Watchman of Zion

You may view the 5 minute update this week via audio:

1) Listen to the audio

In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on:

1) The current status of the Israel / PLO peace process
2) The prospects for war with Syria and Iran
3) The prospects for economic collapse in the USA and the world

The Palestinians have asked foreign diplomats to support a bid for a non-member observer status at the United Nations. The request would be put to the UN General Assembly where approval would require a simple majority of those present.  No individual country has veto rights at the UN General Assembly. Being a non-member observer state – a status held by the Vatican – would improve the Palestinians’ chances of joining UN agencies and the International Criminal Court. Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) executive committee member, said “Even though the timing has yet to be determined, we are co-ordinating our efforts with Arab and Muslim countries, as well as with the international community.”

The European Union is refusing to recognize the city of Modi’in as being a part of Israel. As a result, products exported from there fall outside the parameters of the free-trade agreement known as the EU-Israeli Association Agreement. The Israeli foreign ministry objected to the decision.

Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood has completely taken over power in Egypt.  Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi fired leaders of the pro-American Supreme Military Council who has been ruling Egypt since Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow. Furthermore, Morsi has gained control of the media in Egypt. Finally, he called for regime change in Syria. Morsi would like to see the Muslim Brotherhood come to power in Syria in an effort to establish a Sunni-Islam Caliphate run by Sharia law.

An agreement to divide Jerusalem and establish a PLO state is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) Palestinians appeal for support for UN member-state bid
2) For the first time, EU puts Modi’in outside Israel
3) Muslim Brotherhood anti-army coup in Cairo. Tanks move up to Israel border
4) Egypt’s New President Moves Against Democracy
5) At Islamic conference, Egypt’s Morsi calls for regime change in Syria

Russia warships are heading to the Mediterranean. Chinese warships docked in Israel. As odds increase for foreign military intervention in Syria, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar told their citizens to leave Lebanon. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mentioned the possibility of establishing  a no-fly zone over some parts of Syria to help the rebels defeat the Assad government. A no-fly zone is one in which outside nations prohibit flights over parts of another country and enforce it militarily. The creation of such a zone over Libya last year seriously constrained the use of pro-Gaddafi aviation and artillery. France, Britain and then NATO made ample use of it to eventually bring about a regime change in Libya. However, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says plans to set up a no-fly zone over parts of Syria are “not on the front burner.”

Turkey has sent the Syrian rebels fighting in Aleppo their first shipment of shoulder-carried, anti-air FIM-92 Stingers. The Stinger is a heat-seeking missile. Turkey manufactures the Stingers under American license and is obliged by contract to obtain US permission for their transfer to a third party. It was granted by Washington on the quiet.  BritishForeign Secretary William Hague said that his government had granted Syrian rebels $8 million of “non-military support.” The Syrian rebels’ Western and Arab sponsors have given them 20 Russian-made T-62 tanks from Libya. As the rebels are increasingly being armed with greater weaponry, the danger continues to increase that Assad may decided to use unconventional weapons to try to remain in power.

On the other hand, Iran is playing a growing role supporting the Syrian regime and is helping to build and train a militia to fight against opposition forces. While the US provides vital help to the Syrian rebels, they condemn those who are helping Assad to remain in power. Clearly, Syria is deeply entrenched in a proxy war being waged between the West and Arab countries against Russia, China and Iran.

A war with Syria where Damascus is destroyed (Isaiah 17)  is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Russian Warships Head to Mediterranean
2) Chinese Warships Dock in Israel
3) Gulf States warn citizens to leave Lebanon
4) US mulls no-fly zone over Syria
5) Panetta: Syria no-fly zone not on front burner
6) Clinton: Chemical warfare is planned for. Rebels get first anti-air Stingers
7) Syrian rebels armed with first T-62 tanks
8.) Iran is building, training militia in Syria, Pentagon says
9) US Hypocritically Accuses Iran of Sending Pro-Regime Militias to Syria

The US has imposed new sanctions on Iran in an effort to punish banks, insurance companies and shippers that help Iran sell its oil. Russia  called the measures “overt blackmail” and a “crude contradiction of international law.” Russia flexed its military power to the US by positioning a nuclear-powered attack submarine armed with long-range cruise missiles in the Gulf of Mexico for several weeks which went undetected by the US Navy.

Israel continues to warn that “time is short” for diplomacy to work to convince Iran to give up its nuclear program.  Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. said that because the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany have so far failed to negotiate a compromise, Iran is expected to buy more time to install additional centrifuges to produce more uranium that would be hidden inside fortified bunkers beyond Israel’s reach.

Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that the new US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran as confirming that both capitals understand that not much time is left for making decision on whether or not to go on the offensive against Iran’s nuclear facilities and when, because, he said, “a nuclear Iran is taking shape right before our eyes.” Regarding the possibility of an Israeli military strike against Iran, Barak said, “it would be much more complicated, much more dangerous and much more expensive – to deal with a nuclear Iran in the future.” Concerned that Israel might decide to attack Iran in the next several months, US President Barack Obama has requested a meeting with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the next UN General Assembly session to be held at the end of September. Sources close to Obama admit that the dialogue on Iran with Israeli leaders has run its course since neither side believes it can change its opposite number’s mind. Nevertheless, Israel media reports that Obama will seek to assure Israel that the US will use force to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons drive by next June at the latest if Iran has not halted its program by then, In preparing for a war with Iran, Israel has designated 60 privately owned garages and underground lots as bomb shelters than can be used by 800,000 people. They have also successfully tested a mobile text-messaging warning system to alert people of a possible missile attack.

DEBKA reports that Iran will have the capability to make one nuclear bomb by October 1. Reports from Israel media outlets indicate that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ‘close’ to ordering a strike against Iran. However, Israel is willing to delay this action if Obama would do several things.  First of all, Obama must repeat, publicly (at the UN General Assembly for instance), that the US will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons and that Israel has a right to defend itself, independently. Second, Israel is also demanding that Washington inform Iran that if significant progress in the negotiations with the P5+1 group (the permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) is not made within the next two weeks, the talks will be suspended. Third, Israel is also urging the US and the European Union to increase the direct economic pressure on Iran. Government officials in Israel have admitted that the sanctions are very effective but they claim that the Iranian military nuclear program is advancing faster than the sanctions’ “hourglass.” Another Israeli demand refers to the so-called “red line” of Iran’s nuclear program. The Obama administration claims that it will strike once intelligence agencies identify a “breakthrough” in the development of nuclear weapons, as defined by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Israel argues that Iran must not be allowed to even come close to achieving nuclear “breakout” capability. In order to discourage Israel from unilaterally attacking Iran, the US has told Israel that they would not necessarily join in were Israel to launch a military strike against Iran’s nuclear program.  White House spokesman Jay Carney said the US was committed to giving talks with Tehran a chance to bear fruit. He said, “We continue to believe there is time and space for diplomacy, the opportunity remains for Iran to take advantage of this process.”

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) New U.S. sanctions on Iran are ‘overt blackmail,’ says Russia
2) Russian attack submarine sailed in Gulf of Mexico undetected for weeks, U.S. officials say
3) Israeli envoy warns time is short for Iran diplomacy
4) Barak: A nuclear Iran is taking shape before us. Time for decisions is short
5) Barak: Waiting on Iran would be more dangerous
6) Obama initiates September meeting with Netanyahu to renew Iran dialogue
7) Tel Aviv designates 60 underground parking lots and garages to serve as bomb shelters for 800,000
8.) Israel tests missile text-messaging warning system
9) Iran can build an N-bomb by Oct. 1. Cairo coup hampers Israeli action
10) Benjamin Netanyahu ‘Close’ To Ordering Strike Against Iran
11) Israeli demands from Obama
12) ‘US message to Israel: Don’t rely on us to finish the job in Iran’
13) Obama set to assure Israel that, if all else fails, US will attack Iran by June 2013 — TV report

China and Japan continue to move away from using the US dollar. This year, China and Japan has started bilateral trade using their own currencies. In 2010, 1% of Chinese trade was settled in their own currency. This year, it is 10%. There are many signs that the US government and major US banks are preparing for the collapse of the financial system. The U.S. government has been secretly directing five of the biggest banks in America “to develop plans for staving off collapse” for the last two years. Over the past 12 months, hundreds of banking executives have been resigning and corporate insiders have been selling off enormous amounts of stock.

