Hezbollah promises ‘harsh punishment’ against Israel for the pager terror attack–Divine intervention or perhaps a predicted ‘terrible crime’?
Hezbollah pager attacks are a harbinger of a darker, more dangerous age of individualized strikes, military expert says https://t.co/GOf8fge6qS
— Business Insider (@BusinessInsider) September 18, 2024
Voice of America reported the death count went up and Hezbollah made new threats related to the pager explosions yesterday:
Hezbollah vows response after deadly pager explosions in Lebanon
September 18, 2024
Hezbollah and the Lebanese government are blaming Israel for the explosions of pagers used by Hezbollah members, which killed at least 12 people and wounded about 2,800 others Tuesday.
Hezbollah said Wednesday it would continue its fight against Israel in support of Hamas militants in Gaza, and that Israel should await “harsh punishment.” …
Hsu Ching-Kuang, founder of Taiwan-based manufacturer Gold Apollo, told reporters Wednesday his company did not manufacture the pagers, but rather authorized its brand to be used on devices produced and sold by a company called BAC.
Iranian state media reported the country’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was among those wounded by an exploding pager.
Iran’s support for Hezbollah and Hamas, and the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and along the Israel-Lebanon border had already raised fears of a wider regional conflict.
The pager explosions brought fresh calls Wednesday to avoid further escalation.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called the situation “extremely worrying,” and said he discussed it in a call with Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib.
“Even if the attacks seem to have been targeted, they had heavy, indiscriminate collateral damages among civilians, including children among the victims,” EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell said.
In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Wednesday that what happened in Lebanon “is certainly leading to an escalation of tensions.”
“The region itself is in an explosive situation… And every incident like this has the potential to be a trigger,” he added. https://www.voanews.com/a/hezbollah-vows-response-after-deadly-pager-explosions-in-lebanon/7788682.html
BAC is a Hungarian company that was founded in 2022. As far as possible Israeli involvement, Israel365 News reported the following:
Massive Beeper attack targets Hezbollah: “Like the destruction of Sennacherib’s army”
September 18, 2024
A wave of exploding beepers held by Hezbollah members in Lebanon killed … There were also reports of similar beeper explosions wounding people in Syria.
Reuters reported that Hezbollah imported about 5,000 beepers several months ago. The Lebanese security source said the pagers were from Taiwan-based Gold Apollo, but the company did not manufacture the devices. It said they were made by BAC, which has a license to use its brand, but it gave no more details.
Hezbollah fighters have been using pagers as a low-tech means of communication in an attempt to evade Israeli location-tracking, …
A “senior Lebanese security source” told Reuters that the devices had been modified by Israel’s spy service “at the production level.”
“The Mossad injected a board inside of the device that has explosive material that receives a code,” the source said. “It’s very hard to detect it through any means. Even with any device or scanner.” …
The source of the attack is still unknown but Iran-backed Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel. Israel typically does not comment on military operations outside of its borders. Hezbollah said in a statement on Wednesday that “the resistance will continue today, like any other day, its operations to support Gaza, its people, and its resistance which is a separate path from the harsh punishment that the criminal enemy (Israel) should await in response to Tuesday’s massacre.”
The attack came just a few hours after Israel designated the halting of Hezbollah’s attacks as one of its main war goals and announced that it had foiled an assassination attempt by the Iranian proxy group against a former senior official. …
The spontaneous elimination of 5,000 enemy soldiers without the use of weapons is reminiscent of the sudden destruction of Sennacherib’s army, as related in II Kings 19 after surrounding Jerusalem and King Hezekiah. …
That night an angel of Hashem went out and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp, and the following morning they were all dead corpses.
When Sennacherib rose up early in the morning to storm the city of Jerusalem, he found dead corpses in the place of his mighty army. …
Rabbi Yosef Berger emphasized that this victory over Hezbollah was decidedly divine.
“We have been sending prayers up to heaven and a message came down, albeit via beepers, and wiped out a large chunk of Hezbollah’s army.
“They fire teelim (rockets) that have little effect’” Rabbi Berger said. https://israel365news.com/396307/massive-beeper-attack-targets-hezbollah-like-the-destruction-of-sennacheribs-army/
No, what happened was NOT at all like what happened with the Assyrian King Sennacherib and his army. As far as that goes, after Judah’s king Hezekiah prayed, Isaiah reported that God responded and had an angel destroy Sennacherib’s army:
32 “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria:
‘He shall not come into this city,
Nor shoot an arrow there,
Nor come before it with shield,
Nor build a siege mound against it.
33 By the way that he came,
By the same shall he return;
And he shall not come into this city,’
Says the Lord.
