Saturday, March 2, 2024

Global SITREP A4-24: The Parah Adumah (Red Heifer), Numbers 19 and October 7, 2023

 


2 March 2024: In approximately, or within the next 50 days time, the Numbers 19:1-10 ordinance (statue) given to Moses and Aaron by God will be carried out on a newly constructed platform on the western side of the Mount of Olives. This day is has been reported since last year to be just prior to the 2024 observance of Passover on 22 April. 

The Numbers 19 ordinance is news to no one who has read Eschatology Today or any truly Christian publication in recent months. This blog has brought the subject forward several times since 2015 when the Parah Adumah (Red Heifer) was first mentioned here. 

Simply put, without the priestly sacrifice and burning and mixing with water of the ashes of the red heifer there can be no cleansed person, rabbi or priest to rabbi fully ascend Mount Moriah to the place where the second temple stood and the third temple will soon be standing. 

To the truly observant Jew this event without question marks what they believe is the start of the "Messianic Era." But that is not the half of it, as the other half is how the adherents of Islam regard the mere presence of red heifers (there are now four highly protected red angus red heifers in Israel) in Israel. To them the cows are a casus belli, or cause for war. 

When the Muslim enemies of Israel cry out to their brethren to "defend Al Quds" (Jerusalem) and Al-Aqsa, what they mean is the temple mount, its mosques and the Dome of the Rock because the Numbers 19:1-10 unblemished red heifer ordinance indicates to them that the Jews intend to wipe their places from where they stand on the mount and erect in their place a new temple and its outer court. They will do anything and everything to prevent this from taking place.

It is a fact that this is true. 100 days after the October 7 massacre the spokesman for HAMAS' Al-Qassam Brigades issued a televised proclamation reminding all Muslim faithful the reasons for why they started the war against Israel on October 7. Here are excerpts from the English translation of Abu Obeida's proclamation for those who do not wish to click on the embedded Palestine Chronicle link above.

"We look back 100 days to remember the educated, the complicit, and the incapacitated among the world powers governed by the law of the jungle, reminding them of an aggression that reached its peak against our path (Al-Quds) and Al-Aqsa, with the start of its actual temporal and spatial division, and the “bringing of red cows as an application of a detestable religious myth designed for aggression against the feelings of an entire nation in the heart of its Arab identity, and the path of its prophet (the Night Journey) and Ascension to heaven...

As we have been informed by various sources in the resistance fronts that they are seeking to expand their strikes against the enemy in the coming days in light of the continued aggression on Gaza, we will not tire or falter in calling all the free people of the nation to rise to support their Aqsa and the path of their prophet, which the criminal Zionists are practically advancing towards destroying and establishing their temple. This is what we have chosen with our blood in Gaza for 100 days and for which the epic of October 7th was about." 

Talk about Indications and Warnings (I&W), as if another flash point for the ongoing war was necessary, make no mistake the Islamists have had the purpose for the red cows foremost in their minds for a very long time. They follow Jewish media very closely and this particular subject is for them the mother of all hut buttons. The events of October 7 and everything since then is proof of  this war which they view in the terms of jihad or martyrdom (holy war or death).

Eyes and ears wide open...

Monday, February 19, 2024

Global SITREP A3-24: Gaza Endgame

GAZA ENDGAME

FINAL UPDATE 29 February 2024:  The final update to this SITREP is to correlate the 19 February SITREP A3-24 initial entry and the comment made five days ago (24 February) at 5:17 AM. 

The combination of these two stand as a significant development concerning Psalm 83:2-4 where the so-called "inner ring" of Israel's enemies have been called together to consult together against the people of Israel in the capital city of the Ezekiel 38-39 nation known as Magog. 

The consultation of Israel's enemies is now in progress in Moscow having commenced this morning, 29 February 2024. This coincides with the IDF ultimatum for the terrorists to surrender all of the remaining hostages, or their deceased bodies, within ten days time, that is, no later than 10 March 2024, or a full-scale IDF incursion into Rafah will be executed. The military goal of the Rafah operation is to locate and liberate those "sheltered ones" (hostages) and eradicate the remaining four brigades of HAMAS and its allied terrorist forces. 

Sundown on 10 March also marks the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. As the remnants of the terrorists who had no regard whatsoever and began their slaughter and capture of Israeli women and children on Simchat Torah, so too are there calls for the IDF to show no restraint anywhere in Gaza, or Lebanon for that matter, during Ramadan. 

