GOVERNMENTS: PART I: WHEN WAR IS NOT A GAME
BANE – SWAN SONG LYRICS
Today won't be like yesterday
The bell tolls for an hour straight
Screaming mothers chase their children down
Fathers tear out their eyes
As the city topples to the ground
Outside the streets are in a panic
Truth sellers leap from tall, tall ledges
No sign of Christ with a sword in his mouth
Beneath the blood red sky I'll sit and laugh with you tonight
This is a promise I made to you
I'll be right there
I'll be right next to you
When the trumpets blare the loudest and cannons roar
All the trains that once came for you
Spill off the tracks floor
All your horrors they multiply
And you realize your fears
I'll block your ears with both of my hands
Kiss away the tears
When the Armageddon's been locked and loaded
I will come back for you...
Those are lyrics from a punk band's song and I would run the song but more than a few of you would likely be offended by the sound. Still, pursue those lyrics just a little. The author knows something about Scripture with the reference to trumpets which appear in Revelation 8-9 and the sword in Christ's mouth from Rev. 19:14-15. He calls the end times Armageddon perhaps not knowing that is actually the name of the valley where the last great battle takes place.
To that writer, two things: holding her hand isn't worth an eternity of suffering no matter how good a time you have and you won't be saved if you are still there when the the trumpets start to sound, and second, this is the important part, you probably WON'T be here for her til the end or at the end. Life isn't a cheap romance novel or a bad b-movie. You or she will likely get killed long before Armageddon happens.
In other words, plans we make based on our personal godhood are not plans at all. They are fantasy.
As we proceed, we need to first realize that many don't see Russia as the King of the North or even China as the 200 million man army. Shoebat,com pretty much sums up one of the arguments against what we have talked about:
In other words, plans we make based on our personal godhood are not plans at all. They are fantasy.
As we proceed, we need to first realize that many don't see Russia as the King of the North or even China as the 200 million man army. Shoebat,com pretty much sums up one of the arguments against what we have talked about:
We Can Already See Who Are The 200 Million Man Army That Will Invade Israel
by Shoebat Foundation on September 25, 2014 in Featured, General
By Walid Shoebat (Shoebat Exclusive)
Will Israel someday cry out “The two hundred million Chinese are coming”?
Perhaps they will cry out “The Russians are coming”?
While such an army of 200 million will definitely include Chinese, but it will not be China and while it will definitely include nations that were part of Russia, it will not be Russia.
And we are already seeing the nations working to unite whose armies constitute even more than 200 million man army. But the enemies who are preparing to come against Jerusalem will deny the Trinity and will all be Muslim.
All we need to know to see this is to look at the political earthquakes and see the new fault lines that are already being drawn.
Here, let me explain everything, but I do need your keen eye and your patience, so forget the football and the popcorn for a change.
First of all, today the U.S., Russia, and China, like Israel, all have Islamic terrorism problems. They’re all fighting the same enemies – Islamic ideologues who seek a global caliphate based in Turkey. Just keep your eyes on the flags (see photo below) of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow (Revelation 19:17).
Erdogan supporters
With Russia, Chechens have been openly fighting them for centuries. When it comes to China, that country has seen an increase in Muslim Uyghur aggression after the fall of the Soviet Union. And this week, we see in China the Uyghur Muslims heeding the call announced by the bastard child of the neo-Ottoman Turks, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Caliph of ISIS carrying out what the neo-Ottoman Turks want – a Caliphate that will dwarf al-Baghdadi’s version.
When it comes to the Ottoman Caliphate that the Turks wish to resurrect, the Turk set his eye on northwestern China using the Uyghur in the Xinjiang Province which is east of Turkestan as was just reported by the Chinese news report.
Turkey’s Erdogan and Davutoglu even visited the Uyghurs in Xinjiang / East Turkistan prepping it to secede from China. In fact, relations between Ankara and Beijing deteriorated after riots broke out in 2009 after the Uighurs began to genocide ethnic Han Chinese in Urumqi and the Chinese government cracked down and rightfully so.
Whoever said that the “200 million man army” comes only from China, has cataract. The Almighty had designed us with two eyes for a reason so that perhaps that if one fails, the other eye can see more clearly.