In the offfice of the comtroller of the currency derivatives report for the first quarter of 2012, we are told that there are $228 trillion dollars represented in derivative contracts. The four largest commercial banks represent 93% of this amount. They are JP Morgan-Chase, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Citibank.  The combined assets of the top five banks holding derivatives is just $4.8 trillion. Therefore, they have an eye popping 46 to 1 leverage! JP Morgan-Chase holds over 70 trillion dollars worth of derivatives. The entire world has a little more than $700 trillion in derivative exposure and JP Morgan-Chase  has 10% of all the derivative exposure on the planet!  81% of total derivative amounts are held in interest rate derivatives. With a sudden and dramatic spike in interest rates, the entire world financial system could collapse. JP Morgan-Chase, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Citibank are among the top financial contributors to the presidential campaign of Republican candidate Mitt Romney.

Perhaps expecting a collapse of the banking system in the near future, billionaire and elitist George Soros has sold all his stock in Citigroup (420,000 shares), JP Morgan (701,400 shares) and Goldman Sachs (120,000 shares), leaving him with no position in any major ban stocks at all. Furthermore, Soros bought  884,000 shares (approx. $130 million) of Gold via the SPDR Gold Trust. Why is Soros dumping over a million shares of stock in major banks and purchase more than 100 million dollars worth of gold? In addition, billionaire John Paulson has been buying gold like crazy and his company now “has 44 percent of its $24 billion fund in gold.” Finally, according to the World Gold Council, the amount of gold bought by the central banks of the world doubled during the second quarter of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011. Prior to 2009, the central banks of the world had been net sellers of gold for about two decades.

The US government may be preparing for a collapse of the financial system and civil unrest as the Social Security Administration plans to buy 174,000 hollow point bullets which will be delivered to 41 different locations all over America. In March, Homeland Security purchased 450 million rounds of .40-caliber hollow point bullets that are designed to expand upon entry and cause maximum organ damage.

Worldwide economic collapse resulting in a one world government with one-world currency is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) How China And Japan Are Slashing Their Dependence On The US Dollar
2) Are The Government And The Big Banks Quietly Preparing For An Imminent Financial Collapse?
3) Office of the Comtroller of the Currency Derivatives Report: First Quarter 2012
4) Five Banks Account For 96% Of The $250 Trillion In Outstanding US Derivative Exposure
5) Understanding Interest Rate Derivatives
6) Systemic Risk Is Everywhere
7) The Banks And Derivatives: Too Big To Fail Or Too Exposed To Be Saved?
8.) Mitt Romney Top Financial Supporters
9) EXCLUSIVE: U.S. banks told to make plans for preventing collapse
10) Startling Evidence That Central Banks And Wall Street Insiders Are Rapidly Preparing For Something BIG
11) Hedge fund Soros Funds has filed his quarter 13-F report with the SEC
12) World Gold Council: Central Bank Gold Demand Doubles in Second Quarter
13) Insiders are selling. Should you?

From a Biblical prophetic perspective, the reason why the God of Israel would allow these events to happen is because it will result in the end of the exile of the house of Jacob and the reunification of the 12 tribes of Israel (Ephraim and Judah).

We will to be “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and we will not rest until the God of Israel makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62).

Shalom in Yeshua the Messiah,

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int’l

You may view the 5 minute update this week via audio:

1) Listen to the audio

In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on:

1) The current status of the Israel / PLO peace process
2) The prospects for war with Syria and Iran

In order to encourage the Palestinians to enter into direct negotiations and deflect criticism that Israel may be the obstacle to having direct peace talks with them, Israel agreed to a series of goodwill gestures. However, the Palestinians refused to make any reciprocal goodwill steps toward Israel. Instead, the Palestinians are more interested in getting recognition of a PLO state based upon 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital at the United Nations General Assembly. In doing so, the Palestinians would get their United Nations status upgraded to a non-member state. The Arab League has agreed to support the Palestinians in their effort at the UN General Assembly. Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas is scheduled to address the UN General Assembly at their annual meeting on September 27. The date for presenting the application to the UN General Assembly will be made by the Arab League in a meeting to be held on September 5. Mahmood Abbas will file the application. United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Mahmood Abbas recently that if the Palestinians sought a bid before the US elections, the Palestinian Authority would be subjected to political and economic sanctions. In an interview with Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Wolf Blitzer of CNN indicated that all US Presidential administrations from Lyndon Johnson in 1967 to the current Obama administration views East Jerusalem as being occupied in non-recognition that the entire city of Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Therefore, the United States doesn’t oppose a PLO state with East Jerusalem as its capital, its rather an issue of the method and timing to achieve the goal. The Palestinians are expected to get 130-140 countries to vote for their request. As a result, the proposal is expected to pass when there is a vote. A vote is expected by the end of 2012. As a result, PLO Foreign Minister Riad Malki told reporters in Ramallah: “In the year 2012, we will achieve a PLO state that enjoys the status of being a non-member of the United Nations.” After achieving this goal, the Palestinians plan to ask the UN Security Council to recognize a PLO state based upon 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.

An agreement to divide Jerusalem and establish a PLO state is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) Israel ‘angry’ at PA failure to reciprocate goodwill
2) Arab League supports Palestinian bid for non-member UN representation
3) PA prepares for showdown over statehood bid
4) Israeli-Palestinian showdown shapes up at UN

In frustration over the situation in Syria, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has resigned from his role as the U.N.-Arab League mediator in the 17-month-old uprising in Syria against the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Foreign nations are preparing to fight in the Syrian conflict. Turkey sent a convoy of about 20 vehicles carrying troops, missile batteries and armored vehicles to the border with Syria. The U.S. continues its covert war against Syria. The US is mounting a secret but limited effort to speed the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad without using force by having spies and diplomats block arms and oil shipments from Iran and passing intelligence to the front-line of the Syrian rebels. Behind-the-scenes efforts by the Central Intelligence Agency, the State and Treasury departments and the military point to a broader American role in the effort against Mr. Assad to remove him from power than previously acknowledged is now being admitted by the Syrian rebels . Senior US Officials also say that the US has been providing intelligence about developments in Syria to the Turkish and Jordanian militaries working closely with the Syrian opposition. US President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing support for Syrian rebels seeking to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government from power. Obama’s order, is known as an intelligence “finding,” and broadly permits the CIA and other U.S. agencies to provide support that could help the Syrian rebels oust Assad from power. Seeing a deterioration in the situation in Syria, a Chinese destroyer sailed through Egypt’s Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea in the past week. Meanwhile, Russia is sending three large landing ships with marines aboard to a Russian naval facility in the Syrian port of Tartus. In supporting the Syrian opposition, Russia accuses the US of supporting terrorism. Meanwhile, Iran is firmly committed to supporting the Assad government. Saeed Jalili, head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, and also Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator in the P5 + 1 talks with Iran over its nuclear program went to Syria and expressed strong support for Assad. Iran has now sent more than 3,000 Iranian snipers to fight in the capital city of Damascus. Iran has also now invoked a 2008 Mutual Defense Pact to come to the aid of Syria against foreign aggression. Furthermore, Jalili held talks with Hizballah leader in Lebanon Hassan Nasrallah. Without a doubt, Jalili talks with Assad and Nasrallah about possible future military plans against Israel.

