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Jesus’ unanswered prayers.

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John 17:20-23  “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one — 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity.  

Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

It has been 2000 years and that prayer of the Son – “I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one” on the most intense night of his life is still only a dream.  The fantasy is compounded – because Jesus like Paul requests  “unity among his followers”  three times and that thrice unanswered prayer is Jesus only recorded personal private prayer to His Father.

Did Unity cease along with the Gifts of the Holy Spirit in the First Century,   or did the Gifts cease when the Unity ceased?   Yeshua the “Head of the Church”  has not been able to recreate those conditions ever since.   They gathered in one accord – the ONLY word used to describe the group on Pentecost. Over and over they are described eating meals and meeting together with one accord. God using one description, one clue to the miracle – they did it all in ONE ACCORD  –  Acts  5:12  And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch).

I  watched the “fire of complete unity” yesterday  – when the Reformed contemporary  leaders John MacArthur, Phil Johnson, Steve Lawson, R.C. Sproul, Tom Pennington  warned the church about the Charismatic error in the “Strange Fire Conference.”  These men are champions of Calvinism and upholders of the 5 Solo’s of the Reformation.  Then they focused their attention to their other Reformed Brothers – fellow heirs of God – with identical teachings – who also uphold the 5 Solo’s and proceeded to discredit  John Piper and Mark Driscall.

The world got to see headlines like “Driscall crashes Convention” and tweets like “they confiscated my books.”  Satan just demonstrated what the world already knows…. that Christianity is as harmonious as the politics in Washington.  The leaders are no different.

I might suggest the next Conference be called “Korah – No Fire Needed” and rather than speaker’s only criticizing brothers and fellow heirs of God –  we actually put our faith into action – and go out and just torch each other’s sanctuaries.

The  founders of this nation are to have said  “We must all hang together, or assuredly  we shall all hang separately.” They understood what the early church practiced.  We are like the the besieged people of God  in Jerusalem in A.D. 70 who set fire to each others food stores inside that city….while the Roman armies just waited for starvation to do what their weapons could not. So what can the current 34,000 christian groups be so disagreeable about?  Well, 34,000 different things, I guess.

Meanwhile the Head of the Church just lives to intercede…..but with useless, fanciful prayers like….. I have given them the glory that You gave me, that they may be one as we are one…..

Revival is the Answer

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There are similarities between the dark times we live in now and the dawn of the First Great Awakening. The choices we see now are the same inequalities facing the workers of France and England. France dissolved into chaos and violence…while England had a moral and spiritual revival.

A corrupt and even dead church darkened most aspects of English life. The Church of England leadership was corrupt. Archbishops and bishops lived luxuriously and unashamedly negotiated better positions for themselves and their families. Economically England by now dominated the slave trade with greed leading to brutality. The industrial revolution influenced owners into adopting the same attitudes of the slavers towards the children working in the mines and cotton mills. In London between 1730 – 1750 almost 3 out of 4 children born to all classes died before their 5th birthday. England was going through its Gin Age with 1 out 6 homes owning and operating a ‘gin still’ and almost 20% of all single girls in London working as prostitutes. The sports of the day was bull baiting and cock fighting, while bare fisted boxing matches attracted 12,000 to a fight.

The climate was as ripe as France for a breakdown of social order into chaos and revolution.

But there was no revolution……There was a Great Awakening instead.  Two young men named Charles and John Wesley met George Whitefield in Bristol on April 2nd 1739. Together they started to preach to common folk in the outdoors as the churches were closed to the poor. Wesley wrote a pamphlet in which he declared that “It is the plain old Christianity that I teach.”  He ended up preaching 45,000 sermons; traveled a quarter of a million miles on horseback,  up and down and across England on roads that were often dangerous and sometimes impassable. He composed his commentary on the Bible verse by verse, wrote hundreds of letters, and a daily journal from 1735 to the year before his death in 1791; and he also wrote some of the 330 books that were published in his lifetime.

