September 11, 2007
THREE DAY WAR
ON IRAN?
Compiled by Craig Fain
Comments Included
Introduction
by Doug Krieger
News coming out of both the Middle East and the US portends a most caustic scenario—one that casual observers into Middle East kaleidoscopes recognize . . . indeed, certain “configurations” connote imminent confrontation, and this time, on a massive scale.
The montage of articles coagulated by Craig Fain are not designed to scare the livin’ daylights out of you—their express purpose is for you to understand the times in which we live and that you, if you’re a believer, had better get seriously ready to testify in the midst of Babylon; furthermore, a little practice about now wouldn’t hurt either!
Prior to the Antichrist—and his “manifestation” will be most subtlety disclosed over the final days prior to his signature upon that dastardly document known as “Your Treaty-Covenant with Death, your Agreement with Hell-Sheol”—the “end of the war” (viz., the Syrophenician War No. 7 or the Arab-Israeli Conflict, now approaching its “seventieth stage”) will take place. It is known as the ORACLE OF DAMASCUS, the BURDEN OF DAMASCUS and is prophesied in Zechariah 9 and Isaiah 17. (See also: Isaiah 28:15, 18 and Daniel 9:26b)
This final phase of the Arab-Israeli Conflict will result in the exhaustion of secular Zionism, the complete destruction of Damascus, Syria (which the Bible forecasts will “become a ruinous heap”), and the miraculous spiritual revival of those nations immediately surrounding Israel following the disaster—they shall turn to the Lord! (Isaiah 17:4-8)
The “constellation of nations” involved in this calamity are clearly delineated in prophetic Scriptures, and their configurations are a prelude to those conglomerates which shall shortly evolve within the Seventieth Week of Daniel in preparation for the Gog-Magog War.
These latter-day “nations” or “peoples” opposed to Israel during the final Arab-Israeli Conflict which we have entitled, the Syrophenician War (#7 since 1948) include:
SYRIA – Zechariah 9:1-2a; Isaiah 17:1- (a.k.a. “Hamath” – the Syrian Baathists)
LEBANON – Zechariah 9:1b-4 (a.k.a. Tyre and Sidon – Hezbollah)
GAZA – Zechariah 9:5-7 (a.k.a. Ashkelon, Gaza itself, Ekron, Ashdod, and in sum, the Philistines - Hamas)
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY – Isaiah 17:3a (a.k.a. Stronghold of Ephraim)
Again,
this is NOT the Gog-Magog War (Ezekiel 38:1-39:16) but the “end of the war”
(Daniel 9:26b) and prior to the signing of the comprehensive “peace accord”
between the revelation of the Antichrist and “the many” (Daniel 9:27 - the
majority of Israeli citizens).
Iran’s involvement in this final conflict prior to the Seventieth Week of Daniel’s prophecy (Daniel 9:24-27) is NOT ambiguous. She’s embodied and emboldened by the “Prince of Persia” (Daniel 10:13, 20).
It is shortly after, and into the Seventieth Week of Daniel, when Israel’s security is seemingly underwritten by the “Prince of the Covenant” (Daniel 11:22) and she dwells in “unwalled villages” (i.e., the infamous “WALL” is torn down via the “peace accord” wherein Israel’s security is underwritten by the Antichrist—Ezekiel 38:8-12)—though his full manifestation as such is not recognizable until the manifestation of the BEAST, half-way through the Seventieth Week of Daniel (cf. II Thessalonians 2:1-12; Revelation 11:7; 12:7-9, 12-13, 17; 13:1-7).
The question abides – will an immediate war on Iran—now suggested to be a takeout of thousands of Iranian targets, virtually the entire Iranian military obliterated, along with her nuclear program – all by the USA—commence this process? Undoubtedly, Syrian, based upon her alliances with Iran, would immediately trigger the conflict to the Eastern Mediterranean Theater.
Indeed, Persia/Iran is Biblically poised to descend, as the King of the North, upon Israel in the Latter Days – but how “Latter” is in question? Her involvement seems predictable in BOTH conflicts – but the lion’s share of the hostilities will be galvanized around Syria, her allies juxtaposed over and against Israel proper.
Hence, the Gog-Magog conflict, involving Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Libya and Sudan, against the West (the Ships of Tarsish) and her Arab allies (Iraq, by her omission from the radicalized Moslem states; Jordan (ancient Ammon and Moab); and, the nations of the Saudi Arabian Peninsula (ancient Sheba and Dedan) (please see Ezekiel 38:1-13; Daniel 11:40-43) takes place after the signing of the infamous Treaty.
