The ISIS Islamic State and Ezekiel 35 Connection

A Prophetic Judgment Revisited on Mount Seir

Most who interested in prophecy and end-time events (eschatology) usually are focused on the prophecies of Isaiah 17, Psalm 83, Jeremiah 49 and Ezekiel 38 & 39.  However, a lesser talked about prophecy concerning Judgment on Mount Seir (as well as all of Edom) could be one of the very next prophecies to be fulfilled.

Many believe that Ezekiel 35 was a stand-alone and already fulfilled prophecy, with the destruction of Edom and its capital city of Petra as prophesied in the book of Obadiah (written about 585 B.C.).  It is thought by some to have been fulfilled in 312 BC when the Edomites were slaughtered by the Seleucid King Antigonus.  As Bill Salus point out (in his book Revelation Road) this account did not involve the IDF (“by the hand of my people”) at the time, so disqualifying it as an actual fulfillment of Ezekiel 25:14.  Additionally, among other good points made by Salus, Ezekiel 35 begins with the word “moreover,” which implies a continuation from Ezekiel Chapter 34. Ezekiel 34, concludes with an end-times’ depiction of the Jews being re-gathered into Israel (being fulfilled today since 1948), restored as God’s people, and being blessed. From other Scripture passages, we know that there is a regathering in unbelief in preparation for the judgment of the Tribulation, followed by a second worldwide regathering in faith in preparation for blessing during the Messianic Kingdom.  If this is the case, then Ezekiel 35 is yet to be completely fulfilled.

Who specifically is the Mount Seir and Edom of Ezekiel 35?  Ezekiel 35:15 says “O Mount Seir, as well as all of Edom,” and then repeats, “all of it,” alluding to the entirety of Edom. This would imply that Mount Seir encompasses more than Edom (which is largely the southern part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan today). Ezekiel 36:1-5 identifies Mount Seir as the surrounding nations encircling Israel including “all Edom.”  The people groups and states all around Israel comprise (what Salus calls) the “inner-circle” of Arab states and terrorist populations, which are also listed in Psalm 83:6-8. This is in contrast to the “outer-ring,” identified in Ezekiel 38:1-5 as the Gog of Magog coalition.

Thus, Ezekiel 35 may be another description of the war prophesied in Psalm 83 and Jeremiah 49:7-11. If this is true, then Ezekiel 35 specifically identifies the Arab countries that surround Israel today.  These Arab countries (inner-circle) being:

Tents of Edom = [decedents of Esau] Palestinian Refugees and Southern Jordanians

Ishmaelites = Saudi Arabians

Moab = Palestinian Refugees and Central Jordanians

Hagrites = Egyptians

Gebal = Northern Lebanese

Ammon = Palestinian Refugees and Northern Jordanians

Amalek = Arabs South of Israel

Philista = Palestinian Refugees and Hamas of Gaza Strip

Inhabitants of Tyre = Hezbollah and Southern Lebanese

Assyria = Syrians and Northern Iraqis

Of these people groups and States, it is no surprise that the Palestinians, Lebanese (Hezbollah), Hamas, Syrians, Northern Iraqis and even Egyptians would be united toward the destruction of Israel.  The two less likely, in my mind, were Saudi Arabia and Jordan.  So how do all of these people groups and States become united of one accord against Israel, and what turns Saudi Arabia and Jordan against Israel to also be involved?  Enter the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) and their newly proclaimed Caliphate as the newly declared Islamic State, as the GAME CHANGER!

A sampling of recent headlines covering ISIS threats to take over Jordan and Saudi Arabia:

“ISIS Threatens to Invade Jordan, 'Slaughter' King Abdullah”
The terrorists, who belong to The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are planning to take their jihad to Jordan, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula -- after having already captured large parts of Syria and Iraq…One of the ideas discussed envisages focusing ISIS's efforts on Jordan, where Islamist movements already have a significant presence. Jordan was also chosen because it has shared borders with Iraq and Syria, making it easier for the terrorists to infiltrate the kingdom…Jordanian political analyst Oraib al-Rantawi sounded alarm bells by noting that the ISIS threat to move its fight to the kingdom was real and imminent…http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4354/isis-jordan

“Jordan shaken by threats from ISIS, Iraq, Syria”