While cataract is easily healed, the one infected eye failed to see that its not China that is coming right next to the Uyghur’s Xinjiang, but Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, each borders China and are all home to the Turkish-influenced Uyghurs. Ironically, there is a Uyghur presence in Afghanistan as well.
The Muslim Uyghurs revived their Islamist aspirations as a direct result of the political earthquake in Russia when former Soviet satellite countries split that bordered China after declaring independence from Russia. In fact, the rise of Islamic terror attacks in China seemed to coincide with the fall of the Soviet Union which has reverted to Christian Orthodoxy after the fall of Communism.
Today it is becoming more obvious that people with cataract couldn’t see well and switched everything upside down; nations that seem to have finally stood up to Islamic tyranny are painted as Gog and Antichrist while Muslim nations that deny Father and Son slipped away unscathed or were rendered as a minor player by the pen of Prophecy buffs.
China (which in the past suffered tremendously from Japan and Islam by Ottomans and the Xinjiang Uighur Muslims) were portrayed to be the armies of the kings of the east in Revelation regardless that China has rarely expressed a warlike attitude.
It was only beginning from the 16th century that the cataract began when some European prophecy buffs proposed the idea that the Russian Muscovites are involved as Gog saying that Moscow stemmed from Meshech. This started with Sir Walter Ralegh (English aristocrat, c. 1616) who attributes this opinion to Philipp Melanchthon, German reformer (1497–1560) who collaborated with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation and to Benito Arias Montano (1571), a Spanish orientalist which later, the error was also followed by Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), a theologian.
And as it is the norm, that theologians all of the sudden becoming historians added to the fray. Even worse, they claimed that “Moscow” (Moskva) was founded by King Mosokh son of Japheth (i.e. Meshech) which turns out to be a legend that first appeared in the Kievan Synopsis (1674).
As I stated before, to have theologians perform brain surgery, the patient will end up with a lobotomy. Why not believe Sr. Henry Rawlinson, the Father of Assyriology who outrightly rejects the idea that “Moschi” (Meshech) is Moscow:
Some have found in the Moshci the founders of Moscow, the ancestors of the present Muscovites. But this identification has no historical or ethnological basis, resting wholly on the similarity of the names. (Rawlinson, The Origin of Nations, p. 179, f) (For more on this click here)
(Please note that the arguments for Russia are based on it being the direct Northern neighbor of Israel which is not a legend and based on the current massive evidence in favor. This position, as you can see, was taken BEFORE Rjssian plans became perfectly clear. W)
When we think of etymology on Gog, Meshech and Tubal, we need to stop thinking Russia, but think “Gygez”, Esarhaddon (681-668 BC) records his defeat of the Gimirrai, while King Ashurbanipal tells us in his records of the Cimmerian invasion of Lydia (Turkey) in the days of the Lydian king Gugu (Gygez, Gogaz) around the year 660 BC. This is the same general period that Ezekiel was writing his prophecy. In fact, the first mention of the term “Turk” which remains to this day, was by the Gokturks (GogTurk) in the 6th century. A letter by the Chinese Emperor written to the Göktürk khan named Isbara in 585 describes him as “the Great Turk khan”. The Orhun inscriptions from the same time use the term “Turuk”.
Meshech and Tubal is not Moscow and Tobolsk as theologian (not historian), C.I Scofield claimed, but is Mushki and Tubalani in Asia Minor (Turkey) as supported by real historians who etched their expert views in the Oxford Bible Atlas, Moody, McMillan, Encyclopedia of Bible Lands and others… All these are Muslim.
(And as we know, historians are always the best when discuss Bible topics. Herodotus comes to mind. :) W)
The self-proclaimed Prophecy book-sellers had rudimentary knowledge of biblical hermeneutics and rarely even looked into the Uighur or Ottoman history failing to even read that it was the Turkic Nations who were the foremost in God’s warning which include nations such as Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan:
(All of which, save Turkey, were parts of the USSR. Linking them ti Russia as well as Islam. W)
“There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living. And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.” (Ezekiel 32:26-27)
(This chapter of Zeke concerns EGYPT and it's conquest by Nebuchadnezzar during the rise of Babylon. Neb is actually named in 30:10. It addresses Pharaoh not Antichrist although Pharaoh was seen as a TYPE of Antichrist in the story of Moses as we mentioned extensively in an earlier post. This particular section concerns the fall of all Egypt's allies with them and of other nations falling to Babylon and their eternal fate trapped just outside in the pit. W.)