On Tuesday, 27 February Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant went public with the intelligence and resulting situational assessment of the terrorists plan to turn the month of Ramadan, with emphasis on the Temple Mount and Jerusalem, into phase two of their war plan against Israel that began on October 7, with amplification of this plan being provided by Iran and Hezbollah. 

Again, be wary of disinformation being disseminated in all media with global reach; deceit and deception are running rampant as we can all see these days. 



Elbit Hermes-450 UAV
26 February 2024: Eschatology Today assesses that a significant series of actions took place earlier today (afternoon in Israel) in the airspace over Lebanon and on the ground in the Hezbollah-heavy Bekaa Valley. Hezbollah used a surface-to-air missile (SAM) to shoot down an IDF reconnaissance drone (Hermes 450 image above). 

The initial action in the morning was the detection of an unidentified type of aircraft entering Israeli airspace in the Galilee region. A David's Sling interceptor shot the intruder aircraft out of the sky with parts of the wreckage landing near a synagogue in the town of Alon Tavor (between Afula and Kfar Tavor). Alon Tavor is the site of a three-generator 600 megawatt power generating station serving northern Israel and adjacent metal industrial plant. These are obvious high value co-located targets for Hezbollah.

Hezbollah's Bekaa Valley, Northern Lebanon

This was followed by the IDF's Hermes-450 UAV conducting its surveillance mission over Lebanon and its subsequent shoot-down by a Hezbollah SAM. The Hermes 450 wreckage came down on Lebanese territory. Immediately thereafter IAF strike aircraft were launched and began systematically attacking Hezbollah's Aerial Defense Array in northern Lebanon's Bekaa (Beqaa) Valley seen in the map above. 

The assessed significance of the Bekaa Valley airstrikes is that they recall to memory the IDF's June 1982 "Operation: Peace for the Galilee" of forty-two years ago. Most folks born in 1982 or afterwards almost certainly have little, if any, knowledge of this cross-border war and the loss of life which ensued. The "Peace for Galilee" operation was executed to remove the threat of cross-border bombardment from southern Lebanon on Israel's border communities. Sound familiar? 

This time it's not the PLO bombarding northern Israeli towns from southern Lebanon, but Iran's primary and very heavily-armed proxy Hezbollah. As the IAF (F-15I Ra'am and F-16 Sufa with Cobra and Defender attack helicopters) took control of Lebanese skies IDF ground forces invaded along three south-to-north access routes destroying all enemy bases and logistics in their path. And this time it's not Syrian SAM sites defend the Bekaa, but Hezbollah's Iranian-supplied SAMs, which some say may now eclipse the Syrian SAM systems which constituted the deadliest SAM environment on planet earth at that time, even more so than in Russia itself! 

Syrian and possibly even Russian air defense sites in Syria could tango with the IAF during this coming engagement. It can be expected that the Israel Defense Forces have fine-tuned the coming engagement so as to methodically degrade and ultimately decimate the enemy before them, probably to the Litani River and beyond if not all the way to the Bekaa Valley.


19 February 2024: SITREP A3-24 Gaza Endgame is intended to be a gap-filler for the next 20 days or so. March 10 is according to Israeli military command is the deadline upon which HAMAS and its associate terrorist organizations must unilaterally release all hostages (dead or alive) or face the IDF entering Rafah in full force. During this 20-day or so interim we'll attempt to capture important developments as Israel stands against the world in denial of the creation or recognition of a "Palestinian state" within its borders, and the threat of war with Hezbollah and/or enemies based in Syria. 

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Global SITREP A2-24: The Point of No Return

IRGC-QF Drones

UPDATE 09 February 2024: This update to SITREP 02-24 is likely the final to be posted; SITREP 03-24 appears to be on a fast track.

Multiple U.S. retaliation strikes for the deadly Tower 22 Jordan attack by IRGC-QF and its proxies have not made any difference with respect to deterrence of further attacks. There have been a minimum three UAV strikes on US bases within the past 36 hours which primarily targeted US and Coalition troops quarters. Making no mistake and no nuances, we are by and definition at war with Iran and its IRGC-QF external terrorist apparatus in Iraq and Syria.

From now on there will be no distinction made between the IRGC-QF and its various proxy forces - they're all IRGC-QF. The recent retaliatory strikes the US conducted against the IRGC-QF in the Dier Ez-Zor region, including at least two B1B Lancer intercontinental bomber strikes, did serious damage to their logistics. However, as damaging as they were even those strikes did not destroy the entire IRGC-QF armory. The weaponry that was not destroyed has been relocated to fortifications belonging to Hezbollah along the Syria-Lebanon border. This makes the IRGC-QF also inclusive of Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria. Apparently the Iranian enemy assesses that the U.S. Biden Administration will not strike their facilities embedded along the Lebanon-Syria border. That may be true, but it will not be an issue for the Israeli Air Force.

