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the "NOW" prophecies
as identified by Bill Salus
in the likely order... setting the conditions
for the fulfillment of Ezekiel 38 and 39
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see Modern names for nations below
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Disaster in Iran - Jeremiah 49:34-39
Elam - Western Iran
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Jer 49:34 That which came as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam,
at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying:
Jer 49:35 "Thus says the Lord of hosts,
'Behold, I am going to break the bow of Elam, The finest of their might.
Jer 49:36 'I will bring upon Elam the four winds From the four ends of heaven,
And will scatter them to all these winds;
And there will be no nation To which the outcasts of Elam will not go.
Jer 49:37 'So I will shatter Elam before their enemies
And before those who seek their lives; And I will bring calamity upon them,
Even My fierce anger,' declares the Lord,
'And I will send out the sword after them Until I have consumed them.
Jer 49:38 'Then I will set My throne in Elam
And destroy out of it king and princes,' Declares the Lord.
Jer 49:39 'But it will come about in the last days
That I will restore the fortunes of Elam,'" Declares the Lord.
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Destruction of Damascus - Isaiah 17, Jer. 49:23-27
Aram - Syria
Aroer - city in Jordan on the Arnon River
Ephraim - north of Jerusalem - btwn Joppa and Jericho
valley of Rephaim - SW of Jerusalem
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Isa 17:1 The oracle concerning Damascus.
"Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city
And will become a fallen ruin.
Isa 17:2 "The cities of Aroer are forsaken;
They will be for flocks to lie down in,
And there will be no one to frighten them.
Isa 17:3 "The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
And sovereignty from Damascus And the remnant of Aram;
They will be like the glory of the sons of Israel, "Declares the Lord of hosts.
Isa 17:4 Now in that day the glory of Jacob will fade,
And the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
Isa 17:5 It will be even like the reaper gathering the standing grain,
As his arm harvests the ears,
Or it will be like one gleaning ears of grain In the valley of Rephaim.
Isa 17:6 Yet gleanings will be left in it like the shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three olives on the topmost bough,
Four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree, Declares the Lord, the God of Israel.
Isa 17:7 In that day man will have regard for his Maker
And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 17:8 He will not have regard for the altars, the work of his hands,
Nor will he look to that which his fingers have made, Even the Asherim and incense stands.
Isa 17:9 In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken places in the forest,
Or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel;
And the land will be a desolation.
Isa 17:10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the rock of your refuge.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine slips of a strange god.
Isa 17:11 In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,
And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom;
But the harvest will be a heap In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.
Isa 17:12 Alas, the uproar of many peoples
Who roar like the roaring of the seas, And the rumbling of nations
Who rush on like the rumbling of mighty waters!
Isa 17:13 The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,
But He will rebuke them and they will flee far away,
And be chased like chaff in the mountains before the wind,
Or like whirling dust before a gale.
Isa 17:14 At evening time, behold, there is terror!
Before morning they are no more. Such will be the portion of
those who plunder us And the lot of those who pillage us.
Jer 49:23 Concerning Damascus.
"Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, For they have heard bad news;
They are disheartened. There is anxiety by the sea, It cannot be calmed.
Jer 49:24 "Damascus has become helpless; She has turned away to flee,
And panic has gripped her; Distress and pangs have taken hold of her Like a woman in childbirth.
Jer 49:25 "How the city of praise has not been deserted, The town of My joy!
Jer 49:26 "Therefore, her young men will fall in her streets,
And all the men of war will be silenced in that day," declares the Lord of hosts.
Jer 49:27 "I will set fire to the wall of Damascus,
And it will devour the fortified towers of Ben-hadad."
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Toppling of Jordan - Jer. 49:1-6, Zephaniah 2:8-10, Eze. 25:14
Ammon - Palestinians & Northern Jordanians
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Jer 49:1 Concerning the sons of Ammon.
Thus says the Lord: "Does Israel have no sons? Or has he no heirs?
Why then has Malcam taken possession of Gad And his people settled in its cities?
Jer 49:2 "Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord,
"That I will cause a trumpet blast of war to be heard Against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon;
And it will become a desolate heap, And her towns will be set on fire.