The fact that Jordan is now host to more than a million Syrians, over two million Iraqis and about 600,000 Egyptians should sound alarm bells…the dynamics of struggle in the region are changing, and ancient sectarian vendettas are rising to the surface...While Syria is engulfed in an endless civil war and Iraq faces political disintegration, Jordan finds itself, in a very inhospitable region as it faces the threat of ISIS. The possible partition of Iraq and the rise of a radical Sunni enclave on its eastern border pose an unprecedented existential challenge to the country…http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/06/jordan-isis-anbar-iraq-salafi-jihadist-maan.html#

“ISIS threatens to destroy the Kaaba after capturing Saudi Arabia”

Representatives of the Islamic State in Iraq (ISIS) stated that they will destroy the Kaaba after they capture Saudi Arabia…ISIS wants to take control of the city of Arar in Saudi Arabia and start operations there… http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/politics/57062.html

“Saudi Arabia threatened by ISIS advance in Iraq”

The prospect of a failed state torn apart by a sectarian civil war along its border, another one in Syria and an al-Qaeda “state” rising up from the ashes of these two civil wars must be a disconcerting one for Saudi Arabia. While both Iraq and Syria have publicly blamed the carnage in their countries on the Saudis for what they maintain is Saudi support of “terrorists,” including ISIS, the al-Qaeda affiliate itself has vowed to “conquer” Saudi Arabia after it has “vanquished” the regimes in Damascus and Baghdad…http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/06/saudi-arabia-sunni-isis-threat-iraq-shiite-maliki-setbacks.html

…so this gives us a good idea how Saudi Arabia and Jordan may end up under the rule of the Calph and part of the new Islamic State, and going to war with Israel. 

Additional recent key headlines to the ISIS Ezekiel 35 connection:

“Watch: ISIS fighter says group will 'break all borders to reach Jerusalem'”

"This is not the first border we will break," we will break all barriers…Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon...all of them, until we reach Jerusalem. This is the first of many barriers we will break." …ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, is a jihadist terrorist organization that has already taken large areas in Syria and made significant gains in Iraq. It is now in the process of setting up a hard-core Islamic state in the heart of the Middle East…ISIS, with its recent takeover of the only Iraqi border crossing to Jordan, set off alarm bells that the latter country could be the next to find itself engulfed in jihadist mayhem…http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Watch-ISIS-fighter-says-they-will-break-all-borders-to-reach-Jerusalem-361019

“Rome will be conquered next, says leader of 'Islamic State'”

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, speaking as the first Caliph, or commander of the Islamic faithful since the dissolution of the Ottoman empire - the self-proclaimed leader of the 'Islamic State' stretching across Iraq and Syria, has vowed to lead the conquest of Rome as he called on Muslims to immigrate to his new land to fight under its banner around the globe… http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10939235/Rome-will-be-conquered-next-says-leader-of-Islamic-State.html

“ISIS captured enough U.S. weapons to arm 200,000-man Islamic army”

ISIS, has been catapulted to the position of the world's wealthiest and best-equipped militant group, analysts say. The group, which has attracted thousands of fighters from the Arab world, Europe and elsewhere, also holds sway over a broad swath of contiguous territory in the heart of the Middle East…ISIS is well-trained, very capable, and have advanced weapons systems that they know how to use…As ISIS continues to storm through Iraq, its leaders seem determined to repeat the same offensive trajectory in Syria and regain areas ceded to rivals in northern Syria. They are also seeking to control the Turkish border in its entirety…http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-iraq-isis-arms-20140629-story.html#page=1

“ISIS Parades Scud Missile 'Heading Towards Israel'”

ISIS parades Scud missile and tanks in Syria transferred from Iraq, as ISIS member threatens missile 'heading towards Israel.'…the ISIS has seized a chemical weapons facility, Iraq's largest oil refinery, and become the "world's richest terrorist organization" by looting 500 billion Iraqi dinars ($425 million) from banks in Mosul…ISIS has already been active in Gaza and the Scud missiles in their possession raise the danger posed against Israel, given that the long-range missiles have been fired at Israel in the past from Iraq during the Gulf war…

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182409#.U7P8b9zck9V

“Beirut, Hezbollah brace for Islamic State strikes”

Lebanese security forces and Hezbollah are bracing themselves for future suicide attacks by the Islamic State ...Lebanon is in immediate danger of suicide bombings...The Islamic State has infiltrated Palestinian refugee camps in the country... http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Beirut-Hezbollah-brace-for-Islamic-State-strikes-361331

“Group linked to Islamic State claims responsibility for murder of three Israelis”

The Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has claimed responsibility for the murder of the three yeshiva students in Judea...http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Group-linked-to-Islamic-State-claims-responsibility-for-murder-of-three-Israelis-361337...the ISIS is now trying to draw Israel into their war. If this doesn't work an ISIS invasion into Jordan (Edom) would bring an Israeli military response as Israel has agreements to supply the Hashemites kingdom with security.