Israel's conquest of Gaza, and bold attempt to eradicate HAMAs, PIJ and other terrorists continues apace. Israel's war cabinet has requested the IDF provide a detailed plan for the evacuation of all civilians from Rafah and the way forward to eliminating the remaining minimum of four "battalions" which are assessed to have survived to date.

In the north Major General Ori Gordin, Commander Northern Command, met today with all leaders of the regional councils evacuated along that entire border. Aside of coordination with the civilian leadership, MG Gordin made clear to those leaders the ongoing cross-border conflict will shortly expand into offensive operations in Lebanon to drive Hezbollah, et all, further north to beyond the Litani River. This operation's intent is to prepare for Israeli citizens to safely return to the homes they have evacuated. I think we all can see where this is going.



30 January 2024: Eschatology Today has long interpreted Israel's current war as one which would eclipse all previous wars the country has fought from 1948-1973 combined. That mark has clearly been achieved even without total war with Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iranian proxy forces in Syria frontier having erupted. (All indications from Israel are that an IDF Lebanon operation is very, very close, by the way.)

The Middle East is now at a point of no return to what it was on October 6, 2023. Those days are over, gone forever. The U.S. government is comparing the current situation to the fall of 1973 when the very real possibility of a super power nuclear conflict was at the forefront. Even harkening to the early days of June 1967 when Israel's armed forces were in dire straits and consideration of the Sampson Option was presented to then PM Golda Meir. 

We have no doubt that God intervened in both of those very close calls; then was obviously not the appointed time, but many of us remember those days in terms of what Hal Lindsey had written in his global bestseller The Late, Great Planet Earth. The straight fact is, we're up against that threshold once again with staggering prophetic implications written about here since 2009. There's a flood coming.

Marana'tha!





Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Global SITREP A1-24: The Regional War Zone

 

The War Zone

FINAL UPDATE 27 January 2024: In the nine days since Pakistan launched retaliatory strikes deep into Iranian territory there's been only one OSINT analysis that carries any water. 

To begin with, why did Iran initiate hostilities with a nuclear-armed Pakistan? Was it to signal the world powers that it was now nuclear-armed itself and had no fear of Pakistani nukes? It was Pakistan, in the person of the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program (A.Q. Khan, for those with recollection) who clandestinely put Iran and the IRGC on the fast track to nuclear weapons development. So why strike Pakistan which is neither an ally of Iran nor a full-fledged foe either. 

Consider that Iran has been attacked on its soil a great many times by Israel, much less its bases and operatives in Lebanon and Syria, and Iran has never once retaliated against nuclear-armed Israel in a reciprocal manner. Ditto for the USA, and the assassination of IRGC-QF MG Qassem Soleimani by the Trump Administration. Hajj Soleimani was a very, very close ally of Ayatollah Khamenei, a fact discussed previously on Eschatology Today. 

The fact remains Iran fears both Israel and the US (even with Biden at the helm, and albeit at different levels, so direct retaliation has not occurred, and likely will not occur at the present time. Therefore, Iran took the lesser risk and hit Baluchi separatist camps in Pakistan to vent its desire for vengeance. The mullahs assessed quasi-correctly that Pakistan would reciprocate in-kind; a diplomatic kerfuffle would ensue (it did) and that would be that. This is what took place, but lost in 99% of all discussion on this is the fact that Pakistan is the only nation on earth to attack the territory of Iran with ballistic missile strikes since the end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988. 

This does not sit well with the mullahs in Tehran, and additional fall-out will surface soon, perhaps in a month's time in the coming election in Iran of the next Assembly of Experts. The new assembly will be far more radical as the days of the so-called "reformists" are over. It is also quite likely according to many observers of the Islamic Republic that the new Experts Assembly will elevate the current president, Ebrahim Raisi, to the office of Supreme Leader in place of the increasingly frail Ayatollah Khamenei. None in Iran today have more innocent blood on their hands than Raisi, and upon elevation he'll be more lethal than ever before. 

15 January 2024: At 03:00 this morning US and UK strike aircraft, supported by the Canadian, Dutch, Australian and Bahrani military forces, swarmed into Houthi-controlled Yemen to strike multiple Houthi military bases, launch pads, ordnance depots located in Sana'a, Hodeida port, Dhamar and their stronghold at Saada. A Houthi spokesman says the US and UK "will pay a heavy price for this blatant aggression." Once again, at Iranian Twelver instigation and outright arming with missiles and drones, Yemen has become a new front in the End Times "wars and rumors or war." 