The Syrian opposition started a new strategy against Assad which was successful in Libya that helped to remove Muammar Qaddafi from power by trying to capture one of Syria’s largest cities, Aleppo, which is located in North Syria.  The city is a strategic asset for both the Assad government and the opposition. Aleppo is a commercial town and Assad enjoys strong support there from the merchant class. The rebels would like to use Aleppo and the area as a designated safe zone. Because it is close to the border of Turkey, it could also be used to organize, train, and get all the arms needed for a major onslaught against the Assad government. After the rebels had initial success, the Assad government has now gained control of the city.

The Syrian prime minister has joined the opposition by defecting to Jordan. His defection is not surprising given that he is a Sunni Muslim who was a member of a Shi’ite Muslim government. However, his defection along with others who have done so in the past including army generals and soldiers indicate that Assad’s hold on power is cracking. For this reason, the US and Israel continue to believe that Assad will fall from power in the near future. As that day approaches, the questions remains, ‘How would Assad be removed from power?’ Will it take the involvement of Jordan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the US, the European Union and others which will be opposed by Russia, China and Iran and cause a regional war in the Middle East involving Israel ? Pastor Lindsey Williams has given an update from his elitist retired oil executive friend indicating that the elite are 6-8 months BEHIND on their plans for the Middle East because Assad has not been removed from power yet. If Assad believes that his end is near, will he make good on his threat to attack Israel with missiles? If he does, will we see the fulfillment of Isaiah 17 that Damascus will be destroyed? Only time will tell but it is possible that this event may happen in the near future as we watch the current events unfold.

A war with Syria where Damascus is destroyed (Isaiah 17)  is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Annan quits as international Syria mediator: U.N.
2) Turkish military convoy heads for Syrian border
3) U.S. Mounts Quiet Effort to Weaken Assad’s Rule
4) Exclusive: Obama authorizes secret U.S. support for Syrian rebels
5) Chinese destroyer enters Mediterranean via Suez
6) ‘Russia sends navy vessels, marines to Syria base’
7) Russia accuses US of justifying terrorism in Syria
8.) Rebels: Iranian combatants in Syria to aid Assad
9) Iran reaffirms ‘unbreakable’ alliance with Syria’s Assad
10) Jalili in Damascus underscores Iran’s commitment to Assad
11)  High Iranian official in Beirut for urgent talks with Hizballah on Syria, Israel
12) Tehran Invokes 2008 Mutual Defense Pact with Damascus
13) Syrian rebels say fight for country’s largest city has begun
14) For Syrian rebels, Aleppo is prize
15) Experts: Aleppo Crucial to Both Regime and Rebels
16) Amid the ruins in Aleppo, Syrian rebels say victory is near
17) The bid for Syria’s first safe haven in Aleppo region is thwarted
18) Syrian rebels hold off regime push into Aleppo
19) Syrian fighter jets strike Aleppo, Assad rides crest of disintegrating country
20) Syrian prime minister defects to Jordan to protest ‘terrorist regime’
21) Assad’s time is running out in Syria
22) Lindsey Williams Interview: Liberty rig, Syria and derivatives

Despite no progress in the P5 +1 (US, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany) talks with Iran to suspend its nuclear program since April, the US is still refusing to declare the P5+1 talks with Iran a failure. There was an agreement made with Iran to continue the talks at the end of August. Meanwhile, the US Congress passed the strongest sanctions against Iran yet.  These sanctions desire to punish banks, insurance companies and shippers that help Iran sell its oil. Obama has not yet signed the law. In any event, US President Barack Obama did enact new sanctions on banks in China and Iraq that the US says have helped Iran evade international sanctions. In doing so, Obama made the following statement: “Since taking office, we have presented the Iranian government with a clear choice: come in line with your international obligations and rejoin the community of nations, or face growing consequences.” China strongly condemned the action by saying, “The US has invoked domestic law to impose sanctions on a Chinese financial institution, and this is a serious violation of international rules that harms Chinese interests.”

While the US continues to be interested in holding nuclear talks with Iran and imposing stiffer sanctions, Iran continues to advance its nuclear program. New intelligence information obtained by Israel and four Western countries indicates that Iran has made greater progress on developing components for its nuclear weapons program than the West had previously realized. New commercial satellite photos continue to show that Iran is trying to cover up work started at the Parchin facility where high explosives tests related Iran’s nuclear program have been conducted. Iran is preparing to enrich uranium from 20% to 60%. Many believe that Iran could have a nuclear bomb within a year. For these reasons, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that time is running out for diplomacy. He said that while sanctions against Iran are having an impact, it is not causing Iran to consider stopping its nuclear program. Israel strongly believes that Iran is approaching the “zone of immunity” mentioned by Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak where it would not be possible to stop Iran’s nuclear program from a military attack. Israel does not believe that waiting on situation with Iran to change its mind over its nuclear program from either sanctions or talks will work. While the US and the EU are still promoting diplomacy, they are also preparing for war against Iran. The current disagreement with Israel is over the timing of a possible attack. The US is worried that Israel may not wait on the US but will instead attack Iran before the November elections in the US. Therefore, the US sent Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to talk with Israel about the situation. While Panetta said that no specific military plans were discussed, he did say that the US discussed with Israel various contingencies. It is widely expected from most analysts that in any war involving Iran that the US would attack Iran and Israel would concern itself with Syria and Hizballah. Concerned over the trend of the current situation, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, summoned his “last war council” and told them to prepare for war within weeks. As a result, it seems that war in the Middle East involving Iran is inevitable. The only question seems to be how long will before it happens. Depending upon how things develop, it could happen by the end of 2012.

A US war with Iran is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Israeli official: US refuses to declare Iran talks have failed
2) Iran and World Powers to Hold More Nuclear Talks
3) US Congress passes ‘strongest’ Iran sanctions yet
4) Obama orders new sanctions on Iran
5) New intelligence reveals Iranian military nuclear program advancing faster than previously thought
6) Activity spotted at suspected Iranian nuclear test facility, analyst says
7) Iran prepares for 60 percent uranium enrichment
8.) Iran Could Have Nuclear Weapons Within a Year, Says Expert
9) Time Is Short For Iran Diplomacy
10) Netanyahu to Panetta: Time Running Out on Iran
11) Op-Ed:  Israel’s EMP Attack Can Send Iran Back to the Stone Age
12) Getting set for Iran war
13) US leaks plot to hit Iran N-plants
14) Wartime tasks split: US to smash Iran’s missiles, Israel tackle Syria, Hizballah
15) Khamenei Warns Iran’s Top Leaders: WAR IN WEEKS
16) Report: US pegs possible Iran strike in 18 months
17) Netanyahu: Iran unfazed by threats
18) U.S. presented Netanyahu with contingency plan for Iran strike
19) Waiting won’t work forever
20) Analysis: Not a question of attacking, but of timing

From a Biblical prophetic perspective, the reason why the God of Israel would allow these events to happen is because it will result in the end of the exile of the house of Jacob and the reunification of the 12 tribes of Israel (Ephraim and Judah).

We will to be “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and we will not rest until the God of Israel makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62).

Shalom in Yeshua the Messiah,

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int’l

You may view the 5 minute update this week via audio:

1) Listen to the audio

In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on:

1) The current status of the Israel / PLO peace process
2) The prospects for war with Syria and Iran

PLO Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat said that the Palestinians will ask the UN General Assembly to recognize Israel as an observer state. The timing of the request will be decided next week by the Arab League. Full recognition of a PLO state can only come through the UN Security Council. Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas held talks with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi regarding the peace process. Abbas said that the “doors of the political process with Israel are shut.” Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr said Egypt’s 1978 Camp David peace treaty with Israel would only be upheld if Israel returns to its 1967 borders and agrees to make East Jerusalem the capital of a PLO state.

