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Resurrected Life is given to the World of Terrorism

The resurrection to freedom in Middle East Nations

Will Eventually Produce Jihad Minded Governments

When Iran Has A SMALL deliverable Nuclear Arsenal

Iran wants to get a Mini-Deterrent nuclear Inventory

Sufficient to deter Israel from using Nukes during War

Arabs and Persians know they can’t win a nuclear War

Now after 63 years Muslins will win a conventional War

World Powers made it possible for Islam to win this War

March 6, 2010

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In the first book I finished in 1976 I indicated the Antichrist would be Islamic, rising out of the southern flank of the Roman Empire. The Islamic faith is what finally ran the Roman Empire out of North Africa and the Middle East, leaving a caliphate that was greater then the maximum southern extension of the Roman Empire. It w as replaced by the Omayyad or Umayyad Caliphate which l

asted as such until 750 AD. It will be resurrected as both the 7th and 8th Beast because it had an Islamic Caliphate as its father. The Beast at times refers to his Caliphate, but at other times it refers to the Antichrist, who is its Caliph. The Islamic Antichrist himself will also apparently, note I said apparently, be resurrected from the dead, which causes some 1.5 billion Muslims to believe he is their long awaited Messiah, the Mahdi. Many other false religions, and those who do not have their faith in Christ, will put their faith in the Mahdi whose god is Allah. This is a part of the great delusion which falls on them, because they would not put their faith in Christ, the Son of God.

II Thessalonians 2:8-12 – And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: [9] Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, [10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. [11] And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: [12] That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

During the last 63 years the three world powers made it possible for Islam to finally defeat Israel in a conventional war. How are they responsible?

1976 Quote from Page 78 of “Tectonic Chaos”

Revelation 13:1 – And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having SEVEN HEADS and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

The seven heads of the Beast in Revelation 13:1 represent six great world governments that of the past in which Satan has been actively involved. The seventh world government is now rising again at the present time around Israel and will soon produce the Antichrist. Prior to God separating from His wife, the nation of Israel, six great world Kingdoms that existed before, and at, the time of the cross are, in chronological order, as follows:

(1) The Egyptian
(2) The Assyrian
(3) The Babylonian
(4) The Medo-Persian
(5) The Grecian
(6) The Roman

The rising seventh Kingdom will incorporate all the cunning and skill in the arts and sciences that have been handed down from the previous six kingdoms. Man has come a long way since the days of the cruel Pharaoh of the Exodus, but all that modern man has learned is based on the root contributions of these six kingdoms – and soon all the knowledge and expertise of sinful mankind will be centered in the final kingdom.

The ten horns of Revelation 13:1 are ten Arab nations who will form the nucleus of the final kingdom, and the ten crowns are the power of the kings that will rile them. For years we have pictured the typical Arab as a scrawny little fellow on a camel in the desert with a comic expression on his face. This viewpoint is quickly changing. Oil is replacing the U.S. dollar in international importance – and soon ten Arab nations will have gained economic control of much of the earth’s wealth. We will not try to stop them because of the Soviet Union – and the Soviet Union will not try to stop them because of us and Red China.

The world power block will block itself as the Arab nations prosper in our midst.

End 1976 Quote from “Tectonic Chaos”

So, how are the world powers like the US, Great Britain, France, Russia, and China responsible for this?

They all wanted to keep the oil flowing to them, but knew any move on their part to push in and take it over would produce a great nuclear war.

I am not being critical, that is just what happened. Even as a 20 year old unmarried knot head stationed in the Middle East in 1952 and 53, I could see that was happening, and was likely to continue. In the last 63 years guess who has sold them all their high tech arsenals? It has been sold to them by the Big 5 Powers I listed above, as well as the breakaway satellites from the former Soviet Union. And who has taught them how to use them, and how to build the same weapons in their own countries? Islamic Countries are swelling with high tech weapons to the hilt and NUMBERS, NUMBERS. This time Israel will be driven into the Negev for some three and one half years.

The final war of this age will begin in the Middle East when Iranians possess a deliverable nuclear warhead arsenal they consider sufficient to deter Israel from launching a pre-emptive strike or a strike during a conventional war against them unless Iran first launches against them.

I do not believe the attack of the Islamic Antichrist will occur until Iran believes it has an arsenal of missile mounted war heads in place, ready to launch, sufficient to provide a deterrent shield against Israel’s mighty mounted nuclear warhead arsenal poised to respond against Iran’s much smaller arsenal. Don’t compare the number of nuclear warheads. Compare the size of Israel and the small number of nuclear warheads necessary to destroy all its cities. Compare the size of Iran and

the nine other Arab horned nations and the fantastic number of Israeli nuclear warheads it would take to destroy all Islamic cities. You might also consider the number of the followers of Allah Iranian nuclear strikes would reap in Israel, as well as nuclear fallout across the Middle East.

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SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 129C

Atomic War in Israel – Yes or No?

July 23, 2003

One of the m ain re

asons I wrote three books on prophecy in the late seventies and early eighties was to establish a case advocated by teachers of the pre-World War II era. It was, simply stated, that man would not destroy the earth with his weaponry, but rather that God would destroy the earth by the use of this own power. I am certain that the horrifying changes in the topography of Israel, as well as the terrifying destruction of the antichrist’s forces at Armageddon, are by the awesome power of God, not atomic, chemical, or biological weapons of man. The lifting of the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem, the breaking up of Jerusalem into three sections, the splitting of the Mount of Olives, and the consuming of the flesh, tongues, and eyes of the antichrist’s men are natural phenomena unleashed by God, not by man. All the Scriptures dealing with these phenomena unleashed by God are covered in the Birth Pang Archives.

There are many advocates of a great atomic, chemical, and biological war in Israel when the antichrist attacks 1260 days before Armageddon. It might happen at the time of Armageddon, but the initial attack will start what amounts to a non-nuclear, non-chemical, and non-biological war. So why am I so confident and outspoken about this being the case

?

Israel has more than 200 extremely well concealed missile silos in the Negev between Beersheba and the Gulf of Aqabah.

It has more than 300 nuclear, chemical, and biological warheads to mount on Jericho missiles.

The Jericho is a very accurate missile, and can hit a target in any Islamic country from Morocco to Pakistan and from Turkey to Yemen.

Israel has an excellent anti-missile defense to protect its array of silos, warheads, and missiles. It is able to pick up an incoming enemy missile launched from Syria before it reaches it maximum altitude.

