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This Week in Prophecy: Tyre & Sidon, Beirut; Iran; BRICS Summit

Posted in #PaulthePoke, Ezekiel 38-39, Persia/Elam/Iran, Prophecy, Trend Update with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 3, 2024 by paulthepoke

Joel 3:4 “What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.

Biblical Tyre & Sidon in modern day Lebanon…

The Arab Spokesman for the Israel Defense Force has issued an Urgent Evacuation Order for the City of Tyre in Southwestern Lebanon; with Residents of the City, specifically on the Streets of Al-Hiram, Jaafar Sharaf Al-Din, Abu Deeb and Al-Athar, told to Immediately Evacuate from the Area in “Red” and head North of the Awali River.

https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1848959522653585447

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Daniel 10:13-14 However, the prince of the kingdom of Persia opposed me for twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left there with the kings of Persia. Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision concerns those days.”

Last week, Israel effectively took out Iran’s air defense.

https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye

RECAP: Israel’s attack on Iran

  1. – Israel launched an attack on Iran in the early hours of Saturday 26 October
  2. – Explosions were heard around Tehran
  3. – Footage from Iran has shown flying objects intercepted by Iran’s air defense
  4. – Iran said explosions were air defenses being activated
  5. – Iran state TV said strikes did not impact Tehran airports’ functionality
  6. – US said Israel’s strike was an act of self-defense in response to Iran’s attack on 1 October
  7. – Airspace above Israel and Iran closed
  8. – Iraq suspended it’s air traffic
  9. -Netanyahu’s office released images and videos of him and the Defense minister in an underground bunker

https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1850004118435398112

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Ezekiel 38-39 Gog of Magog, the prince of Rosh… the many nations with you.

BRICS gathered in Kazan, Russia this past week. Here is a recap of the events.

Need for reform of global institutions:

🔸 The Bretton Woods international financial system’s institutions, including the World Trade Organization, should be reformed to better represent developing countries’ interests.

🔸 BRICS opposes “unilateral, prohibitive, discriminatory and protectionist” measures taken under the pretext of fighting global climate change, including carbon emissions adjustment mechanisms and taxes.

🔸 BRICS supports comprehensive reform of the United Nations, including the Security Council, to make it more representative, and notes its centrality in the system of relations between nations. 

New initiatives:

🔸 BRICS members recognize the potential of information and communication technologies in bridging the digital divide between nations to aid socio-economic development.

🔸 BRICS intends to transform the New Development bank to serve the needs of the 21st century.

🔸 BRICS supports the creation of a New Technology Platform to strengthen development cooperation, including by creating high-tech products using domestic technological potential to fuel “sustainable and inclusive” growth.

🔸 The organization agrees to explore the creation of an independent cross-border settlement and depository infrastructure known as BRICS Clear.

🔸 BRICS is ready to strengthen cooperation to develop medicines, including vaccines and nuclear medicine projects.

🔸 BRICS welcomes the creation a united transport and logistics platform.

🔸 The declaration supports Russia’s proposal to create a Grain Exchange to “promote rules-based trade in agricultural products and fertilizers and minimize disruptions.” 

Expanding cooperation:

🔸 The declaration welcomes the expanded use of national currencies for transactions between BRICS members and their trade partners.

🔸 The document highlights the importance of expanding cooperation based on common interests and further building up strategic partnerships among BRICS members, and continuing to implement the bloc’s Economic Partnership Strategy.

🔸 The bloc welcomes interest shown by countries of the Global South toward BRICS, and calls for greater participation of the least developed nations, especially in Africa, in global processes. 

Opposing global crises:

🔸 The document “condemns” the illegal use of discriminatory and politically motivated sanctions and highlights their negative impact on the world economy.

🔸 BRICS is opposed to the deployment of weapons in outer space, and supports strengthening the global non-proliferation and disarmament regimes, and implementing a Security Council resolution on measures to prevent WMDs from falling into the hands of terrorists. It calls for strengthened ties between law enforcement to aid in the fight against narcotics.

🔸 Bloc members outlined their positions on the Ukrainian crisis, and took note of proposals for mediation to bring the conflict to a conclusion through negotiations.

🔸 BRICS expressed support for Palestine’s full-fledged membership in the UN.

🔸 The declaration condemns Israel’s attack on UN employees in Lebanon, and the pager terror attack of September 17.

