Prophecy and Current Events

Purportedly, the objective is to form a Central Asian military to function as a rapid-reaction collective security force against international terrorism. Collectively, the initial deployment will be approximately 15,000 men comprising four battalions and including the Russian 201st Motorized Rifle Division already stationed in Tajikistan. The 201^st Division will spearhead the combined force of tank units, light tanks for mountain warfare, helicopter airborne units and elite forces trained in combat in built-up areas.

Of note is that this is the first time Chinese military personnel were allowed by Moscow to be stationed openly in the Central Asian republics of the former USSR. This underscores the growing military alliance between Russia and China that was birthed out of mutual desire to counter what they consider growing imperialistic tendencies on the part of the United States.

Although the stated purpose of this rapid deployment force is target at radical Muslim elements that embrace international terrorism, it should be noted that Russia has been negotiating with Iran for quite some time -- exchanging nuclear technology and weapons for both Iran's silence in the Chechnyian affair (the Chechnyians are Muslim) and to prevent radical Muslim agitation in the southern republics of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyztan. The Caucasus Mountain region is comprised of the the following nations: Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan (formerly Kirgizia), Tajikistan (Tadzhikistan), Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Moldavia.

The DEBKA report is especially interesting when one considers that these same nations are some of the nations expected to join with Russia, Turkey, Libya, Ethiopia and Iran in the attack against Israel during the Gog and Magog War -- predicted in chapters 38 and 39 of the prophet Ezekiel.

It becomes even more relevant when one recognizes the area of Chechnya is located just north of the Caucasus mountains in the Russian republic of Georgia, biblically known as Magog. In light of this new military escalation in the area, it appears that the ongoing, dragged out Chechnyian affair (which has allowed Moscow to maintain a burgeoning military presence just 900 miles north of Israel), may have just been phase 1 in the possible staging for the invasion of Israel). Isn't it strange how Russia just can't seen to contain the poorly-armed and poorly-trained Muslim insurgents in the area which has justified the continued build-up in the area.

Russia already is now joining with China (a major participant on the battle of Armageddon) and the Central Asian republics (area of Magog) to increase the size of that force. In light of the Russian-Iran alliance, however, it may be that this new Central Asian military rapid-reaction security force to be deployed against radical Muslim insurgents may be a ploy -- and in fact may be phase two in preparations for a military strike against Israel.

It is very unlikely that Russia is assembling this large force against Muslim rebels. If Russia is oreparing for a strike against Israel, it would also explain explain why Russia continues to drag out the Chechen affair while keeping up media reports about Russian authorities pursuing Chechen bombers and blaming them for rogue terrorist attacks in Moscow. The whole Chechnya campaign has been mysteriously dragged on justifying Russia's troop deployments in the area.

Lending credence to this scenario is that fact that inFebruary, UPI reported that a senior Russian military officer indicated that Russia and Iran continued to hold military talks in Moscow to discuss security issues and closer military ties between the two countries The official agenda was to include talks on regional security, the Middle East peace process and the situation in war-torn Afghanistan. It appears that this may also be a smokescreen and the real objective is Israel -- just as foretold by Ezekiel.

So the Russian army contingent growing and is now located in strategic proximity to the countries with whom she will ally in the attempt to destroy Israel. To the west and southwest of Chechnya lie Turkey and Armenia -- the House of Togarmah. To the south, en route to Israel, lie Iraq and Iran (Persia). Chechnya is also close to Russia's Black Sea naval facilities, which would be key to quick deployment to the south and to the west.

"Gomer and all his bands" are also part of the Israeli invasion force. Gomer was an immediate descendant of Noah who settled north of the Black Sea and then migrated westward into what is today Eastern Germany and Poland. So Israel will be hemmed in by the Mediterranean on the West, on the east by Iran and Iraq, to the north by Syria and Turkey. "Cush" (Ethiopia) and "Put" (Libya) to the south will complete the invasion force, making Israeli escape an impossibility.

As has been discussed in past analysis, the Israeli-Turkish alliance is critical to preventing a Middle-East War. Israel and Turkey signed a military pact in 1996 that reversed years of frosty ties, but Turkey has begun to waver on support to the U.S.A. as well as Israel. Turkey is an ally of both the United States and Israel, but Turkey's close ties with Israel included military agreements and military cooperation such as in the recent Air force maneuvers using F15 and F16 fighter jets. But that may be changing. Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said after talks with Yasser Arafat last fall indicated he supported the principle of Palestinian statehood. But was even more disturbing was that Arafat pointed out that Turkish soldiers are in the West Bank city of Hebron assisting a Palestinian army unit.