So why do I believe this array of WMD will not be unleashed by Israel when it is attacked? Because the Israeli War Contingency Plan of Israel directs that WMD will never be launched against a foreign nation unless they are first launched against Israel.

So how do I know the Islamic countries will not launch WMD in their initial attack?

All of them are well aware of what is listed in (1) through (5)! The Soviet Union, when it existed, shared Israeli intelligence information with Syria, which it collected over a long period of time from its hundreds of spy satellites it launched from pads between Moscow and the White Sea, and on the eastern side of the Aral Sea. Syria, in turn, has shared it with most of the other Islamic countries around Israel. Only a leader possessed of rank insanity would ever launch WMD first against Israel, which is why I was so relieved when Saddam Hussein was taken out of the way.

Many believe the United States will quickly rush to the aid of Israel, and, as the world’s greatest power, will immediately deliver her from any kind of attack she can’t handle. There are two problems with this idea:

The United States believes Israel can defeat any Islamic attack on its own without any help from us. After all, Israel has easily done so in three previous wars.

This will be a lightning Jihad, and better coordinated than any of the previous wars, and this time Israel will have the Palestinians attacking it from within, while the other Islamic nations come in from outside its borders. It will probably last less than a couple of weeks, and Jerusalem is likely to fall within four days. By the time we decide they must have our help it will be too late because they will have occupied most of the land from Dan to Beersheba.

By this time it would take months, as it did in Operation Desert Storm and Operation Freedom Iraq, to get sufficient American troops on the ground to do any good.

What was the character of the past three wars

? They were all very short in duration, and they all ended abruptly in a truce.

That will be the case in this war. The United States knows that the Negev is the place where Israel will flee. When we believe they are safely in the Negev, we will be more than willing to accept a truce to give us time to think about what to do, and Israel will remain trapped in the Negev for some three and one-half years.

The part played by the United States during this period of three and one-half years is interspersed through our Prophecy Archives, with some of it in Prophecy Updates 5 through 11, 32 & 33, and 74 & 75.

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Hamas head: ‘Egypt, Tunisia revolts gave us our lives back’

By JPOST.COM STAFF

03/06/2011 15:55

Speaking in Khartoum, Khaled Mashaal praises fall of Mubarak, says Cairo returned “to its natural state,” calls on Fatah and Hamas to reunite based on jihad against Israel, AFP reports.

Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal on Sunday praised last month’s political revolution in Egypt, saying that it had given the Palestinian people their lives back, AFP reported.

Speaking in Khartoum in a live broadcast on Sudanese state television, Mashaal was quoted by AFP as saying, “Today we are witnessing Cairo returning to its natural state, after it disappeared from that state for a long time. The people in Egypt and Tunisia have given us back our lives.”

Ousted Egyptian former president Hosni Mubarak resigned on February 11 after a series of massive protests rattled the country for three weeks.

The Hamas leader spoke at the opening of the Iranian-funded Al-Quds (Jerusalem) International Foundation conference taking place in Khartoum this year.

Commenting on the Hamas-Fatah rift, Mashaal urged the two factions to reunite based on “jihad” against Israel.

“The first step (to liberating Jerusalem from Israeli occupation) is refusal to negotiate with Israel… and to establish a new, reconciled Palestinian position based on jihad,” he was quoted by AFP as saying.

On Friday, a Hamas delegation was expected to leave Gaza for Sudan and then on to Damascus for a round of meetings about negotiations for a prisoner exchange that would include captive Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit.

Hamas said that progress was being made and that the mediator has presented new ideas to both Hamas and Israel, the Gaza-based news agency reported.

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Arab World: New evidence of Iran’s nuclear ambitions

By SIMON HENDERSON

03/05/2011 18:07

Recent reports from the IAEA have caused renewed consternation amongst those tracking the Islamic Republic’s enrichment efforts.

On March 1, the Pentagon announced it was sending the USS Monterey – a vessel equipped with the sophisticated Aegis radar system, capable of protecting Europe from a potential Iranian nuclear missile strike – to the Mediterranean.

The guided missile cruiser is the first part of a missile shield announced by the Obama administration in 2009.

Its deployment comes one week after the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a notably outspoken report on Iran’s nuclear activities and lack of cooperation with inspectors operating under the UN Security Council’s mandate.

Issued on February 25, the report appears to agree, at least in part, with the conclusions of a new US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran, about which members of Congress and their staff were briefed a week earlier.

Together, the reports paint a picture of Iran persisting in its controversial nuclear activities despite international concern, although the US report suggests that sanctions and sabotage have slowed the program.

New NIE

The latest NIE reportedly revises the conclusions of a controversial 2007 NIE on Iran, which argued that the regime had halted its clandestine work on a nuclear weapons program.

When the 2007 estimate’s “key judgments” were declassified and released, they offered a starkly different perspective than the message emanating from the Bush White House, which had been emphasizing a growing Iranian threat.

Yet public perception of the 2007 NIE largely ignored one of its other key findings: that Iran was continuing to develop uranium enrichment technology.

In the absence of a civilian need for such technology, this finding suggested that enriched uranium was being produced for nuclear weapons.

The new NIE remains classified and is only available to a limited readership in government. Yet the US media, quoting sources in Congress, has offered a glimpse of one of the estimate’s main conclusions: Although Tehran has yet to make a strategic decision on whether to build a nuclear weapon, it is developing the unspecified components of a bomb, itself a complicated engineering challenge.

Tougher IAEA Report?

The quarterly IAEA reports are intended to record the agency’s progress in persuading Tehran to convince the world that its nuclear activities are for peaceful purposes.

This is a diplomatic obligation for Iran as a signatory of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. In addition, mandatory provisions of several UN Security Council resolutions oblige Tehran to cooperate with IAEA inspectors.

Progress has been slow at best, but under the leadership of Director-General Yukiya Amano, who took over from Mohamed ElBaradei in late 2009, the quarterly reports have indicated a tougher IAEA approach to Iran.

• Contrary to Security Council resolutions, Iran has not suspended its uranium enrichment activities at several facilities, which are under IAEA safeguards. Indeed, enrichment activities have been expanded at both a pilot plant and the main plant at Natanz, and at an enrichment plant called Fordow, near the holy city of Qom.