Thirteen years before the Abolition Committee was formed, Wesley wrote “Thoughts upon Slavery”, a graphic, tract denouncing this vicious horrid trade” as a national disgrace which greatly influenced Wilberforce. He kept up his attack on slavery until the end of his life, the last letter he wrote being to Wilberforce. He deplored the stupidity and futility of war, especially Britain’s war with the American colonies.

He publicly and repeatedly questioned why food was so expensive and he gave the answer: immense quantities of corn were consumed in distilling. He supported fair prices, a living wage, honest and healthy employment for all.

He never raised the dead,  but he raised a dead nation.  And when he died he left a preachers gown, a bible, and six silver spoons for his pall bearers and …………the Methodist Church that shaped all of England for hundreds of years after his death.

Wesley said, “Sloth, luxury and ungodliness are the characteristics of the English nation!”  Is this not a word for our time?

If we as the church set our mind to Revival – to examine our lives and our communities.  Rather than pray for another bailout  our prayer should be for that last Great Awakening.  Could a small outnumbered church – like Wesley awaken the conscience of a dead nation?  It is only when the situation is so beyond repair that God can do what we cannot.  My email for years has been – Ps85v6 – Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?  7 Show us your unfailing love, Lord, and grant us your salvation!   Perhaps things are bad enough now for us recognize our need.

Bee in the Word

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Albert Einstein is quoted as saying, “If the honey bee disappears off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left.”

Beekeepers started reporting the deaths of thousands of honeybee colonies. Bees have been disappearing – So in 2006 they started to call it Colony Collapse Disorder (C.C.D.).

Some facts:

  • 90% of the feral (wild) bee population in the United States has died out.
  • 80 percent of the bees in Netherlands are gone.
  • Wildflowers that depend on pollination have dropped by 70 percent.
  • In the US some beekeepers are losing as much as 80% of their colonies.

The bees pollinate 80 percent of our flowering crops which constitute 1/3 of everything we eat. Losing them could affect not only dietary staples such as apples, broccoli, strawberries, nuts, asparagus, blueberries and cucumbers, but may threaten our beef and dairy industries if alfalfa is not available for feed. Essentially, if honeybees disappear, they could take most of our insect pollinated plants with them, potentially reducing mankind to little more than a water diet.

So what is killing them? Are they joining the birds that fall from the sky and the fish that wash up on shore? Scientists are baffled. They think it may be ……any one or combination of these.  Pathogens One or more pathogens remain scientists’ most likely choice as the cause or partial cause. Parasites A parasite is the other perennial suspect, either by itself or in combination with one or more pathogens. Pesticides There are many classes of pesticides to which honey bees can become exposed. Monoculture Wild honey bees forage on a wide variety of nectar sources. Genetically modified crops   Genetically modified (GM) crops, most commonly Bt corn, have been offered up as the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder. Global climate change Weather changes, such as unusually warm winters, earlier springs, drought, and flooding, can lead to changes in flowering times. Cell phones and cell phone towers
The idea of cell phones causing CCD began with the study in which a cordless home phone, was shown to have some impact on honey bee navigation.

Here is another consideration….

  • What comes first is the natural body  (Natural), then the spiritual body comes later (Spiritual)  1 Corinthians 15 v 46.
  • Amos 8 v 11. “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land–not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

In the Hebrew the two words are from the same root –  devarim  (םיִרָבְדּ, words)  and devorim  = bee (םיִרוֹבְדּ, bees).  So a bee has the same root meaning as a word…Physical bees are symbolic of the Word of God!   Ps 119:103:  How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my  mouth!

I suggest that the disappearance of the bees  (Hebrew – Devorim) and with them most of our fruits and vegetables  is a forerunner of the famine of the word (Hebrew – Devarim). A side note is that grapes and wheat and olives are not pollinated by bees. They are wind pollinated and all three relate to the festivals of the Lord, but that is another discussion…..