Russian and
Chinese engagement with Antichrist do not take place until after this “second
conflict,” leading to the final Battle of Armageddon which appears in Daniel
11:44-45 and in Ezekiel 39:17-20 and, finally
Revelation 19:17-21; 16:16) – it occurs immediately after the rapture of the
Two Witnesses in Revelation 11:11-12 (i.e., AFTER the conclusion of Daniel’s
Seventieth Week), 
whereupon
the “Wrath of the Lamb” is poured out upon those “who destroy the earth,”
leading to Armageddon wherein there is an horrific struggle between Antichrist
of the West and the Kings of the East, all over Israel proper.
Hence, all of these most recent developments are NOT peripheral in the sum total of prophetic import—we, very possibly, could be awaiting the ORACLE OF DAMASCUS with Persian participation, triggered by the USA and the THREE-DAY WAR ON IRAN!
The Next War?
By
Arnaud de Borchgrave
(September 3, 2007)
BERN, Switzerland
After a brief interruption of his New Hampshire vacation to meet President Bush in the family compound at Kennebunkport, Maine, French President Nicolas Sarkozy came away convinced his U.S. counterpart is serious about bombing Iran’s secret nuclear facilities. That’s the reading as it filtered back to Europe’s foreign ministries:
Addressing
the annual meeting of France’s ambassadors to 188 countries, Mr. Sarkozy said
either Iran lives up to its international obligations and relinquishes its
nuclear ambitions — or it will be bombed into compliance. Mr. Sarkozy also
made it clear he did not agree with the Iranian-bomb-or-bombing-of-Iran
position, which reflects the pledge of Mr. Bush to his loyalists, endorsed by
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Sen. Joe
Lieberman, Connecticut Independent. But Mr. Sarkozy recognized unless Iran’s
theocrats stop enriching uranium to weapons-grade levels under inspection by
the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), we will all be “faced with an
alternative that I call catastrophic.”
A ranking Swiss official privately said, “Anyone with a modicum of experience in the Middle East knows that any bombing of Iran would touch off at the very least regional instability and what could be an unmitigated disaster for Western interests.”
Leaks
about the administration’s plan to brand Iran’s 125,000-strong Revolutionary
Guards a global terrorist organization is widely interpreted as a major step
on the escalator to military action. Belatedly, Saudi Arabia, the world’s
largest oil producer, has signed a contract with Lockheed Martin for the
training of 35,000 elite guards to be assigned to protect the kingdom’s widely
scattered oil installations. With 25 percent of the world’s oil reserves,
Riyadh has earmarked $5 billion to train and field as soon as possible a
high-tech force. Eighteen months ago, the desert kingdom was jolted by an al
Qaeda terrorist squad that managed to penetrate the first two layers of
defenses at Abqaiq, the nerve center of the entire oil infrastructure.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has now stated publicly his country holds the key to the conditions of a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq . Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq , much criticized by the United States for his lack of leadership, and who has been deserted by half his Cabinet, is much praised in Tehran, where he has gone twice in 11 months to confer with Iranian leaders. Mr. Ahmadinejad also says Iran is ready to fill the power vacuum in Iraq following a U.S. withdrawal. “The political power of the occupiers is collapsing rapidly,” he said, “and soon we will see a huge power vacuum in the region.”
The United States is not alone in trying to prove Mr. Ahmadinejad's geopolitical weather forecast wrong. Saudi Arabia and its five Gulf Cooperation Council allies in the Gulf, Egypt and Jordan, are terrified at the idea of Iraq falling under Iranian domination.
Hoping to head off a U.S.-Iran military confrontation, European countries are still pinning their hopes on major Iranian concessions at the International Atomic Energy Commission in Vienna. Iran is back to cooperating with IAEA — but only one comma or semicolon at a time. The three European Union countries acting as U.S. surrogates on nuclear matters with Iran, and IAEA chief Mohamed El Baradei, detect progress where the U.S. sees only stalling. Iran is still resisting short-notice inspections of sites that are not officially declared nuclear facilities, and where secret nuclear work is believed to be taking place.
Tehran’s only objective at the IAEA and the U.N. Security Council is to head off further economic sanctions from its major EU trading partners. Thus the mantra that its only interest in nuclear matters is as an alternative source of energy in a country already awash in oil taxes credulity.
Both the Bush administration and Israel are painstakingly fashioning a casus belli with Iran. For Israel, the training and weapons support Iran furnishes Hezbollah in Lebanon (now with more rockets of all kinds than it had before the 2006 war when it fired 4,000 into Israel) and Hamas in Gaza (now equipped with Katyusha rockets and a range of 10.6 miles), coupled with Mr. Ahmadinejad’s existential threats against the Jewish state, are sufficient evidence to justify air attacks against Iran’s nuclear facilities. And for the White House, there is daily evidence of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards meddling in Iraq, from improved explosive devices made in Iran to behind-the-scenes dominance in the affairs of the oil-rich south.
Arnaud de Borchgrave is editor at large of The Washington Times and of United Press International.