I was listening to the radio today while waiting for my wife an daughter. So I just started randomly searching the AM dial. Found someone who sounded familiar but couldn't place the name. Anyhow, it was a Christian political speaker, and there were three things he said that were fascinating, with a grain of salt...but hell, in these times, pretty damn plausible without the grain of salt.
1. Current conflict and escalation laid out in Ezekiel 38, 39.
2. According to his interpretation, Turkey will lead a major invasion into Israel. Turkey currently tepid ally, but Arab block will eventually pull Turkey in.
and the the whopper:
3. This speaker had said that he had spoken with a Captain in the Israeli air force. This person had information that if Tel Aviv were attacked (level of attack not mentioned) that the air force were loading nuclear warheads on several F-16's and headed for Damascus.
Totally uncoraborrated. Could be a load of crap. Who knows. But if true. That is the mother of all escalations. My God. And not that I'm against it. Better to have this war out now than later.
Here are chapters 38 and 39. Fascinating.
Chapter 38
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1 Thus the word of the LORD came to me:
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2 Son of man, turn toward Gog (the land of Magog), the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him:
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Thus says the Lord GOD: See! I am coming at you, Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
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I will lead you forth with all your army, horses and riders all handsomely outfitted, a great horde with bucklers and shields, all of them carrying swords:
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Persia, Cush, and Put with them (all with shields and helmets),
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Gomer with all its troops, Beth-togarmah from the recesses of the north with all its troops, many peoples with you.
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Prepare yourself, be ready, you and all your horde assembled about you, and be at my disposal.
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After many days you will be mustered (in the last years you will come) against a nation which has survived the sword, which has been assembled from many peoples (on the mountains of Israel which were long a ruin), which has been brought forth from among the peoples and all of whom now dwell in security.
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You shall come up like a sudden storm, advancing like a cloud to cover the earth, you and all your troops and the many peoples with you.
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Thus says the Lord GOD: At that time thoughts shall arise in your mind, and you shall devise an evil scheme:
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"I will go up against a land of open villages and attack the peaceful people who are living in security, all of them living without walls, having neither bars nor gates,
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3 to plunder and pillage, turning my hand against the ruins that were repeopled and against a people gathered from the nations, a people concerned with cattle and goods, who dwell at the navel of the earth."
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Sheba and Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish and all her young lions shall ask you: "Is it for plunder that you have come? Is it for pillage that you have summoned your horde, to carry off silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to seize much plunder?"
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Thus says the Lord GOD: It is of you that I spoke in ancient times through my servants, the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days that I would bring you against them.
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But on that day, the day when Gog invades the land of Israel, says the Lord GOD, my fury shall be aroused. In my anger
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and in my jealousy, in my fiery wrath, I swear: On that day there shall be a great shaking upon the land of Israel.
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Before me shall tremble the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, the beasts of the field and all the reptiles that crawl upon the ground, and all men who are on the land. Mountains shall be overturned, and cliffs shall tumble, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
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Against him I will summon every terror, says the Lord GOD, every man's sword against his brother. I will hold judgment with him in pestilence and bloodshed;
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flooding rain and hailstones, fire and brimstone, I will rain upon him, upon his troops, and upon the many peoples with him.
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I will prove my greatness and holiness and make myself known in the sight of many nations; thus they shall know that I am the LORD.
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Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog: Thus says the Lord GOD: When my people Israel are dwelling in security, will you not bestir yourself
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and come from your home in the recesses of the north, you and many peoples with you, all mounted on horses, a great horde and a mighty army?
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You shall come up against my people Israel like a cloud covering the land. In the last days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know of me, when in their sight I prove my holiness through you, O Gog.
Chapter 39
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Now, son of man, prophesy against Gog in these words: Thus says the Lord GOD: See! I am coming at you, Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
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I will turn you about, I will urge you on, and I will make you come up from the recesses of the north; I will lead you against the mountains of Israel.
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Then I will strike the bow from your left hand, and make the arrows drop from your right.
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Upon the mountains of Israel you shall fall, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you. To birds of prey of every kind and to the wild beasts I am giving you to be eaten.
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On the open field you shall fall, for I have decreed it, says the Lord GOD.
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I will send fire upon Magog and upon those who live securely in the coastlands; thus they shall know that I am the LORD.
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I will make my holy name known among my people Israel; I will no longer allow my holy name to be profaned. Thus the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
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Yes, it is coming and shall be fulfilled, says the Lord GOD. This is the day I have decreed.
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Then shall those who live in the cities of Israel go out and burn weapons: (shields and bucklers,) bows and arrows, clubs and lances; for seven years they shall make fires with them.
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They shall not have to bring in wood from the fields or cut it down in the forests, for they shall make fires with the weapons. Thus they shall plunder those who plundered them and pillage those who pillaged them, says the Lord GOD.
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1 On that day I will give Gog for his tomb a well-known place in Israel, the Valley of Abarim east of the sea (it is blocked to travelers). Gog shall be buried there with all his horde, and it shall be named "Valley of Hamon-gog."
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To purify the land, the house of Israel shall need seven months to bury them.
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All the people of the land shall bury them and gain renown for it, when I reveal my glory, says the Lord GOD.
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Men shall be permanently employed to pass through the land burying those who lie unburied, so as to purify the land. For seven months they shall keep searching.
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When they pass through, should they see a human bone, let them put up a marker beside it, until others have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.
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(Also the name of the city shall be Hamonah.) Thus the land shall be purified.
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As for you, son of man, says the Lord GOD, say to birds of every kind and to all the wild beasts: Come together, from all sides gather for the slaughter I am about to provide for you, a great slaughter on the mountains of Israel: you shall have flesh to eat and blood to drink.
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You shall eat the flesh of warriors and drink the blood of the princes of the land (rams, lambs, and goats, bullocks, fatlings of Bashan, all of them).
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From the slaughter which I will provide for you, you shall eat fat until you are filled and drink blood until you are drunk.
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You shall be filled at my table with horses and riders, with warriors and soldiers of every kind, says the Lord GOD.
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Thus I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see the judgment I have executed and the hand I have laid upon them.
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From that day forward the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD, their God.
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The nations shall know that because of its sins the house of Israel went into exile; for they transgressed against me, and I hid my face from them and handed them over to their foes, so that all of them fell by the sword.
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According to their uncleanness and their transgressions I dealt with them, hiding my face from them.
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Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have pity on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name.
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They shall forget their disgrace and all the times they broke faith with me, when they live in security on their land with no one to frighten them.
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When I bring them back from among the peoples, I will gather them from the lands of their enemies, and will prove my holiness through them in the sight of many nations.
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Thus they shall know that I, the LORD, am their God, since I who exiled them among the nations, will gather them back on their land, not leaving any of them behind.
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No longer will I hide my face from them, for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, says the Lord GOD.
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