George W. Bush contemplated bombing Iran, going so far as to have plans drawn up, this according to his memoirs. It was my feeling at the time that the upcoming election for Bush's successor was the reason it was delayed. John McCain could do it! So this issue of Iran was front and center when Barack Obama met Benjamin Netanyahu in May of 2009, four months after Obama assumed the office. In that meeting Obama told the Israeli Prime Minister to give Iran until December to see if they respond to ultimatums.
It was reported in 2013 that some Israeli government officials believed that Iran already had at least one bomb. There were other analysts that agreed with this. I had written a few years ago that I also believed that. The Soviet Union exploded their first atomic bomb only four years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki and that was with the technology of over sixty years ago. The back and forth dialogue in the press over the last few years on when Iran would get the bomb borders on the absurd. But, if you choose to believe that Iran is only slowly getting there.....well, that's politics today, not common sense.
Folks, this is the stuff that world wars are made of. This 'deal' is akin to the naivete of believing that Hitler wanted peace at Munich and this is off of the same drawing board that gave Stalin Eastern Europe....only the stakes are higher and we do not have the hegemony in military, economic or world affairs that we once had, nor is our president even on our side, for he favors Islamic nations over Israel and everybody over us!
Why bring this up and why write so much in these posts about our own culpability and rejection of God if there is going to be calamity anyway? I, and so many others, bring it up because God can extend His mercy to a humbled and repentant people. It won't stop these coming hostilities but the warnings may be recalled later. Certainly many will come to see that our calamities came because 'we had forgotten God.' Others will only harden their hearts further. How much we pray today may determine how many recall these warnings later.
