ChemWar Exercise "Turning Point 4" Concludes in Israel

28 May 2010: Last evening Israel National News published a photo essay of images taken during Israel's nation-wide and just concluded Chemical War (ChemWar) exercise codenamed "Turning Point 4." These images are indeed each worth a thousand words, but more than than that they appear to be a real-world preview of the coming war.

I believe these images strongly resonate with the prophetic words of Isaiah 17. The prophetic words of verse 11b "in the day of sickness and incurable pain" which I've long held in exegesis as a reference to a coming ChemWar attack on Israel by her enemies to the north. This coming attack results in the utter annihilation of Damascus as well as the fulfillment of Psalm 83 and Joshua 13:1-7, among others.

Obama’s Fecklessness the Cause of Iranian Nuclear Genocide

“And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in security in the coastlands. Then they shall know that I am the LORD." Ezekiel 38:6

18 May 2010: When the coming series of wars erupts in the Middle East between Israel and her many enemies, the blame for the cause of this war can be hung around the collar of U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama and his feckless political agenda.

There is now nothing short of decisive Israeli military action to keep the apocalypse-oriented Islamic Republic of Iran from indigenously developing nuclear weapons. Iranian possession of nuclear weapons all but assures nuclear genocide on a scale no rational human being can possibly imagine.

The only remaining questions I have are:

1.) When and how robustly will Israel strike Iran?

2.) Will the Lord hold America responsible?

See this Wall Street Journal OpEd for full details.

Psalm Buried in Bog Soil Predicts Promised Land Warzone!

14 May 2010: What is Bible prophecy and what does it predict next? Bill Salus warns an ancient Psalm buried for centuries under Irish bog soil predicts the Promised Land will soon turn into a HOLY WARZONE!

Bill is interviewed on Southern California’s largest Christian radio station, KBRT 740 AM, about the importance of Bible Prophecy in these last days. In part one Bill discusses the potential prophetic relevance of the mysterious discovery of Psalm 83 buried in Ireland. The Psalm predicts the coming of a holy war between the Arabs and the Jews. Additionally, Bill locates terrorism and the Israeli Defense Forces in Bible prophecy.

Click HERE to go to Bill's ProphecyDepot.com website for Parts I & II of this series and much more, or click HERE for the MP3 of Part I and HERE for Part II.

UPDATED: The Syrian Missile Crisis: Threat of War Very Real

UPDATE 14 May 2010: Yet another real-world indicator relating to why all of Lebanon is likely to be taken by Israel in the coming Psalm 83/Isaiah 17 war (according to the associated Joshua 13:1-7 prophecy) has been reported in the mainstream TIME Magazine. Here is an excerpt (emphasis added):

"Israel vows it will use far greater force in the next war and will treat the Lebanese state — in whose government Hizballah has a major role — as the enemy, rather than just the Shi'ite militia, a prospect that frightens many Lebanese."

A second interesting excerpt along these same lines comes from the very end of an IsraelNationalNews.com report which cites yet another Kuwaiti Al-Rai report which, in turn, cites "Western sources" and suggests a specific timing and first course-of-action for the start of this next war (emphasis added):

"Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti Al-Rai newspaper claimed several days ago that Western sources told it that "Israel will wage war the minute it discovers the whereabouts of Nasrallah's hideout whatever the time or circumstances," Nasrallah, the anti-Semitic head of Hizbullah, has mostly been in hiding since the Second Lebanon War."

UPDATE 5 May 2010: Yesterday Israel's Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee received a very disconcerting situation report (SITREP) from Brigadier General Yossi Baidatz, the chief of the Research Division of the IDF's military intelligence (MI) division. BG Baidatz' told the Knesset, “Weapons transfers to Hizbullah from Syria are carried out in a regular manner and are arranged by the Syrian and Iranian regimes. Therefore this should not be termed 'weapons smuggling to Lebanon' – it is an organized, officially sanctioned process.”

