Posted on 03/07/2012 2:47:41 AM PST by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed
It is not a matter of if, but when. Jeremiah the Prophet saw it long ago.
Jeremiah wrote a prophecy about the destruction of Elam. The name "Elam" means little to us until we realise that "Elam" is now part of modern day Iran. It is located in the west central part of Iran on the north end of the Persian Gulf. It is less than 200 miles across the Gulf from Kuwait, of Desert Storm fame.
But here's the kicker - Elam is home to Bushehr, the site of Iran's premier nuclear reactor. The Bushehr reactor was loaded with Russian nuclear fuel rods in 2010. John Bolton, former US Ambassador to the UN, said in 2010, "Israel's got a problem, because once the fuel rods are inserted into the reactor, an attack ... would almost certainly release the radiation into the atmosphere" ref. Fox News
John Bolton feared that an Israeli attack on the Bushehr reactor would release radiation into the atmosphere. His fears were well founded. Here is what Jeremiah (from Jeremiah 49:34-38) has to say:
34 This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, early in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah:
35 This is what the LORD Almighty says:
"See, I will break the bow of Elam, the mainstay of their might. 36 I will bring against Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven; I will scatter them to the four winds, and there will not be a nation where Elam’s exiles do not go. 37 I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who want to kill them; I will bring disaster on them, even my fierce anger," declares the LORD. "I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them. 38 I will set my throne in Elam and destroy her king and officials," declares the LORD.
Is it reasonable to equate the "mainstay of their might" with Iran's Bushehr nuclear capabilities?
Is is reasonable to assume that Elam's exiles flee to avoid the radioactive fallout released from a destroyed Bushehr nuclear reactor?
Given the hostilities between Israel and Iran, is it reasonble to assume that Israel will be the agent of that destruction?
Adrian Blomfield, in his "Iran analysis" article written for The Telegraph on March 7, 2012 said:
"There will be little time for further equivocation. Mr Netanyahu's intelligence chiefs have concluded that Iran's nuclear programme will be immune to a go-it-alone Israeli attack within six to nine months. After that, the bulk of Iran's nuclear material will have been moved to the Fordow enrichment plant, which is buried so far into a mountain side that Israel's US-provided bunker-busters may not be able to destroy it."
Given Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at AIPAC yesterday, I think that we can expect to see the Jeremiah 49 Prophecy fulfilled before this summer.
Too bad.
Those poor Iranian people DESPISE their Muzzie overlords.
With US help, they could have been overthrown two years ago.
Instead, our reflexive Muzzie pRESIDENT at 1600 Penn. supported his ruling Muzzie bretheren against their people—like the good despot he is.
Now, it will be war.
Whoopie do—”Hope ‘n Change” it is.
Lotsa CHANGE.
NO HOPE.
I’m kind of hoping hussein will be “touring” Elams great facility when it happens.
Those poor Iranian people DESPISE their Muzzie overlords.
With US help, they could have been overthrown two years ago.
We could have done it in the same manner that we helped the Solidarity labor union in Poland. Thus the mullahs could have been brought down without the United States firing a shot. Call it asymmetric warfare. We were creative back in the eighties. Simple acts like Jeanne Kirkpatrick just reading off the names of the Soviet refuseniks before the UN General Assembly emboldened the dissidents behind the Iron Curtain. That was when the United States stood for freedom, and not bowing before dictators.
Aaah, but you forgot v. 39 ‘But it will come about in the last days That I will restore the fortunes of Elam,’ Declares the LORD.
I believe this means that Iran will become a Christian nation in the End Times. Islam came late to Persia (ca. 1000 AD) and other Muslims really don’t trust the Iranians.
For later
I am sure many people have wondered what will happen when a Nuclear plant is hit by bombs.
I believe we will be finding out soon.
Nothing. All the components of either a uranium or plutonium bomb have to be in a very precise geometric relationship for a nuclear "boom" to happen. Said precise geometry is destroyed by the leading edge of the shockwave from the attacking weaponry.
The only way this is avoidable is if the weapon is equipped with a radiological "dead man switch" which will automatically trigger the bomb with detection of a high pulse of gamma radiation (which, moving at the speed of light, preceeds the shockwave, which only moves at about the speed of sound).
But then your own bomb is helping destroy the facility you want NOT to be destroyed.
And, of course the "deadman switch" only works if the attacking weaponry is itself nuclear.....chemical explosions won't trigger....all their effect arrives at the speed of the shockwave.
They should just do it already.
I wasn’t really thinking about Nuclear explosion at the Nuclear plant.
I was thinking of what happens when the core cannot be cooled. When the hardware to cool the nuclear fires is gone.
We saw what happened and is still happening in Japan. What will happen in Iran when technicians at the Nuclear plant are killed during the bombing and the facility to maintain or to stop the nuclear reactions are destroyed and the thing begins a meltdown.
The nuclear fallout will not be from an atomic explosion. It will be from plutonium being scattered using conventional weaponry.
ah...yes...another attempt to read the OT into today’s headlines....
Often presented, rarely accurate.
Israel would select that facility as a primary target for a number of reasons.
There is no upside to presenting the preferred targets.
AWKKK.....!!!
Israel would NOT select that facility as a primary target for a number of reasons.
I have heard testimonies of Persians who came to Christ because He came to them in a vision.
My bad. I mis-read the comment as what would happen to a nuclear WEAPON rather than a nuclear PLANT if it were to be hit by an external explosive (hey, early AM, no coffee). But in that case, there will be a lot of other "things" in addition to plutonium that will be scattered. "Pu" will be the least of their worries.
“I was thinking of what happens when the core cannot be cooled. When the hardware to cool the nuclear fires is gone.”
I expect Israel will hit the reactor hard enough that the core is burst apart. In that case, fission won’t continue because the fissile material won’t be in a workable geometry.
There will likely be some local area contamination, but that’s about it.
I think we will indeed get to find out though.
I think we will too.
If the Iranian people had good sense they would remove this Mullah and Ahmadinejhad before they get their country destroyed.
IMO Ahmadinejhad and this Mullah intend for the bombing of Iran t be like a suicide bombing. I have no idea the thinking behind it, unless they feel it will cause a great Muslim uprising. Which it may.
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