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Thursday, June 5, 2014
Shavu’ot (or Pentecost)
Shavu’ot (or Pentecost)
Earlier, during the Christian celebration of Passover, the Crucifixion of Jesus and His Resurrection–and Jews celebrated Pesach–or Passover, Matza–or Feast of Unleavened Bread and Bikkurim, or Firstfruits (which occurs the day immediately after the first day of Matza). So the first 3 festivals (of 7) occur in turn the 14th, 15th, and 16th of Aviv.
Then, 50 days later, is the celebration of Shavu’ot, the Feast of Weeks (non-Jews know it as “Pentecost“). This year, the festival began yesterday, June 3, 2014. Open your Bibles and let‘s read a bit of Deuteronomy 16.
What happened is that Pentecost (Shavu’ot) was a prophetic foreshadow of the coming of the Holy Spirit. And naturally, as all prophecy is 100% accurate and flawless, that is exactly what happened—the Holy Spirit came on the summertime Feast Day of Shavu’ot.
While the arrival of the Holy Spirit is the Christian reason for the day, the Jewish people see it as something else. In fact for the Jew it comes from an agricultural standpoint, the nearly two-month period from the time of Firstfruits until the time of Shavu’ot covers the grain harvesting period of both the Barley and the Wheat harvests.
What this means is that while Firstfruits signals that the harvesting of the Barley will begin within a few hours or days, Shavu’ot signals the end of harvesting the wheat. What I mean is that the Barley harvest begins around the time of Firstfruits and then ends around a month later. At the proper moment during the second-half of that 7-week period the wheat harvesting begins, and then at Shavu’ot (the end of the 7 week period) the wheat harvesting ends.
The second meaning of Shavu’ot for Hebrews is that it is celebrating the time Moses received the Law on Mount Sinai. The Scriptures show us that it was around 50-days after Israel fled Egypt that Moses received the Law from God–so there is an amazing connection between Moses receiving the Law of God written on stone tablets and the coming of the Holy Spirit. Remember how Jeremiah prophesied that a day would come when God would write His Laws on the hearts of those who love Him? The New Testament confirms that it was on the day that the Holy Spirit came—Pentecost, Shavu’ot! God wrote His Laws on our hearts on Shavo’ut–Pentecost.
God‘s first set-apart people received the Law on Shavu’ot, through Moses, just as God‘s second set-apart people received the Law on Shavu’ot, through Yeshua.
Interestingly, when YHWH gave Moses those law at Sinai, the people were to write the Law on their own hearts. They were to do this by thinking—pondering–meditating on those laws night and day. However, in Jeremiah’s prophesy, the Lord said that when He renewed the giving of the Law this time, He was going to write those Laws on the hearts of His people.
In both cases the Law was to be written on the human heart, but in the first case the individual was to do it himself, and in the second God would do it supernaturally. That is cool!
Something else that is cool about Shavu’ot (Pentecost), is that it is uniquely inclusive! Israel is told to include males, females, slave, free, Levites, orphans, widows, even strangers (ger) (Ger are non-Hebrews (gentiles) that have decided to bond themselves to Israel but they‘re not circumcised). What I am getting at is that those who can be included in the meaning of Shavu’ot do not have to become official Hebrews through the b’rit milah, the circumcision ceremony.
What this means is that anyone who wishes to call Yeshua their Lord can be Hebrews or non-Hebrews, but they must bond themselves to Israel (as Paul says, “be grafted in”); yet that bonding does not mean that a ger needs a circumcision ceremony to make them (us), official Hebrews. We can remain gentiles and yet still be part of Israel just as the scenario is in the Torah. Why are you still sitting down in your chair? You should be running around and shouting with excitement!
Earlier, during the Christian celebration of Passover, the Crucifixion of Jesus and His Resurrection–and Jews celebrated Pesach–or Passover, Matza–or Feast of Unleavened Bread and Bikkurim, or Firstfruits (which occurs the day immediately after the first day of Matza). So the first 3 festivals (of 7) occur in turn the 14th, 15th, and 16th of Aviv.