Aflockalypse

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Thousands of birds that fell from the sky on Beebe, Arkansas on New Year’s Eve. The following year more birds fell on that same town.  Some 100,000 fish also washed up on the shores of a river 100 miles away. More birds fell from the sky in Louisiana and Kentucky. Two million fish washed up dead in the Chesapeake Bay. 50 birds fell from the sky in Sweden. 100 tons of fish washed ashore in Brazil. 40,000 crabs were found dead in England……..

Something is very wrong.  There are dead fish and dead bird reports at the rate of 1 incident a day.  In the first 120 days of 2012 there were over 90 incidents in 27 countries.  Some examples……

4th May 2012 – 2 TONNES of dead Fish found in a River in Jinzhou China.

30th April 2012 – Hundreds of Bull Red Fish found dead in Alabama.
28th April 2012 – 1200 Pelicans found dead in Peru.
25th April 2012 – 11,000 dead Fish found in River in Kettering, America.
25th April 2012 – 28,000 dead Fish found in River in Strongsville, America.
11th April 2012 – 300 more Dolphins found dead on beaches in Peru.
11th April 2012 – 14,000 Fish dead in Creek in Missouri.
4th April 2012 – 615 Dolphins Found Dead on Beaches in Peru.

The U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) urged more research into baffling deaths — ranging from why whales swim onto beaches to recent unexplained bird deaths. “Science is struggling to explain these things. These are examples of the surprises that nature can still bring,” said Nick Nuttall, spokesman of Nairobi-based UNEP.

“More research is needed”   is an educated way of saying   “We have no idea?”

Yet the scripture is full of verses that mention the fate of the fish and the birds together.  God ties the fate of the birds and the fish to man’s moral behavior and the wickedness of man. As a child suffers when their parent is absent or addicted, so the animals suffer and die under sinful mans government of the earth.  One only has to read a paper to realize we are going to see a lot more “unexplained”   deaths.

The 5th letter,  the letter “H” Hey ” added to Abra”h” am’s name to signify grace. By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth” (Psalm 33:6). In the Talmud, it is said that the “breath of His mouth” refers to the sound of the letter Hey – the out breathing of Spirit. I find it interesting the water and the air or the “water and the spirit”  – both symbols of God’s Grace are now the medium He uses to show His displeasure.

Gen 1 v 20 God said, “Let the 1) waters teem with living creatures, and 2) let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 … 23 And there was evening, and there was morning – the fifth day. 

Hosea 4 v 3   The LORD has a charge to bring against …………because of this the land dries up, and all who live in it waste away; the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea are swept away …”

Zephaniah 1:3  “I will sweep away both men and animals; I will sweep away the birds of the air and the fish of the sea. The wicked will have only heaps of rubble when I cut off man from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.

Palestinian Vote in the U.N.

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Palestinian leaders will ask the United Nations vote by Nov. 29,  2012 on whether to admit Palestine as a non-member state. Palestinian Authority President Abbas said he would submit the bid on Nov. 29 –on the 65th anniversary of the 1947 U.N. vote calling for two states, one Jewish and one Arab, in Palestine.

The Palestinians have more than enough votes to guarantee passage of the membership resolution, with 150 of 193 nations expected to back the proposal.

Once  legally approved, it will mean that Palestine will be formally recognized as a State under occupation. As an observer state, the Palestinian territories—the West Bank and Gaza—could participate in U.N. assembly debates, but could not vote.

The Palestinians could now agree to treaties and join specialized U.N. agencies, such as the International Civil Aviation Organization, the Law of the Sea Treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the International Criminal Court.

The Palestinians goal of the U.N. bid is to gain recognition of a Palestinian State  within the 1967 borders.

They believe this U.N.  bid will protect the two-state solution and give credence to negotiations.

America and Israel have strongly opposed this move. America has no power to veto this decision in the General Assembly. If the U.N. gambit is successful, the U.S. can freeze the  funds designated for the Palestinian Authority, which now receives more than $500 million in American assistance each year. Israeli officials say the Palestinians stand to lose $100 million a month in tax revenue if they go ahead with the Nov. 29 vote.