34 ‘For I will defend this city, to save it
For My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.'”35 And it came to pass on a certain night that the angel of the Lord went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when people arose early in the morning, there were the corpses — all dead. 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at Nineveh. 37 Now it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place. (2 Kings 19:32-37)
God did not send His angel down to make the pagers explode and kill. The pager matter was not Divine intervention.
Consider, also, that we see that in addition to people in Lebanon, at least one Iranian, and apparently multiple Syrians, were victims of the attack.
Hezbollah was already angry with Israel–and this type of terroristic action will mainly tend to get Hezbollah furious and more determined to strike Israel.
UPDATE 1115 PDT/1415EDT: Handheld radios exploded in Lebanon today:
Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon in second day of explosions
September 18, 2024
Hand-held radios used by Lebanese armed group Hezbollah detonated on Wednesday across Lebanon’s south, in Beirut suburbs and the Bekaa Valley, further stoking tensions with Israel a day after similar explosions by the group’s pagers. Lebanon’s health ministry said 14 people had been killed and 450 injured on Wednesday, while the death toll from Tuesday’s explosions rose to 12, including two children, with nearly 3,000 injured. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-planted-explosives-hezbollahs-taiwan-made-pagers-say-sources-2024-09-18/
So, more escalation!
For some background about Hezbollah, the BBC put out the following:
What is Hezbollah…?
Hezbollah is a Shia Muslim organisation which is politically influential and in control of the most powerful armed force in Lebanon.
It was established in the early 1980s by the region’s most dominant Shia power, Iran, to oppose Israel. At the time, Israel’s forces had occupied southern Lebanon, during the country’s civil war.
Hezbollah has participated in national elections since 1992 and has become a major political presence.
Its armed wing has carried out deadly attacks on Israeli and US forces in Lebanon. When Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, Hezbollah took credit for pushing them out. …
In 2006, a full-blown war broke out between Hezbollah and Israel, triggered when Hezbollah carried out a deadly cross-border raid.
Israeli troops invaded southern Lebanon to try to eliminate the threat from Hezbollah. However, it survived and has since increased its number of fighters and obtained new and better weapons. …
Hezbollah is one of the most heavily-armed, non-state military forces in the world. It is funded and equipped by Iran. …
It has an estimated 130,000 rockets and missiles, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.
Most of its arsenal is made up of small, unguided surface-to-surface artillery rockets.
But it also thought to have anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles, as well as guided missiles capable of striking deep inside Israel. 07/28/24 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67307858
It is likely that Hezbollah will reign a volley of bombs on Israel relatively soon. Those in Jerusalem, and not just in the northern portion of Israel, should be concerned. I also believe that Iran and Syria will also become more directly involved against Israel.
In Isaiah 22:1-14, the Bible shows that God will allow something that appears to be an Iranian-Syrian-Southern Lebanese confederation, to strike the nation of Israel.
In my view, Iran, Hezbollah, and Syria are most likely consulting with each other to determine how and when to launch a major attack against Israel.
Israel hopes, between its Iron Dome and USA assistance, it will be able to handle attacks. Israel’s Iron Dome is part of a multi-tiered missile defense system that Israel has which includes what is also called Arrow, Iron Beam, and David’s Sling.
Yet, Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ and other defenses will not be able to protect Jerusalem against enough of the coming attack to prevent great damage Isaiah prophesied to occur, “you also saw the damage to the city of David, That it was great” (Isaiah 22:9).
This pager attack by Israel will turn even more of the world against Israel.
At risk of repeat (as I also reported this yesterday), here are some Roman Catholic prophecies that Israel’s terroristic pager attack brought to mind:
Abbot Herman of Lehnin (died 1300) Towards the end of the world “Israel will commit a terrible crime for which it will suffer death.” (Culleton, R. Gerald. The Prophets and Our Times. Nihil Obstat: L. Arvin. Imprimatur: Philip G. Scher, Bishop of Monterey-Fresno, November 15, 1941. Reprint 1974, TAN Books, Rockford (IL), p. 151)
Catholic priest and writer R. Gerald Culleton (20th century): After the birth of Anti-Christ and shortly before the rise of the Great Monarch, the false doctrines were to multiply …In the last days before Anti-Christ, there are to appear many anti-christs… Towards the end of the world the Jews are to commit some atrocious crime for which they will be greatly persecuted…the Great Monarch…This Lion Monarch… together with the Great Pope or Angelic Pastor, shall appear after socialism…(Culleton, pp. 25,27,28,50)
Back on October 7, 2023, the day when Hamas launched its attack against Israel, I also referred to those Roman Catholic prophecies and said that Israel’s response to that attack could be considered as a war crime:
A strong Israeli response may upset the world if its response is considered to be some type of “war crime.” (Thiel B. Hamas attacks and Netanyahu says, ‘We are at war’. COGwriter, October 7, 2023).
