At his televised weekly cabinet meeting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) claim that an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities would be illegal.
Following two days of talks with Tehran, IAEA Director General Raphael Grossi issued a statement asserting that “any military attack on nuclear facilities is outlawed.”
“International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi just said in Tehran that an Israeli attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities is against the law,” Netanyahu stated on Sunday. “Against which law? Is Iran, which openly calls for our destruction, permitted to defend the destructive weapons that would slaughter us?”
“Are we permitted to defend ourselves?” the Israeli Leader asked. “It is clear that we are, and it is clear that we will do so. And we will do so in discussions or actions around the clock, which I will not detail here, of course.”
Netanyahu went on to liken the current situation with Iran to the Biblical account of Esther and the Persian empire as the Jewish holiday of Purim takes place Monday through Tuesday.
“2,500 years ago an enemy arose in Persia who sought to destroy the Jews. They did not succeed then, neither will they succeed today,” the Prime Minister stressed.
The situation has grown more dire as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl last week warned that Iran could have enough material for a nuclear bomb within “12 days.”
Benjamin Netanyahu has vocally opposed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) since its inception, warning against the consequences that would follow in statements to the US Congress and United Nations in 2015.
“I have long said that the greatest danger facing our world is the coupling of militant Islam with nuclear weapons. And I’m gravely concerned that the nuclear deal with Iran will prove to be the marriage certificate of that unholy union,” Netanyahu underscored in his 2015 UN speech. “Seventy years after the murder of six million Jews, Iran’s rulers promise to destroy my country. Murder my people. And the response from this body, the response from nearly every one of the governments represented here, has been absolutely nothing! Utter silence! Deafening silence.”
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a 2021 interview with Jerusalem Post, warned that international appeasement of Iran could lead to Israel having no other option but to use military means to prevent a nuclear Iran.
“This is the risk of appeasement as you embolden your adversaries,” he highlighted. “Ultimately, they put nations in the place where they’re stuck with only one tool, a military tool. This is not in the best interest of anyone.”
Pompeo conveyed his hope that the United States would take an active hand in the military option with Israel should there be one.
“I pray that we do not force Israel into a really difficult decision one day. But I pray even more than that, that if it is the case that something like that has to happen, if the world must deny the Iranians a nuclear weapon, that the United States will be part of making sure that that happens,” he explained.
Although many are claiming that the Trump Administration’s decision to pull out of the JCPOA is to blame for Iran’s progress in developing a nuclear weapon, Pastor Barry Stagner of Calvary Chapel Tustin called such an assertion “absolute foolishness.”
“It blows my mind how people in such high places of power sometimes are so ignorant of facts and truth. It shouldn’t surprise us,” Stagner said in his latest episode of The Line Up. “The fact is Muslims are allowed to lie if it furthers the causes of Islam. They were going to enrich uranium no matter what they’ve signed on the dotted line because they’re allowed to make an agreement or a contract falsely if it’s going to advance Islam. Advancing Islam in their mind couldn’t be advanced further or faster [then by] the destruction of Israel.”
The current state of the middle east, in recent years, has only come increasingly closer to resembling what the Bible prophetically foretold would occur in the region prior to the second coming of Christ.
Isaiah 17:1 states that the capital city of Damascus will become a “ruinous heap.” Many have speculated that this could come about by Israeli military action against Iran as the terror funding regime stockpiles weapons in the city.
Additionally, Ezekiel 38-39 describes a coalition of nations (Russia, Iran, Turkey, and others) attempting to invade Israel from the north, resulting in God’s supernatural hand of intervention. Recent years and months have seen a strengthened relationship between the countries in this prophetic partnership.
“Things are heating up, and they’re happening faster and faster. It’s not just a sprinkling of prophetic-related events here or there—all cylinders are firing, and the prophetic clock is moving ahead quickly,” Pastor Barry Stagner described.
“It’s exciting to be alive right now,” he continued. “Every day we can check off another day that we’re closer to the Rapture of the church.”
