Friday, May 14, 2010

The Pointed Gun and Finger on the Trigger - The Prophetic Stirring

If you handle firearms as I have, you know this adage. Never point your weapon at anything or anyone you don't intend to kill. That goes double for placing your finger on the trigger.

Many in the prophetic community are starting to sense that there is a finger on a trigger. That in the next few months, this summer, there will be war in the Middle East. A Rabbi has been traveling around Israel trying to discern the times.

Here's part of his observation:
It's a two by two table. Either Israel takes the first round or strikes first. Either Tel Aviv gets the first BIG hit or Jerusalem. While the obvious scenario is with Tel Aviv, the market center getting hit, there is far more potency for Iran to strike Jerusalem hard. I'll come back to this later. No one here has any doubt that Iran has a big weapon and that they will use it. To play the American Game (like in 1991) will mean that Israel will have to wait for Iran to fire first. The longer that time plays out, the greater the risk that the first strike will be atomic. A Hiroshima sized weapon will hurt.

For Israel to attack first will immediately set off rocket bombardments from Syria and Hizbullah. The lunatics in Hamastan will also join in but they will be the first to feel the IDF fist. There will be no pulling punches this time. The question is whether the West Bankers will also open fire. The general Israeli feeling, given their training, is that the expectation is that all hell will break loose.

Israel has required all new housing to include bomb shelters--BIG ones built into the foundations of all new constructions--iron, steel, and thick concrete. These things will hold; so, the majority of damage will be real estate. Ironically, those at risk are those who have been flaunting the housing codes--many of the Israeli Arabs in the north. As in 2006, rockets can't tell the difference between believers and infidels.

In 2006, Hizbullah lacked both accuracy and power. This will not be the case in this war. Their fire power is hot and heavy. But they are up against a professional army that has been drilling and preparing constantly for the last four years under a tough and charismatic infantry soldier. This will not be an IAF war. The IDF is prepared. After the missiles, expect the Israelis response to be strong.

For a country where officials are not accountable in local elections directly to the electorate, there is a lot of road building, resurfacing, and repair going on. Virtually EVERY major roadway has been resurfaced right down to the matrix. Amazing. One might say that these roads are now able to handle loads of up to 50 tons on 18 wheels.
Read his whole analysis of what the summer war might be like. It's stirring.

There are observations made by some people on this side of the ocean.

Hizbullah is being armed to the teeth by Syria.
The Scud-D has been around for decades; why is it being transferred to Hezbollah at this particular moment? There are two likely reasons:
(1) the White House has become the most prominent Western critic of Israel, and Syria is confident that President Obama will not do much to either punish an Israeli enemy or speak clearly in Israel's defense;
(2) under the Obama Doctrine, many enemies of America are treated with kindness in order to prove that they should not fear us, under the theory that once the fear is gone, there will be very little to obstruct the progression of smooth relations. The engagement policy thus requires the overlooking of all kinds of bad behavior.
A writer in the Jerusalem Post the other day wrote this

Time to plan for war


In the coming war, Israel will have only one goal: to destroy or seriously damage Iran’s nuclear installations. Every resource turned against Iran’s proxies must be aimed at facilitating that goal. That is, the only thing Israel should seek to accomplish in contending with Syria, Hizbullah and Hamas is to prevent them from diverting Israeli resources away from attacking Iran’s nuclear installations.

This means that Israel must launch a preemptive strike against Hizbullah’s missiles and missile launchers, Syria’s missiles, artillery and launchers, and Hamas’s missiles and launchers. As for their short-range rockets, Israel should do its best to intercept them and otherwise hunker down to weather the storm of Katyushas and Kassams. Life of the homefront won’t be easy. But it won’t be impossible either, as we saw in 2006.
Israel is ready for war. Almost like national suicide bombers, the Islamic Countries are preparing for what will be certain death for their nations. Israel is poised to destroy them totally.

The Prophetic Stirring is for August. When Kings go out to war.

I don't have a clear word on this. There is much quiet preparation on both sides. The world will not watch this one from the sidelines. This event will have great impact spiritually, politially and economically. This is NOT the beginning of the war of Armageddon. This is a foreshadow.

