Flash Points 2022: Israel :: By Matt Ward

Published on: January 16, 2022 by RR7

In the last article, I discussed the impacts Covid-19 may potentially have on all our lives in 2022. In this article, I want to look at one of the main potential geopolitical flashpoints of 2022: Israel and Iran.

The Israel–Iran issue has been largely out of our news feeds during the past twelve months, yet the drumbeat of war between Israel and Iran has not calmed in 2021; it is just that the rest of us have been very much distracted by Covid-19.

With each passing month, Israel’s growing need to defend itself against what it perceives to be an existential threat to its existence in Iran’s burgeoning nuclear program becomes more and more prescient and urgent to the Jewish State.

In 2021, big changes occurred at the highest levels of leadership within Israel. They got a new Prime Minister, Naftali Bennet, and the Israeli Defense Forces got a new Airforce Chief of Staff, General Bar. This now means that the Heads of each of Israel’s three main military branches are on public record as sharing a belief in the need for a pre-emptive strike on Iran and its nuclear program. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett believes likewise:

“Words won’t stop centrifuges. Iran has reached a watershed moment, but so have we. We will never let Iran have a nuclear bomb. If we use our resourcefulness, we can prevail. And that is what we intend to do.” (1)

Yet increasingly, the options available to Israel are being narrowed. The United States of America is not the friend to the Jewish State that it was just a few years ago. If the election of Joe Biden has proved anything, it is just how much damage a change of administration can do and how it can alter the entire course of a nation’s trajectory in practically every way. This is especially so of its diplomacy, which becomes obvious when this is viewed through the prism of US–Israeli relations.

In recent weeks, Israeli diplomats and spymasters have been feverishly trying to extract from the Biden Administration at the very least a concession, or even the most meager acknowledgment, that military action against Iran should as a minimum be left on the table, as insurance should the current diplomatic course fail.

No such guarantee has been given. There isn’t even a tacit understanding between Israel and the United States over this matter. If Israel is going to attack Iran, they would appear to be very much on their own. It would seem that they will not be getting any help from Joe Biden. A proactive Israeli–US military policy against Iran seems to be dead in the water.

Israeli Defense Minister Gantz responded to this by explaining the reason for Israel’s increasing urgency:

“Iran is building its military power in the west of the country to attack countries and forces in the Middle East in general and Israel in particular. We are prepared for any such attempt and will do whatever it takes to protect our citizens and assets.” (2)

Israel wants the Biden administration to continue the same policies the previous administration pursued, that of the US tightening economic sanctions while Israel, parallel to this, would continue to pursue its clandestine activities aimed at diminishing Iran’s nuclear program and its ability to ever strike out against Israel or other actors in the Middle Eastern region. That is simply not happening, signaled never so loudly as when the US made the decision to re-join and attempt to renew the deeply flawed JPCOA, the Joint Comprehensive Program of Action. A failed, undermined and entirely duplicitous process that has been widely ridiculed as a realistic method to bring Iran’s nuclear program to heel.

Israel has let the United States know clearly that they do not feel, nor will they be ever bound by, the agreements found through any JPCOA deal, now or future. Top Israeli spymaster David Barnea, head of Mossad, when referencing this issue, said publicly recently as a direct rebuff to the JPCOA that,

“Iran will not have nuclear weapons, not in the coming years, not ever. That is my promise, that is Mossad’s promise.” (3)

Iran knows full well that it is on Israeli notice for some kind of future action or intervention. To counter this, Iran published a list of targets it would attack in Israel should any kind of military intervention against them occur. They published this list on the front page of the Tehran Times. Iran is openly telling Israel where they will strike back should they try to launch some kind of an attack. The article in the Tehran Times was entitled “Just One Wrong Move!” and showed next to the main title a map of Israel with targets marked for destruction highlighted in red the length and breadth of the Jewish country. (4)

The article concluded with a quote from Iran’s former supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, who warned that Iran will “destroy Tel Aviv and Haifa” should Israel strike Iran.

Yet Iran, despite this, is not looking for détente. They are intent upon putting their nuclear program on fast forward. In an Iranian state budget released very recently, Iran seems to have budgeted for a further two years or more of international sanctions, thereby attempting to absorb the economic cost and consequences of further weaponizing their nuclear program. Additionally, extra fast centrifuges are currently being pressed into service for the rapid accumulation of weapons-grade material up to the 60% threshold necessary for rapidly acquiring nuclear warheads.