This is a major declaration, these nations will be buried around Antichrist “her graves are round about him” and they are terrorist states “they caused their terror in the land of the living”.
Today the snow is melting and many are healed from the prophecy cataract and the world is forging some strange alliances. The whole earth is being paved for the coming of the Antichrist, and the New Crusade that will commence, but this time, it will be lead by Christ. So many think that when Christ appears, its “poof” and all is done and the Antichrist with his armies are all consumed in an instant and the world rests at last.
Not so.
(Okay I must point out that it is true in the Bible though the Great White throne judgement of the lost awaits after the Millennium. As we have pointed out. One misstep can lead down a lo g wrong path sometimes. W.)
Christ will initially even correct heresy and confirm proper theology when He confronts Islam with the truth about the Trinity.
Difficult to believe?
Why else does He even address the Harlot’s religion regarding the Trinity in Isaiah 48, and by that He will even clear the Catholic from the utter slander that he follows a harlot religion?
Speaking to this Harlot “Lady of Kingdoms” and in a challenge to Islam, the Lord Jesus Christ declares what Islam denies; His part in the Trinity:
“Come near to Me, hear this; I have not spoken in secret, from the beginning; From the time that it was, I was there, And now the Lord God and His Spirit Have sent Me” (Isaiah 48:16).
In one solid verse, we see that,
“From the time that it was (from the beginning was The Word), I (God the Son) was there; and now the Lord God (The Father) and His Spirit (The Holy Spirit) Have sent Me (The Son).”
Get it?
(Yes, and so did the Apostles writing of this centuries later recording Him saying similar things during his Incarnation. W.)
But this is not just a simple announcement by God in the Bible and it is not simply a declaration on correct theology for all times etched in the past, its a prophecy (as the Bible as a whole is) since ancient Israel. The context is crystal clear, Jesus is addressing His speech to Israel and to Mystery Babylon:
“All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.” (Isaiah 48:14)
(This was fulfilled when the Meads felled Babylon during Daniel's time, something Daniel also predicted as well as the writing hand. Apparently those historians don't realize not every prophecy is unfulfilled in End Times anymore than every one HAS been fulfilled, something a theologian like Scofield does understand. Babylon was destroyed, but not, as Revelation qualifies it "utterly destroyed." And Babylon was not necessarily the founder of Islam so much as the founder of love of money. W.)
He will do his pleasure on Babylon - He will accomplish all his desire on that city; that is, he will take, and subdue it. The word 'his' here, may refer either to Cyrus or to Yahweh. Probably it means that Cyrus would do to Babylon what would be pleasing to Yahweh.
God is clarifying His nature and attributes that they have denied: The Trinity which it was the Catholic who deduced from Scripture as major theology in which the Protestant also inherited as solid truth. And “His Arm,” is the Messiah, see Isaiah 53, “to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed” who was the suffering servant, revealed as Messiah and “the Arm of the Lord” in several passages in end-time context in which His Arm (Christ) will judge the whole of Arabia (Babylon):
“… thus Says the Lord GOD; ‘I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman [Yemen]; and they of Dedan [Arabia] shall fall by the sword’” (Ezekiel 25:12-13).
It is amazing that few Westerners see the context of this—how the Messiah is denouncing Mystery Babylon and her denial of the Trinity. Here He confronts the Babylonian spirit of Antichrist (I John 2:22) which “denies Father and Son”.