He went on to say (emphasis added), "The long range of Syria's Scuds makes it possible for them to position their missiles deep inside Lebanon, and they cover much longer ranges than what we were familiar with in the past. Hizbullah Model 2010 is different from Hizbullah Model 2006 as far as military capability, which has greatly developed.” "Deep inside Lebanon" is another way of saying "strategic depth." This statement may be the strongest yet real-world indicator of why all of Lebanon is to be taken by Israel in the coming war according to Joshua 13:1-7.

UPDATE 27 April 2010: Israel National News has an ominous banner headline this morning: "Syrian-Turkish Joint Army Drill Intensifies Threat to Israel." A key early sentence in this report notes something which might appear to some, particularly non-Messianic Jews, as being a foreshadowing of the Ezekiel 38/39 Gog/Magog confederation: "Turkey also has established closer ties with Iran, and an Iranian-Turkish-Syrian-Lebanese axis would pose a monolithic threat to Israel from the north."

Since Israel, for the most part, remains under "the terms of the covenant the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb," and which gave them an unperceiving heart, blind eyes and deaf ears relative to the accurate interpretation of Biblical prophecy - Deuteronomy 29:4; Isaiah 29:10 and Romans 11:25 inclusive - the Jews today are to be forgiven for any prophetic misinterpretation of current events or things as they may appear to be unfolding as intimated in the above quoted sentence. Gog/Magog will occur after the war of Psalm 83 and Isaiah 17.

Another key sentence which catches my attention is this report is this one (emphasis added): "Syrian sources told the Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai that if Israel were to attack the Lebanon-based Hizbullah terrorist army, Syria would impose a naval blockade on Israel, using ground-to-sea missiles."

The distance from southern most Syria to northernmost Israel is the same as that of the entire north-south dimension of Lebanon along its Mediterranean coastline - a distance of 140 miles. Given the specificity of the Syrian blockade threat to use ground-to-sea missiles, I must note that Syria is not known to possess any such "ground-to-sea" cruise missile. Syria possesses old Russian-made ship-to-ship cruise missiles (SS-N-2C (Styx) and SS-N-3b (Sepal)). Accordingly, short of deploying the entire Syrian naval fleet to Lebanese coastal waters, Syria must have quietly acquired a far more advanced naval cruise missile capability from either Iran, Russia or North Korea, or has deployed into Lebanon batteries of C-802 cruise missiles acquired from Iran.

Hmmm, purely speculation on my part, but what ever happened to the rumored clandestine cruise missile cargo on board the allegedly hijacked Russian vessel MV Arctic Sea seven months ago? Might Syria have received some Russian-made tactical purpose Kh-65E anti-shipping cruise missiles? Is this one of the "surprises" Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has told the Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai are store for Israel?

The Syrian's also inherently threaten the non-combatant commercial shipping interests of many nations sailing the crowded waters of the Eastern Mediterranean. This threat is consistent with, and was probably crafted with or inspired by Iranian threats relative to the Strait of Hormuz at the head of the Persian Gulf.

UPDATE 26 April 2010: Additional research reveals that the SS-1C Scud-B ballistic missiles that Israel has declared were transferred from Syria to Lebanon may in fact be the Syrian-made M-600 ballistic missile system. The two systems are remarkably similar, if not identical, in their physical appearance. Compare the new image above of the Syrian M-600 missile with original image below it of a Scud-B. According to a pair of Naharnet reports from 14 January 2010, not only have these Syrian M-600s been transfered to Hezbollah, they were declared operational by Israeli defense sources. In fact, some of the exact same wording from the recent reports cited below occurs within the above linked January reports. It would appear from the recent reports that Israel's government has served its final warning to both Syria, Lebanon and Hezbollah, and by extension, to Iran and the world at-large.

