Hello John and Doves,
Monte Judah gives some very informative and up to date information on what is going on in the Middle East - with Iran, the U.S. and Israel. This is his Messianic Update for Lion and the Lamb Ministries.
May 10th, 2019 Messianic World Update
Interesting updates not being covered by Western media.
Some notes from the video:
What's been going on...Western media is telling barely half the story and is misleading. Aircraft carriers have been moved into the theatre of the Middle East - one has been there for two weeks already - moved into the Eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. At least 3 carriers are involved and a 4th can be turned around and returned to the Middle East if needed.
Four B52s were originally at an airbase in Iraq and have now been moved out of Iraq to air bases in places like Bahrain, Qatar, in the Persian Gulf. The reason they were moved is that if they use these against Iran, they don't want Iran claiming it was an attack from Iraq. B52s were in Iraq to support special forces in attacks on ISIS; if they are going to be used against targets in Iran then the B52s will need to be armed completely different - this would also play a part in moving them out of Iraq. B52s can carry air launched cruise missiles. A B52 can carry many Tomahawk cruise missiles that would supplement the U.S. Navy's surface fleet and submarine fleet that may be launching cruise missiles. This upgrades U.S. forces in an attack on Iran.
The U.S. Air Force moved a full squadron of F35 stealth fighters and F22 Raptor stealth fighters - these are front line aircraft attack units. Massive fire power is being amassed and it's very clear it's being directed toward Iran.
The U.S. is moving back into the area their anti-missile batteries - Patriots, etc. To protect U.S. forces. All of this movement of U.S. assets is to put pressure on the government on Iran.
The U.S. has announced new sanctions that will go into effect on July 1, against all Iranian iron, aluminum,copper, metal products. This is Iran's 2nd largest revenue stream. (The 1st largest revenue stream was oil which was covered in the first sanctions where no nations can buy oil from Iran.) So the U.S. has cut off the two top revenue streams of Iran. This 2nd set of sanctions will probably cause the lay off of 100,000 workers in Iran and put additional pressure on the Iranian regime from citizens with no pay, no food. Iran is on it's way to shortages like Venezuela.
Iran announced that they are thinking of withdrawing from the nuclear accord still in effect with the Europeans and going back to enriching uranium. This was to shock European countries into putting pressure on the U.S. This backfired on Iran with the Europeans saying they will add extra sanctions on Iran if they do this.
Last week Monte Judah reported (see May 3rd update) that the Russians notified Iran that they need to get their drones and military out of 4 Russian bases in Syria. Iranians are accusing the Russians of being collaborators with the Israelis. Supposedly the Russian mercenaries in Syria are harassing Iranian troops in Syria.
The reason Secretary of State Pompeo went to Baghdad and spoke to the president and PM of Iraq, is the U.S. got the intelligence that Iran had already sent messages to Iranian proxy units (Hezbollah in Syria, PMU units in Iraq) about two particular installations and U.S. special forces in Syria and Iraq - that they were planning attacks on them. Pompeo asked the Iraqi government to protect U.S. assets against such an attack. U.S. forces are on full alert. Also learned Iran was planning on using their proxy units in Yemen to interfere with shipping into and out of the Red Sea - staging attacks. The U.S. carriers are to maintain the sea lanes. The U.S. naval forces could erase the Iranian navy in short order. This is why everyone is on alert.
This last week, Gaza fired 690 weapons - rockets and mortars - into Israel. This was a whole new strategy that Gaza was doing with the Islamic jihad. Every Iron Dome missile used to shut down one rocket costs $100,000. People in Gaza found the limit of the Iron Dome anti-missile system. They launched 3 salvos of 60 missiles at a time - they put a missile in the air every second for 3 minutes. Iron Dome shot down only about 65% of them. They launched Qassam rockets and a more sophisticated rocket supplied by Iran - smarter, longer range, with a bigger warhead - it's purely 'anti-personnel', intended to kill people - it goes off at 200 feet above the ground and shoots shrapnel out over a large area. This is what killed the Israelis during this attack. Gazans were trying to harm as many civilians as possible. He believes that 4 Israels died, some 200 were wounded.
The Israelis moved massive tank and infantry forces down to the Gaza area - launched hundreds of bombardments. Israel announced they are going back to assassinating Hamas leaders. The hell fire missile they shoot from drones is now full of 'knives' - edged weapons - sends out a flood of 'knives' when it detonates so no big explosion that harms buildings; it's less destructive. Israel is trying to minimize collateral damage with their weapons. It's a precise weapon and was used to assassinate a Hamas leader in a car in Gaza.
Israel didn't agree to a cease fire. The Egyptians stepped in with the Palestinians to negotiate a cease fire and the Israels had no representatives to negotiate at these meetings. Essentially the Palestinians had a cease fire on their own. Israelis said a ceasefire would be worthless as it would just start up again. Israel stopped firing when the Palestinians did. The Israelis left their forces on the Gazan border ready for a land invasion.
The intel/rumor at the moment is, now that there was a test fire of massive salvos, this information has gone to Iran - that these massive salvos can overcome Iron Dome - the Iranians may do a different kind of warfare with Israel now. Israel will have to use it's Iron Dome systems very efficiently with other anti-missile systems. There could be a massive missile attack on Israel...and if Israel gets tied up fighting Gazan forces, the northern end of Israel wouldn't be well defended against Iranian, Syrian, Hezbollah forces. Very difficult scenario for the defense of Israel.
This is the kind of war and kind of description given in the Ezekiel prophecies.
They believe Hamas has 20,000 fighters in Gaza and Islamic Jihad has 10,000 fighters in Gaza - so the Israelis would be taking on 30,000 soldiers in Gaza in urban warfare. Urban warfare is extremely difficult.
On the northern end of Israel, there are four combat brigades with Hezbollah in Lebanon, and what's in Iran with drones, missiles, and the big missile salvos would send Israelis into their bomb shelters.
The tension in the Middle East this week is just as strong as it was last week. The Gazan ceasefire means nothing. There is evidence that this was a learning lesson and Israel may be facing even more difficult situations in the future.
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More at the link. Run time 23:20
All of this is showing us how extremely dangerous the situation is for Israel (and for our military) and how close we are to 'the Last Days'.
Hopefully the Rapture is soon!
Maranatha!
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
Chance