Ian Fleming, former operative for the British Naval Intelligence, created a fictional British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) agent named James Bond – known by the code number ‘007.’ Bond’s code number identified him as having been granted a license by Her Majesty’s government to initiate the use of legal force in the pursuit of his intelligence objectives.
According to classic Islamic sources in the Quran and the Hadith, jihad warriors look forward to constant battle and death until they conquer the world for Islam: “The believers . . . fight in his cause, so they kill (others) and are killed” (Sahih al-Bukhari 51:1). “I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers. Therefore, strike off their heads and strike off every one of their fingertips . . . Strike terror (into the hearts of) the enemies of Allah and your enemies” (Quran, Surah 8:12, 60).
Classic Islamic teaching considers it a matter of course that mujahidin (jihadi warriors) will, in the pursuit of their Muslim objectives of world conquest, be involved in killing and being killed. This is part of the challenge and romance of jihad.
There is a popular Arabic proverb than throws some needed Middle-Eastern light on current events: “Darabani wa baka, wa sabaqani wa eshtaka” (‘First he hits me. Then he starts to cry. Finally, he runs ahead of me to the judge and sues me’). The jihadi terrorists of Gaza’s Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah have made it their profession to murder, rape, torture and kidnap Jews and Israelis for forty years, targeting civilians (including women and children) with horrendous atrocities. Yet when the IDF or Mossad bring terminal justice to these murderers, the terror groups’ spokesmen ‘cry, run to the judge and try to sue Israel,’
In recent days, two top jihadi masterminds have met their well-deserved demise. Hezbollah’s chief of staff Fuad Shukr was assassinated on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at 7:40 pm in the Beirut Shi’ite stronghold of Dahiya, in a targeted elimination acknowledged by Israel, Shukr was Hezbollah’s most senior commander, and second in command to arch-terrorist Hassan Nasrallah. He was directly responsible for the Hezbollah rocket attack on Saturday July 27, which murdered 12 Israeli Arab Druze schoolchildren playing soccer on a football pitch in Majdal Shams at the foothills of Mount Hermon. Shukr had also been deeply involved in the mass murder car bombing of 241 US Marines and 58 French paratroopers on October 23, 1983 at the US Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut.
On Wednesday July 31, 2024 at approximately 2 am, a bomb concealed two months previously in a diplomatic suite of a high-security Islamic Revolutionary Guards Neshat guesthouse in the affluent suburbs of North Tehran exploded, sending Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas’ Politburo chief) and his bodyguard on their way to a divine encounter. Haniyeh was one of the two top leaders in Hamas, the other being Yahya Sinwar who is holed up in Hamas tunnels somewhere in the Khan Yunis area of Gaza. Haniyeh was in Tehran for the swearing-in of Iran’s newly elected president Masoud Pezeshkian. In the guesthouse another master terrorist was housed in a room adjoining Haniyeh’s – Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziad Nakhaleh. He was unharmed. Iran’s supreme Shi’ite Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (who was staying barely 150 meters away at the time) was also unharmed. Israel has not claimed responsibility for this hit on Haniyeh.
Coming out of the shadows
The Book of Daniel describes a high-level demonic principality casting its dark shadow over Iran. In Daniel’s day this fallen angel was called ‘the Prince of Persia’ (see Daniel 10:13, 20). The Prince of Persia was the nefarious force pulling the strings of Haman’s genocidal heart, attempting to destroy all the Jewish people living in the vast Persian Empire. Today it is the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and their Supreme Leaders who have stepped up to the plate in a modern attempt to complete that devilish assignment.
Similar to James Bond, the secret agent in the shadows, Iran has mostly refrained from open confrontation with Israel, preferring to exert a gradual chokehold on the Jewish state through proxy terrorist puppets. These include Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Kata’eb Hezbollah in Iraq, the Houthis in Yemen, and other forces in Syria. Israel and Iran have been waging a cat-and-mouse campaign over the years, but as of April 13, 2024 the gloves have come off and the clash is now open.