Tehran admitted the existence of the latter facility in 2009, days before it was revealed by US and European surveillance. Indeed, Iran is enriching with more than 5,000 centrifuges, 1,000 more than three months ago. (A rare optimistic note is that Iran’s total of 8,000 centrifuges is slightly less than the total at the time of the last report, suggesting breakdowns remain a problem.)

• Iran has now produced more than 3,600 kilograms of low-enriched uranium; if processed into higher proportions of the fissile isotope U-235, this could theoretically be enough for several atomic bombs. In addition, Iran continues to enrich some of this to a higher (20 percent) proportion of U-235, a cause for concern because anything beyond is defined as highly enriched uranium (HEU).

Iran is also working on two new centrifuge designs that might be more efficient than its problematic IR-1 centrifuge.

• Iran is not responding to information requests about the Fordow plant and has yet to tell the IAEA anything about 10 new centrifuge plants. Sites for five of these plants have already been chosen, and construction will begin on one of them before the Iranian new year (March 20) or shortly afterward.

• Iran has provided no further information regarding its claim last year that

it possessed laser enrichment technology, nor on its later announcement that it was developing a new type of centrifuge. The regime has also ignored IAEA requests about additional locations related to the manufacture of centrifuges and research and development on enrichment.

• Although Iran has stated that it is not working on reprocessing – which the IAEA confirmed, but only in the facilities it was permitted to inspect –the regime continues to work on heavy-water projects in violation of Security Council resolutions.

• Some activities at the Isfahan uranium conversion and fuel manufacturing facilities contravene Iran’s international obligations

• Under a section titled “Possible Military Dimensions,” the IAEA report refers to “new information recently received” as well as concerns “about the possible existence in Iran… of activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile.”

This disturbing conclusion reinforces previous evidence that Iran is working hard to design a nuclear weapon small enough to fit on top of a missile less than three feet in diameter. It also suggests that Iran intends to design an implosion-type device, which is more challenging than the gun-type design used in the Hiroshima bomb and later developed by apartheid-era South Africa.

Nuclear devices for missiles must also be more durable than those dropped from aircraft because they need to cope with the huge acceleration and high reentry temperatures associated with rocket launches.

The IAEA report also notes that Iran has had to delay the start-up of the Russiandesigned Bushehr civil nuclear power reactor because of unspecified problems requiring the unloading of the uranium fuel rods. The New York Times subsequently reported a problem with the reactor’s cooling pumps.

(Although Bushehr is not an immediate proliferation concern, its personnel need many of the same skills required for the controversial portions of Iran’s nuclear program.)

Tehran’s Nuclear Intentions

Iran’s nuclear progress has been extraordinarily slow.

Using technology similar to Iran’s, Pakistan needed eight years to reach the testing stage in the 1970s and 1980s. Iran is believed to have been working on nuclear weapons since the mid-1980s, or roughly 25 years. Some of the delay can be attributed to poor administration, but the technical challenges and the disruption of needed imports of material and equipment have also contributed to the slowness. The reported, and perhaps unreported, incidents of sabotage have probably played a role as well.

The US sees this delay as confirmation that its sanctions policies are working, while also claiming that Tehran has yet to make a “strategic decision” on whether to move from the technical ability stage to actually making a testable device. Yet it is difficult to reach the same optimistic conclusion from reading the IAEA report, and it makes the deployment of USS Monterey seem unnecessary.

Much of the confidence that Iran remains unable to make a nuclear device rests on the knowledge that its IR-1 centrifuge has never been successfully used to make the required 90 percent HEU needed for a deliverable atomic bomb. Iran’s attempts to develop two new centrifuge types, known as IR-4 and IR-2M, could be beyond the regime’s technical skills. Given Tehran’s relations with Pyongyang, however, Iran could obtain access to advanced P-2 centrifuges, which were revealed to be operating in North Korea last year.

Pakistan has used this type of centrifuge to develop enough HEU for as many as 100 atomic bombs.

Tehran is still refusing to engage in any meaningful dialogue with either the IAEA or the international community – the January talks in Istanbul between Iran and the P5+1 (US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany) failed to make any progress. Meanwhile its nuclear decision-making is likely being affected by the popular demonstrations sweeping the Arab world, which it probably sees as distracting Washington and weakening the US position in the region. The resultant higher oil prices will certainly compensate Iran for the effect of trade sanctions.

Both the IAEA report and the new NIE should serve as reminders not to become complacent about the threat of a nuclear Iran.

The writer is the Baker fellow and director of the Gulf and Energy Policy Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

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Shifting Sands and Shifting Decisions in Washington and Middle East

And in the international Community creates even more Confusion

In a world already reeling from drastic frustration on all Fronts

Mankind Is Now in the Times Paul Called the Perilous Times!

And it Will Not End Until the 2nd Advent of its King Jesus!

It’s non-believers time to choose Twixt Heaven Or Hell!

Believers Time to PICK Faithfulness OR Unfaithfulness

That determines their Degree of Rewards in Heaven.

Mankind’s Now being Forced to a Valley of Decision.

‘US shifting strategy amid ongoing Mideast Unrest’

‘REBELS DEFY ATTACKS, EYE Gaddafi’s Hometown’

Libya news from two combatants is Contradictive.

March 5, 2011

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II Timothy 3:1 – This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

II Peter 3:1-4 – This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: [2] That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: [3] Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, [4] And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

II Peter 3:8,9 – But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. [9] The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Acts 20:20,21 – And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house, [21] Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

II Peter 3:13-15 – Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. [14] Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. [15] And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved bro ther

Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

Romans 2:4 – Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

Romans 9:22 – What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

John 19:30 – When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

Romans 3:19-26 – Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. [20] Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. [21] But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; [22] Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: [23] For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; [24] Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: [25] Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; [26] To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

Joel 3:14 – Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

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‘US shifting strategy amid ongoing Mideast urest’

By JPOST.COM STAFF

03/05/2011 11:37

“The Wall Street Journal” reports that US moving support from protesters to longtime Arab allies, calling for reforms instead of ousters.

The United States has formulated a new strategy in response to the recent anti-government protests that have broken out through the Arab world since the start of 2011, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. After weeks of internal discussions, the US decided to put its support behind longtime allies who may be willing to initiate political reform, even if that means citizens’ demand for full democracy are delayed.

Despite the fact that US officials are still calling for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s immediate removal from power, White House officials have formed the “Bahrain model.” The proposed system endorses the ruling power to stay in control but works with the local population to create democratic reforms that suit demands of the protesters.

