World News & Trends: Iran's nuclear ambitions continue unabated
The media world provides us with many distractions that continually avert our eyes from seeing occurrences essential to eventually fulfilling Bible prophecy.
Even events we should certainly be aware of in the Middle East, like the "Arab Spring" and efforts to proclaim a Palestinian state, can distract our focus away from other important developments in the region. Iran is a case in point.
Emanuele Ottolenghi, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies in Washington, D.C., stated, "Iran's nuclear clock continues to tick and the hour of reckoning may now be near" ("Iran's Making a Bomb, All Else Is a Lie," The Jewish Chronicle, Sept. 16, 2011).
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) continually monitors Iran's compliance with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Its latest quarterly report concludes bluntly: "Iran is violating the treaty and, despite mounting pressure from a progressively expanding regime of sanctions, Tehran relentlessly pursues its nuclear ambitions while protesting its innocence. But Iran's claims are lies" (ibid.).
Iranian stockpiles of uranium are growing, and the country is installing many centrifuges to further enrich uranium. Ottolenghi's concluding analysis: "Iran's cat and mouse game has given Tehran time to develop its nuclear programme—and given its progress, it may soon be too late to stop them."
These significant events in the Middle East require our serious attention (see Luke 21:34-36). To properly grasp the historic and prophetic implications, request or download our free booklet The Middle East in Bible Prophecy. (Source: The Jewish Chronicle [London].)
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Good News Magazine: November - December 2011
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Jerold Aust
Jerold Aust has served in the ministry for 52 years, as a public speaker for 58 years, a published writer for 38 years, and is employed by UCG’s Media and Communications Services. He is a Senior Writer, interviewer, and editor for Beyond Today Magazine and has taught Speech Communication for UCG’s ministerial online program and the Book of Revelation for ABC.
Jerold holds a BA in theology from Ambassador College, Pasadena (1968), an MA in Communication from California State University, Fullerton (1995), a distance-learning Ph.D (2006), and a Famous Writers School diploma in non-fiction writing (1973). Additionally, he studied post-grad communication at University of Southern California (1995), radio, TV, voice-overs, and Public Relations at Fullerton College (1995-1996), and graduate communication at Wichita State University (1978). Jerold has taught communication at the University of South Alabama (7 years) and ABC (17 years). His published works include, Ronald Reagan’s Rhetoric: Metaphor as Persuasion and EZSpeakers: Public Speaking Made Easy in 7 Steps. Jerold's overarching goal is to share with humankind its incredible destiny!
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