The October 7 Hamas pogrom into Israel was Iran’s way of communicating to Israel and the United States that Iran would oppose any rapprochement with Saudi Arabia, and was threatening escalation if such moves increased. Israel’s response to the tightening Iranian chokehold involved both a concerted campaign to annihilate Hamas as well as a war of attrition against Lebanese Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel. Over 80,000 Israelis have had to abandon their homes in the North of Israel due to Hezbollah rocket attacks, and 28 Israelis have been murdered by these attacks. America has exerted much pressure on Israel not to respond and remove the Hezbollah threat, at the cost of continuing and increasing Israeli casualties. The resent assassinations of top-level jihadi leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas reveal that the Jewish state is ready for face-to-face confrontation with its mortal enemies – enemies who are not beating around the bush in their clear declarations and actions to destroy Israel.
Preparing for the clash
Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei announced three days of national mourning on Wednesday July 31, 2024: “The criminal and terrorist Zionist regime martyred our dear guest in our house and made us bereaved . . . It also prepared the ground for a harsh punishment for itself . . . We consider it our duty to avenge his blood in this bitter and difficult incident that happened in the territory of the Islamic Republic.”
It is assumed that Iran will attack Israel with significant waves of drones, cruise missiles and ballistic rockets in a strike similar to its April 13, 2024 attack – but with greater intensity. It is also assumed that Iran’s proxies and puppets in Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon will all join in, believing that they also have a ‘license to kill,’ It should be noted that no country or body has taken responsibility for the assassination of Haniyeh, though it is understood that Haniyeh and Hamas are operating as Iranian agents, and Iran is lashing out in a Middle Eastern attempt to show itself as the ‘strong horse’ and the neighborhood bully.
He hits, he cries, he runs to the lawyer
On the same day as Hamas’ Haniyeh moved on, Iran’s Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations Amir Saied Iravani asked the United Nations to condemn and punish Israel for eliminating one of the world’s prime terrorist threats:
- The recent terrorist attack and an act of aggression on the sovereignty and territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran [were] committed by the Israeli regime. In the early hours of 31 July 2024, the Israeli regime carried out a cowardly terrorist attack targeting the residence of H.E. Mr. Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, a recognized Palestinian resistance group. This attack resulted in the martyrdom of Mr. Haniyeh and his bodyguard. The criminal act took place in Tehran, where Mr. Haniyeh was an official guest of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, invited to attend the inauguration of Iran’s new President, H.E. Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian. Such a heinous crime, targeting a high-ranking official guest, is a serious infringement on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran and constitutes a blatant violation of the basic norms and principles of international law, particularly the principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter, including Article 2(4), which prohibits the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state. This rogue and terrorist regime and its accomplices bear responsibility. The Islamic Republic of Iran will not hesitate to exercise its inherent right to self-defense, as enshrined in Article 51 of the United Nations Charter to respond decisively and promptly.
During a phone call with Iranian diplomats, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres affirmed to the Iranian Foreign Minister that Iran holds the ‘inherent right to self-defense’ in response to violations of its national security and territorial integrity.
Iranian negotiations with the USA regarding how to attack Israel
Prior to Iran’s attacks on American soldiers in Iraq (January 2020) and against Israeli military bases on April 13, 2024, the US coordinated the extent and target locations of Iran’s attacks with the Islamic Republic of Iran’s leadership. It is to be assumed that such negotiations are ongoing at this time, probably through Swiss and Qatari mediators, regarding Iran’s soon-coming attack on the Jewish state.
- It is important to remember that Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis are passionately committed to the total annihilation of Israel and the destruction of the Jewish people. This is based on their Islamist perspective, strategy and actions. It is not a ‘one-off’ revenge attack on Jerusalem. It is a deeply cherished goal based on centuries of classic Islamist belief.
The Iranian strike is about to happen
Now is the best time to begin to pray for Israel.
How should we then pray?
- Pray for revelatory strategies to be given to Israel’s leaders about how to neutralize and block all ballistic rocket, cruise missile and drone attacks from all sources. Pray that angelic armies guide Israeli and American munitions to a successful outcome with minimal loss of life.
- Pray for the physical protection of Israel’s civilian population in these upcoming clashes
- Pray for a decisive victory of the forces of Hamas in Gaza, over Hezbollah in Lebanon, and over Iran’s terror masterminds
- Pray for the raising up of Ezekiel’s prophetic Jewish army throughout the earth
Your prayers and support hold up our arms and are the very practical enablement of God to us in the work He has called us to do.
In Messiah Yeshua,
Avner Boskey
Donations can be sent to:
FINAL FRONTIER MINISTRIES
BOX 121971 NASHVILLE TN 37212-1971 USA
Donations can also be made on-line (by PayPal) through: www.davidstent.org
