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- War between Syria and Israel will be the next significant
event in Middle East events concerning Bible prophecy. Here is the verse:
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- "Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of
Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because
they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: But I will
send a fire unto the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of
Benhadad. I will break also the bar of Damascus..." (Amos 1:3-5, KJV)
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- The interpretation was this: Syria has either attacked
or provoked war with the State of Israel three times (1948, 1967, 1973),
but the fourth time will bring about the judgment of God it and upon its
capital city, Damascus. I then sought for other related scriptures, finding
this one:
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- "Behold,Damascus is taken away from being a city,
and it shall be a ruinous heap." (Isaiah 17:1)
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- At 5,000 years old Damascus has the distinction of being
one of the oldest perpetual cities in the world, but according to Isaiah
it will be "taken away from being a city" to become just a "ruinous
heap." This hasn't happened yet in history. In December, 1996, and
again as recently as July 1997, due to the controversial VX gas warheads
which Syria has reportedly mounted on its longer-ranged Scud-C missiles,
Israel's defense minister, Y.Mordecai, warned that if Syria launched these
Russian-made chemical weapons against Israel, then Israel has "the
might to severely harm anyone who strikes us and this blow would obviously
put the (Syrian) regime at risk." It was generally assumed by the
Israeli press and government officials that Mordecai was implying the certain
destruction of Damascus, perhaps via Israel's nuclear capabilities.
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- In 1973, near the end of the "Yom Kippur War,"
Israeli tanks had approached within 20 kilometers of Damascus, but halted
at the request of the USA because the Soviet Union (Russia) was poised
to move to Syria's defense. Syria was a major client state in which the
Soviet's were heavily invested militarily and politically. Russian paratroopers
were actually in the planes and the US military was on world-wide alert
(DefCon 3) for what might have become World War III. As in all Arab-Israeli
conflicts in modern times, Russia had trained, equipped and provided manpower
to help the Arab nations fulfill their Islamic-driven desire to "drive
Israel into the sea." But the Lord will never let them succeed--not
even when Russia herself, along with Iran and others, attempts to do so
soon after the coming Syrian conflict.
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