Preparing for War in the Golan

Here is a follow up article to our earlier post about war breaking out between Israel and Syria.

One-year-old Angie stretches out her small hand towards the cherries and peaches on display outside a grocery shop in the village of Majdal Shams, on the slopes of the Golan Heights, while her mother explains why she is stockpiling food and has cleaned out her family's bomb shelter.

"Anyone here who looks at the current situation knows you need to prepare, especially food for the kids. Adults can wait to eat while fighting goes on outside but if your child wants milk," she says, pointing towards Angie, who is now howling with tears of frustration, "you'd better have milk to give them."

Angie's mother, who asked not to be named, has been stocking up on rice, canned food, oil and wheat for the last week. She listens to news reports of missiles from Russia and Israeli air strikes, she hears the cracks of gunfire and thuds of mortars just minutes away in Syria and feels the war coming closer.

"There is an atmosphere of fear now. Everyone is preparing for war, not just me," she says.

As the fast escalating war of words between the Assad regime and Israel threatens to reignite a conflict that has lain dormant for more than 45 years, villages along the faultline in the Golan Heights are stockpiling food and medical supplies.

On Thursday Bashar al-Assad threatened to "open a front on the Golan Heights" should Israel make good the promises of its security chiefs to prevent Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems becoming operational on Syrian soil.

"There is clear popular pressure to open a front of resistance in the Golan and there is Arab enthusiasm and a desire to come and fight against Israel," the Syrian president told Hezbollah's al-Manar TV.

Here;  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/31/golan-heights-war-syria-israel

Wow!  She can hear the pop of gunfire and the sounds of war getting closer!

With all this happening, please remember what Jesus said, "When you see all these things BEGINNING to happen, then lift up your heads because your redemption is near." (rapture)

Note the word "beginning"...not AFTER this has all happened but when it is beginning to all happen.

Could the trumpet blow at any minute now?  Yes!  Of course it could.

Could Christ tarry and not come for another 50 years?  Yes!  Of course he could.

He will come at exactly the perfect time. 

However he told us be dressed and ready....because he will come at a time when most people (even in the Church) will be sound asleep.

Certainly that describes most people today.

Even so...COME LORD JESUS!