1. Nuclear Weapons Destroyed in Syria
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By Gary Stearman
It is well known that Syria is in league
with both Russia and Iran, the modern-day
Persia. Both of these countries, bound in a
mutual defense pact, surreptitiously sup-
ply Syria with highly trained military and
intelligence specialists, plus terrorists … the
infamous Hezbollah. And now, according
to the latest news releases, Syria has come
into possession of nuclear arms, which the
Israelis apparently destroyed in a recent
aerial attack!
On Wednesday, September 6th, Israeli
jets flew southward across Syria’s northern
border, where they executed still-secret
tactics that destroyed “nuclear materials” in
the region. YnetNews.com broke the story
on September 12th. Its headline read:
“Washington official says Israeli surveil-
lance shows possible Syrian nuclear instal-
lation stocked by North Korea, Israeli Arab
newspaper claims target of alleged raid last On Wednesday, September 6, 2007, Israeli warplanes flew into Syria and dropped
week was Syrian missile base financed by bombs in open country near the northern border with Turkey. This article reports
Iran” that Israel destroyed a stockpile of nuclear bombs!
Bible prophecy urges us to take a careful
look at this latest development in the latter- “The fortress also shall cease from that the base was completely destroyed.”
day country that it designates for doom, Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, The latter-day prophecies of Jeremiah 49
seemingly in the years leading up to the and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as tell us that in the build-up to the final battle,
Tribulation period. It is prophetically im- the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Syria will be the place to watch:
portant to remember that Syria was not even LORD of hosts” (Isaiah 17:1-3). “Concerning Damascus. Hamath is con-
an independent nation until the 1920s. As we have pointed out many times, this founded, and Arpad: for they have heard
In the decades since 1970, first under catastrophe will be virtually instantaneous, evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is
the leadership of Hafez and later, his son a feat that would have been militarily sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
Bashar al-Assad, Syria has become a highly impossible, until the advent of modern “Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth
militarized power under the control of the weaponry: herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her:
socialist Baath party. Since that time, it has “And behold at eveningtide trouble; and anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a
increasingly been a Russian client state, before the morning he is not. This is the woman in travail.
receiving the latest in armaments and train- portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of “How is the city of praise not left, the
ing, first from the Soviets and now, from them that rob us” (Isaiah 17:14). city of my joy!
Vladimir Putin’s Republic of Russia. In less than twenty-four hours, the city – “Therefore her young men shall fall in her
The Bible speaks of latter-day Syria sim- and doubtless, Syria itself – will collapse. streets, and all the men of war shall be cut
ply as “Damascus,” which, of course, is its This brings us back to the report and the off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
capital city. This ancient city is said to be “Washington official” quoted earlier: “The “And I will kindle a fire in the wall of
the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the official added that recent Israeli reconnais- Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces
world, which makes Isaiah’s famous “bur- sance flights over Syria revealed possible of Ben-hadad” (Jer. 49:23-27).
den of Damascus” statement all the more nuclear installations that Israeli officials The Lord calls Damascus, “the city of
important, since it calls for the complete estimate might have been supplied with my joy.” Once, in the days of Paul and
destruction of the place. material from North Korea. other early Christian evangelists, there were
“The burden of Damascus. Behold, Da- “Meanwhile on Wednesday (Sept. 12th) many Bible-believing communities there.
mascus is taken away from being a city, and the Nazareth-based Israeli Arab newspa- Today, Damascus is wholly given over to
it shall be a ruinous heap. per The Assenara cited anonymous Israeli radical Islam, with its dark threats against
“The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they sources as saying that Israeli jets ‘bombed Israel and its allies. The Bible shows that
shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, a Syrian-Iranian missile base in northern Damascus will pay a dear price for this
and none shall make them afraid. Syria that was financed by Iran … It appears ruthless stance. u
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