We awake this morning to see that the world's most hated nation, Israel, is under vicious demonic attack- again. And the most feared nation on earth, The United States, is now ripe for the picking, mocking, and likely attack. Muslims see Israel as Little Satan and the US as Great Satan. They are quite serious about wanting to wipe Israel off the map.(Psalm 83:4)
"Lebanese Muslim demonstrators burn the US (R) and Israeli flags during a protest against a film mocking Islam in Abra, east of Sidon, on September 13, 2012 (AFP Photo / Mahmoud Zayyat)"
"Several hundred people have rallied in the Lebanese city of Tripoli, burning American and Israeli flags in outrage over an American-made film mocking Islam's prophet, Muhammad. -The streets of Tripoli saw a heavy police presence on Thursday despite the fact that only around 200 people took part in the demonstration. There were no reports of violence or clashes during the demonstration."
"Protesters carried black banners bearing the traditional Islamic message, "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is His Prophet." Several protesters burned American and Israeli flags while chanting "God is great!" Another demonstration took place in the southern city of Sidon, on Lebanon's Mediterranean coast. Offended men and women showed posters containing slogans like "freedom does not mean insults to religion" and "who are you, you lowlifes, to insult what is good for people."
Isaiah 28:20-24 has a prophecy against Sidon:
PROPHECY AGAINST SIDON
20The word of the Lord came to me: 21"Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her 22and say, Thus says the Lord God:
"Behold, I am against you, O Sidon,
and I will manifest my glory in your midst.
And they shall know that I am the Lord
when I execute judgments in her
and manifest my holiness in her;
23 for I will send pestilence into her,
and blood into her streets;
and the slain shall fall in her midst,
by the sword that is against her on every side.
Then they will know that I am the Lord.
24"And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God."
This prophecy tells us not only about the nation of what is now Lebanon, but also that the demonic forces are behind many kings, INCLUDING THE KING OF TYRE which is the ancient name of Lebanon, as described in verses 11-19.
Much of this prophecy has already come to pass. Tyre and Sidon were vanquished when Alexander the Great came to town. Yet the last parts of are still to come: Lebanon will be completely neutralized and of no threat to Israel any more. Since there are at this moment thousands of rockets stations on Lebanese soil aimed at Israel, and the Lebanese do not know the LORD, we can expect the last verses of the prophecy to come to pass. Matthew Henry says of this prophecy,
"The Sidonians were borderers upon the land of Israel, and they might have learned to glorify the Lord; but, instead of that, they seduced Israel to the worship of their idols. War and pestilence are God's messengers; but he will be glorified in the restoring his people to their former safety and prosperity."
I'd said in comments last night on another blog entry that I believe the killing of the Ambassador and the attacks on the Cairo and Libyan embassies were the dam breaking. I wrote that when I heard about the embassies I got a knot in my stomach. When I heard it was planned and coordinated ahead of time, the knot deepened. When I read that Obama knew 48 hours ahead that it was likely to happen- AND DID NOTHING- I felt that this was truly the Franz Ferdinand moment (the Bosnian King who was assassinated, sparking WWI). I think the embassy violence is the dam breaking. The dam has broken open. As Obama does nothing, the Muslims become emboldened. There will be no stopping them.
"House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) warned Thursday that escalating attacks on American embassies in the Middle East could develop into "real trouble" and said that the United States needed to clearly signal the ramifications of future attempts to breach diplomatic missions abroad."
John McTernan wrote that 'the violence in the Embassies is THE FUSE LIT TO ARMAGEDDON.' I am inclined to agree. The downward slope is slippery and the momentum is beyond catchable now.
I think we should expect an attack on our soil in the coming weeks. My opinion. Why do I think this? The US used to be the world's policeman. It stands to reason, because this nation has the most Christians, and was used mightily to further the kingdom. Just as a town or a city needs policemen, so does the world. And that role fell to the US. We were used mightily not only to further His kingdom by sending missionaries He raised up, but to hold back the hellish kingdom by policing the evil men. In the first case, missionaries were used to bring the Gospel and thus, to break the spiritual demonic strongholds in a nation person by person. In the second case, the US was used to police a nation, and thus break an evilly controlled man's strongholds on a country.
What we're seeing is the diminishing of our role as policeman and the result is the criminals are running wild. The Middle East's violence is not human excitation, it is demonic fervor. In Revelation 16:16 we read that it is the "demonic spirits" that gather the armies to Armageddon. The demons so hate Jesus, His people the Jews, and their children the Christians, that they whip up ALL the world's armies into a frenzy and gather them there to fight Jesus.
What we see today on earth is the beginning of that demonic fervor being unleashed to what will soon be Revelation's final filling at Armageddon. It is not rational. It is not logical. It is demonic hatred from the pit of hell. There is no reasoning with it. There is no diplomacy with it. By this point in the prophetic agenda, it is my belief that only prayer and appeal to Jesus, individual by individual, for unbeliever's salvation and for believer's sanctification will suffice. The Gospel is more important than ever because it is the only rescue and the only refuge. It only ever was, but by now while we are on the cusp of the rapture and the unleashing of hell on earth, repeating that people need to repent because Jesus saves, is the only message that matters.
Credit: ceremonial-magic.blogspot.com