Then, 50 days later, is the celebration of Shavu’ot, the Feast of Weeks (non-Jews know it as “Pentecost“). This year, the festival began yesterday, June 3, 2014. Open your Bibles and let‘s read a bit of Deuteronomy 16.
What happened is that Pentecost (Shavu’ot) was a prophetic foreshadow of the coming of the Holy Spirit. And naturally, as all prophecy is 100% accurate and flawless, that is exactly what happened—the Holy Spirit came on the summertime Feast Day of Shavu’ot.
While the arrival of the Holy Spirit is the Christian reason for the day, the Jewish people see it as something else. In fact for the Jew it comes from an agricultural standpoint, the nearly two-month period from the time of Firstfruits until the time of Shavu’ot covers the grain harvesting period of both the Barley and the Wheat harvests.
What this means is that while Firstfruits signals that the harvesting of the Barley will begin within a few hours or days, Shavu’ot signals the end of harvesting the wheat. What I mean is that the Barley harvest begins around the time of Firstfruits and then ends around a month later. At the proper moment during the second-half of that 7-week period the wheat harvesting begins, and then at Shavu’ot (the end of the 7 week period) the wheat harvesting ends.
The second meaning of Shavu’ot for Hebrews is that it is celebrating the time Moses received the Law on Mount Sinai. The Scriptures show us that it was around 50-days after Israel fled Egypt that Moses received the Law from God–so there is an amazing connection between Moses receiving the Law of God written on stone tablets and the coming of the Holy Spirit. Remember how Jeremiah prophesied that a day would come when God would write His Laws on the hearts of those who love Him? The New Testament confirms that it was on the day that the Holy Spirit came—Pentecost, Shavu’ot! God wrote His Laws on our hearts on Shavo’ut–Pentecost.
God‘s first set-apart people received the Law on Shavu’ot, through Moses, just as God‘s second set-apart people received the Law on Shavu’ot, through Yeshua.
Interestingly, when YHWH gave Moses those law at Sinai, the people were to write the Law on their own hearts. They were to do this by thinking—pondering–meditating on those laws night and day. However, in Jeremiah’s prophesy, the Lord said that when He renewed the giving of the Law this time, He was going to write those Laws on the hearts of His people.
In both cases the Law was to be written on the human heart, but in the first case the individual was to do it himself, and in the second God would do it supernaturally. That is cool!
Something else that is cool about Shavu’ot (Pentecost), is that it is uniquely inclusive! Israel is told to include males, females, slave, free, Levites, orphans, widows, even strangers (ger) (Ger are non-Hebrews (gentiles) that have decided to bond themselves to Israel but they‘re not circumcised). What I am getting at is that those who can be included in the meaning of Shavu’ot do not have to become official Hebrews through the b’rit milah, the circumcision ceremony.
What this means is that anyone who wishes to call Yeshua their Lord can be Hebrews or non-Hebrews, but they must bond themselves to Israel (as Paul says, “be grafted in”); yet that bonding does not mean that a ger needs a circumcision ceremony to make them (us), official Hebrews. We can remain gentiles and yet still be part of Israel just as the scenario is in the Torah. Why are you still sitting down in your chair? You should be running around and shouting with excitement!
Nickolas
Nickolas
Then, 50 days later, is the celebration of Shavu’ot, the Feast of Weeks (non-Jews know it as “Pentecost“). This year, the festival began yesterday, June 3, 2014. Open your Bibles and let‘s read a bit of Deuteronomy 16.
