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Christian Churches of God
No. 210B
Advent of the Messiah:
Part II
(Edition 1.5 20130916-20171230)
The Return of the Messiah or the Second Advent is the most pivotal event in human history. Most people do not believe that it will occur and most so-called Christians think that when it happens they will go to heaven and the ones they hate will all go to hell.
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Advent of the Messiah Part II
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Continuation from Part I
Christianity has been taken over by Gnostic heretics and pagans as has been Islam. Both Christianity and Islam have been destroyed by the doctrines of the Mystery and Sun cults as has Judaism also.
In the paper Wars of the End and the Vials of the Wrath of God (No. 141B) we saw the sequence of the wars and how they develop in the Middle East and the work of the Two Witnesses from Jerusalem. We know that 3.5 days after they are killed in Jerusalem that Christ comes and the First Resurrection of the dead occurs of which they are the two immediate on site resurrections.
God does nothing save He warns the people through His servants the prophets. He also uses the Sacred Calendar and the time frames associated with warnings, grace and repentance to deal with the people.
Yom Kippur is holiest day of our calendar, along with the symbolism of the Lord's Supper. The year 2013 was a particularly important anniversary and marks an important phase in the steps toward the Return of the Messiah. It is 40 years since the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Forty years is the period allocated for repentance. The following is a recognised historical record of the war from the Jewish Virtual Library (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/73_War.html).
"On October 6, 1973 — Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar (and during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan) — Egypt and Syria launched a coordinated surprise attack against Israel. The equivalent of the total forces of NATO in Europe was mobilized on Israel's borders. On the Golan Heights, approximately 180 Israeli tanks faced an onslaught of 1,400 Syrian tanks. Along the Suez Canal, fewer than 500 Israeli defenders with only 3 tanks were attacked by 600,000 Egyptian soldiers, backed by 2,000 tanks and 550 aircraft.
At least nine Arab states, including four non–Middle Eastern nations (Libya, Sudan, Algeria, and Morocco), actively aided the Egyptian-Syrian war effort. A few months before the attack, Iraq transferred a squadron of Hunter jets to Egypt. During the war, an Iraqi division of some 18,000 men and several hundred tanks was deployed in the central Golan and participated in the October 16 attack against Israeli positions. Iraqi MiGs began operating over the Golan Heights as early as October 8 — the third day of the war.
Besides serving as financial underwriters, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait committed men to battle. A Saudi brigade of approximately 3,000 troops was dispatched to Syria, where it participated in fighting along the approaches to Damascus. Also violating Paris's ban on the transfer of French-made weapons, Libya sent Mirage fighters to Egypt. Other North African countries responded to Arab and Soviet calls to aid the front-line states. Algeria sent three aircraft squadrons of fighters and bombers, an armored brigade, and 150 tanks. Approximately 1,000 to 2,000 Tunisian soldiers were positioned in the Nile Delta. Sudan stationed 3,500 troops in southern Egypt, and Morocco sent three brigades to the front lines, including 2,500 men to Syria.
Lebanese radar units were used by Syrian air defense forces. Lebanon also allowed Palestinian terrorists to shell Israeli civilian settlements from its territory. Palestinians fought on the Southern Front with the Egyptians and Kuwaitis.”
Jordan’s King Hussein, who had committed the Arab Legion of Jordan to the war in 1967, did not make the same error and appeared not to be informed this time perhaps as a security measure. Prudence ensured he did not commit against the superior Israeli forces this time and he escaped. It ensured that Israeli forces did not have to fight on a third front. He still sent two of his best units to Syria and three artillery batteries participated in the assault carried out by approximately 100 tanks.
The United States, Portugal and the Netherlands supported Israel in the October War and because of that had oil embargoes imposed upon them by the Arab oil producers. Gas prices quadrupled in the US and long delays occurred. Several US oil companies collaborated with the Arab countries against the interests of the US and lobbied for more US support for the Arabs and less for Israel. The Arabists in the State department and these Oil companies lobbied hard to convince the American people that Israel was to blame for US hardship and it was more important for the US to ally itself with the Arabs.
The map at reference shows the dispersal of forces in the region in Syria.
“The oil embargo was lifted in March 1974, but the United States and other Western nations continued to feel its effects for years to come (loc cit).
The IDF was thrown onto the defensive during the first two days of fighting. However, Israel mobilized its reserves and began to counterattack. Israeli forces were having little success in stopping the Egyptian onslaught in the South but the Sinai Desert was a large buffer zone between the fighting and the heart of Israel.
However, in the north, where the Syrians had swept across the Golan and threatened Israel's population centres, forcing most of the reserves to be shifted to the Golan the reinforced Israeli forces stopped the Syrian advance. They forced a retreat, and began their own march forward toward Damascus.
It should be remembered forty years afterwards that the Soviets were completely behind the Arab invasion of Israel and its anticipated genocide. From 9 October 1973 they began a massive airlift of weapons totalling 8000 tons of material. Israel received some ammunition and spare parts from the US but was refused other support. Kissinger decided that the US could not allow the Soviet allies to win the war as a political lesson to the Arabs for US prestige and to ensure US leverage for a post-war settlement.
Thus on October 12, Nixon ordered a round the clock emergency airlift to Israel carrying spare parts, Tanks, Bombs, and helicopters. NATO hampered this airlift by limiting the use of airbases due to Arab threats and that is still a weakness with NATO forces. The sole exception was Portugal which became a base for the operation.
