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What's Next for the Middle East...and How Will It Affect Us? Iran has repeatedly declared its intention to destroy Israel. ISIS continues to gain ground, leaving a trail of death and terror in its wake. And Russia is inserting itself into Middle Eastern affairs in a power play prophesied long ago.ISIS, Iran, Israel is an updated edition of the book Iran and Israel by prophecy scholar Mark Hitchcock, with all-new information on ISIS, Russian involvement in Syria and Iran, and the overall state of relations between Israel and Iran. Hitchcock brings a strong biblical perspective to the latest conflicts, while answering important questions such as...Are we on the road to the Apocalypse?Will there ever be peace in the Middle East?What can we expect in the days to come?How are events in the Middle East affecting America today? An eye-opening survey of where things stand and how it all ties in with Bible prophecy.

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Iran

Islam

Israël

Judaism

International relations

Israel

Philosophie et théologie

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 février 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736953351
Langue	English

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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
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IRAN AND ISRAEL
Copyright 2013 by Mark Hitchcock
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hitchcock, Mark, 1959-
Iran and Israel / Mark Hitchcock.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-7369-5334-4 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-7369-5335-1 (eBook)
1. Islam-Iran. 2. Iran-Social conditions-1997-3. Iran-Politics and government-1997-4. Iran-Economic conditions-1997-5. Nuclear weapons-Iran. 6. Iran-Foreign relations-Israel. 7. Israel-Foreign relations-Iran. 8. Bible-Prophecies. I. Title.
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To Tim LaHaye
Thank you for your friendship and encouragement. You are a blessing to me and my family and the body of Christ .
Contents

CHAPTER ONE As Time Runs Out
Are We on the Road to Apocalypse?
CHAPTER TWO Iran vs. Israel-from Shadow War to Showdown
Accidents, Assassinations, and Attack
CHAPTER THREE Show Me the Mahdi
An Apocalyptic, Genocidal Ideology Drives Iran
CHAPTER FOUR Unleashing the Dogs of Terror
Hamas and Hezbollah Strike Israel
CHAPTER FIVE What Will Happen to America?
Bible Prophecy Is Silent About America s Role in the End Times
CHAPTER SIX The Coming Middle East Peace
A Temporary Middle East Peace Is on the Horizon
CHAPTER SEVEN The Ezekiel Prophecy
Bible Prophecy Predicts a Future Middle East War
CHAPTER EIGHT The Times of the Signs
Current Developments Strikingly Foreshadow the End of Days
CHAPTER NINE Do Not Let Your Heart Be Troubled
Finding Peace in a World at War
APPENDIX ONE The Persia Prophecies
APPENDIX TWO America in Prophecy (Dr. John F. Walvoord)
APPENDIX THREE Ezekiel 38-39
NOTES
A country that builds underground nuclear facilities, develops intercontinental ballistic missiles, manufactures thousands of centrifuges, and that absorbs crippling sanctions, is doing all that in order to advance medical research Ladies and gentlemen, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then what is it? That s right, it s a duck. But this duck is a nuclear duck. And it s time the world started calling a duck a duck. 1
-B ENJAMIN N ETANYAHU
If they arrive at military nuclear capability, at a weapon, or a demonstrated capability, or a threshold status in which they could manufacture a bomb within 60 days-they will achieve a different kind of immunity, regime immunity. 2
-E HUD B ARAK
The single biggest danger in the Middle East today is not the risk of a six-day Israeli war with Iran. It is the risk that Western wishful nonthinking allows the mullahs of Iran to get their hands on nuclear weapons. Because I am in no doubt that they would take full advantage of such a lethal lever. We would have acquiesced in the creation of an empire of extortion. War is an evil. But sometimes a preventive war can be a lesser evil than a policy of appeasement. The people who don t yet know that are the ones still in denial about what a nuclear-armed Iran would end up costing us all. It feels like the eve of some creative destruction. 3
-N IALL F ERGUSON , Newsweek
CHAPTER ONE

As Time Runs Out
Are We on the Road to Apocalypse?

