Syria: The World and Israel's Tipping Point Into Chaos, or The Rise of the Antichrist and How I Learned to Love The Bomb

Good day, y'all.  

Yes, I realize my title for today's blog entry has a Blake Edwards feel to it.  You remember the movie Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Love The Bomb)?  

Today's blog is going to feel about as off-the-wall as that movie.  I am going to be using a lot of biblical references, as always, to reinforce my comments.  So, if you don't want to know what time it is, or just how close it is to the Church being called out of this world, go about your business, don't bother reading this, reinsert your head and give your colon a nice french kiss.  But, if you want to get truly excited, or terrified, as to where we stand and based on your relationship with Jesus Christ, read on and follow the bouncing ball........

Let's get to it.

September 5, 2013, 12:43 p.m. (the time I'm writing this--events are moving so fast I feel I need to document the time to keep up with things).  Even though the Syrian crisis has been going on for quite some time, I have been sitting back until now compiling my thoughts and waiting to see what Commander Chicken (Obama) and Captain Fantastic (John Kerry) are going to do.  

First, I want to point out something that not a lot of people have noticed:  John Kerry, for all his faults, and for being the consummate ignoramus progressive that he is, knows a lot of the same ignoramus progressives that are running the political game in the rest of the world.  He spoke somewhat eloquently at the UN about the gassing of innocents in Syria, and I think, over-spoke his bounds.  His boss, the Cowardly Lion, I'm sorry, Commander Chicken, had to put a choke chain on him and yank him down a little bit.  When he spoke a few days later, his speech sounded much more in line with the administration's thoughts and ideas.  I presume that it was because what he had said before in front of the UN didn't play well in the Oval Office.  Obama doesn't like it when you back him into a corner, that's HIS job, a corner which would force him to cut bait or get off the pot.  Hillary never dared do that and we got Benghazi over it.  John Kerry just had his first lesson in what a putrid little coward Obama is and how he doesn't have a clue as to how to govern or lead.   It's one thing to lead from behind.  Obama's like the proverbial South Vietnamese soldier my stepdad used to see in battle:  Always running the other way with a weapon that he only dropped once and never fired. 

If you think I despise this current president and administration, you're right, though despise is a harsh word.  I feel sorry for him.  He is pitiful.  He is by far worse than Jimmy Carter or John Tyler or William Henry Harrison combined.  What Obama lacks in positive character traits he more than makes up for in deceit, the ability to lie, while looking you and the world square in the face, and the audacity to believe that we buy into what he is selling.  Apparently he's letting his feelings show because this week, while in Europe, he complained about the things that people say about him over here. 

I would be remiss if I didn't give a good high and hearty hello to the NSA, NSC, CIA, FBI, and all the other alphabet agencies that are watching my every word and every move.  How you doin'?

A lot of theories have been tossed out about why we have to strike Syria.  Why we have to go in there and punish Assad for using chemical weapons.  While it is true that chemical weapons were deployed, a smoking gun has yet to come up that shows Assad's responsible.  Let's get one thing perfectly clear:  I can't stand Bashar Al Assad.  I think he's a chinless, gutless wonder.  A despicable tyrant whose very existence I deeply frown upon.  And that takes me back to my TOTAL disapproval of President Gerald Ford's Executive Order outlawing the act of ballistic removal of dictators and leaders hostile to world peace and our national interests.  I think the whole Assad family should have faced that policy head on.  Let's face it, Syria is nothing more than a puppet regime for Iran.  They get funding and munitions from Iran.  Iran smuggles their weapons of war and armies of terrorists into Lebanon and Israel.  Originally, Lebanon was a nation created as a place for Middle Eastern Christians to have a home and to escape the persecution of Islamic regimes in the rest of the Middle East.  

The Bible speaks a lot about Egypt, Syria, Israel, and Iran (Persia) in present day.  The preceeding is going to be some things that have already happened in present day and should still be fresh in your mind so that you will know that the Bible is totally accurate, 100% of the time.  With that in mind, let's take a look at Egypt.  

 To give context as to why the Obama administration took out Hosni Mubarak, it's because Obama has members of the Muslim Brotherhood in his cabinet and has made deals with the Muslim Brotherhood, which allowed them to somehow steal a democratic election, allegedly, in Egypt.  There is a civil war in Egypt between native Egyptians and the Muslim Brotherhood, who want an Islamic caliphate and who want to bring all of Egypt under Sharia Law.  The Egyptian people don't want that.  They want to be able to choose who or what to believe in or not to believe at all.  So, the common people started off with protests at Tahrir Square, again, in protest of Morsi's EXTREMELY militant Islamic positions.  When outright warfare erupted in the streets, the Egyptian military was forced to act because for the Egyptian military the number one responsibility is to the nation and the people of Egypt, to protect and defend them the same way our military does for us and our way of life.  Morsi was taken into custody, and just as it said in Isaiah 19, the nation has been cast into chaos.

From Isaiah 19, A Prophecy Against Egypt

19 A prophecy against Egypt:

See, the Lord rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt.
The idols of Egypt tremble before him, and the hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear.

