The Looming Threat of Iran
am typing all of this up as of 4/29/06.
For those of you who are staying in touch with all of the
major world news events, you know this next topic is a
very serious problem that is slowly starting to bubble and
rise to the surface.
Long story short, Iran's new president,
a man by the name of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is trying to enrich
uranium for the purposes of trying to develop nuclear weaponry.
He is trying to tell the rest of the world that he is only
doing this for peaceful purposes to help generate electricity,
but everyone knows that this is nothing but a smokescreen, and
the real reason he is trying to do this is to be able to
develop nuclear weapons so that he can then attempt to use them
against Israel and possibly our own country.
This man is making no bones about it. He is not pulling any
punches. He has been accurately quoted as wanting to literally
wipe the state of Israel right off the face of our map. He is
denying the holocaust has ever occurred and he has recently
made comments that he wants to personally destroy the state of
Israel with one blow - and the only way he could possibly
destroy the state of Israel with one blow is if he had a
nuclear weapon at his disposal.
In a recent AP release, he was quoted as saying that Israel
was a permanent threat to the entire region and that the
"Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be
eliminated by one storm." His idea of taking Israel out
with some kind of "one storm" can only be done with some
kind of nuclear weapon - and that is exactly what he is trying
to build!
The fact that he is making these kinds of statements, and
the fact that he is trying to develop the technology to be able
to build up nuclear weapons, makes this a one-plus-one equals
two conclusion. This man is hell-bent on trying to develop
these nuclear weapons and he is not going to listen to our
country, the rest of the West, or anyone from the UN Security
Council.
There has been major saber rattling over all of this between
Iran, the West, and now with the UN and its Security Council.
Everyone is trying to get them to back down from trying to
enrich uranium, but they are completely thumbing their nose to
the rest of the world on this issue.
What is now occurring with Iran and its demonic threats
against Israel is another powerful end time puzzle piece that
is now slowly starting to form out and build up. In the
End Times section of our site,
we have an article titled "Russia and Her Allies Will
Attack Israel."
In the Book of Ezekiel, God is foretelling of an event that
will be occurring in the "latter years." What will be
occurring in this dramatic event is that the country of Russia,
along with Iran and several other middle-eastern countries,
will eventually launch an all-out full scale attack on the
state of Israel. The Bible says absolutely nothing about our
country or any other countries coming to the aid of Israel when
this invasion gets ready to take place.
Israel will be left totally alone to try and defend itself
and it will have no chance to win against this huge invading
army. Just as this new president of Iran is now stating, these
countries will all form together in an alliance to literally
try and wipe Israel right off the face of the map.
The fact that this world leader, on a major public
world stage, is now being allowed to make these kinds of
extreme and demonic statements - is a major sign and a
foreshadowing of what is getting ready to happen to the
state of Israel sometime in the future.
Bottom line - sooner or later Iran will be
teaming up with Russia and several other Arab countries and
they will make an all-out attempt to try and carry out
these current threats. They will literally try to
annihilate Israel and all of the Jewish people - but as
this verse from Ezekiel is telling us, this invading army
will not succeed.
When God the Father sees this invading army trying to come
against His own chosen people, the Bible says that He will have
fury in His face, and His wrath will be triggered full force
against this invading and unholy army
No other countries will have to come to the aid and defense
of Israel because God the Father Himself will take this battle
up for them - and He will be the One to wipe this unholy enemy
right off the face of the map - not the other way around as
Iran's president would like to do.
The Scripture Verses
In our article "Russia and Her Allies Will
Attack Israel," I give you the full verse where this event
has already been prophesied to occur. For the purposes of this
article, I am going to go ahead and re-state this Scripture
verse due to the extreme relevance of it and how it is
perfectly lining up with the current threats being made by
Iran's new president.
As you will see when reading this verse, God will completely
destroy this invading army by way of a tremendous earthquake, a
torrent of flooding rain, great hailstones, fire and brimstone,
along with pestilence, disease and bloodshed.
