Farahi did not name any specific countries Tehran could be targeted by but noted that conventional warfare has largely been replaced by cyber, biological and radioactive attack tactics.
The defensive measures come as military tensions in the Red Sea escalated this week when Iran’s navy attempted to capture several U.S. drones from international waters. Read More …
Opinion: As the Israelites were fleeing from Egypt, having just crossed the Red Sea, Exodus 17:8 records “Now Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.”
That Iran has established a naval base and is causing havoc in the Red Sea, is a bone-chilling reenactment of a criminal returning to the scene of a crime. Iran, or Persia, is the place where the King of Amalek fled to after Israel’s king Saul disobeyed God’s command to kill all the Amalekites:
Thus says the Lord of hosts: “I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt. 3 Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ” 1 Samuel 15:2-3
The next time we find a descendant of Amalek is in one called Haman in Persia. After thousands of posts and a book on this eternal enemy of the Jews, I am in amazement by how Biblical history continues to confirm Exodus 17:16:
“Because the Lord has sworn: the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
While I have never never met a Christian who has heard of Amalek, I have never met a Jew who has not.
This enemy of Israel bore the name Amalek (Hebrew ‘am, people or nation; and laqaq, to lap or lick) to denote the rapidity with which he moved against Israel, for like a swarm of locusts, he flew upon them; the name furthermore designated the purpose of this enemy,
who came to lick the blood of Israel.
Amalek was the son of Eliphaz and the concubine Timna, a Horite (Gen. 36:12; 1 Chron. 1:36). Esau’s grandson became the chief of the Edomite tribe (Gen. 36:16) and carried on where his grandfather left off.
Excerpt, Louis Ginsberg Legend of the Jews:
“No sooner had he heard of Israel’s departure from Egypt, than he set out against them and met them by the Red Sea. Amalek now marched from his settlement in Seir [Jordan] which was no less than four hundred parasangs [approximately 900 miles] away
from the encampment of the Jews; and although five nations, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Jebusites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, had their dwellings between his home and the camp of the Jews, he insisted upon being the first to declare war upon Israel.”
Amalek was twice designated in the Pentateuch (Ex.17:14–16; Deut. 25:19) as the one against whom war should be waged until his memory be blotted out forever and became, in rabbinical literature, the type of Israel’s archenemy.”
Iran’s role in future prophecy was highlighted this past week with a statement by Vladimir Putin:
