The punch heard round the world?

Iran is a huge end times player in prophecy: Persia is prophesied to surprise attack Israel in the last days in a coalition of nations that seem as though they will prevail. At the time Persia/Iran attacks, Israel is surprised because ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’—  to take plunder and to take booty..." (Ez 38:11-12.) At the time of the propesuied attack, Israel is dwelling securely. Israel is not dwelling securely at this moment in time, but the point is, Persia/Iran is shown to be sneaky and belligerent in their hatred against Israel. They will attack.

That prophesied dastardly belligerence is on display now. On Feb. 1st, Iranian President Achmadinejad said that Iran is prepared to deliver a "telling blow" to the Western arrogant powers. He did not elaborate. Today, a new statement of the same kind: this time from the Muslim Clerical Supreme leader, who said "Iran anniversary 'punch' will stun West: Khamenei" "Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution." Khameni did not elaborate. "The Iranian nation, with its unity and God's grace, will punch the arrogance (Western powers) on the 22nd of Bahman (February 11) in a way that will leave them stunned," Khamenei, who is also Iran's commander-in-chief, told a gathering of air force personnel."

This threat comes at the time when Iran again rejected Western pressure to cooperate in the nuclear issue and instead defiantly said they would ramp up their uranium enrichment to 20%. And for the first time in many decades the heated exchanges between Lebanon/Syria and Israel were pointed and nearing a flashpoint. Todd Strandberg at Rapture Ready said, "I've been following prophecy for thirty years, and I've never seen a time when so many hostile statements have been made between Israel and Syria."

Things are very tense. With the prophecies of the Isaiah 17:1 statement of Damascus being destroyed and the Psalm 83 war looming, praying for peace right about now seems like a good idea...