Monday,
November 14, 2011
Leaping closer to the
Damascus
prophecy
Israel's Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the United
Nations report on Iran's nuclear program only
documents what can be proven, but in reality the
terrorist sponsoring nation is far closer to having a
nuclear bomb than the report confirms. Reuters reports
that Netanyahu said, "Iran is closer to getting an
(atomic) bomb than is thought. Only things that could
be proven were written (in the report), but in reality
there are many other things that we see." The UN
report has went further than any other in the past
decade to confirm that Iran is indeed weaponizing
its nuclear program. These are facts that the US and Israel
have known for years, but have only been revealed by
the UN since a change in leadership.
In 2009, Japan's
Yukiya Amano was elected to serve as the head of the
UN's International Atomic Energy Agency. He replaced
Islamist Mohamed El Baradei, who was considered soft
on Iran's nuclear development, often emphatically
denying that Iran was developing a weapons system,
despite intelligence contrary to his position. Amano
won the IAEA position over another Islamist, Abdul
Samad Minty from South Africa. Minty was
positioned to challenge the US and other nuclear
powers to disarm. Minty was supported by Arab states.
The Jerusalem
Post reported in July 2009 that Israel was
relieved that Minty did not win the position.
The Post said that Israeli officials thought Minty's
relationship with Iran was too cozy. South Africa,
where Minty is from, supported Iran because of
historical and business relationships, which included
Iran providing cheap oil. Under Minty's guidance,
South Africa abstained from confirming the 2006 IAEA
report on Iran, siding with Islamic nations and Iran
by withholding its vote. MSNBC reported in March 2009
that "Support for Amano from the US, Canada,
the European Union and others was to an extent less
because he was the ideal candidate and more "because
of fears that Minty would become a second El
Baradei.""
It is no coincidence
that the recent report on Iranian nukes by the UN's
nuclear watchdog had more of the truth in it than El
Baradei would have allowed. But according to the
Israeli Prime Minister, it still doesn't disclose all
that Israeli intelligence knows. An Israeli strike on
Iran's nuclear facilities could have Biblical impact.
On one hand, it could devastate Iran's nuclear
intentions. On the other hand it could invite counter
strikes from Iran or Iran's vassal state, Syria,
just North of Israel. A very important end time
prophecy is found in Isaiah 17:1, which says, "Behold,
Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall
be a ruinous heap." Given the state of circumstances,
the world is far closer to this prophetic fulfillment
than it was before the UN report on Iran.