Joel Rosenberg Flash e-mail: Apocoalyptic storm brewing in the ME

[mikalikat]

My Lord, what exciting times we are living in, everyone. Keep in prayer for those lost and those experiencing hard times.

APOCALYPTIC STORM BREWING IN MIDEAST

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* Transcript of interview on Glenn Beck Show last week
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* Link to Joel's new "Epicenter Team" on Facebook

By Joel C. Rosenberg

(WASHINGTON, D.C., October 5, 2009) -- Events are moving so quickly in the epicenter it can be difficult to keep track of, much less understand the big picture. So here it is in a sentence: An apocalpytic storm is forming over the Middle East.

Consider the data points:

1. Iran has just been caught secretly building a 2nd uranium enrichment facilityon a military base in the religious capital of Iran, a city known as Qom;

2. A growing number of Western military analysts say the design of this new facility - and its secrecy, and location - clearly indicates it was being built by Iran for the purpose of creating nuclear weapons;

3. Iran has thus been caught in its third lie since 2002 with regards to building secret nuclear development facilities in Natanz, Arak, and now Qom;

4. Ahmadinejad refused four times during his NBC News interview last week to rule out the building of nuclear weapons;

5. A.Q. Khan - the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons development program - has just admitted selling advanced nuclear weapons blueprints years ago to Iran for millions of dollars;

6. The latest IAEA report indicates Iran has enough low-enriched uranium (LEU) to produce enough high-enriched uranium (HEU) by 2010 to produce two nuclear weapons;

7. Iran has just spent the weekend testing "its most advanced missiles" capable of reaching Israel;

8. Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began his speech to the U.N. by praying for Allah to hasten the coming of the Islamic Messiah, which according to his theology requires the destruction of Judeo-Christian civilization as we know it.

9. Ahmadinejad spoke more openly about his End of the World theology during his U.N. speech than ever before;

10. Ahmadinejad was asked for the first time by an American reporter to describe his relationship with the "Twelfth Imam" and admitted on camera that he is communicating with this mystical Shia messiah;

Humanly speaking, war is coming. The West does not seem determined enough to stop Iran from getting the Bomb. So unless the Lord intervenes, Israel might soon feel compelled to launch a preemptive strike against Iran. It won't be easy, and the entire region could go up in flames.

[bghtnpd4]

Yep, it's definitely brewing...

[Inky]

I know people that are just as happy watching TV and Obama as doing anything else all the while our world is getting closer to war by the minute, and not a conventional war, but a nuclear exchange that will pull the entire world into it. Can you imagine if we are still here while this is happening? There will be runs on banks and money, food, gas, water, there will be fighting in our streets. I mean really, I agree with Joel on this, war is brewing.

By the way, this could start tomorrow.

[Suzanne]

Yep, it's definitely brewing...

I agree!

[Keith]

I know people that are just as happy watching TV and Obama as doing anything else all the while our world is getting closer to war by the minute, and not a conventional war, but a nuclear exchange that will pull the entire world into it. Can you imagine if we are still here while this is happening? There will be runs on banks and money, food, gas, water, there will be fighting in our streets. I mean really, I agree with Joel on this, war is brewing.

By the way, this could start tomorrow.

Yes, it could happen at anytime.

[KR McKay]

Everyone!

See also: Apocalyptic Storm Brewing in Mideast!

[Faith]

Personally I believe the Psalms 83 War will be before the Ez. 38 & 39 War.

The reason why I believe this is:

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. Ez. 38:11

Right now Irsrael is not living 'peacefully',and they are living in 'walled villages'.

Only through the Psalms War will they live outside the walled villages,and temporary peacefully...

Explains the nations involved in Psalms War are not involved in Ez War.

No one really knows if these wars will be 'before' or 'after' the Rapture.

Staying in the News,and watching is sooo important today...

And I encourage you to look at the pictures of the 'walls'. Sorry, but I wish Texas has these walls upon our borders....
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The burden against Damascus (Capitol of Syria).

Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,
and it will be a ruinous heap. Isaiah 17
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Is it a Fence? Is it a Wall?

No, it's a Separation Barrier

www.vtjp.org/background/separation_wall_com

Why we call it a 'wall'
Most of Israel's barrier is being constructed of fortified fencing. Near populated areas, however, it typically becomes a 26- foot high concrete wall. So most Palestinians know the "fence" as The Wall.