“Between October 14 and November 14, 1973, 22,000 tons of equipment were transported to Israel by air and sea. The airlift alone involved 566 flights. To pay for this infusion of weapons, Nixon asked Congress for and received $2.2 billion in emergency aid for Israel.” (ibid).
The Battle in Egypt
“In the greatest tank battle since the Germans and Russians fought at Kursk in World War II, roughly 1,000 Israeli and Egyptian tanks massed in the western Sinai from October 12 through 14. On October 14, Israeli forces destroyed 250 Egyptian tanks in the first 2 hours of fighting. By late afternoon, the Israeli forces had routed the enemy “ (ibid).
Israeli General Ariel Sharon had been ordered not to cross the Suez Canal until after the main Egyptian force had been defeated in the Sinai. On the defeat, Sharon sent Israeli paratroopers across the canal and established a bridgehead. By 18 October, Israeli forces were marching towards Cairo with little opposition. This victory was seen as a humiliation for the Egyptians, and posed a further political problem were they to take Cairo. In the North,the Israeli troops were on the outskirts of Damascus, easily within artillery range of the Syrian capital.
Meir ordered the IDF to halt the assault on Damascus and they then concentrated on recapturing Mt Hermon, the key Israeli radar and observation post, and on 22 October Israel again controlled the Golan Heights.
Although Israel lost 114 planes during the war, there were only 20 lost in aerial combat, and Israeli pilots shot down at least 450 Arab aircraft in dogfights.
US-Soviet conflict
The war came to the brink of nuclear war as the Soviets were faced with the Arab collapse and the potential invasion of Damascus, which is still their ally, and they are defending it to this day.
On October 12, the Soviet ambassador informed Kissinger that his government was placing troops on alert to defend Damascus.
With the losses in Egypt over the period 12-24 October the situation became even worse.
In Egypt Cairo was threatened. The Egyptian Third Army was surrounded, and Israel would not allow the Red Cross to bring in supplies. At this point, Sadat began to seek Soviet help in pressing Israel to accept a cease-fire.
“On October 24, the Soviets threatened to intervene in the fighting. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reported that the Soviet airlift to Egypt had stopped and that it was possible the planes were being prepared to change the cargo from weapons to troops. Responding to the Soviet threat, Nixon put the U.S. military on alert, increasing its readiness for the deployment of conventional and nuclear forces”(ibid).
Nixon was involved in Watergate and some suspected he was diverting attention from the crisis at home. However, this period was the closest the US and the Soviets had come to war since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. The soviets saw reason and did not send troops. This was the second time but the Bible shows clearly that the third time in the near future will not see peace follow.
It is important to realise that the Soviets showed no interest in peace while it looked like the Arabs would win. Also the UN under Secretary-General Kurt Waldhein had the same sentiments. They were both anti-Israeli. Once the Arabs were being systematically defeated they began to call for peace. The same is true after 40 years and they have learned nothing.
“On October 22, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 338 calling for "all parties to the present fighting to cease all firing and terminate all military activity immediately." The resolution also called for the implementation of Resolution 242. The vote came on the day that Israeli forces cut off and isolated the Egyptian Third Army and were in a position to destroy it.
Israel reluctantly complied with the cease-fire, largely because of U.S. pressure, but also because the next military moves would have been to attack the two Arab capitals, something few believed would be politically wise. By the end of the fighting, 2,688 Israeli soldiers had been killed. Combat deaths for Egypt and Syria total[l]ed 7,700 and 3,500, respectively. “(loc cit).
With the work of Kissinger and the US, in January 1974, Israel and Egypt negotiated a disengagement agreement (Sinai I) thanks to Kissinger's “shuttle diplomacy”. The Sinai I accord allowed the Egyptians to retain control of the Suez Canal, freed the Third Army, and drew a cease-fire line on the east side of the canal, with a buffer zone between the two forces.
“A second disengagement agreement (Sinai II) was signed in September 1975, which called for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from two strategic passes in the Sinai and some surrounding territory. The Egyptians were not allowed back into this neutral zone. Instead, U.S. peacekeepers were deployed to monitor the area.”(ibid.)
The negotiations with the Syrians were more difficult. They had and still retain Soviet alliance and backing with Iran.
The Syrians renewed fighting from March to May 1974 by firing artillery on Israeli positions killing 37 Israeli soldiers.
In May 1974 a separation of forces agreement was finally signed that created a UN–policed buffer zone, a reduction in troop deployment, and the return of the town of Kuneitra to Syria.
The United States rewarded Syria for the agreement with a modest grant of financial assistance which was the first in 30 years. It was granted in the hope of building a new relationship with the regime of Hafez Assad and encouraging him to negotiate a peace agreement.
As Nixon's successors would discover and as we now see, Assad was happy to take whatever the United States was willing to offer, but the Assad regime of both Hafez and subsequently his son, Bashar Al Assad, gave nothing in return. Rather than join the peace process, Hafez Assad became one of the leaders of the Rejectionist Front. This is followed today by his son.
In the 1973-4 period Hafez Assad was also determined to impede Israeli-Egyptian negotiations. He feared, and correctly as history was to demonstrate, that an agreement between them would reduce Egypt's willingness to fight for the Arab cause and that Sadat would accept a separate deal with Israel that would not address Syrian grievances.