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The US government’s decision to shift its policy towards the recent Arab unrest comes after aggressive lobbying by representatives of Arab countries who were shocked at America’s quick abandonment of longtime ally Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak was seen by many in the region, and in the US, as having maintained stability and peace in a potentially tumultuous region.

Israel has maintained that the US must ensure longtime allies in the region and that the US should not abandon them if protests begin to develop. Since Mubarak’s fall, Israelis have feared that Islamic extremists might exploit the current unrest to realign the Middle East.

The policy shift also comes in light of domestic US criticism of the Obama administration’s mixed signals surrounding the Egyptian leader’s ouster, initially backing Mubarak only to turn around and give its full support to demonstrators’ demands for his removal.

The Wall Street Journal wrote that White House officials denied claims that they have sent mixed signals, saying that throughout the recent events, the Obama administration did not waver on its stance that rulers must avoid using violence against peaceful protesters.

Even so, a White House senior official was reported to have said that its “approach will be country by country,” and that important

lessons are being learned every step of the way.

One example, Bahrain, highlights America’s changed stance. Bahrain is a key ally of the US in the Persian Gulf region, host of a US naval base and valuable presence against Iranian influence. US officials fear that if the government of King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa were to fall, the majority Shi’ite country could be pushed into the Iranian sphere of influence, costing the US important strategic and military positions in the small island country.

Adding to the pressure for on US to hold onto Khalifa, US intelligence agencies believe that a scenario could arise wherein Saudi Arabia, also a Sunni-controlled monarchy, would invade Bahrain to quell the Shi’ite-led unrest. As such, US Defense Secret ary Robert G

ates and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton have recently been pushing for a policy of support for the Bahraini king, paired with a reform plan that would suit the needs of demonstrators.

This “Bahrain model” could be used to help subdue protests in Morocco and Yemen that are already underway. On Sunday February 27, the US delivered messages to the kings of both Bahrain and Morocco, throwing their support behind the leaders

and their political systems.

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Qaddafi troops regain Zawiyah, most oil towns. Obama names Libya intel panel

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

March 5, 2011, 4:12 PM (GMT+02:00)

The big offensive pro-Qaddafi forces launched Friday night, March 4, to wrest from rebel hands control of Libya’s most important towns and oil centers resulted Saturday in the recapture of the key town of Zawiya and most of the oil towns around the Gulf of Sirte. In Washington and London, talk of military intervention on the side of the Libyan opposition was muted by the realization that field intelligence on both sides of the Libyan conflict was too sketchy to serve as a basis for decision-making.

Their reports from their primary sources, American military advisers and intelligence officers attached to the Benghazi-based rebels in the east, are fragmentary and often contradictory. They too appear unclear about who is command the assorted militias in revolt against the Qaddafi regime and who gives those commanders their orders.

Over the weekend, shapes began to emerge of informal armed civilian groups cohering occasionally into small militias who then decide independently whether to seize a certain piece of territory or town and hold it against military pressure. When there are no troops around, the rebels claim victory.

This is what happened Friday night when the opposition claimed to have finally captured Brega, the important oil terminal and refinery town south of Benghazi and, later, Libya’s second oil terminal town of Ras Lanuf. However, according to DEBKAfile’s sources, while these opposition successes were widely reported, they were not confirmed. Opposition militias seized only parts of Brega – and not the most important ones, such as the oil exporting harbor which Qaddafi’s forces control – and were still camped 15 kilometers outside Ras Lanuf when they claimed its capture.

Both towns are major prizes and have been tenaciously fought over. Their fall into rebel hands would cut Qaddafi off from fuel supplies and choke of Libyan exports of 500,000 barrels of oil a day. While only a third of Libya’s regular export capacity, this amount it nonetheless nets him enough money to bankroll his war effort against the uprising against his rule.

Friday night, the rebel militias in the east suffered a major setback which halted their advance: Two ammunition dumps in Benghazi which they had seized from the Libyan army in the third week of February in were blown up, wiping out the anti-Qaddafi militias entire ammunition stocks. The cause of the explosions has not been established. Speculation ranges from a pro-Qaddafi suicide saboteur to aerial bombardment or the negligence of rebels inexperienced in ordnance maintenance.

Inside information about Qaddafi’s forces is just as sparse. He is known to be supported by three elite brigades under the command of two of his sons, Khamis and Mutassim and the Defense Minister Maj. Gen. Abu Baker Younis Jaber, but intelligence about them is hard to come by, except that the most effective professional unit is the Khamis Brigade No. 32 of the Libyan army, which Saturday morning won the battle for Zawiyah 30 kilometers west of Tripoli, using tanks, Grad surface missiles and artillery to break down opposition defenses..

DEBKAfile’s Washington sources report the shortage of the most basic information on the ground has seriously constrained deliberations between President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the next steps in Libya.

To correct this, Obama in the last 48 hours established a supreme intelligence commission on Libya made up of Pentagon, NSC and CIA experts to scrape together any data available as input for decisions.

By creating this panel, the president has also sidestepped the stiff opposition to his policies coming from Gates and Clinton, especially his inclination to explore limited military intervention to expedite Qaddafi’s removal. They are also critical of Obama’s policies in general with regard to other Middle East centers of unrest, especially Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

Following Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow in Cairo, the Egyptian military junta in charge of the transition to democracy appears to be losing its grip on the situation events and letting the street protesters run out of control. Friday night, thousands stormed the national security services Alexandria headquarters and are still in there. The Muslim Brotherhood appears to be setting the tone in the Egyptian street amid reports of an internal coup by militant young leaders against the veterans.

The Obama administration has a better inside picture of the state of Egyptian opposition groups than it has about Libya, but it is still rated inadequate. US policy-makers are short of precise information about the real leaders of the opposition groups and to whom they are answerable.

In Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, unrest is spreading especially among the two million Shiites who live and work in the eastern oil regions. Demonstrations have become a daily event in with prominent anti-American slogans.

Saturday, the Saudi government finally banned demonstrations and protests altogether.

The Wall Street Journal’s reported Saturday, March 5, claiming that “The US is settling on a strategy in the Middle East aimed at keeping longtime allies who are willing to make democratic changes in power.” Even if this is true, the change comes far too late to affect the tide of unrest surging through the region. After he summarily evicted Hosni Mubarak, America’s staunchest Arab ally in the region in the second half of January, President Obama will be hard put to find any other ruler in the region willing to put his trust in Washington.