(As my study in the new age religions (The Failure of Myth: John's Gospel) and many other authors works like The Seduction of Christianity by Dave Hunt show, the New Age beliefs are actually founded on those Babylonian religions. Much of the modern church is actually closer to being ready for the Antichrist than Islam. The declaration about the Antichrist is that he will declare HIMSELF God much as trump did calling himself "I AM" in one interview and you need only go back a few posts in my work to discover the discussion of Name It/Claim It and Dominion Christianity. Muslims would be deeply offended by any personal godhood declaration. This is more appropriate for the discussion of the False Prophet but it gives me a chance to plug later posts :)
While many would object, the Catholic and the Russian Orthodox are shrewd with Israel. But it was the Catholic who rescued more Jews than any other and it is also God whom prior to Christ’s coming also reprimands Israel with some of His own words:
Fear you not, O Jacob my servant, said the LORD: for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you: but I will not make a full end of you, but correct you in measure; yet will I not leave you wholly unpunished. (Jeremiah 46:28)
Russia is obviously a major player in the chess game of end times. If the collapse of the Soviet Empire was unthinkable and it happened, nothing can be ruled out in today’s political climate. President Putin called the fall of the Soviet Union “the most catastrophic geostrategic tragedy of the 20th century.”
But what few focused on is that: religion is the main drive in world affairs, not economy. The Soviet collapse was the earthquake that divided Orthodox from Muslim. The Muslim Tatar in Crimea is already complaining about Russia who is expanding their borders into the Ukraine while the Muslim is expanding his.
(While, as we pointed out with news stories, Russia has bonded with Libya, Sudan, Iran and is rescuing Syria. Putin would seem to assuaged fears in many of the Muslim countries even in uneasy alliance. Will.)
Everybody witnessed that in the Crimean referendum the most vocal ethnic group that voted against Ukraine’s union with Russia was the Muslim Tatars who have ruled Crimea for many centuries, sometimes falling under Ottoman rule, which extended all the way to Crimea. Mr. Davutoglu publicly came to the Tatars’ defense as former Ottoman subject/allies. (1)
The Almighty by Russia taking the Ukraine is perhaps removing the only buffer between Turkey and Russia and is setting up the launching pad for Russian airstrikes and submarines cross the Black Sea into Turkey to defeat it.
(Thanks to ISIS Turkey and Russia now share a mutual defense pact. Minor fact ignored. W.)
But perhaps a history lesson is crucial to explain all this. There were two major wars were fought between the Russian and Ottoman empires in the 19th century. The Tatars even had a republic after the Soviet rule (1921-1944) until Stalin deported 238,500 Tatars to Central Asia because they had cooperated with the Nazis during the German occupation (1941-44) of Crimea. That elevated the Russian ethnic profile on the peninsula, until Sergey (Nikita. W) Khrushchev annexed the region of his native Ukraine in 1954 and Putin undid that annexation this year.
(As we mentioned last time, and as the news report showed, this situation is a good deal more complex than just Muslims and Russians. And it forms a bridge to Europe, too. W. As well as the warm water port in Odessa. W)
In the Ottoman Empire, the war minister and de facto Commander-in-Chief was Enver Pasha who was considered to be the most powerful figure of the Ottoman government. He made the decision to enter the Empire into World War I, on the side of Germany. Along with Talaat Pasha and Djemal Pasha, he was one of the principal perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide. And today, the specter of new Ottomanism looms on the Armenian border.
It is always crucial to understand, the war is not only against Israel, but Satan’s attempt to destroy all who love The Trinity. It is the war between the heretic and the Orthodox. Israel is in the plan of redemption and is the center of the eye in the coming storm. (Accepting Jesus as Lord and his way to salvation is the plan of redemption. The war is to prove that Christ is the Only Way. Israel is the place of the final battle of the war. And "the eye of the storm". W.)
The Armenians who escaped Kessab will get their fate and be martyred with many of their brethren in Armenia. Enver had a dream which he pursued, but did not see realized, as he was killed in Bukhara, but two weeks ago, despite knowing that ISIS was Turkey’s creation in which the terrorist organization’s members were trained, armed and supplied by Turkey and allowed to cross into Syria and Iraq from the Turkish border. In fact, in Aleppo, Armenians have been at the receiving end of their firepower. After all the outrage that ISIS has caused, Turkey is still reluctant to join a collation to stop the barbarism.
