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A Looming War Between Syria and Israel?
September 23rd, 2007
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.
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North Korea test-fires missiles
May 25th, 2007
Here we go again.
North Korea fired several short-range guided missiles Friday in an apparent test launch, South Korean officials and media reports said.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed the launches, but said it was still investigating how many missiles were fired and where exactly the tests occurred.
“The short-range missile launches are believed to be part of a routine exercise that North Korea has conducted annually on the east and the west coasts in the past,” the Joint Chiefs said in a statement.
Japan’s public broadcaster and other media, citing Japanese and U.S. sources, reported that the missiles were surface-to-ship. Japan’s Defense Ministry and Foreign Ministry could not immediately confirm the reports, but were investigating.
It Is Now Time For The US To Leave The UN And Send It To Brussels
April 3rd, 2007
The blogosphere is talking about this New York Sun story about counterfeit US dollars being produced in North Korea and 35 $100 bills being hidden in the UN safe there for quite some time.
As federal investigators examine how the leading U.N. agency in North Korea illegally kept 35 counterfeit American $100 bills in its possession for 12 years, documents indicate that more officials were aware of the existence of the fake currency —and earlier — than the agency has reported.
Spokesmen for the United Nations Development Program have said top officials at the agency’s New York headquarters learned in February that their safe in Pyongyang contained the counterfeit bills and immediately reported it to American authorities. But several documents shown recently to The New York Sun indicate that higher-ups knew much earlier that the safe held counterfeit money.
The documents are part of a worldwide reporting system that allows the agency to keep track of the contents of its office safes.
One “safe contents count record” — shown to the Sun with the stipulation that the paper omit such details as the exact issuing date, which was before February — confirms that fake money was in the safe in Pyongyang. According to a source familiar with the system, this and similar records were filed with UNDP headquarters twice a year.
Internal UNDP communication shown to the Sun also indicates that in at least one incident, a Pyongyang office manager reported the existence of the counterfeit money to his successor. Similar reports were filed with the seven managers that have served in North Korea since 1995. Some of these managers have returned to UNDP headquarters since then and now serve as top officials there.
The Secret Service and federal prosecutors in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York are investigating the matter and have sought out at least 13 UNDP officials for interviews. But questions about diplomatic immunity and whether lawyers can represent the officials during those interviews have yet to be resolved.
“We are cooperating with the Southern District,” a senior U.N. official said yesterday, and added, “We are currently working out the modalities.” The official, who requested anonymity because the matter is under investigation, said that in the past, immunity has been lifted only when criminal indictments are handed out.
As usual, the UN is claiming, falsely, they made the US aware of the situation as soon as they found out about it in February.
Just as the UN peacekeepers didn’t help Hezbollah by reporting Israeli positions in the recent war between Israel and Hezbollah. If you believe that I have a bridge to nowhere to sell you.
The February date came shortly after the Wall Street Journal published a story, “Cash for Kim,” which reported that the UNDP violated its own rules by providing the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Il, with hard currency. The agency’s board of directors, under American pressure, then instructed the UNDP to suspend its North Korean operation, and it was shuttered March 1.
UNDP officials concede that the increased outside scrutiny that resulted from the Journal article could have led the agency to examine its Pyongyang office more closely, which may have led to the discovery of the counterfeit cash.
Critics, however, allege that top officials deliberately concealed the existence of the counterfeit currency out of concern that the operation would be shut down, and that they reported it to the American authorities only after they realized that it would be suspended anyway.
The UN and its ruling dictators have not been friends of the United States for many many years.
Having them on US soil with diplomatic immunity only allows countries to spy on us and vote against anything that is in the interests of the free world.
The only thing they want from us is our dues and it’s time now to withdraw from that organization and let them use their Brussels headquarters as their world headquarters.
If they demand back dues we should pay them in Monopoly money.
They have allowed a rogue state, a declared enemy of our country, to counterfeit our money almost to perfection and not reported it to us until they got caught. They have allowed North Korea to undermine our economy and we must not ignore it.
Now they are protecting those who had a part in hiding this information from us and got promoted besides, from being questioned by our authorities, under the claim of diplomatic immunity until they are indicted.
How can we reasonably be expected to indict someone if we can’t talk to them to see if they are culpable in this crime against the people of the United States?
Whatever usefulness this organization once had is long gone and our hospitality to them should be also.
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