"WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS"
“WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS”
Summary of Chapters 55-58 – The Dragon’s Prophecy by Jonathan Cahn
Tuesday Morning Bible Study
November 19, 2024
Pastor Carolyn Sissom
After the election of 2024, it seems quiet in my soul, like it is after a victory has been won in the Spirit. Yet, as one who has been surrounded with battle most of my life, I know this is a time to be even more vigilant.
On November 17, 2024, the Biden administration authorized an escalation of the Ukraine War with Russia by deploying long range missiles against targets inside Russia. Adding to the tensions thousands of North Korean troops have joined Russian forces in Kursk.
I have stated multiple times from my study of scripture, I have felt the Gog/Magog War and the Psalm 83 War would overlap. I am a watcher of God. I have been watching as prophecy has been fulfilled in the October 7, 2023, Israeli war with Gaza and the war between Russia and Ukraine.
On Sunday evenings, we have been doing a study out of Jonathan Cahn’s recent book, The Dragon’s Prophecy.
In Chapter 55, “Ezekiel’s Raiders”, he opened up an understanding of Ez. 38 and 39 which I had not considered.
The names as given in the prophecy of the Gog, Magog nations are: Gog, Magog, Mesheky, Tubal, Paras, Kush, Phut, Gomer and Togarmah.
Gog backed groups in Phut (Libya) smuggle arms to Hamas. Libya made possible the thousands of rockets that rained down on Israel from Gaza on October 7.
Paras (Persia/Iran) of shipped weapons to Hamas via Kush (Sudan).
Paras (Iran) and Hezbollah smuggled weapons to Hamas over land through Sinai via Kush and Phut. Iran gave funds, weapons, and training to Hamas.
Iran has attacked Irael with their missiles.
Militias of Phut funded by Paras and Gog, Magog, Meshekh, and Tubal (Turkey) are helping armed Filastin group Hamas circumvent Israel’s blockade of Philistia (Palestine).
“When Ezekiel’s prophecy was first committed to parchment, the majority of the peoples and nations it named not only were not at war with Israel but had little, if anything to do with it. For ages the prophecy puzzled the Bible commentators, and yet two and half thousand years later, against all odds, all of the peoples or nations spoken of in the prophecy have become and have actively functioned as enemies of the Jewish state.” …
… “The prophecy’s fulfillment is still to come. The road that leads there may be filled with turns, reversals, and departures. The timing is in God’s hands, but on October 7, 2023, for the first time ever, the nations cited in Ezekiel’s prophecy to be involved in a future mass invasion of Israel were all involved in a mass invasion of Israel. The signs of October 7, 2023, would thus indicate we are closer to the day of the prophecy’s fulfillment than we might have imagined.”
Chapter 56 identifies the Hebrew “Sar Paras” as our English interpretation, the Prince of Persia.
Until the 1970’s, Iran and Israel enjoyed friendly relations. But in the 1970’s Shah Reza Phalavi, was overthrown. The demonic spirit, the Prince of Persia, seeks to stop the end-time purposes of God concerning Israel, so the new Iran became obsessed with the nation of Israel.
As demonic spirits use others to inspire terror and fear, so the radical Iran would become a terror state, sponsoring terrorism around the world. It would subsidize and facilitate terrorism, radicalism, and ant-Israel hatred in Iraq, Lebanon, Bahrain, Yemen, Pakistan, and Syria, among other nations. It would fund, train, and support the terrorist organization Hezbollah in its relentless war against the Jewish nation.
Chapter 57: “When I (Jonathan Cahn) began writing the chapter on Ezekiel’s prophecy of the invasion of Israel in the end times, one of the most significant events in line with the fulfillment of that prophecy had never taken place --- and then it did.
On April 1, 2024, the Israeli Air Force struck an annex building of the Iranian consulate in Syria. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the Iranian general in command of the Quds Force in Syria and Lebanon was conducting a meeting inside the annex. He and those with him were immediately killed… For over a week, the world watched anxiously and on edge for the retaliation of Iran against Israel, fearing it would set off a regional war.,.. and then it came. On April 13, 2024, Iran together with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, the Houthis in Yemen, and Hezbollah in Lebanon, launched over 120 ballistic missiles, 170 drones, and over 30 cruise missiles into the land of Israel. It was the largest missile attack ever launched by Iran and the largest drone strike in military history…
The attack marked a watershed moment. Up to that date, Iran had attacked Israel only indirectly and covertly, using agents and proxies. But this was the first time it had ever launched a direct attack. With Israel allied with America and the West, and Iran with Russia and China, the danger was not only that it could set off a major war in the Middle East, but that it could escalate into a world war. And it was all emanating from October 7.
