Unleashing the Beast

M EGIDDO : B ATTLE AT THE G ATES / 169

Union are often traded in return for hard cash and, in some cases, drugs. The drugs are given to the contact person who, in return, brings across the border the weapons or the technology. The drugs are sold in Russia on the black market and the weapons or technology are placed in the arsenal of dangerous men. And l wilt plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and l will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone (38:22). The word brimstone alludes to sulfur. In ancient times the weapons of war were swords, spears and chariots. Now the weapons contain fire and smoke. If certain fiery weapons are used, they could produce forms of radiation. Therefore, the bodies of the dead would lie in the polluted fields for seven months, until strangers are hired to mark the places where the skeletons are lying. F IRE , B RIMSTONE AND H AIL A CCOMPANY THE B ATTLE

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And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and bum the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years (Ezekiel 39: 9).