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| Map: East-Med Pipeline Agreement (EMPA) Proposed |
UPDATED 22 January 2022: The EastMed Pipeline Agreement (EMPA), known also as simply EastMed, is an agreement signed by Israel, Greece and Cyprus in Athens, Greece on 2 January 2020. The purpose of the agreement is to establish an approximately 1,243-mile long liquid natural gas (LNG) pipeline linking Israel's Leviathan and Cyprus' Aphrodite gas fields in their Eastern Mediterranean Sea Exclusive Economic Zone to landfall in Greece and from there to distribution to the rest of the European Union (EU). This pipeline would save the costs of transporting the Israeli and Cypriot LNG to the EU via LNG carrier ships after its forecast to go online in 2025.
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| The Current Israel LNG Export Map |
At this moment in early 2022, Israel's Leviathan and Tamar field LNG is transported via several existing pipelines directly to Israel, and from there through other existing pipeline to Egypt and Jordan. Egyptian and Jordanian pipelines and LNG terminals then distribute the LNG to the EU and other global customers (map directly above).
The Europeans are particularly edgy, and will remain so until warmer spring temperatures, with the Russia-Germany Nord Stream II gas pipeline at risk due to Russia aggressive activities against neighboring Ukraine and bordering NATO allies in the Baltic arena. Israel is rapidly increasing its LNG export capability and the EastMed pipeline will put its exports into high gear.
I had planned to compose this SITREP in one manner, but then and as always, God sent me in a different direction entirely. He pointed me to the prophet Habakkuk, and that direction soon led me to what follows. Prophetically, this topic has long had relevance due to the passages found in Ezekiel 38:10-13. For over a decade now eschatologists have anticipated and interpreted these prophetic sentences a means to Israel's acquiring great wealth in the last days.
One book in particular that was published in 2010, The Oil of Israel: Prophecy Being Fulfilled by John Brown, is essential reading, in faith, by all Christian true believers for its continued and exceptional relavance in this year and beyond. John Brown, as some may recall, founded Zion Oil and Gas based upon a vision he says God gave him 41 years ago (1981) about the discovery of oil and gas in Israel and the related prophecies in Scripture that will then rapidly come to fulfillment after the discoveries are made. A man of faith by the name of Jim Spillman figures prominently early on.
In 1983 John Brown went to Israel where he says God gave him direction via the Scripture of I Kings 8:41-43, which was then followed by II Chronicles 6:32-33. Then in 1985 God called on John to pursue the vision he'd been given full-time, and which he did by faith. Now, John Brown's vision has nothing to do with the aforementioned Leviathan and Tamar offshore gas fields. John Brown's vision is about onshore discovery in the Megiddo-Jezreel License (MZL), and the area of 99,000 acres to the southwest of the Sea of Galilee where Zion Oil and Gas, founded in the year 2000, is operating its wells.
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| Zion Oil and Gas MZL Exploration |
Has Zion Oil and Gas found oil and natural gas in the MZL? Yes, apparently it has. Israel Today reported in November 2021 that promising hydrocarbon tests of a well completed in 2017 in the MZL indicates, in accordance with God's prophetic promises about the restoration of Israel. The Ma'anit #1 wellbore in the MZL has a proven reserve of a minimum 484 million barrels of oil. But the best is yet to come, as oil deposits in Jezreel and in the Golan Heights have been found to have the potential for billions of barrels of oil, with the layer of the discovery being ten-times that found anywhere else on earth in all explorations thus far.
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| Ma'anit #1 Wellbore (Courtesy: Jenney) |
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| The Ma'anit #1 Dedication Plaque (Courtesy: Jenny) |
It should go without saying that many anti-Israel concerns are doing their level best to nay say the successes by Zion Oil and Gas and other petroleum concerns in Israel, their hateful reasoning is obvious. Yet eyes to the north, are envious and will yet come to their destruction at the Lord's appointed time. In the meantime the current LNG terminals in Egypt are shipping to the EU following the Israel-Egypt agreement in which Israel will sell $15 billion of its LNG to Egypt and deliver it via Israeli pipelines.
However, none of this is about the EU, America, Russia or Ukraine or any other peripheral thing. This is about God and His promises concerning the restoration of Israel. This entire saga goes back to the prophetic "Song of Moses" in Deuteronomy 32:13 where oil is drawn from the flinty rock, and Deuteronomy 33:24 where Asher's foot is dipped in oil. Zion Oil and Gas also has the Asher-Menashe License and Jordan Valley Licenses.
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| Zion Oil and Gas License Areas in Northern Israel |
Marana'tha!
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ReplyDeleteReading this post makes me wonder if the reason for the protest in Ezekiel 38:13 has anything to do with the covenant. Makes me wonder if the oil is somehow a part of the covenant. I never thought about that until I read this post this morning
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PRAISE GOD
DeleteThis subject is a tour d'force on how prophetic fulfillment is an ongoing process.
ReplyDeleteThe prophetic word was spoken by the LORD God in very ancient times to His prophets beginning with Moses.
Israel was born in a day in 1948 and 33 years later God spoke to a Christian man how he would teach Israel where and how He would bless them.
And here we are 41 years later witnessing in faith how those God-breathed promises of restoration and blessings of well over 3000 years ago are being manifest.
Yes indeed, Praise God!
We should be encouraged by this, God does not forget His promises and every one will be fulfilled.
ReplyDeleteWe, brothers and sisters, have among us one who has a direct connection with John Brown.
ReplyDeleteJennifer related her story to me and has agreed to share it with all of you.
"My husband and I first met John Brown in Texas in the early 2000s. Our love of Israel brought us together and made for very interesting conversations. He invited us to Israel for the dedication and blessing of the Ma’anot 7 (I’ll have to look up the name for certainty) Well dedication ceremony. It was an incredible experience. As a thank you for such an enormous gesture of our support, he gave us shares of Zion Oil and Gas and a copy of John Spillman’s book. He told us how he knew upon first reading it, it was his purpose. John is a very soft hearted and kind man. You’d never guess he would endeavor on such an enormous calling….like igniting the switch to Armageddon. I seem to remember he went through a bout of some major illness some years ago. He was probably in his 60’s when we first met him. I’ll bet he is in his 80s today. I remember asking if we could work in his Israeli office. He commuted several times a month.
I’ll never forget that day. I remember thinking “so this is how it starts.”
And this is how we all have now come just a little bit closer to prophecy being fulfilled before our eyes.
Praise the Lord.