Israel, with its allies, shot down an estimated 99 percent of the incoming missiles… Israel responded with a highly restrained strike on varied Iranian, Syrian, and Iraqi military sites…
A formerly unbreeched line had been broken. Iran had attacked the land of Israel, and Israel, the land of Iran. The Middle East and world had entered an uncharted and dangerous territory.
It was a historic watershed, and more than that. It was a prophetic milestone. Ezekiel had foretold that in the last days, Persia or Iran would launch an attack against an Israel that had been “gathered from the nations.” That had never happened. And it had not happened when I (Jonathan Cahn) began writing the chapter on that very prophecy and its connection to Iran. But on April 13, 2024, for the first time ever, Persia, Iran, had launched a direct attack on the resurrected nation of Israel. It was not yet the fullness of what was prophesied but was the most definitive step ever taken toward its fulfillment. A prophetic line had been crossed.”
This brings my summation of chapters 55-58 to why I (Carolyn) was led to teach again from the book, The Dragon’s Prophecy.
Chapter 58 (summarized): “He was the power behind General Zahedi. He presided over the arming and strengthening of Hamas leading up to the October 7 invasion, His name was Ebrahim Raisi.
Raisi was the president of Iran under Ayatollah Khamenei. Thus he was even more critical than Zahedi as an agent of chaos in the region and in the leading of factions and proxies working for Israel’s destruction. He too was an instrument of the Sar Paras (Prince of Persia).
Raisi was infamous among his own people as a minister of death. They called him the “Butcher of Tehran.” He was responsible for the brutal repression of Iranian dissidents. He served as judge in the Iranian Death commission. He would be accused of sentencing without a trial thousands of innocent Iranians to their deaths. He would be cited for committing crimes against humanity. He was the president of Iran when Iran launched its missile attack on the land of Israel.
On May 19, 2024, the helicopter in which he was flying over Iran’s East Azerbaijan province crashed into a mountain. One of the world’s most powerful rulers was no more.
Raisi had cursed the nation of Israel. But he did more than that. He waged war against them. He was unique in being the only president in Iranian history to actually launch an attack against the nation of Israel…It is written in the Book of Zechariah:
He who touches you, touches the apple of His eye (Zech 2:8).
Raisi oversaw the firing of missiles into Israel. On April 13, 2024, he touched the eye of God. One month and six days later he was dead.
Raisi had sought to bring death and destruction to Israel. So, death and destruction would be brought to him. He had sought to bring destruction to Israel through the skies. So, it was that destruction would come to Raisi through the sky. He had sent airborne objected into the skies of Israel to bring destruction crashing into the land. So, it would be an airborne object, which carried him through the skies of Iran, that would bring him destruction upon it crashing into the land.
And yet Raisi had done more than that.
Raisi threatened the Jewish state with total destruction… Not only had he attacked Israel; but he had sealed his actions with a curse and threat of total destruction. One month later, Irael was still there--- Raisi was not.
In Ezekiel’s prophecy of Israel’s end-time invasion, God gives this word to the invaders:
I will… bring you against the mountains… You shall fall upon the mountains. (Ez. 39: 2-4).
Raisi’s fall upon the mountains can be taken as a shadow of the nations coming judgment on the mountains.
Raisi issued his threat to annihilate Israel on Passover, April 23, 2024.
What Raisi did on that Passover day was more than a threat. He was threatening to destroy the work of God, nullify the promise of God, and eradicate the purposes of God. It was an act of blasphemy committed on a Hebrew holy day and thus a double blasphemy.
Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. (Lev. 24:16).
Raisi was at the pinnacle of his powers. He had not bargained for the fact that by waging war against Israel, the God of Israel would wage war against him.
What does all this tell us?
Though the world is unaware, the course of history is ultimately determined not by what we see but by what we don’t. there is another realm and supernatural agents moving behind the events of our time.
Behind October 7, 2023, were the militants and terrorists of Gaza.
Behind the militants and terrorists of Gaza was Hamas.
Behind Hamas were the nations prophesied two and a half thousand years earlier in Ezekiel 38 and 39.
Behind one of those nations was the ancient entity call the Sar Paras (Prince of Persia)
Behind the sar Paras was the Dragon.
Behand Israel is the Sar Yisrael, Michael.
And behind all things if God.
Next – Chapter 59 – The Nature of the Beast.
Taught by Pastor Carolyn Sissom summarized from The Dragon’s Prophecy by Jonathan Cahn.
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