If you have Fox News channel, you know how fast the words along the bottom scroll across the screen. What are the odds of catching a sentence -- let alone a particularly revealing sentence? Well, I apparently did. And, it was completely by accident.

After reading the bottom sentence, read the larger words above that I was really after -- the words explaining the message that's being delivered by Secretary of State Rice. Here's my point: If Israel needs two more weeks to defeat her mortal enemy Hezbollah, why is Rice -- who has been Israel's strongest supporter in this crisis -- suddenly seeking a cease-fire?

Perhaps here we find our clue.

I happened across the French Ambassador to the UN speaking after yesterday's emergency session in New York. Two things caught my attention. The first thing I noticed was that it was Sunday. The second was the alarm revealed in the French Ambassador's conversation with the reporter. Although I didn't catch all his words, the Ambassador expressed his concerns how the current Middle East crisis could spread throughout the entire Islamic world all the way to China. And, as he named the countries to which the crisis could spread, he provided the numbers of the peoples that could potentially become involved. I forgot the numbers. But, what I specifically remember, the numbers he gave as he got to China were the highest.

Let's take a look at what caused the French Ambassador such noticeable stress and what caused Rice to suddenly call for a cease-fire.

In order to understand what's really going on in the Middle East, Fox News turned to former Secretary of State Henry Kissenger. Whether they like him or not, people in the know consider Kissenger one of the world's greatest diplomats. If anyone knows what's going on, it's Kissenger. And, Kissenger wasted no time pointing his seasoned finger directly at Iran, and Iran's continuing nuclear standoff with the so-called "six powers."

Let's put this together. Israel was evidently suckered into bombing a building where over fifty civilians -- half of whom were women and children -- and suddenly a cartoon intifada style civil unrest sprung up in the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan and Iran. The reason I say "cartoon intifada style" is, as it turned out was the case with the cartoon intifada, it's becoming obvious the response in the streets to the Israeli bombing in Qana may have been coordinated.

If so, this brings up the question who coordinated the uprising. Again, the finger may point to Iran. In fact, it turns out the Hezbollah leader who ordered the cross border attack against Israel may actually be hiding in the Iranian Embassy in Beirut.

Now, let's put this together again, but this time from the perspective of Bible prophecy. The most interesting part to me is the alarm in the French Ambassador. You see, France is one of the most important elements in the 10-nation Western European Union (WEU) alliance. France is both a nuclear power and one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. So, what's a concern for France, is a concern for the entire WEU alliance. And, if the UN convened an emergency session on a Sunday over what's going on in the streets of the Middle East, you can bet that France and the WEU alliance is conferring about the crisis too.

So, it's no wonder that France is pushing the Finish EU Presidency to support Javier Solana's peace efforts in the crisis. Solana, as you may know, is not only the EU's High Representative and future super Foreign Minister, Solana is also Secretary General of the WEU 10-nation alliance.

What we're witnessing is biblical. If these events continue in there current direction, the fear is the entire Western world -- including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, China, Russia and many others -- could be swept into a conflict of apocalyptic proportions. So, Iran must be stopped.

But, what if Iran can't be stopped? What then? If these events can't be stopped, the only solution left to the world may be an attempt to elimination the flip side of their problem -- the State of Israel. Unfortunately, such an attempt is what the Bible actually predicts. And, that's what's wrong with the picture.

I wonder how I caught that sentence?