Fereydun Abbasi-Davani, Chairman of Iran’s Atomic Agency, has even admitted that the late Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the father of the Iranian nuclear program who has subsequently been assassinated, “…had created a nuclear weapons system for offensive purposes.” (5) Such an admission alone should automatically bring an immediate end to any future JPCOA discussions.

Yet the ridiculousness of continuing to play along with the JPCOA farce only gets worse when one considers the words of a source close to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards who said, “Enemy sabotage, assassinations should be stopped by Iran cross(ing) several scientific lines as soon as possible, to show our capability to defend our people.” (6) It is clear that in saying “scientific lines,” this source is referring to the nuclear threshold.

But the charade continues, and the United States and Biden Administration play along as if completely blind to the strikingly obvious realities that:

Iran is developing a nuclear weapons program for offensive, not defensive purposes.
Iran is an existential threat to Israel and other US allies in the Middle East.
A nuclear-armed Iran represents a serious threat and a direct challenge to US power in the Middle Eastern region.

That the Biden Administration is still engaging with JPCOA at all, let alone continuing to give it any credibility, is derisory. Worse, it is reprehensible and a stain on the good reputation of the United States of America. The Biden administration is willingly and quite knowingly putting the United States into a position where they are helping the Iranian regime acquire nuclear threshold status simply by turning a blind eye. It is what it is; a betrayal of Israel.

At present, the opinion of most analysts is that Israel simply cannot act alone against the full spectrum of threats posed by Iran without active support from the United States. The threats are just too wide and big for Israel to act alone. (7)

This is a view echoed by former Israeli chief of General Staff Eyal Zamir, who states that Israel would be hard-pressed, “…to launch such an operation without coordinating with the Americans.” (8)

At present, the United States will not support such action. They won’t even countenance it. Which inevitably means that the Jewish State, when it feels it has been backed too far into a corner, will have to act alone. How many times in their past have they been here before? Too many.

It is a deep issue of shame to the United States and the West more widely that it looks like they will make the tiny Jewish State carry the full burden and weight of this matter all on their own. And the consequences thereof.

Yet the reality is that Israel is never alone. They have a Protector who never sleeps nor slumbers.

“Behold, he that keeps Israel shall not slumber nor sleep…” (Psalm 121:4).

The LORD promised in his word that once Israel is drawn again and regathered back into the land after being scattered to the four winds of heaven for the final time in history, they will never, ever be displaced again. Not by Iran. Not by Antichrist. Not by anyone.

It is unclear at this point how this issue will develop and play out over the next twelve months, but most opinion is that by this time next year, Iran will have achieved nuclear breakout status. Will Israel accept this, or will they act, even if they are forced to go it alone?

Whatever may happen, Israel is now once again back in its ancestral, God-given homeland. And they will stay there forever. Iran won’t change that one jot.

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Israel Mourns Messiah, Abomination Ends,… :: By Bill Salus

Published on: January 16, 2022January 16, 2022 by RR7

Israel Mourns Messiah, Abomination Ends, Millennial Temple Begins

This article is taken from my book and DVD entitled, The MILLENNIUM Prophecies and the NEW JERUSALEM.

(CLICK HERE to watch the video teaching on this topic).

The Bible foretells the coming of an intense 30-day period. Within a one-month interval, the powerful events sequenced below are predicted to happen. This article will separate out and explain the three highlighted ones:

Antichrist and False Prophet Are Cast into Lake of Fire – (Revelation 19:19-20),
Satan Bound For 1,000 Years into Bottomless Pit – (Rev. 20:1-3),
Restoration of the Earth – (Isaiah 65:17 and 2 Peter 3:13),
Return of the Jewish Remnant – (Zechariah 13:9 and Romans 11:25-26),
Resurrection of the Old Testament Saints – (Isaiah 26:19 and Daniel 12:2),
Resurrection of the Tribulation Saints – (Rev. 7:14-15 and 20:4-5),
Mourning of the Messiah in Israel – (The Thirty Days of Mourning),
End of the Abomination of Desolation – (The End of The Mark of The Beast),
Establish the Millennial Temple – (The Fourth and Final Jewish Temple),
Marriage Supper of The Lamb – (Rev. 19:9).

The Mourning of The Messiah in Israel (The Thirty Days of Mourning)

The passage below explains how the outpouring of the Spirit of grace upon the resurrected Old Testament saint, King David, and also upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem will initiate a period of national mourning in Israel for their Messiah, Jesus Christ.

