I have figured out that I really cannot figure out how end time prophetic events involving Israel will all play out but of course like so many others that write on Bible prophecy that won’t stop me from writing about it.<\/p>\n
Probably the main premillennial futurist speculation today is that the war of Ezekiel chapter 38 will take place within a few years but that does not make sense to me in the light of present world realities. Israel is not living in security as it is so clearly stated in the Ezekiel prophecies. Israel cannot be living in security without some significant change in thinking in the entire Middle East. The idea that Israel can just make a peace deal with the Arabs and then live in security so that the Ezekiel Gog war can take place is totally out of touch with today’s Middle East realities.<\/p>\n
There is a more recent second theory that Israel will first fight the war mentioned in Psalm 83 and take over all the Arab nations that surround it. It might answer the Ezekiel security problem but it raises other perplexing issues. Like how does a nation of 7 million Jews do that? How does this military action then give Israel a feeling of security in the light of a hostile Iran and Turkey? I also do not understand how the passage in Psalm 83:3 about “thy hidden ones” fits a pretribulation war?<\/p>\n
Israel is not hidden from the Arab confederacy today. That statement about being hidden would seem to be more appropriately applied to Israel at a time when she is hidden by the angel Michael in the mountains of Jordan during the great tribulation. Other wording in Psalm 83 also makes it logical to assume that this Psalm is fulfilled in the time of Jacob’s trouble. After all, Jacob’s trouble was Essa. Jacob’s trouble and the associated prophetic passages about Jacob’s trouble seem to occur in the Day of the Lord and that normally is thought to take place in the last 42 months. But who knows? Just because this greatly expanded Israel theory does not fit to my satisfaction does not mean it is not true.<\/p>\n
Some of these with this theory also associate Isaiah chapter 17 with a pretribulation Psalm 83 war. But, if the events of Isaiah 17 took place before the great tribulation then why does it picture the remnant of Israel like the gleanings after the harvest? How can most in Israel be killed and then become an exceedingly great army that will possess the land just before some still pretribulation Gog war? It just is not logical to me, but that does not mean that they are wrong.<\/p>\n
Let’s look at present day world realities. Israel is on the brink of war. There are over 40,000 rockets pointing at Israel today many from Iran. Israel is certainly not living in any security. Iran is threatening to wipe Israel off the map and Iran is developing nuclear weapons. Yet Iran is not even mentioned in the Psalm 83 war? So how is the Psalm 83 war the next war? Is there a revolution in Iran first or does the US take out Iran’s capabilities? Who really knows? We do know that Iran does not come against Israel until the Gog war when Israel is living in security.<\/p>\n
If Israel takes over all the Arab nations around her how would she have security? There would be revolution all over the lands that she occupies and probably a UN action. I do think there are some things that no one is getting here<\/strong>.<\/p>\n With all that in mind, It would seem to me that there has to be some forced peace in the Middle East among all nations around Israel before the war of Ezekiel 38 can take place. So how can this peace be accomplished? Through some two state solution? That concept is laughable. Through war? Most likely. But, how can this war take place and still leave Israel secure?<\/p>\n I will give you my thoughts for what they are worth on how that can take place. There will be a world war against Islam and the entire Middle East will come under the control of the West. It will be the land area of the Old Roman Empire. Israel will then be living in peace and security under Rome. She will be a member state in this revived Roman Empire. The Arab nations around Israel will disarm and they also will be under the Roman System. <\/strong>Later comes the Gog war but these Arab nations are not among them because all these nations now identify with the Roman Empire.<\/p>\n By the way, I think the world war with radical Islam will come because terrorists will soon use weapons of mass destruction against the West. They might do this because of a strike on Iran or for no good reason. I also think this war is imminent. I think before long Israel and the whole area will be under the new Roman Empire and that is where Israel gets its security. After the Gog war, the Roman Empire leader will confirm the agreements once again with the many, but 42 months later he will move the center of his empire to Babylon and carry out war against Israel.<\/p>\n So is the Psalm 83 the next Middle East war? Who really knows for sure? One thing is certain. We will not have long to wait to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have figured out that I really cannot figure out how end time prophetic events involving Israel will all play out but of course like so many others that write on Bible prophecy that won’t stop me from writing about it. Probably the main premillennial futurist speculation today is that the war of Ezekiel chapter […]<\/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":[21,4,338,334,325],"tags":[72,53,321,60,84,343,13,6,114,317,347],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roman-empire","category-iran","category-islam-islamofacism-and-terrorism","category-israel-jerusalam","category-judeo-christian-hate","tag-antichrist","tag-bible-prophecy","tag-eu","tag-ezekiel","tag-gog","tag-iran","tag-islam","tag-israel","tag-logic","tag-perspectives","tag-world-war-iii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-Ws","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","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=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}