Discerning the Times

Interesting analysis from Hal Lindsey, great prophecy teacher, this week. His analysis of the Israel-Iran situation was spot on. Saudi Arabia has accused Iran of harboring al-Qaeda for much of the last decade. This is interesting in light of the fact that prior to the 9/11 attacks it was Saudi Arabia who harbored al-Qaeda. So what has changed? They want the world to know how serious they are when they say they that they do not want Iran to go nuclear. This accusation comes about due to the same logic that they leaked the fact that they would be willing to allow Israel to use their airspace.

Most people do not understand that Saudi Arabia, most of the Persian Gulf states and Egypt are even more afraid of a nuclear Iran than Israel is. They can’t get President Obama to even understand this.

Meanwhile Iran is working feverishly to surround Israel with its heavily-armed proxy nations and organizations: Syria, Lebanon, Hezbollah and Hamas. Iran is doing this for two reasons: (1) by forcing Israel to guard itself on so many different fronts, it makes an Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities even more difficult and (2) if something happens and Iran is not able to achieve nuclear capability, then a pincer movement by its proxies may still allow Iran to apply the death grip to Israel.

Lastly, Israel recently went to the extreme measure of revealing some of its important intelligence information about Hezbollah in the hope that the world would understand the gravity of the situation it faces on its northern border. How did the UN Security Council respond? The same way the mainstream media responded: with a yawn.

Couple all this with the report that Palestinian President Abbas told members of the Arab media that in March he told members of the Arab League that he is in favor of a pan-Arab military attack on Israel- but only if they will join together to do the deed.

Israel is still all alone in this situation. Do not let the gamesmanship from the last Netanyahu-Obama meeting fool you. That meeting occurred only because of political reasons from the Obama side. A little tip is this: do not accept what the administration says about Israel, watch what they do about Israel.

Meanwhile the potential for an Israel alone strike on Iran grows by the day. The results of this would be catastrophic. The results in Iran would be the nuclear and missile programs for Iran would be seriously damaged, but Ahmadinejad’s hold on power would become more stable.

More missile attacks on Israel will occur, a sharp rise in world oil prices would occur as the Straits of Hormuz could be closed and Israel would have to attack again due to Iran’s determination.

This is a fast changing situation. Please keep looking up as the Lord’s return is nearing!