war
against Iran. “It’s a very significant order,
and it’s not done as a training exercise,”
Gardiner noted. “You cannot issue a PTDO and
then stay ready for very long,” A PTDO requires
all crews to be onboard, and all ships and
aircraft ready to deploy by a certain date—in
this case, October 1, 2006. “I think the plan’s
been picked: bomb the nuclear sites in Iran,”
says Gardiner. “It’s a terrible idea. It’s
against U.S. law and it’s against international
law, but I think they’ve decided to do it.” ZIONIST
ADMIRAL According to
DEBKA, “Though not considered a Middle East
expert, Fallon has moved in neoconservative
circles… attending a 2001 awards ceremony at the
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.” JINSA lobbyists dominate U.S. Middle East policy
by encouraging the White House to directly link
“American defense policy and the security of
Israel.” [DEBKAfile Jan 24/05] Award-winning
Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk also links
“Vice-President Dick Cheney, the arch-hawk in
the U.S. administration” to the powerful JINSA.
“Richard Perle, chairman of the Pentagon’s
Defence Policy Board, is still an adviser on the
institute, as is the former CIA director James
Woolsey,” Fisk adds. “Perle advises the Defence
Secretary…” Though opposed
by many Jewish people, Zionists believe “every
inch of the Holy Land should belong to Israel,
and that there should never be a Palestinian
state,” explains The Guardian’s Matthew Engel.
[Days of Deception by William Thomas] GO NAVY “Navy, Navy,
Navy,” my source noted. “Do you see a pattern?
The Gulf of Tonkin was started by the Navy.
Admiral Crowe covered-up the shootdown of the
Iranian Airbus” (by USS Vincennes), and the
electromagnetic-beaming “poppers” used to
interfere with the minds and moods of Iraq’s
populace and national leadership were “a U.S.
Navy invention put in place by the Office of
Naval Intelligence.” As for George
Bush Senior—the man who gave the world the first
Gulf War, more than 740,000 Iraqi deaths, and a
thousand burning oil wells—”Navy,” he added.
Regarding his son, this source pointed out, “He
gets rid of everyone who’s telling him ‘no’.
That to me is dangerous because there’s no
fail-safe.” ISREAL
VS THE UNITED STATES? He meant
American “resistance”. In order to defend its
national interest, if ordered to prosecute their
attack on Iran, Israeli warplanes are prepared
to take on their American sponsors, my source
stated. But instead of dog-fighting over
Baghdad, he described how altimeter-armed
nuclear bombs set to go off at a specific
altitude would prevent American fighters from
shooting down the Israeli jets. “Which way will
the surge surge?” I asked. My source
laughed grimly. “We need a surge protector,” he
declared. On January 7, the Israeli nuclear
strike was turned back over al-Samawah, “a hair
away from an-Nasiriyah. That was not the first
time. It’s not going to be the last time. But
every time it happens, it goes further and gets
closer. There is no way to turn this off. This
is not an ‘if’ – it’s a ‘when’”. PUTIN
REPSONDS In September
2006, Russia, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan also
held joint “anti-terrorism drills” aimed at
blocking U.S. and NATO “interference”. During
this time, China and Tajikistan also conducted
their first joint military exercise. “Roughly 12,000
mostly American troops in Afghanistan will begin
to integrate with NATO in October 2006,”
Nazemroaya further notes. Following attacks on
Iran and Syria, NATO and the U.S. anticipate
intervening in Pakistan, where the collapse of
General Musharraf’s government could place
Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal in the hands of that
country’s al-Qaeda and Taliban opposition—and
perhaps Osama bin Laden. [Global Research Oct
1/06; Navy Times Sept 12/06; Time; CNN Sept
17/06 Nation Sept 28/06] RECENT
DEVELOPMENTS The U.S. also
accuses Iran of seeking nuclear arms to counter
the American and Israeli nuclear arsenals.
Denying both charges, Tehran recently warned the
U.N. General Assembly that escalating U.S.
military involvement in the Middle East
“threatens to drag the world into war.” [BBC Jan
11/07] WHAT
CAN WE DO? As a Democratic
Congress moves to block Bush’s latest military
escalation, spontaneous street protests calling
for his immediate impeachment have broken out in
Santa Cruz, California and other U.S. cities.
These demonstrations are expected to grow.
Calling by cell phone from the raucous streets
of Santa Cruz, resident Rich Valles said, “I’m
getting the strong feeling that the American
people are soon going to be taking this to
Washington—where they will be joined by the
army.” In the end, it
may be even more important to impeach
Washington’s militaristic mindset, then the
hangman it personifies.
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1) I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, Go
a and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!
2) The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a
harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who
worshiped his image. 3) The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood
as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died. 4) The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and
they became blood. 5) I heard the angel of the waters saying, You are righteous,
who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged these things. 6) For
they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given
them blood to drink. They deserve this. 7) I heard the altar saying, Yes, Lord
God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments. 8) The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to
scorch men with fire. 9) People were scorched with great heat, and people
blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t
repent and give him glory. 10) The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his
kingdom was plunged into darkness. They gnawed their tongues because of the
pain, 11) and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their
sores. They didn’t repent of their works. 12) The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its
water was dried up, that the way might be made ready for the kings that come
from the sunrise. 13) I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of
the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits,
something like frogs; 14) for they are spirits of demons, performing signs;
which go forth to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them
together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty. 15) Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his
clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame. 16) He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew,
Megiddo. 17) The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came forth
out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done! 18) There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great
earthquake, such as was not since there were men on the earth, so great an
earthquake, so mighty. 19) The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the
nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to
her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. 20) Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 21)
Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, b came down out of
the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for
this plague is exceedingly severe. 1) One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me,
saying, Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute, that
famous city that sits on many waters, 2) with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and
those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual
immorality. 3) He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman
sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven
heads and ten horns. 4) The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and
precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations
and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth. 5) And on her forehead a name was written, 6) I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the
blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.