19 April 2010: An update today from National Review Online authored by Elliott Abrams. Bottom line excerpt which we agree with, and which yesterday's statement by SECSTATE Hillary Rodham Clinton might be directly related:

"Some people believe that sending a U.S. ambassador to Syria, for the first time since 2005, will be useful, because he will be able to deliver messages to the Assad regime. But the best message we could send right now does not require an ambassador in Damascus, just clarity in Washington: Sending SCUDs to Hezbollah will not be tolerated, and Israeli military actions taken to prevent it will have full American support."

16 April 2010: The threat of a regional war involving Syria, Lebanon, Hezbollah and Israel is more ominous today that it has been at any time since the end of the brief summer war of 2006. The hair-trigger this time involves the reported Syrian delivery of WMD-capable SS-1C "Scud-B" ballistic missiles (like the one seen above) or, according to anonymous Israeli sources the SS-1E "Scud D," to the Shi'a terrorist organization Hezbollah in Lebanon.

On Tuesday, 13 April 2010, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak went public in confirming the stunning news that the governments of Syria and Lebanon were in blatant and deliberate violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 which brought a tenuous end to the Israel-Hezbollah war of July-August 2006. The bombshell news first reported by the Kuwaiti Al-Rai news agency was that Syria was in the process of transferring Scud ballistic missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Item 8 of UNSCR 1701 called for "no sales or supply of arms and related materiel to Lebanon except as authorized by its Government," and Item 14 called for "the Government of Lebanon to secure its borders and other entry points to prevent the entry in Lebanon without its consent of arms or related materiel," and Item 15(a) which decided "all States shall take the necessary measures to prevent, by their nationals or from their territories ... The sale or supply to any entity or individual in Lebanon of arms and related materiel of all types, including weapons and ammunition, military vehicles and equipment, paramilitary equipment, and spare parts for the aforementioned, whether or not originating in their territories; and 15(b) The provision to any entity or individual in Lebanon of any technical training or assistance related to the provision, manufacture, maintenance or use of the items listed in subparagraph (a) above..."

With the reported transfer of Scud ballistic missiles and the training in Syria of Hezbollah troops on the operation and maintenance of these weapons Syria has been caught red-handed and in clear war-provoking violation of UNSCR 1701. The government of Lebanon shares in culpability due to its obvious complicity in the arming and training of Hezbollah's forces due to its failure to control its national territory and borders. This is the most egregious violation of UNSCR 1701 to date, as evidenced by the wholesale re-arming of Hezbollah with even more advanced weapons (such as Syrian-made M-600 rockets and Russian-made Igla-S MANPADS) by Iran, Syria and possibly North Korea during the past 3 years and 7 months, and constitutes a rock-solid casus belli for Israel to immediately begin pre-emptively striking the missiles, and fixed targets related to the weapons transfer and associated training facilities in both Lebanon and Syria. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad bears the lion's share of personal responsibility for provoking the threat of a regional war which could very rapidly escalate to a large-scale exchange of weapons of mass destruction in the Levant.

While rumors continue to circulate in major world capitals that the Syrian's transferred top-of-the line SS-1E Scud-D (50 meter CEP) missiles to Hezbollah, no proof of has yet been made public to confirm the rumor. These missiles would give Hezbollah the capability to act as a proxy for Iran in launching a preemptive or retaliatory strike against Israel's Dimona nuclear complex should Israel strike Iranian nuclear targets in the near term. Sans photographic or human intelligence proof of the Scud variant transferred to Hezbollah, my assessment is that Syria sent the SS-1C Scud-B variant to Hezbollah. Scud-Bs are 1960s-era missiles (obsolete for a modern army), and they would suit Hezbollah better because they're very much a weapon of terror with a 900 meter CEP (Circular Error Probable). Scud-B can carry a thickened VX gas chemical warhead. As with a tossed grenade - close is good enough.