Count seven weeks from the time you start harvesting grain. Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to Yahweh your Elohim. Bring a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings Yahweh your Elohim has given you. Enjoy yourselves in the presence of Yahweh your Elohim along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, the Levites who live in your cities, the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live among you. Enjoy yourselves at the place Yahweh your Elohim will choose for his name to live. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and obey these laws carefully —Deuteronomomy 16:9-12Christians know Shavu’ot better as Pentecost; Pentecost is simply the Greek word for Shavu’ot. As you probably know, Pentecost was the day that the Holy Spirit came to live within those who trusted Yeshua as Savior. It was the day that all those Jews started speaking in tongues. I have said this many times but as a teacher I guess I get a pass for repeating myself: Pentecost was not a day that was created by Christians to commemorate the coming of the Holy Spirit. Pentecost was already a 1300 year old Holy Day by Jesus‘ time.
What happened is that Pentecost (Shavu’ot) was a prophetic foreshadow of the coming of the Holy Spirit. And naturally, as all prophecy is 100% accurate and flawless, that is exactly what happened—the Holy Spirit came on the summertime Feast Day of Shavu’ot.
While the arrival of the Holy Spirit is the Christian reason for the day, the Jewish people see it as something else. In fact for the Jew it comes from an agricultural standpoint, the nearly two-month period from the time of Firstfruits until the time of Shavu’ot covers the grain harvesting period of both the Barley and the Wheat harvests.
What this means is that while Firstfruits signals that the harvesting of the Barley will begin within a few hours or days, Shavu’ot signals the end of harvesting the wheat. What I mean is that the Barley harvest begins around the time of Firstfruits and then ends around a month later. At the proper moment during the second-half of that 7-week period the wheat harvesting begins, and then at Shavu’ot (the end of the 7 week period) the wheat harvesting ends.
The second meaning of Shavu’ot for Hebrews is that it is celebrating the time Moses received the Law on Mount Sinai. The Scriptures show us that it was around 50-days after Israel fled Egypt that Moses received the Law from God–so there is an amazing connection between Moses receiving the Law of God written on stone tablets and the coming of the Holy Spirit. Remember how Jeremiah prophesied that a day would come when God would write His Laws on the hearts of those who love Him? The New Testament confirms that it was on the day that the Holy Spirit came—Pentecost, Shavu’ot! God wrote His Laws on our hearts on Shavo’ut–Pentecost.
God‘s first set-apart people received the Law on Shavu’ot, through Moses, just as God‘s second set-apart people received the Law on Shavu’ot, through Yeshua.
Interestingly, when YHWH gave Moses those law at Sinai, the people were to write the Law on their own hearts. They were to do this by thinking—pondering–meditating on those laws night and day. However, in Jeremiah’s prophesy, the Lord said that when He renewed the giving of the Law this time, He was going to write those Laws on the hearts of His people.
In both cases the Law was to be written on the human heart, but in the first case the individual was to do it himself, and in the second God would do it supernaturally. That is cool!
Something else that is cool about Shavu’ot (Pentecost), is that it is uniquely inclusive! Israel is told to include males, females, slave, free, Levites, orphans, widows, even strangers (ger) (Ger are non-Hebrews (gentiles) that have decided to bond themselves to Israel but they‘re not circumcised). What I am getting at is that those who can be included in the meaning of Shavu’ot do not have to become official Hebrews through the b’rit milah, the circumcision ceremony.
What this means is that anyone who wishes to call Yeshua their Lord can be Hebrews or non-Hebrews, but they must bond themselves to Israel (as Paul says, “be grafted in”); yet that bonding does not mean that a ger needs a circumcision ceremony to make them (us), official Hebrews. We can remain gentiles and yet still be part of Israel just as the scenario is in the Torah. Why are you still sitting down in your chair? You should be running around and shouting with excitement!
Earlier, during the Christian celebration of Passover, the Crucifixion of Jesus and His Resurrection–and Jews celebrated Pesach–or Passover, Matza–or Feast of Unleavened Bread and Bikkurim, or Firstfruits (which occurs the day immediately after the first day of Matza). So the first 3 festivals (of 7) occur in turn the 14th, 15th, and 16th of Aviv.