Meanwhile, the Kadima political party in Israel resigned from being a member of the coalition government of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a disagreement to continue to exempt ultra-Orthodox seminary students from serving in the Israeli army. In doing so, Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz, also resigned as deputy prime minister. Kadima joined the government 2 months ago giving Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the largest coalition government in Israeli modern history.

An agreement to divide Jerusalem and establish a PLO state is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) Palestinians to Revive UN Recognition Bid
2) Abbas tells Morsi ‘doors of political process with Israel are shut’
3) Egypt Attaches Strings to Peace with Israel
4) Israeli coalition unravels as centrist Kadima party quits over draft dispute
5) Israel’s largest party walks out of Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition

Russia and China continue to support policies which enable Syrian President Bashar Assad to remain in power. This past week Russia and China vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that threatened Syria with more sanctions. Despite strongly supporting the Syrian rebels, the US is not willing to provide them with heavy weapons to advance their efforts to overthrow Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian opposition were clearly told by the US that the US would not get involved in Syria on that level until after the US Presidential elections in November.

Four of Assad’s top men were killed by a 40-kilogram bomb hidden in the Syria ministers’ conference room located in a heavily fortified National Security building. Those killed included Assad’s interior and defense ministers. In addition, several high-placed generals in the Syrian army defected to Turkey. These events have seriously weakened Assad’s protective inner circle of trusties and have reduced his military and security options. The war being fought against Assad has now moved to the capital of Damascus. Last week, Syria staged a large-scale missile exercise testing Scud D missiles capable of carrying chemical gas warheads were tested. At the same time, US military sources reported that Syria has moved chemical weapons out of storage and distributed them to missile and artillery units. As a result of these developments, Israel called off weekend furloughs for a number of its army military units due to concern over the fighting in Syria. Israel is concerned that due to Assad’s situation, he may decide to launch a chemical missile attack against Israel in the near future.

A war with Syria where Damascus is destroyed (Isaiah 17)  is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Russia, China veto western-backed Syria resolution at UN Security Council
2) Russia: Western pressure over Syrian conflict is ‘all about Iran’
3) US refuses to help Syrian rebels until after election
4) Assad’s top four men killed by hidden bomb. Urgent consultations in Washington, Jerusalem
5) Assad receives last warning to stop moving his WMD: Top generals defect
6) Russia says “decisive battle” underway in Syria
7) Residents flee Damascus as Syrian capital sees heaviest fighting so far in country’s ‘civil war’
8.) IDF on alert, cancels weekend breaks over Syria

With Iranian nuclear talks with the P5 + 1 powers at an impasse, the United States is, once again, concerned that Israel may be willing to launch in the near future a strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities. As a result, US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns met with top Israeli officials last week along with national security adviser, Tom Donilon. US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, also met with Israel over the same issue. Meanwhile, the US is concerned that Iran may be willing to try to shut the Strait of Hormuz where about 20% of the world’s oil supply passes on a daily basis. As a result, the US is building a missile-defense radar station at a secret site in Qatar and organizing its largest-ever mine sweeping exercises in the Persian Gulf. The radar base in Qatar will supplement two similar X-band radars already in place in Israel’s Negev and central Turkey. Together, the three sites will form an arc to detect missile launches from within Iranian territory. As a result of these things, there is growing concern that the US will be at war with Iran in the coming months.

A US war with Iran is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) What Is Hillary Clinton Doing in Israel?
2) ‘US bolsters ME missile defense to counter Iran’
3) Why Iran will ignite a regional war, sooner rather than later

From a Biblical prophetic perspective, the reason why the God of Israel would allow these events to happen is because it will result in the end of the exile of the house of Jacob and the reunification of the 12 tribes of Israel (Ephraim and Judah).

We will to be “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and we will not rest until the God of Israel makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62).

Shalom in Yeshua the Messiah,

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int’l

You may view the 5 minute update this week via audio:

1) Listen to the audio

In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on:

1) The current status of the Israel / PLO peace process
2) The prospects for war with Syria and Iran

A committee appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin recommended that Israel legalize a majority of West Bank outposts regarded as illegal by the international community. It further concluded that “Israel does not meet the criteria of ‘military occupation’ as defined under international law” in order for the settlements to be regarded as illegel. The United States responded to the report by saying  that “We do not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity and we oppose any effort to legalize outposts.” Historically, Britain, France and the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, along with the United Nations and the Palestinians have all stated that the settlement are illegal under international law. Since this is so, what prevents the international community from breaking the stalemate in direct peace negotiations by imposing a solution? In impatience over the current situation, will Obama impose the borders of a PLO state upon Israel after the US elections?

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered to release PLO prisoners held prior to the 1994 Oslo agreement as a gesture to renew direct peace talks with Abbas. Abbas rejected the offer. He urged the US to pressure Israel over the settlements. Abbas continues to insist that he will not have direct peace talks with Israel unless Israel agrees to the following three conditions:  Israel halts construction in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, releases Palestinian prisoners and accepts the two-state solution on the basis of the pre-1967 lines.

An agreement to divide Jerusalem and establish a PLO state is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1)  ‘Government must legalize settlements’
2)  US objects to law experts opinion legalizing Jewish settlements
3)  UK, France, Germany condemn Israeli settlement plans
4)  Ashton: Settlements are the key obstacle
5)  UN chief: Settlements are illegal, hamper peace efforts
6)  Abbas: “We Seek Real, Comprehensive Peace”
7)  PLO: Settlements are illegal
8) Minister: Abbas refused Israeli offer of selective prisoner release
9) Abbas urges US to pressure Israel over settlements

Russia and China continue to support policies which enable Syrian President Bashar Assad to remain in power. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman rebuked US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent criticism of China regarding Syria as “unacceptable.” U.N. peace envoy Kofi Annan suggested that Iran be included in talks regarding the future of Syria. The US condemned the proposal.  Around 5,000 global jihadists are positioned near Syria’s borders with Turkey and Lebanon attempting to infiltrate Syria to aid the opposition fighting against Syrian government. Their are reports that Syria may be breaking up into regions, sections or statelets according to Sunni and Shi’ite partitions. Finally, Western military sources gave warning to Turkey, Jordan and Israel that Syria could launch a conventional or chemical missile attack against them.

A war with Syria where Damascus is destroyed (Isaiah 17)  is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Clinton’s criticism of China over Syria “unacceptable”
2) Annan says Iran must be player in Syria crisis talks
3) 5,000 global jihadists amass on Syrian border
4) Will Syria Remain a Unified State?
5) Israel advised to brace for Syrian missile attack – conventional or chemical

Nuclear talks between Iran and the P5 + 1 powers (Britain, France, Russia, China, US) and Germany held on July 23 made no progress. A new meeting is scheduled for July 24. Because of lack in progress in talks, the US is concerned that Israel may be willing to strike Iran. As a result, US President Barack Obama has ordered US intelligent agencies to monitor the Israeli government and military on a daily basis for signs that Israel would attack Iran. Because nuclear talks with Iran are not making any progress and concerned with the current situation in Syria, Russia is sending a flotilla of at least 11 warships eastern Mediterranean opposite Syrian shores. The US is sending two more aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf. The first arrives this month and the second arrives in August. In order to keep the Straight of Hormuz open in any possible war with Iran, the US announced that it is sending dozens of tiny, unmanned SeaFox submersibles that can detect and destroy mines seeking to block oil tankers from traveling through the Strait of Hormuz where 20% of the world’s daily oil supply travels on a daily basis.