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Libya: Rebels defy attacks, eye Gaddafi’s hometown

By OREN KESSLER AND REUTERS

03/05/2011 21:54

Opposition says it controls strategic town of Zawiyah; regime appoints new UN envoy; at least 60 dead in 2 days; rebels down fighter plane.

Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi waged a second offensive against the western town of Zawiyah on Saturday after rebels drove them out in a morning of fierce fighting, while in the east, opponents of the Libyan strongman pushed toward his hometown.

In a second day of fierce fighting for control of Zawiyah, 50 km (30 miles) west of Tripoli, government forces retreated to the outskirts early in the day but later mounted a counter-offensive. Rebels said both attacks were repelled. The city bore the signs of heavy fighting, with one building completely burned and smoldering rubble littering the center. Other buildings around the main square, the stronghold of rebel resistance, were riddled with holes from large-caliber weapons.

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Rebels in eastern Libya said they were pushing further west after driving forces loyal to Gaddafi from the oil town of Ras Lanuf on Friday. Opposition fighters said they had taken the town of Bin Jawad some 525 km east of Tripoli and were moving on toward Sirte, Gaddafi’s heavily guarded home town 160 km (100 miles) away.

The fight over Sirte is likely to be fierce. The town is psychologically important. It is not only where Gaddafi was born but a place he has fashioned into a second capital designed in his own extravagant image.

“If Benghazi [rebels] can expand down into the Gulf of Sirte … they’ve got a very good shot at independence at the least — or maybe even overturning him at the most,” said Peter Zeihan, an analyst with the US-based Stratfor think tank.

The latest fighting suggested front lines between government forces, including militia and mercenaries, and the rebels, who are fighting with everything from captured tanks to sticks and winning support from some police and soldiers along the way, were far from clear and could shift quickly.

Rebels seized Ras Lanuf on Friday and even managed to down a fighter aircraft in Gaddafi’s service. The BBC reported the plane had been shot down by a man in his fifties who was on his first day manning a mobile anti-aircraft gun, which only had one barrel working. Reuters correspondent Mohammed Abbas wrote in a brief message from the scene: “I am at the wreckage of the aircraft in Ras Lanuf.” In a sign of the increasing reports of brutality of both sides of this conflict, he said the faces of the corpses appeared to have been ripped off. The National Libyan Council said Saturday it had named a three-member crisis committee, which included a head of military affairs and one for foreign affairs.

Omar Hariri, one of the officers who took part in Gaddafi’s 1969 coup but was later jailed, was appointed head of the military. Ali Essawi, a former ambassador to India who quit last month, was put in charge of foreign affairs.

Mahmoud Jebril, who had been involved in a project among intellectuals to establish a democratic state, was named head of the crisis committee, which aims at streamlining decision-making. Amid the ongoing strife in the country, Libya has appointed former foreign minister Ali Abdussalam Treki as its UN envoy in New York, replacing an ambassador who had renounced the Gaddafi regime for inflicting violence on its own people, the UN said Friday.

“The Secretary-General has received correspondence from the Libyan authorities,” said UN spokesman Martin Nesirky. “That correspondence names Dr. Treki as the person they wish to have as the permanent representative of their country.” It is not clear whether Treki, one of Gaddafi’s most senior foreign policy advisers and a former president of the UN General Assembly, will ever take up the post as Libyan ambassador to the United Nations.

In theory, Gaddafi has the right to name his UN envoys. “Libya is a recognized member of the United Nations,” Nesirky said. “When any country sends a letter naming the permanent representative, that person is the person who will be recognized as the permanent representative.” Nesirky added, however, that Treki would need to present his credentials to Ban in New York in order to become the Libyan ambassador. The United States has a treaty with the United Nations covering visa issuance, but Washington reserves the right to deny visas under certain circumstances. It is unclear whether the US State Department would be prepared to give Treki a visa.

Economic pressure against Libya also continued to mount this weekend. Britain extended a freeze on assets to a further 20 members of Gaddafi’s entourage on Friday, and impounded around 100 million pounds ($160 million) of Libyan currency.

Around 2 billion pounds of assets belonging to Libyan interests are believed to have been frozen in Britain under sanctions against Gaddafi’s government after its violent crackdown on protests against Gaddafi’s 41-year rule.

The asset freeze was imposed last week and initially applied only to Gaddafi and his immediate family. It now extends to 26 people.

“The financial net is closing in on Colonel Gaddafi,” finance minister George Osborne told BBC television. “We’re denying him access to bank notes, access to bank accounts, making sure he is held accountable for what is taking place in Libya and also denied the means to persecute his own people.” Switzerland also banned transfers of money that could end up in the hands of his family and associates.

“Switzerland wants to prevent any financial support of Muammar Gaddafi and his circle,” the government said. It will also be forbidden to give people linked to Gaddafi direct or indirect access to money or economic resources, the government said.

On the ground in Zawiyah, the atmosphere was tense and the situation appeared fluid as rebels braced for more attacks. A doctor in the city said at least 30 people, mostly civilians, had been killed during fighting there, bringing to at least 60 the death toll from two days of battles.

In the central square, four graves had been freshly dug. The red, green and black flag of the rebellion flew from many buildings in the square, where rebels shouted anti-Gaddafi slogans atop tanks and armored personnel carriers captured from the army.

In the square, rebels showed a charred tank they had captured from government forces earlier in the day. It was hit by a rebel rocket-propelled grenade as Gaddafi forces tried to enter the square earlier, rebels said.

“The fighting has intensified and the tanks are shelling everything on their way. They have shelled houses,” resident Abu Akeel said by telephone, speaking of the afternoon attack. “Now they are shelling a mosque where hundreds of people are hiding. We can’t rescue anyone because the shelling is so heavy.” Outside the city, cars loaded with suitcases and boxes piled on their roofs could be seen driving westward toward Libya’s border with Tunisia as refugees continued to flee the violence.

Residents said it was difficult to say how many people were killed in two days of fighting. A government spokesman could not be reached for a comment.

“They took away many bodies of injured and killed civilians,” said a local civilian who was helping treat the wounded at a local clinic. “I saw that. They were putting them in trucks.” Residents said Gaddafi’s forces s tormed in

to some residential buildings and killed people inside their houses in order to secure sniper positions on rooftops.

“They slaughtered people,” another resident said. “But we tell Gaddafi that every time a martyr falls, there will be 10 to replace him.” The noise of loudspeakers calling on rebels to keep on fighting could be heard through the telephone.

