Ukraine - Test Run for Ezekiel 38?
Extract from "Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin: The Writing is on the Wall." To be published in Summer 2022
We possibly live in the overlap of the end of the days of the Gentiles (Gen Day 6) in the Laodicea Church Era and beginning of the return of the days of Israel in Revelation 4:1 - God put us here, Tag, we are ‘it,’ so it behooves us to understand.
In our current world situation, Artillery units are exchanging fire back and forth across the Ukrainian border. At our house, we are praying for the Peace of Ukraine and that the Lord removes evil leaders from Russia. It is possible, by the time this posts, that the Russians might be invading.
Alex Berenson wrote in his BLOG, ‘Speak Loudly and Carry NO Stick,’ 1
To this point, the Biden administration has handled the crisis as badly as all the others. Which should surprise no one. War is the continuation of politics by other means, as a dead German once said, and Uncle Joe turns out to be phenomenally bad at politics.
Vladimir Putin doesn’t care what the bluechecks think of him. He doesn’t care if Anderson Cooper thinks he’s a mean mean meanie. If anything the anger of Western elites serves his purposes. He is cynical and brutal and he has seen an opening and he’s taking it.
At the most basic level, this crisis - like most international crises - is about leverage, and more specifically our lack of it.
Okay… under Joe Biden’s impotent presidency, we suck. Got that. But is there something deeper?
Below, we discussed this at our dinner table several nights ago. Here are my thoughts… But the end game is the Russians want Crimea as a power projection platform south. Please read on.
Friends often ask me about the heightening tensions over Ukraine. Eric Metaxas asked me that question when he came over for dinner. My estimate as we discussed:
Nichole Perlroth wrote in her book, This is how they tell me the World Ends, that Russian hacking in 2016 of Ukraine’s power grid, election, and more were a practice run. Her conclusion was that the Russians refined their tactics and techniques in Ukraine, using them against the United States in our 2020 elections. Recall that hacking subverted our elections, took down oil infrastructure, and attacked other elements in US power grids. There is a reason why Ukraine now accepts only paper ballots from properly identified citizens.
Today, Russia’s leadership is massing its Army against Ukraine. (Recall Poland in 1939.) In a recent speech, our President sort of gave them carte blanch to do what they wanted. I concluded our President is a dementia addled, senile Neville Chamberlain look-alike. Think about this a moment. Putin already took Crimea and dominates the Black Sea. Once part of Ukraine, the Crimea is strategic territory with important deep water naval ports for a nation looking south. Yet, the way to Crimea is through Ukraine.
Eze 38:4 “I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords.
Ukraine is east of Moscow, so I asked the question – ‘Turn you toward what?’ Ezekiel answers the question,
Eze 38:14 “Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “On that day when My people Israel dwell safely, will you not know it?
Eze 38:15 “Then you will come from your place out of the far north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army.
Ezekiel’s prophesied strategic turn is from the North to the south. My personal estimate is that moving against Ukraine militarily solves a border problem for Russia, but more importantly, opens up the way for unfettered access to Crimea. Though Ukraine is east, it might be one of the ‘Hooks’ in Putin’s jaws turning him south. Why? Oil. And Power. Ukraine will once again be a practice run for Russia but with tanks, planes, and soldiers, in the same way that Poland was a practice run for Germany in 1939. Having Ukraine in his grasp, Putin and Russia will use the Crimea to project power south toward…
Eze 38:11 “You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’—
Today, Israel is a nation of walls and gates. It is possible that after the Psalm 83 war, they tear down their walls and gates to live in what they think is peace…
Speak loudly and carry no stick - by Alex Berenson (substack.com)