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User ID: 13800184 United States 04/05/2012 11:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Israel-Iran Nuclear Showdown: Is This The War of Gog and Magog? Very interesting read here guys..check it out.. The nuclear showdown between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could set in motion the fulfillment of prophecies in Ezekiel 38 and 39—the mysterious “war of Gog and Magog,” New York Times best-selling author Joel Rosenberg says.
These biblical predictions, the former political advisor to Netanyahu says, refer to an end-times attack on Israel by a coalition of nations, including Russia and Iran.

In light of the growing ties between Iran and Russia and U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s remarks that Israel may strike Iran’s nuclear facilities this spring or summer, Rosenberg says the prophetic scenario described by the prophet Ezekiel more than 2,600 years ago now “very much looks like it is coming to pass.”

“But I think we have to be careful not to overreach,” Rosenberg told the thousands of people who attended the recent conference—“Israel, the Church and the Middle East Crisis”—at Biola University in Southern California recently. “If these things play out, it will become obvious in the near future. In the meantime, let’s not call them conclusive, but let’s say they are curious. We’ve never seen anything like this before.”

At the conference, noted Bible scholars Darrell L. Bock, the research professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary, and Walter Kaiser, president emeritus and the distinguished professor of Old Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, described Panetta’s prediction that Iran could have operational nuclear weapons within a year as a “very sobering reality.”

“I don’t know if this is the end or just the dress rehearsal for the end,” Bock said. “We have to be careful about suggesting more than we know.”

The conference comes amid a growing possibility of war between Israel and Iran, challenges in the U.S.-Israel relationship, the “Arab Spring” spreading across North Africa and the Middle East and what Rosenberg describes as the rise of a “new czar of Russia,” Vladamir Putin.

Putin, the first Russian leader in history to form close ties with Iran, was recently reelected as president of the Russian Federation, a nation that has been supplying armaments and nuclear expertise to Iran. Putin assumes the presidency of Russia on May 7.

Given this confluence of events, military experts are assessing the potential fallout of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear-enrichment sites. A classified American war simulation released in March found an Israeli air blitz would lead to a wider regional war, potentially pulling the U.S. into the conflict.

Israeli officials, however, don’t believe a pre-emptive strike on Iranian nuclear facilities will result in an all-out war. Instead, they believe it could embolden Iranian citizens to overthrow Ahmadinejad—a leader who is driven by a Shia end-times theology that says the way to hasten the coming of the Islamic Messiah, the 12th Imam, is to destroy Israel and the U.S., Rosenberg says.

“The question for the Israeli leadership is, ‘Have we tried everything short of war to stop Iran?” says Rosenberg, author of the soon-to-be-released book, “Implosion: Can America Recover From its Economic & Spiritual Challenges in Time?” “The stakes are, if Iran gets its nuclear weapons, it could do in six minutes what it took Adolph Hitler six years to do and that’s to kill 6 million jewish people.”

While the Obama administration hopes economic sanctions by the U.S. and the European Union will pressure Iran to resolve the crisis diplomatically, Rosenberg says Netanyahu’s window of opportunity to strike is rapidly closing as Iran moves its nuclear facilities into hardened, underground bunkers.

Netanyahu may want to attack Iran before Putin’s inauguration on May 7, Rosenberg says, because the Russian president could seek a mutual defense agreement with Iran. During his campaign for reelection, Putin made pledges that would cost hundreds of billions of dollars, promising pay raises to police, firefighters, teachers, solders and retirees.

The only way for Putin to make good on those promises is if the price of oil, which generates more than half of Russia’s tax revenues, were to go up significantly, Rosenberg says. Because instability drives the price of oil, Rosenberg says there is an “economic dynamic to this calculation” and Putin could have a motive to “foment trouble in the Middle East.”

“(Putin) could tell the Israelis, ‘If you launch an attack on Iran it will be regarded as an attack on the Russian Federation,’ ” Rosenberg says. “It would be hard imagining [Netanyahu] moving forward with a direct and credible threat of a Russian retaliation.”

These developments seem to coincide with what the prophet Ezekiel predicted more than 2,600 years ago, Rosenberg says. In Ezekiel 38, the prophet wrote that “Gog” —interpreted as a Russian dictator—would lead a coalition of nations in an attack on Israel, prompting God’s supernatural intervention, Rosenberg says.

“This will be a day of great judgment when God turns his supernatural fury against the enemies of Israel,” Rosenberg says. “It will also be a day of great spiritual awakening. More Muslims and jewish people are going to come to faith in Jesus as the Messiah when this dramatic prophecy comes true.”
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 68988636 Turkey 04/20/2015 04:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Israel-Iran Nuclear Showdown: Is This The War of Gog and Magog? The end is near |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 65370120 Switzerland 04/20/2015 05:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Israel-Iran Nuclear Showdown: Is This The War of Gog and Magog? “This will be a day of great judgment when God turns his supernatural fury against the enemies of Israel,” Rosenberg says. “It will also be a day of great spiritual awakening. More Muslims and jewish people are going to come to faith in Jesus as the Messiah when this dramatic prophecy comes true.”
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 71454410 United States 04/09/2016 10:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Israel-Iran Nuclear Showdown: Is This The War of Gog and Magog? Don't forget after the revelations and the Gog vs Magog ww3 nuclear war then the 1000 year peace will come because Satan will be in chains. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70851936 United States 04/09/2016 10:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Israel-Iran Nuclear Showdown: Is This The War of Gog and Magog? Don't forget after the revelations and the Gog vs Magog ww3 nuclear war then the 1000 year peace will come because Satan will be in chains.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71454410 Gog and Magog event is after the 1000 years. Revelation 20: 7-8 Gog and Magog simply means all the wicked from all corners of the planet. City of New Jerusalem descends, all the wicked plot an attack to overthrow the city and fire comes down from heaven and destroys them. The end. |
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User ID: 71974844 United States 04/09/2016 10:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Israel-Iran Nuclear Showdown: Is This The War of Gog and Magog? israel and iran worked out a secret deal that makes 150bil look like peanuts Last Edited by BlueRidge Doom on 04/09/2016 10:39 PMHave you noticed that we always kill off the good guys and let the demons run amok? But don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.
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