Then Israel will take possession of his possessors," Says the Lord.
Jer 49:3 "Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed!
Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah, Gird yourselves with sackcloth and lament,
And rush back and forth inside the walls;
For Malcam will go into exile Together with his priests and his princes.
Jer 49:4 "How boastful you are about the valleys! Your valley is flowing away,
O backsliding daughter Who trusts in her treasures, saying, 'Who will come against me?'
Jer 49:5 "Behold, I am going to bring terror upon you,"
Declares the Lord God of hosts, "From all directions around you;
And each of you will be driven out headlong, With no one to gather the fugitives together.
Jer 49:6 "But afterward I will restore The fortunes of the sons of Ammon," Declares the Lord.
Zep 2:8 "I have heard the taunting of Moab
And the revilings of the sons of Ammon,
With which they have taunted My people And become arrogant against their territory.
Zep 2:9 "Therefore, as I live," declares the Lord of hosts,
The God of Israel, "Surely Moab will be like Sodom And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah"
A place possessed by nettles and salt pits, And a perpetual desolation.
The remnant of My people will plunder them And the remainder of My nation will inherit them."
Zep 2:10 This they will have in return for their pride,
because they have taunted and become arrogant against the people of the Lord of hosts.
Eze 25:14 I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel.
Therefore, they will act in Edom according to My anger
and according to My wrath; thus they will know My vengeance," declares the Lord God.
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Terrorization of Jordan - Isaiah 19:1-18
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Isa 19:1 The oracle concerning Egypt.
Behold, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and is about to come to Egypt;
The idols of Egypt will tremble at His presence,
And the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.
Isa 19:2 "So I will incite Egyptians against Egyptians;
And they will each fight against his brother and each against his neighbor,
City against city and kingdom against kingdom.
Isa 19:3 "Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be demoralized within them;
And I will confound their strategy,
So that they will resort to idols and ghosts of the dead And to mediums and spiritists.
Isa 19:4 "Moreover, I will deliver the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel master,
And a mighty king will rule over them," declares the Lord God of hosts.
Isa 19:5 The waters from the sea will dry up, And the river will be parched and dry.
Isa 19:6 The canals will emit a stench, The streams of Egypt will thin out and dry up;
The reeds and rushes will rot away.
Isa 19:7 The bulrushes by the Nile, by the edge of the Nile
And all the sown fields by the Nile Will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.
Isa 19:8 And the fishermen will lament, And all those who cast a line into the Nile will mourn,
And those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.
Isa 19:9 Moreover, the manufacturers of linen made from combed flax
And the weavers of white cloth will be utterly dejected.
Isa 19:10 And the pillars of Egypt will be crushed;
All the hired laborers will be grieved in soul.
Isa 19:11 The princes of Zoan are mere fools;
The advice of Pharaoh's wisest advisers has become stupid.
How can you men say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings"?
Isa 19:12 Well then, where are your wise men? Please let them tell you,
And let them understand what the Lord of hosts Has purposed against Egypt.
Isa 19:13 The princes of Zoan have acted foolishly,
The princes of Memphis are deluded;
Those who are the cornerstone of her tribes Have led Egypt astray.
Isa 19:14 The Lord has mixed within her a spirit of distortion;
They have led Egypt astray in all that it does, As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
Isa 19:15 There will be no work for Egypt Which its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.
Isa 19:16 In that day the Egyptians will become like women,
and they will tremble and be in dread because of the waving of the hand of the Lord of hosts,
which He is going to wave over them.
Isa 19:17 The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt;
everyone to whom it is mentioned will be in dread of it,
because of the purpose of the Lord of hosts which He is purposing against them.
Isa 19:18 In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will be speaking the language
of Canaan and swearing allegiance to the Lord of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction.
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Final Arab-Israel War - Psalm 83
Ammon - Palestinians & Northern Jordanians
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Psa 83:1 O God, do not remain quiet;
Do not be silent and, O God, do not be still.
Psa 83:2 For behold, Your enemies make an uproar,
And those who hate You have exalted themselves.
Psa 83:3 They make shrewd plans against Your people,
And conspire together against Your treasured ones.
