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Israel is invaded."
                   Audrey
stood up and embraced Beau, asking, "Darling, that can only mean one thing . Right? How soon?"
                   Beau
hugged his wife, took his time and then said, "Audrey, my dear,
eventually the US is going to get hit….hard….cataclysmically. God
hasn’t thrown back the invaders of Israel yet ….so we only have a short time. Once it’s too late
for the U.S. to intervene….which quite obviously the White House
doesn’t intend to do….then what the five Prophets wrote about will happen ."
                   Weeping
almost uncontrollably, Sally gasped out, "We studied what happens next, didn’t we ? Remember? The Daughter
of Babylon will fall in one day….in
one hour….and in one moment. We may be with the
Lord….soon….right?"
                   Beau
was retired military so he had some idea how the destruction of the nation
prophesied in the Bible would take place. "When we looked at those verses
we quickly concluded the obvious - that the only way to destroy an entire
country in such a short time is with nuclear weapons. You’ll recall that we
also read that the fall of this rich, influential and powerful nation will
happen like Sodom and Gomorrah. The Bible records what happened to the land
around those two destroyed cities, that is, no vegetation would grow. The limbs
of the people who died were like blackened sticks. Those are signs of a nuclear event . A big tip-off to what
happened was the description of smoke coming up as from a furnace. Cities
burning fill the whole sky with smoke, but a mushroom cloud looks like smoke
coming up from a furnace."
                   Sally,
her voice breaking, asked, "Will we be nuked ?"
                   "Sally,"
Beau responded, "only God and America’s enemies know what cities
will be taken out with nuclear devices, but I seriously doubt if Birmingham, Alabama is high on the
Jihadists’ list. Instant incineration, though, in a nuclear blast would
be a quick and relatively painless death. If they do what that Congressional
study committee concluded, and use ten nukes in America’s major cities,
that will kill fifty or sixty million people in a moment. About the same number
of infants we’ve aborted since Roe v. Wade. Sally, I know this
isn’t a new thought, we’ve talked about it here in small group, but
those who survive the detonations will be short-termers. That same study said
that 90% of all Americans would be dead within a year of a nuclear attack on some of its cities."
                   Scott
decided to steer the discussion back to less frightening grounds, "OK,
guys, we can’t change any of that at this point. It’s way too late
to move offshore, so let’s discuss what we can do, what we will do if the next few days result in the nuking of America."

9
    The
Moshe and Sophia Guttman Home
    Petah Tikva , Israel
                   Moshe Guttman finally made it home, though the streets
filled with Israelites doing the same delayed him by an additional hour. Sophia
embraced him with tears as soon as he entered their flat. After a family group
hug, Moshe gathered the four Guttmans around the
kitchen table. Moshe had been listening to Israeli radio on the way home, so he
had a good idea as to what was happening 150 miles northeast just outside of
Damascus. Nevertheless, Moshe asked his wife and children what they had heard
and seen on television.
                   Yitzhak,
who did not resemble either parent, being almost six feet tall and swarthy in
his dark complexion, was the first to speak, "Dad, it’s bad…. real bad . Channel 10 has
been streaming from the IDF satellites. There are hundreds, thousands of
armored troop carriers, tanks and artillery racing out of Damascus….you know ….on the southwest side of the Syrian capital,
coming down Highway 7."
                   Moshe
rubbed his forehead