It was Obama, the devil’s plant, (Respectfully, Obama was placed by God as Trump who I feel little respect for was placed by God. W) who armed Turkey to such an extent that it boasts of having the strongest army in the NATO structure, after the US. which also helped Turkey develop its economy, so that today Ankara can implement an independent policy, undermining its allies.
(Shoebat truly hates Turkey and one can see some of those strands. but the strands are, as we have mentioned, more complex and intertwined. Turkey is involved and as he says of Russia "has a place in the chess game," but again, Russians are the masters of chess. W.)
While many believe that the major pressure in this whole fiasco will be on Israel since they read of Gog and Antichrist, but in truth, its not Israel that will ultimately suffer but Saudi Arabia, the main proponent of the Arian Heresy that denied the Trinity. God is not coming down to strictly defend Israel, but His own name and attributes.
Can one imagine, that Armageddon is over the Trinity?
It is, and Saudi Arabia will be annihilated.
Just recently, the rebellion in Yemen has also given Iran the upper hand in its rivalry with Saudi Arabia on the Arabian Peninsula. Houthis are a mortal foe of Saudi Arabia, which is another chip lost in the chess game for Saudi Arabia which in the long run will have to contend with Iran (biblical Elam) when it will announce war against the Arab harlot and burn it via a nuke (see Isaiah 21) which we predicted will happen.
https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/archives/guzik_david/studyguide_isa/isa_21.cfm
(b. The report comes to the watchman: Babylon is fallen, is fallen! This dramatic scene was fulfilled when the Medo-Persian Empire conquered Babylon, but it also has a prophetic application. Revelation 18:2 describes the cry of an angel when God judges the world system, both commercial Babylon and spiritual Babylon: And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!" The repetition of the phrase is fallen, is fallen connects the two passages.
The United States is in check; its influence during 2011, via Satan’s plan,(LET me get one thing straight in everyone's mind: this is GOD'S plan. Satan is a pawn, Even if Shoebat were right about everything else, which he is not, he is wrong in claiming anything is Satan's plan. W.) Obama, fractured the Middle East to a point of no return. While we get excited over bombing ISIS, it matters little, the Islamist cat is out of the box and the superpowers in the region, Iran and Turkey know it and they are poised to arise and eat much flesh.
Its getting closer by the day, Erdogan was just hailed recently in Azerbaijan as the “standard bearer of new Ottomanism” and Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan is keen to build an alliance with Turkey, and clearly sees common cause in a shared dislike of Armenia.
The students with cataract, had they simply used real historians and real maps, they would have saved themselves the ultimate surgery. All they needed to do is to simply find what the Bible says, look up real historians, and then jot it on the map.
(Whereas geography, current events for everyone in the region and alliances built on economics and pragmatism suggest Russia IS the King of the North. I understand Shoebat hates Islam and that it is coloring his judgement on the matter, but I wish to point of out a scenario which would fulfill the destinies of BOTH Russia and the nations of Islam. W.)
God made it that simple.
So when they read “the Kings of the East,” with its 200 million-man army invading Israel, we should first search, where else will we find “kings” coming from the East?
Perhaps this is why I, a wretched sinner, had to come from Bethlehem, I find The Answer (Jesus) for everything in my village:
“Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,” (Matthew 2:1).
Stop isolating text without exploring the rest of Scripture (Which he has JUST done.) regarding literal nations from the east. In all of Scripture, not a single passage connects “Kings of the East” with China. (Nor with any country under its current name at the time of the Prophecy. One reason being prophecy was closed up until the End Times as reported in Daniel and another because God was not giving Satan or anyone else even his Son a clue as to when the Last Days would actually occur. W)
I read the same Bible you all do:
“And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared,” (Revelation 16:10).
I know of the wealthy kings of the east who came to my village were from the regions of Babylonia and Persia and possibly even further. Why not consider this option?
Westerners argue that the reason the Kings of the East in Revelation come from China is the staggering number of soldiers—a 200-million-man army. But Islam can easily muster this if you consider Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan uniting with Turkey Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan and Tajikistanand, even Indonesia east of the Euphrates with several kings.
Why do so many apply Revelation’s prophecies to a future attack upon Israel by Russia or China, especially that China is but one king and the biblical text says “kings”?