The risks to Israel are enormous.

The Palestinian could join the Law of the Sea Treaty and effectively end Israel’s blockade.

The Treaty also gives the Palestinians full sovereign  rights over its airspace. The Palestinians could bring claims of violation of its airspace to the International Court of Justice.

The Palestinian authority also could dispute Israel’s claim on a gas field near Gaza at the International Court of Justice.

More troubling for Israel and the U.S. would be the Palestinian territories joining the International Criminal Court.

Abbas Zaki, member of the Fatah Central Committee, said Thursday  that once the status of a Palestinian state is upgraded, the Palestinians would be able to pursue Israel for “war crimes” in the International Criminal Court.  “Once we become a recognized state, we will go to all UN agencies to force the international community to take legal action against Israel,” Zaki told the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper.

He said that the Palestinian Authority would consider itself free of all its commitments under the agreements signed with Israel, including economic and security obligations.

The same U.N. that acted to set up Israel in 1947 is now taking steps dismantle that decision of 65 years ago and to further divide the land.  What Israel and the U.N. do not realize is that it is Gods land.  Israel is the beneficiaries of Gods faithfulness to His friend Abraham.

When the world gathers for their  universal destruction at the valley, will they know  why?  Will they remember the majority vote of 190 nations on November 29th, 2012?

Meanwhile the world forgets while   God says   Joel  3 v 2  I will gather the armies of the world into the valley of Jehoshaphat.  There I will judge them for harming my people, my special possession, for scattering my people Israel, among the nations, and for dividing up my land.

P.I.G.S. and Autocracy

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Twelve years ago, the G20 was established in 1999, in the wake of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, to bring together major advanced and emerging economies to stabilize the global financial market. To tackle the financial and economic crisis that spread across the globe in 2008, the G20 members were called upon to further strengthen international cooperation.

History’s first sovereign default came in the 4th century BC, committed by 10 Greek municipalities. There was one creditor: the temple of Delos, Apollo’s mythical birthplace. Twenty-four centuries later, Greece is at the edge of the biggest sovereign default by a government with 353 billion euros ($483 billion) of debt — five times the size of Argentina’s $95 billion default in 2001

This crisis is affecting the government debt of (P.I.G.S) Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain and the Euro itself is threatened.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde has called for countries to “act now and act together” to keep on the path to economic recovery. “We are by no means strangers, and we are linked by a common destiny,” she said at the meeting of the IMF and the World Bank in Washington.

“And these turbulent times must bind us ever closer together.”

Christine Lagarde, the boss of the International Monetary Fund, warned the chance of escaping a downturn was increasingly narrow. She said: “There are dark clouds over Europe and there is huge uncertainty in the US. And with that we could risk a collapse in global demand. There is growth. The bad news is that it is slow growth. The bad news is there are downside risks on the horizon – and they are piling up.”

Britain’s Chancellor George Osborne has warned that the euro zone has just six weeks to save the euro currency. “I think there is now quite a clear deadline set which is the Cannes summit in six weeks’ time,” he said in Washington DC this afternoon. “The euro zone has six weeks to resolve this political crisis.”

There is no political will in Europe and especially in Germany to sacrifice and pay the bills of Greece. European leaders are convinced that they can survive and “manage” a orderly default by Greece.

Banks in France and Germany scrambled to assure investors that they could survive their exposure to sovereign debt. Nobody knows what the total derivative exposure is, nor who the counter-parties are.

Worse, the debt crisis now engulfs Italy, which suffers from a stagnant economy and a staggering debt load of $2.5 trillion. Borrowing costs have hit painful levels for Rome, which has hastened to come up with an austerity plan to satisfy investors.

Any default by Greece would be completely dwarfed by a similar fate for Italy, whose size would overwhelm attempts by other members of the Euro zone to save it.