Turkey is an important regional power and it is continuing to move toward the Arab world. President Suleyman Demirel visited Egypt last year with hopes increasing economic cooperation and to consolidate already close political ties with Cairo. King Abdullah of Jordan also said during a visit last year to Amman that Turkey should play an important role in middle eastern peace making: ``Changes in the region dictate that our relations with Turkey assume a strategic dimension which we hope will set an example for Arab-Turkish ties,'' Of particular note was Intelligence Digest's observation at that time that " Syria cannot possibly go to war with Israel until Turkey is neutralized." In their eyes, Turkey is the linch-pin to stability in the area.

Then on April 19, 2001, in a move which would have been considered out of the realm of possibility only a year ago it was announced that Syria and Turkey are exploring the prospect of military cooperation. The Damascus-based Syrian News Agency, SANA, said the talks concerned "means of developing cooperation between the two armies." Turkish Foreign Ministry officials said Ankara and Damascus are discussing a framework for military cooperation that would include mutual visits by commanders, joint training and invitations to exercises. They said the issue was first explored during a visit by a Syrian military delegation to Ankara in January. Officials said Turkey has even proposed to Syria projects to jointly develop defensive systems that would increase border surveillance. They said the Foreign Ministry in Ankara has taken the lead in a Turkish effort to improve relations with the Arab world, including Iraq and Syria.

It appears that Turkey is starting to ally herself with Israel's enemies exactly as prophesied by Ezekiel.

On February 16, 2001, World Net Daily reported that the Russian Bear has awakened and has become a major concern to intelligence experts over their spreading of influence in Asia and the Mideast: "Russian military and diplomatic contacts have been throughout Asia and the Middle East for the past several months -- namely with India, China and Iran -- which has caused increasing concern among U.S. intelligence and military analysts. Since 1998, Russia -- in a bid to regain some of its former superpower status -- began to expand contacts with old allies and rivals alike, both as a means of heading off future Western and NATO influence and as a means of bringing in much-needed hard currency through resumption of weapons sales. In the past few years, for example, Russia has signed a number of "strategic partnership" agreements with China, India and Iran that include the sale and transfer of advanced Russian weapons systems, exchanges of military-technical assistance and training."

The Kings of the East are also rising just as Biblical prophecy indicated. China, which at the time of the end will march into the Middle-East with a 200 Million man army, is also starting to flex its military muscles. In fact, two war simulations done between the USA and China shows the USA losing as they are eventually overwhelmed due to the sheer volume of China's weaponry and manpower. China has been moving closer to war with Taiwan and has recently moved missiles closer to the Taiwan theatre. Chain possesses long-range nuclear missiles that are capable of reaching the West coast of the U.S. and they have threatened to nuke the U.S.navy in the Taiwan straits if they get in the way of their ambitions for Taiwan and just last year they threatened to nuke Los Angeles. China and Russia have become allies against the United States.

In what is certainly to inflame China and Russia, with whom relations are already strained over events of recent days, the "USA Today" reported on May 2, 2001 that President Bush has vowed to go ahead with the U.S. anti-missile defense initiative even if it does mean antagonizing Russia and China and violating the 1972 ABM treaty which Bush said represents the past and had been signed with the now defunct Soviet Union. President Bush called for a "new framework" of defense that recognizes the cold war. If President Bush is able to obtain approvals to pursue this plan, it would not be before approximately 2006 that the technology could be deployed. This frames a window of opportunity for our enemies to exploit the weakest modern-day U.S. military since the cold war supposedly ended.

We do know that in the fullness of time that it will be God who will draw Magog into this ill-fated invasion of Israel by putting "hooks in their jaw". It appears that the Russian bear is in position for its final plunge south toward Israel and the riches of the Middle East.

