{"id":1477,"date":"2008-11-17T13:15:46","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T18:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/17\/a-critique-of-the-book-isralestine-that-suggests-that-the-war-of-psalm-83-is-imminent.html"},"modified":"2010-10-16T20:29:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T01:29:56","slug":"a-critique-of-the-book-isralestine-that-suggests-that-the-war-of-psalm-83-is-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/a-critique-of-the-book-isralestine-that-suggests-that-the-war-of-psalm-83-is-imminent.html","title":{"rendered":"A critique of the book “Isralestine” that suggests that the war of Psalm 83 is imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is the war of Psalm 83 and a enlarged Israel imminent as in the book “Isralestine”<\/em>?<\/a>
\nOne of the great mysteries for those who study Bible prophecy is the timing of the wars mentioned in Psalm 83 and the war described in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39. They are obviously different wars but which war occurs first and when? Are they pretribulational wars or tribulation wars? How can Israel be living in peace and security prior to the Ezekiel war as the prophecy clearly indicates? That is the ongoing debate.<\/p>\n

Bill Salus in his book “Isralestine”<\/em><\/strong> offers a solution but the thesis is very difficult to accept in light of real world realities but that does not mean the thesis he offers based on his selection and interpretation of certain scriptures is wrong. I have had a very difficult time reconciling the issues in his book and think that you really need to read the book and judge the merit of this hypothesis for yourselves and not just rely on my review.<\/p>\n

The thesis of the book is that the war of Psalm 83 is imminent. It occurs before the tribulation. The war brings about the defeat of the Arab nations and it allows a very large territorial expansion of Israel into the Arab states by conquest. After the war of Psalm 83 the greatly expanded Israel then lives in peace and security until the war of Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 where Gog (Russia) comes against Israel with Iran and other allies. At that time God intervenes for Israel and Israel expands to the entire land area promised to Abraham. Bill Salus also believes the Ezekiel war is before the “Day of the Lord” and that the rapture could be before or after the war of Psalm 83 but will be before the “Day of the Lord”.<\/p>\n

Full critique<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is the war of Psalm 83 and a enlarged Israel imminent as in the book “Isralestine”? One of the great mysteries for those who study Bible prophecy is the timing of the wars mentioned in Psalm 83 and the war described in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39. They are obviously different wars but which war […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,334,15,26],"tags":[53,60,84,343,6,75,344,117,71],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-prophecy-teachers","category-israel-jerusalam","category-russiagog","category-world-war-iii","tag-bible-prophecy","tag-ezekiel","tag-gog","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-peace","tag-rapture","tag-russia","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-nP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}