well welcome to marking the end times I'm Mark Hitchcock and on this second program of the new year I want to talk about a compelling prophetic foreshadow that's developing and that I believe will continue to advance as the New Year progresses what I'm referring to is a series of intricately interconnected events in Iran and Syria and turkey events that are strongly linked to Israel and to end times prophecy these are some of the most significant events that I've seen I mean quite some time now now before we we uh look at these stage setting developments
I want to just mention that in a bit we'll go to the subscriber only section and I want to continue our exposition of the Book of Revelation we're going to finish Revelation chapter 4 today an exciting look at the throne room of God and what's happening there in heaven right now um even as we speak so we're going to talk about that a little bit later in our subscriber only section but right now what I want to talk about is that the middle East is changing right before our eyes in ways that we never could
have imagined at the beginning of 2024 uh these events I think signal a a marked movement toward the Gog Magog War now think about this we with me for just a moment just a few months ago Iran was sitting pretty um they had Hezbollah as their attack dog against Israel uh they had huge stockpiles of ballistic missiles that could reach Israel they had a sophisticated network of air defense systems from from Russia and they had a formidable presence in Syria right on Israel's northern border along with their Ally Russia now all of that has come
crashing down suddenly and dramatically in the last nine months because of several uh key events again this is something that no one could have imagined uh first of all Hezbollah has been defeated by Israel they Bas basically been neutralized uh secondly Iran's ballistic missiles have proven totally ineffective in two direct attacks against Israel they've basically been proven to be totally ineffective because of all the the missile defense systems that that Israel has and the United States has helped them with now third back in September now this was something that was just reported this last week
but it actually happened in September Israel destroyed an Iranian underground missile Factory in Syria and again this has just been revealed uh by by Israel Fox News has this headline inside Israel's daring raid that destroyed Iran funded underground missile Factory in Syria it was called that the Masia missile facility in Syria the article says this this Fox News article Elite Israeli forces conducted a dramatic raid in Syria destroying a secret underground longrange missile Factory that also contained information about Syria's chemical weapons program and this all happened in September according to Israeli Defense Forces the factory
was designed to manufacture between 150 to 350 missiles a year including Precision guided missiles this is according to um to uh isra Israeli authorities the IDF said 30 Syrian soldiers were killed during this operation so these missiles that were being built there were being shipped to Hezbollah in Lebanon and that's now been been cut off this event though they're saying is also very significant because this this assault against this missile facility could serve as a template for Israel to take out Iranian nuclear facilities an article I read this week says this if the IDF could
bring 120 Special Forces for three hours into Syria to destroy a sensitive Iranian facility in the best defended part of Syria from both air air and on the ground why couldn't Israel carry out an adapted version of this in an operation in Iran in other words this might serve as a kind of pre view of what they're going to do against nuclear facilities I'm in Iran now a fourth key event is the total exposure of Iran's nuclear program to Israeli attack the Jerusalem Post has this headline that caught my eye it says Israeli attack on
Iran's nuclear program in 2025 could transform the Middle East the article says this it's looking more and more like 2025 could be the year when Israel delivers a death blow to Iran's nuclear Ambitions the Israeli Air Force destroyed Iran's s300 anti-aircraft radar systems on April 19th and the rest on October 26th remember that Iran has hit Israel and Israel struck back against Iran directly twice on October 19th and or on April 19th and October 26th and in those air strikes what they were able to do is that they took out these anti-aircraft radar systems that
Iran had from Russia so those now have been taken out and eliminated and so this article in the Jerusalem Post is saying that basically Iran now is like a Sitting Duck in 2025 in fact the article says this this means that at any moment Israel could launch an air strike on Iran's nuclear program which is essentially undefended in any real way from such strikes so in the past we we've heard a lot and I've talked a lot on this program we've talked a lot here at at end times about Iran's nuclear program and Israel's promise