“The ISIS map of the world: Militants outline chilling five-year plan for global domination as they declare formation of caliphate - and change their name to the Islamic State”

Upon declaring a caliphate, the Sunni militants - whose brutality in attempting to establish control in Iraq and Syria has been branded too extreme even by Al Qaeda - demanded allegiance from Muslims around the world.  With brutal efficiency, ISIS has carved out a large chunk of territory that has effectively erased the border between Iraq and Syria and laid the foundations of its proto-state…The ISIS has published a map showing their plans for the next five years.  The map shows all States surrounding Israel, parts of Africa, all the Middle East, and even Europe shaded in black, to represent the territories that ISIS hopes will be part of its Sunni-run state…see map here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2674736/ISIS-militants-declare-formation-caliphate-Syria-Iraq-demand-Muslims-world-swear-allegiance.html

As we near the fulfillment of many end-time prophecies, I believe God is revealing a clearer understanding of how all of these things may unfold.  At this writing, the Ezekiel 35/Psalms 83 war seems like it will be lit by ISIS.  Let’s amplify Ezekiel 35 in light of the recent advent of the ISIS Caliphate State…

Ezekiel 35

Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir [all the surrounding nations and people groups encircling and threatening to destroy Israel] and prophesy against it, and say to it, ‘Thus says the Lord God:

“Behold, O Mount Seir [greater Islamic Caliphate State - ISIS], I am against you;

I will stretch out My hand against you [through the IDF],

And make you most desolate;

I shall lay your cities waste [through empowering the IDF and giving them victory over you],

And you shall be desolate.

Then you shall know that I am the Lord.

“Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel [including the recent slaying by ISIS of the three Israeli boys Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrach and Gil-ad Shaar] by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end, therefore, as I live,” says the Lord God, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood [and are guilty of shedding the innocent blood of these boys], therefore blood shall pursue you. Thus I will make Mount Seir [all of the inner-circle nations surrounding Israel] most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns.  And I will fill its mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those who are slain by the sword shall fall.  I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; [and I will give your lands to Israel and increase her borders to the edge of your borders and increase Israel’s wealth from your wealth] then you [and all nations] shall [see and] know that I am the Lord.

“Because you have said, ‘These two nations [Israel and Judah – Note: Judah or Judea is a term used for the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel] and these two countries [Israel and Jerusalem for our capital] shall be mine, and we will possess them,’ although the Lord was there, therefore, as I live,” says the Lord God, “I will do according to your anger and according to the envy which you showed in your hatred against them [the burdensome stone Israel]; and I will make Myself known among them [all of Israel] when I judge you. Then you shall know that I am the Lord. I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to consume.’ [The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: 'O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him." (Hamas Article 7)].  Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard them.”

‘Thus says the Lord God: “The whole earth will rejoice when I make you [ISIS] desolate [because of your “five-year plan for global domination”]. As you rejoiced because the inheritance of the house of Israel was desolate, so I will do to you; you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, as well as all of Edom—all of it! [Palestinians, Lebanese (Hezbollah), Hamas, Syrians, Northern Iraqis, Egyptians, Saudi Arabia and Jordan]. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.”’

Biblical Prophecy being fulfilled in real time before our eyes!

"Blow a trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm on My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the Day of the Lord is coming; surely it is near." Joel 2:1

Important Updates to our July 3rd post of ”The ISIS Islamic State and Ezekiel 35 Connection”

ISIS Threatens New Holocaust Against Jews, Supporters Call For Group To Open New Front Against Israel

A Twitter post Thursday by supporters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), now calling itself the Islamic State (IS), has promised a Holocaust against the Jews..."The Real Zionist Holocaust is Predicted in the Hadiths! The Hour [resurrection] will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them, and the tree will say: "Oh, Muslim, servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, kill him! ...http://midnightwatcher.wordpress.com/2014/07/07/isis-threatens-new-holocaust-against-jews-supporters-call-for-group-to-open-new-front-against-israel/

