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Originally posted by Seeley:
Will (or could) the destruction of Damascus be the trigger for the mobilization of Russia and the war of Gog and Magog? It appears to me, that with all the current activity between Russia, Iran, and Syria that its almost inevitable.
I do believe this is in fact the case. There is a de facto Russian-Iranian alliance. There is also a long-standing Russian military agreement between Syria and Russia -- in October 1973 it nearly led to Russian intervention in the Yom Kippur War and to direct US-Russian nuclear confrontation. Yes, I am convinced the answer is yes. Again, keep an eye on Turkey!!!
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I wonder what the exact event will be which pushes Israel to nuke Syria?
I think the answer to this is also evident in Isaiah 17, New International Version. Italics mine for emphasis.
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Isaiah 17
An Oracle Against Damascus
1 An oracle concerning Damascus:
"See, Damascus will no longer be a city
but will become a heap of ruins.
2 The cities of Aroer will be deserted
and left to flocks, which will lie down,
with no one to make them afraid.
3 The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
and royal power from Damascus;
the remnant of Aram will be
like the glory of the Israelites,"
declares the LORD Almighty.
4 "In that day the glory of Jacob will fade;
the fat of his body will waste away.
5 It will be as when a reaper gathers the standing grain
and harvests the grain with his arm-
as when a man gleans heads of grain
in the Valley of Rephaim.
6 Yet some gleanings will remain,
as when an olive tree is beaten,
leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,
four or five on the fruitful boughs,"
declares the LORD , the God of Israel.
7 In that day men will look to their Maker
and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
8 They will not look to the altars,
the work of their hands,
and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles [a]
and the incense altars their fingers have made.
9 In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.
10 You have forgotten God your Savior;
you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
and plant imported vines,
11 though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest will be as nothing
in the day of disease and incurable pain.
12 Oh, the raging of many nations-
they rage like the raging sea!
Oh, the uproar of the peoples-
they roar like the roaring of great waters!
13 Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters,
when he rebukes them they flee far away,
driven before the wind like chaff on the hills,
like tumbleweed before a gale.
14 In the evening, sudden terror!
Before the morning, they are gone!
This is the portion of those who loot us,
the lot of those who plunder us.
Footnotes:
Isaiah 17:8 That is, symbols of the goddess Asherah
SOURCE:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/index.php?search=isaiah%2017&version=31
Here is the sequence of events this chapter reveals:
There is some kind of attack on Ephraim... which is the area of modern day Tel Aviv, and the naturally occuring west-to-east wind pattern disperses this event downwind as for as Aroer which is in present day Jordan, and the people will suddenly abandon whatever activity it is they are engaged in that region when the event occurs.
Observe also the words used regarding northern Israel:
Ephraim and Rephaim... study these two words and what they mean and I think you will find key insights as to exactly what this prophecy is saying.
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