Experts
and observers agree: The Middle East is a powder keg about to explode
into a major, world-wide conflagration.
The
Players line up along biblically prophetic lines: Russia, Turkey,
Iran, Iraq, Syria, all North of Israel, with Egypt, Libya, Tunisia,
Morrocco, Algeria, The Sudan, along with countries in the Arabian
Peninsula, arrayed along the South of Israel.
The
Middle Eastern countries, in this list, are generally arranged along
sectarian, Islamic lines: Shiite [to the North] and Sunni [in the
South].
Right
now they are jockeying for position. Russia wants a Middle Eastern
presence and views Syria their best bet. Iran wants to dominate the
area. This is what their nuclear ambition is all about; something
that frightens Sunni Saudi Arabia. Egypt wants to dominate the Sinai
and Gaza Strip, having complete control over the Suez. All of them
want Israel Gone!
The
patented tactics of Islam has always been to foment riots in the
streets, against the existing government, topple that government and
install their own version of Islamic rule. To this end they have
managed to tear down stable Moslem leadership and replace it with
radical, unstable, Moslem leadership. Our government calls this The
Arab Spring.
This
is what's happening in Syria, with Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia and
Russia's help.
Iran
has just sent several thousand 'Revolutionary Guards' to Syria.
Observers indicate they are orienting toward the Golan Heights, where
the U.N. Peace Keepers, threatened with kidnapping or worse, are
gradually pulling out.
What's
brought us to The Brink? The decision by our Government to take sides
with the rebels against the Assad regime, in Syria.
In
so doing we have aligned ourselves in a religious, sectarian fight
with the Sunnis, against the Shii's. We are sending armament and some
troops. The troops, thus far, are "observers" to help the
rebels learn how to use the armament.
But,
we're also sending several thousand troops to Jordan, for a Training
Exercise. When we leave, we will leave behind a dozen or so F-16
fighter jets and untold other materiel.
All
this serves to entangle us in this Regional conflict. When it
explodes: Hezbollah decides to attack the Golan Heights? We will be
right there to intervene.
The
biblical End Times scenario has a Western Leader being invited in to
settle the tensions and protect Israel [Dan. 9]. He makes a 7-year
Pact with Israel, for protection, which is broken after 3 1/2 years.
This Western Leader is viewed by Israel as their Messiah. But,
following his arrival, all we see is war, famine, pestilence and
cosmic cataclysm.
This
7-year Pact is what signals the beginning of the Great Tribulation!
An event that envelopes the entire globe! Upwards of 2 billion people
will die within a few years. In the next 3 years, another billion or
more will die.
Think
of the disruption, the disease, the destruction of world systems! It
will take a global effort to stave off anarchy and financial
collapse. Can you say: 666?
Are
we THAT close? No one knows, but it sure feels that way.