Edward Snowden referred to the pager matter as a crime. Others have as well:
Pager blasts: Lebanese papers decry ‘war crime’, Israeli press divided
18 September 2024
Wednesday, September 18: Lebanese and Israeli papers react to the deadly pager blasts across Lebanon. Some Israeli papers are jubilant at the ingenuity of the attack, while others fear it brings war with Lebanon into the realm of the probable. https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/press-review/20240918-pager-blasts-lebanese-papers-decry-lawless-murder-and-war-crimes
September 18, 2024
Edward Joseph Snowden, an American former NSA intelligence contractor, said that if it were iPhones that were leaving the factory with explosives inside, the media would be a hell of a lot faster to cotton on to what a horrific precedent has been set today. Nothing can justify this. It’s a crime. A crime. And everyone in the world is less safe for it. https://freepresskashmir.news/2024/09/18/indistinguishable-from-terrorism-pager-explosions-across-lebanon-injure-thousands-hezbollah-blames-israel/
18 September 2024
Prime Minister Najib Mikati said the explosions represented a “serious violation of Lebanese sovereignty and a crime by all standards”. A security source in the country accused the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad of being behind the attack, Reuters reported.
In its statement accusing Israel of being behind the attacks, Hezbollah said it held the country “fully responsible for this criminal aggression that also targeted civilians”.
“This treacherous and criminal enemy will certainly receive its just punishment for this sinful aggression, whether it expects it or not,” it added.
Unnamed US and Israeli officials told Axios that the explosions were initially planned as the opening move in an “all-out” offensive against Hezbollah. But in recent days Israel became concerned Hezbollah had become aware of the plan – so they were detonated early. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/middleeast/lebanon-hezbollah-pagers-explosions-intl/index.html
Yes, the pager bomb matter was a type of crime.
Now, IF Jesus is to return in 2031, then I expect a regional war involving Israel will occur soon. In at least one respect, yesterday’s terrorist act from Israel actually was the start of that broader regional war.
We will see what Hezbollah, Iran, Syria, and others will do.
Some items of possibly related interest may include:
Islamic and Biblical Prophecies for the 21st Century This is a free online book which helps show where biblical and Islamic prophecies converge and diverge. Here are links to related sermons: Seeing Christianity Through Islamic Eyes, Imam Mahdi, women, and prophecy, and Terrorism, Iran, and Fatima, Dajjal, Antichrist, Gold, & Mark of the Beast?, and Jesus and God’s Plan for Muslims.
Seeing Christianity Through Islamic Eyes This article has information from the book, Islamic and Biblical Prophecies for the 21st Century, as well as from the old WCG and other sources. Here is a link to a related sermon: Seeing Christianity Through Islamic Eyes. Here is a related sermon in the Spanish language: El cristianismo visto a través de los ojos islámicos.
Iran in Prophecy Is Iran in Bible prophecy? If so, what does the Bible teach? What names, other than Persia, may be used to describe Iran? There are also two related videos: Iran In Prophecy and Iran and Israel Conflict.
Gaza and the Palestinians in Bible Prophecy What does the Bible teach about Gaza and the fate of the Palestinians? Here is a link to two related videos: Gaza and Bible Prophecy and Gaza and Palestine in Prophecy.
Damascus and Syria in Prophecy Will Bashar Assad hold power as he has it? Does the Bible show that Damascus, the capital of Syria, will be destroyed? What will happen to Syria? Will the Syrians support the final King of the South that the Bible tells will rise up? Which scriptures discuss the rise and fall of an Arabic confederation? Does Islamic prophecy predict the destruction of Syria. This is a YouTube video.
The ‘Peace Deal’ of Daniel 9:27 This prophecy could give up to 3 1/2 years advance notice of the coming Great Tribulation. Will most ignore or misunderstand its fulfillment? Here is a link to a related sermon video Daniel 9:27 and the Start of the Great Tribulation.
The Arab and Islamic World In the Bible, History, and Prophecy The Bible discusses the origins of the Arab world and discusses the Middle East in prophecy. What is ahead for the Middle East and those who follow Islam? What about the Imam Mahdi? What lies ahead for Turkey, Iran, and the other non-Arabic Muslims? An item of possibly related interest in the Spanish language would be: Líderes iraníes condenan la hipocresía de Occidente y declaran que ahora es tiempo para prepararse para el Armagedón, la guerra, y el Imán Mahdi.
Is the Future King of the South Rising Up? Some no longer believe there needs to be a future King of the South. Might Egypt, Islam, Iran, Arabs, or Ethiopia be involved? Might this King be called the Mahdi or Caliph? What does the Bible say? Two videos of related interest are: The Future King of the South is Rising and The Rise and Fall of the King of the South. Here is a version the Spanish language: ¿Esta Surgiendo el Rey Del Sur?
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