It would seem logical that a campaign by the aforementioned Western allies for regime change in Houthi-controlled Yemen is the viable path to put an end to the ballistic missile and drone threats to commercial shipping in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait. This may seem wishful thinking given that a UK government official has stated that today's strikes in Houthi Yemen were "limited." What is obvious is that a war has been in progress at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula for some time now, and with these airstrikes that war has escalated once again with a necessary Western intervention. 

10 January 2024: The lead off SITREP for 2024 is to highlight the war zone where kinetic warfare is occurring, and anticipated, sooner or later, according to Bible prophecy which has been covered here for 15 years and counting. The archives are readily accessible for refresher reading. Eschatology Today assesses that now is the time to lean forward once again in anticipation of coming events. 

In this map Yemen, a currently active participant in the ongoing war against Israel, as well as Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Somalia are included because in ancient times they were inclusive of the Biblical land of Sheba to one extent or another. The land of Sheba is prominently referenced in the subsequent prophecy of Ezekiel 38/39. At this time it is not possible for Sheba in conjunction with the land of Dedan, to complain or protest the invasion attempt of Gog of Magog. Clearly it can be inferred that some major event will transform the current paradigm for Ezekiel's prophecy to occur as literally as it is written, which undoubtedly will be the future reality. Sudan is included as it is Kuwsh of Ezekiel 38/39. Egypt is included for both the current Israel-Gaza war and other prophetic events which will see Israel in control of all the land from the Nile River through the Sinai to the southern Negev border of the State of Israel. Libya, not specifically color-coded here is the land of Phut, also a participant of the Magog invasion.

Currently there are unconfirmed reports of IDF special forces operating along the Philadelphia corridor between Egypt and Gaza. This operation is designed to detect the remaining HAMAS leadership attempting to escape into Egypt with Israeli hostages through the extensive and currently active tunnel system underground there. These forces are also reportedly operating in Libya and Sudan for the same interdiction purposes.

The map above also illustrates in a single frame of reference the three critical maritime choke points of the Suez Canal, Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Strait of Hormuz. Blocking of one or more of these cannot be tolerated, particularly by the West, due to dire economic damage that can be done to the global economy with their closure.

The Philadelpi Corridor (image below) that will be in the news in the next few days as the IDF intends to take full control over it.


Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Global SITREP D6-23: The Great MidEast War


UPDATE 31 December 2023: This final update for 2023 is straight up and succinct. 

A new World War is coming. Russia wants ALL of Ukraine, Putin has zero interest in anything less. NATO, led by the U.S. will not allow that to happen. A NATO vs Russian Federation war in Europe from Finland to to Ukraine become more likely each month. China wants Taiwan, meaning the world war includes the Pacific "ring of fire." North Korea threatens South Korea, Japan and the US with nuclear war. Japan and the US will defend Taiwan. All ambiguity is out the window. 

Bible prophecy (Book of Daniel) hints strongly at this. The "beast" empire is here, albeit without the "Beast" at its head. 

Israel's war will continue for several months into 2024, to include Lebanon and Syria, and also Jordan. No reason to celebrate a New Year, it will prove to be less than happy for the world-at-large.

We pray for many more souls to find Salvation in Christ Jesus and partake in the blessed Harpazo of the Bride of Christ.

Marana'tha!


27 December 2023: Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced yesterday that Israel is a nation fighting a war on seven fronts. We've known this fact for quite some time, but it is good that all parties hear it from him.

To recap, there was a pitched battle fought in the skies over the Red Sea yesterday with the US Navy shooting at least three Iranian ballistic missiles fired from Yemen at Israel. Of note, this was the first time a US Navy anti-ship ballistic missile engaged and destroyed an incoming Iranian ballistic missile. Both Israeli and American combat aviation scored shoot downs of multiple Iranian drones also launched from Yemen. This war needs to be taken directly to the Ayatollah's doorstep.

In the north, Hezbollah expanded its tactical targets list by attacking a Greek-Orthodox church in the northern Israel town of Iqrit, injuring two Israeli Christians. A second Hezbollah missile was first injuring nine IDF troops who were first responders to the attack. Time to take the gloves of with Hezbollah.


 



The Magoi and the Birth of Jesus Messiah


The Eschatology Today tradition continues to bring this post forward.

