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PRO:The mid-east war and the blessed hope  by Fred War & Jim Harman

   The Bible clearly talks about a Mideast war in the end times. This
war involves all Persia (Iran), Ethiopia, Libya, Germany and its
compatriots, and the Soviet Union aligned in a fight against Israel. It
is exciting to know that from the scriptures, a possible timing of
these evens can be gleaned. The Bible overwhelms us with scriptures
related with the recent Gulf war that has not yet been fully
consummated. As we consider the numerable Biblical references, we find
them truly awe-inspiring.

   Our Blessed hope will soon be realized!

   Jesus is to appear for His bride soon!

   A guess at the timing of end-time events is as follows:

   1. The opening shots of the war (August 2, 1990).

   2. A short peace treaty.

   3. The final part of the last part of the war begins by the first
week of August 1991.

   4. The rapture of the Church, the Groom comes for His Bride.

   5. Return of the Ark of the Covenant.

   6. King of the south (South Africa) comes to fight against the
Antichrist in Israel.

   7. Russia and it's allies invade Israel and are destroyed.

   The opening shots of the war

   Iraq invaded Kuwait on the 9th of Av. This is a very critical date
in the history of the Jews and Israel. It is a Jewish festival day in
which the Jewish priest read Leviticus. God has a pattern of doing
things on Jewish feast days so the timing was no surprise to veteran
prophesy students. Eight times in the history of the world, an event
which began on the 9th of Av has led to war and persecution of the Jews
or Israel.

   Those other events are as follows:

   1. The 12 spies return with their report.

   2. The destruction of Solomon's temple by Babylon.

   3. The destruction of the second temple by Rome.

   4. Roman army plows Jerusalem with salt in A.D. 71.

   5. Destruction of Simeon Bar Kochba's army.

   6. Spain expels all Jews.

   7. WW I is declared.

   The odds of all these events happening on the 9th of Av are:

   One in 863,078,009,300,000,000. With odds like that, these events
must be under God's control. What does that mean concerning Iraq's
invasion of Kuwait? Time will tell, but it certainly looks like this
invasion could be the event which will lead to Russia's invasion of
Israel.

   But, something else must happen first.

   Many of Israel's Jews believe that the how, why and when of the Gulf
war were foretold long ago.

   Release and redemption is a popular theme. To many religious Jews, a
Higher Force is at work these days. True Power is not in any earthly
hands.

   One rumor has it that Rabbi Schneerson has announced that Mashiach
Ben-Yosef (the first, preparatory Messiah-Elijah) is due to arrive
around Pessah. Another story concerns Rabbi Schneerson's reported
advice to a Jewish American soldier about to depart for the Gulf:
"Don't bother taking your Megilla" (the Scroll of Esther read aloud on
Purim). Followers go on to explain that Amalek (the enemy) is meant to
be crushed around Purim, precipitating the Messianic Era.

   THE WAR ENDED ON THE EXACT DAY.

   The war that began on the 9th of Av feast day, ended 42 days later
on another feast day, Purim.

   This 14th or 15 day of the month of Adar is a time when the Jews
around the world celebrate the "time when they got relief from their
enemies."

   We read in the Book of Esther 9:19-22:

   "...the Jews of the villages...made the 14th day of the month of
Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending
portions one to another...To stablish this among them, that they should
keep the 14th day of the month Adar, and the 15th day of the same,
yearly. As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies."

   When will the real war end?

   "For thus hath the Lord said unto me, WITHIN A YEAR, according to
the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail."
(Isaiah 21:16)

   The 21 chapter of Isaiah, many students believe is a prophetic
glimpse of the judgment of Babylon in the last days. It begins with the
"burden of the desert of the sea," which refers to the Persian Gulf
desert in verse 1.

   Verse 1 also refers to the "whirlwinds ... from the desert," or
Desert Storm, as the recent Gulf War was also termed.

   Verse 16, to some prophetic teachers, would seem to indicate that
entire scenario projected in Ezekiel 29-30, and Jeremiah 49 will find
it's fulfillment. That is, the destruction of Egypt, Syria, Saudia
Arabia, Lebanon and Jordan - BY IRAQ.

   The rationale is that Ezek. 30:25 indicates that at some point Iraq
will have been wounded, only to be strengthened by God for a special
purpose:

   "And I (God) will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon (Iraq),
and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he
shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man. But
I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon (Saddam Hussein), and
the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the
LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon,
and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt."

   One way this may happen, is that Russia will provide Iraq with some
nuclear warheads to arm it's Scud missiles. Other nations with the
potential of providing Hussein with nuclear warheads are Pakistan and
China. This would seem to the the only way that the prophetic scripture
concerning the fate of the inner Arab countries can be fulfilled. One
thing, we don't have long to find out.

   39 SCUDS

   It is interesting to note, that while John and Sharon Barlea were in
Israel in March of this year, they were told that many of the orthodox
Jews began storing their gas masks away when the 39 SCUD missile was
fired on Israel. When asked why, they responded by saying that God
would not allow them to send the fortieth as Deuteronomy 25:2-3 states:

   "And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the
judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face,
according to his fault, by a certain number. Forty stripes he may give
him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above
these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee."

   Because of the fear of going over the number 40 and being termed a
"vile" person, this was later limited to 39, lest by accident the
number 40 be exceeded, as we read in 2 Corinthians 11:24:

   "Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one."

   The year of Miracles

   One of the most prominent scholars seeing the Messianic process in
recent events is Rabbi Professor Leon Ashkenzi, a Jerusalem-based
Sephardi scholar. He believes that "one does not just get up and start
believing in a Messianic Era just because of what happens this year. I
believe that process was underway a long time ago, because of the
advent of Zionism signified the Ingathering of the Exiles." He went on
to note that we are living in the Jewish year 5751 - THE YEAR OF
MIRACLES.

   Article from Today the Bible and You

   Authors Fred War & Jim Harman

   (used by permission)