Rebels fighting Gaddafi’s four-decade rule in Zawiyah said they had captured two tanks and three armored personnel carriers from the army.

Inside a building that has served as the rebel central command in the town, the rebels presented six men they said were captured Gaddafi militia fighters.

Two of them were badly wounded, with one standing in a pool of his own blood, which was dripping from his thigh. Appearing terrified, they waited silently as the rebels looked through their identification papers.

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Inmates Of UN Human Rights Council Are Running A UN Asylum!

Obama Admin Sees a possibility of Post-Revolt Islamic Regimes!

Can Democracy Actually Take Root as the Arab Strongmen Exit

?

Most Human Rights Council Members DENY Jesus IS God’s SON!

The rulers they represent also speak evil of that which is Good!

Their King’s Kingdom of Darkness Is The Euphrates River Valley.

There is Nothing that can s top a gathering

to a final great War.

Believers – Let Jesus clean Up Outer Garment From within You!

Before A Last War of the Gentile Age Begins in the Middle East,

Culminating with final Great single battle of Armageddon Some

3 & ½ Years Later as Jesus Comes at 2nd Advent to End Wars

And Reign for 1000 Years as the King of Kings over this Planet!

March 4, 2011

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Isaiah 5:20 – Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Proverbs 17:15 – He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.

Isaiah 8:20 – To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Psalm 2:1-7 – Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? [2] The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, [3] Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

[4] He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. [5] Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them

in his sore displeasure.

[6] Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. [7] I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

I John 4:9 – In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

I John 4:14,15 – And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. [15] Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

I John 5:9-13 – If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. [10] He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

[11] And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

[12] He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not t

he Son of God hath not life. [13] These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

Revelation 16:12-15 – And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. [13] And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. [14] For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. [15] Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

Romans 11:25-27 – For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

[26] And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: [27] For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.

Begin 3 Excerpts from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert

March 4, 2011

Excerpt 1 – Foreign Policy

At the UN Human Rights Council, the Inmates Are Running the Asylum

Daniel Ayalon

The United Nations, which began its life with a plurality of democratic nations, now allows for an automatic majority of nondemocratic nations. The international system dictates that Arab and Islamic nations, and their knee-jerk defenders, have a majority in almost all of its bodies. This is amply demonstrated by the disproportionate amount of time spent condemning Israel.

If there were ever an example of the inmates running the asylum, it is the UN Human Rights Council. This body has whitewashed the human rights record of some of the world’s most repressive regimes, while also providing them with a forum to condemn the actions of a free and open nation, Israel. The Libyan regime, which is currently massacring its citizens, successfully sought a place on the Human Rights Council only last year with the support of 155 states in a secret ballot.

The council recently released a lengthy report partly praising Libya’s human rights record, and commending the Libyan regime for “the importance that the country attached to human rights.” The writer is Israel’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

(Foreign Policy)

Excerpt 2 – Washington Post

Obama Administration Prepares for Possibility of New Post-Revolt Islamist Regimes

Scott Wilson

The Obama administration is preparing for the prospect that Islamist governments will take hold in North Africa and the Middle East. An internal assessment, ordered by the White House last month, identified large ideological differences between various movements in the region that promote Islamic law in government. “It’s the behavior of political parties and governments that we will judge them on, not their relationship with Islam,” said a senior administration official. None of the revolutions over the past several weeks has been overtly Islamist, but there are signs that the uprisings could give way to more religious forces.

Jonathan Peled, spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, said Israel fears that “anti-democratic extremist forces could take advantage of a democratic system,” as, he said, Hamas did with its 2006 victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections. “We live in the neighborhood, obviously, and so we experience the results more closely,” Peled said.

In a speech Monday in Geneva, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton implicitly invited Islamist parties to participate in the region’s future elections with conditions. “Political participation,” Clinton said, “must be open to all people across the spectrum who reject violence, uphold equality and agree to play by the rules of democracy.” (Washington Post)

Excerpt 3 – Christian Science Monitor

As Arab Strongmen Exit, Will Democracy Really Take Root

?

Walter Rodgers

Something in the new political calculus of the new Middle East does not seem to compute. The overthrow of several “strongmen” does not miraculously nor instantly transmogrify an autocracy into a democracy. The emergence of another authoritarian figure or combination of figures seems to be a more likely outcome of the street revolts in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, and Libya than genuine democratic governance. Arabs traditionally disdain political weakness. Some vital components of democracy, such as compromise, dissent, and tolerance, can be too easily mistaken for impotence in that part of the world. (Christian Science Monitor)

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The Islamic Action Front is Jordan’s Only Established Opposition Party

ISI to Jihadists in Egypt: Jihad is Open for Business in Your Country

A Global Jihad movement hopes to harness the upheaval in Egypt

Islamic Jihad Advocates Will Use the Revolts to Their Advantage

Islamic Brotherhood has been dreaming of this for a long Time.

Allah commanded his monotheist worshippers to wage Jihad!

Islamic Action Front is One Wing of the Muslim Brotherhood

It will lead revolt inside Jordan as Antichrist Strikes Israel,

Which is ONE of the Reasons Antichrist Bypasses Jordan,

Where Ammon, Moab, and Edom Existed in Daniel’s Day,

And may classify as 1 of the 3 horns Antichrist plucks Up.

March 4, 2011

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Daniel 7:8 –I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

Revelation 17:12,13 –And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

Please take time to consider Archive Prophecy Update Number 71, July 7, 2002, and the two Excerpts from the Washington Times and DEBEKfile, which follow our heading.

In the last century I picked the most likely countries from which the 3 kings would be plucked (uprooted) as Lebanon, Libya, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Egypt.

END HEADING

PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 71

June 7, 2002

The King of the North – The Antichrist

Part 1

Daniel 11:41 – He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

The initial attack into the glorious land of Israel will be from the north, from Syria and Lebanon, and the first of many countries that will fall before the antichrist will be Israel. There will be a lightning surprise Jihad blitzkrieg launched by Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq, with logistical support from Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, and Sudan. These are the ten toes of Daniel’s great statue, the ten horns of his fourth beast, and the ten horns on both of John’s beasts. At the time of the attack the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza will attack the IDF internally and outwardly.

Daniel 2:42 – And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

Daniel 7:7 – After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

Revelation 13:1 – And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

Revelation 17:3 – So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

Many of the countries of Daniel’s day were named for their first descendants as they related to Abraham.