Air-Raid Sirens Are Going Off In Jerusalem

Jerusalem's air-raid siren system began going off at 9:58 p.m. local time on Tuesday.  During Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012, Jerusalem's air-raid system was activated in response to an aerial attack for the first time ever, and rockets fired by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas hit inside the city. This time around, an attack targeted at Jerusalem also threatens to inflame an already tense confrontation between Israel and Hamas...http://www.businessinsider.com/air-raid-sirens-are-going-off-in-jerusalem-2014-7#ixzz36uMd7MBz

More than half of Israel under Hamas attack - from Beersheba up to Greater Tel Aviv

The government and the IDF have billed the operation as a long-term, staged offensive to destroy Hamas’ logistical and strategic infrastructure, to be escalated stage by stage as needed, up to a limited ground incursion, which would require additional reserve call-ups, as well targeted assassinations. This progression will be adjusted to the enemy’s response...The population has been forewarned that the contest may be protracted...The rules of Operation Solid Rock now require Israel to scale its response up to the next stage, in response to which Hamas will no doubt go for Tel Aviv. No one seems to know how this tit-for-tat duel will end...http://debka.com/article/24078/More-than-half-of-Israel-under-Hamas-rocket-attack---from-Beersheba-up-to-Greater-Tel-Aviv-No-casualties-Hamas-tries-smuggling-terrorists-in-by-tunnels-and-sea

IDF Calls Up 40,000 Reservists, Ordered to 'Hit Hamas Hard'

The Security Cabinet has approved IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz's request to call up 40,000 reservists to the Gaza border, in the clearest signal yet that the IDF is planning a ground offensive into the Hamas-controlled territory in response to ceaseless rocket-fire on Israeli civilians. "We have been instructed by the political echelon to hit Hamas hard,"...Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon warned it was likely to be a protracted campaign. "We are preparing for a campaign against Hamas, which will not end in just a few days," he said in a statement after meeting security chiefs, which defined the aim as being "to exact a very heavy price from Hamas."...http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182654#.U7xRe9zck9V

Abbas's Fatah Threatens Israel: 'Prepare the Body Bags'

Not to be outdone by the Hamas terrorists in Gaza who have been showering rockets on southern Israel, Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction has stepped up its threatening rhetoric against Israel.  Fatah threatened death against Israelis by telling them to "prepare body bags,"...http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182637#.U7xUPdzck9V

ISIS is absolutely lighting the fuse to start a Regional War with Israel...this is as close to the impetus for the beginning of the Psalm 83 War as we have EVER seen...this may be the real thing, beginning the fulfillment of a number of prophecies (Psalm 83, Isaiah 17 & 19, Jeremiah 49, Ezekiel 35)...“Pray for the peace  of Jerusalem: "May those who love you be secure. May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels." Psalm 122:6-7 ...and Israel has this promise from God “As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so is God around His people from henceforth and forever.” Psalm 125:2 ... "Blow a trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm on My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the Day of the Lord is coming; surely it is near." Joel 2:1 ...and we are told "when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near."  Luke 21:28...MARANATHA!

Global SITREP C16-14: The Islamist War Against Israel Now Includes The Lebanese Front

Below just posted from Eschatology Today - http://eschatologytoday.blogspot.com/2014/07/global-sitrep-c16-14-islamist-war.html

Day 4 marks the expansion of hostilities to include rocket fire against Israel coming from Lebanon. At 0200 this Friday morning a salvo of rockets were fired at Metula, Israel by Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. Israeli artillery immediately returned fire with at least 24 rounds directed at the source of the rocket fire located in the southern Beqaa Valley. Another volley of rockets were fired at Israel by Hezbollah four and one-half hours later from the same general vicinity in Lebanon. Operation Protective Edge now includes two active front lines...According to IDF CoS Benny Gantz who was speaking to Israeli media a short time ago, the only thing that stands between massed Israeli armor, engineering and mechanized troops and the territory of Gaza at this point is a political decision from PM Bibi Netanyahu and his cabinet. Otherwise Israel is fully prepared to execute an order to invade and accomplish unambiguous objectives in the war against Islamic terrorists in Gaza...Speaking through official government media (Fars News Agency), Iranian President Rouhani has essentially called on all Muslim countries to assist the Gaza terrorists by declaring war against Israel. With this as a backdrop, and not that Iran does not now have its hands full in both Syria and Iraq, but the Ayatollah in Iran could order Hezbollah in Lebanon to open up cross-border hostilities in the north. He might even call on Bashar al-Assad two add his missiles into the fray. The potential is present for this war to very quickly spin out of any semblance of control.

