from the artical...”Russia is preparing a contingency plan to prompt Hezbollah and possibly the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad into a direct military conflict with Israel.”
So....devising a plan? Putin REALLY needs to reconsider such a move, otherwise he, and the military he brings with him against Israel will be meeting head on with more than just Israel!....
“You will say, “I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people—all of them living without walls and without gates and bars.”
It will have to be at a time when Israel believes it has achieved peace with its neighbors. That’s not now.
Moreover there isn’t any implied link between Damascus and Ezekiel 38, so I’d discount Putin pushing Assad into anything. Maybe Damascus comes first. If ISIS takes Syria I could see them being fool enough to provoke Israel into dropping something big on their heads.
It shows the depth of deception that God allows some people to operate under.
Same as for the Pharisees, who knew Scripture if anyone did, and yet went on to fulfill it in spite of themselves.
I think especially of the fulfillment of the prophecy of Judas and the thirty pieces of silver and what they did with it. How they did not see that they were fulfilling Scripture and try to do something else is beyond me.