7) The angel said to me, Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of
the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the
ten horns. 8) The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up
out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and
whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the
world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be
present. a 9) Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are
seven hills, on which the woman sits. 10) They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, the other has
not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while. 11) The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of
the seven; and he goes to destruction. 12) The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom
as yet, but they receive authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour.
13) These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the
beast. 14) These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for
he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. They also will overcome who are with
him, called and chosen and faithful. 15) He said to me, The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits,
are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages. 16) The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the
prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat
her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire. 17) For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, and to be
of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God
should be accomplished. 18) The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings
of the earth. 1) After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky,
having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory. 2) He cried with a mighty voice, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon
the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean
spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird! 3) For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual
immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the
merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury. 4) I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people,
that you a have no participation in her sins, and that you a
don’t receive of her plagues, 5) for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her
iniquities. 6) Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did,
and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.
7) However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her
of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no
widow, and will in no way see mourning.’ 8) Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and
famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has
judged her is strong. 9) The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived
wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of
her burning, 10) standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the
great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.’
11) The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one buys
their merchandise any more; 12) merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen,
purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel
made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble; 13) and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine
flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, slaves, and human lives. 14) The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you, and all
things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find
them no more at all. 15) The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand
far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning; 16) saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen,
purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!
17) For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.’ Every shipmaster,
and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living
by sea, stood far away, 18) and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying,
‘What is like the great city?’ 19) They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning,
saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea
were made rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For in one hour is she made
desolate. 20) Rejoice over her, O heaven, you a saints, apostles, and
prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her. 21) A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into
the sea, saying, Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown
down, and will be found no more at all. 22) The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will
be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found
any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.
23) The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the
bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your
merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations
were deceived. 24) In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who
have been slain on the earth. a In the original language, this word is plural. 1) After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great
multitude in heaven, saying, Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to
our God: 3) A second said, Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever. 4) The
twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who
sits on the throne, saying, Amen! Hallelujah! 5) A voice came forth from the throne, saying, Give praise to our God, all
you a his servants, you a who fear him, the small and the
great! 6) I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the
voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, Hallelujah!
For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns! 7) Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to
him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready. 8) It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure,
fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. 9) He said to me, Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the
marriage supper of the Lamb.’ He said to me, These are true words of God.
10) I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, Look! Don’t
do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the
testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of
Prophecy. 11) I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on
it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.
12) His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has
names written and a name written which no one knows but he himself. 13) He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called
The Word of God. 14) The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed
in white, pure, fine linen. 15) Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he
should strike the nations. He will rule them with a rod of iron. He treads the
winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty. 16) He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS,
AND LORD OF LORDS. 17) I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying
to all the birds that fly in the sky, Come! Be gathered together to the great
supper of God, b 18) that you a may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of
captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit
on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, and small and great.
19) I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies,
gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his
army. 20) The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the
signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of
the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into
the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. 21) The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the
sword which came forth out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their
flesh. 1) I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss
and a great chain in his hand. 2) He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan,
who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,
3) and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that
he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished.
After this, he must be freed for a short time. 4) I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I
saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for
the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t
receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned
with Christ for the thousand years. 5) The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were
finished. This is the first resurrection. 6) Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over
these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of
Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years. 7) And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison,
8) and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four
corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the
number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 9) They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of
the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God, and
devoured them. 10) The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and
sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented
day and night forever and ever. 11) I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the
earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them. 12) I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne,
and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The
dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to
their works. 13) The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the
dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. 15) If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into
the lake of fire. 1) I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first
earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. 2) I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
made ready like a bride adorned for her husband. 3) I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, Behold, God’s dwelling is
with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God
himself will be with them as their God. 4) He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be
no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The
first things have passed away. 5) He who sits on the throne said, Behold, I am making all things new. He
said, Write, for these words of God are faithful and true. 6) He said to me, It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning
and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the
water of life. 7) He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and
he will be my son. 8) But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers,
sexually immoral, sorcerers, a idolaters, and all liars, their part
is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.
9) One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with
the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, Come here. I will
show you the wife, the Lamb’s bride. 10) He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and
showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, 11) having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as
if it was a jasper stone, clear as crystal; 12) having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates
twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve
tribes of the children of Israel. 13) On the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the
south three gates; and on the west three gates. 14) The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names
of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb. 15) He who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the
city, its gates, and its walls. 16) The city lies foursquare, and its length is as great as its breadth.
He measured the city with the reed, Twelve thousand twelve stadia b .
Its length, breadth, and height are equal. 17) Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, c by the measure
of a man, that is, of an angel. 18) The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like
pure glass. 19) The foundations of the city’s wall were adorned with all kinds of
precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire d
; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; 20) the fifth, sardonyx; the
sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz;
the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst.