Iraq Invaders Threaten Nuke Attack On Israel

The well-organized army of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, claims it has access to nuclear weapons and a will to use them to “liberate” Palestine from Israel as part of its “Islamic Spring,” according to a WND source in the region...Lamb added that the ISIS “Al-Quds Unit” is working to broaden its influence in more than 60 Palestinian camps and gatherings from Gaza, across “Occupied Palestine,” or Israel, to Jordan and from Lebanon up to the north of Syria “seeking to enlist support as it prepares to liberate Palestine.”...ISIS access to nuclear weapons could come from Sunni Pakistan, which is home to more than 30 terrorist groups. Pakistan possibly has transferred nuclear weapons to the chief bankroller of its nuclear development program, Sunni Saudi Arabia, as WND previously has reported...http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2014/July04/041.html

CALIPHATE GOES NUCLEAR: ISIS Seizes 88 Pounds of Uranium From Mosul University

The Iraqi ambassador told the United Nations this week that ISIS terrorists seized 88 pounds of uranium from Mosul University.  The uranium could be used for “manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.”...The Iraqis also admitted this week that ISIS looted the Muthanna chemical weapons complex in June...http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/07/caliphate-goes-nuclear-isis-seizes-88-pounds-of-uranium-from-mosul-university/

Hamas Just Attempted To Create A Horrific Nuclear Disaster In The Heart Of Israel

After the horrors of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, how insane do you have to be to fire missiles directly at a major nuclear facility?  Everyone should be able to agree that it is utter madness for Hamas to fire rockets at the Dimona nuclear installation in the Negev.  The intent, of course, was to destroy the Dimona facility and create a horrific nuclear disaster in the heart of Israel...Just imagine what would happen in the U.S. if another country fired just one missile at New York City or at one of our nuclear reactors.  If that happened, "glass parking lot" would suddenly be on the lips of tens of millions of Americans all over the country, and the U.S. military would rapidly be preparing for an absolutely devastating response...as Breitbart has pointed out, what Hamas has just done is actually an act of nuclear terrorism as defined by the United Nations...And there are news reports today that Israel has already warned 100,000 Gaza residents living in cities near the border with Israel to leave their homes.  That means that a ground invasion could be imminent...http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/hamas-just-attempted-to-create-a-horrific-nuclear-disaster-in-the-heart-of-israel

BREAKING NEWS: Iran Calling For Mass Causalities in Israel War

Iran is attempting to use jihadist surrogates in the Gaza Strip to cause a mass casualty event in Israel that would provoke an Israeli ground operation, according to informed Middle Eastern security officials...As of now, diplomatic sources inside Israel say that despite the activation of a reported 40,000 reserve troops, the Israeli government is hopeful a ground operation won’t be necessary. A successful missile attack with mass casualties in central Israel would likely change that assumption...On Thursday, Islamic Jihad Spokesman Abu Ahmed said, “The Palestinian resistance is ready for IDF’s ground battle in Gaza and the possibility of expanding the circle of war.” “The option of adding more Israeli cities to the rocket fire of the Palestinian resistance is taken into consideration,” he stated...http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/sources-iran-calling-for-mass-casualties/

This is not sounding like it will be easily resolved, or that any nation or organizational body will be successful in negotiating a cease fire in Gaza anytime soon.  As this Gaza “war” goes on, other States and terrorist groups seem to be jumping on the bandwagon (Iran, Islamic State - Iraq, Lebanese Hezbollah)...is Syria, Jordan, Saudis and Egypt next, to complete the Psalm 83 coalition against Israel?  Time will tell, but its worth everyones time to keep a close eye on this, as it is quickly spinning out of control and could easily become a major Regional War... “Pray for the peace  of Jerusalem: "May those who love you be secure. May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels." Psalm 122:6-7...“no weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper” Isaiah (54:17)

Zephaniah 2:4 “For Gaza shall be forsaken, And Ashkelon desolate; They shall drive out Ashdod at noonday,
And Ekron shall be uprooted.”

Obadiah 1:15 “For the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near; As you have done, it shall be done to you;
Your reprisal shall return upon your own head.”

