Here in Israel, everyone is in shock over the announced Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that the Trump Administration and whoever they were talking to in Iran agreed to last week. I have spent several dozen hours this week listening to podcasts, think tank seminars, news analysis shows, etc. and the analysts and "Middle East experts" and "National Security experts" are all over the place regarding what they think this MOU means and what will happen next.
Candidly, I am among those who think that it is very unlikely that everything listed in this MOU will be implemented. I could tell you my reasons for thinking so, but it would make this blog too long for most people to read, and anyway, it's beside the point. I don't believe Iran's ruling regime will get the hundreds (or even tens) of billions of dollars they think they're going to get, and I also don't think they're going to crumble and disappear the way every sane, decent person walking the earth's surface hopes they will.
The reason they survived this war, beaten and battered but still on their feet, and the reason they're going to stay on their feet no matter what President Trump does or does not do to them in the months and years ahead, is not because of any current events. It's because of something that was prophesied 2,600 years ago. I am talking, of course, about the Book of Ezekiel the Prophet, specifically chapters 38-39.
I will be the first person to admit that the events prophesied about in these chapters have been predicted to be just around the corner many times in the past.
There's a few different reasons I think this time it's actually going to happen, and they are as follows.
Iran, or Persia, is prominently mentioned in these prophetic chapters, so it MUST be part of the coalition that comes against Israel. But Iran is in the midst of a brutal, years-long drought and is rapidly heading towards water bankruptcy. This will make it impossible for this country to survive as a cohesive state. Experts are divided on their estimates of when the breaking point will come, but already late last year, the dams supplying water to the major cities of Iran, including the capital of Tehran, were holding less then 15% of their capacity, and in some cases, the level fell to as low as 5%. These are the kinds of numbers that are almost impossible for a nation to recover from.
This is just one of many reasons I believe if Iran/Persia is going to take part in a grand alliance against Israel, it needs to happen soon, otherwise there will be no Iran/Persia to speak of.
That brings us to other members of the coalition mentioned in Ezekiel 38-39.
Some of the places mentioned in this prophecy as being part of the alliance that comes against Israel from the north make up what is today the modern nation-state of Turkey. For most of modern Israeli history, Turkey was a friend and ally of Israel, but since 2003, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his AKP political faction have been ruling that country. The AKP is a political franchise of the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas is the military wing of another franchise of the Muslim Brotherhood. There are franchises of this organization in many other countries all over the Middle East, Europe and even in the United States and Canada. They do not always agree on everything, but they have an overall, long-term strategic vision for what they want this world to look like, and Israel is not part of that vision. I could say a lot more about that, but once again I'm trying to keep this blog short.
Turkey, with it's Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated political leadership, has built alliances with the Muslim Brotherhood franchises in several other countries around the Middle East and northeastern Africa, including in places like Libya and Ethiopia, both of which are also mentioned specifically as being part of the alliance that attacks Israel in Ezekiel 38-39, as well as in other countries which include territories that are mentioned by their ancients names in this prophecy.
Finally, there's Russia, which has traditionally been identified with the prophecies about "Rosh" and "Gog, in the land of Magog" that are mentioned in this prophecy. I know that there is some argument about this, that not everyone is convinced that modern-day Russia is necessarily going to be part of this alliance that attacks Israel. I am among those who believe that it will, and there are all kinds of motivations for them joining the Turks, Iranians, and their other allies in the Middle East and northeastern Africa in coming against this country.
One motivation is that in the last four years since beginning the "special military operation" in Ukraine, Russia has turned into a country whose entire economy is based on war. If the Russia army stops fighting a war, the Russian economy will collapse. So, when the "special military operation" in Ukraine ends, as it might soon have to, one way or the other, the Kremlin will need to find a new war to fight.
I can even imagine them framing this as another "special military operation" to "protect the Russian-speaking population of Israel" against the "fascists" in the Israeli government who are persecuting them. This ludicrously absurd narrative is precisely what Vladimir Putin used to justify his invas...er, I mean, his "special military operation" in Ukraine. It would not surprise me at all if he tries to pull the same nonsense when he launches a similar "special military operation" against Israel, in support of his pals in Ankara and Tehran.
So, brothers and sisters, this is how I see things going. I won't try to put a date on when all of this will happen, but I believe it will happen soon, and it certainly can start very quickly and with very little warning. As it is, right now, at this very moment, the only thing holding this back from happening is America, and as we are already finding out, the Americans, in both major political parties, are losing interest in helping Israel.
So, God will get all the glory for the miraculous deliverance of Israel from all these invading armies coming from all directions.
It's difficult to know how to end a blog like this, so I'll just say thanks for reading it, and I hope it blessed your life.