21) The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of
one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. 22) I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the
Lamb, are its temple. 23) The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for
the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24) The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the
glory and honor of the nations into it. 25) Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night
there), 26) and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so
that they may enter. 27) There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes
an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of
life. 1) He showed me a a river of water of life, clear as crystal,
proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, 2) in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was
the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every
month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3) There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the
Lamb will be in it, and his servants serve him. 4) They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5) There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God
will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever. 6) He said to me, These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the
spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show to his bondservants the things
which must happen soon. 7) Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the
prophecy of this book. 8) Now I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. When I heard
and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who had shown me
these things. 9) He said to me, See you don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you
and with your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this
book. Worship God. 10) He said to me, Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy of this book,
for the time is at hand. 11) He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy,
let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He
who is holy, let him be holy still. 12) Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man
according to his work. 13) I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning
and the End. 14) Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the
right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. 15) Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the
murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
16) I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the
assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David; the Bright and Morning
Star. 17) The Spirit and the bride say, Come! He who hears, let him say, Come!
He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life
freely. 18) I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this
book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written
in this book. 19) If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may
God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which
are written in this book. 20) He who testifies these things says, Yes, I come quickly.
Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus. 21) The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen. Tuesday, October 14,
2008 Fascinating
"end-times" beliefs of some fundamentalist,
"evangelical" Christians FASCINATING "END-TIMES" BELIEFS OF
SOME FUNDAMENTALIST, "EVANGELICAL" CHRISTIANS
- by Norio Hayakawa Directly related or not to this "Rapture"
concept, there is an interesting item written by
the Bard of Ely entitled: PROJECT BLUE BEAM and the coming
GRAND DECEPTION:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Is-Project-Bluebeam-the-Grand-Deception From:
http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/2008/February2008.html
President Bush in An Ancient Land! Recently, President George W. Bush arrived in the
State of Israel on what he referred to as a “peace
mission.” His date of arrival was January 8th, 2008, a
new moon and the first day of the Hebrew month Shevat.
This is the eleventh month in the Hebrew calendar. In
addition to that, forty years have now passed since the
recapture of Jerusalem in 1967. With those numbers in
mind: first day, eleventh month, and forty years,
consider the words of Deuteronomy 1:3 & 8, as follows:
“And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the
eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that
Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto
all that the Lord had given him in commandment unto
them……Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and
possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to
their seed after them.” I find it rather remarkable that President Bush
would show up on that very day with the intention of not
only dividing the ancient land to create a Palestinian
State, but also to divide the city of Jerusalem itself!
President Bush set forth a checklist for creating the
new State of Palestine, which would force the State of
Israel to give up the West Bank, Golan Heights, and East
Jerusalem. (18) Is President Bush by his actions
catapulting us into World War III and bringing forth the
final fulfillment of Scripture? This is a touchy and
sensitive issue for Jews and the Moslem world. It is
Jerusalem that is the prime point of contention. In
Zechariah 12:2-3 we read as follows: “Behold, I will
make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people
round about, when they shall be in the siege both
against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day I
will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people:
all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in
pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered
together against it.” When President Bush arrived in Israel, he was
presented a document called Megillat Bush, or the Bush
Scroll. It was presented by the New Jewish Congress, the
Sanhedrin, and the Holy Temple and Temple Mount
movements. The scroll declared and reasserted Divine
right for the Jews to have an undivided land of Israel
and city of Jerusalem. I have a copy of this scroll in
front of me, and the striking thing about it is the
title by which President Bush is called. The two lines
preceding the second paragraph of the scroll read as
follows: “Esteemed Mr. George W. Bush, The Chief Prince
of Meshech and Tubal. (Ezekiel 38:1) Leader of the
West.” (19) Why would the high councils of the State of
Israel call President Bush by this title? Ezekiel 38:1-3
reads as follows: “And the word of the Lord came unto
me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the
land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal,
and prophesy against him, And say, Thus saith the Lord
God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince
of Meshech and Tubal.” The remainder of the chapter goes
on to tell us that this “chief prince” brings forth a
great war in the Middle East, involving many nations.
Are we, at this very time, witnessing the fulfillment of
some of the last prophecy? How much more specific can it
get? We also know that President Bush is continually
railing against Iran as a great threat to peace. Will
this Gog of the land of Magog, the chief Prince of
Meshech and Tubal, start a war with Iran? If he does, we
must all take note of the fact that on December 27th,
2007, Russia declared that they would supply Iran with
full air defense. The Russian High Command also issued
the following statement: “Our capabilities outstrip the
U.S. Patriot missile system. The S-300 missile systems
could inflict significant damage to the U.S. or Israeli
forces were they to attack Iran.” (20) I must mention one more amazing thing that comes
to mind when I consider the title given to President
Bush by the high officials in the State of Israel. When
George W. Bush stole the election for the first time and
became President, I was in contact with a person whose
late father had been a member of the secret order known
as the Skull and Bones. This woman had the documents to
prove what she was saying, and there is no way I will
ever release her name to anyone. Here let it be noted
that when George W. Bush was initiated in the Tomb of
the Skull & Bones at Yale University in New Haven,
Connecticut, he was given a new name, even as all
initiates are given a new name upon completion of their
initiation. The name given to George W. Bush was Magog!...