Hitler once pointed at the lack of political will of the 30 political parties as proof that a countries economic problems could not be solved by democratic paralysis. The I.M.F. and the U.N. and the G20 are again proving him right. We must accept that the coming economic ruin will give rise to the types as in the 1930’s,  Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Tito, and Franco.

Rev 17 v 12. “The ten horns which you saw are ten governments who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the leader for a short time. Rev 17 v 13. “These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to this leader.

A State of Palestine

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Mahmoud Abbas, who was 12 years old when the U.N. voted in 1947 to partition Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab.  Abbas’ predecessors, the Palestinian leaders of that earlier generation, rejected the partition plan, which envisaged a state on 44 per cent of the land.  So yesterday Friday Sept 23rd, the Palestinian president asked the 66th session of the  U.N.  to bless a Palestinian State on a terrain about half the size.  Its been 44 years since Israel took Palestine,  the West Bank from Jordan and Gaza from Egypt.

The Palestinian people are “long overdue” in their quest for an independent state, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday.   And I support also the statehood of Palestinians; an independent, sovereign state of Palestine. It has been long overdue,” Ban told reporters in Canberra.

There are two routes that Mr. Abbas is considering at the United Nations. His preference is to begin by applying through the 15-member Security Council for full membership.  The United States has vowed to use its veto there.

If that failed, he could then go directly to the 193-member General Assembly, where there is no veto and a pro-Palestinian majority. Around 140 countries are likely to support a Palestinian bid for statehood.  The General Assembly cannot grant United Nations membership to Palestine.  It can only declare it to be an “observer state”. But the key word is “state,” because that would allow it to join a host of international agencies and treaty groups, including the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, Unesco and others.

Once admitted to the U.N.  – a foregone conclusion — Palestine would join all international legal forums.     Palestinians would then be entitled to bring cases against Israeli officials, perhaps for actions related to building West Bank settlements viewed as illegal.  This issue worries the Israelis perhaps most of all,  as 500,000 Israeli’s  could find themselves trespassing.

A Palestinian decision to shift its statehood quest toward international legal and political pressure on Israel, combined with Israeli fear and truculence at a time of regional upheaval, has many predicting disaster. After after the storming of Israel’s Cairo embassy,  and the expulsion of its ambassador from Turkey, the Arab spring is creating political opportunity for Israels enemies.

“Israel is already facing hostility from Egypt, Turkey and Gaza,” a senior Western diplomat said. “It will react to a Palestinian statehood bid with punitive measures in the West Bank.  Congress will probably cut off aid to the Palestinians. The Palestinian Authority could collapse. We’re watching a potential train wreck.”

American diplomats were here last week warning Mr. Abbas of unforeseen consequences from his statehood bid. Palestinians have nothing to lose and they will be heading to the UN in a non-reversible move,”  Abbas said.  There is no good outcome for Israel.  America’s  threat to veto the bid at the Security Council puts it on the side of Israel against the wishes of 140 U.N.  members.

The tactics of making Palestinians the victims, and Israel the villain,  are the same tactics that allowed Britain and France to throw Czechoslovakia under a German bus in September 1938,  in the policy of appeasement.  Again Germany and France and Britain are giving silent approval to this division of land.

Meanwhile the world forgets,  God says   Joel  3 v 2  I will gather the armies of the world into the valley of Jehoshaphat.  There I will judge them for harming my people, my special possession, for scattering my people Israel, among the nations, and for dividing up my land.

Is 7 billion significant?

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It took 123 years for the world to double from one billion in 1804 to two billion in 1927. From 1987, when the number hit five billion, it took just 11 years to add a billion more.  Within the last half century, the population boomed to less than 7 billion from 3 billion. By 2050, the population will reach 9.3 billion, and 97 percent of the growth will be in less developed regions. 

The world’s 7 billionth person will be born Oct. 31, 2011  in India, according to a projection by researchers working with data from the United Nations.