A US war with Iran is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Report: Obama orders U.S. intelligence to increase surveillance of Israel
2) EU, Iran diplomats to meet for nuclear talks in July
3) NATO, Russian naval-air buildup in E. Mediterranean, French units to Gulf
4) U.S. moving submersibles to Persian Gulf to oppose Iran
5) Two more US carriers, dozens of mini-subs rushed to Hormuz

From a Biblical prophetic perspective, the reason why the God of Israel would allow these events to happen is because it will result in the end of the exile of the house of Jacob and the reunification of the 12 tribes of Israel (Ephraim and Judah).

We will to be “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and we will not rest until the God of Israel makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62).

Shalom in Yeshua the Messiah,

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int’l

You may view the 5 minute update this week via audio:

1) Listen to the audio

In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on:

1) The prospects for war with Syria and Iran

Syrian President Bashar Assad told Russia that he would need only 2 months to defeat the opposition revolt against his government. A conference held in Geneva, Switzerland of foreign ministers of the “action group,” which includes the Western powers and Russia and China  supported creation of a “transitional government body with full executive powers” in Syria, proposed by UN and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan. A statement issued following the meeting in Geneva called for “clear and irreversible” steps toward a political transition in Syria. It did not specify, however, whether Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must be excluded from a transition government, leaving its composition entirely up to the “mutual consent” of the Assad administration and the opposition. The US and Russia had a public disagreement regarding the meaning of the wording of the “mutual consent” aspect of the text. The US said that this meant that Assad must be removed from power. Russia disagreed. The Syrian opposition rejected the terms of the agreement. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the support of Russia and China is no longer tolerable. Clinton repeated the US call for a Security Council resolution under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which allows the council to authorize actions ranging from diplomatic and economic sanctions to military intervention. A Russian official said: “If the Syrian regime is changed by force or if Russia doesn’t like the outcome, it most likely will respond by selling S-300s (which is a missile defense system) to Iran.”

Meanwhile, Israel continues to prepare for war with Syria and Lebanon. Elections are being held in Libya. The Muslim Brotherhood is expected to win after also being victorious in earlier elections in Egypt and Yemen.

A war with Syria where Damascus is destroyed (Isaiah 17)  is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Assad to Kremlin: I can finish the revolt in two months, replaces army chiefs
2) Russia Blasts Interpretations of Geneva Conference on Syria
3) Clinton urges Russia, China pressure over Assad
4) Moscow may hand Iran S-300, breach arms embargo if Assad ousted
5) Senior IDF officer: Israel is preparing for the next Lebanon war
6) Libya elections: Muslim Brotherhood set to lead government
7) Polls open for landmark Libya vote amid fears of unrest

The fourth round of six power nuclear talks between Iran and the P5 + 1 powers (US, Britain, France, Russia and China along with Germany) at the technical level ended in Istanbul, Turkey without any agreement. No date has been set for another round of talks. Iran’s position in the talks is as follows:  1) The removal of all sanctions 2) Explicit guarantees of its ”nuclear rights” to enrich uranium 3) A refusal to close the Fordow nuclear facility. In response to the lack of progress in talks, Iran conducted war games saying that they successfully tested medium-range missiles capable of hitting Israel and US military bases. Meanwhile, the US increased its military presence in the Persian Gulf  with emphasis on preventing Iran from blocking shipment of oil from the Strait of Hormuz where much of the world’s daily oil shipments originate.

A US war with Iran is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) No new date for continuing nuclear talks with Iran
2) Details emerge on Iran’s priorities in nuclear talks
3) Iran starts war games after being hit with sanctions over its nuclear program
4) Iran: Missile tests a response to our enemies’ threats
5) Iran ‘ready to attack US bases’
6) ‘US quietly bolstering presence in Persian Gulf’

From a Biblical prophetic perspective, the reason why the God of Israel would allow these events to happen is because it will result in the end of the exile of the house of Jacob and the reunification of the 12 tribes of Israel (Ephraim and Judah).

We will to be “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and we will not rest until the God of Israel makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62).

Shalom in Yeshua the Messiah,

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int’l

You may view the 5 minute update this week via audio:

1) Listen to the audio

In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on:

1) The current status of the Israel / PLO peace process
2) The prospects for war with Syria and Iran
3) Global currency wars

Fatah’s party congress urged the Palestinian Authority leadership to move forward with its intentions to seek recognition of a PLO state based upon 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital by the UN General Assembly this September. The Muslim Brotherhood won the Egyptians elections. Last November, the US said that it would be satisfied if the Muslim Brotherhood won the Egyptian elections. Prior to 2009, the Muslim Brotherhood was banned in Egypt. President Barack Obama gave the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt 1.5 billion dollars in US aid in May. The leader of Egypt now is Mohammed Morsi. He was educated in the US going to college at USC. He has also been an engineering professor.  His two sons have US Passports. Campaigning in Egypt, Morsi said on May 13 to an election crowd: “The Koran is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader, jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal.” Morsi also said: ““Today we can establish Sharia law because our nation will acquire well-being only with Islam and Sharia. The Muslim Brothers and the Freedom and Justice Party will be the conductors of these goals.” On June 7, he also said: “Jerusalem will be our capital, Allah willing. Our capital shall not be Cairo, Mecca or Medina. It shall be Jerusalem with God’s will.” Our chants shall be: “millions of martyrs will march towards Jerusalem.” Obama congratulated Morsi for winning the Egyptian election by saying, “We look forward to working together with President-elect Morsi … to advance the many shared interests between Egypt and the United States.”

An agreement to divide Jerusalem and establish a PLO state is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) Fatah congress calls for UN General Assembly bid
2) US would be ‘satisfied’ with Brotherhood win in Egypt
3) Egypt: Mohammed Morsi an unconventional Islamist
4) Mohamed Morsi, USC graduate and former CSUN professor, urges ‘unity’ in first speech as Egypt’s president-elect
5) Islamist Joy As Morsi Elected President Of Egypt
6) Egypt presidential candidate seeks Constitution based on Sharia Law

RED ALERT ON SYRIA: Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has urged US President Barack Obama to lead an allied war offensive to remove Syrian President Bashar Assad from power. Turkey wanted Obama to create no-fly zones, attack Syrian government and military targets and establish safe zones for rebels and refugees. Obama replied the time had not yet come for direct US military intervention in Syria but that covert operations by American, British, Turkish and French special operations forces should continue inside the country. Meanwhile, British special forces helped rebel groups, including the Free Syrian Army, extend their control of territory in the Idlib province on the northern Syrian border with Turkey and Lebanon. Turkey has increased its military presence on the Syrian border. DEBKA reports Saudi Arabian troop movements toward the Jordanian and Iraqi borders. The Saudi units are poised with tanks, missiles, special forces and anti-air batteries to enter Jordan in two ways. One will safeguard Jordan’s King Abdullah against potential Syrian or Iranian reprisals from Syria or Iraq. The second will cut north through Jordan to enter southeastern Syriam, where a security zone will be established around the towns of Deraa, Deir al-Zour and Abu Kemal – all centers of the anti-Assad rebellion. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in St. Petersburg, Russia on Friday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov over Kofi Annan’s latest proposal to remove Bashar Assad from power forming a transitional national unity government in Damascus that includes the opposition and excludes Assad. Lavrov said that Russia would not lend its support to any plans for outside interference in Syria. DEBKA reports that failure in US talks with Russia could cause a Western-Arab military intervention in Syria in the next few days.

