Syrian President Assad Finally Appears

President Assad has been gone for about 3 weeks.  No one was quite sure where he was though there was speculation that he had fled the country.  I'm sure he is well aware what the rebels will do to him if they catch him as I'm guessing he saw the video of what the Libyans did to Qaddafi.

But now he has appeared again...and you will never guess with who!

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad made his first appearance on state TV in nearly three weeks Tuesday in a show of solidarity with a senior Iranian envoy even as the U.S. secretary of state urged stepped up international planning for the regime's collapse.

The contrasts couldn't have been more vivid: Assad and Iran's Saeed Jalili vowing to defeat the rebels and their backers, while Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton predicted Assad's regime was quickly unraveling, with high-level defections such as his prime minister's switch to the rebel side.

It also highlighted Assad's deepening reliance on a shrinking list of allies, led by Tehran. Assad — seen on state TV for the first time since a July 18 bombing in Damascus killed four of his top security officials — used Jalili's visit to portray a sense of command and vowed to fight his opponents "relentlessly."

A growing humanitarian crisis is already taking hold.

More than 1,300 Syrians fled to Turkey on Tuesday as rebels tried to expand their hold inside Aleppo, Syria's largest city, despite two weeks of withering counterattacks by Assad's troops. Close to 48,000 Syrians have already taken refuge in Turkey, which has served as a staging ground for rebels. Even more refugees have crossed into Jordan and Lebanon.

And at least 22,300 Iraqis who fled to Syria several years ago have streamed home in the past three weeks, said U.N. officials in Baghdad as they prepared for more refugees.

Here;  http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-08-07/activists-fighting-is-spreading-in-syrias-aleppo

Isn't that something??...22,300 Iraqis had fled to Syria to avoid the violence and now they are leaving Syria and heading back to Iraq.  I guess they deem that chance for violence is actually less back in Iraq.

This all seems a tad confusing as it relates to the prophecies of Ezekiel 38 and Psalm 83.  Turkey seems pretty upset with Iran...but yet Ezekiel 38 clearly says they will both be in the Last Days coalition that God will destroy as they gather to destroy Israel. 

Of course the rapture will change everything in a great big hurry.  When millions disappear and the leaders of nations who are left behind all start scrambling to cut up the spoils of what remains of the United States, the old Arab saying, "My enemies enemy is my friend" will probably be pulled out pretty quick.

Turkey, Russia, Iran, Libya and some others will quickly realize that the USA is not going to defend Israel and will get an evil thought to divide up the spoils after they destroy the Jews and the nation of Israel.

Of course God has other plans....