Jeremiah 49:37-38 “For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies. And before those who seek their life. I will bring disaster upon them, My fierce anger,’ says the Lord; ‘And I will send the sword after them Until I have consumed them. I will set My throne in Elam, And will destroy from there the king and the princes,’ says the Lord.”

Biblical Prophecy about to be fulfilled in real time before our eyes.

Third Front Opens: Rockets Launched at Israel from Sinai

The Ansar Bayt Al-Makdis terror organization, which identifies ideologically with Al Qaeda, published a video Friday allegedly documenting the launching of five 107 mm rockets at Israel.   The launch took place in the Sinai peninsula, south of the Egyptian city of Rafah. The rockets were apprently fired on Wednesday, and were aimed at an Israeli community in the Negev desert...http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182820#.U8K0B9zmQ9V...Psalm 83 ramping up quickly?

Forth Front Opens: Syrian projectile attack prompts IDF artillery fire at Syrian army positions

A projectile was fired from Syria into Israel's Golan Heights on Sunday evening. No injuries were reported. The IDF responded with precision artillery fire at Syrian army positions.  IDF sources said they identified accurate strikes. Security officials say they believe the projectile was fired at Israel deliberately. "The IDF views the Syrian regime as responsible for what is done in its territory," the military said...http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/IDF-Syrian-fire-on-Israel-was-intentional-362638

See Good Recaps to the Current Situation: Operation Protective Edge -

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Hamas Leader Calling For All Arabs To Enter The War Against Israel

Khaled Mashaal speaks to Iranian Parliament leader Ali Larijani before ground offensive begins, asks entire Arab world to join in...Hamas continues to receive military and political support from Iran, it was revealed Friday...Mashaal reportedly said that Hamas could deal with every possible scenario, boasting that their main goal is to "break the Occupation and remove the siege on Gaza." Mashaal also called on Iran and other Arab nations to rally around the "Palestinian cause," and praised Iran's support for the terror organization over the past several years...Mashaal has been in close contact with Iran for years, and called on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to join Hamas's fight against Israel...http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183048#.U8msTNzmQ9U ...this has Psalm 83 written all over it! ...rolling into Jeremiah 49 for Iran!!

Lebanon's Hezbollah is backing the Palestinian "resistance" in Gaza to defeat Israel

Hamas is demanding Israel end its siege of Gaza and has called for the release of scores of prisoners from Israeli jails before it considers peace talks proposed by Egypt.  Hezbollah’s Nasrallah, meanwhile, expressed his "complete confidence in the resistance's capacity to defend itself and to achieve a new victory in July"...Nasrallah said: "The Lebanese resistance is willing to cooperate completely, in order to realize the goals of the Palestinian resistance, and to ensure the failure of the (Israeli) aggression."...http://news.yahoo.com/gaza-resistance-defeat-israel-hezbollah-chief-150740925.html;_ylt=AwrBEiHgOc1TSm8AvwfQtDMD

Israel has only two choices: Eliminate the Palestinians or make peace

Israeli lawmaker Moshe Feiglin a member of the Knesset stated his solution: "All the military and infrastructural targets will be attacked with no consideration for 'human shields'... Total siege on Gaza. Nothing will enter the area... Civilians may go to Sinai, fighters may surrender."

Bottom line: Gaza is part of [the Jewish people's] Land and we will remain there forever... Subsequent to the elimination of terror from Gaza, it will become part of sovereign Israel and will be populated by Jews. [Arutz Sheva]...Amos Regev, the editor of Israel's most widely distributed daily (the Sheldon Adelson–funded Israel Hayom) called for the destruction of Hamas' fighting capacity until all that's left "would be stones."...http://theweek.com/article/index/265043/israel-has-only-two-choices-eliminate-the-palestinians-or-make-peace

...all this sound familiar?...”For Gaza shall be forsaken, And (southern Gaza City of) Ashkelon desolate; They shall drive out Ashdod (fifth-largest city in Israel), at noonday, And Ekron (modern Tel Miqne, and associated with ancient Baal Zebul, or Beelzebub) shall be uprooted.  Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast (Gaza Strip), The nation of the Cherethites! (a synonym for the Philistines or modern Palestinians) The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines (Hamas Palestinians): “I will destroy you; So there shall be no inhabitant.” Zephaniah 2:4,5...Bible prophecy being fulfilled before our watching eyes!!