A war with Syria where Damascus is destroyed (Isaiah 17)  is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Obama rebuffs Erdogan’s appeal to lead Turkey in Syria attack
2) Turkey increases its military presence at Syrian border
3) Saudis forces mass on Jordanian, Iraqi borders. Turkey, Syria reinforce strength
4) British forces in Syria, Assad presidential compound said under attack
5) Russia Would Not Support Intervention in Syria – Lavrov

South Korea has said imports of Iranian oil will be suspended from 1 July because of  a European Union (EU) insurance ban on vessels carrying oil. Israel and the US are set to hold their largest ever joint military exercise in October, featuring thousands of soldiers and advanced anti-missile defense systems, and simulating simultaneous fire from Iran and Syria. Some 3,000 US soldiers are to participate, alongside thousands of Israeli troops. DEBKA reports that in the last ten days have seen a shift in US President Barack Obama’s negative position on military action against Iran’s nuclear program. Saudi King Abdullah and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu have been informed that Obama is in the process of “reconsideration.” His aides amplified this with a couple of ifs: If the state of nuclear diplomacy between the six world powers and Iran remains unchanged – that is, inert; and if the Syrian crisis remains unresolved, the US president will reach a final decision on the use of force against Iran in the first half of October – three and a half months hence. “It is already decided,” one high ranking Saudi prince told a visiting European official. The prince went on to say that we’re sure the American decision to attack is final and we are already making appropriate preparations. The question now isn’t if the Americans will attack Iran, but when.”

A US war with Iran is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) South Korea to halt Iran oil imports amid sanctions
2) US and Israel to hold largest ever joint military exercise
3) Saudis Preparing for US to Strike Iran in October

China continues the effort to not us the US dollar in bilateral trade. At this moment, China has signed trade agreements to not use the US dollar when trading with the following countries: Japen, Russia, Iran, India, Brazil and Chile. In what would seem as a currency war, the currencies of Brazil, Russia and India have declined as much as 10% against the US dollar so far this year and it is expected that the trend will continue.

Worldwide economic collapse resulting in a one world government with one-world currency is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) Chile Is Latest Country To Launch Renminbi Swaps And Settlement
2) BRICs Biggest Currency Depreciation Since 1998 to Worsen

From a Biblical prophetic perspective, the reason why the God of Israel would allow these events to happen is because it will result in the end of the exile of the house of Jacob and the reunification of the 12 tribes of Israel (Ephraim and Judah).

We will to be “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and we will not rest until the God of Israel makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62).

Shalom in Yeshua the Messiah,

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int’l

You may view the 5 minute update this week via audio:

1) Listen to the audio

In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on:

1) The current status of the Israel / PLO peace process
2) The prospects for war with Syria and Iran
3) The collapse of the world economic system in September / October

The Obama administration is seeking to get Israel and the Palestinians back to direct peace talks although there is little evidence the two sides are ready to resume direct negotiations. Last week, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Israel’s lead negotiator, Yitzhak Molcho, and chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat. In doing so, Erekat repeated the longstanding Palestinian demand that they will not have direct peace talks with Israel unless Israel stops building Jewish homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and wants the US to put pressure upon Israel to do so. If the US is unsuccessful to get Israel to agree to the Palestinians demands, the Palestinians are threatening to go to the UN General Assembly in September to seek recognition of a PLO state based upon 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.

An agreement to divide Jerusalem and establish a PLO state is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) Obama administration keeps Israeli, Palestinian wheels spinning, hopes for traction on peace
2) ‘Peace process clinically dead, Israel responsible’

Russia continues to strongly support the government of Bashar Assad of Syria and oppose US policy toward Syria and Iran. Russia’s chief arms exporter said that his company was shipping advanced defensive missile systems to Syria that could be used to shoot down airplanes or sink ships if the United States or other nations try to intervene to halt the country’s spiral of violence. In addition, Russia is sending a fleet of warships to the Mediterranean port of Tartus. Furthermore, the semi-official Iranian news agency Fars reports that a joint Russian-Chinese-Iranian exercise is to take place in Syria in the next few weeks. It was described as “the biggest of its kind ever staged in the Middle East” with 90,000 personnel, 400 air planes and 900 tanks taking part. As part of its preparations, China has gotten approval from Egypt for 12 naval ships to pass through the Suez Canal in late June with destination to the Syrian port of Tartus. This is the first time that substantial Russian and Chinese military strength has ever been deployed in Syria or anywhere else in the Middle East. It means that Russia and China are prepared to partner with the Iranian and Syrian armies for the shared purpose of obstructing any US-European-Arab military intervention in Syria.

In a meeting of G20 leaders in Mexico, US President Barack Obama said that despite his fervent in-person appeals, leaders of Russia and China had not “signed on” to his diplomatic campaign for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as part of a plan to end the country’s bloody violence. Obama described his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Chinese President as “very candid” and “intensive” on the issue of Syria and the question of Assad’s removal. Russia’s opposition is rooted by the angry sense that the Obama administration conned Russia on Libya and must not be allowed to repeat the exercise in Syria. Russia views that the United States violated one UN Security Council resolution on Libya after another by leading NATO’s air blitz on Muammar Qaddafi’s regime centers “from behind” and allowing European and Arab special forces troops to oust the Libyan ruler and hasten his death. Russia and China do not want the same thing to be repeated in Syria.

Learning from the Libyan experience, Russia made thee major decision regarding working with the US on Middle Eastern issues according to DEBKA:

1. Abstain from partnering with any US diplomatic steps in the Middle East:

2. Prevent the US from repeating its Libyan exercise by achieving Assad’s overthrow

3. Place every possible obstacle in the way of a US attack on Iran’s nuclear program or attempt at regime change in Iran.

Finally, Russia has encouraged Iran to take a hard line in talks with Western powers to stop their nuclear program.

A war with Syria where Damascus is destroyed (Isaiah 17)  is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Russia Sending Missile Systems to Shield Syria
2) Russia flies anti-air, anti-ship missiles to Assad as its fleet heads to Tartus
3) Russia, China, Iran plan to stage in Syria “biggest Mid East maneuver”
4) Obama: Russia, China not ‘signed on’ to removing Syria’s Assad
5) Russia Enlists China and Iran to Defeat US Middle East Interests

The nuclear talks held in Moscow between the Iran and the P5 + 1 powers (Russia, China, Britain, France, US and Germany) resulted in no agreement as the differences between both sides is significant. The P5 + 1 wanted Iran to stop 20 percent enrichment of uranium, shut down the Fordow nuclear facility and ship out stockpiled highly-enriched nuclear materials. Iran wants the P5 + 1 to agree that it has a right to enrich uranium. It was agreed that on July 3 there will be a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey and the experts from both sides will meet to discuss the West’s proposal and Iran’s response. A decision will be made at that time how to proceed based upon the results of the meeting. On July 1, an EU oil embargo against Iran will begin. Japan and China continue to purchase oil from Iran despite US objections.

A US war with Iran is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Nuclear talks in Moscow between Iran, West end in failure
2) Japan, China to import Iran oil after EU ban

A European think-tank who promotes the financial and political union of the European Union issued a RED ALERT for a global economic crash more devastating than the fall of 2008 for September / October 2012. The outcome of this crash is expected to change the structure of the financial structure of the world’s economic system that was put in place after WW II.

Worldwide economic collapse resulting in a one world government with one-world currency is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) Red alert / Global systemic crisis – September-October 2012

From a Biblical prophetic perspective, the reason why the God of Israel would allow these events to happen is because it will result in the end of the exile of the house of Jacob and the reunification of the 12 tribes of Israel (Ephraim and Judah).

We will to be “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and we will not rest until the God of Israel makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62).

Shalom in Yeshua the Messiah,

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int’l

You may view the 5 minute update this week via audio:

1) Listen to the audio

In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on:

1) The current status of the Israel / PLO peace process
2) The prospects for war with Syria and Iran

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton says that Israel building Jewish homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is a greater problem in the Middle East than what is happening in Syria and Iran. In an future peace agreement with the Palestinians, she said that Jerusalem should be divided. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas continues to threaten going to the UN General Assembly to gain recognition by the nations of the world for a PLO state. In order to try to prevent this from happening,  US Middle East envoy David Hale will be traveling to the Middle East presenting “new ideas” for renewing peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. The Palestinians are saying that if the US efforts fail, they will go to the UN General Assembly.

