Posted on 07/04/2009 1:00:27 PM PDT by GOPGuide
Maybe, but when has that ever deterred them? They're through getting pushed around by bigger nation states. They've got "THE BOMB." Remember that the chief creators, Einstein, Teller & Oppenheimer were all Jews. Israel has got, at our last estimation perhaps 100 medium yield nuclear weapons capable of being delivered in a variety of ways and all capable of reaching their chief enemies in the region.
And anyone thinks they’ll attack Iran? What an excellent justification that would give the world, to dismantle Israel, scatter its frightened population, and carpet it with welcoming rose petals for the muslims.
Those would be the same skeptics who said the same thing before Israel pulled the Entebbe Raid; sicc'ed MOSSAD on Black September all around the world (after the Munich Olympics) AND took out Saddam's reactor in the early 80's? Yah, right. That dismantlement as you put it has been tried by the entire Arab regional armed forces combined a couple of times and Israel still keeps kicking Arab A$$, the small summer debacle a couple of years ago notwithstanding. Once the IDF is well and truly let off the leash, they can take care of themselves against all comers. Even this administration, as anti-semitic as it is, would think twice about taking such a move, militarily. First of all, they don't have the guts. Second they'd lose their liberal Jewish political base here. Even if they acted only in some fashion like the ever popular Economic Sanctions, they'd lose the Jewish vote AND the Jewish donations to the DNC. They can't afford that for the foreseeable future.
Finally, although they can't be seen as being overtly supportive, the majority of the Arab nations are well and truly terrified of the Iranian regime's extremism and they are silently praying that Israel does a righteous job in removing that threat. Why is Iran a threat to her neighbors? Well, let's see. Maybe because their own Dear Leader (Mahmoud Imanutjob) sees HIMSELF as the fabled MAHDI who will rise up and unite the Arab world in global jihad? Maybe because that whole "Messiah" mentality is bad for the OIL BUSINESS? And commerce in general? Ya think?
These are all secular arguments I've posited. The final say can be found in several chapters of the Bible. Look at Isaiah 17, Ezekiel 38 & 39; much of the Book of Daniel AND most of the Book of Revelation. I don't know about you, but I'm warming up the popcorn and getting my seat all comfy because the biggest show in all of HISTORY is about to get started. RAPTURE READY?
One cannot avoid seeing that the situation with Iran is only narrowing the options Israel has to deal with that threat. With our present administration now taking a hostile tac with Israel, only the worst can be expected from it. Ez 38 conditions are becoming more and more set.
while a nuke may not destroy underground Iranian facilities - the emp, surface destruction and residual radiation will make it very difficult for operations to continue without a LOT of clean up.
Naturally, if Israel has to resort to those measures all Hell will break out in the persian gulf as well as gaza and Lebanon. That may be the stratigic play-off. Israel believes it can handle Hamas / Hezzies / Syria conventionally, and has an adequate missile shield to defend against Iranian counter strike attempts. They are not worried about the persian gulf - where the oil sheiks hate Iran about as much as Israel. So let them handle the problem in the gulf.
WRONG.
Haven’t you read the script from God’s perspective?
EXCELLENT POINTS.
THANKS.
GOD BE WITH YOU AND YOURS AS WELL.
Excitement builds . . . if that’s the word for it.
BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD AND ALL WHO WALK WITH HIM.
INDEED.
By design, most likely.
I agree, at the end of the day the facilities are not the problem, the leadership is. A coordinated strike against the leadership and some elements of the republican guard would set back their plans significantly. If it does not work follow up and hit the facilities.
Wait until their parliament is in session chanting America is the great satin and turn the place into rubble. Continue hitting every leadership location and command and control location until the last remaining “leaders” are living in a Sadam spider hole wetting their pants.
Thanks for the input, Pope Quix. I’ll check my Bible and see where it says Israel can strike Iran. Hope it’s not in one of those silly codes, next to “Rabin assassinated.”
“Might as well” is not a good reason to start a war. But thank you for not waving the scriptures at me. :)
Perhaps 7/11 has a sale on new glasses or synapses or some such to aid in your reading.
This is 2010 in the Age of 0bama. And I don’t subscribe to your hermeneutics. But if I did, I wouldn’t be trivializing the end times with cracks about popcorn.
Have a nice day, Quix.
LOL the author of that book suckered a lot of Christians, myself among them. I read it in about 2004 or '05 and it said that the codes absolutely predicted a nuclear war in 2006. Right then, I knew my money had been wasted. 2006 confirmed that view. That's why I no longer accept stuff like that. However, the scripture has been 100% correct all the time. More importantly, there are no remaining intervening events in the Bible left to fulfill before the coming Rapture. So, 668, someday soon you might literally BE the neighbor of the "BEAST" and he'll be loudly and proudly proclaiming that fact. When it happens, don't look around for me, QUIX or any of the other Christian freepers (including Jim Robinson), 'cause we'll NOT be around! LOL
Why not? What exactly does any follower of Jesus Christ have to be worried about, especially if we're right? Even if we're utterly wrong, what have we lost? Now, reverse that and apply it to your views. If you're right, no consequences. But if you're wrong... Hmmmmmmm. So it seems to me, the person rolling the dice here on a 50-50 proposition is you.
ROFLMAO! The AGE of Obama has lasted just about 14 months! The entire country has been BI*** slapped fully awake as of last Sunday.
I haven’t kept up to date recently with the Code stuff.
I do believe that the earlier stuff based on too short a character length has proven to not be statistically sound. However when one gets up beyond 30 characters . . . the statistical odds for chance resulting in such phrasings is extremely remote.
Time will tell. It’s still a very young discipline. It’s certainly not beyond God to pull such a fun thing and it is the sort of thing He seems to enjoy engineering.
Good points.
Well, I certainly agree with that. As I matured over many years in my faith, I discovered the whimsy of Jesus. One of the people who led me to Christ was my old Pastor at Key Biscayne Presbyterian Church (PCA) and his name is Steve Brown. He in fact performed my wedding ceremony in his office nearly 23 years ago. Now he has his own independent ministry and national radio show: KEY LIFE! I get his free weekly e-mails and discover this fact more and more as well as the reality of God's truly unconditional love for his lambs (us)! Give Steve Brown's group a look.
Will try to do so.
Thx thx.
An impressive site.
Will try to give a listen later in the week.
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