EZEKIEL
38 This
will be a progressive ongoing study of the converging of interests to fulfill
Ezekiel 38 The
text: Ezekiel
38:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy
face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and
prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against
thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee
back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine
army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even
a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5
Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all
his bands: and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for
thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a
guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years
thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered
out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste:
but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of
them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud
to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
10
Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall
things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou
shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that
are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having
neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine
hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that
are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell
in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish,
with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a
spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and
gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore,
son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when
my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And thou
shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee,
all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And
thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land;
it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the
heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time
by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years
that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the
same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD,
that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire
of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in
the land of Israel;
20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the
heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the
earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my
presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall,
and every wall shall fall to the ground.
21 And I will call for a sword against
him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be
against his brother.
22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and
with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people
that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in
the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
ENTRIES: January
7, 2004 Is
Libya flirting with Israel?
Special DEBKAfile report
Libya’s intense efforts to improve its relations with the UN have led it to explore
Jewish channels.
Two senior Libyans, Saif el-Islam Qaddafi, the elder son of the ruler, Muammar
Qaddafi, and Moussa Kussa, the head of Libya’s intelligence services, are seeking
to establish communication with various Jewish institutions, including the US
Committee of Jewish Presidents and the Jewish lobby in Washington.
For the same reason, Libya is putting out tentative feelers about some sort of
accommodation with Israel. DEBKAfile intelligence sources report that Saif el-Islam,
who studies and lives in London, traveled to a Middle Eastern capital last June
to meet five Israelis, at least three of whom have political or military influence
in Jerusalem. His purpose, he said, was to explain his father’s ideas about establishing
a single Israeli-Palestinian state to be called Isratin. He explained that there
was no hope for a Palestinian state, that an ethnic Israeli state would not survive,
and that there should instead be a joint state. He also emphasized that Libya
had turned into attention from the Arab world to the African one.
As DEBKAfile published last month, Aron Proshar, political adviser to Israel’s
foreign minister, had a meeting in Paris in the third week of December with Musafa
Nahed Tlas, daughter of Syria’s defense minister and businesswoman and celebrity
in her own right. Though the subject of the meeting was Israeli-Syrian relations,
Libya was also talked about. Mrs Nahed Tlas has close contacts in Tripoli, including
Saif el-Islam. This indirect approach may have been a way of bypassing Ariel Sharon’s
instructions to Israel’s foreign minister that he was not to make approaches to
Libya, though some reports say that a Libyan was in the house with Mrs Nahed Tlas.
On January
5, Muammar Qaddafi himself said that all people, including Jews, whose property
had been confiscated during Libya’s revolution should be compensated. Next day,
Al Siyassa, a Kuwaiti newspaper, reported that representatives of Mossad, Israel’s
military intelligence, had met with a high-ranking official in Vienna. The paper
did not give the names but DEBKAfile can report that the Libyan was Najat al-Hajjaji,
Libya's ambassador to the UN and the current chairperson of the Human Rights Commission
in Geneva.
There two conflicting reports about this meeting. The first is that Mrs Hajjaji,
who in her early life had experience in public relations, was in Vienna to prepare
the ground for Qaddafi’s announcement about dismantling Libya’s WMD, and that
she just stumbled on the Israelis who were in Vienna as members of the UN’s international
nuclear commission. If this is so, the meeting was of no importance. But the second
report says that Mrs Hajjaji flew especially to Vienna to meet the Israelis.
Senior sources in Jerusalem tell DEBKAfile that Libya’s only reason for any approach
to Israel is its wish to improve relations with the US. Nothing of consequence
is, in fact, going on. If Libya wants to make a move towards Israel, say these
sources, it should do so through the US Committee of Jewish Presidents. Editor:
Verse 7 of Ezekiel indicates that the first intentions of God and Magog, Gomer,
Libya, and her confederates is to be a guard to Israel. It is only on the way
TO Israel that Gog and Magog get an evil thought, Verse 10. Israel has a mutual
defense pack with Russia (Gog and Magog) and China. Israel also has close relations
with India and Turkey, unconventional allies. So, we are watching for the convergence
of thought of Israel with Russia and Libya. Ethiopia has long had very friendly
relations with Israel. This recent move by Libya is a loner act which seems to
exclude the southern Arabs, or, the Kings of the South. This is a movement which
only a few weeks ago would have been unthinkable. Keep watching. ============= IS
THIS A COURTSHIP OR INTERROGATION? AND A
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