How can so small a nation as Israel command so much of the world's attention? Why? After several massive failed attempts in the 60s and 70s, why do the Muslim nations remain determined and committed not just to belittle or subjugate or drive them out of the Middle East but to, quite literally, kill everything and everyone "Jewish"? Undeniably, the United States of America plays a huge role in their survival at this hour, but, how will they survive without the Melting Pot? This book presents a study of end-times prophecy as it relates to the question of the future of the nation of Israel and the Jews, per the Holy Bible. The Mayans said the world would end in 2012. The Islamic Muslims of Persia (Tehran) said they would subject the world under the foot of Shariah first. With a powerful ally and chief trading partner (Magog) making waves and flexing insolent muscle in Crimea, Ukraine, it seems they might be right (each nurturing defiant appetites impervious to curbing by tough talk, international sanctions, etc.). Doubtless they will, if, that is, they can collectively circumnavigate and survive the inevitable, Divinely engineered, blood-drenched clash of (what cannot but be termed) an explosive conflict of interests. I.e., for 2500 years, long before the advent of Mohammed and the Koran, the Holy Bible has held that the Jews will someday rule the world. Ezekiel, the Jewish priest and prophet, tells how. In a turn of events as bizarre and seemingly as unlikely as the rebirth of the nation of Israel in 1948-certainly a nightmarish scenario, for any Muslim-so the Bible pictures another Holocaust attempt that goes horribly wrong, in favor of the objects of its sore disaffection. It will leave the Jews not only very much alive, but for the first time ever, high on the hog of the world's geo-political, socio-economic fabric. Per chapter 38 of Ezekiel, at some point, in the not too distant future, a coalition of Arab and EU nations led by Russia will-with great stealth, in utmost secrecy-cross over the mountains into Israel, with one solemn, venomous, highly toxic objective-crush, kill, and completely annihilate every Jew, before they know what hit them. In this book, Prelude to the Apocalypse, Christian, author, and truck driver Alvin Mitchell details how the most despised people on the planet will narrowly elude the rapacious fangs of death, virtually unscathed, to achieve the unthinkable. Land and oil-of which no one in Israel can now avail himself-will soon be under Israeli control. The might of Russia's industry and its military will be in Jew hands. Important but little known facts of the Jewish persona as well as Russia's place in end-times prophecy will be established. It will thoroughly explain how a pothole of the most lifeless (water)-and one would think, the most useless water on the planet-contains and now bankrolls the Israeli economy, having had at one time an estimated value four times the worth of the four richest economies on earth. Prelude to the Apocalypse is must reading for all Christians. No church or school-based Bible prophecy program is complete without it.