It s 1938 and Iran is Germany. And Iran is racing to arm itself with atomic bombs. Believe him and stop him This is what we must do. Everything else pales before this. 1
Benjamin Netanyahu
Imagine that you wake up tomorrow morning and discover that during the night, Israeli planes had conducted a bombing raid on Iran. How would your world have changed? 2
Gary Sick, CNN.com
A uthors Yaakov Katz and Yoaz Hendel set the scene for what we might see unfold in the near future:
The briefing room will be packed when the prime minister takes his position at the podium and asks everyone to sit down. As the young pilots stare up at their nation s leader, the prime minister will gaze right into their eyes, searching for one more confirmation that he has made the right decision.
While clearly nervous, the pilots are ready. They have been prepared for this day for the past few years, some of them from the beginning of their Israel Defense Force service. The prime minister does not have much to say.
This is a historic day for our small nation, he will announce. Some seventy years ago Nazi Germany tried to destroy our people, but we survived and succeeded in establishing the State of Israel. It is now up to you to ensure that we will continue to survive and live here.
Then the rabbi for the Israeli Air Force will stand up at the podium, and all of the pilots will cover their heads. Together they will say the Traveler s Prayer, a short plea to God written at the time of the Talmud, to ask that they make it to their destination and return safely.
At once, the pilots stand and salute the prime minister, the defense minister, and IAF commander. Minutes later, they climb inside their aircraft and begin lining them up along the runway.
The prime minister had actually made up his mind to attack Iran several months earlier but had waited, hoping to coordinate the operation with the White House. While the president tried to persuade Israel to back down and even threatened to cut military aid, the Israeli leader explained that he was not asking for permission. Instead, the prime minister asserted, he was doing what allies do and informing the president of his government s decision ahead of time. The Israeli cabinet had spoken: Iran s nuclear program had to be stopped. 3
One thing is clear. If Israel launches a preemptive strike against Iran s nuclear sites, things will never be the same. Not for Israel. Not for the Middle East. Not for the world. The attack will trigger a cascade of events that could bring strong retaliation from Iran and its proxies Hezbollah and Hamas, all of whom may pound Israel with rockets and missiles. Israel could find itself fighting fierce onslaughts on the northern front, the southern front, and the home front. Such a war could spark a wider regional conflict, with Iran attacking American forces in the Persian Gulf and Saudi oil fields. The question of what America will do is unclear. Some fear that an Israeli preemptive assault could even start World War III.
No one knows the nature and extent of the immediate fallout. There will undoubtedly be many twists and turns. But is it possible that these events are part of a larger drama scripted long ago? Can we know how these events correspond to the pattern of events foretold by the ancient prophets to know where it s all headed? In the uncertain storm of the days in which we live, we all yearn to look into the darkness of the future to see what s ahead-but can we?
S TRIKE T HREE ?
Israeli jets thundered across the Iraqi desert on June 7, 1981, shocking the world by taking out an Iraqi nuclear reactor. The mission, code-named Operation Opera, was ordered by Prime Minister Menachem Begin to take out the French-built nuclear plant in Osirak, 18 miles south of Baghdad. In this preemptive strike, eight Israeli Air Force (IAF) F-16 fighter jets destroyed the 70-megawatt uranium-powered reactor, dropping sixteen 2000-pound bombs-14 of which made direct hits.
Twenty-six years later, on September 6, 2007, in a daring midnight strike code-named Operation Orchard, Israeli warplanes destroyed a secret nuclear reactor in the remote Syrian desert about 20 miles west of Damascus. The world didn t even know about it until weeks later.
Twice already, in daring preemptive strikes, Israel has taken out the nuclear ambitions of its enemies. Israel has vowed that it will deliver strike three to the Iranian nuclear facilities if the world doesn t act and Iran fails to stand down in its nuclear aspirations. Israeli General Daniel Halutz was asked back on March 7, 2006, How far would Israel go to stop Iran s nuclear program? He calmly responded, 2000 kilometers. 4 That s the distance from Israel to Iran.
What he said in 2006 has not changed. To the contrary, Israeli resolve has hardened. Israel will go to any lengths to interrupt the Iranian nuclear machine. The Iranian centrifuges are spinning. Iran and Israel are already at war. Open conflict appears inevitable. Jeffrey Goldberg observes, Netanyahu isn t bluffing-he is in fact counting down to the day when he will authorize a strike against a half-dozen or more Iranian nuclear sites. 5 Israel believes that it has the capacity to cause enough damage to set Iran s nuclear program back by three to five years. 6 The New York Times has envisioned an Isr