A Looming War Between Syria and Israel?
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.Isaiah 17:1 KJV
We’re beginning to hear a little more about what happened in Syria on Sept. 6, 2007.
We are reading today that Israeli forces, probably dressed in Syrian uniforms, infiltrated what is a nuclear facility in Syria. This was done to gather samples of material in the secret military facility to determine if they were nuclear weapons or not.
It was discovered it was nuclear material originating from North Korea and confirmed to the White House before Washington would give its blessing on the attack.
Israeli sources admitted that special forces had been accruing intelligence in Syria for several months, the report said, adding that evidence of North Korean activity at the installation was presented to President George Bush during the summer.
According to the Times, North Korea and China believed that North Koreans were among the dead in the subsequent alleged IAF air strike.
On Friday, the Washington Post reported that Israel and the United States had collaborated on intelligence ahead of the alleged IAF raid.
According to the Post report, Israel informed the US over the summer that North Korean personnel were in Syria in order to assist the country’s nuclear weapons program. The intelligence in question reportedly included satellite imagery.
Meanwhile, Newsweek quoted Binyamin Netanyahu adviser Uzi Arad in reference to the Syria operation. “I do know what happened, and when it comes out it will stun everyone,” he said.
Needless to say, Israeli sources are not too happy with Netanyahu for confirming this secret raid.
So, why have I begun the post with a quote from the prophet Isaiah? Because Damascus is the only city that has never not been a city since its inception. It has never been destroyed as Jerusalem or any other city in the history of man.
In other words, it is unfulfilled prophecy, and if we believe the Bible is the inerrent Word of God then we know at some point it must be fulfilled.
Just when that time is we don’t know so anything I say here is purely conjecture except for the fact I know Damascus will be destroyed one day. I just don’t know when.
Obadiah gives us a little more of a hint about what will happen:
And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it. Obadiah 1:8 KJV
Jacob and Esau were twin brothers. Jacob received his father Isaac’s blessing by tricking him into thinking he was Esau, and it was Jacob who became Israel and fathered the original twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph was one of Jacob’s or Israel’s twelve sons.
Esau, on the other hand, married a woman who worshipped a false god and became one of them.
In this passage Jacob is Israel and Esau is the Arabs or Muslims since Iran is not Arabian.
What is the best educated guess as to how Damascus will be destroyed? We see that in Zechariah:
And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. Zechariah 14:12 KJV
Using the vocabulary he had in the fifth century B.C. Zechariah seems to have been describing nuclear annihilation. Not just to Syria but to all people who have fought against Jerusalem, or Israel.
Although the Israelis do not admit it, it is a well-known secret they have nuclear capability.
Surely they have thought about a scenario where they would have to annihilate Syria (Damascus) without killing themselves. How about if they have a neutron bomb that will kill people but leave buildings intact and allow other people to go there safely afterwards?
Except Isaiah says Damascus will be a heap.
I don’t have all the answers and am not a biblical scholar, but I can read and I can ponder. I just can’t figure out how it will all come about. But I know it’s going to happen and if Damascus keeps trying to wage a destructive war against Israel I also know Israel will destroy Syria even if it means its own destruction.
They have no choice.
Written by ~J~