By way of answer: As we clearly pointed out in previous posts, China already has several "kings" as their allies. As Shoebat pointed out they are no friend of Islam. Keep that in mind as we begin the winding way of war.
We have established in OUR blog that Putin actually HAS those chess pieces in place so he can sweep down and take command of all Israel's resources. He has a pawn in the US that thinks he's a king himself and seems to idolize Putin for the Russian's wealth and absolute power in Russia. Trump has already given those concessions of disarming rebels against Assad. It would not shock anyone if Trump suddenly decided to send US troops fighting BESIDE Russians to suppress any more resistance deciding to believe that it was rebels who used nerve gas as Assad claimed after Trump Tomahawked an airfield with almost no lasting damage. Te battle with ISIS may simply come down to the US owing so much money to so many sources and wants to keep it's military spending so high that our troops become mercenaries. It would surprise even less if Trump merely withdrew all US troops and allowed Putin and Assad to run rampant. Putin will in any case ramp up his troop involvement. Victory will come at less cost than once assumed.
Putin or his successor will then advance on Israel, seeing a source of fresh water, food for his troops and natural gas and a supple line to Europe to cut. He will, by that time, have a massive army swelled with the ranks of his own troops and that of his local allies all hating Israel for a variety of reason. This time, an invasion for Syria and the sea, Soviet air forces from Sudan and Libya, perhaps even forces sweeping into Egypt to seize the Suez as a foregone conclusion and with the excuse of securing it from retreating Israeli troops or securing it against possible terrorist forces during the battle.
The forces will likely station in and around Damascus and attack over the Golan Heights:
It is also probable Lebanon would act as another staging area:
"Questions have once again been raised over US President Donald Trump’s grasp on foreign policy after he appeared to misunderstand the role played by Lebanese militant organisation Hezbollah in the Middle East’s complex geopolitics.
"During a news conference with Lebanese President Saad al-Hariri in the White House’s Rose Garden on Tuesday, Mr Trump was asked about his position on the Shia group.
“The prime minister and I have just concluded an extensive conversation about the challenges and opportunities facing Lebanon and its neighbours,” Trump said.
Hezbollah warns Isis is a great danger
"Hezbollah was a “menace” from within to the Lebanese people and the region, Mr Trump added.
“Lebanon is on the front lines in the fight against Isis, al-Qaeda and Hezbollah. The Lebanese people, of all faiths, are working together to keep - and you know this, and we've been discussing this at great length - their country safe and prosperous.”
(If you understand end times, the man's constant use of Peace (safe) and Prosperity send a chilling note. W)
"While the US has condemned Hezbollah as a terrorist group, and Congress is considering stepping up sanctions, its political wing is the most powerful entity in Lebanon’s deeply divided coalition government.
"The response was met with silence from Sunni Prime Minister Hariri, for whom Hezbollah is a de facto power sharing partner under the Lebanese constitution, which guarantees Shia, Sunni and Christian representation at the highest levels of government.
"Hezbollah itself is engaged in fighting Isis both in the north of Lebanon and over the border in Syria, where it is allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and receives extensive financial and military backing from Iran.
"In response to a follow up question about the US’ position on Hezbollah, Mr Trump said he would clarify his position “in the next 24 hours.
Provided he can fit it in a Tweet.
But this contains the suggestion that Lebanon could provide the entire northwest border as an attack front. If so:
Eze 38:8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: {think...: or, conceive a mischievous purpose}
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, {safely: or, confidently}
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land. {To take...: Heb. To spoil the spoil, and to prey the prey} {midst: Heb. navel}
13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
Notice that Israel will not feel unsafe. The war to exterminate ISIS may appear to still be going on with Russian forces seeming to pursue ISIS remnants with allies.. Notice as I said GOD brings this force against Israel. It would seem Israel may have the assurances of Trump or the next president that they will defend Israel and are their ally. That may still seem true to the Israelis with assurances for a man who's daughter is a Jewess. It may even seem true in Trump's mind or that of whomever is in office then. The President may even assure Israel personally. For some reason, the massive army will not seem like a threat.
