Damascus-Doom Deliberations - Terry James - http://www.raptureready.com/rap16.html
Observers of news and trends at present are watching, particularly, the Middle East and Russia's entrance into Syria. Russia has had an interest in the region, of course, for as long as the Soviet Union and now the Russian Federation have been around. However, recent developments have ushered in a new and most fascinating era. Things happening in this regard are, to those who look at those developments through the prism of Bible prophecy, nothing short of phenomenal.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has inserted his influence into that volatile region and is having profound impact on the unfolding of events. We have written in these commentaries a number of times, and others have written that Mr. Putin certainly appears to fit the archetype description of the "Gog" character of the Gog-Magog assault into the Middle East as prophesied by Ezekiel, presented in Ezekiel chapters 38-39.
The Gog-Magog attack is described as being like a "storm to cover the land." Vladimir Putin has been doing what might be described as "taking like a storm" everywhere he asserts his influence.
An interesting news excerpt describes his rambunctious escapades and the way he is perceived in many quarters as follows:
Posters of Putin are popping up on cars and billboards elsewhere in parts of Syria and Iraq, praising the Russian military intervention in Syria as one that will redress the balance of power in the region.
The Russian leader is winning accolades from many in Iraq and Syria, who see Russian airstrikes in Syria as a turning point after more than a year of largely ineffectual efforts by the U.S.-led coalition to dislodge the Islamic State militants who have occupied significant parts of the two countries. ("Amid Russian airstrikes, a Putin craze takes hold in Mideast," Yahoo News, Oct. 12, 2015)
There are even many in the U.S. who now see Putin and the Russians as doing God's work-literally! I have read a number of accounts of clergy and others who say that Putin is showing "Christian leadership" in doing what President Obama is unable to do or is unwilling to do-that is, take it to the ISIS or, as Mr. Obama insists on calling the horde, ISIL.
Imagine! A hard-liner Soviet communist--once head of, or at least near the top of the old KGB, seen as a true Christian who is out to eliminate the threat to the Christian world and the world at large!
Of course, the reality to anyone with the sense the Lord gave a gopher is that the head Russian is still a KGB guy in every sense. He is playing to his mesmerized audience by destroying some ISIS forces, but is 100 percent committed to destroying the American-supported rebels who want to dislodge Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad from power.
The reason, or reasons, he is so committed include the fact that he now has his voracious, bear-like eyes focused on the riches to the south. He has already achieved much of his goal. He has his navy docked now in warm waters, free to move about any time of the year to further his reestablishment of Soviet-style domination. He is increasing his insertion of Russian ground forces by the day. If this isn't near-fulfillment of the Ezekiel prophecy that Gog will put hooks in Gog's jaws and turn him southward toward the mountains of Israel, then I've misunderstood the meanings of that prophecy. I'm of the opinion that this is a part of that hooks in the jaws process that will likely play out over a period of time yet. There are many things that need to come into prophetic place before the Gog-Magog attack as described will be launched. Key to that preparation is the question: What is meant by the description of how Israel will be "at rest" and "without walls"?
At present, Israel is suffering attacks by "lone wolf" assaults, apparently ordered by ISIS and other terrorist organizations. Israel's citizenry is being terrorized by stabbings conducted by individuals--actions that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will no doubt react to by instituting quite harsh measures at some point soon. This will bring more blame to Israel and sympathy to the Islamist murderers who are killed in the process of their obedience to their Islamist masters.
Into this mixture of satanic hatred now comes further arrangements of significance, in my view. To me, this matter involves further confirmation that proves the veracity of God's prophetic Word. It just might prove to be part of the reason Damascus will one day receive the foretold blow from which it will never recover. (Read Isaiah 17: 1).
It is the first inklings that the Gog-Magog forces' top three diabolists are reportedly getting their heads together in thinking on the whole Middle Eastern region dilemma. To me it is more than merely coincidental that these are beginning to coalesce.
ISTANBUL - Turkey would hold talks with Russia and Iran to work towards a political solution in Syria but would not take a foreign policy stance which "legitimizes the Syrian regime." Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Monday.
Davutoglu said in an interview on NTV that Russian air strikes in Idlib and Aleppo in Syria could cause a further influx of refugees into Turkey. ("PM: Turkey would talk with Russia and Iran on political solution in Syria," Breaking News, Jerusalem Post, Oct 12, 2015)
Many Bible prophecy students, including top scholars, believe Turkey occupies the ancient area described as Togarmah in the Ezekiel 38-39 prophecy. Iran, of course, occupies most of the ancient area known as Persia, with the Gog-Magog area being seen as the lands surrounding the southern Caucasus region and Black Sea area.
The fact that these key prophetic players are getting their heads together, apparently, in the biblically doomed city of Damascus, begs the question that should be directed to this triumvirate: Do your cogitations include how to eliminate Israel as part of any conquest ambition you might harbor?
Watching these developments, in concert with everything else taking shape at such a fast pace, makes the question a legitimate one--seems to me.
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