Understatement of the ages

Submitted by Michael S (United States), Dec 18, 2014 at 08:26

Hi, Tovey

"...obvious impending worldwide cataclysm."

Yes, it's obvious, isn't it?

"...no one yet has been able to demonstrate with complete confidence that Islam will be anything else than what the extremists are desiring – a worldwide caliphate."

That's not obvious to me. Turkey and Iran threaten Israel, in the short run; but the greatest danger to Israel, and the greatest danger in history, to the survival of the Jewish people, is New World Order Europe -- the WTO, and all its daughter groups like the EU. The whole world seems to be anxious to get accepted into their fold and obey their rules. Before long, countries won't be able to buy or sell on an even field, unless they get the imprimatur from Brussels. I used to think that Washington ruled the world; but I was wrong. Washington will no doubt be part of this monster; but this beast isn't winning with aircraft carriers and cruise missiles; it's winning through treaties and lawfare.

"Michael S. postulates that five great powers are emergent upon a scene in which any potential thrust towards world domination could be underscored by nuclear threat..."

No threat. Zechariah 14 plainly says it will happen.

"...The questions is: will they be able to confront militant Islamist powers as it is seen continuing to emerge into the western mindset with ineffective moral turpitude when Iran finally gains the bargaining chip it so desperately seeks to change the Middle East dynamic?"

I have zero -0- doubt, that Obama is willing to allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. That doesn't leave Israel many choices. Somehow or other, those bombs are going to let fly -- all over the world. With asymmetric warfare on the increase, nuclear weapons can be used against a world power -- ANY power, from North Korea to the US, without a clear indication of who set it off. Our official doctrine in such a case, is massive retalliation -- but against whom? As it says in Zechariah,

Zech 14:
[12] And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
[13] And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

That's pretty straitforward.

I watched a PBS documentary today, on the life of the late Admiral Chaim Rickover, who led the Nautilus submarine program. Towards the end of his life, he was certain, as I am, that nuclear war is inevitable. God spared him, from having to witness it firsthand.

"A change in Islam is definitely not going to make things better..."

I agree. The greatest enemy of Israel is "The West". If all those European Court and EU bigwigs weren't afraid of Israeli nuclear retalliation, they would have flattened the Land by now. Europe has a proven history of intense Jew-hatred; and even in their most polite circles, they are finding it hard to keep a lid on it. The Muslims are not a serious threat, in my book: They've killed a hundred fellow Muslims for every Jew they've killed, and that ratio increases every day. If it weren't for the Western leaders continually aiding and abetting them, they wouldn't even have gotten this far.

The prophet Isaiah said, "Who has believed our report?"

That's the nderstatement of the ages.

Shalom shalom :-)

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