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By Geoffrey Grider
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd
Conclusion by Pastor Boyd


Syria state media said Israel missiles shot target near the Damascus airport Saturday evening, with regime air defenses firing in response.

Last week, Israel make the somewhat surprise announcement that they have conducted over 200 airstrikes on areas in Syria over the last year. The reason for this they say is the ongoing encroachment by the Iranian military in Syria, and especially near the shared border of the Golan Heights. Tonight, Syrian state media accused Israeli forces of missile strikes on a large area near the Damascus Airport. The attack involved new war equipment moved into place by Iran near the airport.

“The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.” Isaiah 17:1 (KJV)

For those of us paying attention, Syria has become an incredible end times ‘hotspot’ with no less than Russia, China, Iran, Israel and the United States involved overtly or covertly in seemingly endless military operations. It’s all being done under the pretext of the Syrian civil war being waged by Assad on his own people. There is so much happening in Syria right now, by so many countries, that it seems impossible that vast military conflict between some or all of these players won’t soon take place.

FROM THE JERUSALEM POST: “Our air defense systems thwarted an Israeli missile aggression, shooting down a number of enemy missiles,” Syria state news agency SANA cited a military source as saying.

Local reports said a military position was struck by several missiles close to Damascus airport, destroying an Iranian military weapons depot with newly-arrived arms.

Israeli officials have repeatedly voiced concerns over the growing Iranian presence on its borders and the smuggling of sophisticated weaponry to Hezbollah from Tehran via Syria, stressing that both are red lines for the Jewish state.

Israel rarely comments on foreign reports of military activity in Syria, but in mid-August the IDF announced it has carried out more than 200 air strikes against Iranian targets in Syria, and fired more than 800 missiles and mortar shells over the past year and a half.

According to the IDF, the strikes – which mainly targeted advanced weapons systems and infrastructure belonging to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps – were aimed at preventing Iranian entrenchment in Syria, and led Iranians to evacuate several bases in Syria. The strikes were intended to have an effect on the Islamic Republic’s arms smuggling.

Israel has warned against Iran’s entrenchment in Syria and has stressed time and again that Syrian soil cannot serve as a forward operating base by Iran, and that the war-torn country cannot be a way station for arms smuggling to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

In late August, new satellite images of an area in northwestern Syria revealed the establishment a new Iranian surface-to-surface missile factory, which according to ImageSat International (ISI), may house weapons capable of striking Israel.

The images taken by ISI purport to show evidence which suggest Iran is continuing to build various facilities related to the development and production of surface-to-surface missiles (SSM) in the area of Wadi Jahannam near Banyas.

According to ISI, some of the structures at the site – which is involved in the manufacturing and assembly facility of different SSM types – have similar visual characteristics as structures built at SSM facilities in Parchin and Khojir in Iran.

“Therefore, is it probable that the same elements are responsible for their planning and construction,” ISI wrote in their analysis, adding that the facility is in its final stages of construction and will likely be completed by early 2019.

While ISI assessed that Iran is assisting Syria’s SSM capabilities for its civil war, “since those conflicts are currently smaller and less widespread than before, it is possible that the Iranian efforts are for future use by Hezbollah or Iran itself against Israel as well,” they wrote.

In mid-July, the Syrian regime accused Israel of striking a Syrian army base near Aleppo, which according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 22 Syrian soldiers were said to have been k**led in the attack.

Unconfirmed reports said the strikes lasted up to 10 minutes, with several aircrafts taking part.

The IDF did not comment.

Conclusion by Pastor Boyd
Of course those of us following Bible prophecy know this is all a lead up to the destruction of Damascus and the start of the Psalm 83 War. Read of it here.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+83&version=NKJV

This is a prayer about to be answered. Play close attention. The major players that will be in the War of Gog & Magog are now in place in the Middle East in Syria. We are at the door of the start of Tribulation on the earth the horrors of which have never been seen before. Please take heed, the reaper is at the door.

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Pastor Boyd may be right in his intetrpretation of this being the start of the end times. However, no one has yet defined a role for the United States in the coming conf**grations. The presumption is that we will have ceased to exist as a world power, whether due to natural causes as in Yellowstone erupting, or by warfare, as in sneak nuclear attack by one or more of our enemies. It could be as simple as total finacial meltdown but wh**ever, we are not identified as a player in Armageddon.