🔸 BRICS welcomes the creation of a Haitian Transitional Presidential Council and electoral council to resolve the crisis plaguing the Caribbean nation.

🔸 BRICS expresses concern over the escalating violence and worsening humanitarian situation in Sudan, and called for a ceasefire.

🔸 The declaration criticizes the politicization of human rights, and double standards in this area.

🔸 The document expresses opposition to all forms of discrimination in sports.

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BRICS officially adds 13 new nations to the alliance as partner countries (not full members): Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, Uganda, and Uzbekistan.

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This Week in Prophecy: UNRWA in Gaza, Sidon, Red Sea, #7

Posted in #PaulthePoke, Prophecy, Trend Update with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 25, 2024 by paulthepoke

Amos 1:6-7 This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Gaza, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they exiled a whole population, delivering them up to Edom. So I will send fire upon the walls of Gaza, to consume its citadels.

Per the United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) website… UNRWA human development and humanitarian services encompass primary and vocational education, primary health care, relief and social services, infrastructure and camp improvement, microfinance and emergency response, including in situations of armed conflict.

Turns out, UNRWA is providing human and technical resources to Hamas in Gaza.

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Matthew 11:22 But I tell you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you. -Jesus

Two Hezbollah munition centers are no more in Sidon, Lebanon.

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Psalm 136:13 To Him who divided the Red Sea in two, for His mercy endures forever…

The United States is approaching six weeks of bombing against the Houthis in Yemen. The Red Sea remains closed.

As of February 21, 2024, The Houthis have launched 57 attacks. United States posturing and comments seems to indicate this situation is not going to stop any time soon.

“I think we need to recognize that CENTCOM has been starved of the kinds of assets they need to do this work for a while… We need to make a commitment to giving CENTCOM more of these resources, and then I think they’ll be more effective in these tasks,” retired General Frank McKenzie.

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2024/02/21/America-s-next-long-term-conflict-the-campaign-to-deter-Yemen-s-Iran-backed-Houthis

The British registered tanker Rubymar was attacked by the Houthis. The event took place in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The result was an 18 mile oil slick along with 41,000 tons of fertilizer being spilled into the ocean.

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The meaning of the number 7 in the Bible… Completion, Fullness, Perfection.

Seven (7): Shiba in the Hebrew occurs 394 times in the Old Testament. ἑπτά/Hepta in the Greek occurs 88 times in the New Testament.

Completion, fullness, perfection… it’s coming.

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Lebanon Declares Economic State of Emergency

Posted in #PaulthePoke, Michael Douville, Prophecy, Trend Update with tags , , , on September 11, 2019 by paulthepoke

Joel 3:4 “Moreover, what are you to Me, O Tyre, Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering Me a recompense? But if you do recompense Me, swiftly and speedily I will return your recompense on your head.

The context of the verse above is God’s judgment against the nations. Today in the 21st century, Tyre and Sidon are still port cities on the Mediterranean Sea in modern day Lebanon. Sidon is north of Tyre. The two cities are located about 30 miles west of Mount Hermon, Israel. Their ultimate future appears to be bleak according to the prophet.

Tyre and Sidon, Lebanon

Lebanon declares Economic State of Emergency. Lebanon is just the tip of the iceberg.

The Sovereign Debt problem is upon us. The US Dollar broke 99 on it’s way to 103+. The US 10 Year Treasury broke below 1.45%. The absolute bottom has been 1.36%. A new record is coming.


Buckle up and HOLD ON!!!

Trend Update: DNA Links Canaanites & Lebanese, August 2017

Posted in Trend Update with tags , , , , , , , , , , on August 2, 2017 by paulthepoke

Deuteronomy 20:16-17 But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, but you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD your God has commanded…

The cultural and scientific experts and atheists have a field day with these verses. “God is a mean old vicious ogre who is committed to genocide. What kind of God is He? I don’t want anything to do with this kind of God.” And on and on and on…

The problem with God is He has the audacity to tell the human race that He is in charge. Culture and law are on His terms, not humanity’s. There is one way to do things, His way. God is authority. God will say “NO!” And God will define the consequences and execute accordingly. The peoples above were not interested in God’s law or worshipping the Hebrew God.

Exodus 20:3 You shall have no other gods before Me.

Proverbs 10:16 The wages of the righteous is life, the income of the wicked, punishment.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Who are we kidding? To this day, those who do not believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob could care less.

