The Bible

The word Bible refers to the canonical collections of religious writings or books of Judaism and Christianity. Books included as canon in the Bible vary according to these religious traditions and among their denominations. These variations reflect a range of histories, traditions and myths.

The Jewish version of the Bible, the Tanakh, includes the books common to both the Christian and Jewish biblical canons. The Torah is traditionally considered by believers to be God's direct words and thus thought to be the most sacred part. Much of the Jewish religious law is derived from the Torah.

The Christian version of the Bible is often called the Holy Bible, Scriptures, or Word of God. It divides the books of the Bible into two parts: the books of the Old Testament primarily sourced from the Tanakh (with some variations), and the 27 books of the New Testament containing books originally written primarily in Greek. Some versions of the Christian Bible have a separate Apocrypha section for the books not considered canonical by the publisher. The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canons contain books not found in the Tanakh, but that are found in the Greek Septuagint, the oldest of several ancient translations of the Hebrew Bible into Greek.

The Bible, or some portion of it, had been translated into more than 2,300 languages or dialects as of 2003.

The tragedies that have recently happened:

9-11 World Trade Center Attack
The Earthquake and Tsunami at Sumatra
Hurricane Katrina's castastrophic flooding of the city of New Orleans
The fires in California
The flooding in Mexico

Doomsday scenarios in the news, some of which only receive coverage on the Internet:

Global warming and other drastic climate change
Iran's nuclear bomb and Islamic apocalypse aspirations
Oil crises, the price will go over 100 dollars per Liter
Terrorist dirty nukes
Potential impacts from near earth objects (comets, asteroids, meteors)
China invading Taiwan (who America is avowed to defend)
Conflict with North Korea over her nuclear missiles capable of striking California
World War III
Flu virus pandemic
The Next 9-11 Attack

Iran in Prophecy

Iran is always in the news today making threats against Israel and the USA, but Bible prophecy already tells us if Iran’s threats will succeed. Ahmadinejad’s plan to wipe Israel off the map with nuclear weapons will backfire and cause his own people to flee Iran. It’s the next prophecy to be fulfilled and may affect everyone who depends on the flow of Middle East oil through the Strait of Hormuz...

For some time we have known that Bible prophecy predicts one final war between the Muslim-Arab nations and Israel. Several Old Testament prophecies leave little doubt that Israel will win-with nuclear weapons. This is the same war you may have heard of from Isaiah 17 that results in Damascus, the world's oldest city, ceasing to be a city and becoming a "ruinous heap" in the future.

Iran's Many Biblical Names

However, we found it odd that Iran was not mentioned in Isaiah 17, Psalm 83 or Zechariah 12; the main prophecies about this war. In researching and writing about the Middle East Nuclear war, we finally discovered Iran was there all along but not under the Biblical name you'd expect of "Persia" (Iranians are not Arab, but Persian).

Psalms 83:8 (HCSB) - Even Assyria has joined them; they lend support to the sons of Lot. Selah The Assyrian empire included at least part of Iran. Psalm 83 predicts defeat for her and her allies who will attack Israel to "wipe her off the map".

That's not the only prophecy mentioning Iran however. The Book of Jeremiah uses another name for Iran: Elam. It contains a passage about Iran experiencing devastation and the scattering of her population to many other nations (Jer 49:34-39) as a result of the same attack that devastates Damascus (Jer 49:25 = Isa 17:1).

We've written up a comprehenseive explanation of all the related prophecies we have found and tied them together. The prophecies tell us when and how this war may come, and what the effects may be for Americans and others in Western nations dependant on oil or vulnerable to the terror retaliation of Iran in losing the war.