---- GEORGE H. W. BUSH PRONOUNCES THE NEW WORLD
ORDER I guess it's time to read The Bible. TIMELINE TO ARMAGEDDON
http://www.deepspace4.com/pages/main/pagemain.htm
IZAKOVIC Exclusive Intelligence Examiner Report Texe Marrs
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—
An
historic event occurred in Jerusalem this January, an
event chronicled widely in Israel's newspapers but
omitted entirely by America's Zionist controlled and
owned press. President George W. Bush, visiting the
nation of Israel, was presented with a rabbinical
decree, the Scroll of Bush. The Scroll declared
that he, Bush, is none other than the prophesied Gog, of
the land of Magog; that is, Chief Prince of Meshech and
Tubal. Even as America's economic crisis
grew deeper, with hundreds of thousands losing their
homes due to mortgage foreclosures, the U.S. stock
market sliding south, the U.S. dollar sinking like a
rock against foreign currencies, and labor statistics
showing unemployment rising as more and more American
workers are laid off and manufacturing sent overseas,
our President George W. Bush embarked on Air Force One
on an eight day trip to Israel. Yes, like bloody Roman Emperor
Nero, who reportedly fiddled while Rome burned, a
callous and indifferent George Bush left a desperate
country and people gasping for breath to go to the
Middle East and consult with his superiors—Zionist
rabbinical overlords. He arrived in Jerusalem 1/09/08,
numerically translated in occult numerology as 666.
On 1/11 (the 11th of January), he and Israeli Prime
Minister Olmert, along with former British Prime
Minister Tony Blair, were taken down into the earth,
inside Zedekiah's Cave, for a clandestine ritual and
black mass conducted by the Grand Master of Israel's
Freemasons. The same day, Bush visited Yad Vashem,
Israel's version of the Holocaust Museum, where he
stayed exactly 90 minutes, a number again translating
into 666. But those things were not the most
significant that happened during Bush's historic visit.
No, that occurred on the third day when, at a banquet,
President Bush was presented with the Scroll of Bush,
a document made out on ancient parchment and signed by
the three most spiritually prominent Jews on planet
earth: The Scroll goes on to address Bush
as, "The Honorable Mr. George W. Bush, President of the
United States of America." Then, however, in a most
shocking and prophetic manner, the Scroll of Bush, a
document representing the entire Jewish nation both in
Israel and dispersed throughout the world, a document
composed by and authenticated by the highest religious
rabbis on the planet, addressed Bush by yet another
title: Oh my, oh my. This is an occult
mystery of tremendous prophetic significance, one so
incredibly deep and so stunningly revealing that I am
offering to my friends this month an exhaustive
60-minute audiotape/CD investigative report, carefully
and fully explaining what all this means (Gog,
Magog, and the Scroll of Bush—Jewish Sanhedrin Honors
President George W. Bush as "Chief Prince of Meshech and
Tubal"
Tape
or
CD). There can be no doubt that
President Bush knows exactly why he holds the satanic
title of "Gog, of the land of Magog," also known
as Chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal. The "Leader of the
West," as the Rabbis also put it, "shall be incarnated
and possessed by Satan himself in the last days. The
Scriptures say he, as Chief Prince, "shall go out to
deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the
earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle:
the number of whom is as the sand of the sea"
(Revelation 20:7-8). Now, on a mission for his infernal
Lord Lucifer, comes President George W. Bush, son of the
bonesman named "Magog," to Jerusalem, Israel. There, the
chief religious officials—including the High Priest of
the reconvened Sanhedrin, the same devilish body that so
long ago commanded that Jesus our Lord be tortured and
crucified on a primitive wooden cross—recognized and
honored Mr. Bush as Gog, of the land of Magog, Chief
Prince of Meshech and Tubal (Ezekiel 38:1). Imagine: Three hundred million
people residing in the U.S.A. and only a few—the wise
who believe and honor the word of God and the Lord's
prophetic scriptures—are able to understand the profound
nature of such a cardinal event. Of course, the rabbis
and the Masons of Israel, disciples of Satan—they know.
But America's Senators and Congressmen, America's TV
news celebrities, America's radio talk show
personalities, and the dumbed-down, Christ-rejecting
masses—they haven't a clue. The wise and informed, however,
understand and shall be rewarded. But the careless and
wicked shall perish in their ignorance and stupidity.
Such is truth. Such is prophecy.
—
The Golem: A World Held Hostage, DREAMS OF THE GREAT
EARTHCHANGES - MAIN INDEX
Jan 18th 2007
www.willthomas.net
The January 7th mission, which trespassed beyond
160 station before being recalled by Israeli
authorities, comprised three IAF F-16s. Each
carried conventional munitions—as well as a
single 20-kiloton nuclear bomb.
This report of an attempted nuclear strike
contradicts military analysts who have long
maintained that Israel would deploy as many as
25 I-model F-15 fighter-bombers from the 69th
Squadron based at Hatzerim Air Base in the
northern Negev, about 50 miles south of Tel
Aviv. Any Israeli Air Force attack, it is
believed, must first suppress Iranian air
defenses, while ensuring that enough
conventionally-armed F-15s get through to set
back that country’s widely dispersed nuclear
program for many years.
Another major worry for Israeli pilots is Iran’s
first satellite. Carried into orbit by a Russian
booster in October 2005, the Sinah-1 can provide
a “look down” capability to spot low-flying
aircraft long before they intrude Iranian
airspace.
According to DEBKA, Moscow intends to secure its
investment at Bushehr “against the fate of the
Saddam Hussein’s French-built Tamuz nuclear
center, which the Israeli air force bombed out
existence 24 years ago.”
Demonstrating his insider knowledge, he further
noted that the Israelis have modified the
original drop tanks supplied by the Americans to
simultaneously feed the F-16’s single engine,
thereby avoiding the fuel management
distractions required to keep the fighter in
balance using the one-tank-at-a-time U.S.
system.
But even fitted with drop-tanks, unless assisted
by USAF tankers or allowed to land in Iraq,
low-flying F-16’s will burn too much fuel to
return. Unless they receive a message in flight
to turn back, this source said, Israeli pilots
“have already been told before they get into the
plane they are not coming back.” He added that
volunteer pilots are prepared to fly their
nuclear bombs “into their targets” if necessary.