When it happens, and I say WHEN because I believe the time is near, here are some of the ramifications:

  • Many countries will come against Israel for it's intense response. They will excuse the attack from Islamic Countries. I believe that the current administration will be among these critics. This will cause even more division in this country than ever. The result will be geophysically devastating
  • This will mobilize a strange alliance of the Jewish people who normally vote liberal in the USA and the Tea Party, not in rallies but in opposition to our tepid support leading to none of Israel.
  • The stock and commodity markets will go thru huge reactions to this event. Higher gold and Oil...to $150, and a stock market in the High 5000's. It will become a new trading range.
  • The mobilization of people to change our congress will accelerate. People will be intense. There will even be calls for the President to resign. Israel is a trigger and the Finger is on it.
  • Our lives will change if an when this happens. This will be a pivotal event. The world's economy s so weak this will tip it over.
  • Russia and China will come out stronger from this...that will lead to a move to "Settle Things". You know the book of Revelation. Look for that to come to pass.

Ignoring God's hand on Israel is not only foolish, but blindness.

Time to plan for war

5 comments:

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Anonymous said...

I am trying hard to be civil... if God is showing you this prophetically it is NOT to sit back and declare it but to humble yourself and pray so that God can heal the land. I have averted many disasters in prayer - God has NEVER shown me something without the intent of taking action in prayer. Our weapons of warfare are mighty for the pulling down of strongholds. If you are TRULY a man of God you will proclaim hope and not death. Redemption not destruction

Gene said...

Anon,
Many times I get a glimpse of things to come. This is that. If I measure up or not as a Man of God is only dependent on one person....and HE is not you....nor me. I will stand before the Great Judge in Eternity. My call is as the watchman. Evidently your call is to stand in the gap in prayer. I will pray, but I will not soften the warning to make people feel better. Why? To what end? I sound the alarm that we might be prepared and unsurprised by this event. I see redemption in this...out of the ashes. A Lazarus resurrection.

For that I pray.

My mandate is clear:
1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: 3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; 4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. 6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. 7 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. 8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. (Ezekiel 33:1-9)

Anonymous said...

For God SO loved the World that He sent His only Begotten Son to die, so that all who believe in Him shall not die but have everlasting life?

Death and Destruction is entirely the consequence of sin .... "for the wages of sin is death". There is only one who roams about "like a roaring lion seeking those whom he can kill and destroy" ... if there is destruction it is not judgement it is a consequence of the actions of man. The actions of man are often sinful which has death as it's consequence. The cross is and always be God's redemption plan for a fallen world .... any OT based idea of destruction as a means to an end fails to comprehend the nature of God which is as I quoted above ... for God SO LOVED the world.

We are the agents of destruction. Satan is given permission to destroy through sin. God may USE those to get an otherwise stiffnecked and stubborn people to turn to Him but He is not the author of destruction. He does not CAUSE it to happen. In love He may ALLOW it to happen IF we fail to take action. If we FAIL to turn to Him for salvation. If we FAIL to breakdown the strongholds in prayer - to bind the strongman in the situation, in the nation, in our cities, in our homes. I know intercession has been discredited because intercessors have relied too heavily on rote prayer and failed to pray as directed by the Spirit however this does not mean that our weapons are not mighty for the pulling down of strongholds, for the destruction of powers and principalities.

The ability to see (or prophecy) is an essential requirement to true intercession and I cannot see that a prophet is not ALSO an intercessor for how can you see and fail to also see what needs to be done? The two functions go hand in hand to such an extent that I cannot imagine functioning in one and not the other - to prophesy is to see, to see is to act.

Are you not overwhelmed with compassion and sadness for the destruction, for the deaths, for the innocents on all sides who will die because of hatred and fear?

I am sorry ... I am compelled to say this ... everyone who receives such a word cannot and must not fall into an OT based idea (which is wrong anyway) of a God who brings destruction in order to save. That has never been God's way. Even in the OT He always held out a hand of salvation. Where is the hand of salvation in that message? Where is the 'if My people humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways I will heal their land'? component?

Ron McK said...

You would be a better prophet,
if this stuff made you sad, not glad.