Posted on 01/15/2016 12:10:30 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
Lebanon-based Hezbollah is growing stronger as a result of weapons' shipments from the Russian military, two mid-level commanders in the organization have said. According to the story, first circulated in The Daily Beast, Russia is directly transferring artillery and anti-tank munitions to Hezbollah without any caveat as to what they are used for, despite Russia’s close relationship with Israel. This begs the question whether the threat to Israel from the Shi'ite organization has intensified since Russian jets started to bomb Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s enemies. However, Hezbollah is still bogged down in the Syrian conflict and is unlikely to be supported in any way by Russia in a future conflict with Israel, analysts say.
Iran's proxy actor, Hezbollah has enjoyed funding and training that allowed the organization to become a powerful militant force with vast arsenals of artillery rockets and a sophisticated organizational structure. A frosty standoff has endured between Hezbollah and Israel since the two fought a costly war in the summer of 2006. Heavily committed to propping up the ailing Assad regime, Hezbollah has lost strength in recent years, but remains formidable. "When you count the rockets they have, they are as strong as they were before the eruption of civil war in Syria. (But) when you speak about morale, it's not very high… they’ve suffered many casualties," Eyal Zisser, a professor at Tel Aviv University and an expert on Hezbollah told The Media Line. Added to this is the financial burden the organization is shouldering, the professor explained...
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Ezekiel goes on to predict that this invasion will be disastrous for Russia and its coalition nations. G-d himself shall send earthquakes, pestilence, and other natural disasters causing all the coalition nations to fight each other until all are almost destroyed. The question is, what are the hooks that cause Russia and this coalition to attack Israel? An Israeli nuclear attack on Islamic allies (Isaiah 17)? Israel natural gas or oil (Deuteronomy 33:24)? Other?
Ezekiel 38:2 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.
Of course this was coming. Now the Russians are right next door to Hezbollah, and don’t need to worry about smuggling arms all the way through Iran, Iraq, and Syria.
What choice is there?
Israel is going to have to take them out.
I read recently that Hezbollah has experienced 25% casualties. They are having a hard time keeping fighters who signed on to fight Israel but find themselves killing other Muslims. I can see this as a bribe to keep Hezbollah on board. They are the shock troops who go in and take the ground. Once it gets turned over to Assad’s army it is often lost again so Hezbollah ends up taking more casualties retaking places they already took once. They want out. Russia needs them there.
The tie with Israel is much less strong that the tie with Hezbollah.
Now, where all of Putin’s fans, the putinistas who praise Putin as the savior of the world?
Stability can benefit Russia and, oddly Iran for the short term. China could walk in right after a regional Mideast war. The problem is for the Chinese is that once the dogs of war are out, there is no way to limit the carnage.
Russia or China — individually — are a million times more dangerous than ISIS, Iran, or all other islamonazi barbarians combined.
However, you left out one important detail. GOD prophesied to GOG and MAGOG that HE was going to put a hook in their jaw, and draw them down.
What is the “hook in the jaw” that caused the gathering of the nations against Israel ..??
Do you have any guesses ..??
Hezbollah has lost over one third of its army fighting in Syria ... and performed very poorly as did the Iranian Al Qods troops - one of the reasons Russia has stepped in so heavily. There are now a lot less to take out.
Israel will take care of all its enemies when the time is right. Meanwhile the Syrian war has cut down their numbers, lots of them are dead.
In before the Russian hate spamer
Yes, ISIS is most dangerous as a fuse. And that they have some control over.
Yes, that’s true .. according to Ezekiel 38-39 .. however, you didn’t answer the question either.
What is the hook in the jaw that will cause all those nations (possibly led by Russia), into the Valley of Megiddo ..?? GOD said HE had a “hook” HE was going to use to get them there.
You all better figure it out, otherwise you will not be ready when it happens.
Good point! Not sure what the hooks are.?.?
“Israel will take care of all its enemies when the time is right.”
According to the Bible, it will be God who destroys Israel’s enemies, not Israel itself. Of course, not everyone believes the Bible, but it’s got a pretty good track record so far.
“You all better figure it out, otherwise you will not be ready when it happens.”
Nonsense. If you are saved, you’re ready right now. If not, there is no mystery of prophecy that is going to help you.
Being saved has nothing to do with being aware of prophesy when it’s happening.
But, you don’t have to believe anything.
Who is Gog and Magog?
http://absolutetruth613.blogspot.com/2012/04/who-is-gog-and-magog.html
...and...
Gog's weapons are already on Israeli soil...
http://www.rense.com/general66/excl.htm
...Go and read...
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