What’s Persia up to?

I can’t help but wonder what Iran is up to. Whatever your persuasion, it’s got to make you a little nervous when Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the top cleric, says that Iran will “stun world powers” this coming Thursday. It’s the anniversary if the Islamic revolution in Iran. It’s definitely a threat, let’s hope it’s an empty one, but somehow I doubt it.  Judge for yourself, here’s the link.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.e0b08e9e64fe15a987c1cf73dd8c5fe2.521&show_article=1

Many years ago, I got interested in Biblical prophecy, but got rather lost in trying to sort it all out. I finally decided that apart from a few basic and obvious points, I wasn’t ready to deal with all that, so I sort of left prophecy on the shelf and spent my heavy duty study time in the remaining areas of Scripture, trying to learn as much as I could.

Recently I’ve been looking at it again. I know more now, and am less likely to botch up the interpretation. One thing that clearly surfaces is that Iran (also know as ancient Persia) still has a place in the prophetic time line. So does Russia, and Ezekiel speaks of a time when Iran and Russia form an alliance against Israel. Historically Russian and Iran have always been somewhat at odds with each other, but according to Joel Rosenburg (a past politico in Israel) and others, for the first time in history they’re beginning to develop ties. It’s quite interesting, though it may mean very little at this point.

Nevertheless, I’m looking at Thursday this week, attempting to be neither flippant nor alarmist. It may be that nothing will happen, but then the leadership of Iran will lose face.  Seems to me they’ve got to do something, and there’s a good chance it involves Israel.   At this particular phase in history, it’s probably a good idea to keep one eye on the Middle East, and the other in the Book. .

It’s coming!

Well, we’ve gotten off to a slow start it seems! Part of the problem was that I couldn’t remember how to get back to the dashboard so I could add another entry. The other reason was that I haven’t had the time and opportunity to do more. I have a rather sensational entry brewing in my mind that I need to get out very soon. So hang in there. We’ll get moving soon!

Why I’m doing this . . .

A few months ago, my extended family started a Yahoo group. We are a somewhat diverse crowd, so to keep things absolutely civil, we made a rule that religion and politics were off limits. Actually it was my rule, and I rather regret the “no religion” part. No one can possibly know or understand me or my perspective without some exposure to my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

So I’m starting my first, and probably my only blog. I still intend to stay away from politics here. Though I do have strong political opinions, I can express those elsewhere. This is more of a journal, where I can freely express what makes me tick, and maybe even find out what makes you tick.

This is for personal expression, reasoned discussion, challenging (but civil) debate, philosophical wool-gathering and maybe off-beat (but clean) humor.

Join me, but be advised that I will tolerate no flames, no personal attacks of any kind, no biting sarcasm, and no ridicule of anyone’s religion, perspective or world-view. Be civil, be kind, but don’t be condescending.

One other thing. I’m really not up for crossing swords with atheists who want to challenge my theism. There’s a place for that, but not here. That doesn’t mean we can’t challenge each other, nor does it mean that we can’t disagree. However, I’m not interested in verbal combat. Discussion, yes. Combat, no.

A final point is that if you choose to participate, I reserve the right to edit out anything that seems to me to be inappropriate, or even to delete inappropriate entries. I probably will seldom, if ever do that, but I reserve the right.

So welcome! I’m looking forward to this. It should be fun.

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