In either case, once Israel confirms Hezbollah's possession of Scud missiles and their operational status vice a malicious ruse of inoperable missile shells, an imminent series of strategic strikes by Israel would be virtually assured. Should these strikes occur, as I believe they will, then this will likely become a war of widespread WMD use per Isaiah 17:4-11, followed by a rapid escalation into the fulfillment of Psalm 83, Joshua 13:1-7 and Zechariah 9.

Today we should enjoy the calm before the storm, a storm which lies a hair's breadth distance between the current relative calm and full-scale war.

Notes on the Latter Years Wars

12 May 2010: Here are some brief notes regarding eschatological issues I have noticed more than a few brethren have been asking questions about concerning the series of imminent latter years wars.

During the Psalm 83/Isaiah17 (and associated prophecies) war, Israel does take an initial hit on its population, but it is not a devastating or incapacitating hit. Nor is it a hit which destroys the county's national infrastructure. This soon-to-be fact is manifest by the Lord in Ezekiel 38/39. Shortly thereafter the war of Psalm83/Isaiah17 the Lord declares that Israel has recovered from this war and is in possession of great wealth. The Word of God came upon Ezekiel describing Israel in the post-Psalm83/Isaiah 17 reality, saying: (bold emphasis added)

Ezekiel 38:8
In the latter years you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered from many people on the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they were brought out of the nations, and now all of them dwell safely.

Ezekiel 38:11-13
You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’— to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land. Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, and all their young lions will say to you, ‘Have you come to take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’”’

Notice in the above verses that Israel is living in complete safety. Israel has zero fear of any nuclear-armed or WMD-possessing enemy, not newly Islamist Turkey, not Shi'ite Iran under the Ayatollah and IRGC, nor Russia under KGB/FSB rule, nor any of the nations of the named Gog/Magog confederation. Is this not indicative of Israel becoming a superpower? In a type-contrast, did not the United States homeland continually live in peace and safety after WWII, until very recent times, due to our overwhelming military and economic superiority? This will almost pale in comparison to what Israel achieves in the near-term due to the sovereign will of God.

Also, notice in Ezekiel 39:21-29 the specific God-given purposes for which this prophetic and ultimate judgment against the Gog/Magog confederation will occur prior to Daniel's 70th Week.

“I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment which I have executed, and My hand which I have laid on them. So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day forward. The Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore I hid My face from them. I gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have dealt with them, and hidden My face from them.""

“Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name— after they have borne their shame, and all their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, when they dwelt safely in their own land and no one made them afraid. When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and I am hallowed in them in the sight of many nations, then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, who sent them into captivity among the nations, but also brought them back to their land, and left none of them captive any longer. And I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord GOD.”

Brethren, none of us should make any eschatological mistake about these events and what follows them in relatively short order, including our own imminent Harpazo. The prophetic fact of that matter is that Daniel's 70th Week is Satan's and his demons direct intervention in human affairs, centered on Israel and Jerusalem's Temple Mount, in an attempt to physically destroy all of that which God has just accomplished through Psalm 83/Isaiah 17 and Ezekiel 38/39.

Daniel's 70th Week is brought to an end with the full and indescribably majestic Revelation of Jesus our God and Messiah to the whole world.

Banana Republic

11 May 2010: I never thought I'd live to see the day that the United States of America could be so easily compared to the primary factors which define the generic "banana republic." In case you were unaware, a banana republic is defined as being a country which is politically unstable, dependent on limited agriculture, and ruled by a small, self-elected, wealthy, and corrupt clique.

Sound familiar? I thought so too. And after I exhausted all of the apropos comic relief that definition elicited, the reality of it hit home, as well it should. Everything in this world seems to have been turned upon its head: indecency, vulgarity are accepted and common place, wrong is right, criminals and terrorists are celebrated, insane is sane, and the United States of America, now more than ever before, resembles a garden variety Banana Republic than its Constitutional Republic doppelganger.

