13. Terrorist attacks in Paris, and other terrorist attacks, has been written in the Bible in Habakkuk 1

On the evening of 13 November 2015, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks—consisting of mass shootings, suicide bombings and hostage-taking—occurred in Paris, France, and Saint-Denis, its northern suburb. Beginning at 21:16 CET, six mass shootings and three separate suicide bombings near the Stade de France occurred. The deadliest attack was at the Bataclan theatre, where attackers took hostages and engaged in a stand-off with police which ended at 00:58 on 14 November.
At least 129 people were killed, 89 of them at the Bataclan theatre. A further 352 people were injured by the attacks, including 99 people described as being in a serious condition. In addition to the civilian casualties, seven attackers were killed and authorities continued to search for any accomplices that remained at large. Prior to the attack, France had been on high alert since the January 2015 attacks in Paris that killed 17 people, including civilians and police officers. At 23:58, French President François Hollande announced a state of emergency, the first since the 2005 riots, and placed temporary controls on the country's borders. The first citywide curfew in Paris since 1944 was also put in place.
On 14 November, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attacks. ISIL's motive was claimed by the group to be retaliation for French involvement in the Syrian Civil War and Iraqi Civil War. Hollande said the attacks were organised from abroad "by Daesh," a pejorative Arabic acronym for ISIL, "with internal help," and described them as "an act of war." The attacks were the deadliest to occur in France since the Second World War,^[26][27] and the deadliest in the European Union since the Madrid train bombings in 2004

Background:

France's military has been involved in airstrikes in Iraq and Syria since 19 September 2014, known by the codename of Operation Chammal. In October 2015, France struck targets in Syria for the first time. ISIL specially mentioned the airstrike campaign when they claimed responsibility for the attacks.

France had been on high alert for terrorist threats since the Charlie Hebdo shooting and a series of related attacks in early January 2015. France had also increased security in anticipation of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, scheduled to be held in Paris from 30 November to 11 December 2015, and had restored border checks the week before the attacks. The Charlie Hebdo shooting in January 2015 occurred in the 11th arrondissement (district) of the city, where the Bataclan theatre is situated. France witnessed several other smaller attacks throughout 2015, including the stabbing of three soldiers in Nice who were guarding a Jewish community centre in February; an attempt to blow up a factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier in June, resulting in the murder of an employee;^[32] and a shooting and stabbing spree on a train in August.
Two Jewish brothers, Pascal and Joel Laloux, owned the Bataclan theatre for more than forty years until they sold it in September 2015. They had said that the venue had been threatened several times because of their public support of Israel. In 2011, a group called "Army of Islam" threatened the theatre because of this.
ISIL and their branches have claimed responsibility for numerous deadly attacks within the weeks leading up to the attacks. On 12 November 2015, twin suicide bombings took place in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 43 people. On 31 October 2015, Metrojet Flight 9268, carrying mostly Russian passengers crashed in the Sinai in Egypt, killing 224 people. ISIL's Sinai branch claimed responsibility. Also, on the day of the attacks, ISIL's lead executioner Jihadi John was reportedly killed by a U.S. drone strike and ISIL lost control of Sinjar to Kurdish forces.

Perpetrators

President François Hollande stated on 14 November that the attacks were organised from abroad by Islamic State with internal help. Syrian and Egyptian passports were reportedly found near the bodies of two of the perpetrators at two attack sites.
Paris Public Prosecutor François Molins confirmed that eight known attackers were killed, though authorities continued to search for the restaurant shooters.

• Four attacked the Bataclan theatre wearing black clothing and using AK-47 assault rifles. Three killed themselves with their suicide vests during the police raid on the theatre. The fourth was killed by police gunfire just before his vest detonated.
• Three suicide bombers detonated their vests near the Stade de France. A Syrian passport was found on one of the suicide bombers, according to the French Police. The authenticity of the passport was questioned and many analysts pointed out that false Syrian passports can be easily obtained.^[76] Minister of Citizen Protection in Greece Nikos Toskas confirmed that one of the Syrian passport-holders had been registered as a refugee on Leros in October. It was also reported that an Egyptian passport was found close to the body of another bomber.^[79]
• The eighth attacker detonated his vest on the boulevard Voltaire near the Bataclan theatre.

According to the Paris prosecutor, the attackers wearing suicide vests used TATP as an explosive.
One of the attackers had been previously identified as a fighter coming back from Syria to commit terrorist acts. One of the other attackers was a French extremist born on 21 November 1985(2 & 5), from the suburb of Courcouronnes, about 20 miles (32 km) south of Paris. He had had a criminal record since 2004 and was flagged as an Islamic extremist in 2010, but had never spent time in jail. French news media identified this attacker as Ismaël Omar Mostefai. A second gunman was found with a passport of a Syrian man who had been born in 1980. The man on the passport had not previously been known to French police. At least one man linked with the attacks had entered the EU via Greece as a Syrian refugee in October. This man has been identified as Ahmed Almuhamed. Another has been identified as Abbdulakbak B.
On 14 November, a car used in the attacks was stopped at the Belgian border and its three occupants arrested. Additionally, three people were arrested in Belgium. Three terrorist teams executed the attacks, according to the Paris prosecutor. They had the same suicide vests and the same Kalashnikov rifles, and one terrorist had eight arrests to his record. Links to the ISIL attack in France are being investigated in an arrest made a week earlier in Germany, on 5 November, when a 51-year-old man from Montenegro was stopped by police, and automatic handguns, hand grenades and explosives were found in his car.