Then, 50 days later, is the celebration of Shavu’ot, the Feast of Weeks (non-Jews know it as “Pentecost“). This year, the festival began yesterday, June 3, 2014. Open your Bibles and let‘s read a bit of Deuteronomy 16.
Count seven weeks from the time you start harvesting grain. Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to Yahweh your Elohim. Bring a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings Yahweh your Elohim has given you. Enjoy yourselves in the presence of Yahweh your Elohim along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, the Levites who live in your cities, the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live among you. Enjoy yourselves at the place Yahweh your Elohim will choose for his name to live. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and obey these laws carefully —Deuteronomomy 16:9-12Christians know Shavu’ot better as Pentecost; Pentecost is simply the Greek word for Shavu’ot. As you probably know, Pentecost was the day that the Holy Spirit came to live within those who trusted Yeshua as Savior. It was the day that all those Jews started speaking in tongues. I have said this many times but as a teacher I guess I get a pass for repeating myself: Pentecost was not a day that was created by Christians to commemorate the coming of the Holy Spirit. Pentecost was already a 1300 year old Holy Day by Jesus‘ time.
What happened is that Pentecost (Shavu’ot) was a prophetic foreshadow of the coming of the Holy Spirit. And naturally, as all prophecy is 100% accurate and flawless, that is exactly what happened—the Holy Spirit came on the summertime Feast Day of Shavu’ot.
While the arrival of the Holy Spirit is the Christian reason for the day, the Jewish people see it as something else. In fact for the Jew it comes from an agricultural standpoint, the nearly two-month period from the time of Firstfruits until the time of Shavu’ot covers the grain harvesting period of both the Barley and the Wheat harvests.
What this means is that while Firstfruits signals that the harvesting of the Barley will begin within a few hours or days, Shavu’ot signals the end of harvesting the wheat. What I mean is that the Barley harvest begins around the time of Firstfruits and then ends around a month later. At the proper moment during the second-half of that 7-week period the wheat harvesting begins, and then at Shavu’ot (the end of the 7 week period) the wheat harvesting ends.
The second meaning of Shavu’ot for Hebrews is that it is celebrating the time Moses received the Law on Mount Sinai. The Scriptures show us that it was around 50-days after Israel fled Egypt that Moses received the Law from God–so there is an amazing connection between Moses receiving the Law of God written on stone tablets and the coming of the Holy Spirit. Remember how Jeremiah prophesied that a day would come when God would write His Laws on the hearts of those who love Him? The New Testament confirms that it was on the day that the Holy Spirit came—Pentecost, Shavu’ot! God wrote His Laws on our hearts on Shavo’ut–Pentecost.
God‘s first set-apart people received the Law on Shavu’ot, through Moses, just as God‘s second set-apart people received the Law on Shavu’ot, through Yeshua.
Interestingly, when YHWH gave Moses those law at Sinai, the people were to write the Law on their own hearts. They were to do this by thinking—pondering–meditating on those laws night and day. However, in Jeremiah’s prophesy, the Lord said that when He renewed the giving of the Law this time, He was going to write those Laws on the hearts of His people.
In both cases the Law was to be written on the human heart, but in the first case the individual was to do it himself, and in the second God would do it supernaturally. That is cool!
Something else that is cool about Shavu’ot (Pentecost), is that it is uniquely inclusive! Israel is told to include males, females, slave, free, Levites, orphans, widows, even strangers (ger) (Ger are non-Hebrews (gentiles) that have decided to bond themselves to Israel but they‘re not circumcised). What I am getting at is that those who can be included in the meaning of Shavu’ot do not have to become official Hebrews through the b’rit milah, the circumcision ceremony.
What this means is that anyone who wishes to call Yeshua their Lord can be Hebrews or non-Hebrews, but they must bond themselves to Israel (as Paul says, “be grafted in”); yet that bonding does not mean that a ger needs a circumcision ceremony to make them (us), official Hebrews. We can remain gentiles and yet still be part of Israel just as the scenario is in the Torah. Why are you still sitting down in your chair? You should be running around and shouting with excitement!