Because the small Israeli strike force was
expected to be flying a one-way mission, more
modern Iranian F-5s and MiG-29s based at the 2nd
Tactical Air Base at Tabriz would not have
presented a problem on egress.
[www.stratfor.com]
Late in 1990, as a Desert Storm gathered on
Iraq’s western border, a convoy of six blacked
out transport trucks departed a heavily guarded
al-Jesira factory loading dock just outside
Mosul. The vehicles included a 1983 red and
white Scania transport van, a 1985 Scania with
white cab and red box, an orange 1975 MAC truck,
an orange 1986 Scania, a brown and white Volvo
truck of unknown vintage, and another Scania
transport sporting an orange cab and red box.
Also contradicting military aviation experts and
IAF cover stories, this source revealed that the
intended targets on July 7th were not aimed at
turning Iran’s five heavily defended nuclear
reactors into as many Chernobyls. Nor could the
Israeli attackers expect to hit Iran’s hundreds
of widely dispersed nuclear research facilities.
Instead, the January 7 mission objective was to
pre-empt Teheran’s ability to attack Israel by
eliminating Iran’s “Command and Control”—the
religious leadership holding the “go codes”
required to launch an Iranian attack on Israel.
According
to a London newspaper, a “massive” Israeli
intelligence operation has been underway in Iran
since that country was designated the “top
priority for 2005.” [Sunday Times Dec 11/05]
“ It’s like a fatwa,” he continued. Acting as
“target designators,” Israeli agents equipped
with miniaturized homing beacons “stay glued” to
Iranian leaders.” Because Iran’s religious and
civil leadership often holds meetings on trains,
a single well-timed Israeli strike “can take
them all out,” he affirmed. “Going downtown,
goin’ for the black robes, they have on the
ground confirmation.”
Unlike a conventional high-explosive bomb,
detonation of a hydrogen bomb ensures “success”
in aborting a perceived Iranian attack by frying
that all of that country’s computers, phones,
radio and other electronic equipment in a
massive Electromagnetic Pulse. Because Iranian
military electronics are not “hardened” against
EMP, and because Iranian war-fighting doctrine
stipulates that commanders “use everything they
have and hold nothing in reserve,” this source
pointed out that if an Israeli air raid is
suspected, “all their stuff will be lit up.” As
a consequence, after an EMP from an atomic air
burst, “Everything on will now be permanently
off.”
With Iranian missiles able to hit Tel Aviv and
the Israeli nuclear plant and atom bomb dump at
Dimona, and major powers pledged to Teheran’s
defense, how Israel and the world expects to
escape the moral, military and political
consequences of another Hiroshima was not
explained.
January 7 when the Iranian political leader made
a short radio statement to his nation saying
that a “consolidated” response was required to
Bush “and the Zionists”. That the Iranian
president issued his address over more publicly
accessible shortwave radio, instead of making
his usual televised announcement was apparently
considered especially menacing by Israeli
intelligence.
Israel’s military intelligence chief Aharon
Zeevi Farkash also warned the Knesset, “If by
the end of March the international community is
unable to refer the Iranian issue to the United
Nations Security Council, then we can say the
international effort has run its course.” [www.envirosagainstwar.org;
Sunday Times Dec 11/05; WorldNetDaily.com Dec
11/05]
Writing for Newsweek and the Associated Press,
Mideast journalist Robert Parry observes, “Bush
is looking for ways to ‘double-down’ his gamble
in Iraq by joining with Olmert—and possibly
outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair—” in
a desperate roll of violent dice.
SAY
WHAT?
Faced with rising clamor for his own ouster
among the American populace, and outright
refusal by his top generals to carry out a
previously ordered ground attack against Iran
using B61-11 nuclear bombs, George Bush
continues to defy nearly everyone, while
claiming to receive his apocalyptic instructions
directly from God. [New Yorker, Apr 17/06]
Bush’s closest advisers also blame Syria and
Iran for supporting Iraq’s defenders. “Lacking
the military and political capacity to expand
the conflict beyond Iraq, the Bush
administration turned to Israel and its new
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert,” DEBKA says.
Working for the Canadian think tank, Global
Research, Ottawa-based Middle East analyst Mahdi
Darius Nazemroaya has pieced together Bush’s
personal war fleet.
The Expeditionary Strike Group’s flagship, the
marine assault vessel USS Boxer is accompanied
by the massive dock landing vessel, USS Dubuque,
the troop ship USS Comstock, battle cruiser USS
Bunker Hill, guided-missile destroyers USS
Benford and USS Howard, and HMCS Ottawa. Though
ostensibly joining its American ally to
prosecute the “War on Terror,” prior to steaming
for Iran the Canadian frigate took part in
Strike Group 5’s anti-submarine drills off
Hawaii aimed at countering Iran’s
diesel-electric submarines.
As Nazemroaya narrates, “The Persian Gulf could
be closed off and turned into a shooting
gallery” by Iranian forces deploying advanced
Chinese and Russian anti-ship missiles, as well
as 225 miles-per-hour torpedoes.
Toward this end, Bush has appointed Admiral
William Fallon as the new head of Central
Command (CENTCOM) for the entire Middle East
Theater of Operations. The former Navy pilot
will oversee two ground wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan, as well as any American involvement
following Israel’s proxy attacks on Iran.
As Jeff Halper, an Israeli professor of
anthropology and Coordinator of the Israeli
Committee Against House Demolitions points out,
“Israel is a center of neocon ideology and
mobilization. Many of the founders of
neo-conservatism in the 1970s and most of its
prominent advocates today are [Zionists]. This
is not an irrelevant fact, nor is it
‘anti-Semitic’ to say so.”
