Last Fall, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan drew a chilling parallel. “What happened in Karbala 1,332 years ago is what is happening in Syria today,” he said, comparing the Syrian revolution to the most divisive event in Islamic history, the Battle of Karbala. What?

In the year 680 AD, Hussein Ibn Ali, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed and 70 of his followers confronted 1,500 fighters from the Umayyad Caliphate in present day Iraq. Annihilated. Viewed as martyrs.•Hussein Ibn Ali’s followers would form the Shiite sect.•The Umayyad would form the Sunnis

Shia SunniAlawites (Assad family in Syria), Iran, Hezbollah,

Syrian rebels, Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Osama, 80% of Muslims

Allied with Russia Allied with “moderate Arabs,” NATO, U.S.A.?

Shia SunniMuhammed named Ali as successor

Do not believe Muhammad named successor

Muhammad's family has sole claim to legitimate leadership

consensus (Arabic, ijma) of legal and religious scholars

Shia Sunni

Have Imams: of the line of Ali held to be the divinely appointed, sinless, infallible successors of Muhammad, al-Mahdi supreme imam

the Mahdi has not yet been born

ShiaMuḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mahdī ( المهدي الحسن بن born c. July) (محمد29, 869 is believed by Twelver Shia Muslims to be the Mahdi, an ultimate savior of humankind and the final of the Twelve Imams, and did not die but rather was hidden by God in 941 (this is referred to as the Occultation) and will return at the end of days.

Hamas leader Mashaal makes a speech in Damascus Photo: Reuters

Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah has ordered Palestinian Sunni group Hamas to have its operatives leave Lebanon effective immediately.The move came because of Hamas support for the Syrian rebels fighting to oust President Bashar Assad, according to the report. Both Hezbollah and Syria are allies of Iran, which provides them with financial and military support.

Shia SunniAlawites (Assad family in Syria), Iran, Hezbollah

Syrian rebels, Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Osama, 80% of Muslims

Allied with Russia Allied with “moderate Arabs,” NATO, U.S.A.?

Russian S-300 missile systemRussian S-300 missile system

The S-300 is regarded as one of the most potent anti-aircraft missile systems currently fielded. Its radars have the ability to simultaneously track up to 100 targets while engaging up to 12. S-300 deployment time is five minutes. The S-300 missiles are sealed rounds and require no maintenance over their lifetime.

Russian S-300 missile systemRussian S-300 missile system

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Syrian President Bashar al-Assad This week Moscow agreed to This week Moscow agreed to send S-300 missile defense send S-300 missile defense batteries to the Syrian army. batteries to the Syrian army.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hinted in a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that if Russia sends S-300 missiles to Syria, Israel will destroy them before they become operational.

Yekhezkael/Ezek 38.2-6 "Human being, turn your face toward Gog (of the land of Magog), chief prince of Meshekh and Tuval; and prophesy against him. Say that Adonai ELOHIM says, 'I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshekh and Tuval. I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all completely equipped,

Yekhezkael/Ezek 38.2-6 a great horde with breastplates and shields, all wielding swords. Paras, Ethiopia and Put are with them, all with breastplates and helmets; Gomer with all its troops; the house of Togarmah in the far reaches of the north

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MiG-29

MiG-29MiG-29

American F-15 Eagle

The head of aircraft maker MiG said on Friday that Russia was counting on providing Syria with 10 MiG-29 fighter planes and was discussing details with a Syrian delegation. It did not say when they might be delivered.

Yekhezkael/Ezek 38.13 Sh'va, D'dan and all the leading merchants of Tarshish will ask you,

Yekhezkael/Ezek 38.13 Sh'va, D'dan and all the leading merchants of Tarshish will ask you,ASV Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof,

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pִ̀פeיְר ם ז' ָכ young lion noun masc( flowery) ֵש�

CJB is a dynamic translation. TLV literal, Aramaic English is unsound.

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Yekhezkael/Ezek 38.13 "Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hordes to loot; to carry off silver, gold, livestock and other wealth; to take much plunder?"'

Yesterday’s astounding 99-0 Senate vote on a resolution pledging American support for Israel if it is compelled to take independent military action against Iran’s nuclear program Another Display of Israel's Strategic Value Evelyn Gordon - American Thinker, May 23rd, 2013

Yeshayahu/Isaiah 17.1 This is a prophecy about Dammesek (Damascus): "Dammesek will soon stop being a city; it will become a heap of ruins.”

1. Shiite/Sunni warfare to the death in Syria

2. Russia starts to tip the balance with S-300’s and MiG 29. Tip the balance in a way that drastically threatens Israel.

3. America makes a diplomatic intervention. Some success?

4. Israel attacks the Russian weapons shipment.

5. Russia responds, with allies.

Yekhezkael/Ezek 38.15-23 You will choose just that time to come from your place in the far reaches of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them on horseback, a huge horde, a mighty army; and you will invade my people Isra'el like a cloud covering the land. This will be in the acharit-hayamim; and I will bring you against my land, so that the Goyim will know me when,

Yekhezkael/Ezek 38.15-23 before their eyes, I am set apart as holy through you, Gog.' "Adonai ELOHIM says: 'I spoke of you long ago through my servants the prophets of Isra'el. Back then, they prophesied for many years that I would have you invade them. When that day comes, when Gog invades the land of Isra'el,' says Adonai ELOHIM,

Yekhezkael/Ezek 38.15-23 'my furious anger will boil up. In my jealousy, in my heated fury I speak: when that day comes there will be a great earthquake in the land of Isra'el; so that the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the wild beasts, all the reptiles creeping on the ground and every human being there in the land will tremble before me.

Yekhezkael/Ezek 38.15-23 Mountains will fall, cliffs crumble and every wall crash to the ground. I will summon a sword against him throughout all my mountains,' says Adonai ELOHIM; 'every man will wield his sword against his brother. I will judge him with plague and with blood. I will cause torrential rain to fall on him, his troops and the many peoples with him, along with huge hailstones, fire and sulfur. I will show my greatness and holiness, making myself known in the sight of many nations; then they will know that I am ADONI.'

2 Kefa/Peter 3.11-14 Since everything is going to be destroyed like this, what kind of people should you be? You should lead holy and godly lives, as you wait for the Day of God and work to hasten its coming... Therefore, dear friends, as you look for these things, do everything you can to be found by him without spot or defect and at peace

1 Thes 5.3,23-24 When people are saying, "Everything is so peaceful and secure," then destruction will suddenly come upon them, the way labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there is no way they will escape...May the God of shalom make you completely holy - may your entire spirit, soul and body be kept blameless for the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah. The one calling you is faithful, and he will do it.

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Rut 1.16-17 Your people will be my people and your God will be my God. Where you die, I will die; and there I will be buried. May ADONI bring terrible curses on me, and worse ones as well, if anything but death separates you and me."

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Not everyone has the Rut/Ruth calling. It’s OK.

Do I have to keep Torah: holidays, dietary guidelines, practical instructions, garments of praise, etc.?

1. It’s the BEST way to live.2. If you are called to identify with

Israel, this is part of the calling.3. What about OTHERS?

“Others may, you cannot.”Col 3.1-4 So if you were raised along with the Messiah, then seek the things above, where the Messiah is sitting at the right hand of God. Focus your minds on the things above, not on things here on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God. When the Messiah, who is our life, appears, then you too will appear with him in glory!

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Keeping Torah does not make anyone an Israelite. Many teachers espouse this. Subway poster of my youth urging people to love quintessential Jewish item, but NO NEED for identity.