Where a growing population will live is not the thrust of the problem, said the UN, which estimates that the world’s entire population, standing shoulder to shoulder, could fit in the city of Los Angeles.  The challenges are high birthrates, dwindling resources such as food and water, coupled with increasing life expectancy.

“In the 1960s and 1970s, people expected a population bomb,” a UN researcher said in a telephone interview. “Now, we have mini-bombs going off in the most fragile parts of the world. Issues of inequality and poverty may spill over from less- developed countries, which will not be good for their neighbors or the rest of the world

The greatest challenge facing the world is that the highest birthrates are concentrated in the poorest countries.  Trapped in a cycle of poverty, lack of education and opportunities the cycle is repeated with the next early pregnancy.  “They are married away too often, too early and they bear children too early.  So they never meet their potential,” said a researcher.

Growth in Africa remains so high that the population there could more than triple in this century, rising from today’s one billion to 3.6 billion, the report said — a sobering forecast for a continent already struggling to provide food and water for its people.

That is particularly so for some fast-growing countries whose populations are projected to skyrocket over the next century. For instance, Yemen, a country whose population has quintupled since 1950, to 25 million, would see its numbers quadruple again, to 100 million, by century’s end, if the projections prove accurate. Yemen already depends on food imports and faces critical water shortages.

In Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, the report projects that population will rise from today’s 162 million to 730 million by 2100. Malawi, a country of 15 million today, could grow to 129 million, the report projected.

The  assumption behind these numbers is that food and water will be available for the billions yet unborn, and that potential catastrophes including climate change, wars or epidemics will not serve as a brake on population growth. “It is quite possible for several of these countries that are smallish and have fewer resources, these numbers are just not sustainable,” Dr. Zlotnik said.

Is Seven Billion significant to God?  We strain our eyes into the future and excite our imagination with the possibilities presented in the events around us.   It has been 490 (7×70) years since Luther and October 31st is also Reformation day.

The bible speaks of a future time when the fullness of the Gentiles will have come in,  and then the focus shifts to Israel.  So God does keep a count.

Israels new found wealth.

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The Torah states that Israel would “suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.” (Deut 32:13) That Zebulun and Issachar “shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.” (Deut 33:19) And that Asher would “dip his foot in oil.” (Duet 33:24)

The recent finds of oil and gas have put Israel on the map with the great energy discoveries.  Data indicates that Israeli oil shale reserves could be about 250 billion barrels (that compares with 260 billion barrels of the proven reserves of Saudi Arabia).

New estimates mean “Israel may emerge as the 3rd largest deposit of oil shale, after the US and China.”  The US Geological Survey estimates that there are 122 trillion cubic feet of gas in the Levant Basin, most of which is within Israel’s jurisdiction.

These reserves will shape Israel’s relationships in the Middle East. Israel has contracted to supply Egypt with 4.5 billion cubic meters of gas annually from its Tamar offshore field, to meet the economy’s desperate shortage of energy. Israel, which already sells gas to Jordan, will shortly become Egypt’s biggest gas supplier.

All this verifies the motives, and authenticates scripture in describing the coming attack on Israel.

Ezekiel 38:1-6  The word of the Lord came to me; Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; prophesy against him and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:  I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.  I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army –  Persia, Cush and Put also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops – the many nations

Ezekiel 38:1-7 gives 9 (number of judgment 3×3) names as participants in the invasion of Israel,  that will follow the regathering of the Jews to their homeland in 1948.   Turkey is that Meshech and Beth Togarmah,  while Iran is Persia, also clearly named.

An Islamic leader will arise to bring together a great coalition of nations to invade Israel.  As in the days of  Pharaoh God will bring them out to exalt His name over the heathen…and begin to show Himself to Israel and the nations.

God tells us that they also come to “seize plunder…and to capture great spoil“.  Many verses in the Quran (Koran)  advocated plundering for the benefit of Islam.

Ezekiel 38:13  “Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will say to you, ‘Have you come to capture spoil?  Have you assembled your company to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capture great spoil?