² “I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian—brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.
 
³ The Egyptians will lose heart, and I will bring their plans to nothing;
they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, the mediums and the spiritists.
 
⁴ I will hand the Egyptians over to the power of a cruel master, and a fierce king will rule over them,” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

The Egyptian military is currently waging a war against the Muslim Brotherhood and other Muslim fanatics, while Commander Chicken and Captain Fantastic parse words over whether it was a coup or not a coup. 

Just for the record, heck yes it was a coup, a good coup!  A righteous coup!  

Israel doesn't need a slobbering fanatic like Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood on their southern border.  Mubarak may have been a demon, but he was OUR demon, we created him, we funded him, and he kept the peace between Egypt and Israel.  I don't care whether you think it was right or wrong, that's just a fact of life.  

Use this as guidepost marker #1 as to the infallibility of the Bible and the Middle East.

Syria.  For this, we need to go all the way back into Libya before the elections of 2012.  The Arab Spring, which should be called what it is:  The Muslim Uprising, took down Khadafi.  The media, and for the most part, the American people, were lied to by Obama when he decided to send in weapons and fighter jets to attack government positions and to help the rebels.  What he didn't tell you was those rebels were loaded with Muslim Brotherhood and Al Queda operatives.  

Khadafi was whacked.  I feel a little trepidation in this part of it because it only appeared on one or two websites and the story was not broken or used by any of the MSM or even Fox News, and this is about the cause of Benghazi. 

This story has a Part A and Part B

First off, let me wrap up Part A by saying the media and the country didn't really know of Obama's gun running in Libya.  He did a better job of covering it up than they did with Fast and Furious, so maybe this mutt can learn a new trick.  This part, if true, is so amazingly terrifying that anyone in our government even considering such an act of overt treason even chills me.   The story goes this way.

We all know what Hillary and Obama said caused the attack on the Benghazi Embassy and the CIA Annex:  A shoddy movie made by an Egyptian Coptic Christian living in America ridiculing Islam and Mohammad.  Problem is, that film has never seen the light of day.  It's not even finished.  That's all part of their coverup.  A massive one that includes the State Department, the Oval Office, and the DOJ.  As the story goes, Ambassador Stevens was to be kidnapped in Benghazi, that's why security was stripped down to the minimum, military was told to stand down, they wanted it to be a soft kidnapping, meaning no severe bloodshed or warfare jeopardizing more loss of life on either side.  Stevens was to be held as a bartering chip against the US to seek the release of the Blind Sheik who is in US custody for life for the 1993 World Trade Center Bombings.  The purpose of this little deal was to be an "October surprise" to go down just before the election.  You have to remember Mitt Romney was wiping Obama's butt in the debates, was quickly closing ground, and Obama faced a very serious and credible threat to his re-election prospects.  

In an effort to provide a distraction and pull off an October surprise that would make him look like a hero and help restore his stupifying lack of foreign policy prowess, they hatched they plan for the soft abduction of the US Ambassador.  For some unknown reason, I think it was because Darryl Issa and others in Congress were ratcheting up so much heat on Obama that he backed out of the whole deal.  I believe the Muslim Brotherhood was eyeball deep in this whole scenario and the slaughter of Benghazi started when they realized Obama and the US had double-crossed them.  That is why Stevens was tortured and sexually assaulted so violently as a show of their displeasure to Obama for being double crossed.

You can read more about this here:

http://www.politisite.com/2013/01/17/retired-4-star-admiral-blows-whistle-on-benghazi-new-evidence/#.UZlVqcpBqdx

Now, on to Syria.

Syria is just a way to take the focus of every other scandal, including Benghazi, off the front page.  Syria doesn't mean anything to the US.  It's not in our national interest, the only thing that puts it even close to our national interest is the border they share with Israel.  So, here's how I see Syria shaping up based on what Commander Chicken and Captain Fantastic decide to do:

If Obama decides to "shoot" across Assad's bow, which I think is McHale's Navy at its best, and I base this on two things:  Commander Chicken has been running his mouth for so long about not needing Congress that Assad is now laughing, Putin's laughing, the Mullahs in Iran are laughing, and Obama is looking dumber than a Mad Magazine cover.  So he goes ahead and shoots.  Everything's already been moved while we've been stalling and telling the world what we MIGHT do.  Who knows where the merry-go-round of WMD's is now sitting.  If he does launch on Assad and it damages his regime enough to where it looks like he's going down, he's going to want to take a shot at somebody.  That chinless punk will throw everything he has left at Israel and he will use Hezbollah to do it.  If he launches on Israel, then it's all over for Damascus.  

Isaiah 17 
A prophecy against Damascus:   
See, Damascus will no longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins.

It won't take much of a shot from Israel to destroy Damascus as the Russians have a quasi-nuclear factory just on its outskirts.  This could also be a very good reason as to why Russia has pulled out its scientists and troops from the Damascus/Northern Syria area and put them back a safe distance.  The Bible doesn't say anything about Russia retaliating.  Strangely, it doesn't say anything about Iran (Persia) retaliating after Damascus is wiped out.  This is just conjecture on my part, but I think that while Damascus is being erased in the overnight hours, and while Iran is watching and seething over its puppet regime being destroyed, I am thinking Israel might be slipping one or two shots against Iran's nuclear program.  