Analysis of tactics and responsibility

Michael Leiter, former director of the United States National Counterterrorism Center, said that the attacks demonstrated "a level of sophistication we really haven't seen in an urban area since 2008 in the attack in Mumbai, India," and that "this will be a game changer for how the West looks at this threat."

ISIL officially claimed responsibility for the attacks on the morning of 14 November, praising their "eight brothers" for the death of "at least 200 crusaders" and claiming that "this was only the beginning of the storm."

Habakkuk 1: ¹⁷ Is he to keep on emptying his net, destroying nations without mercy? (8)

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¹⁶ Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury and enjoys the choicest food. (7)

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⁷ They are a feared and dreaded people; they are a law to themselves and promote their own honor. (7)

⁸ Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;

⁹ they all come intent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand.

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¹³ Your Eyes(JESUS) are too pure to look on evil; You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do You tolerate the treacherous? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves? (4)

¹⁴ You have made people like the fish in the sea, like the sea creatures that have no ruler.
¹⁵ The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks, he catches them in his net, he gathers them up in his dragnet; and so he rejoices and is glad.

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⁴ Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted. (4)

The Lord’s Answer

⁵ “Look at the nations and watch— and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.
⁶ I am(JESUS) raising up the Babylonians(terrorist), that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own.

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¹⁰ They mock kings and scoff at rulers. They laugh at all fortified cities; by building earthen ramps they capture them. (1)
¹¹ Then they sweep past like the wind and go on— guilty people, whose own strength is their god.”

Habakkuk’s Second Complaint

¹² Lord(Jesus), are You not from everlasting? My GOD, my Holy One, we will not die. You, Lord, have appointed them to execute judgment; You, my Rock, have ordained them to punish.

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1 The prophecy that Habakkuk the prophet received. (1)

Habakkuk’s Complaint

² How long, Lord(Jesus), must I call for help, but You do not listen? Or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?
³ Why do You make me look at injustice? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds.

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Jeremiah 11: ²³ Not even a remnant will be left to them, because I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth(Who does not believe in the Lord JESUS, the GOD from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.) in the year of their punishment.” (5)

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¹⁷ The Lord(Jesus) Almighty, who planted you, has decreed disaster for you, because the people of both Israel and Judah have done evil and aroused My anger by burning incense to Baal. (8) (Idols are various types, namely, everything that we love, more than the love of the Lord Jesus with all our hearts. For example: money, wealth, liquor, cigarettes, opium, women, gambling, idols to worship the statues and other idols.)

Plot Against Jeremiah.

¹⁸ Because the Lord revealed their plot to me(Jeremiah), I knew it, for at that time He showed me what they were doing.

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⁸ But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubbornness of their evil hearts. So I brought on them all the curses of the covenant I had Commanded them to follow but that they did not keep.’” (8) (Jerusalem, is a parable of the world, with those who believe, but who have strayed from the law of the Lord Jesus.)

⁹ Then the Lord said to me, “There is a conspiracy among the people of Judah and those who live in Jerusalem.

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²¹ Therefore this is what the Lord says about the people of Anathoth who are threatening to kill you, saying, “Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord(Jesus) or you will die by our hands”— (3)

²² therefore this is what the Lord(Jesus) Almighty says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.

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¹² The towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they will not help them at all when disaster strikes. (3)

¹³ You, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’

¹⁴ “Do not pray for this people or offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen when they call to Me in the time of their distress.

¹⁵ “What is My beloved doing in My temple as she, with many others, works out her evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your punishment? When you engage in your wickedness, then you rejoice.”

¹⁶ The Lord called you a thriving olive tree with fruit beautiful in form. But with the roar of a mighty storm He will set it on fire, and its branches will be broken.

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³ Tell them that this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Cursed is the one who does not Obey the Terms of this Covenant—

⁴ the Terms I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace.’ I(JESUS) said, ‘Obey Me and do everything I Command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your GOD.

⁵ Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey’—the land you possess today.” I answered, “Amen, Lord.” (The land flowing with milk and honey, is a parable as the Holy City New Jerusalem with Eternal Life.)

⁶ The Lord said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Listen to the Terms of this Covenant and follow them.

⁷ From the time I brought your ancestors up from Egypt until today, I warned them again and again, saying, “Obey Me.”

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¹⁹ I had been like a gentle Lamb(Jesus) led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against Me, saying, “Let us destroy the Tree(The Prophets of the Lord JESUS) and its Fruit (all His people.); let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.” (1)
²⁰ But you, Lord(Jesus) Almighty, who Judge Righteously and Test the Heart and Mind, let me see Your Vengeance on them, for to You I have committed my cause.

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¹⁰ They have returned to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. Both Israel and Judah have broken the Covenant I made with their ancestors. (1)

¹¹ Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to Me, I will not listen to them.

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The Covenant Is Broken

11 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord(Jesus): (1)

² “Listen to the terms of this Covenant and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem. (To the people in the world!)

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