April, 23rd 2010
This week on 'The Hal Lindsey Report'
On this week's edition of "The Hal Lindsey Report": US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates sent a confidential 3-page memo to President Obama. In it, he complained that the Administration had no long-term policy for dealing with Iran. I applaud Gates for speaking up to the President about this dangerous failure. However, I'm a bit perplexed that it took someone in the Administration 15 months to either realize the problem or muster the courage to say it.
I'm also amazed that the Vice Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff told Congress that Iran is a year away from having enough weapons-grade uranium for a nuclear device and 3 to 5 years away from a nuclear bomb. That's exactly what the CIA told George W. Bush in 2002! Frank Gaffney, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy scoffs at that idea. He says Iran could go nuclear "any day." He makes a good argument.
Israel has learned that Syria has supplied Hezbollah in Lebanon with advanced anti-aircraft systems and long-range missiles. It's also reported that they've been given SCUD missiles like Saddam Hussein used against Coalition forces during the Gulf War. These missiles put virtually all of Israel within Hezbollah's range now. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak believes that Hezbollah may have 40,000 missiles ready for use against Israel. Unfortunately, neither the White House nor the State Department believes it.
Nonetheless, Israel has put Syria on notice. The London Sunday Times is reporting that Israel sent a message to Syria. The message warned that Israel now views Hezbollah as a division of the Syrian military. If Hezbollah attacks, Israel will retaliate against Syria. Earlier, Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced that "if war breaks out, the Assad dynasty will lose its power and cease to reign in Syria." Another Cabinet minister put it more bluntly. He said, "We'll return Syria to the Stone Age...." That sounds very familiar, doesn't it? The prophet Isaiah said essentially the same thing. Different verbiage, same result.
Isaiah predicts that Damascus will be obliterated in the first of two 'last days' wars. The second is predicted by Ezekiel to involve Russia. But why would Russia care enough about tiny Israel to go to war against it? Ezekiel says it will be for profit. Or possibly for loss of profit? As you know, for many years I've said that for Israel to be at the "center of the world," as Ezekiel suggested, it must come into possession of great wealth. I've also believed that that abundance may come through the discovery of vast oil and gas reserves. America's own United States Geological Survey now confirms that Israel, indeed, sits atop unbelievable quantities of these resources. If its natural gas reserves were to allow Israel to replace Russia as Europe's primary supplier of natural gas, then Europe will be grateful and protective. If Russia loses that revenue and geopolitical leverage, it may be furious and vengeful.
It's just a thought, but isn't it exciting how scenarios that seemed utterly impossible just a few short years ago now seem eminently plausible? These are exhilarating times. And they just scream out that Christ's coming for His bride is almost upon us! Are you ready?
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God Bless,
Hal Lindsey