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Monday, June 2, 2014
China Flexes It's Nuclear Submarine Power In Warning to US/Asian Neighbors
China Flexes It's
Nuclear Submarine Power In Warning to US/Asian Neighbors
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China has deployed three nuclear-armed
ballistic missile submarines to a naval base in the South China Sea, according
to a recent photo of the vessels that appeared on the Internet.
The three Type 094 missile submarines were photographed at the Yalong Bay naval base on Hainan Island, located at the northern end of the South China Sea.
The submarines appear to be part of China’s plan to begin the first regular sea patrols of nuclear missile submarines.
Adm. Samuel Locklear, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, voiced concerns about Chinese missile submarines in testimony to the House Armed Services Committee in March.
“China’s advance in submarine capabilities is significant,” Locklear said. “They possess a large and increasingly capable submarine force. China continues the production of ballistic missile submarines. … This will give China its first credible sea-based nuclear deterrent, probably before the end of 2014.”
Disclosure of the strategic submarine deployment comes as China sharply increased tensions over the weekend after one of its naval vessels rammed and sank a Vietnamese fishing boat in disputed waters claimed by both countries in the region.
Meanwhile, China on Tuesday called recent Japanese military aircraft incursions during joint Chinese-Russian war games in the East China Sea both dangerous and provocative, further escalating tensions between Beijing and Tokyo.
The photograph of the three missile submarines is the latest example of state-controlled media signaling new strategic nuclear capabilities by China.
The submarines, also called the Jin-class, are equipped with 12 multiple-warhead JL-2 submarine launched ballistic missiles that have a range of up to 4,900 miles.
Meanwhile, one of the U.S. Navy’s nuclear-powered attack submarines based in Guam last week deployed for missions in the Asia Pacific and likely will conduct surveillance of China’s submarine forces in the region.
The submarine was monitoring a large Chinese-Russian joint naval exercise in the northern East China Sea that ended this week.
The Air Force also has begun long-range Global Hawk drone flights over Asia as part of a summer deployment of two of the unmanned surveillance aircraft to Japan.
On Tuesday, a Chinese general called the intrusion into military exercises by Japanese warplanes “dangerous” and “provocative.”
“Japan unilaterally stirred up the military jets’ encounter over the East China Sea,” Sun Jianguo, deputy chief of general staff of the People’s Liberation Army, told Xinhua, referring to the Japanese jets’ confrontation by Chinese jets.
The jets flew in the unilaterally declared Chinese air defense identification zone that Tokyo, Washington and other Asia states do not recognize.
The incident occurred as Chinese and Russian warships were engaged in naval maneuvers.
“Japan’s move, like its decision to purchase the Diaoyu [Senkaku] Islands in 2012 so as to change the status quo, is very dangerous and provocative,” Sun said
The encounter between Japanese and Chinese jet fighters took place May 24 over open waters as the Japanese sought to monitor the military exercises.
The Vietnamese fishing boat sank Monday after colliding with a Chinese patrol vessel near the disputed Paracel Islands, in the South China Sea, where China raised tensions by beginning undersea oil drilling.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters the vessel sinking is troubling.
“We remain concerned about dangerous conduct and intimidation by vessels operating in this area by the Chinese,” she said. “We continue to call on all parties to exercise restraint and take steps to lower the tensions and conduct themselves in a safe and, of course, professional manner.”
Relations between Hanoi and Beijing remain tense over the maritime dispute. Protests were held recently in communist Vietnam against communist China.
There have been unconfirmed reports that Chinese military forces were massing near the Chinese border with Vietnam. The two nations fought a brief conflict early 1979, after Chinese forces invaded and captured several cities before retreating.
Regarding the missile submarines, Andrei Pinkov, a military analyst with Kanwa Defense who reported on the submarines May 1, said the three submarines at Hainan are a sign Beijing is speeding up the pace of deployments. Also, a review of the photo indicates that one of the three submarines could be a more advanced missile submarine called the Type 096, based on an analysis of the length of missile submarines, he stated in his journal Kanwa Defense Review.