Robert Parry worriedly observes that U.S. naval
strike forces currently steaming off Iran offers
“perhaps a last chance at achieving the regional
transformation that has been at the heart of
Bush’s strategy of ‘democratizing’ the Middle
East through [more] violence if necessary.”
Another source familiar with high-level thinking
in Washington and Tel Aviv believes that an
unstated reason for Bush’s troop surge is to
bolster Baghdad’s Green Zone in anticipation of
a mass uprising among Iraqi Shiites following
attacks on Iran by Israeli and American forces.
In addition to appointing a known “technocrat”
to head CENTCOM, Bush has also replaced
America’s top spy chief, John Negroponte with
retired Vice Admiral John McConnell.
Providing a “fail safe” for pressing home the
January 7 nuclear strike were three IAF F-16s.
“Only one needs to reach the target,” this
source explained. “Of the other two, one is to
take out resistance or hold hostage, the third
is backup.”
In a move that must have sent chills through
wintertime Europe, a pugnacious Putin has
reportedly informed EU leaders that he will
“pull the plug” on Russian oil and natural gas
shipments if Israel attacks Iran.
Heightening tensions, military exercises
involving Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and
Tajikistan forces were held in late August 2006.
At the same time, China and Kazakhstan held
joint “anti-terrorism” drills. That same month,
war games coordinating Russian, Chinese, CSTO
and Iranian forces took place throughout Iran.
Seeking further provocation with Teheran, on
January 11, 2007, U.S. forces stormed the
Iranian consulate in the northern Iraqi town of
Irbil, seizing six staff members, computers and
classified papers. Bush presaged the embassy
raid by pledging to take a hard line towards
Iran and Syria, whom he accused of
“destabilizing” a country plunged into anarchy
by the American occupation.
“ These war plans must be taken very seriously,”
warns Global Research director Michel
Chossudovsky. “The world is at the crossroads of
the most serious crisis in modern history. The
U.S. has embarked on a military adventure, a
long war, which threatens the future of
humanity. In the weeks ahead, it is essential
that citizens’ movements around the world act
consistently to confront their respective
governments and reverse and dismantle this
military agenda.”
This Canadian analyst further urges, “What is
needed is to break the conspiracy of silence,
expose the media lies and distortions, and
confront the criminal nature of the U.S.
Administration and of those governments which
support it.”
2. Aircraft Carrier Group www.maritimequest.com
3. Map of Iran and region www.fas.org
THE REVELATION TO JOHN
(Ch. 16 - 22) -- XVI --
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a In the original language, this word is plural.
b 1 talent is about 34 kilograms or 75 pounds
-- XVII --
BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
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-- XVIII --
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2) for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great
prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has
avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
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a In the original language, this word is plural.
b TR reads supper of the great God instead of great supper of God
----- -- XX --
14) Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death,
the lake of fire.
----- -- XXI --
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a The word for sorcerers here also includes users of potions and drugs.
b 12,012 stadia is about 2,221 kilometers or 1,380 miles. TR reads 12,000 stadia
instead of 12,012 stadia.
c 144 cubits is about 65.8 meters or 216 feet
d or, lapis lazuli
----- -- XXII --
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a TR adds pure
One of the main characteristics of America's
Neo-Conservative movement (although it seems to
have lost its momentum these days) with the
backing of Fundamentalist/"Evangelical"
Christians, is their total support of Israel
through the belief that contemporary Israel is
the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies and the
the U.S. must continue to support the State of
Israel, no matter what.
A large number of America's Fundamentalist
Christians and "Evangelicals", therefore,
believe that we are living in the "end-time"
period of God prophetic calendar. I think that
it is important to point out some of the
"end-time" scenarios as envisioned by the
supporters of this view.
Here is the typical order of prophetic events to
come, as outlined by many Fundamentalist
Christians and "Evangelicals" who hold on to the
so-called Pre-Millenial, Dispensationalist,
Pre-Tribulation viewpoints
1) THE EZEKIEL 38 SCENARIO
They seem to believe that this could easily
begin with the escalation of the Middle East
conflict, involving Israel. There is no doubt
in my mind that Iran and Syria will initially
play a major role in this conflict.
The Ezekiel 38 scenario includes the attempted
invasion into Israel by all Islamic forces (led
and orchestrated by the northern-most power,
i.e., Russia) and will conclude with a
miraculous Israeli victory.
They believe that it is suggested in the Bible
that it will take 7 years to bury the dead from
this unprecedented conflagration. (The U.S.
could be involved, directly or indirectly in
this conflagration, they explain).
2) THE APPEARANCE OF THE ANTI-CHRIST
According to their belief, the Ezekiel 38
scenario will conclude with the appearance of
the Anti-Christ who will create a Peace Treaty
between Israel and the Palestinians (and all
Islamic confederation).
(It was recently reported that Iran's
Ahmadinejad believes that he could be the one
that could be welcoming the coming, long-awaited
Islamic prophet, "Imam" - i.e., the
"Anti-Christ", to the Fundamentalist Christians)
3) THE RAPTURE
They say that the Ezekiel 38 scenario could also
conclude with the simultaneous disappearance of
millions of people from this earth, which will
result in total chaos, confusion and fear among
the global populace. This, they say, is the
"Rapture". It will be a mysterious, mass
"evacuation" of the believers to meet the Lord
in "mid-air". (The physical bodies will be
mysteriously and instantaneously converted to
celestial bodies). In other words, "born-again"
believers will be translated from one side to
the other side, i.e., from the earthly plane to
the heavenly dimension and will meet Jesus in
"mid-air".
