I would like to share a very personal experience with all who read this site.

First, I would like to acknowledge that it has been my personal policy to not share personal dreams on this site because of the inherent inability for you, the reader, to verify the facts. To the best of my knowledge, the closest I have come to detailing a personal "vision," I detailed in the post The Vision : The Trigger. I have only had a few occasions that I would dare call "visions."

In light of recent developments, I have felt compelled to share another one that I had four years ago. Please, pray about the following.

A little over four years ago, a few weeks before Israel's 60th anniversary of independence, I was in prayer. As I finished praying I saw several brief images flash in my mind. Along with the images I understood certain words without seeing them or audibly hearing them.

I saw three warheads, the type I recognized as being on parade in Iraq during the Saddam Hussein years, mounted on scuds. I understood the word Syria and the word North. In the dream, I understood that when I witnessed these things I would know that terrifying and tragic events would follow.

At the time, as now, I was deeply troubled by the "vision," for a lack of a better word.

With the 60th anniversary of Israel's independence only a couple weeks away, I wondered and speculated that maybe the LORD was bringing my attention to the 60th anniversary, possibly even a surprise attack on Israel during that period.

Shortly after the episode, I called my mom and spoke with her about it, as well as talked it over with my wife. The following weeks I prayed about the episode and felt at the time to only share the details with a few people, but for the most part I just kept it to myself. To date, I have still only shared these details with a few individuals.

Today, in light of recent events, I have felt compelled to share these details with a broader audience.

Yesterday, I put up a post about the drought and how the US government issued a natural disaster declaration, the largest ever of its kind, on July 11. While I was putting up the post, I didn't feel within my spirit a confirmation that this was indeed the reason that July 11th had been so strongly placed upon my spirit for several years now. Upon praying about the matter I have come to believe that the drought declaration is a marker, a confirmation of judgment and a witness that severe and tragic calamities are to shortly take place.

I believe that the natural disaster declaration, which comes exactly 2,520 days after the beginning of the forced evictions in Gaza, August 17, 2005, and twelve days after Tammuz 9, the same duration of time between the beginning of the forced evictions in 2005, and the impact of Hurricane Katrina 12-days later in the Gulf, is confirmation. I believe that a war game in Syria held on July 11 and 12, is the real reason for my burden 7-11, which now appears to be connected to the brief "vision" I had four years ago.

Western intelligence sources are reporting that on July 11-12, 2012, Syria held a simulated missile attack on three nations, Israel, Jordan, and Turkey. The type of missiles used in this simulated war game are scud type, capable of carrying conventional warheads, but more concerning is the fact that these missiles can also carry unconventional warheads, specifically mustard, sarin nerve poison, and cyanide.

Just as in the brief "vision" I saw three warhead tips on scud type missiles. In the report three types of warheads are of extreme concern to Western intelligence, not to mention Israel. It is also interesting to note that three nations were named as being targets in the war game that took place over July 11 and 12; these were Israel, Turkey, and Jordan.

Geographically I don't need to mention that Syria is North of Israel.

In the "vision" I understood that when I saw these things, shock and tragedy would soon follow. I find it of no coincidence then that Tishah B'Av is only just two weeks away.

Whether or not it is connected, I find it also interesting that on the final day of the simulated war game in Syria a coronal mass ejection, or solar flare, was unleashed from sunspot 1520. As I noted in Drought : Judgment is Upon Her, July 12 is exactly 1,520 days after May 14, 2008, or Israel's 60th anniversary of independence. The 60th anniversary came a few weeks after I had received the brief vision.

As always, I present this information and the details of the "vision" with humility, fully understanding that I am a man who is susceptible to the misguidings of the flesh. Yet, I would be remiss if at this juncture, knowing what I saw four years ago, I failed to take a moment and share what I believe the LORD showed me in prayer.

Back on February 5, 2009, in Collapse, Destruction, and our Back Against Israel, I was moved to write the following:
Israel and the Obama administration will begin to strain ties, the ties will come to a breaking point. The pride of the Obama administration will be the cause of the split and the trigger for America's fall. She (Israel) will act without the consent of the Obama administration, thus causing the prideful administration to cut her off. She (America) will have lost her saving grace; she will be now as another nation who curses the apple of God's eye. This will be the beginning of her tragic collapse.

I believe this now, just as strongly as I did then, just 16-days after President Obama was sworn into office.

For many years now I have wondered when Israel would act on her own. Many times I have wondered and prayed if it would be a strike on Iran, but I have never felt a confirmation that this would be the act Israel attempts on her own that would draw the ire of the Obama administration, though it could be. Yet, the situation in Syria, and the future fulfillment of Isaiah 17:1, The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap, seems to be more likely the act Israel will be forced into flying solo over. Obama wants no surprises, yet Israel has already warned that the game changer in Syria is the relocating of these missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon, or the perception that Syria is about to use these weapons in a threatening manner against Israel. Israel is well aware of the dangers inherent to the situation and is equally aware that they cannot wait, in the imminent moments before a strike, on Washington, D.C. Even worse, Israel must know by now that support from Obama is not a guarantee.

Babylon's iniquity will crush her in the dust of betrayal.

Israel must be brought to a place of repentance.

The nations of the world must receive tribulation.

O how the seed of David will reign, the future, the HOPE of humanity and of Israel, will return to take HIS inheritance. The KING will reign! We will see and serve with HIM in HIS kingdom here on earth. But before that joyful day, judgment and the Day of the LORD must be rendered.

JESUS CHRIST is the only way in the days ahead. We will be tested and tried. Temptations and tribulation will befall upon us like never before, but we will not be alone, HE will be here with us still. The HOLY SPIRIT will give all that we need and soon, we will be brought before the KING. Do not fear. Yet, in our trembling let us still praise HIS name. HE is for us! HE is our KING! HE is forever the same!

God Bless, daniel

In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

Isaiah 17:11