But then they will attack. Perhaps again as in the 60's on Yom Kipper.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them? {by: Heb. by the hand of}
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. {steep...: or, towers, or, stairs}
21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
And at some point, amid earthquakes, falling buildings, those allies in the army will turn against each other as armies have who od misguided when they invaded Israel and Judea before and fire from the sky, hail and rain will wipe out the forces. It will not be a great day for the Russian Army.
39:1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: {leave...: or, strike thee with six plagues: or, draw thee back with an hook of six teeth} {the north...: Heb. the sides of the north}
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
"Topographically, the Golan Heights ranges in elevation from 2,814 metres (9,232 ft) on Mount Hermon in the north, to about 400 metres (1,300 ft) elevation along the Yarmuk River in the south."
Implying that the forces will be struck down as they are taking the Golan Heights or right after it. This territory is recognized as part of the land given by God to Israel and was wisely taken as a buffer zone against the enemies to the north during the 1967 Six Days War.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. {sort: Heb. wing} {to be...: Heb. to devour}
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. {the open...: Heb. the face of the field}
6 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. {carelessly: or, confidently}
This is one possible reference to the US and parties never mentioned in the End Times battles. If the US is indeed in collusion over THIS attack, it may be at this time that God ELECTS to eliminate them from any further equation. It would also mean Israel would want another ally or allies for some security in a world where they are alone.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years: {handstaves: or, javelins} {burn them...: or, make a fire of them}
10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
There will be fuel enough from the fallen weaponry to last the whole space of the Tribulation period raising the suspicion as to this event triggering that event.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog. {noses: or, mouths} {Hamongog: that is, The multitude of Gog}
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. {men...: Heb. men of continuance}
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog. {set up: Heb. build}
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land. {Hamonah: that is, The multitude}
(KJV)
This is a very big deal since a person is considered unclean after touching a dead body. Lots ow washing up. Lots of need for some kind of holy place to repent. This will create a call for the rebuilding of the Temple for sacrifices and cleansing.
Nu 19:11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. {man: Heb. soul of man}
12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
(KJV)
For the observant Jew given this task, a lot of water will need to be used.
Now, if the US is struck down by God in this moment, Europe would seem the logical ally for Israel. the northern king would be attacking both of them. Israel's natural resources would be needed even more if BOTH North and South America were hit though that last is too much a reach to merely assume. Whether the EU signs a treaty then or not, this event will put the idea in many heads. The Antichrist will sign a defense treaty with Israel After the Holy Spirit, the one restraining evil, has been taken out.
2Th 2:3 Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,
4 Who puts himself against all authority, lifting himself up over all which is named God or is given worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, putting himself forward as God.
5 Have you no memory of what I said when I was with you, giving you word of these things?
6 And now it is clear to you what is keeping back his revelation till the time comes for him to be seen.
7 For the secret of evil is even now at work: but there is one who is keeping back the evil till he is taken out of the way.
8 And then will come the revelation of that evil one, whom the Lord Jesus will put to death with the breath of his mouth, and give to destruction by the revelation of his coming;
(BBE)
The Tribulation will begin when the Antichrist signs a seven-year covenant with Israel (Dan 9 v.27). He will not fully honor that covenant but will break it in the middle of the 7 years. Daniel's Visions
"He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week" (seven years - each day is one year). This important phrase indicates that the event that starts the 70th week (the seven year tribulation) is the signing of a seven year Covenant between the Antichrist and Israel. Daniel's 70th Week It is certain that the signing of the covenant begins the period called the Tribulation.
At the halfway point of the Tribulation which is three and a half years, the Antichrist will break this covenant with Israel with an event called "The Abomination of Desolation." Abomination of Desolation This also signals there is only three and a half more years remaining before Christ returns to earth to set up His Earthly Kingdom. Christ's Earthly Kingdom
One Provision of that Covenant Between the Antichrist and Israel might permit the Jews to Rebuild Their Temple which must be rebuilt in Jerusalem as the unbelieving Jews will once again resume their sacrifices. Temple
To get the Muslims to move from their Dome of the Rock, the Antichrist might negotiate an agreement between Israel and the Remnants of the Arab world to relocate them to other countries thus giving them the opportunity to build their Temple. However this is done, it will happen as Israel will once again have a temple in the end times.
