I said to the LORD, "You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing." As for the saints who are in the land, they are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight. The sorrows of those will increase who run after other gods.

LORD, who may dwell in your sanctuary? Who may live on your holy hill? He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous.

From our study of Ezekiel 38-39 you can see that there are really only a few major preceding conditions left before this prophecy can be fulfilled. Turkey has to switch sides, the US has to be taken out of the picture, and Israel has to be living in an assumed state of peace with its neighbors. So when will this happen?

The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good. The LORD looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God. All have turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

In October of 2004 Iran completed two big steps in its ongoing pursuit of nuclear weaponry. First was the successful test of a missile with a 1250-mile (2000km) range, capable of hitting all parts of Israel, all US military installations in the Middle East, and every European capitol with nuclear warheads. Second was the conversion of "a few tons" of raw uranium into fuel to power the centrifuges used in the production of weapons grade uranium. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei told Iran's nuclear scientists this week that unless they produce four bombs by January of 2005 they "aren't Moslems." In the same week week, Russia repeated its pledge to continue assisting Iran in developing its nuclear capability...

How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?

This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil scheme. You will say, "I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people-all of them living without walls and without gates and bars."