Case in point. Late next month Lamb & Lion Ministries is hosting it's "Defending the Faith" Bible Prophecy Conference in Allen, Texas. For the second successive time our brother in the Lord, Donald Dolmus, a citizen of Nicaragua (again under the Marxist regime of president Daniel Ortega), has been flatly denied the eight-day non-immigrant visa required by our State Department to attend this Bible conference. Apparently the United States Government is convinced once again, despite all of the concrete and considerable evidence to the contrary, that Donald intends to abandon his loving wife and young son, their home, his job in the banking industry, and all of the stability they have established in Managua, Nicaragua to escape into the burgeoning socialist utopia being erected in the United States by our current usurper president and leftist Congress. Who, pray tell, in their right mind would want to do that? Unbelievably, the United States government fervently believes it.

Of course it is no problem for this same U.S. State Department to repeatedly issue non-immigrant visas to the likes of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Hugo Chavez who come here to trash this nation and our Israeli ally with regularity. But Donald is rejected the same non-immigrant visa by the US government because he wants to attend, by invitation, a Bible conference. Am I splitting hairs here? Well, mind you, this is the same United States government which refuses to enforce the "on the books" laws to secure our borders from illegal immigration and simultaneously severely criticizes the State of Arizona's new immigration law, which was enacted specifically because the Obama Administration refuses to execute it's duty to secure our borders. Moreover, this government is even attempting the process whereby illegal aliens in the United States are offered blanket amnesty of their criminal acts.

What's wrong with this picture? Too much irrational and illogical nonsense to keep the blood pressure down, that's for sure. So, I move on, more galvanized than before to do what can be done to change things in the next election, to defend the faith, and believe that the Lord's will is being done. There's always next year and many months until then to fight the good fight.

The Psalm 83 Revealing: Coincidence or Providence?

UPDATE 31 March 2010: I read Jack Kinsella's latest article earlier today and it really struck a spiritually resonant chord. The spiritually resonant chord aspect is that I have not heretofore considered that the Harpazo of the Bride of Christ could actually be a part of the Lord's judgment upon the United States for our abandonment of Israel. I have always believed that the Harpazo would have a devastating effect on the United States, but that devastation never rang a bell with me with respect to Divine judgment. The Harpazo has always been an imminent, signless event tied to a certain season of the Fig Tree. That season is undoubtedly upon us. Maranatha.

Please read Jack Kinsella's Brits Abandon 'Special Relationship' with America

25 March 2010: Isralestine author Bill Salus' blog Prophecy Newstand has a new must read article "The Psalm 83 Revealing: Coincidence of Providence." You'll also find a link to both of Bill's blogs in the 'Favorite Links' list to the right. In this new blog article Bill Salus references the 2006 Hezbollah-Israel war as an on-going, real-time reminder from the Lord that the literal fulfillment of the Psalm 83 prophecy in the very near future is an imminent probability.

As readers of the Northeast Intelligence Network website, the NEIN Blog and this Eschatology Today blog are by now well aware, I absolutely agree with Bill Salus' brilliant, in-depth exegesis on this subject. The same Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) dwells within and speaks the same prophetic truths to all of us.

On 9 February 2007, just six months after the end of the 2006 war, I wrote a short article on the NEIN website entitled "Lebanon, Syria & Israel: The Coming War." In that article I detailed the previously unthinkable attack upon an Israel Defense Forces armored unit by the Lebanese Army at the outset of the war. At the moment of the Lebanese Army attack upon the IDF armored unit all Israeli units were on Israel's side of the Blue Line, which is to say that the IDF had not crossed into Lebanese territory but was conducting necessary operations on sovereign Israeli territory. The Lebanese Army commander had been expressly assured by the IDF commander that he had no intention of crossing the border. Yet the impotent and virtually useless Lebanese Army lay in waiting, fully prepared to ambush the IDF armored unit which had no choice but to clear Hezbollah-placed landmines on Israel's soil. This war began as a cleverly designed trap, an ambush, a kidnapping. The government and military of Lebanon were full participants in it.