 

The Canaanite genome was sequenced from five buried bodies near the town of Sidon, Lebanon. This is the same ancient Sidon from the Bible. Canaan also happens to be the father of Sidon.

Genesis 10:15 Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth…

Sidon is located on the middle coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

Genesis 10:19a And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza…

 

Per the American Journal of Human Genetics, modern day Lebanese share 93% of their DNA with the ancient Canaanites. The 5 bodies were estimated to be buried approximately 3,700 years ago. If the dating of these 5 bodies is correct, this would place the Israelites in captivity in Egypt. The DNA was compared to 99 modern day Lebanese citizens. The timeline fits.

In a stunning turn of events, Scientists were wrong in their assumptions and expectations in comparisons of the two groups!

The following is an excerpt from National Geographic: While the researchers were surprised at the level of genetic continuity between ancient Canaanites and modern Lebanese after some 4,000 years of war, migration, and conquest in the area, they caution against drawing too many conclusions on ancient history based solely on genetic data. 

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/canaanite-bible-ancient-dna-lebanon-genetics-archaeology/

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-canaanite-lebanese-genetics-20170727-story.html

With the DNA findings, scientific/cultural experts and atheists were quick to point out, “These disproves the Bible! The Canaanites were wiped out in the Bible. And they are still here in modern day Lebanon.”

A couple problems here… One, these “experts” have not read the Bible. Two, ancient Israel was disobedient to God’s command in Deuteronomy 20:16-17. Scripture bears witness to Israel’s disobedience to cleanse the land. Israel used the Canaanites as slave labor. After 400 years of bondage in Egypt, it was time for another group of people to work for Israel.

Joshua 17:12-13 Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land. Now when the people of Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.

Judges 1:27-28 restates the above passages from Joshua.

The Canaanites of the Bible were real people. And they are significant genetic relatives to modern day citizens near Sidon, Lebanon.

 

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Revelation: Thyatira’s Jezebel

Posted in Prophecy, Revelation with tags , , , , , , , , , on March 26, 2017 by paulthepoke

Revelation 2:20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel…

Jezebel…Her name means chaste or unexalted.

This may have been a woman locally with the name Jezebel or it is a symbolic reference to the wife of King Ahab.

Jezebel the queen and wife of King Ahab of Israel was not a nice lady. King Ahab was not a good king and she was not a good influence.

1 Kings 21:25 Surely there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the Lord, because Jezebel his wife incited him.

Jezebel was from Sidon. She was a Phoenician. This would be modern day Lebanon north of Israel. She worshipped Baal and was an idolatrous woman.

1 Kings 16:31 It came about, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went to serve Baal and worshiped him.

Jezebel surrounded herself with prophets of false gods.

1 Kings 18:19 Now then send and gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, together with 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.

While she loved the false prophets, she was hostile to God’s prophets. She promised to kill Elijah.

1 Kings 18:13 Has it not been told to my master what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, that I hid a hundred prophets of the Lord by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water? 

1 Kings 19:2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”

Jezebel had Naboth falsely accused and stoned. Naboth was the owner of a winery that King Ahab wanted. King Ahab offered to buy the winery and Naboth refused to sell. So Jezebel forged a letter in the name of king. She had two men bear false witness Naboth. As a result, Naboth was executed. Ahab got his winery. See 1 Kings 21.

Evil was allowed to run its course and eventually Jezebel got hers. Jezebel’s death was prophecy fulfilled. Where Jezebel colluded with two men to lie about a decent man, Scripture bears witness to her promised death two times.

1 Kings 21:23 Of Jezebel also has the Lord spoken, saying, “The dogs will eat Jezebel in the district of Jezreel.”

2 Kings 9:10 “The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.”  Then he opened the door and fled.

Jezebel could not manipulate her way out of death.

2 Kings 9:30 When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out the window.

Her end was a violent death without burial as prophesied.

2 Kings 9:33  He said, “Throw her down.” So they threw her down, and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses, and he trampled her under foot.

But there would be no burial for Jezebel…

2 Kings 9:35 They went to bury her, but they found nothing more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. 

And as a reminder…

2 Kings 9:36-37 Therefore they returned and told him. And he said, “This is the word of the Lord, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘In the property of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel; and the corpse of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field in the property of Jezreel, so they cannot say, “This is Jezebel.” ‘ ”