Hagee - Jerusalem Countdown

The final battle for Jerusalem is about to begin. Every day in the media you are watching the gathering storm over the State of Israel. The winds of war are once again about to sweep through the sacred city of Jerusalem. The world is about to discover the power of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Keeper of Israel, whoshall neither slumber nor sleep (Ps. 121:4). His righteous fury will be evident in the defense of Israel.

As we begin the chapter, we are going to take a closer look at Iran, the enemy of Israel. Napoleon Bonaparte, the great conqueror of long ago, has been credited with instructing his armies, Know your enemy! I want you to know the evil strategies of destruction this enemy of Israel and the world has planned. We must be prepared to stop this evil enemy in its tracks. There isnt very much time to get it rightthe stakes are high, and failure is not an option! Unless we prepare today, tomorrow could dawn with the horrors of an Iranian nuclear strike on Israelor America.

In the fall of 2004, former prime minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and I sat in my office at Cornerstone Church discussing the geopolitical realities of the Middle East just moments before we were to walk out on the platform and celebrate our annual Night to Honor Israel before a live audience of five thousand Christians and Jews. Television cameras were ready to carry our message to ninety million homes and more than one hundred nations.

I asked the former prime minister where Iran was in its development of nuclear weapons. Mr. Netanyahu candidly admitted that during his administration Israeli intelligence had informed the United States intelligence community that Iran was working on medium- and long-range nuclear missiles that would be capable of hitting London, New York City, and Jerusalem.

Mr. Netanyahu continued with the shocking revelation that the U.S. intelligence community was very skeptical of the Israeli intelligence reports. Later, Israeli intelligence gave photographic proof to the U.S. intelligence community that Russian scientists who made nuclear weapons for the USSR during the Cold War and were now unemployed were helping Iran achieve its dream of developing nuclear weapons.

I responded in amazement, Can anyone possibly imagine the massive global, economic, and political chaos if three long-range nuclear missiles simultaneously hit New York City and Wall Street, London, and Jerusalem? In one hour, worldwide economic collapse could be accomplished, and Western civilization would be crushed.

If Iran cannot develop the sophisticated delivery system to deliver the long-range nuclear missile, they and other rogue terrorist states certainly will have the capability of producing a dirty nuclear bomb that can be delivered in a suitcase.

Can anyone in their right mind actually believe that the Islamic fanatics presently in charge of the Iranian government would not, as soon as they are available, use these weapons on America, which they call The Great Satan, and on Israel, the eternal object of fanatical Islamic hatred in the Middle East? The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has boldly announced to the world via FOX News that he intends to share Irans nuclear power to all Islamic nations.

Lets look at what the media around the world have discovered and then compare it to the shocking revelations my sources in Israel have told me.

On February 3, 2004, the Daily Telegraph of London, England, splashed this headline:

Confession by the Father of Pakistans Atomic Bomb: Ive
Sold Nuclear Secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea

The article, written by Ahmed Rashid, confirmed that the father of Pakistans atomic bomb has confessed to selling nuclear weapons secrets to some of the worlds most notorious rogue states.

The article by Ahmed reported: The admission that Abdul Qadeer Khan freely sold nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea confirms one of Americas worst fearsthat a close ally in the war on terrorism has turned out to be the secret armourer of its worst foes.

The story continues, confirming the chilling fact that the seventy-year-old Mr. A. Q. Khan told investigators in an eleven-page confession that he had provided the secrets to other Muslim countriesso they could become nuclear powers and strengthen the Islamic world.

Officials said that Mr. Khan first began to transfer designs, drawings, and components for gas centrifuges to Iran between 1989 and 1991. There is clear evidence that Iran has been seeking to develop nuclear weapons for twenty years.

The Jerusalem Post bannered headline of August 5, 2003, bluntly stated:

Iran Can Produce Nuclear Bomb by 2005

The story confirmed that Iran will have the machinery and materials needed to make a nuclear bomb by 2004 and will have an operative nuclear weapons program by 2005.

According to the Jerusalem Post, Iran has been engaged in a pattern of clandestine activity that has concealed weapons work from International Inspectors. Technology and scientists from Russia, China, North Korea and Pakistan have propelled Irans nuclear program much closer to producing a bomb than Iraq ever was.

Israel is very aware of this looming threat of nuclear attack from Iran. In his book Countdown to Crisis, Kenneth Timmerman writes, Israeli leaders have been warning that it wont be long. On January 24, 2005, Mossad director Meir Dagan told Israeli parliamentarians that by the end of 2005 the Iranians will reach the point of no return from the technological perspective of creating a uranium-enrichment capability. Once you have that capability, he added, you are home free.

Vice President Dick Cheney addressed the problem of this looming threat from Iran on Don Imus radio show on January 20, just before the inauguration. Iran is right at the top of the administrations list of world trouble spots, he said. If nothing was done about Irans nuclear weapons program, there was concern that Israel might well decide to act first to destroy Iranian nuclear and missile sites and let others worry about cleaning up the mess afterwards.

In the August 26, 2005, issue of Executive Intelligence Review, retired general Paul Vallely, head of the Military Committee of Frank Gaffneys Center for Security Policy and a member of the Iran Policy Committee, said, Weve got to bring the hammer down on Iran.

Vallely states, We cannot let radical Islam and the Iranians destabilize the Middle East and the worldI know the Israelis are prepared to take very decisive action militarily.

Remember that Israel bombed the nuclear reactor of Iraq in 1981, and the world press rose in unanimous condemnation of the Jewish State, accusing it of gunboat diplomacy. Time has proven Israel did the right thing for the world by destroying Saddam Husseins ability to manufacture nuclear weapons. When America went to war in Iraq in 1992, during Desert Storm, our troops would have faced nuclear weapons that would have birthed the Battle of Armageddon.

On April 13, 2005, the Associated Press released the headline:

Israel Shares Intel With U.S. on Iran Nukes

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pressed the U.S. to threaten Iran with international sanctions, warning Iran was quickly approaching a point of no return in its nuclear program. The White House said it agreed that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons under a guise of a civilian program but wants to continue the current diplomacy strategy to solve the problem.

The story continues with the Israeli newspaper Yediot Achronot quoting Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as telling Vice President Cheney, Iran is very close to the point of no return.

Sharon believes the European effort to curb Irans nuclear ambitions has been ineffective.

Now that France has failed to vote for the EU Constitution by a large margin, Europe appears weak and divided at a critical moment in history when the world is teetering on the brink of World War III.