An agreement to divide Jerusalem and establish a PLO state is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) Settlements Trump Syria and Iran as Top Mideast Issue, Says EU
2) Palestinians mull observer status at UN
3) Clinton warns Abbas not to bid for UN
4) Efforts underway for high level Israel, PA meet

The situation in Syria is dramatically escalating. The opposition group, the Syrian Free Army, engaged in attacks against the Syrian government in Damascus. As a result, the Syrian government had decided to mount a military offensive against the opposition to bring an end to the conflict once and for all. Assad was warned by Russia that if the coming counterinsurgency targeting the opposition is not successful in the next 4-6 weeks, Syria should be prepared for a war from international intervention by the West. US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey threatened war against Syria. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said that Britain might send troops to Syria. In any event, the Syrian government is making progress against the opposition.

Showing concern for the situation, US President Barack Obama has ordered the US Navy and Air Force to accelerate preparations for a limited air offensive against the Assad regime and the imposition of no-fly zones over Syria. Their mission will be to knock out Assad’s central regime and military command centers so as to shake regime stability and restrict Syrian army and air force activity for subduing rebel action and wreaking violence on civilian populations. Furthermore, US, UK, France initiated a UN Security Council motion for military intervention in Syria. China opposed the motion saying it was “one sided”. US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, harshly condemned Russian for supplying weapons to Syria accusing them of sending attack helicopters to Syria to help Assad Furthermore, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the general staff to work out a plan for military operations outside Russia including in Syria.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton set a mid-July deadline for the Kofi Annan peace plan to be implemented. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia is ready to host an international conference on Syria to discuss peaceful settlement to the Syrian crisis. Russia believes an international conference on Syria should be held under the umbrella of the UN and should bring together the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, Syria’s neighbours — Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, and also Qatar and Saudi Arabia, as well as the League of Arab States and the European Union. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov has said that the Islamic Republic has a “full right” to mediate in the Syrian conflict.

A war with Syria where Damascus is destroyed (Isaiah 17)  is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Obama speeds up limited air strike, no-fly zones preparations for Syria
2) US, UK, France initiate Security Council motion for military intervention in Syria
3) China against “one-sided” Syria sanctions
4) Hillary Clinton: ‘There are attack helicopters on the way from Russia to Syria’
5) Russia and US embroiled in row over arms supply
6) Russia prepares army for Syrian deployment
7) Russia warns war is coming
8.) Syria starts military showdown to end crisis
9) On brink of Bosnia-style war: Britain could send in troops to Syria says William Hague
10) Clinton sets deadline for implementation of Annan plan
11) US Military Lobbies For War With Syria
12) Russia ready to host conference on Syria
13) Russia says Iran has ‘full right’ to mediate in Syrian conflict
14) Muslim Cleric: Jerusalem to be Eygpt’s Capital

Preliminary talks were held with Iran by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) in Vienna this past week prior to Iran meeting with the P5 + 1 powers (Russia, China, Britain, France, US and Germany) in Moscow on June 18-19. No progress was made. A US spokesperson said that the US is ‘disappointed’ about the results of the meeting. This indicates that Iran will take a hard line at the June 18-19 meeting in Moscow with the P5 + 1 powers. However, a spokesman for EU foreign executive Catherine Ashton made a claim that Iran was willing to discuss high grade uranium enrichment at the upcoming talks in Moscow. DEBKA reports that the EU claim is false. An allusion of progress is being portrayed to try to keep Israel from attacking Iran. If failure in the progress in talks were admitted then the US would be committed to the military option against Iran. In any event, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did demand that Iran come to the meeting in Moscow with  “concrete plans” for curbing uranium enrichment up to 20 percent purity.  Iranian media outlets stated that the Islamic world must have nuclear weapons to confront US and Israeli aggression. The US exempted several countries from sanctions for buying oil from Iran but this did not include China.

A US war with Iran is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) U.S. “disappointed” by Iran-IAEA atom talks failure
2) US, EU fake Iran’s consent to discussing enrichment to fend off Israeli action
3) Islamic world must have nuclear weapons, says Iran
4) China defends Iran oil purchases after U.S. sanctions

From a Biblical prophetic perspective, the reason why the God of Israel would allow these events to happen is because it will result in the end of the exile of the house of Jacob and the reunification of the 12 tribes of Israel (Ephraim and Judah).

We will to be “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and we will not rest until the God of Israel makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62).

Shalom in Yeshua the Messiah,

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int’l

You may view the 5 minute update this week via audio:

1) Listen to the audio

In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on:

1) The current status of the Israel / PLO peace process
2) The prospects for war with Syria and Iran
3) Greek debt and the prospects for the collapse of the Euro

Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas has made Israel building Jewish homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem an issue in the peace process by saying that the Palestinians will not have direct negotiations with Israel if they continue building. The Netanyahu government announced that it plans to legalize 13 of the 18 settlement outposts of which petitions to the Israeli High Court of Justice has been filed because they are not built on privately-owned Palestinian land. The remaining 5 outposts will not be legalized because they are built on privately-owned Palestinian land. One of these 5 outposts is Beit El’s Ulpana neighborhood which the court has ordered dismantled by July 1. As a result, Ulpana has become a source of contention within the Netanyahu government between those Knesset members who support building in the West Bank and those who want the building restricted or stopped. A bill was presented before the Israeli Knesset to ignore the court order and let the outpost remain. Netanyahu threatened to fire any government  minister who voted to let the outpost remain. The Knesset rejected the Ulpana  bill 69-22. Instead, Netanyahu has advocated that an additional 850 Jewish homes be built in settlements approved by the government. The US strongly criticized the decision to build these additional 850 Jewish homes saying that it is a violation of the 2003 Road Map and that the US does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity and opposes any effort to legalize settlement outposts. These developments creates the condition for a crisis over the settlement issues with the Obama administration after the November elections.

An agreement to divide Jerusalem and establish a PLO state is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) Israel plans to legalize 13 contentious West Bank outposts
2) Knesset rejects Ulpana bill 69-22
3) PM: Ministers who vote for Ulpana bills will be fired
4) Gov’t to approve 551 new housing units in West Bank
5) US: Settlement activity undermines peace efforts
6) Palestinian Abbas urges Israel to accept 2-state deal

The US says that the international community must unite to isolate Syrian leader Bashar Assad and that he must be removed from power and leave Syria. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the transition in Syria must include a fully representative interim government that would lead to free and fair elections. The US wants to work with Russia and China to accomplish this objective. However, Russia and China reiterated that they are opposed to outside military intervention to remove Assad from power. Meanwhile, the Syrian opposition said that they are no longer committed to the peace plan proposed by UN envoy Kofi Annan several weeks ago. Kofi Annan is working on a new peace plan wherein a contact group would be established that would bring the UN Security Council members – Russia, China, the US, Britain, and France – together with critical regional players, like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey, who back the rebels, and Iran, which supports President Bashar al-Assad together to agree on a political deal to remove Assad from power. However, Iran says that it will not work with the contact group as long as the US demands that it stops nuclear enrichment at the upcoming P5 + 1 meeting with Iran over its nuclear program scheduled to take place on June 17-18 in Moscow. In retaliation for the mass expulsion by Western countries of Syrian diplomats from their countries in protest of the killings which took place in the Syrian city of Houla last week, Syria expelled 17 Western diplomats from its country. Concerned that the Syrian opposition would get control of Hizbullah’s Scud missiles located near Damascus, Hizbullah wants to move Scud D-type missiles and modern anti-aircraft equipment from Syria to Lebanon. Israel has said that they would not allow this transfer to Lebanon. Turkey has decided to abandon the Syrian opposition and work with Russia who supports Assad. Finally, Assad said that Syria is at war and must continue to fight the opposition. So, the situation in Syria is very fragile and serious. There does not seem to be any solution to the problem but continued war. As the result, the conditions are favorable to eventually see the fulfillment of Isaiah 17 wherein it is prophesied that Damascus will be destroyed.