The deployment is “intended to give the new SSBN better protection in the deep waters of the South China Sea,” Pinkov stated, using the military acronym for ballistic missile submarine.
Hans M. Kristensen, an analyst with the Federation of American Scientists, said China now has three or four Type-094s.
China over the past decade has built an extensive naval infrastructure for its underwater forces, including upgraded naval bases, submarine hull demagnetization facilities, underground facilities and high-bay buildings for missile storage and handling, and covered tunnels and railways to conceal the activities from prying eyes in the sky.
It is not known if the Chinese will deploy actual nuclear warheads with the submarines or continue the past Chinese practice of keeping warheads in central storage sites for deployment in a crisis.
“The South Sea Fleet naval facilities on Hainan Island are under significant expansion,” Kristensen stated in a recent blog post. “The nuclear submarine base at Longpo has been upgraded to serve as the first nuclear submarine base in the South China Sea.”
The base also includes a submarine tunnel that is part of an underwater complex of nuclear facilities on Hainan.
The Washington Free Beacon first reported in July that China would begin the first sea patrols of the Type 094 some time this year.
China conducted a test flight of the JL-2 missile, the system to be deployed on the Type 094, in August 2012.
A report by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center last year stated that the JL-2 “will, for the first time, allow Chinese SSBNs to target portions of the United States from operating areas located near the Chinese coast.”
China’s jingoistic Global Times published an unprecedented report that revealed a nuclear missile strike on the western United States with JL-2 missiles could kill up to 12 million Americans.
The Obama administration and senior Navy officials were silent regarding the nuclear attack threat, which included graphics showing nuclear plumes and collateral damage caused by radiation.
The congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission stated in a report several years ago that China is planning to deploy an anti-satellite missile on its missile submarines.
Anti-satellite missiles are key elements of China’s anti-access, area denial capabilities designed to drive the U.S. Navy out of Asia.
China only recently began publicizing its nuclear missile submarine forces, mainly through semi-official disclosures on so-called military enthusiast websites.
The three Type 094 missile submarines were photographed at the Yalong Bay naval base on Hainan Island, located at the northern end of the South China Sea.
The submarines appear to be part of China’s plan to begin the first regular sea patrols of nuclear missile submarines.
Adm. Samuel Locklear, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, voiced concerns about Chinese missile submarines in testimony to the House Armed Services Committee in March.
“China’s advance in submarine capabilities is significant,” Locklear said. “They possess a large and increasingly capable submarine force. China continues the production of ballistic missile submarines. … This will give China its first credible sea-based nuclear deterrent, probably before the end of 2014.”
Disclosure of the strategic submarine deployment comes as China sharply increased tensions over the weekend after one of its naval vessels rammed and sank a Vietnamese fishing boat in disputed waters claimed by both countries in the region.
Meanwhile, China on Tuesday called recent Japanese military aircraft incursions during joint Chinese-Russian war games in the East China Sea both dangerous and provocative, further escalating tensions between Beijing and Tokyo.
The photograph of the three missile submarines is the latest example of state-controlled media signaling new strategic nuclear capabilities by China.
The submarines, also called the Jin-class, are equipped with 12 multiple-warhead JL-2 submarine launched ballistic missiles that have a range of up to 4,900 miles.
Meanwhile, one of the U.S. Navy’s nuclear-powered attack submarines based in Guam last week deployed for missions in the Asia Pacific and likely will conduct surveillance of China’s submarine forces in the region.
The submarine was monitoring a large Chinese-Russian joint naval exercise in the northern East China Sea that ended this week.
The Air Force also has begun long-range Global Hawk drone flights over Asia as part of a summer deployment of two of the unmanned surveillance aircraft to Japan.
On Tuesday, a Chinese general called the intrusion into military exercises by Japanese warplanes “dangerous” and “provocative.”