not to allow them to get a nuclear program and to take that out at some point in time but in the past it it really seemed like something that was impossible Israel you know did different things by introducing computer viruses and different things that kind of slowed it down at times but actually taking it out seem some like something that was impossible but right now Iran is more vulnerable than it's ever been since the Islamic revolution back in in 1979 and this is a shocking development that no one saw coming now on top of all
of this the election of President Trump has accelarated talk of an Israeli attack against Iran's nuclear facilities because president Trump in fact has encouraged this to take place and this article in the Jerusalem Post says this uh during the US election campaign president- elect Donald Trump publicly called on Israel to strike Iran's nuclear sites since he was declared Victor he has reportedly continued to support such a strike should tran not back down from its nuclear advances in a serious way several reports have even suggested he will finally give Israel the bunker Buster capability to carry
out such an attack it takes these huge bunker Busters in fact drop one on top top of another to destroy the these hardened underground uh nuclear sites in Iran but with President Trump being elected and being in favor of this makes it even more likely so the article concludes with this suddenly there is a public possibility that Israel could eliminate Iranian nuclear facilities either by air strikes or by a special forces operation again this operation in Syria that took place could kind of be the pattern of the preview of how they would do that now
you might be wondering at this point well you know on this program haven't you talked a lot about Iran and how they'll be a key player in the Gog Magog Invasion so doesn't this mean with Iran kind of being diminished in their power and influence that the Gog Magog war is less likely than ever before what is true that Iran's declining power and diminishing influence is is a reality but I don't think that makes the Gog Magog War less likely I believe right now that we have front row seats to a major power shift that's
underway in the Middle East Iran and Russia have been in Syria since 2011 since the Civil War there began and they've been there to bolster the the regime of Bashar al- Assad of course the Assad regime has fallen so now uh basically Iran and Russia are out of of Syria in a turn of shocking events but turkey another key Ezekiel 38 Ally is filling the vacuum fact four of the names we we I've told you this many times before four of the names in Ezekiel 38 these ancient place names are in modern day Turkey Meek
tubal Gomer and garma so the Jerusalem Post says this Israel must prepare for potential war with turkey a committee established by the Israeli government warns that turkey's Ambitions to restore its ottoman era influence could lead to a heightened tensions with Israel possibly escalating in the conflict this report highlights the risk of Syrian factions aligning with turkey creating a new and potent threat to Israel's security the Jerusalem Post has an article this week erdan he's the president of Turkey erdogan's policies in Syria bring turkey and Israel closer to confrontation the article says with eran's anti-israel stance
and rival interests in Syria experts warn of a potential unprecedented confrontation amid ongoing Regional stability recent developments in Syria pitched the two countries that is turkey and Israel against each other in what has the potential of developing into into a direct armed confrontation and just a few days ago tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the streets of Istanbul in in Turkey um against Israel CBN has a a headline that says this Syria reades troops to invade Israel and another publication called the Middle East eye says turkey backed Syria may be a bigger threat than
Iran and so there's fears that Syria will will basically become a proxy or a protectorate of turkey and would be right on Israel's northern border this would be a dream come true uh for for turkey so basically what we see right now is in Syria Iran is out and Russia basically is out as well but now turkey is in and so a wounded weakened Iran could also be more motivated than ever to get back at Israel and join with turkey uh to to invade Israel so all of this is to say that the the prophetic
gears continue to turn and churn and things we couldn't have imagined at the beginning of 2024 have taken place that the Nations continue to adjust and align what we do know for sure is that when God's time is right turkey Iran and Russia will all conspire to invade Israel and that will trigger a whole series of end time events and that event looks closer now than ever before which means the Rapture is even closer and I pray that Jesus Will come in 2025 and I know you join me in that as well let's let's be
those who who are looking and living in the light of his coming in 2025 well thank you so much for joining us um if uh we're going to go to the subscriber only section here in just a moment and continue our exposition of the Book of Revelation Revelation chap 4 the grain Throne chapter of the Bible if you're not a subscriber at end times.com you can go to our website and you can sign up there for just $7 a month and become a subscriber you can be a great blessing to this ministry and that'll be
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