LOCATION - LOCATION - LOCATION

What’s so special about this photo?...isn’t that just a mine, or maybe even a rocket launch-pad?                                                             

No, this is an American drilling-rig searching for oil and gas within a 400 sq. km. area.                                   

Well, big deal! So what??                     

Zion Oil & Gas from Delaware, USA, is searching at the geographic pivot of Africa, Asia and Europe - the Jezreel Valley in Israel, beside the ancient Via Maris or ‘Way of the Sea’.

Winston Churchill said about this patch of dirt: “Never in the field of human conflict have so many fought so often over so little space.”                        
Napoleon Bonaparte: “…the most natural battleground of the whole earth.”            
So who has fought here? Who hasn’t fought here!...and this where British General Allenby defeated the Ottoman Turks in September, 1918.

A former prime minister of Israel, Golda Meir, complained about Moses: “He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil.”          
Well, the Tamar and Leviathan gas&oil fields off Haifa’s coastline were recently tapped - just as old Moses predicted at 120: “…let him dip his foot in oil” - and don’t forget...he said this about Joseph’s family: “Blessed of the Lord is his land……..and the deep lying beneath”. Even the original Mr. Israel, old Jacob at 147 said about his favourite son: “…the Almighty who will bless you with…blessings of the deep that lies beneath”.                                       

Is that just two old men waffling on before they died?? Will biblical prophecy be proved wrong for a change?... or will this make for the final showdown?                                                                                                      

So here’s a ‘heads-up’…        What overlooks the Jezreel Valley?
Nazareth to the north-east and…….Tel Megiddo, to the south, on the ancient northern boundary of Manasseh, son of Joseph – yes, that’s it - Armageddon or ‘mountain of slaughter’.

Watch out everybody!...Jezreel means ‘God scatters’.                                               

 

Acknowledgements: zionoil.com                                                                        

Cline, Eric H. The Battles of Armageddon, 2000, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbour MI

photocredits:
Signs/Consfords.com
drillrig/jeremiah111.org 
Map/tichon.readyhosting.com