The "Rapture" (from "raptare", to "snatch" away,
as in the eagle "snatching" away her baby when
danger comes and taking it away to a safer
location, etc.), is a supernatural event clearly
suggested in the Bible that has not happened yet
in the history of mankind, but will be certain
to happen, according to most of these pre-tribulationist/dispensationalist
believers.
It will be an inexplicable, instantaneous
disintegration of all atomic particles of each
of our cells of our tissues, i.e., the instant
conversion of our physical body into a
spiritual, celestial "body" which will be
swooshed up into "mid-air". In other words, they
believe that "in the twinkling of an eye", our
physical bodies will go through a mysterious
sudden transmogrification (a favorite word used
by John Keel) and will be lifted up to meet the
Lord in "mid-air". Our entire physical bodies
(the tissues, the cells will go through a
sudden, inexplicable atomic fission-type
transformation, they say.
They believe that the "Rapture" is a conduit
prepared by God for us to escape the coming
global wrath know as the Tribulation (comparable
to the days of Noah, when God safely placed a
few faithful believers in the ark first and then
caused the rain to downpour thereafter).
Pre-tribulationist/dispensationalists believe
that this unprecedented event will take place
simultaneously with the appearance (the
revealing) of the Anti-Christ. The Anti-Christ
will not be able to come to power until the
"body of believers" (together with the presence
of the Holy Spirit) is removed from this earth.
Only then, at that moment, can the Anti-Christ
come into power.
The "Rapture" will literally be a celestial
wedding, the union of the bride (the "church" or
the "body of believers") and the Groom (Jesus
Christ). This "wedding" celebration in the air
will last for 7 days, which could be equivalent
to 7 earthly years.
4) THE ANTI-CHRIST SUCCEEDS IN CALMING DOWN THE
STUNNED, CONFUSED AND FEAR-FILLED POPULACE
When the Anti-Christ appears on global emergency
TV news conference, many of these Fundamentalist
Christians say that he would calm down the
frightened people of the earth with his
ingenious, well-calculated explanation regarding
the sudden disappearance of millions of people
from the earth; this could be when "UFOs" are
brought up; the Anti-Christ could use some type
of "extraterrestrial" intervention explanation.
(By the way, in the U.S., the majority of the
so-called Fundamentalist, Evangelical Christians
hold on to the viewpoint that somehow the "UFO"
phenomenon is "Satanic" or "diabolical". These
groups seem to believe that "UFOs" will play a
major role in these future biblical prophecies.
Some theorists even believe that if a global
government of some sort is to be set up
intentionally (by force) in the future, there
are several ways to accomplish it. Creating wars
is one example, they say. Creating other series
of "crises" is another, such as manipulating
natural global catastrophes, or even creating
artificial ones. We all heard of the "ORDO AB
CHAOS" theory. They also point out that Henry
Kissinger at one time suggested that should the
world suddenly face an external threat (i.ei.,
from "outer space") whether REAL or PROMULGATED,
it would accelerate a cry for a global unified
government. They say that Ronald Reagan and
Gorbachev also had allegedly made such similar
remarks, that if the world is faced with such an
extraterrestrial threat, we will all forget our
differences and be united as one to defend this
earth from such threats. Can the "world
government" stage a deceptive,
"alien-contact-landing" scenario? If the secret
government were to stage such a fake,
"extraterrestrial" type of event, it would
definitely be beneficial to them if there
remains an adamant element of society who have
always believed in "UFOs" and "aliens"). In any
case, Fundamentalist, "Evangelical" Christians
seem to believe that somehow the Anti-Christ
will come up with a brilliant, convincing
explanation for the "Rapture" event and that
somehow, (supernaturally) the world will have a
sigh of relief by his explanation.
5) THE BEGINNING OF THE 7-YEAR TRIBULATION
PERIOD
That will be the beginning of the 7-year
Tribulation Period (i.e., the "New World Order"
of the Anti-Christ, the first half of which will
be relatively peaceful, and the second half of
which will be an iron-fisted rule of the
Anti-Christ, who will declare himself to be God
at mid-point).
6) THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON:
Towards the end of the 7th year, nations such as
Red China (and the rest of the "Kings of the
East") will challenge the dictatorship of
Anti-Christ's Europe-based New World Order and
will begin to cross the Euphrates and make a
move towards the valley of Megiddo.
This battle, the battle of Armageddon, will be
the final global battle.
During the climax of this battle, celestial
forces led by Jesus Christ (and accompanied by
those who had been "raptured") will descend and
will destroy all earthly forces.
7) A THOUSAND YEAR REIGN OF JESUS CHRIST FROM
ISRAEL
Jesus Christ will rule from Israel for a 1000
years. This is the Millennial Kingdom.
8) FINAL, MINOR REBELLION
At the end of the 1000 years, there will be a
minor rebellion by the descendants of those who
may have survived the Armageddon and continued
to procreate, thus having physical bodies. That
minor rebellion will be crushed by God.
9) THE FINAL JUDGMENT
This is the gist of the events to occur in the
near future, according to many of the so-called
Fundamentalist, Dispensationalist, Evangelical,
Pre-Millenial and Pre-Tribulational Christians.
Is this all wild, "science fiction"?
Maybe. But again, no one knows.
Does it hurt to believe in this "unbelievable"
scenario?
These "Evangelical" Christians seem to say that
it won't hurt at all to believe that such
scenarios could come true.