“And I [Jesus Christ] will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me [Jesus Christ] whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn. In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. And the land shall mourn, every family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by itself, and their wives by themselves; all the families that remain, every family by itself, and their wives by themselves” (Zechariah 12:10-14, NKJV; emphasis added)

These verses imply that prior to this period of national mourning, the Old Testament Saints will have been previously resurrected. This would include the family households of David, Nathan, Levi and Shimei and their respective wives.

This national mourning will likely occur for the duration of the first thirty days of the Seventy-Five Day Interval Period. Thirty days of grieving finds historical precedent in the cases of Moses, a prophet, and his brother Aaron, a priest.

“So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. And He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth Peor; but no one knows his grave to this day. Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished. And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. So the days of weeping and mourning for Moses ended” (Deuteronomy 34:5-8).

“Now when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, all the house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days” (Numbers 20:29).

Jesus Christ has a four-fold ministry. In addition to being a Prophet (1) and a High Priest (2), He is also the KING OF KINGS (3) and LORD OF LORDS (4).

“Then those men, when they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said, ‘This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world’” (John 6:14).

“Where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek” (Hebrews 6:20).

“And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS” (Revelation 19:16).

End of The Abomination of Desolation – (The End of The Mark of The Beast)

Meanwhile, it seems that throughout the national mourning period of Israel above, the Abomination of Desolation that was set up by the Antichrist at the Midpoint of the Tribulation Period is still standing in the Third Jewish Temple. We discover this in the verse below.

“And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days” (Daniel 12:11).

Daniel allots an additional thirty days beyond the end of the Tribulation Period to the Abomination of Desolation (AOD). The AOD is alluded to in Daniel 9:27 and Matthew 24:15. The AOD isn’t removed until thirty days after the Second Coming of Jesus Christ have elapsed. Some believe that the Abomination of Desolation could be the Image of the Beast (Antichrist).

“This act of entering the Holy Place and setting up the image (of the Beast) is most likely what Jesus had in mind as the abomination of desolation.” – Dr. Tony Garland

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“The abomination of desolation includes the setting up a statue or image of himself (the Beast) so that he may be worshipped in place of God.” – Dr. Thomas Ice

The continued existence of the Abomination of Desolation will likely intensify those grieving in Israel. On the one hand, the Messiah is dwelling among them, but so is the Image of the Beast and even more troubling, so are those bearing the Mark of the Beast. These are among the unbelievers that will soon be judged and eliminated in the Goat Gentile Judgment of Matthew 25:31-46.

Establish The Millennial Temple – (The Fourth and Final Jewish Temple)

The AOD must be removed and the Third Jewish Temple hosting it needs to be destroyed in order to make way for the coming Millennial Temple. The Millennial Temple will be the fourth and final structural Jewish Temple.

Temple #1, the Solomonic Temple, was destroyed by the Babylonians in 587/586 BC.

Temple #2, the Herodian Temple, was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD.

Temple #3, the Tribulation Temple, seems to get destroyed by Jesus Christ shortly after His Second Coming. This will apparently happen on the 30th day of the 75-Day Interval as per Daniel 12:11.

Temple #4, the Millennial Temple, will get destroyed when the earth flees away at the White Throne Judgment during the Aftermath Age.

Temple #5, will not exist in the Eternal Order as per Rev. 21:22, which says, “But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.”

According to the passages below, The Millennial Temple will be in Jerusalem, and it will serve as the location of the Throne of Messiah.

“At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the Lord, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem. No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil hearts” (Jer. 3:17).

“The Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the temple. Then I heard Him speaking to me from the temple, while a man stood beside me. And He said to me, ‘Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever’” (Ezek. 43:5-7b).

Conclusion

The three major coming events described in this article are just a sample of what happens in what will undoubtedly be the craziest future 30-days on the planet.

The Mourning of the Messiah,
The End of the Abomination of Desolation,
The Establishment of the Millennial Temple.

Be sure to reserve your front row seat for this incredible month-long period of festivities. GET SAVED NOW, during the Church Age, and you will have a special role as the Bride of Christ when He returns. You will serve as a king and a priest and reign alongside Jesus Christ throughout the entirety of the MILLENNIUM!

“To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen” (Revelation 1:6).

“This is a faithful saying: For if we died with Him, We shall also live with Him. If we endure, We shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us” (2 Timothy 2:11-12).