The Bible says that this release of God's wrath on this
invading army will be so great and so powerful, that every
living creature and every living person will shake at His
presence. The world will know, without any shadow of a doubt,
that God Himself came to Israel's aid to defend them from this
huge invading army.
The second verse I will give you will show that it will take
7 months to bury all of the dead and another 7 years to burn
all of their weapons that are still left on the battlefield
after God personally destroys them.
Here are these two most profound and powerful verses. The
word "Gog" has been determined by many Bible historians to be
talking about the country of Russia.
- Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, "Son of
man, set your face against Gog, the land of Magog, the
prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against
him," and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God;
"Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh,
Meshech, and Tubal. I will turn you around, put hooks into
your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses and
horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with
bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords. Persia,
Ethiopia, and Libya are with them, all of them with shield
and helmet ...
After many days you will be visited. In the LATTER
YEARS you will come back 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. You will ascend, coming like a storm, covering
the land like a cloud, you and all your troops and many
peoples with you."
'Thus says the Lord God: "On that day it shall come to pass
that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an
evil plan: 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 ...'
'Thus says the Lord God: "On that day when My people Israel
dwell safely, will you not know it? Then you will come from
your place out of the far north, you and many peoples with
you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a
mighty army. You will come against My people Israel like a
cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the LATTER DAYS
that I will bring you against My land, so that the
nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog,
before their eyes ..."
"And it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog
comes against the land of Israel," says the Lord God, "that
My fury will show in My face. For in My jealousy and in the
fire of My wrath I have spoken: ‘Surely in that day there
will be a great earthquake in the land of Israel, so that
the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts
of the field, all creeping things that creep on the earth,
and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at
My presence.
The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep
places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the
ground.' "I will call for a sword against Gog throughout
all My mountains," says the Lord God. "Every man's sword
will be against his brother. And I will bring him to
judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on
him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with
him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and
brimstone.
Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself,
and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they
shall know that I am the Lord." (Ezekiel 38:1-23)
- "Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go
out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields
and bucklers, the bows and arrows, the javelins and spears;
and they will make fires with them for seven years
... It will come to pass in that day that I will give Gog a
burial place there in Israel ... For seven months
the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to
cleanse the land. Indeed all the people of the land will be
burying them, and they will gain renown for it on the day
that I am glorified," says the Lord God. (Ezekiel
39:9-13)
The rest of the countries that will be teaming up with
Russia and Iran have been determined by many Bible historians
to be the countries of Libya, Turkey and possibly Sudan.
Conclusion
As scary as the above scenario is as it starts to take shape
and form out, realize that even though sooner or later Iran
really will make an attempt to carry out its threat to try and
annihilate the state of Israel with the help of Russia - God
Himself will intervene, and He will not allow this unholy
alliance to complete and fulfill its mission.
Whether or not this event happens before a possible
Rapture or in any of our
lifetimes remains to be seen. What will really bear watching
is how Russia reacts and responds to Iran's continuing
attempts to build up its capabilities to build nuclear
weapons. Russia does not want any kind of military action or
sanctions to be leveled against Iran at this time. They want
to try and solve this problem through diplomacy as the rest
of us would like to do.
But we are now dealing with a man who is not going to listen
to reason or to the rest of the world. Political threats,
sanctions, or an outright military attack are not going to
deter this man. He thinks he is on a holy mission from Allah
and that Israel must be completely destroyed - and he is
letting the rest of the world know exactly what he is thinking
and exactly what he is wanting to do. This man is drawing a
major battle line in the sand for all of the world to see and
hear. He is letting all of us know, loud and clear, exactly
what his thoughts and intentions really are.
With this threat now coming onto the world scene for all of
the world to see and hear, we are now all witnessing an
incredible end-time puzzle piece that is now starting to form
out and build up.