They say that they have nothing to lose by
believing in it even if it doesn't come true,
but everything to gain if it indeed takes place,
if one is a believer. Personally I subscribe to
this viewpoint
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKzi-CJT-0E
VIDEO
"And
the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son
of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of
Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal,
and prophesy against him, And say, Thus saith
the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,
the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal."
Ezekiel 38:1-3
"And
I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that
dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall
know that I am the Lord."
Ezekiel 39:6
Arriving on 666, a Prophetically Appropriate Date
While in Jerusalem, President Bush and
Prime Minister Olmert met with the press and referred to
several key dates approaching. March 20th would signal
the Jewish holy day of Purim, commemorating the
mass murder and genocide by the Jews of more than 75,000
Gentile "enemies" of Persia (Iran) in the days of the
Jews' Queen Esther. On May 8, Israel celebrates its 60th
anniversary. Finally, President Bush predicted that by
the end of his term in 2009 (2x9=18, translating again,
into that number 666), there will be a peace
treaty between the Palestinians and the Israelis. The
treaty will insure that the Palestinians will forever be
squeezed into their pitiful, apartheid, poverty-stricken
ghettos, while the victorious Jews enjoy the fruits of
their crimes, luxuriously living in an enlarged, Greater
Israel.
The Scroll of Bush, the first page of
which is pictured here, pompously claims to be
promulgated, "In the Name of the Lord, Eternal God."
Of course, this is not Jesus Christ, since the Jews hate
and despise Jesus Christ and brand him an illegitimate
bastard and blasphemer in their Judaic Holy Law, the
Talmud. Jesus himself said their "Lord" is, in fact, the
Devil!
The
Scroll of Bush identifying the U. S. President
as the "esteemed Mr. George W. Bush, the Chief
Prince of Meshech and Tubal (Ezekial 38:1)
Leader of the West!" (Click
to enlarge)
Bush Identified as Chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal
"Esteemed Mr. George W. Bush,
the Chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal (Ezekiel 38:1),
Leader of the West!"
President George W. Bush toasts Israeli Prime
Minister Olmert during a visit to Jerusalem
where Bush was presented the Scroll of Bush
honoring him as Chief Prince of Meshech and
Tubal; That makes Bush "Gog, of the land of
Magog."
"Magog" of Skull and Bones
Decades ago, as George Bush, Sr., lay
naked in a coffin, inside the bowels of the Tomb, the
macabre, mausoleum residence of the Order of Skull and
Bones, located next to the old town cemetery in New
Haven, Connecticut, his fellows performed a hellish
death ritual and raised George from his sarcophagus.
They gave him, as they do all initiates, a new name.
Hence more, George Herbert Walker Bush would secretly be
known by the Brotherhood as "Magog."
The
Tomb, the mausoleum-like dwelling of the 15
bonesmen chosen each year to become favored
alumni of the Order of Skull and Bones. Both
President George Bush, Sr. and his son,
President George W. Bush, were initiated into
this secret society. Each was given a secret
name and Senior Bush’s name was Magog.
The Unwise Haven't a Clue
"And he
said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed
up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall
be purified, and made white, and tried; but the
wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked
shall understand; but the wise shall understand."
Daniel 12:9-10
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REVELATION 9:16 - THE WARRIORS COMETH -
ARMEGEDDON
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million - Rev 9:16 - WWIII - 200 million ...
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Revelation 19 - War of Armegeddon
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himself above all that is called God, ...
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WWIII DATABASE
We are definitely on the verge of WWIII
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TERRORISM - WORLD TRADE CENTER - SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 . ...
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WORLD PEACE
Dreams of Lions · The Rider on the White
Horse · On The Beach · Nuclear Arms Talks · Rev.:9:16 Armegeddon
· World Peace 2000 . ...
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MARK OF THE BEAST
Revelation 19 - War of Armegeddon.
19 Then I saw the beast and the ... REVELATION 9:16 - THE
WARRIORS COMETH - ARMEGEDDON. 6:3 And when he had opened the
...
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THE ANTI-CHRIST
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HOLY GRAIL
Revelation 19 - War of Armegeddon.
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WARRIORS COMETH - ARMEGEDDON. DREAM OF A GIANT GRASSHOPPER ...
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NOSTRADAMUS
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ARMEGEDDON. Now, let me get back to my visions of the early morning
of July 3, 1999, only mere days before the ...
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BIBLE
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ARMEGEDDON. But before you say that, ... Revelation 19 - War
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THE WEAPONS OF THE SEA
We are definitely on the verge of WWIII
and Armegeddon. ... BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AND TERRORISM PREPAREDNESS
... civilian populations. ...
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IRAN
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Libya...Gomer, Togarmah which is modern Turkey will also ...
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INDIA
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ARMEGEDDON As we speak, there is threat of war between Pakistan and
India. ... They are ...
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WEAPONS OF WAR - REVELATIONS 9:13-21
Revelation 19 - War of Armegeddon
... While details of military action in this war are very few, ...
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TYRE AND KING SOLOMON'S TEMPLE
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ARMEGEDDON ... The third army will come from Ethiopia ...
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666
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(9) And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, ...
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LION OF JUDAH
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ARMEGEDDON. (5) And the governors of Judah shall say ...
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THE HORRORS OF WAR - PEACE AT ANY PRICE?
COMMERCIAL BABYLON is destroyed in Chapter
18. POLITICAL BABYLON is destroyed in Chapter 19 at Armageddon.
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ISRAEL MARRIAGE BOND
Revelation 19 - War of Armegeddon
... Notification of the coming ... REVELATION 9:16 - THE WARRIORS
COMETH - ARMEGEDDON ... away ungodliness from Jacob. ...
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