Edom was associated with the descendants of his grandson Esau, with Ammon and Moab being associated with the two sons of his nephew Lot. In Daniel’s day these three countries were to the immediate east, northeast, and southeast of Israel.

If you will check all maps from B.C. 500 to 700, you will discover that all three of these countries would be entirely engulfed by modern day Jordan. So why would Jordan escape his wrath? Its geographical position would have no military, political, or financial value to him, and the occupants of Jordan will certainly not attack him, so he will bypass Jordan on his way to conquer the Suez Canal, which will have all three of these values abundantly. Jordan will not be a part of the initial Jihad, but after Israel is driven into the Negev it will be 100% in the antichrist’s camp. Because Egypt and Jordan made peace with Israel they are out of favor with what I call the big three, which are Syria, Iraq,

and Iran. And because Saudi Arabia plays footsies with the United States, it also falls into the non-favored category. The Arab world simply doesn’t trust Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia enough to include them in the secret planning that will go into the Jihad, and they will be as surprised as Israel when it is launched. Jordan and Saudi Arabia will support the antichrist after he conquers Egypt, and will to do so for

the remainder of the tribulation period as part of his Caliphate.

Daniel 11:42 – He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

Begin Excerpt from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert

March 3, 2011

Excerpt 1 – Washington Times

Muslim Brotherhood Sees Opportunity in Jordan

Heather Murdock

(Washington Times)

With Friday anti-government rallies in Amman attracting more protesters each week, the Muslim Brotherhood has positioned itself to become a leading player among Jordanian lawmakers if democratic reforms are enacted.

The Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, is Jordan’s only established opposition party, and analysts estimate that it could win up to 25% of parliamentary seats if electoral reforms are carried out.

IAF Deputy Secretary-General Nimer al-Assaf says, “We do not agree to the peace treaty with Israel.” He said the future of the peace agreement should be decided by a popular referendum.

Begin Excerpt 2 from MEMRI

Middle East Media Research Institute

Jihadists View Upheaval in Egypt as Opportunity, Call for Military Organization in Sinai

Special Dispatch No. 3621

February 25, 2011

The upheaval in the Arab world, especially the events in Tunisia and Egypt, both of which resulted in the resignations of these countries’ leaders, is being followed closely by jihadi operatives, ideologues, and online supporters.

The jihadists welcomed the ouster of president Hosni Mubarak, whom they considered a tyrant and apostate, and responded by discussing the role they are to play in Egypt’s future. Their responses can be divided into two main categories: political-ideological and operational. The following report will address the operational opportunities the jihadists see in the new situation in Egypt.

Some in the global jihad movement consider the upheaval in Egypt an opportunity to promote global jihad and to elevate the war against the Arab regimes to a new level. Specifically, they consider the anarchy in Egypt to be a chance for jihad groups to establish a presence there, after a long absence of such groups following an extensive crackdown by the regime. The numerous jihad operatives reported to have been released from prison in the wake of Mubarak’s ouster, as well as those rumored to have escaped in the midst of the chaos, may well avail themselves of this opportunity.[1]

More importantly, the global jihadists see the instability in Egypt as propitious to the establishment of operational jihad organizations, especially in rural areas, particularly the Sinai, in light of the security vacuum there resulting from the military’s preoccupation with keeping general order.

ISI to Jihadists in Egypt: Jihad is Open for Business in Your Country

The global jihad movement’s hopes to harness the upheaval in Egypt were expressed in an open letter from the Islamic State of Iraq’s (ISI) so-called Ministry of War, the organization’s operational wing, to jihadists in Egypt. In the letter, published on jihadi websites, the ISI appealed to jihadists and their sympathizers in Egypt, urging them to form jihad groups, choose leaders, and amass arms. The letter said that jihad is a duty incumbent on all Muslims: “Allah commanded his monotheist worshippers [to wage] jihad for his sake… In the ummah’s current state, fighting the enemies of Allah and supplying [the mujahideen] with men and funds is incumbent upon every capable man among you. Jihad is open for business… in your country, and the gates of martyrdom are open… Know that the one who is strong and armed is the one whose voice will be heard above all others…”[2]

Sheikh Abu Walid Al-Maqdisi: Form Military Groups in Sinai and Upper Egypt

In a fatwa published on the jihadi website Minbar Al-Tawhid Wal Jihad, Abu Walid Al-Maqdisi, a prominent Salafi-jihadist cleric and head of the Gaza-based Jama’at Al-Tawhid Wal Jihad, advised Salafi-jihadists in Egypt to join ranks under a unified jihad organization, in order to take on a leading role in shaping events in the country. Furthermore, he urged jihadists in Egypt to take advantage of the security lapse caused by the political upheaval in the country, and to establish operational jihad groups in Sinai and Upper Egypt. It should be noted that in the past, Abu Walid Al-Maqdisi and other prominent figures have repeatedly voiced the opinion that a jihad front can and should be established only where an organized jihad group with a strong military and religious leadership already exists.

Following are excerpts from the fatwa:

“We must take the initiative and keep abreast of the events.

This is an opportunity that might never come again… The only way for the monotheists [i.e., the Salafi-jihadists] to [play a leading role in Egypt’s future] is to assemble as one group, unite, and meld together, so that they can lead and direct the [Egyptian] masses, rather then be led and directed by them. [The monotheists] must hurry and seize the opportunity before it is too late, and not stand by idly waiting to see how the events will develop.

“This can only be achieved through organized collective work. If it is too hard [at present] to carry this matter out on a wide scale – as we would have it – [then] a small number of youth and scholars, if they arrange themselves and coordinate between them, will soon be capable of leading hundreds.

This [needs to be done in the central areas of Egypt], notwithstanding the role of devoted Muslims in other areas, such as the Sinai and Upper Egypt, who can close ranks in an organized manner and on a larger scale. They need to organize their ranks militarily and powerfully – taking advantage of the current security lapse, [which enables] them to carry these activities out freely – so that, in the future, they will be able to topple the entire tyrant’s regime.

“I urge Egypt’s righteous and devoted sheikhs to rise up from their slumber and take action toward leading the young masses. The people have started to act, and [the sheikhs] must take advantage of this. The revolution is a popular one, and has swept the masses. This is not the revolution of any one sector…

“It will not do the monotheist brothers any good to continue following and watching [the events] on television or the internet, without taking a significant role [in them]. This is not what is expected of them. They are the ummah’s hope for the future… Do not disappoint the ummah’s hope in you.”[3]

Online Jihadi Cleric: Follow the Example of Al-Zarqawi in Iraq

In a Q&A session, Sheikh Hussein bin Mahmoud, a prominent cleric who writes often on the jihadi forums, recommended that the mujahideen begin establishing a clandestine presence in Egypt:

“Q: [What is your stance regarding the] calls for the announcement of an Al-Qaeda branch in Egypt?”