I know a lot of you are thinking, "What about the rest of the Arab world?"

There is not a SINGLE ARAB NATION that wants to see Iran with a nuke.  Saudi Arabia has begged Commander Chicken over and over to do something, they've even back channeled tacit approval for Israeli jets to fly over their territory if it means taking out the site that is enriching plutonium so Iran can make a nuclear weapon.  All the other little nations of the Arabian peninsula are right behind Saudi Arabia.  So, that could be scenario A.   

But, in fairness, here's Scenario B:

*This one still needs a bit of developmental time, but a quick skeleton outline could be this:  

Damascus is accidentally wiped out by a nuclear device that Iranian Revolutionary Guards are trying to sneak out of Syria and return to Iran, giving Iran the shield of a nuclear weapon to hold over all the Middle East if they see Assad going down.  Or, if Assad should decide to start lobbing WMD's as he's going down.  But, Persia can't be destroyed because of Ezekiel 38-39.  She has to march with Russia and God has to destroy 5/6 of their amassed coalition.  Why is it 5/6 instead of the whole lot of them?  Because God wants 1/6 of them to go back to their village and towns and tell their tribesmen and people that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob did this.  

Personally I think it's scenario A.

We are coming SO CLOSE to the Rapture of the Church, to being taken off this rock.  I believe there is NOTHING prophetically left.  My struggle is whether the Damascus scenario happens before or after the Rapture.  If it happens before the Rapture, we are going to know that it's time to grab our bags and look up and listen up for the loud blast of the shofar and the voice of the archangel and the Lamb of God coming for His Church.  For those of you that are interested, we are living at the end of the third chapter of Revelation.  The Rapture occurs in Chapter 4, verse 1.  For all I know, ANY time is the right time for Jesus to come.  It could even happen before I have a chance to post this.  

The other thing to remember, is that we war with principalities of the air, a spiritual warfare.  The Christian battle is not with men and machines, but with spirits and principalities in high places as told Ephesians 6:

The Armor of God

¹⁰ Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. ¹¹ Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. ¹² For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. ¹³ Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. ¹⁴ Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, ¹⁵ and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. ¹⁶ In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. ¹⁷ Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
¹⁸ And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. ¹⁹ Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.

I want to take special effort to say that I PRAY for the safety of our country and our government and yes, even Commander Chicken.  I do not wish that any should perish.  I DO wish to see him brought up on charges of impeachment and his fate decided by Congress.  This man has done enough to warrant impeachment that at some point or another, SOMEONE has to come through with it.
 

That said, we do not have leadership either in the Oval Office or the halls of Congress that we can count on to do the right thing to protect us or keep us safe.   You've probably heard preachers say this before, but it's times like these where you truly understand what was meant by the full armor of God.  The Bible always has been and always will be accurate and correct, the rock on which to build your house.  I'm going to end with this:

A Prophecy Against Egypt

19 A prophecy against Egypt:

See, the Lord rides on a swift cloud
    and is coming to Egypt.
The idols of Egypt tremble before him,
    and the hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear.

² “I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian—
    brother will fight against brother,
    neighbor against neighbor,
    city against city,
    kingdom against kingdom.
³ The Egyptians will lose heart,
    and I will bring their plans to nothing;
they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead,
    the mediums and the spiritists.
⁴ I will hand the Egyptians over
    to the power of a cruel master,
and a fierce king will rule over them,”
    declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

⁵ The waters of the river will dry up,
    and the riverbed will be parched and dry.
⁶ The canals will stink;
    the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.
The reeds and rushes will wither,
⁷     also the plants along the Nile,
    at the mouth of the river.
Every sown field along the Nile
    will become parched, will blow away and be no more.
⁸ The fishermen will groan and lament,
    all who cast hooks into the Nile;
those who throw nets on the water
    will pine away.
⁹ Those who work with combed flax will despair,
    the weavers of fine linen will lose hope.
¹⁰ The workers in cloth will be dejected,
    and all the wage earners will be sick at heart.

This is coming to the whole world, not just Egypt.  This is the future of mankind, not just Egypt.  You can either take the hand of Christ and avoid this or you can take the hand of man and be devoured by this.  The choice is up to you and this is your either/or altar call.  All of this is RIGHT NOW in our face.  PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, grab onto the Savior's hand while  His hand is still reaching out to you because after the Rapture, it becomes almost impossible to find that hand still reaching out.  Billions will die before the King of Kings comes to establish his Kingdom here.  

John 16:2:  "They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

Remember to pray for the Coptic Christians and Muslims that are renouncing Islam and coming to Christ.  They are the martyrs under the alter spoken of in Revelation 6:9:

And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held.

Pray unceasingly for them and for anyone you know who isn't saved and may the peace of God be upon you all.

Maranatha!  

Shalom

PS--Next blog entry will be about the persecution of Christians in America.