“Japan unilaterally stirred up the military jets’ encounter over the East China Sea,” Sun Jianguo, deputy chief of general staff of the People’s Liberation Army, told Xinhua, referring to the Japanese jets’ confrontation by Chinese jets.
The jets flew in the unilaterally declared Chinese air defense identification zone that Tokyo, Washington and other Asia states do not recognize.
The incident occurred as Chinese and Russian warships were engaged in naval maneuvers.
“Japan’s move, like its decision to purchase the Diaoyu [Senkaku] Islands in 2012 so as to change the status quo, is very dangerous and provocative,” Sun said
The encounter between Japanese and Chinese jet fighters took place May 24 over open waters as the Japanese sought to monitor the military exercises.
The Vietnamese fishing boat sank Monday after colliding with a Chinese patrol vessel near the disputed Paracel Islands, in the South China Sea, where China raised tensions by beginning undersea oil drilling.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters the vessel sinking is troubling.
“We remain concerned about dangerous conduct and intimidation by vessels operating in this area by the Chinese,” she said. “We continue to call on all parties to exercise restraint and take steps to lower the tensions and conduct themselves in a safe and, of course, professional manner.”
Relations between Hanoi and Beijing remain tense over the maritime dispute. Protests were held recently in communist Vietnam against communist China.
There have been unconfirmed reports that Chinese military forces were massing near the Chinese border with Vietnam. The two nations fought a brief conflict early 1979, after Chinese forces invaded and captured several cities before retreating.
Regarding the missile submarines, Andrei Pinkov, a military analyst with Kanwa Defense who reported on the submarines May 1, said the three submarines at Hainan are a sign Beijing is speeding up the pace of deployments. Also, a review of the photo indicates that one of the three submarines could be a more advanced missile submarine called the Type 096, based on an analysis of the length of missile submarines, he stated in his journal Kanwa Defense Review.
The deployment is “intended to give the new SSBN better protection in the deep waters of the South China Sea,” Pinkov stated, using the military acronym for ballistic missile submarine.
Hans M. Kristensen, an analyst with the Federation of American Scientists, said China now has three or four Type-094s.
China over the past decade has built an extensive naval infrastructure for its underwater forces, including upgraded naval bases, submarine hull demagnetization facilities, underground facilities and high-bay buildings for missile storage and handling, and covered tunnels and railways to conceal the activities from prying eyes in the sky.
It is not known if the Chinese will deploy actual nuclear warheads with the submarines or continue the past Chinese practice of keeping warheads in central storage sites for deployment in a crisis.
“The South Sea Fleet naval facilities on Hainan Island are under significant expansion,” Kristensen stated in a recent blog post. “The nuclear submarine base at Longpo has been upgraded to serve as the first nuclear submarine base in the South China Sea.”
The base also includes a submarine tunnel that is part of an underwater complex of nuclear facilities on Hainan.
The Washington Free Beacon first reported in July that China would begin the first sea patrols of the Type 094 some time this year.
China conducted a test flight of the JL-2 missile, the system to be deployed on the Type 094, in August 2012.
A report by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center last year stated that the JL-2 “will, for the first time, allow Chinese SSBNs to target portions of the United States from operating areas located near the Chinese coast.”
China’s jingoistic Global Times published an unprecedented report that revealed a nuclear missile strike on the western United States with JL-2 missiles could kill up to 12 million Americans.
The Obama administration and senior Navy officials were silent regarding the nuclear attack threat, which included graphics showing nuclear plumes and collateral damage caused by radiation.
The congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission stated in a report several years ago that China is planning to deploy an anti-satellite missile on its missile submarines.
Anti-satellite missiles are key elements of China’s anti-access, area denial capabilities designed to drive the U.S. Navy out of Asia.
China only recently began publicizing its nuclear missile submarine forces, mainly through semi-official disclosures on so-called military enthusiast websites.
Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2014/June01/014.html#8z2dAppRWL7gzXqh.99
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