Approaching The Main Event

by Michael G. Mickey

(12-13-06)

Amid rumors that Syria may be planning for a war against Israel in the foreseeable future, Haaretz is reporting that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office is saying it has seen no indication that Syria is preparing for war with the Jewish state. Assuming for a moment he actually believes that to be true, what must he believe concerning the latest rhetoric coming out of Iran? Yet another proclamation has been made by Iranian President "Badmood Iminajihad" indicating that Israel will soon be wiped out, as seen in the following excerpt from a Xinhua article on the topic (emphasis added mine):

The Zionist regime will be wiped out soon the same way the Soviet Union was, and humanity will achieve freedom," Ahmadinejad said, according to the official IRNA news agency.

Humanity will achieve freedom from what ---- or could it be Whom in the eyes of Ahmadinejad? Regardless, is it any wonder the latest developments have outgoing UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in a tizzy, especially in light of Israel recently coming clean with what has been known all along, that being that Israel has nuclear weapons?

As we see in a Campaign for Good Governance in Lebanon article, Annan is "warning that tensions in the Middle East are near their breaking point." Not only that, Annan is calling "for a “new and urgent push for peace” from all sides, including the international community, lest the people of the region be consigned to new depths of suffering and grief." "The opportunity for negotiating a two-State solution will last for only so long,” he warns later in the article.

As tensions simmer in the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is presently meeting with Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi who recently outlined how Middle East peace was going to have to be reached. He recently indicated, before Israeli PM Olmert's visit, that he didn't believe this was the right time for large international peace conferences to be set up but for "small steps carried out on the territory itself in order to re-establish trust between the various parties."

Today, the Italian Prime Minister made a couple of statements concerning Olmert's visit, both of which were intriguing to me. In the first, he stated that, when he was European Union Commission president, he always defended the use and the necessity of a European involvement in the solution of Middle East problems and sometimes had clashes with the Israeli government. Prodi additionally indicated he believes that history is proving he was right in thinking European involvement was needed all along, which he apparently plans to use to gain an even more active European role in the Middle East peace process - a process he says will not achieve its goals without European and American involvement.

As we look at Bible prophecy, Prodi's first statement made this date is in keeping with precisely what I've been saying for years we need to be watching for - increased revived Roman empire involvement in the Middle East peace process, setting the stage for the advent of Antichrist to occur! Could it possibly be any more evident that we're seeing that developing through Prodi's first statement?

In his second statement, Prodi said the following, which is also in keeping with what I've been saying we should watch for in the days leading up to the Rapture of the Church (emphasis added mine):

"I will tell to the EU Council what I have said before to Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert: the status quo is not admissible. We must start a peace process. It is the moment to make small steps. An international peace conference that can deal with all the complexity of the problem is still premature".

I haven't, as of yet, read anything concerning Ehud Olmert's stated plans to speak with Prodi concerning Italy placing peacekeepers in Gaza but I'll be keeping an eye out concerning that topic in the days ahead as yet another deployment of revived Roman empire forces to the Middle East would dramatically heighten the likelihood that we're nearing the advent of the prince (or leader) of Roman descent foretold in Daniel 9:26 - the Antichrist who will confirm (or make strong) a seven-year covenant of peace between Israel and her enemies, as foretold in Daniel 9:27.

Already, I've touched on Kofi Annan being so worried about the Middle East conflict he's about to blow a gasket but I'd be remiss not to point out that Annan has recently discussed at length topics which I've brought up here on numerous occasions in the past, pointing out how they could lead to fulfillment of Daniel's prophecies concerning the advent of Antichrist. These are the necessity of a third party being involved in Middle East peacemaking and the use of peacekeepers to confirm peace once an agreement of some sort is reached between the parties.

As seen in a Kuwait News Agency article (emphasis added mine), Kofi Annan has recently expressed regret "that the divisions that paralyzed the UN on the issue of the Middle East is now increasingly inhibiting the Quartet's work, stressing that a third party role, such as an international presence, is "indispensable."

The following is an excerpt from the Kuwait News Agency Article, some thoughts from which I want to close this commentary with:

Therefore, "as there is a common interest in achieving a two state solution, so there should be a common awareness that this will not happen without a stronger third-party role on the ground," he said.

He called on the Quartet -- US, UN, EU and Russia -- to consider greater clarity regarding the parameters of an end-game deal and tackle the Road Map openly.

We're rapidly approaching the main event!

Kofi Annan, in spite of my total lack of respect for him, is correct when he states that there isn't going to be any sort of peace in the Middle East, real or imagined, until such time as a stronger third-party role is in place on the ground in the Middle East. As we look at Bible prophecy, we find that the Antichrist to come is going to bring to pass a stronger third-party role in the region as he is going to confirm a peace covenant there "with many" in support of it. (Daniel 9:27)

Further, Kofi is encouraging the international Quartet to set the stage for an end-game deal to be made with clear parameters set, which both the Israelis and Palestinians will be urged to respond positively to. If the prophesied Antichrist's time to rise to global power through Middle East peace is nearing, and I can't help but feel that it is whenever I compare the condition of this world with the signs of Christ's coming, an end-game deal may well be made in the not-too-distant future.

Are you ready for the main event in the battle between good and evil, the final outcome of which is already known, as revealed in the prophetic Word of God? If you're not, my recommendation is that you get ready --- and quickly.

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