Elam Prophecy in View?

 

Elam Prophecy in View? - Terry James -

http://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/

 

Israel, always in the news while planet earth closes in on Christ's Second Coming, again is drawn into the center of stage-setting for prophetic fulfillment. I'm referring specifically to prophecy involving ancient Persia-modern Iran.

 

We've looked at the prophecies involving these end-times players over the past number of years. Dynamics generated from things going on in the region have increased in intensity as of late. It is therefore worthwhile to catch up with developments involving Israel and its biblically foretold enemies.

 

Iranian leaders are angered over the Trump administration's taking the U.S. out of the "nuclear deal." They are threatening the Jewish state and vowing that soon Israel will feel their wrath.

 

Development of nuclear weaponry is at the heart of the threat. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump have both vowed that Iran will not have nuclear weapons. However, it is known that they already possess missiles thought to be capable of carrying nuclear payloads. And, their centrifuges and nuclear laboratories, deeply ensconced within Iran's mountainous regions, are beyond inspection by the people who came up with the "worst deal in history," according to President Trump.

 

A primary reason Trump considered the "deal" as such is because the inspectors could neither "trust" nor "verify," as President Ronald Reagan insisted in the case of dealing with the Iranian's chief ally, Russia.

 

A Jerusalem Post article reports Israel's present mindset.

 

Netanyahu said he spoke over the weekend with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and expressed Israel's appreciation for the strong and determined position the US administration is taking against the Iranian nuclear agreement and the Islamic Republic's aggression in the region.

 

"The regime in Tehran is the main factor undermining stability in the Middle East," he said. "The campaign against its aggression is not over, and we are still in it."

 

Netanyahu said that Israel is working against the Iranian regime on three fronts: preventing it from acquiring nuclear weapons, working against its military entrenchment in Syria, and working against the transfer of game-changing weapons from Syria to Lebanon, or the manufacturer of that weaponry in Lebanon.

 

"Those weapons are intended for use against Israel, and it is our right - by virtue of the right of self-defense - to prevent its production or transfer," he said. (Netanyahu says campaign against Iran ongoing on three different fronts, by Herb Keinon, Israel News - Jerusalem Post, May 27, 2018)

 

As mentioned, we have previously, and on several occasions, covered the threat to Israel from its prophesied enemy, Persia (Iran). That nuclear threat hasn't gone away since we last paid attention in one of these commentaries. It has, as a matter of fact, progressed toward becoming not just a threat, but, possibly a real assault. The former U.S. presidential administration aided and abetted that ratcheting-up of Iran's eventual achievement in producing atomic weapons. Israel's military posture as of late, combined with Netanyahu's elevated words of concern, illustrate, I think, just how near might be some action to neutralize Iran's growing danger to not only the Jewish state, but to other nations as well.

 

I wrote the following in a commentary on June 14, 2014:

 

My friend, Bill Salus, has just released an especially fascinating book relative to our time. NUCLEAR SHOWDOWN IN IRAN: The Ancient Prophecy of Elam points to a particular prophecy in the book of Jeremiah that the author believes foretells a devastating blow to a certain part of Iran-the area of ancient Elam.

 

One of my own burning questions has been: Why does Persia (modern-day Iran) seemingly intend to attack Israel alongside Russia in the Gog-Magog attack of Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 without apparent deployment of nuclear weaponry? -Thus, since Iran is obviously developing such weapons as fast as it can.

 

That prophecy that both Bill and I had and still have in mind is the following:

 

Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might. And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come. For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the Lord; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them: And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the Lord. But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the Lord. (Jeremiah 49:35-39)

 

The title of Bill's book-NUCLEAR SHOWDOWN IN IRAN: The Ancient Prophecy of Elam-might itself prove to be prophetic, as things wind up for the end of the age.