...and now tying all this back to ISIS (Islamic State) the focus of our July 3rd SPECIAL REPORT below - this just in:

Islamic State (ISIS) Establishing Ties To Violent Israeli, Hamas Conflict: Report

The situation is poised to only get more serious now, though, with reports that the Islamic State group (formerly known as ISIS) is working to involve itself in the conflict...Observers have long speculated that Hamas, which is known to receive support from Iran and Syria and has been classified as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, is not the only insurgent group operating within the small confines of the Gaza Strip. A Hamas spokesman said any reports of Islamic State involvement in the current conflict are “lies and fabrications” meant only to “distort the image of the Gaza Strip,”...that’s enough to confirm it for me!...if the Gazans posting on the ISIS forums are to be believed, there is a hope among a fraction of civilians that the Islamic State finds a toehold in the dispute and helps bring the brutality to a close...http://www.ibtimes.com/islamic-state-isis-establishing-ties-violent-israeli-hamas-conflict-report-1630138...marching toward Psalm 83!

God Changes Path of Rockets in Mid-Flight!

Something miraculous is happening in this war, something that is light years well beyond the man-made technology of Israel's vaunted Iron Dome anti-missile defense system. The unseen hand of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is literally altering the planned trajectory of the terrorist missiles on their way to targets in Israel. What's so amazing is that the terrorist missileers and their commanders in Gaza know that the God of Israel is responsible for taking those missiles off their well-planned trajectories...In the U.K.-based Jewish paper Jewish Telegraph - published last Friday - appears an article on page 17 by Barbara Ordman titled "GOD CHANGES PATH OF OUR ROCKETS."  In this article it states that the people of Israel have been witnessing "hourly miracles." The very next sentence of this article reads: As one of the terrorists from Gaza was reported to say when asked why they couldn’t aim their rockets more effectively: “We do aim them, but their God changes their path in mid-air.”  The terrorists in Gaza are no dummies. Before they fire a single rocket at Israel they have already taken great diligence to ensure their mathematical throw-weight calculations are correct and that each missile's ballistic trajectory in its planned flightpath will strike where it is aimed.  So when the terrorist commanders ask their missileers why the al-Qassam and M-75 missiles are not hitting the selected targets (as reported back to them in very near real time via Israeli online media) the response that the God of Israel is altering the trajectories in mid-flight is an exceptional admission we would be remiss not to make very careful note of.  "Then you shall know that I am the Lord." Amen!...http://eschatologytoday.blogspot.com/2014/07/global-sitrep-c24-14-their-god-changes.html...I think their is no question, we have entered a period in human history where Biblical prophecy is about to be fulfilled right before our eyes!

ISIS now ‘full-blown army,’ officials warn

Top U.S. officials warned Wednesday that a Sunni extremist group controlling parts of Syria and Iraq had grown into a threat that is “worse than al Qaeda.”...the group (ISIS) had strengthened its capabilities and is “no longer a terrorist organization. It is a full-blown army...the group has threatened: “We’re coming for you, Barack Obama.”  Attorney General Eric Holder has said the threat of ISIS fighters infiltrating the U.S. was “more frightening than anything I think I’ve seen as attorney general.” Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge told The Hill on Wednesday that the threat from ISIS had been “blinking red a long time.”

“Now it’s flashing more frequently and is a lot brighter,” he said. “They’ve got a lot of fighters who are from European countries that are visa waiver countries, which means all they have to do is shave their beards and look like normal, responsible civilians and walk into the United States of America without a visa...http://thehill.com/policy/defense/213117-us-officials-warn-isis-worse-than-al-qaeda#ixzz38LRqDXqJ

Now West Bank Erupts!

EVENTS ARE REACHING AN UNAVOIDABLE  FLASH-POINT IN ISRAEL...Violence broke out Thursday night near the Kalandia checkpoint, located in the West Bank between Jerusalem and Ramallah, as residents of the West Bank village clashed with police in protests against the IDF’s operation in the Gaza Strip.  Some 10,000 Palestinians protested near the checkpoint, throwing rocks, firebombs and fireworks at Israeli security forces, and setting tires ablaze. The IDF forces and Border Police were using crowd dispersal means on the masses.  Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, stated on Wednesday that the only solution for the region is the destruction of Israel, and that the armed confrontation must expand beyond Gaza. Meanwhile, revolutionary guards announced new missiles which could destroy Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system...http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=23644