The false messiah – this leader of an Islamic invasion is but a straw man,  and he will leave 5 of 6 of his troops dead on the mountains of Israel,  as God once again intervenes for Israel. Given the Arab Spring and political shifts – these prophesied alliances are very realistic. Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia will sit this one out.

Ezekiel 38:23 So I will 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   Ezekiel 39:2 And I will turn Gog and Magog back, and leave but the sixth part of them, and will cause them to come up from the north parts and will bring them to the mountains of Israel:

This war is but a preliminary event for what follows – which will be global in scale.   Do not confuse common greed and Islamic hatred of Israel,  for the one who craves the worship of the planet.  This is but the beginning of sorrows…and the Mahdi or  “12th Imam” are but the transparent stepping-stones of the real deception.

Israel and Turkey once allies?

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Israel’s souring relations with onetime ally Turkey took a turn for the worse Friday September 2nd as Turkey announced it would formally expel Israel’s ambassador and suspend military agreements.  Relations between Turkey and Israel have worsened since Israeli forces boarded the Mavi Marmara aid ship in May last year as it was heading for Gaza. Nine Turkish activists were killed during the raid. Israel has refused to apologize and said its troops acted in self-defense.

  • Turkey’s recent decision to increase its naval presence in the eastern Mediterranean – and not just to deter Israeli operations against Gaza activists – is a serious one. Turkey is protesting against the exploration of gas reserves by the government of Cyprus, because it does not recognize the area as Cypriot territorial waters. Israel has recognized them, and hopes to source future natural gas supplies there.
  • Turkish officials have hinted that they might impose economic sanctions, file legal actions against Israel in international courts and assist Palestinians in their upcoming U.N. bid for statehood recognition.
  •  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also threatened to make an official visit to Hamas-controlled Gaza, affording legitimacy to an enclave that Israel has worked to isolate.
  • Turkey has suspended diplomatic and military relations with Israel, expelling its top diplomats while Turkey had withdrawn its diplomats after the Gaza Flotilla incident.

“Today, we reached a point where Israel has, in fact, spent all the chances that were given to them. The Israeli government, however, see themselves (as being) above international laws and human conscience,” the Turkish Foreign Minister  said.

Minister Tayyip Erdogan this week coolly moved his country step by provocative step towards an armed clash with Israel – not just over the Palestinian issue, but because he covets the gas and oil resources of the eastern Mediterranean opposite Israel’s shores.

Thursday night, Sept. 8, he announced that Turkish warships will escort any Turkish aid vessels for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In his remarks to Al Jazeera television, the Turkish prime minister also said he had taken steps “to stop Israel from unilaterally exploiting natural resources from the eastern Mediterranean.” Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan saw “grounds for war” with Israel last year after a deadly raid on a Turkish ship headed for Gaza, according to a transcript of a recent interview.

If Turkish ships breach the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza, which a UN report last week pronounced legitimate under international law, Erdogan will become the first Muslim leader to embark on military action in the Palestinian cause. The Arab nations which fought Israel time after time in the past will be made to look ineffectual and the Turkish leader the regional big shot.

Even Iran would be put in the shade for never daring to provoke Israel the way Turkey has. The Turkish prime minister clings to the belief that the foremost Arab powers, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which have watched his maneuvers with deep suspicion, will have no choice but to play ball with him now that he has confronted Israel. The first crack in the Arab ice came about Thursday, Sept. 8, in the form of Egyptian consent to join the Turkish Navy in sea maneuvers in the eastern Mediterranean.

Support for Ankara suggested that Israel ought to get used to the fact that this is a “new Turkey,” that Israel must realize this is not the 1990s when Israel maintained working relations with the Turkish government and the Turkish army, “and showed disdain for what the public really wanted.” Meanwhile the generals that supported relations with Israel have long been jailed or have retired.

Turkey wants political clout and opposing Israel is a politically a unifying path to get there.