A war with Syria where Damascus is destroyed (Isaiah 17)  is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) US: Int’l community must unify to isolate Assad
2) Clinton tells Syria’s Assad to quit, leave country
3) Clinton sketches out ‘transition’ path for Syria
4) Syria rebels say they are no longer committed to Annan plan
5) Kofi Annan to propose role for Iran to revive Syria peace plan
6) New Annan proposal puts the Syrian crisis in Iranian and Russian hands
7) Russia and Iran back away from the Syrian conflict, dump it in America’s lap
8) Syria expels U.S. ambassador, 16 other western diplomats
9) ‘China, Russia united against Syria intervention’
10) Hizbullah Wants to Move Far-Reaching Scuds from Syria
11) Turkey ditches Syrian rebels. Will Israel attack Hizballah’s Scuds?
12) Assad: we are at war, and we will fight on

Iran insists that to their nuclear rights be recognized by the P5 + 1 powers (Russia, China, Britain, France, US and Germany) at the upcoming June 17-18 meeting in Moscow over Iran’s nuclear program. As a result, Iran says that it will never stop uranium enrichment and have accused the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) of spying. Therefore, the June 17-18 meeting is critical to determine if Iran will be willing to stop its nuclear program. Thus, it appears that we are reaching a significant cross-roads over the issue. In order to encourage Israel not to attack Iran’s nuclear program, DEBKA reports that the Obama administration has promised an air-sea blockade of Iran this fall if Iran fails to agree to stop its nuclear program. This deal specifies that any national airline or international aircraft touching down in Iran will be barred from US and West European airports. The same rule will apply to private and government-owned vessels including oil tankers. Any country doing business at an Iranian port will automatically exclude them from entry to a US or European harbor. As a result, conditions are being created for war with Iran in the fall.

A US war with Iran is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Iran urges powers to accept nuclear rights in talks
2) Iran Accuses IAEA of Spying, Says It Will Never Halt Enrichment
3) IAEA says no progress in nuclear talks with Iran
4) Iran Endgame Nears
5) Obama’s air-sea blockade plan for Iran delays Israeli strike. Hormuz at stake?

Ireland voted to accept European Union’s deficit-fighting treaty which would allow economic decisions in individual EU countries to be dictated by EU bureaucrats and thus eliminate the economic sovereignty of members EU states.  Spain says that the EU must agree on an outline of a eurozone  banking and fiscal union to save the euro. A “gang of four” – the European council president, the commission chief, the president of the European Central Bank and the head of the eurogroup of 17 finance ministers – has been charged with drafting the proposals for a deeper eurozone fiscal union, to be presented to an EU summit at the end of June. The plan could see vast national debt and banking liabilities pooled – and then backed by the financial strength of Germany – in return for eurozone governments surrendering sovereignty over their budgets and fiscal policies to a central eurozone authority. German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that a political union needs to follow a fiscal union. European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said that euro zone is likely to come up with a plan for deeper economic integration by the end of the year, after agreeing on what elements it should include and how to achieve it in June. The setting up of a EU political union with an EU President is an event of the tribulation.

Worldwide economic collapse resulting in a one world government with one-world currency is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) Irish say yes to EU pact, now seek EU growth deal
2) Spain calls for new tax pact to save euro
3) Leaders plotting EU superstate: ‘Fiscal union’ looms… with the Germans in charge
4) Germany weighs up federal Europe plan to end debt crisis
5) Why George Soros thinks the euro will survive
6) Euro Zone Economic Integration Plan by Year-End: Van Rompuy

From a Biblical prophetic perspective, the reason why the God of Israel would allow these events to happen is because it will result in the end of the exile of the house of Jacob and the reunification of the 12 tribes of Israel (Ephraim and Judah).

We will to be “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and we will not rest until the God of Israel makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62).

Shalom in Yeshua the Messiah,

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int’l

You may view the 5 minute update this week via audio:

1) Listen to the audio

In this week’s 5 minute update, we focused on:

1) The current status of the Israel / PLO peace process
2) The prospects for war with Syria and Iran

Israel responded to the letter given to them by Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas on April 17. Israel’s letter was 1 1/2 pages without giving much details. The content of the letter has not been published. The PLO called the Israel letter “vague”  and did not include “clear answers” to the Abbas letter. Abbas reiterated that he will not recognize Israel as a Jewish state. He also repeated his threat to go to the UN General Assembly to be recognized as a UN non-member state. Originally threatening to go to the UN General Assembly in June or July, it now appears that Abbas will try to do so in September.

An agreement to divide Jerusalem and establish a PLO state is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles are as follows:

1) Unity gov’t watered down response to PA letter

There was a massacre of over 100 people in the Syrian city of Houla. UN envoy Kofi Annan said that he was ‘shocked’ and ‘horrified’ by the incident. He called on the Syrian government and the opposition to implement his agreed upon peace plan. While the Western world has blamed the Syrian government and reacted by pulling out their diplomats, Russia said that both sides were to blame. Russia and China continue to oppose foreign military intervention in Syria to remove Syrian President Bashar Assad from power. As a result, a proxy war continues to be fought in Syria with the West and the Arab League supporting the rebels and Iran, Russia and China supporting the Assad government.

A war with Syria where Damascus is destroyed (Isaiah 17)  is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) ‘Shocked and horrified’ Annan appeals for calm after Syrian massacre
2) Annan frustrated over Syria, Russia gives no ground
3) Russia and China Warn Against Military Intervention in Syria

The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) report shows that Iran has doubled since February its stockpile of 20% enriched uranium. It is believed that Iran now has enough enriched uranium for 5 nuclear bombs. When Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak met US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta at the Pentagon on May 17, he was told that Obama had rejected Israel’s toned-down demands for Iran to halt high-grade uranium enrichment, export its stocks of material enriched higher than 3.5 percent grade and shut down production at the Fordo nuclear plant near Qom. As a result, Israel has withdrawn its pledge to Obama that they will not strike Iran’s nuclear program prior to the US November elections. At the P5 + 1 (US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany) talks with Iran over its nuclear program held in Baghdad on May 23, Iran refused to give up its right to enrich uranium and wants economic sanctions against it lifted before its stops its nuclear activities. While no agreement was made at these talks, it was agreed to meet again on June 18-19 in Moscow. Because the US didn’t demand that Iran stop its nuclear program at the May 23 meeting in Baghdad, Israel refused to meet with US Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman who represented the US at the talks. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened that Israel would strike Iran if the talks fail. Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Iran needs to take concrete steps to begin the process to stop its nuclear program as a result of the June 18-19 meeting to be held in Moscow.

A US war with Iran is a tribulation event.

The link to these articles is as follows:

1) Diplomats: Iran installed more enrichment centrifuges
2) Iran Doubles Enriched-Uranium Stockpile and Goes Beyond 20%
3) Iran has enough uranium for 5 bombs: expert
4) Israel revives military option after Obama rejects its nuclear demands of Iran
5) Iran insists on right to enrich at nuclear talks in Baghdad
6) Iran, powers agree nuke talks Moscow June 18-19
7) Iran, big powers agree to hold more nuclear talks in June
8) Netanyahu, Barak refuse to see US official with negative report on Baghdad talks
9) Netanyahu threatens military action if negotiations with Iran fail
10) Clinton: Iran needs to take concrete steps on nuke program

From a Biblical prophetic perspective, the reason why the God of Israel would allow these events to happen is because it will result in the end of the exile of the house of Jacob and the reunification of the 12 tribes of Israel (Ephraim and Judah).

We will to be “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and we will not rest until the God of Israel makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62).

Shalom in Yeshua the Messiah,

Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int’l