“A: We have been dreaming of this for a long time. However, it is my view that such an announcement should not [yet] be made. Instead, the brothers should assemble and organize their ranks, and prepare inconspicuously. This is what Emir [Abu Mus’ab] Al-Zarqawi did in Iraq, at the beginning of the war there: he entered Iraq and began organizing the ranks of the mujahideen, gained supporters, and carried out high quality operations, and only then was the announcement [of an Al-Qaeda branch] made.

“[The mujahideen in Egypt] should do what they need to do covertly, at least for the time being. Perhaps the first thing they should do is launch attacks on the prisons and release [their] prisoners, and then eliminate the heads of the intelligence services and the officers who tortured [these] Muslim prisoners and defiled their honor, in order to make an example of them to others.”[4]

Prominent Writer on Jihadi Forum: “Your Revolution will Persevere Only on the Fields of Jihad”

A prominent writer on the Shumukh Al-Islam forum going by the name Al-Mu’taz Bidin Allah Al-Mahdi explained the opportunity the jihadists see in the events in Egypt:

“O my rebellious ummah,… your sons, the bearers of the torch of monotheism, the mujahideen in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Caucasus, Nigeria, and Al-Sham have paved the path of glory with their pure souls, and lit the path for those who want the best of this world and the hereafter. They have proven that the only way to achieve security, an honorable life, glory, victory, and strength is jihad for

the sake of Allah.

The revolution and its torch of sacrifice have brought forth courage and boldness, opened the gates of sacrifice and martyrdom, and broken the shackles of fear and submission…

“Great missions and challenges lay ahead of us that demand we leave the squares of the revolution, and hurry to the fields of jihad. The goal that motivated you in Qasrin, Tallah, Suez, and Cairo is the very same goal that motivated your leaders and sons, and those who care about you most, the lions of monotheism and the knights of shari’a… Your revolution for freedom, honor, and an honorable life, if it is sincere, will persevere only on the fields of jihad…”[5]
Endnotes:

[1] A member of the Shumukh Al-Islam forum calling himself Silsilat Al-Tajdid, for instance, reported that Egyptian authorities had released several “lions of Al-Qaeda.” He also supplied the names of those released, but these were later erased by the website’s administrators. An Egyptian daily reported that 109 prisoners from Salafi organizations, among them Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiyya, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and others. See JTTM Report, Egypt Releases over 100 Members of Islamist and Jihadist Organizations; Member on Jihadi Website: Over 70 Al-Qaeda Fighters Were Released, February 20, 2011.

[2] See JTTM Report, ISI Message to Egyptians: Wage Jihad, February 9, 2011.

[3] Minbar Al-Tawhid Wal Jihad, February 22, 2011.

[4] Shumukh Al-Islam, February 16, 2011.

[5] Shumukh Al-Islam, February 15, 2011.

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Seven Heads on the Beast in Revelation 13 & 17 – Part 5

March 3, 2011

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If you want to see the case I make to prove the “he” in Daniel 9:27 is not the antichrist, then read whole numbered Prophecy Updates 55 to 58 on our web site in our prophecy update archives, which are listed on the menu as “Prophecy Updates.”

Mountains are at times used to refer to great governments or kingdoms in the Bible, such as in Isaiah when it refers to Christ’s Kingdom being established as the top Kingdom among the other nations, represented as lower mountains or little hills.

The SEVEN HEADS represent seven great mountains (governments or kingdoms) that have been composite parts in the development of the final great Revelation beast kingdom

of antichrist. These seven kingdoms of man have historically given their mammon contributions of knowledge, culture, and scientific advancements, as they have afflicted and affected Israel since God called her out of Egypt.

The First Head in Part 1 was the Egyptian Kingdom

The Second Head in Part 2 was the Assyrian Kingdom

The Third Head in Part 3 was the Babylonian Kingdom

The Fourth Head in Part 4 was the Medo-Persian Kingdom

The Fifth Head in Part 5 was the Grecian or Macedonian Kingdom

Revelation 13:5 – And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

It would seem by the two expressions “was given” one might be inclined to accept that the antichrist is, at this point in time, a human completely indwelled with all the fullness of Satan and, as such, could be classified as Satan incarnate in human flesh. In any case, this verse certainly compares well with the eleventh horn of Daniel’s fourth beast.

Daniel 7:8 – I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

The greatest things spoken from human lips, labeled as being blasphemous, entail claims made to be God, of God, sent by God, speaking for God, or that direct others to a false god who claims to be the true God.

The antichrist, in II Thessalonians 2:4, not only seems to present himself outwardly to mankind as being God, but almost seems to be trying to prove it to himself.

II Thessalonians 2:4 – Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Allah is the God of more than 1.5 billion Muslims from one end of the earth to the other. If a man, who was thought to be distantly related to the Prophet Mohammed, was apparently killed, but appeared to come back to life, and then claimed to be the Islamic Messiah (Mahdi) in the flesh, he would be believed. (See Part 4 in this Series)

Many are convinced that the antichrist must be a Jew in order for the Jews to accept him as one who can confirm the covenant of Daniel 9:27, on which they base their assumption. However, I am convinced that the “he” in this Scripture is not antichrist, but rather the Son of God, Jesus Christ.

Daniel 9:27 – And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

If you want to see the case I make to prove the “he” is not the antichrist, then read whole numbered Prophecy Updates 55 to 58 on our web site in our prophecy update archives, which are listed on the menu as “Prophecy Updates.”

In any case, the antichrist of Revelation 13:5 continues for 42 prophetic months after he receives the power to do so.

All prophetic years are 360 days in length, and all

prophetic months are 30 days in length. So, 42 prophetic months would equal 1260 days or 3 and ½ prophetic years, as found in the Scriptures that reference this same time period. A “time” is equal to 360 days, “times” is equal to 720 days, and “half a time” equals 180 days.

Daniel 7:25 – And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

Revelation 12:14 – And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times,

and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

Revelation 11:2,3 – But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. [3] And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

I believe the woman Israel will likely be driven into the Negev Wilderness before 2015.

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