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Iran's response to America's Covert War with Iran

Iraq responded to the American declaration of war in several waves. The Iranians voted 20 million, upping Washington's budget by 10 percent. It also acted publicly to demonstrate the United States was now a target in this covert war. Daniel's prophecies were unfolding in detail.

Background

December 31, 1995 saw the American Congress agree to spend $18 million to take out Iran's government. (Mostly elected, by the way.) One week later the Iranians acknowledged this war, it was not so secret.

On January 6, 1996, the Iranians executed three men previously accused of spying for the United States. They also test fired a Chinese built cruise missile. They were now demonstrating their ability to stop western military operations in the Persian Gulf, the same military operations that had been a central part of the earlier war with Iraq.

The next thing Iran did was match the American financial commitment and raise it to $20 million, but they did so on a prophetic date, one important to American history in World War II. A date we need to explore in detail.

Prophetic Background

Various modern western nations have had events happen in history on important dates. These events were not important to the people living through them at the time, but they provide an important foundation to the story here at the end of the age.

One such date was March 12, 1941. This date was "Joseph's seal date" and identifies the date when the United States and Britain would sign the Lend-Lease legislation. The details of that document are not particularly important, but the effect of lend-lease on America's position in World War II certainly is.

As of March 12, 1941 the Americans were financially committed to war against the Axis powers, Germany, Italy, and Japan. Despite the fact that most American children are taught that the United States entered the war in December of 1941, the proper entry point from a prophetic perspective is this March 12, 1941 date.

55 biblical months later the war would be over and Japan would be surrendered. Between the signing and the surrender the American portion of World War II would be fought.

The Seal date that kicks this process off identifies the United States, or the United States and the United Kingdom, as being partners in ancient Joseph. Joseph became prime minister of ancient Egypt and so Egypt related prophetic stories point at these two modern nations in various ways.

The United States, being the tribe of Manasseh, the eldest son of Joseph, also starts her prophetic time of rule as of this date. The events that transition to her rule begin when she engages financially in the events of World War II. The transition ends when she accepts Japan's surrender 55 months later.

As king Manasseh reigned 55 biblical years, we should expect a similar period to transpire where this nation sits as a ruler in the affairs of the world. Indeed she does, having become something of a lone super power through the decade of the 1990s.

55 biblical years can have various numbers of days in it, depending on the date of the start. Assuming a new calendar or contract those 55 years represent 20,040 days. That is the number of days that God seems to have granted her rule or prominence in the overall affairs of nations. At the end of those 20,040 days we should start seeing the next nation that will be granted prominence show up in the headlines. Like the transition to America took 55 months, so, too, should the transition away take 55 months. Lets look at the dates.

20,040 days from March 12, 1941 is the point were some nation should start funding a war against the United States/United Kingdom. The theoretical date for this is January 23, 1996. A date we look at in a moment. The end of 55 months from there is July 30, 2000, this is one day short of when the trunk day-for-a-year story shows the destruction of ancient Egypt and the escape of ancient Israel to the wilderness.

January 23, 1996

The Iranian parliament voted $20 million dollars to defeat the great Satan on exactly the prophetic interval that is suggested by this Manasseh account. By the 26th of January most of the story had made it into the New York Times, it wasn't a secret war any more.

Many times in the past few years various Americans have attempted to restart diplomatic relations with Iran. There are presently not even consoler relations, so American travelers in Iran use the Swiss foreign office for aid. (American travelers are usually Americans of Iranian decent returning to visit relatives.)

Americans have wanted to improve this and have been given a negative response. In one such account the Iranians explained that it would take a broadly based American overture before the Iranians would consider relations with the United States. When I heard this I did not understand. What would that be? What did they mean?

Understanding that it was the American Congress who had first started this war, and they are a broad based representative sample of America, the Iranians are explaining that they will need to see a similar "stop shooting" vote before they can believe that the war is over.

As far as Iran is concerned they are still at war with the United States.

Hezbollah

The Iranians maintain a mercenary army in Lebanon, known as the Hezbollah. These fighters are also at war with American interests and will probably not be withdrawn until Congress stops its war with Iran.

China

January 23, 1996 was not just an Iranian event date. Across the Pacific China was making some important claims. On this date the Chinese revealed their willingness to go to war to get Taiwan back. Various things were said in this regard but one stands out as important, they would even go to war with the United States, and nuke Los Angeles if needed in order to recover Taiwan. They also did not think the Americans willing to make such a trade.

The Taiwanese were preparing for their first general presidential vote and the Chinese would also fire a rocket over Taiwan, bringing two American aircraft carrier battle groups to the region as a show of support.

Conclusions

Both the Iranian vote and the Chinese position on Taiwan appear to be the "nuclear war equivalent" of the American lend-lease legislation 55 years before. Only the events of the summer of 2000 will show if the total offset of 55 months actually works like it suggests. The American nuclear bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima land exactly on the dates for Moses' killing the Egyptian (US?) and on Moses' witness of the burning bush, so there is a distinct possibility this is working as a predictor, but only the headlines will show if this really works this way.