27 December 2023 (Original Posting date 6 January 2010): The above image is an artistic rendering of the three Magoi (Magi). In fact, there had to have been quite an entourage who accompanied the Magoi, primarily because of the basic fact that no one makes a 1,000+ mile round trip journey across the desert east of the Jordan River, that between the Parthian Empire and Roman-occupied Israel west of the Jordan River without the supplies of a life-sustaining caravan and significant numbers of mounted cavalry for protection. The actual number of gentile visitors from the east was probably closer to 300 than just 3. It's also a minor miracle that the illegitimate Roman puppet King Herod did not think the appearance of this caravan from the east wasn't the advance guard of a Parthian invasion.

The importance of the whole story about the Magoi (Matthew 2:1-12) is quite likely unknown by most Christians. That's because we've not spent much time learning about it, even though it is Scripture, Old Testament (Numbers 24:14-25; Micah 5:2-5; Isaiah 60:2-6) and very specific prophetic Scripture at that.

Oh, we all know and have visualized one way or another the "We Three Kings" Christmas carol, and have seen Nativity scene imagery like the above for the sum of our lives, but that's not the half of it. There's more... so much more to the story.

The more I think about it, the more I am astounded by the fact that the gentile Magoi who came out of the Parthian (Persian) Empire and made this tremendous journey did so after fervently holding to the prophet Daniel's detailed prophecy (given by the angel Gabriel in Daniel 9:24-26) concerning the coming of the Messiah for over 600 years, and waited generation after generation for a very specific sign in the skies, and all the while knowing the precise number of days until the Messiah's birth because of the details given in the prophecy. They knew how to count Hebrew years, and exactly how many days each year had. They knew precisely when to look for the star.

And then once that sign appeared and the number of days had elapsed they rounded up the multiple parts of a large caravan and the water and provisions for the entire group's survival, plus the gifts for the object of their 500+ year devotion for what had to be a round trip of something well in excess of 1,900 miles across barren desert, mountains, marshes, rivers and wadis.... I stand here approximately two millennia and two decades later in complete awe just thinking about it.

The caravan was quite probably a round trip from Seleucia to Jerusalem and back, on foot and by beast of burden, of GENTILE believers coming from the Magoi's descendants of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great's Empire, the Seleucid Empire to the Parthian Empire of the Roman Era.

That these GENTILES, these Magoi, had clung to and fervently believed in the exquisitely detailed God-breathed prophecy of Daniel concerning the coming birth of the Messiah for hundreds and hundreds of years, through all of the events, wars, and tumults that had occurred in this crossroads region of the known world, is without question the greatest account of the prophetic Word of God causing belief in the God of Israel among gentiles in history prior to the crucifixion, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Having been in those same Middle Eastern deserts, such a specifically purposeful journey undertaken 2,000 years ago is mind-boggling to this author. These gentiles from the regions and lands of Israel's captivity knew the details of, believed in, and all the while eagerly awaited the birth of the Messiah. And the Jews, for the most part, due to their disobedience and the spiritual blindness and deafness placed upon them by the Covenant of Moab, besides the Covenant of Horeb, (Deuteronomy 29) knew nothing of His coming; that He would literally be the God of their fathers born in the flesh of a man.

And here we are, knowing in detail that the days of time which are left until the advent of Daniel's 70th Week are all but palpable... just stand in awe and in praise of God. My brothers and sisters, just stand in awe and praise to be a living part of all this.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

26 December 2023; Eschatological Statement



ESCHATOLOGICAL STATEMENT

Believe as you wish, but this is the overlook above the valley of the shadow of death where I stand watch, and whether by Divine vision, instruction or visitation, it matters not for it has been given.

It is not obvious to all searching God's Word, as Berean's would do at this late hour, there will be no distinct, book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse fulfillments of the several prophetic narratives. There will not be 9 prophetic wars, or 6 wars or even 3.

There is but ONE prior to the 70th Week of Years (which has its own unique God-breathed time-lime of appointments which are painstakingly detailed in The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ) and its fulfillment is completely dynamic, sequential, concurrent and unitary of purpose, like a flood, in preparing all Israel for redemption.

Israel today is in tremendous upheaval! Israel is at war on seven fronts!

There are no "gaps" of time, no here, now or next cases of occurrence, that's all worthless publishers boiler plate for the next book offering.

This is the reason why so very few do not see what is standing before us all - they cannot see past the learned construct they have convinced themselves is real. The "Dispensation of Grace" will end, as in "poof" it's gone, and with the trump and shout of an Archangel the Bride is translated into the Heavenly realm. 

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