ISIS threatening to Redraw Mideast Borders

ISIS now controls wide swaths of Iraq and Syria. Its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, seems out to establish an Islamic empire. Are the borders in the Middle East about to be redrawn?..."The group's goal is to establish their cross-boundary zone, beginning in Syria and Iraq," said Falko Walde of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Amman, Jordan. And that's only an intermediary step, he added - ISIS wants to reach other states in the region, including Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, and even Cyprus and parts of southern Turkey...http://www.dw.de/isis-threatening-to-redraw-mideast-borders/a-17811889 ...It seems that every week ISIS is becoming more powerful...ISIS HAS DESIGNS ON GEBAL & TYRE (=LEBANON - PSALMS 83:7), ISIS WANTS TO CONTROL THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES (=GAZA - PSALMS 83:7) ISIS WANTS DOMINATION OVER AMALEK TERRITORY (=SINAI, PSALMS 83:7), ISIS FORCES INTEND TO STEAMROLL OVER THE ANCIENT REGION OF THE HAGARENES, EDOM, MOAB AND AMMON (=JORDAN PSALMS 83:6-7) AND ISIS IS OPERATING FROM ITS BASE IN ASSUR/ASSYRIA (=NORTHERN SYRIA & NORTHERN IRAQ) WHERE IT HAS NOW ESTABLISHED THE BEGINNINGS OF ITS ISLAMIC EMPIRE...THE ISIS APPEARS TO CONTROL OR HAVE ITS SITES SET ON CONTROLLING A LARGE PART OF THE TERRITORY OF THE SOON COMING PSALM 83 WAR! ...the ISIS may “redraw Mideast borders,” but it will be Israel who will be the benefactor when it defeats the Psalm 83 coalition and expands its borders to include most it not all of the land mass described above.  See New Israel Borders...Prophecy being fulfilled in real time before our eyes!!

Hamas Planned Massive Surprise Tunnel Attacks on Rosh Hashanah 2014

JERUSALEM – Hamas had been preparing a murderous massive assault on Israeli civilian targets during the upcoming Jewish New Year holiday, Rosh Hashanah – according to anonymous sources in the Israeli security services cited by the Israeli daily Maariv.  Hamas had been planning a surprise attack where 200 fighters would have been dispatched through the dozens of tunnels dug by Hamas under the border from Gaza to Israel. The terror organization aimed to seize kibbutzim and other communities while killing and kidnapping Israeli civilians. In total, thousands of Hamas terrorists would have been swarming across Israel, wearing IDF uniforms, which would have further complicated an Israeli response. Reports further indicate that Hezbollah may have planned to join the attack as well, opening another front in the north.  The source stressed that the current unplanned war with Hamas inadvertently thwarted a catastrophic event on an apocalyptic magnitude such as the Yom Kippur War, which would have ‘brought the State of Israel to its knees.’ The destruction of these tunnels takes away from Hamas a strategic weapon it has been working on and investing in heavily for years according to the source...http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/hamas-planned-rosh-hashana-tunnel-surprise/2014/07/27/

...and this from the For Zion’s Sake Ministries Newsletter, July 30, 2014...For twelve years we have been building these tunnels and waiting for the right moment, when we were trained and ready. We decided that the time would be this year on Rosh Hashana, 2014. We chose Rosh Hashana because most of the soldiers get leave to go home and there aren’t a lot on guard duty, and it’s a two day holiday. All of Hamas would go through the tunnels we’ve built over twelve years and capture Israel. In every tunnel we’d send two, three dozen armed terrorists and kidnap civilians, women, children and bring them back to Gaza through the tunnels. And then Israel couldn’t bomb the tunnels because of all the Israeli civilians inside them. And in this way we would occupy the entire country and rule Israel and kill all the Zionists. For years we were planning this and it was going to happen in two months. Your attacks on Gaza destroyed our plans.” 

The person who sent this to me added this:

Many religious people asked after our three boys were found dead what happened to all our prayers? So you see, this is what happened. God heard us. And because of these three martyred boys, all of Israel was saved from a terrible massacre. All the things that we have seen this summer are one miracle after the next.

Continue to pray and strengthen each other. And give thanks to God who watches over the Jewish people in the land He promised them forever! ...http://www.forzion.com/yea-though-i-walk-through-the-valley-of-the-shadow-of-death-i-will-fear-no-evil

A Watchman’s View From The Wall

"And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch!" Mark 13:37

~ A Watchman ~