Israel has evidently decided not to attack Iran's nuclear installations, at least at the present time.Iran is rushing to produce a nuclear weapon. Its leadership insists its aim is to produce fuel for peaceful purposes only, but no one outside Iran believes that. Iran has a fundamentalist Islamic leadership which is considered unstable. It has promised to wipe Israel off the map.
A good number of countries would be unhappy to see Iran with nuclear capabilities. The US, which has the power to do something about it, has failed to do anything effective. Many people have expected Israel to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. In an attempt to ensure its survival, Israel has bombed nuclear facilities in two other countries, Iraq and Syria, in time past.
Iran has said that an attack on Iran will start World War III. Israel has said if Iran attacks Israel it will get a response it will regret.
It was announced a couple of weeks ago that Russia would begin loading nuclear fuel at Iran's Bushehr plant last Saturday, August 21. For Israel to have attacked after that announcement would have risked killing Russian technicians and Russian dignitaries in Iran for Bushehr's opening ceremony. To strike after fuel rods were loaded into the nuclear reactor would release radiation into the air, not to mention the waters of the Persian Gulf.
It's interesting that Ezekiel's prophecy of the Gog and Magog War, which I mentioned in my last blog post, names one of the countries accompanying Russia on its invasion of Israel as Persia (Iran was known as Persia until 1935). Evidently Iran is not going to go up in smoke before then. And we know from Bible prophecy that Israel will continue.
Two terrorist organisations, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, both of which have Iran pulling the strings, have stockpiled tens of thousands of rockets which they claim can reach anywhere in Israel.
Israel was almost plunged into a major war when two Israeli officers were shot by Lebanese Army troops on the Lebanese border in early August.
It's difficult to know what the next move will be. One thing is certain: Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.