(I seriously doubt the Dome of the rock could be moved without another war.
{The Dome of the Rock is a Muslim shrine that was built on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in AD 691. The Dome of the Rock is part of a larger Muslim holy area that takes up a significant portion of what is also known as Mount Moriah in the heart of Jerusalem. The Dome of the Rock gets its name from the fact that it is built over the highest part (the dome) of Mount Moriah which is where Jews and Christians believe Abraham was prepared to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice to God (Genesis 22:1–14).
It is also considered to be the location of the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, where David built an altar to the Lord (2 Samuel 24:18). It is also on or very near the site that Herod’s Temple stood before it was destroyed in AD 70 by the Roman army. Some even believe the rock might have been the location of the Holy of Holies that was a part of the Jewish Temple where the Jewish High Priest would enter once a year to make atonement for Israel’s sins.
The Dome of the Rock is part of the larger Islamic area known as the Noble Sanctuary or Al-Haram al-Sharif. This area includes over 35 acres and contains both the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. After Muslims took control of Jerusalem in AD 637, Islamic leaders commissioned the building of the Dome of the Rock in AD 685. It took almost seven years to complete and today is one of the world’s oldest Islamic structures.
The platform or Temple Mount area that houses the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque was built in the first century AD under the rule of Herod the Great as part of his rebuilding of the second Jewish Temple. Jesus worshiped at Herod’s Temple and it was there that He prophesied its destruction (Matthew 24:1–2). Jesus’ prophecy was fulfilled when the temple was destroyed by the Roman army in AD 70.
The Temple Mount area where the Dome of the Rock is located is important to not only the Muslims who control it now, but also to Jews and Christians. As the place where the Jewish temple once stood, the Temple Mount is considered to be the holiest place in Judaism and is the place where Jews and some Christians believe that the third and final temple will be built. This area is also the third holiest site in Islam. Because of its importance to both Jews and Muslims, the Temple Mount area is a highly contested religious site over which both the Palestinian Authority and Israel claim sovereignty...
Some believe the Dome of the Rock was built because, according to Muslim legend, the Prophet Muhammad was taken to Mount Moriah by the angel Gabriel, and from there Muhammad ascended into heaven and met all the prophets that had preceded him, as well as seeing God sitting on His throne surrounded by angels. However, this story does not appear in any Islamic texts until several decades after the shrine was built, which leads some to believe the primary reason the Dome was built was to celebrate the Islamic victory over Christians at Jerusalem and not to honor the supposed ascension of Muhammad.}
Since the antichrist will come on the world scene after the strength of Russia and her Arab allies has been broken, (Gog and Magog) he could talk the Muslim survivors into moving their sacred mosque somewhere else.
Not all the Islamic nations are involved in that war. Egypt might even be so angry at their brothers over the Suez that a total alliance will be nearly impossible. Then, too, all of Islam would be up in arms if the Dome were moved. Making the final invasion more likely.
6 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. {carelessly: or, confidently}
Fire could mean anything from a meteor to nuclear fire to volcanic action. Something will happen then to decimate Russia. And those in the isles. This term usually refers to the outlands, places not identified in the war because they are decimated and, again, imagine the idea of god identifying the Americas long before they are born. Would this continent ever have been named that any more than a child is named Judas today.
And I suspect something else:
Isa 17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
It seems likely this is when Damascus, too, is destroyed.
2 Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take their rest in peace, without fear.
3 The strong tower has gone from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus: the rest of Aram will come to destruction, and be made like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of armies.
4 And it will be in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made small, and the strength of his body will become feeble.
5 And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim.
6 But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.
7 In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
8 He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.
9 In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.
10 For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;
11 In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.
12 Ah! the voice of peoples, like the loud sounding of the seas, and the thundering of great nations rushing on like the bursting out of waters!
13 But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.
14 In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.
(BBE)
Who knows how much land a desperate Israel, joyous in the Lord blessing them, would seize as an even bigger buffer zone. And how many cities deep God will destroy during the ending of that invasion and in those who housed the invaders.