Media reports ever since have made reference to that 2006 war as the Hezbollah-Israel war, yet the war was also fought directly between the Lebanese Army and the IDF. Moreover, I have subsequently been convinced that the Lebanese Army acted as a force multiplier for the Iranian and Syrian equipped Hezbollah forces. I knew three years ago that what we had just been witness to was a preview of the coming Psalm 83 war prophecied by Aspah over 3,000 year ago. I concluded my article saying, "There is war coming to this border region, a very big war is coming. Iran and Syria with their terrorist proxies are spoiling for a very big war. I see no other tactical explanation which makes an iota of sense."

There is a very high probability that Psalm 83 war is about to erupt and we will yet again be witness to the literal fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Sadly, this will be a war in which America under the Obama Administration will abandon and betray our long-time Israeli ally. In a few hours I will be posting additional details on the specific intelligence items we have collected which forecast such a betrayal.

Conclusion:

The full range of current events in this region is viewed as a whole by this author as constituting severe indications and warnings that the Psalm 83 war is an imminent probability. Whether the spark is a clash on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, or another missile-borne provocation coming from Hezbollah or HAMAS on Damascus’ or Tehran’s directive is probably immaterial because this next war will be a war that includes all of Israel’s enemies coming against her simultaneously, from without and from within. And unlike all the previous wars between Israel and its neighboring Muslim Arab enemies of the past 60 years, in this war it appears very likely that America will betray its Israeli ally and side with the Arabs. This is the unfortunate and entirely avoidable situation we are in at this time, a situation which until very recently has been festering quietly in small newspaper snippets buried deep in the back pages of newspapers. Yet nothing is more important to America’s future well-being than what this nation does in this war. For when it comes to modern day Israel the blessing or curse promised by the God of Abraham in Genesis 12:3 is in full effect.

Make no mistake, what is presently occurring between the State of Israel and the United States of America is quite different that what is being described in the global lame-stream media as constituting a “rift” or a “crisis,” or as being “strained” or even as “heightened tensions.” No, what is occurring now is nothing less than the execution of a long-planned, intricately manipulated betrayal of Israel by the godless Western elite, the "Global Oligarchy," as orchestrated through the socialist regime currently occupying the White House.

Over the past year Northeast Intelligence Network Director Doug Hagmann had a series of conversations with a former highly-placed U.S. intelligence official which were reported in a series of articles on this website between December 2008 and March 2009. All of these articles contain information vital to the future of the nation, particularly if the pace of events in the Middle East allows us to reach the November 2010 mid-term election and rectify and impending Divine judgment and disaster on America. The first was “US Intelligence Official About Israel: This is just the beginning” which was followed by the second installment titled “The Coming War.” The phrase we were advised by that intelligence officer to keep in keen focus was “malicious intelligence” and which was to be viewed as integral with the actions of our own government in withdrawing our long-standing support of Israel.

The details I found most disturbing, and have kept front and center in my mind since their publication last March, were contained in Doug’s article entitled “The US Abandonment of Israel.” The detailed statements from the former intelligence officer are imperative reading in light of the events and news reports of the past week primarily due to their stunning, off-the-chart accuracy. In expounding upon a statement that something worse than mere American abandonment of its alliance with Israel would be forthcoming the intelligence officer added that the Obama Administration would provide more financial and military support to Israel’s enemies and would undercut Israel’s defensive efforts while simultaneously “pushing Israel to succumb to the pressure of unreasonable demands designed to end with their political annihilation as a nation.” In the past two weeks this is exactly, precisely what the Obama Administration has done to Israel. There is every indication these efforts will continue unabated and inevitably increase over time.

It cannot be possibly be any clearer at this juncture, the administration of Barack Hussein Obama has a clearly defined pro-Muslim anti-Israel agenda and only “We the People” stand between it and a future no voting American parent wants for his or her children or grandchildren. Moreover, no American wants to stand before God and give account on why he or she failed to bless Israel in her greatest time of need.