Prophecy and Current Events
A Clear and Present Danger - Part 2
Humpty Dumpty took a Great Fall
By: Vince Aquilino
To His Glory Ministries
10/15/1999
http://prophecyandcurrentevents.com/thglory
America, by even the most conservative measure, is ripe for judgement. Is Russia to be the instrument of that judgement?
According to World Net Daily, an American businessman in Moscow, the managing director of Matrix Technologies, said Moscow's police looking for "military-aged individuals" and persons with medical experience for military training as part of a "general preparation for war."
Members of an American church, who recently returned from mission work in one of Russia's largest cities, reported contacts with Russian soldiers. These soldiers were "very disturbed" because they believed the present Russian mobilization is aimed at the United States -- not Chechnya. In a related report, a recent American visitor to Russia was privately informed by a Russian military officer that Russia had been preparing for war against America for the last 17 months.
Are these reports credible?
There is no question that the Russia military began a buildup in response to the crisis in Kosovo. At that time nearly 170,000 new recruits were called up in a special Russian military draft. There were rumors that conditions in Russia were so bad that they could not afford to feed their inmates, so they were being released. However, recent reports indicate that hundreds of thousands of convicts have been offered amnesty in exchange for military service.
We have previously reported on the mobilization of Russia's armed forces for ever increasing military exercises, with mock attacks on the U.S., etc. Several analysts have commented that Russia seems to have called up its reserves for these exercises.
The ongoing situation in Chechnya has been used as an excuse to explain the large military mobilization, but Chechnya is a very small theater of operations. The buildup has been so large that Russia now says they have exceeding CFE force limits due to the crisis in the north Caucasus. The Conventional Forces in Europe treaty (CFE) -- a treaty that limited the Russians to deploying 20,000 battle tanks, 20,000 artillery tubes, 6,800 combat aircraft, 30,000 other armored vehicles, and 2,000 attack helicopters west of the Urals -- Russia never kept this treaty anyway. If they have exceeded these numbers, they have a monsterous force ready for attack on whom? This is way to big for tiny Chechnya.
Could Israel be their real target as recently reported by Intelligence Digest?
(http://www.prophecyandcurrentevents.com/thglory/082999up.htm)
"Prepare yourself and be ready, you and all your companies that are gathered about you; and be a guard for them. "After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered from many people on the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they were brought out of the nations, and now all of them dwell safely. "You will ascend, coming like a storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all your troops and many peoples with you." 'Thus says the Lord God: "On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan: "You will say, 'I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates' - "to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land." . (Ezekiel 38:7-12)
If it is Israel, America will have to be taken out of the way militarily so we cannot protect the Middle East and our Oil interests there.
Is this why Ezekiel notes no more then a diplomatic protest from Great Britain (Merchants of Tarshish) and the U.S.A. (young lions): "Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, and all their young lions will say to you, 'Have you come to take plunder? (Eze 38:13)
Sheba and Dedan can be considered the Arabs. Is it not interesting that Rick Joyner from Morningstar Ministries, at a gathering of the prophets of the USA in North Carolina (Paul Cain, Mike Bickle, Bill Hamon, Rick Joyner, Bob Jones, John & Paula Sanford, Dick Eastman, Dutch Sheets and others from January 27 – 28, 1999), has prophesied war with the Arabs, Great Britain and the US this year unless repentance delays it.
J.R. Nyquist writes: "We have to be careful about embracing stories that confirm our worst fears. But if we look at such reports in the context of other information -- which is absolutely undeniable -- then we have to say that there is nothing inconsistent or surprising in the idea that Russia is preparing for war with the United States. Russia's new ally -- China -- is also mobilizing. This is supposedly a coincidence. The Taiwan Straits crisis just happens to coincide with the Chechnya crisis. Therefore, the military mobilizations in both countries are supposedly justified. But, if we have any strategic sense at all, shouldn't we be questioning this coincidence? Shouldn't somebody in the Pentagon be whispering in the president's ear?
According to Eric Margolis of the Toronto Sun, President Clinton has ordered the Pentagon to send state-of-the-art night vision equipment to Russia for use in helicopter gun ships. He is also having them send over military communications gear. It is odd, to say the least, for the United States to be sending military assistance to a country that has more tanks and combat aircraft than just about any country on earth.
Moscow's current dis-information campaign has worked wonders. Every American who bothers to watch the six o'clock news imagines that Russia has a military disaster on its hands. One
hears, incredibly, that Russia might even lose the war! After all, Chechnya defeated Russia
before. (One fairy tale sits atop another, each supporting the grand fiction of Russian weakness.)
Russia's filling up of tank and motorized rifle divisions is not something spontaneous and of the moment. Last summer Russia curtailed gasoline and diesel fuel exports, as well as exports of fuel oil. Almost a year ago Russia cut her oil exports by more than 25 percent, while increasing oil imports from Iraq. But Russia is supposedly broke! She desperately needs cash, and 45 percent of Russia's $80 billion in exports in 1997 came from fuel exports." Nyquist asks, why is this being done? (It may be that 20,000 tanks and 30,000 armored personnel carriers can suck a lot of fuel.)
In my opinion, there may not be a body, but there is certainly a prima fascia case that Russia is indeed arming for war. As the Ezekiel 38 study
http://prophecyandcurrentevents.com/thglory/invade04.htm
http://prophecyandcurrentevents.com/thglory/invade05.htm, http://prophecyandcurrentevents.com/thglory/invade06.htm,
http://prophecyandcurrentevents.com/thglory/invade07.htm
on this web site indicates, when Russia is judged by God for invading Israel, God will also judge another country that lives in the safety of the far distant coastlands - quite probably the United States. If you are not clear on God's pattern of judgements then read the series on this web site entitled "What in Heaven is happening to America" on this web site
http://prophecyandcurrentevents.com/thglory/america1.htm http://prophecyandcurrentevents.com/thglory/america2.htm http://prophecyandcurrentevents.com/thglory/america3.htm)
Also of interest are the two prophetic words recently given at my home church http://prophecyandcurrentevents.com/thglory/jb0002.htm with regard to Russia and the United States -- they fit perfectly with this scenario.
All of this is going on while in Israel the cry is for peace, peace -- inviting sudden destruction.
http://www.prophecyandcurrentevents.com/thglory/is090799.htm
Maranatha!
Vince
Knowing Jesus
Prophetic Links:
Judgment on America - Part 1
Judgment on America - Part 2
Judgment on America - Part 3
Ezekiel 38 - Part 1
Ezekiel 38 - Part 2
Ezekiel 38 - Part 3
Ezekiel 38 - Part 4
Newsmax
References:
"The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor", August, 1999, 1-800-528-0559
Intelligence Digest, August 27, 1999 mailing
"Watch and pray, therefore, that you would be counted worthy to
escape the judgment that is coming upon the earth and be able to
stand before the Son of Man" (Luke 21:36).
Maranatha!
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