Russia has been flexing its muscles in the probing of U.S. military readiness. On Friday Feb 16,2001 Russia test-fired nuclear-capable strategic missiles from air, land and sea on Friday, a comparatively rare demonstration of all three branches of Russia's "nuclear triad." The navy and land-based Strategic Rocket Forces announced their launches within minutes of each other, one of a Topol rocket, the other of a ballistic missile fired from a submarine of the Northern Fleet. Two hours later, the air force said a TU-95 bomber had also fired a strategic missile. Russian strategic bombers intruded into Japanese airspace and flew near Norwegian airspace. The flights prompted a protest from Tokyo. Russian Il-78 tanker aircraft also have been sent to the edges of the vast Russian Federation and have been spotted in aerial refueling of Russian warplanes. In addition to strategic forces, Russian conventional forces are involved, according to intelligence officials. Troops of the Russian Border

Guards and Federal Security Service have been mobilized. Russia's military press reported Monday that motorized rifle and airborne divisions are participating, along with air force and air defense troops.

The Nuclear-capable Russian bombers had just two days earlier performed unannounced exercises near Norway and Japan, forcing those countries' air forces to scramble to respond. Japan said Russian warplanes entered its air space, which Moscow denied. Felgengauer said the missile launches and the earlier air tests were probably part of a single strategic exercise designed to simulate nuclear war.

Do you have ears to hear?

Equally disconcerting was the recent pinpointing by U.S. spy satellites of Russian tactical nuclear arms in the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea -- contradicting Moscow's contention that it had not transferred the tactical nukes to the battlefield.

The powder keg in the Middle East could ignite WWIII and the time is running short. What we are observing may indeed be the initial staging for a move against Israel and the oil-rich Middle-East. Russia is probing America's defenses. China recently warned the U.S. that if they send a carrier group into the area to defend Taiwan, that it would nuked. China is getting more and more belligerent and is threatening to pull the U.S. into a conflict over Taiwan while at the same time pursuing an aggressive military build-up.

For example, Russia has developed new submarine-launched "ultrahigh-speed torpedo" known as the "Shkva" against which there is no current defense. This technology is based on a phenomenon known as supercavitation that allows naval weapons and vessels to travel submerged at several hundreds of miles per hour. In comparison, current undersea technologies is limited to a maximum of about 80 mph."

Richard Fisher, a defense analyst and senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, stated that: "China purchased the Shkval rocket torpedo. The Shkval was designed to give Soviet subs with less capable sonar the ability to kill U.S. submarines before U.S. wire-guided anti-sub torpedoes could reach their target. The Chinese navy would certainly want to have this kind of advantage over U.S. subs in the future. At the speed that it travels, the Shkval could literally punch a hole in most U.S. ships, with little need for an explosive warhead. This torpedo travels at a speed of 200 knots, or five to six times the speed of a normal torpedo, and is especially suited for attacking large ships such as aircraft carriers," stated Fisher.

The report that China purchased some 40 Shkval torpedoes from Russia in 1998 has been confirmed by U.S. intelligence sources. There are no evident countermeasures to the Shkval and, according to weapons experts, its deployment by Russian and Chinese naval forces has placed the U.S. Navy at a considerable disadvantage.

"We have no equivalent, its velocity would make evasive action exceedingly difficult, and it is likely that we have no defense against it," stated Jack Spencer, a defense analyst at the Heritage Foundation.

According to the Jamestown Foundation's Richard Fisher, China is acquiring a fleet of blue-water submarines armed with the deadly Shkval. In a recent defense report, Fisher noted the Chinese navy is arming itself with a deadly combination of silent submarines, supersonic nuclear tipped Stealth missiles and Shkval rocket torpedoes. Fisher warned that the new Chinese navy is capable of operating far from Asian shores.

The Chinese navy has completed the acquisition of four Russian Kilo-class conventional submarines. The Kilo 636 is said to be nearly as quiet as the early version of the U.S. Los Angeles class nuclear submarine," noted Fisher. "This very high speed torpedo would provide the technology to build their own version, and this is a looming threat," stated Fischer.

Do you have eyes to see?

God tells us, through Ezekiel, that at the time God moves to protect Israel by destroying the Israeli invasion force, that He will also judge another nation that lives in the safety of the far distant coastlands.

I personally believe that America is at great risk as she has spilt the blood of 45 million babies and that blood is crying out to God for vengeance (Vengeance is the Lords).

Unless the sin of abortion is dealt with in America, it is just a matter of time until God will call for repentance in the midst of destruction.

Maranatha!