This monument to exclusion and intolerance has been give many names, including security fence, separation fence, security barrier, separation barrier, separation wall, apartheid wall, Sharon's Wall, and annexation wall.

The World Court calls it a gross violation of international law and basic human rights. Yet Israel is continuing to build the wall in several regions of the West Bank. - VTJP, May 2005

[Includes photos and graphics] Israel's Separation Barrier, dubbed the "Apartheid Wall" or "Berlin Wall" by Palestinians, has increasingly attracted international media attention, largely due to the hard-to-ignore scale of the project. The most obvious historical parallel to the barrier is the Berlin Wall, which was 96 miles long (155 kilometers). Israel's barrier, still under construction, is expected to reach at least 403 miles in length (650 kilometers). The average height of the Berlin Wall was 11.8 feet (3.6 metres), compared with the maximum* current height of Israel's Wall -- 25 feet (8 metres). [*it is not clear whether the shorter fence sections, about 6 meters in height, are first or final stages in Israel's construction of the barrier.]

Israel's barrier is therefore planned to be four times as long and in places twice as high as the Berlin Wall.

Photographs of the barrier available on the wire services show two main types of section -- a wall made of concrete or concrete/fence combination, and a fence-only version of the barrier. Some references in the media suggest that the two main forms of the barrier correspond to differing levels of implementation of security by Israel, with the wall sections reserved for areas perceived as "especially vulnerable", the fence sections for areas less so.

It is not so simple. In addition to the concrete wall and fencing materials used in the construction of the structure, sections of Israel's Separation Barrier additionally include electrified fencing, two-meter-deep trenches, roads for patrol vehicles, electronic ground/fence sensors, thermal imaging and video cameras, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), sniper towers, and razor wire.

At this point in time it is not known exactly what proportions of the length of the barrier is fence versus wall, or if the fence is merely a temporary state until a wall can be built in all areas but -- nonetheless -- the wall unquestionably represents a considerable portion of the visible manifestation of the barrier. more..


A sunset in Qalqiliya. The sun now sets behind the wall. (Photo by S'ra DeSantis)

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Bad Fences Make Bad Neighbors - Fact Sheet -Apartheid Wall
Health Development Information and Policy Institute (HDIP) 12/1/2002
(Produced by Palestinian Negotiating Team) -- The UN General Assembly DEMANDS that Israel stop and reverse the construction of the wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem, which is in departure of the Armistice Line of 1949 and is in contradiction to relevant provisions of international law. (A/ES-10/L.15; A/RES/ES-10/13 of 21 October 2003)

The construction of the Israeli separation wall began on the 16th June 2002. For the most part the barrier, which could eventually extend over 750km, consists of a series of 25 foot high concrete walls, trenches, barbed wire and electrified fencing with numerous watch towers, electronic sensors, thermal imaging and video cameras, unmanned aerial vehicles, sniper towers, and roads for patrol vehicles.

The Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign’s most recent map of the Wall’s path, finalized November 2003, reveals that if completed in its entirety, nearly 50% of the West Bank population will be affected by the Wall through loss of land, imprisonment into ghettos, or isolation into Israeli de facto annexed areas1 .

Israel maintains that the Wall is a temporary structure to physically separate the West Bank from Israel and thus to prevent suicide attacks on Israeli citizens. However the wall’s location, (in some places reaching up to 6km inside Palestinian territory), and projected length, (currently 750km, despite a border with Israel of less than 200km), suggest it is more realistically an additional effort to confiscate Palestinian land, facilitate further colony expansion and unilaterally redraw geopolitical borders all the while encouraging an exodus of Palestinians by denying them the ability to earn a living from their land, reach their schools or work places, access adequate water resources, or reach essential health care. Moving the Border Perhaps undue attention has been given to the wall, primarily because it is assumed it follows the Green Line - the internationally recognized border that existed between Israel and the West Bank until the war of 1967

[KR McKay]

Personally I believe the Psalms 83 War will be before the Ez. 38 & 39 War.

The reason why I believe this is:

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. Ez. 38:11

Right now Israel is not living 'peacefully',and they are living in 'walled villages'.

Only through the Psalms War will they live outside the walled villages,and temporary peacefully...

Explains the nations involved in Psalms War are not involved in Ez War....

Very true.

Also, Ezekiel 39:11 says, "...I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea..." The place described is CURRENTLY in present-day JORDAN. It will only be "IN ISRAEL" after the Psalm 83 War. Therefore, Psalm 83 MUST precede Gog/Magog...