For those of you who would like more detailed information
about what is really going on behind the scenes with these
dramatic events, noted Christian author and pastor John Hagee
has just come out with a very good book titled "Jerusalem Countdown - A Warning to the
World."
In this book, he goes into very good detail as to what Iran
is trying to do and how much longer it will take before they
will have some kind of nuclear weapon at their disposal. He has
also had conversations with several high ranking Israeli
leaders and what their thoughts are about this unfolding
dilemma and what they may be forced to do if the West cannot
stop Iran from completing its goals.
Israel was forced to take out Saddam Hussein's nuclear sites
back in the 1980's, and they may be forced to do it again if
the rest of the world does not get Iran to change course from
what they are really wanting to do.
The experts seem to be all over the map as to how much
longer it will take for Iran to have a nuclear weapon at their
disposal at the rate they are currently progressing. I've seen
estimates ranging anywhere from 3-6 months to as much as 5-10
years. But at the rate they are progressing in this area, it
will only be a matter of time before their nuclear capabilities
are built up to a degree to where they could then build nuclear
warheads and missiles.
And if that time does come, and president Ahmadinejad is
still in power in Iran, there is no doubt in my mind that he
will try and use them against Israel and anyone else who may
try and stop him. This man is bent on Jewish genocide just like
Adolph Hitler was and he will not stop until his mission has
been fully completed.
As 9/11 and all of the rest of the terrorist attacks around
the world has shown us, these radical Muslims are extremists
and they are deadly serious about carrying out what they think
are holy wars ordained by Allah. And if any of them should ever
succeed in getting a nuclear weapon in their hands, I do not
think there is any question that they will attempt to use it to
further their insane causes.
The Western nations, along with the rest of the major
nations of the world, must all work together to try and stop
Iran from being able to get their hands on real live nuclear
weapons. If Iran succeeds in building any nuclear weapons, and
they launch any type of nuclear strike against Israel or anyone
else trying to defend them, the world economy will become
crippled and paralyzed with what this kind of event would due
to the production and flow of oil out of the Middle East.
As scary and frightening as the above scenario is, realize
that as Christians we have God and His Word - and in His Word
is information and knowledge on all of the major events that
will be occurring in these end times. In the End Times section of our site, we have
articles breaking down all of the major events that will be
occurring, along with all of the verses from Scripture to back
up all of these coming end-time events.
God goes more than overboard in His Word on giving us all of
the information and knowledge that we will need on these coming
end-time events so that we can all be properly warned and
properly prepared if any of these events should ever start to
occur in our lifetime.
After studying the verses from Scripture on the major end
time events that will be occurring, there is no doubt in my
mind that we are starting to see the beginnings of Iran, and
then eventually Russia, start to plan and form out a strategy
to try and literally wipe Israel right off the face of the map.
And the most amazing thing about this is that Iran's president
is not even trying to hide this fact. He knows the whole world
is watching his every move, but he is so insistent and so
delusional that He is on a mission from God, he really doesn't
care who knows it or what anyone else thinks about it.
I believe his proclamations are purposely being made public
in an effort to let the rest of the Arab world know exactly
what he is intending on doing - and that he is wanting to try
and unite the rest of the Arab world to follow his insane cause
and his grand delusions of total world domination - and nuclear
weapons will be able to give them the means to be able to do
this. This is why I believe this man is not going to pull back,
desist, or change course on what he is trying to do with the
enrichment of uranium.
As a final note, God is obviously in control of all
of the world events, so God Himself will help keep a lid
and control on this dilemma one way or the other so things
and events do not get too far out of control until it is
their appointed time to manifest. But sooner or later,
things will escalate to the point where Iran and Russia
will make an attempt to invade Israel.
This event will happen because our Bible tells
us so. So sit back, continue to have strong faith and
belief in our Lord, and watch some of these events start to
form out and build up right before our very eyes as
prophesied right out of our Bible!
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