Israel views Putin’s Syria move as an opportunity to cement its interests in the post-Assad era.

 

Christian end-time fantasies usually include Russia as “kingdom of the North” that is to attack Israel. I have heard of such variants since I was a teen. But God’s providential hand is often quite contrary to what we try to figure out. It seems that within the whole mess in the Middle East, including our bungling the Iraq wars, God’s hand was in the mix. The real winner of these last years has been Israel, which has seen the destruction of yet another of its enemies, Syria, without having to lift a finger. Lo and behold Putin, the only world leader who has publicly tried to defend Christian minority groups in the Middle East, is now forming an alliance with Israel to fight ISIS.

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/12/putin-netanyahu-minds-alike-syrian-skies-151203134525140.html


12 thoughts on “William DeArteaga: Putin’s Syria move as an opportunity

  1. Except for Egypt the Philistines, & Arabs – all Israel’s enemies have come from the “north.” Babylon, Assyria, Persia, Greeks, Romans, GOG, and the antichrist armies all invade Israel from the “north” – both past present and yet to come.

    Because in recent time people have conflated the battle of Gog and the battle of Armageddon they have assumed that the antichrist might come from Russia. Probably not.

    But in the battle of Gog it says very clearly that the land of Magog is in the “far north.“ (Ezek. 38:15; 39:2) Is far north different from just “north“ – maybe. Which might indicate Russia being the land of Magog.

    1. again you are given are standard interpretation which is NOT the situation currently Jon Ruthven has given even more detail information in his work on Ezek 37-38

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