Psa 83:4 They have said, "Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation,
That the name of Israel be remembered no more."
Psa 83:5 For they have conspired together with one mind;
Against You they make a covenant:
Psa 83:6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites;
Psa 83:7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Psa 83:8 Assyria also has joined with them;
They have become a help to the children of Lot. Selah.
Psa 83:9 Deal with them as with Midian,
As with Sisera and Jabin at the torrent of Kishon,
Psa 83:10 Who were destroyed at En-dor,
Who became as dung for the ground.
Psa 83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb
And all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Psa 83:12 Who said, "Let us possess for ourselves The pastures of God."
Psa 83:13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust,
Like chaff before the wind.
Psa 83:14 Like fire that burns the forest
And like a flame that sets the mountains on fire,
Psa 83:15 So pursue them with Your tempest
And terrify them with Your storm.
Psa 83:16 Fill their faces with dishonor,
That they may seek Your name, O Lord.
Psa 83:17 Let them be ashamed and dismayed forever,
And let them be humiliated and perish,
Psa 83:18 That they may know that You alone,
whose name is the Lord, Are the Most High over all the earth.
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Decline of America - Ezekiel 38:13 (young lions of Tarshish)
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Eze 38:13 Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish
with all its villages will say to you, 'Have you come to capture spoil?
Have you assembled your company to seize plunder,
to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capture great spoil?'"'
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Expansion of Israel - Obadiah 1:19-20, Jer 49:2, Zephaniah 2:9, Isaiah 19:18
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Oba 1:19 Then those of the Negev will possess the mountain of Esau,
And those of the Shephelah the Philistine plain;
Also, possess the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria,
And Benjamin will possess Gilead.
Oba 1:20 And the exiles of this host of the sons of Israel,
Who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,
And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad Will possess the cities of the Negev.
Jer 49:2 "Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord,
"That I will cause a trumpet blast of war to be heard Against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon;
And it will become a desolate heap, And her towns will be set on fire.
Then Israel will take possession of his possessors," Says the Lord.
Zep 2:9 "Therefore, as I live," declares the Lord of hosts,
The God of Israel, "Surely Moab will be like Sodom And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah"
A place possessed by nettles and salt pits, And a perpetual desolation.
The remnant of My people will plunder them And the remainder of My nation will inherit them."
Isa 19:18 In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will be speaking the language of Canaan
and swearing allegiance to the Lord of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction.
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Vanishing of the Christians - 1 Cor. 15:51-52, 1 Thess 4:15-18
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1Co 15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
1Co 15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet;
for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
1Th 4:15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord,
that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord,
will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
1Th 4:16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
1Th 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them
in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
1Th 4:18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
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NATIONS and Cities - Modern and ancient names
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Amalek - Arabs of the Sinai Area - Sinai
Ammon - Palestinians & Northern Jordanians - Jordan
Aroer - city in Jordan on the Arnon River - Jordan
Assyria - Syrians and Northern Iraqi's - Syria and Iraq
Edom - Palestinians & Southern Jordanians - Jordan
Egypt - Hagarites - Egyptians - (Hagar Egypt Matriarch)
Elam - Western Iran
Ephraim - north of Jerusalem - btwn Joppa and Jericho
Gebal - Hezbollah & Northern Lebanese - Lebanon
Hagrites - Egyptians - (Hagar Egypt Matriarch) - Egypt
Iraq - Assyria - Syrians and Northern Iraqi's
Ishmaelites - Saudis (Ishmael father of Arabs) - Saudi Arabia
Jordan - Ammon, Moab and Edom
Lebanon - Gebal and Tyre
Moab - Palestinians & Central Jordanians - Jordan
Philistia - Hamas of the Gaza Strip - Gaza
Saudi Arabia - Ishmaelites - Saudis (Ishmael father of Arabs)
Sinai - Amalek - Arabs of the Sinai Area
Syria - Assyria - Syrians and Northern Iraqi's
tents of Edom - Palestinians & Southern Jordanians - Jordan
Tyre - Hezbollah & Southern Lebanese - Lebanon
valley of Rephaim - SW of Jerusalem - Israel
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