Israel Find Huge Natural Gas Reserve

Posted by on 23 January 2009 | 0 Comments

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Posted: January 23, 2009.  By Jerome R. Corsi.  © 2009 WorldNetDaily

NEW YORK – A huge deep-water natural gas find off the coast of Israel promises to be a boon to the Jewish state's economy as well as a stimulus to other developers searching for offshore oil and natural gas in the Mediterranean. Noble Energy, a New York Stock Exchange-listed company, has discovered an estimated more than 3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in three high-quality reservoirs drilled in the company's Tamar No. 1 well in the Mediterranean Sea, about 56 miles off the Israeli northern port of Haifa. Noble Energy drilled the Tamar No. 1 well to a depth of about three miles, beneath 5,500 feet of water. The find is significant for those who believe the Bible indicates Israel is sitting on a massive oil reserve that would reshape the geopolitical structure of the Middle East. Read More

Donnie's Remarks...

Ezekiel 38:1-2 (NIV)
¹ The word of the LORD came to me:
² "Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; prophesy against him...

Ezekiel 38:10-13 (NIV)
¹⁰ "'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil scheme.
¹¹ You will say, "I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people--all of them living without walls and without gates and bars.
¹² I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land."
¹³ Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all her villages will say to you, "Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder?"'

One of the purposes of the future Gog/Magog war will be to plunder and loot Israel of her riches.  In that future day she will be a strategic target for several nations eager to strip her of new found wealth.  Joel Rosenberg's weblog states it like this: "Ezekiel 38-39 has another precondition that has to happen before the “War of Gog and Magog” can begin — Israel must be notably prosperous."  I think we may be witnessing the prophesied prosperity of the nation Israel, which is a prerequisite to the coming war, and the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus.