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September 21, 2011

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Daniel 11:40 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, AND WITH MANY SHIPS; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

Numbers 24:12-14 & 23-25 – And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying, [13] If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the Lord saith, that will I speak? [14] And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people IN THE LATTER DAYS. [23] And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!

[24] And SHIPS shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever. [25] And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.

The Hebrew word for “SHIPS” is specific in that it means “ships in place as a fixture” (Strong’s), which has been the case for U.S. ships for a long time in the Middle East.

Chittim Or Kittim, a plural form (Gen 10:4), the name of a branch of the descendants of Javan, the “son” of Japheth. Balaam foretold (Num 24:24) “that ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and afflict Eber.” Daniel prophesied (Dan 11:30) that the ships of Chittim would come against the king of the north. It probably denotes Cyprus, whose ancient capital was called Kition by the Greeks. The references elsewhere made to Chittim (Isa 23:1, Isa 23:12; Jer 2:10; Eze 27:6) are to be explained on the ground that while the name originally designated the Phoenicians only, it came latterly to be used of all the islands and various settlements on the sea-coasts which they had occupied, and then of the people who succeeded them when the Phoenician power decayed. Hence it designates generally the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean and the races that inhabit them. (Sacred Texts)

Ezekiel 38:13 – Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil

?

Verse 13 mentions three other descendants which were not mentioned previously as being among the horde that attacked Israel, namely, Sheba, Dedan, and Tarshish. Sheba and Dedan settled in the land we know as Saudi Arabia, later colonizing across the Red Sea in the horn we know today as Ethiopia. Tarshish is much harder to nail down to a specific location. The descendants of Tarshish were sea merchants who became the peoples of the Mediterranean Sea coast. The headquarters of the descendants of Tarshish is now generally accepted by most biblical authorities as a district in the south of Spain where the city of Tartessus once existed. The merchants of Tarshish scattered their descendants in village settlements along most of the coastal sections of Europe. I am persuaded that Europe represents the descendant offspring of Tarshish. I also believe it is reasonable to look upon the rest of Western Civilization as being the offspring (descendants) of Europe (“the young lions thereof”). The countries of the New World became the “melting pot” of Europe. It is very interesting what Saudi Arabia, Europe, and the rest of Western Civilization have to say to Gog about his attack on Israel: “Art thou come to take a spoil? Hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? To carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?” This is no more or less than the perfect description of a diplomatic protest to Gog’s actions. When the anti-Christ and his armies roar south into Israel in a blitzkrieg lightning strike, the rest of the free world will protest, protest, protest – and do nothing about it. The anti-Christ will take Jerusalem within a week of his initial strike in the north, and within three weeks most of Israel will have fled into the Negev south of Beersheva, where she will remain for some three and one-half years. Jerusalem will fall and only one-third of Israel’s population will make it safely into the Negev.

Western and Eastern powers will have their ships remain in foxed positions in the seas surrounding the Middle East to provide a fixed nuclear umbrella for whoever they support, and to act as a threat to both Islam and Israel of what will happen if either one uses nuclear weapons. I do not believe all the nations of the world will fight until the Russian bear comes down from his habitant in the ‘Land of Magog” to join the Islamic Antichrist Gog (The Chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal) at the final battle of the great Tribulation Period, which is Armageddon.

It will be ended and won by the Second Advent of Messiah.

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Obama starts massive US Air-Sea-Marine build-up opposite Iran

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

May 20, 2010, 2:20 PM (GMT+02:00)

DEBKAfile’s military sources report a decision by the Obama administration to boost US military strength in the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf regions in the short term with an extra air and naval strike forces and 6,000 Marine and sea combatants. Carrier Strike Group 10, headed by the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, sails out of the US Navy base at Norfolk, Virginia Friday, May 21. On arrival, it will raise the number of US carriers off Iranian shores to two. Up until now, President Barack Obama kept just one aircraft carrier stationed off the coast of Iran, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Arabian Sea, in pursuit of his policy of diplomatic engagement with Tehran.

For the first time, too, the US force opposite Iran will be joined by a German warship, the frigate FGS Hessen, operating under American command.

It is also the first time that Obama, since taking office 14 months ago, is sending military reinforcements to the Persian Gulf. Our military sources have learned that the USS Truman is just the first element of the new buildup of US resources around Iran. It will take place over the next three months, reaching peak level in late July and early August. By then, the Pentagon plans to have at least 4 or 5 US aircraft carriers visible from Iranian shores.

The USS Truman’s accompanying Strike Group includes Carrier Air Wing Three (Battle Axe) – which has 7 squadrons – 4 of F/A-18 Super Hornet and F/A-18 Hornet bomber jets, as well as spy planes and early warning E-2 Hawkeyes that can operate in all weather conditions; the Electronic Attack Squadron 130 for disrupting enemy radar systems; and Squadron 7 of helicopters for anti-submarine combat (In its big naval exercise last week, Iran exhibited the Velayat 89 long-range missile for striking US aircraft carriers and Israel warships from Iranian submarines.)

Another four US warships will be making their way to the region to join the USS Truman and its Strike Group. They are the guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy and guided missile destroyers USS Winston S. Churchill, USS Oscar Austin and USS Ross.

DEBKAfile’s military sources disclose that the 6,000 Marines and sailors aboard the Truman Strike Group come from four months of extensive and thorough training to prepare them for anticipated missions in the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean.

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Top US Intel official in Ankara to head off naval clash, bring Palestinians to talks

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

September 19, 2011, 6:31 PM (GMT+02:00)

The US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper arrived in Ankara on an urgent surprise visit Sunday night Sept. 18 as Turkish saber-rattling threatened three major US interests:

Sunday, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the information gathered by the US radar system to be stationed in Turkey’s Malatya province as part of the NATO missile-shield would not be shared with Israel – thereby disrupting the entire system; Monday, US Noble Energy began drilling gas off Cyprus in defiance of Turkish threats; and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’ headed to New York to promote UN acceptance of a Palestinian state – with Ankara’s encouragement.

Clapper went straight into talks with the Turkish General Staff, the National Intelligence Agency (MIT) and Foreign Ministry. No official statement was issued on the visit. Turkish sources indicated only that it concerned the planned deployment of the NATO radar system, the fight against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) “as well as other developments in the Middle East.”

However, DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report that Clapper was in Turkey for a last-ditch Obama administration bid to avert sea and air hostilities erupting between Turkey, Greece, Cyprus and Israel in the eastern Mediterranean where tensions have been building up over Turkish threats inter alia against offshore gas exploration by Israel and Cyprus.

The US intelligence official’s assignment in Ankara tied in with another last-ditch Washington effort, namely to break down Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’s stubborn resolve to press for UN acceptance of a Palestinian state and to side step

peace negotiations with Israel.

Intelligence reaching the Obama administration traces that obduracy to a quiet conversation Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan held with Abbas in Cairo on Sept. 12. Since then, the Palestinian leader has dug in his heels against every effort to divert him from his UN gambit – even after Middle East Quartet envoy Tony Blair persuaded Israeli Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to show flexibility on such thorny issues as Palestinian acceptance of a Jewish national state and the 1967 borders.

The reason was so unreceptive – even to the near-certainty of US aid cutbacks – was a guarantee, administration sources found he obtained from Erdogan, that Turkey would provide the Palestinian Authority with the financial assistance it needed to make up for the reduced flow of aid from the US and Israel – provided he stuck to his guns.

On the day of their Cairo conversation, Ankara leaked tough new instructions issued by the Erdogan government to the Turkish Navy to pen Israeli warships inside their 12-mile territorial waters

and disable the weapons of any vessels sailing beyond that limit.

Erdogan’s purpose was to impress the Palestinian leader with the seriousness of Turkish willingness to confront Israel and the United States and persuade him that the Palestinians’ best interests lay with aligning with Ankara.

Those sources report that the Palestinian fell for the Erdogan line and determined to stage his own confrontation with Washington and Jerusalem at the United Nations. Friday, Sept. 16, he formally announced he was committed to filing an application with the UN Security Council for Palestinian membership of the world body, despite repeated warnings that it would fail.

DEBKAfile’s Washington sources report that, as a last resort, after Israel’s flexibility had no effect, the administration sent a high-ranking envoy to take all the issue up with the Turkish prime minister. Since Erdogan had enough influence to persuade Abbas to clash with the US and Israel, he was also believed capable of persuading him to back off.

James Clapper was also commissioned to caution Turkish leaders against continuing their threatened military brinkmanship in the Mediterranean. Another demand was that Ankara line up behind Washington’s campaign to revive Palestinian-Israeli negotiations in lieu of their UN initiative and makes sure Mahmoud Abbas knew about the Turkish policy switch.

Following Davutoglu’s statement on the X-band radar, Clapper was authorized to warn the Erdogan government that if it barred the sharing of information with Israel, the plan for its installation in Turkey would have to be abandoned. The entire missile shield system is based on a network of advanced radar stations scattered across the Middle East, including the Israeli Negev, and Israel’ s highly-developed ability to intercept Iranian balli

stic missiles.

President Obama has scheduled a meeting with Erdogan for Tuesday, Sept.

20 ,on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York. The expeditious Clapper mission was meant to make sure ahead of the interview Ankara smoothed out the bumps in the ground between Turkey and the United States on the three explosive issues

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DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

September 17, 2011, 9:29 AM (GMT+02:00)

Military tension is building up among Greece, Turkey and Israel as Cyprus prepares to start exploratory drilling for gas offshore Monday, Sept.

19 in the face of threats from Ankara. All three have placed their air and sea forces in a state of preparedness along with the Cypriot army.

From Wednesday, Sept 14, Turkish warplanes and fighters kept watch on the Homer Ferrington rig belonging to Houston-based Noble Energy as it moved from Israel’s offshore field Noa opposite Ashdod to Cyprus’s Aphrodite (Block 12) field ready to start work.

It was the first time since the Mavis Marmara episode of May 2010 that Turkish warships came less than 80 kilometers from Israel’s territorial waters. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Israeli missile ships and drones kept watch from afar on the Noble rig’s movement and tracked Turkish surveillance.

As the rig moved into position opposite Cyprus, so too did two Turkish frigates. A Cypriot spokesman said Turkish warships and fighters had not entered the island’s territorial waters.

Ankara questions the rights of Israel and Cyprus to drill for hydrocarbon reserves in the respective Exclusive Economic Zones marked out in an accord they concluded last year.

The UN-approved Law of the Sea authorizes nations to mark out their Exclusive Economic Zones for the exploration of natural resources to a distance of 200 miles outside their territorial waters. Israel has never signed this treaty.

Thursday, Sept. 15, in Tunis, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan continued to inveigh against Israel declaring: “They will see what our decisions will be on this subject. Our navy attack ships can be there at any moment.”

Without specifically mentioning Cyprus, he said: “Israel cannot do as it pleases in the Mediterranean” and “Turkey is committed to preserving the freedom of navigation in international waters.”

Erdogan avoided linking Israel to the Turkish dispute with Greece and Greek Cyprus but is obviously galled by the connection and its three manifestations.

Cyprus’s Block 12 where drilling starts Monday borders on the huge Leviathan field Israel is developing in the eastern Mediterranean, whose proven gas reserves are calculated to be 8.5 trillion cubic feet. This would supply the entire US economy’s needs for a year.

Noble Energy of Houston has a license to drill in Cyrus’s Aphrodite while the Israeli company Delek which is developing the Israeli offshore gas fields also has an option in the Cypriot field.

Greece and Israel concluded a mutual defense pact on Sept. 4, 2011. Ten days later, Prime Ministers George Papandreou and Binyamin Netanyahu agreed to activate the pact in the light of Turkish threats against Israel and to exploration activity in the Mediterranean basin.
Israel and Greece have therefore begun to coordinate their fleet movements in the eastern Mediterranean

and around Cyprus.

Erdogan’s threats were followed up this week by a Turkish Foreign Ministry statement saying: “It has been agreed that Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus will conclude a continental shelf delimitation agreement should the Greek Cypriot administration proceed with offshore drilling activities in the south of the island.”

Ankara’s problem is that the Turkish Republic of Cyprus is not recognized by any country but Turkey.

Washington has not only given Noble Energy a green light to start drilling off Cyprus but backed it up with a State Department statement Thursday: “The US supports the efforts to enhance energy diversity in Europe, noting the fact a US company was involved was also positive.”

Since last Tuesday, Sept. 13, Turkish troop reinforcements are reported by DEBKAfile’s military sources as having landed in North Cyprus along with drilling equipment.

These preparations indicate that Turkey is planning to start drilling in the Cypriot EEZ without reference to Nicosia. This would mean that Prime Minister Erdogan, while spouting high-sounding pledges to “preserve “freedom of navigation in international waters,” is preparing a wildcat breach of international law and treaties. Friday, the Greek government in Athens warned Ankara against pursuing this step.

However, it would be in keeping with his past defiance of international norms. Even though Turkey accepted the UN Palmer commission’s mediation in its dispute with Israel over the flotilla escapade, Erdogan declared its findings “null and void” –- after the panel ruled that Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip was legal and justified.

Next Monday, therefore, many eyes will be alertly watching to see what happens when the Noble rig starts drilling in Cyprus’ Block 12 of the Mediterranean.

The Turkish prime minister has painted himself into a corner: If he orders his naval and/or air units to strike the American rig, he will have to take the consequences, possibly a confrontation with the US, Israel, Greece and Cyprus.

If he does nothing, or nothing more than a token drilling off the Turkish side of the island, he will lose face as a leader able to back up his threats.

He could take a third course like other Muslim rulers and vent his ire on Israel.

The guessing in Washington, NATO and Israel is that the most likely arena for a potential clash of arms in the Mediterranean is offshore Cyprus and it is most likely to evolve into sea and air confrontations involving Turkey, Greece, Cyprus and Israel.

During the Last Three and One-Half years of the Gentile Age,

The ships of Russia, America, China, France, Great Britain,

And MANY Other Nations Will Fill The Seas And Oceans

Which FLOW in to BREAK on their Islamic Shorelines!

They Will Be Involved As Observers Until The Last

Battle of Armageddon that ends the Gentile Age

As Jesus comes with his saints at 2nd Advent.

January 23, 2011

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Numbers 24:24 – And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

In the days of Daniel’s fourth Beast, which was the Roman K ingdom, as well as

in the Grecian and Persian Kingdoms before it, the Middle East waters were filled with ships of many nations.

They will be more numerous and deadly than in the days of the 5th and 6th Beast.

Daniel 11:40,41 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and WITH MANY SHIPS: and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. [41] He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown:

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Iranian warships coming to Mediterranean and Red Seas

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

January 23, 2011 PM (GMT+02:00)

Less than 24 hours after the breakdown of its nuclear dialogue with the six world powers in Istanbul, Iran announced plans Sunday, Jan.

23, to send a fleet of warships, including a home-made destroyer, on operational and intelligence-gathering missions to the Red Sea and on to the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal. DEBKAfile’s military sources: Parts of the fleet will in fact be deployed in the three waters around Israel’s southern and western shores.

Tehran is taking advantage of the lack of military and diplomatic momentum on the part of US and Israel for a naval thrust to expand its range of operations and encroach on their areas of control.

It is also a rapid response to the arrival of the USS Enterprise carrier with a strike group carrying 6,000 sailors and marines and 80 warplanes in the Mediterranean at the end of last week on its way to the Arabian Sea opposite Iran. British ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair’s call on the West to stop apologizing and react to Iran with force was not lost on the rulers of the Islamic Republic.

The Navy Commander, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari spoke of three or four vessels including Iran’s first home-made destroyer, Jamaran, with back-up operational units standing by for urgent support missions.

His deputy, Rear-Admiral Gholam Reza Bi-Gham said the deployment would last about a year and at some future time, long-distance submarines would join the fleet.
Since Nov. 2008, the Iranian Navy has been conducting anti-piracy patrols between the Gulf of Aden Straits of Bab al-Mandeb off Yemen so some of its units are not far away.

Both admirals reported that a flotilla of Iranian naval officer cadets would soon be dispatched to the Mediterranean and Red Seas to gain experience in these new areas and gather intelligence.

Iran recently purchased three Kilo class submarines from Russia and is using them in the Persian Gulf. DEBKAfile’s military sources report they belong to a bygone generation of subs and lack advanced electronic systems, making it hard for them to stay deep down underwater for long periods without surfacing.

For two years, Iranian military shipyards have been building miniature submarines, war ships and fast assault craft. Most Western naval give them low ratings in performance especially in view of their outdated electronics.

DEBKAfile’s military sources, however, estimate that if deployed in support of the warships assigned to the Mediterranean and Red Seas, those mini-submarines and assault craft could be extremely troublesome and give plenty of headaches to American, Israel and Egyptian naval commanders.

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Look Out World! A Prophetic “Man of Interest” now Making His Move!

He’s making a move to Unite all ‘Arab Spring’ young Revolutionaries

Into a Confederation of Islamic Nations of Clay & Iron Combatants

I’m Not saying PM Erdogan is the Antichrist But is worth Watching

And I Do believe Antichrist WILL Eventually Rise from Arab Spring

So if he isn’t the Antichrist then he is preparing the Way for Him

And I do think a Final War Likely to Begin twixt 2013 and 2015.

September 20, 2011

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The Palestinian Authority is coming to the United Nations saying they will try to get the UN approval of a FULL statehood and membership in the United Nations. Obama has promised to veto it in the Security Council. It is interesting to see that he plans to meet with PM Erdogan during the PA shot at FULL membership, since Erdogan is loudly speaking in full support of the PA in its quest.

Abbas of PA may end up getting a second class state in the UN, but whatever happens, PM Erdogen will continue to be embroiled in the midst of it gaining more popularity with the Islamic World.

The idea of Erdogan and Obama somehow becoming buddies in all this confusion is a horrible thought.

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As Turkey Tilts Away From the West, Obama Hails Erdogan As ‘Friend’

By Patrick Goodenough

December 8, 2009

President Obama said Monday Turkey could be “an important player” in efforts to prod Iran to keep its nuclear program peaceful, even though an increasingly assertive Ankara has tilted perceptibly towards Tehran this year.

President Obama removed his shoes during a visit to the Blue Mosque in Istanbul on April 7, 2009.

(CNSNews.com) – President Obama said Monday Turkey could be “an important player” in efforts to prod Iran to keep its nuclear program peaceful – although an increasingly assertive Ankara has tilted perceptibly towards Tehran this year in its standoff with the West.

Characterizing Turkey as “a great country” and visiting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a personal friend, Obama said he was optimistic about the prospect of “stronger and stronger” bilateral ties

in the future.

Turkey, a Muslim but officially secular member of NATO which aspires to join the European Union, is currently a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. It was among the handful of countries Obama visited in his first presidential trip outside North America last April.

Speaking after their meeting – which Turkish media noted with enthusiasm had lasted for two hours – Obama praised Turkey for its “outstanding contributions” in Afghanistan.

Turkey recently doubled the number of troops deployed in the NATO-led mission there to about 1,750, although none are combat troops.
Turkey has the second-largest standing army in NATO (after the U.S.), more than twice the size of that of Britain, which has almost 10,000 troops in Afghanistan.

The warm words at the Oval Office came despite recent trends in Turkey, including its criticism of the West’s handling of the Iran issue and a significant cooling in relations with Israel since last winter’s military offensive against Hamas in Gaza.

At a time when the West is edging closer to tightening sanctions against Iran, Turkey is pushing in the other direction. Erdogan’s government last week did not support an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution censuring Iran for its uranium enrichment activities and referring the matter to the U.N. Security Council.

Addressing a press conference at a Washington hotel after the White House meeting, Erdogan reiterated his opposition to sanctions.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed lawmakers in Ankara on Tuesday, Dec.

1, 2009.

“We have specifically stated that the [Iran nuclear] question can be resolved through diplomacy and diplomacy only,” he said.

U.S. ‘disappointed’ by Turkey’s stance in IAEA vote

In a background briefing ahead of the visit, a senior administration official stressed the importance of U.S.-Turkey relations, but also hinted at some of the problem areas.

“We have no problem with Turkey reaching out to Iran, talking to Iran,” he said. “But it is important to us that the message be the same” as that of “the rest of the international community.”

The official said the U.S. believed sanctions would be most effective if broad and “multi-nationally imposed,” and that “Turkey would be an important player on this issue.”

He said Ankara’s decision to abstain rather than vote in favor of the Nov. 27 IAEA resolution had “disappointed” the U.S., which would continue to encourage Turkey and others to join “what we hope will be a common line.”

In the vote by the 35-member board of IAEA governors, three countries – Venezuela, Cuba and Malaysia – voted against the resolution and Turkey was joined by Afghanistan, Egypt, Pakistan, Brazil and South Africa in abstaining.

Although Turkey has traditionally had better ties with Israel than any other important country in the Muslim world, that changed dramatically this year, with Ankara positioning itself as a leading critic of the Jewish state.

On ties with Israel, a second administration official at the briefing said that if the Turks wished to play a constructive role in Mideast peace efforts, “they need to be seen by all relevant participants in such a dialogue as an honest broker.”

If Turkey did not return to the “very strong and cooperative relationship” it previously had with Israel, the official said, “it’s going to be harder for them to lead in the way they would like to lead.”

Iran, Syria, Israel – a year of troubling signs

Erdogan’s White House visit comes towards the end of a year that has provided numerous examples of his government taking positions at odds with those of the U.S.

In February, Erdogan stormed off the stage dur ing a televised debate

in Davos after a heated exchange with Israeli President Shimon Peres over Gaza. American Jewish organizations subsequently wrote to Erdogan, linking a spate of anti-Jewish incidents in Turkey to “the inflammatory denunciation of Israel by Turkish officials.”

In April, Ankara announced it planned to hold its first joint military exercise with Syria, a prospect Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak called “very troubling.”

In June, Turkish lawmakers aligned themselves with those from eight other Organization of the Islamic Conference member states in a resolution supporting Iran’s and condemning “interference” by countries critical of Iran’s conduct during and after its disputed presidential election.

The same meeting of Islamic lawmakers complained that Iran was being pressurized for “peaceful” activities while Israel’s nuclear arsenal was being ignored. And it demanded that Israel be prosecuted for “crimes” against Palestinians, while condemning the International Criminal Court’s attempt to indict Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for alleged war crimes in Darfur.

Over the summer, Erdogan said a key pipeline project – aimed at bringing Caspian natural gas to Western markets via Turkey, bypassing Russia – would fail unless Iran was also permitted to supply gas for the project.

Erdogan said any sanctions targeting Iranian gas would bring the pipeline plan “to a dead end.” Iran has the world’s second largest natural gas reserves. (“We don’t believe Iran should be a participant,” was the response from U.S. special envoy for Eurasian energy, Richard Morningstar.)

Citing other reasons for opposing sanctions, Erdogan said Iranian tourism to Turkey was significant, and that overall Turkey-Iran trade amounted to around $10 billion annually. The two are also planning to develop a tax-free industrial zone on their joint border.

In the fall, Turkey asked Israel to withdraw from a scheduled NATO air force exercise that it was preparing to host. After fellow participants U.S. and Italy pulled out of the Anatolian Eagle exercise to protest the move, Ankara canceled the event altogether.

At the U.N. in New York in September, Erdogan again voiced opposition to sanctions against Iran, while turning the spotlight on Israel.

“We are completely against nuclear weapons in the Middle East,” he told reporters. “There is a country in the Middle East that possesses nuclear weapon: Israel.”

Erdogan used the opportunity to accuse Israel of using “phosphorus bombs … a weapon of mass destruction” in Gaza and asked why Israel’s conduct was not being scrutinized by the Security Council.

“These issues are never brought to the table, and this personally annoys me,” he said.

In October, Turkey hosted Mohsen Rezai, one of five Iranians wanted by Argentina in connection with the 1994 suicide truck bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.

Despite the fact that Rezai, a former head of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, is the subject of an Interpol “red notice,” he traveled freely to Turkey, where he held talks with President Abdullah Gul and other officials.

The same month saw Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and other cabinet colleagues visit Syria, where they signed a bilateral “strategic cooperation” agreement and pledged to improve defense ties.

Syria’s closest strategic ally is Iran.

Also in October, Davutoglu cancelled a visit to Israel, where he had been invited to take part in a major international conference in Jerusalem, hosted by Peres.

Several days later, Erdogan visited Tehran, where President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad publicly thanked him for his stance towards Israel

The visit came at a time when the international community was awaiting Iran’s response to an international proposal that it send some of its low-enriched uranium abroad for conversion into nuclear fuel. Erdogan’s position on the dispute was to say that “those who claim they are after nuclear disarmament in the world should start the measure in their own country.”

During his visit, Turkey signed a “memorandum of understanding” about investment in Iranian gas fields.

‘Cold war mentality’

Ankara has rejected criticism that it is shifting orientation away from the West and closer to the Middle East.

“Turkey is expanding its relations; it’s not changing its direction,” Turkey’s Today’s Zaman daily quoted foreign ministry spokesman Burak Ozugergin as saying in late October.

I guess people can’t get rid of the Cold War mentality. Turkey may be extremely good friends with Syria, Iraq, Iran, Russia, Georgia and Armenia, with Greece or Bulgaria as well,” he said. “This is neither against NATO, nor can it be considered as a stance against any other country or a group of countries.”

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Obama to meet with Turkey’s PM Erdogan during UN General Assembly, will discuss Israel

September 19, 2011

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Turkey’s Prime Minister Hails Arab Democracy Efforts in Tunisia

VOA News

September 16, 2011

(Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters)

September 19, 2011

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that Islam and democracy are not contradictory.

On the second leg of his North Africa tour, Erdogan spoke in Tunis where the “Arab Spring” protest movement began this year. After meeting with Tunisian prime minister Beji Caid Essebsi, Erdogan said “a Muslim can run a state very successfully.”

Tunisians are set to vote on October 23 in assembly elections, the first since Tunisian protests helped depose longtime ruler Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.

In Turkey, Erdogan’s party has Islamist roots and its election success has served as a model for political groups spreading in the Arab world. Turkey is 99 percent Muslim.

In comments to reporters, Erdogan also slammed Israel for saying Turkey is ready to deploy warships “at any time” if a feud with Israel over its blockade of Gaza escalates.

Erdogan’s visit to Tunisia comes after a stop in Egypt.

On Wednesday, Erdogan spoke with leaders of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood after receiving a hero’s welcome from Egyptians for his pro-Palestinian stand.

Erdogan’s four-day diplomatic visit to North Africa is aimed at expanding Turkey’s growing influence in a region full of political upheaval.

He goes next to Libya, and is expected to meet with the head of Libya’s National Transitional Council Friday.

Some in Israel have expressed concern that Erdogan’s “Arab Spring” diplomatic tour will stoke anti-Israel tensions, as it comes while Turkish-Israeli relations have hit new lows.

The two countries have been in a dispute over Turkey’s demand for an apology for Israel’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship last year. Turkey recently expelled the Israeli ambassador and other top diplomats from Ankara, and has suspended military trade and cooperation with Israel.

Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan arrives in Libyan capital

Friday, 16 September 2011

By AFP

TRIPOLI

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in the Libyan capital on Friday on the final leg of his “Arab Spring” tour.

Erdogan arrived from Tunisia at Tripoli’s airport, where he was greeted by Mustafa Abdel Jalil, number two in the new ruling National Transitional Council (NTC), whose forces last month toppled despot Muammar Qaddafi.

The Turkish premier began his tour in Egypt, where he received a rapturous welcome, confirming his rising regional status.

Besides holding talks with the new leadership, Erdogan was to attend the weekly Muslim main prayers at an Ottoman-era mosque, an NTC official said.

On Thursday, Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy became the first foreign leaders to visit the new Libya.

The two leaders, whose forces spearheaded the NATO air war that helped topple Qaddafi, are immensely popular among ordinary Libyans for their role in ending the fugitive strongman’s 42 years of iron-fisted rule.

Erdogan has gained regional stature as well as popularity in the Arab world, stemming mainly from his strong confrontations with Israel, at a time when regional leaders were seen by their people as impotent when it comes to the Jewish state and the West.

On his visit to Egypt, some drew comparisons with the late Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose pan-Arabism and defiance of foreign powers made him a regional hero in the 1950s.

Erdogan has also become a champion of the Palestinian cause, which is entering a crucial phase with the Palestinian Authority’s plan to take a further step

towards statehood by seeking UN membership later this month.

In a keynote address to the Arab League in Cairo on Wednesday, Erdogan argued that supporting the Palestinian bid was an obligation.

On Thursday, he made the case for “Islam and democracy” in Tunisia, where moderate Islamists modeled on his own party are tipped to win landmark October polls.

On a visit to the country where the “Arab Spring” began, Erdogan asserted that “Islam and democracy are not contradictory.”

“A Muslim can run a state very successfully,” said the 57-year-old after a meeting with his Tunisian counterpart Beji Caid Essebsi.

“The success of the electoral process in Tunisia will show the world that democracy and Islam can go together,” he added.

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A ROCK STAR IS ARISING IN THE MIDDLE EAST “ARAB SPRING”

WHO I CONSIDER TO BE A PROPHETIC ‘PERSON OF INTEREST’

WHOSE ACTIONS ARE FOLLOWING AN INTERESTING COURSE

WHICH I COVERED IN MY TWO PREVIOUS PROPHETIC BLOGS

SHOWN FOLLOWING CURRENT EXCERPT FROM “TIME WORLD”

September 19, 2011

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Begin Excerpt from TIME WORLD

Why Turkey’s Erdogan Is Greeted like a Rock Star in Egypt

By Rania Abouzeid / Cairo Tuesday, Sept. 13,

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, flanked by Egyptian military men, visits the tomb of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Cairo on Sept. 13, 2011

Amr Nabil / AP

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan — a hero on the Arab streets — has a habit of irritat ing

generals, even when he doesn’t mean to. This week, though, the men in uniform whose moustaches he is tweaking are not the military guardians of Turkish secularism but Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).

Erdogan, in Egypt on the first leg of his Arab Spring tour that includes visits in Tunisia and Libya, was received like a rock star by thousands of adoring supporters at Cairo’s airport when he flew in late on Monday. His three-day trip comes at a particularly inopportune time for Cairo’s new bosses, who are increasingly seen — by tens of thousands of young revolutionaries who led February’s revolution — as a throwback to their old boss.

The SCAF’s iron fist following Friday’s ransacking of the Israeli embassy and riot in Cairo, which left three people dead and more than 1,000 injured in clashes with security forces, has amplified anger at the generals. The council swiftly reinstated the authoritarian emergency law, a despised hallmark of Mubarak’s decades-long rule, and broadened it to cover activities such as blocking roads, publishing false information and weapons possession. (See “Prime Minister Erdogan: Turkey’s Man of the People.”)

Questions still swirl about the embassy incident, with some commentators in the local media speculating that the protesters had been set up by the SCAF, given that the diplomatic mission was lightly guarded by men who just stood by, watching protesters tear down a wall around the structure, and only intervened hours later. The demonstrators had been protesting Israel’s killing of six Egyptian border guards last month in a cross-border incursion following an attack in Israeli territory by militants believed to have crossed from the Egyptian side. The violation of Egyptian sovereignty had infuriated many but elicited a tepid response from the SCAF. Cairo had reportedly said it would expel Israel’s ambassador but had failed to do so.

Enter the tough-talking Erdogan, who recently tossed out Israel’s ambassador to Turkey, suspended bilateral military ties and promised a Turkish military escort for vessels defying Israel’ s Gaza blockade in the future.

As far as Egypt’s public was concerned, Erdogan had shown the SCAF (and everybody else) how it was done when it came to responding to Israeli actions, cementing his stature as the Arab world’s new pasha.

Although the Arab Spring is not directly about Israel, those who have risen to claim their dignity in the face of tyrannical regimes are not prepared to passively accept Israel’s actions against the Palestinians in the way that Mubarak and other Arab autocrats had done. That leaves Egypt’s generals wobbling on a tightrope: on one hand, they must appease public anger at their perceived weak response to Israel and their people’s pro-Palestinian views; on the other hand, they must maintain Egypt’s international-treaty obligations, first and foremost the 1979 Camp David agreement with Israel, and keep the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars that the U.S. sends in direct aid to the Egyptian military every year. (See photos of Egyptians tearing down the Israeli embassy wall.)

Erdogan’s visit has highlighted the vast schism between popular pro-Palestinian public opinion in Egypt and the inclinations of the country’ s military leader

s. The Turkish Prime Minister’s thunderous speech to the stale Arab League in Cairo on Tuesday certainly wouldn’t help. In a 30-minute address, Erdogan positioned himself as the unrivaled champion of Palestine, telling the region’s 21 Foreign Ministers (Syria sent a lower-ranking representative) that a Palestinian state was “not an option but an obligation,” urging them to support Palestinians’ efforts to seek U.N. recognition of statehood later this month.

“The Palestinian issue is about the dignity of the people,” said Erdogan, dressed in a sharp dark suit, a white shirt and a ruby red tie with white spots. He highlighted Turkey’s closeness to the Palestinian issue and the Arab people in general. “The cries of a Palestinian child in Gaza hurt the heart of a mother in Ankara,” he said. “It’s time to raise the Palestinian flag at the United Nations. Let’s raise the Palestinian flag and let that flag be the symbol of peace and justice in the Middle East. Let’s contribute to securing well-deserved peace and stability in the Middle East,” Erdogan said. Israel had isolated itself, he added, by acting “irresponsibly” and “must pay the price” after refusing to apologize for the raid on the Turkish flotilla.

In a further provocation to Israel and perhaps also to Egypt’s generals, Erdogan reportedly wants to cross into the besieged Hamas-ruled territory of Gaza from Egypt, but it’s unclear if he will go ahead. Regardless, the Turkish leader’s message has buttressed his position in the Arab world. However, Erdogan’s star may be dimming in some parts of the region, specifically in Syria.

His speech at the Arab League didn’t address Syria, although leaks in the Turkish media had suggested that he was going to offer “his final words” to Syrian President Bashar Assad. Perhaps that was what came later, in Erdogan’s second address of the day at the Cairo Opera House. This time the speech — which was billed as an address to the Egyptian people — wasn’t televised, for reasons that are unclear.

“Reforms have not materialized,” Erdogan said of Assad’s promises of change. “The Syrian people do not believe in Assad, nor do I. We also do not believe him.” It was quite a statement from a man who once counted Assad as a personal friend.

Although Turkey has taken an increasingly tougher line with Assad, as the Syrian death toll tops 2,600, activists have been looking to Erdogan for more. On Tuesday, he indicated that he is likely to deliver.

FIRST OF TWO PREVIOUS BLOGS

Will the Specter of Suleiman the Magnificent Once Again Walk the Walls He Built Around Jerusalem?

September 18, 2011

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

The Turkish economy has become very prosperous under Prime Minister Erdogan, but it has been built on a bubble, and when the bubble pops, the economy will head south. This is one of the reasons he has dreams of creating the revival of Suleiman’s Empire, since it would postpone the pop. The popularity and abilities of Suleiman brought a time of great prosperity to his Islamic State. Erdogan wants to duplicate the success of Suleiman as a popular Sultan.

The “Old Sick Man” of Southeastern Europe, that died as the Ottoman Caliphate, is now about to rise from the dead with Sultan Erdogen at its head.

Begin Excerpt from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Under Süleyman, popularly known as “the Magnificent” or “the Lawmaker,” the Ottoman empire reached the apogee of its military and political power. Süleyman’s armies conquered Hungary, over which the Ottomans maintained control for over 150 years, and they advanced as far west as Vienna, threatening the Habsburgs. To the east, the Ottoman forces wrested control of Iraq from the Safavids of Iran. In the Mediterranean, their navy captured all the principal North African ports, and for a time the Ottoman fleet completely dominated the sea. By the end of Süleyman’s reign, Ottoman hegemony extended over a great portion of Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Along with geographic expansion, trade, economic growth, and tremendous cultural and artistic activity helped define the reign of Süleyman as a “Golden Age.” Developments occurred in every field of the arts; however, those in calligraphy, manuscript painting, textiles, and ceramics were particularly significant. Artists renowned by name include calligrapher Ahmad Karahisari as well as painters Shahquli and Kara Memi.

In architecture, the most outstanding achievements of this period were the public buildings designed by Sinan (1539–1588), chief of the Corps of Royal Architects. While Sinan is often remembered for his two major commissions, the mosque complexes of Süleymaniye in Istanbul (1550–57) and of the later Selimiye in Edirne (1568–74), he designed hundreds of buildings across the Ottoman empire and contributed to the dissemination of Ottoman culture. Apart from mosques and other pious foundations—including schools, hospices, and soup kitchens, supported by shops, markets, baths, and caravanserais—Süleyman also commissioned repairs and additions to major historical monuments. The tile revetment of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, as well as several additions to sites in Mecca and Medina, the two Holy Cities of Islam, date from this period.

Suzan Yalman

Department of Education, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Based on original work by Linda Komaroff

Source: The Age of Süleyman “the Magnificent” (r. 1520–1566) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

End Excerpt from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Chapter 14 of Zechariah indicates Jerusalem will fall again to the forces of Islam. Ironically, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent built the current Islamic walls of Jerusalem on the foundation of King Herold’s walls. I have walked on top of them around the city of Jerusalem many times.

Islam will once again, for some 1260 days, reign within these ancient walls during the last three and one-half years of the Tribulation Period.

Zechariah 14:1,2 – Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. [2] For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Zechariah 14:1 – Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

Jerusalem sets “in the midst” of Israel, and its spoils shall be divided among the 10 conquering nations. Once again, in the prophetic style of writing, in the next verse, in the last phrase, he jumps to the end of the 1260 days, and assures Israel that God will preserve a remnant in the Negev, which will return some 1260 days after Jerusalem falls.

Zechariah 14:2 – For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the RESIDUE of the people shall NOT be CUT OFF from the city.

The word KARATH is translated “CUT OFF.” There are several words translated “cut off” in the KJV. KARATH means “TO BE CUT OFF FOREVER.” The other Hebrew words translated “cut off’ usually provided a way for the offender to be restored to fellowship with Israel, but KARATH implies BEING CUT OFF WITHOUT ANY CHANCE OF BEING ALLOWED TO RETURN. The word translated RESIDUE is the Hebrew word YETHER, which is translated as REMNANT in Micah 5:3. (See Prophecy Update Number 64)

Micah 5:3 – Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the REMNANT of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. (See Archive Prophecy Update Number 64)

In the last phrase of Zechariah 14:2, God is assuring the tribes of Israel that even if they will be driven out of Jerusalem, they will return some 1260 days later. He does this by the use of the word “NOT.” The residue (REMNANT) of the people (ISRAELIS) shall NOT be CUT OFF from the city.

When Jerusalem falls, God begins to fight for Israel, and it begins a period of 1260 days, through which he will extend his protective shield over them in the Negev wilderness.Zechariah 14:3 – Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

Suleiman was known as the Sultan of Sultans, Suleiman I (November 6, 1494 – September 5, 1566), was the tenth and longest serving Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning from 1520 to 1566. He is known in the West as Suleiman the Magnificent and in the Islamic world, as the Lawgiver, deriving from his complete reconstruction of the Ottoman legal system. Among the many titles ascribed to him were “The Shadow of God on the Earth,” and “Caesar of all the lands of Rome.”

Suleiman was considered one of the preeminent rulers of 16th century Europe. Under his leadership, the Ottoman Empire became among the worlds’ foremost powers. Suleiman personally led Ottoman armies to conquer Belgrade, Rhodes, and most of Hungary, laid the Siege of Vienna, and annexed most of the Middle East and huge territories in North Africa as far west as Algeria. For a short period, Ottomans achieved naval dominance in the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf.

The Ottoman Empire continued to expand for a century after his death.

It will be very interesting to see who and what comes out of this maze of confusion between Hizbullah, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey. It is from this area I have always believed the Antichrist will arise. I certainly do not know the identity of the Antichrist, but I have always taught he would come out of this area. (See Whole Numbered Archive Prophecy Updates 62 to 69 on our Web Site).

Begin Excerpt from Hurriyet News

Neo-laicism by Erdoğan

Friday, September 16, 2011

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s “Arab Spring” tour of Egypt, Tunisia and Libya has ended, leaving a very interesting debate in its wake.

It all started during a televised interview with renowned Egyptian journalist Mona Shazly during his stay in Cairo. There, Erdoğan touched on the sensitive issue of laicism and said that a Muslim person like himself could successfully rule a secular country like Turkey because he saw no contradiction between Islam and democracy.

Those words were more or less similar to the words he has said in the last 10 years in Turkey.

But Erdoğan took it further. He also said it was wrong to consider laicism as being anti-Islamic. He said that “our understanding” of laicism was that the state should respect everybody’s belief or non-belief (there he said “even atheism”) and remain at an equal distance to all of them.

He was taking three important steps at once.

First, he was trying to moderate the Islamist look within the Arab societies who think that after the secular dictators’ rule in Arab countries, Shariah rule in accordance with the strict dictates of the Quran is needed in their countries. That would have the effect of a kind of centrifugal force which would throw those Arab countries and their peoples further out of the international system. So he was trying to bring them toward the mainstream.

Secondly, he was trying to moderate the look, or concern among Western societies, that secular Arab dictators would not be replaced by promising democracies, but by Islamist dictators.

Third, he was actually revising his political line by trying to revise, or bring a new definition to, laicism. By underlining the relationship between the state and religion, he was making a clear distinction between that and the French revolution-style “Separation of state from the church” definition, which was strictly adopted by the Turkish Republic in its early years in the 1920s after the abolishment of the Sultanate and the Caliphate.

Actually, that separation has never found comfortable ground in Turkey, a mostly Muslim society, largely because one can not define “the mosque” as one can define “the church” since there is no clergy in traditional Islam and no religious bureaucracy.

Perhaps that was the reason why Turkey invented a religious bureaucracy, the Religious Affairs Directorate, to regulate the matter. So instead of getting the guidance from religion, the Turkish state started to give guidance to religious practice, a unique case in the Muslim world.

On the other hand, this weird system helped Turkey develop Western-style law, Western-style democracy and a Western-style economy – with all its ups and downs so far. That system, after all, brought a pious Muslim like Erdoğan to power through a free vote, allowed him to consolidate his power while pushing him toward the political center and is now throwing him before the revolting masses of Muslim countries that are asking for more freedom.

This is new not only for the region, but for political theory as well.

It is worth paying a closer look to Erdoğan’s concept of neo-laicism

End Excerpt from Hurriyet News

SECOND OF TWO PREVIOUS BLOGS

Middle East “Person of Interest” Rising in Power!

September 16th, 2011

Significant Pre-Tribulation Cry Is Now Being Heard IN Cairo

“Welcome, Salah al-Din” CRY in Egypt for a Turk Is Great!

Middle East ‘Person of Interest’ is Worthy of Observation

Consider Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan!

PARTS OF Turkey WERE Parts OF THE Assyrian Empire

Turkey WAS ONCE Occupied By Ezekiel 38:3,6 FOLKS

Southeast Turkey was once a part of ‘Greater Syria’

Turk Rulers were Listed among Kings OF THE North

Turkey HAS Experienced Great Economic Growth.

It has a powerful military with domestic Support

“[Not only did Erdogan recently win a third election campaign in Turkey, he also represents a regional power boasting great economic growth while the world faces a financial crisis. He has a powerful army, massive domestic support and the kind of influence that allows him to undertake regional moves vis-à-vis Israel, Syria, the Palestinians the Kurds and Libya.]”

I AM NOT SAYING ERDOGAN IS THE ANTICHRIST, BUT ONLY USING THE POLICE TERM SAYING “HE IS A PERSON OF INTEREST!”

I do not know the identity of the Antichrist, but I do know he will arise to the north of Israel, will come from a country once partially occupied by the ancient Assyrian Empire, from an area once occupied by the descendants of Meshech, Tubal, Gomer and all his bands, the house of Togarmah of the north quarters and all his bands, and many people with thee.

I have always taught the Antichrist would come out of Syria or Lebanon, but I have never excluded the possibility he could come out of Turkey or Northern Iraq. I still believe the most likely modern country for his appearance is Syria, but would not be shocked to see him come from Turkey. I would not be shocked because:

(1) Part of Turkey was once occupied by the Assyrian Empire

The Assyrians rose to power and prosperity around 12th century BC in Mesopotamia which today consists mainly of modern Iraq. Their Empire extended to some regions of modern Turkey and settled in different cities in Anatolia.
Micah 5:5,6 – And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. [6] And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders. (See Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 64 and 65 in the whole numbered archive series from 62 to 69)

(2) Turkey was once occupied by those descendants in Ezekiel 38:3,6

Ezekiel 38:3,6 – And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: [6] Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.

(3) Southeast Turkey was once part of “Greater Syria”

While for many years scholars and journalists have focused on the more obvious manifestations of political life in the Middle East, one major theme has been consistently neglected.

This is Pan-Syrian nationalism–the dream of creating a Greater Syria out of an area now governed by Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Turkey. Though not nearly as well known as Arab or Palestinian nationalism and hardly studied in depth, Pan-Syrianism has had a profound effect on Middle Eastern politics since the end of World War I. In “Greater Syria”, the noted Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes provides the first comprehensive account of this intriguing, important, and little understood ideology.

(Oxford Press Excerpt)

(4) Turkish rulers were included among the Biblical Kings of the North

Jeremiah 25:26 – And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

(5) Turkey has Experienced great Economic Growth

(6) It has a powerful Military with Domestic Support

(7) Erdogan is being welcomed in Egypt with “Welcome, Salah al-Din”

Salah al-Din al-Ayubbi founded the Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt and Syria. Known as Saladin in the West, Salah al Din al Ayubi was born in 1138 in Tikrit. Saladin, a Kurdish warrior, became the Sultan of Egypt and known as a champion of Islam. Salah al Din became a legend in the East and West for his role in clearing the Crusaders from Jerusalem. His capture of Jerusalem, and the Muslim triumph that followed, gave him a remarkable place in the pages of history. The rise of a new, unified Islamic state centered in Egypt was accomplished by the skilled leadership of Saladin.

September 16, 2011

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

Begin Excerpt from YNet News

The Mideast’s new hero?

Op-ed: Turkey’s Erdogan seeks to become regional leader, show Arabs the ‘right path’

Roee Nahmias

September 15, 2011

“Welcome, Salah al-Din” – this is how tens of thousands of enthused Egyptians received Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the man who in his own eyes is emerging as the next Arab leader with every passing day.

The “Turkish Sultan,” who initiated a head-on clash with Israel, greeted the welcoming youngsters in Cairo in Arabic. The young Egyptians embraced him, but Arab leaders may soon develop a dislike for the leader who talks to the masses above their heads

Some 5,000 people have joined the Facebook page calling for a warm welcome to Erdogan. This page and the photos from the Cairo airport are precisely the kind of images he seeks to display: In a period where large parts of the Arab world are entering a vacuum or paralysis following the regional upheaval, Turkey’s PM wants to show that he is the only regional leader who travels freely and can offer his patronage.

Not only did Erdogan recently win a third election campaign in Turkey, he also represents a regional power boasting great economic growth while the world faces a financial crisis. He has a powerful army, massive domestic support and the kind of influence that allows him undertake regional moves vis-à-vis Israel, Syria, the Palestinians the Kurds and Libya.

The new Nasse

r?

Under the current state of affairs, it is no surprise that more Arab media outlets endorse the view that Erdogan seeks to enter the leadership vacuum in the Arab world and turn into a pan-Arabic and pan-Islamic figure – a sort of modern-day version of former Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser, who sought to unite Arab states under his pan-Arabism and mostly under his leadership.

However, reality is cruel to Egypt.

Instead of Cairo leading the way, it hosts a regional, non-Arab leader (this carries great weight) who seeks to assume a leadership role and show Egypt and its sisters the “right path. In an interview with Egyptian TV, Erdogan stressed that “Turkey constitutes the model for a proper secular state.”

While the substance of Erdogan’s suggestions is important, the tone is even more significant. Turkey’s leader toured three states that recently toppled their leaders – Egypt, Tunisia and Libya – while offering many recommendations, and mostly one word of advice: Follow me, I’ll show you the way.

Erdogan’s tips

Speaking at a special Arab League convention, Erdogan also took the liberty to offer his tips to Arab states. “Recognizing the Palestinian state is a right, not a duty,” he reprimanded them. He also resorted to his cus

tomary habit, slamming Israel as the masses cheer.

Indeed, Turkey’s leader portrays himself as the only one who can pose a significant threat to Israel and put the “West’s spoiled child” in its place.

Mideastern leaders are likely unhappy to hear Erdogan’s zealous declarations. However, in the climate created in the region, many people buy into the Turkish PM’s arrogant statements. Over time, Arab leaders may not be willing to play into the hands of the “Muslim lecturer” who wishes to bring them under his leadership.

Yet until that time, Erdogan shall continue to take pleasure in the flattering headlines. And what will come next? This depends on the crises to follow in the region. In any case, the Turkish prime minister will be lying in wait in order to score more political and leadership points.

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Will the Specter of Suleiman the Magnificent Once Again Walk the Walls He Built Around Jerusalem?

September 18, 2011

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

The Turkish economy has become very prosperous under Prime Minister Erdogan, but it has been built on a bubble, and when the bubble pops

, the economy will head south. This is one of the reasons he has dreams of creating the revival of Suleiman’s Empire, since it would postpone the pop. The popularity and abilities of Suleiman brought a time of great prosperity to his Islamic State. Erdogan wants to duplicate the success of Suleiman as a popular Sultan.

The “Old Sick Man” of Southeastern Europe, that died as the Ottoman Caliphate, is now about to rise from the dead with Sultan Erdogen at its head.

Begin Excerpt from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Under Süleyman, popularly known as “the Magnificent” or “the Lawmaker,” the Ottoman empire reached the apogee of its military and political power. Süleyman’s armies conquered Hungary, over which the Ottomans maintained control for over 150 years, and they advanced as far west as Vienna, threatening the Habsburgs. To the east,

the Ottoman forces wrested control of Iraq from the Safavids of Iran.

In the Mediterranean, their navy captured all the principal North African ports, and for a time the Ottoman fleet completely dominated the sea. By the end of Süleyman’s reign, Ottoman hegemony extended over a great portion of Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Along with geographic expansion, trade, economic growth, and tremendous cultural and artistic activity helped define the reign of Süleyman as a “Golden Age.” Developments occurred in every field of the arts; however, those in calligraphy, manuscript painting, textiles, and ceramics were particularly significant. Artists renowned by name include calligrapher Ahmad Karahisari as well as painters Shahquli and Kara Memi.

In architecture, the most outstanding achievements of this period were the public buildings designed by Sinan (1539–1588), chief of the Corps of Royal Architects. While Sinan is often remembered for his two major commissions, the mosque complexes of Süleymaniye in Istanbul (1550–57) and of the later Selimiye in Edirne (1568–74), he designed hundreds of buildings across the Ottoman empire and contributed to the dissemination of Ottoman culture. Apart from mosques and other pious foundations—including schools, hospices, and soup kitchens, supported by shops, markets, baths, and caravanserais—Süleyman also commissioned repairs and additions to major historical monuments. The tile revetment of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, as well as several additions to sites

in Mecca and Medina, the two Holy Cities of Islam, date from this period.

Suzan Yalman

Department of Education, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Based on original work by Linda Komaroff

Source: The Age of Süleyman “the Magnificent” (r. 1520–1566) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

End Excerpt from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Chapter 14 of Zechariah indicates Jerusalem will fall again to the forces of Islam. Ironically, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent built the current Islamic walls of Jerusalem on the foundation of King Herold’s walls. I have walked on top of them around the city of Jerusalem many times.

Islam will once again, for some 1260 days, reign within these ancient walls during the last three and one-half years of the Tribulation Period.

Zechariah 14:1,2 – Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. [2] For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Zechariah 14:1 – Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

Jerusalem sets “in the midst” of Israel, and its spoils shall be divided among the 10 conquering nations. Once again, in the prophetic style of writing, in the next verse, in the last phrase, he jumps to the end of the 1260 days, and assures Israel that God will preserve a remnant in the Negev, which will return some 1260 days after Jerusalem falls.

Zechariah 14:2 – For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the RESIDUE of the people shall NOT be CUT OFF from the city.

The word KARATH is translated “CUT OFF.” There are several words translated “cut off” in the KJV. KARATH means “TO BE CUT OFF FOREVER.” The other Hebrew words translated “cut off’ usually provided a way for the offender to be restored to fellowship with Israel, but KARATH implies BEING CUT OFF WITHOUT ANY CHANCE OF BEING ALLOWED TO RETURN.

The word translated RESIDUE is the Hebrew word YETHER, which is translated as REMNANT in Micah 5:3. (See Prophecy Update Number 64)

Micah 5:3 – Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then

the REMNANT of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. (See Archive Prophecy Update Number 64)

In the last phrase of Zechariah 14:2, God is assuring the tribes of Israel that even if they will be driven out of Jerusalem, they will return some 1260 days later. He does this by the use of the word “NOT.” The residue (REMNANT) of the people (ISRAELIS) shall NOT be CUT OFF from the city.

When Jerusalem falls, God begins to fight for Israel, and it begins a period of 1260 days, through which he will extend his protective shield over them in the Negev wilderness.Zechariah 14:3 – Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

Suleiman was known as the Sultan of Sultans, Suleiman I (November 6, 1494 – September 5, 1566), was the tenth and longest serving Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning from 1520 to 1566. He is known in the West as Suleiman the Magnificent and in the Islamic world, as the Lawgiver, deriving from his complete reconstruction of the Ottoman legal system. Among the many titles ascribed to him were “The Shadow of God on the Earth,” and “Caesar of all the lands of Rome.”

Suleiman was considered one of the preeminent rulers of 16th century Europe.

Under his leadership, the Ottoman Empire became among the worlds’ foremost powers. Suleiman personally led Ottoman armies to conquer Belgrade, Rhodes, and most of Hungary, laid the Siege of Vienna, and annexed most of the Middle East and huge territories in North Africa as far west as Algeria. For a short period, Ottomans achieved naval dominance in the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf. The Ottoman Empire continued to expand for a century after his death.

It will be very interesting to see who and what comes out of this maze of confusion between Hizbullah, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey. It is from this area I have always believed the Antichrist will arise. I certainly do not know the identity of the Antichrist, but I have always taught he would come out of this area. (See Whole Numbered Archive Prophecy Updates 62 to 69 on our Web Site).

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Neo-laicism by Erdoğan

Friday, September 16, 2011

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s “Arab Spring” tour of Egypt, Tunisia and Libya has ended, leaving a very interesting debate in its wake.

It all started during a televised interview with renowned Egyptian journalist Mona Shazly during his stay in Cairo. There, Erdoğan touched on the sensitive issue of laicism and said that a Muslim person like himself could successfully rule a secular country like Turkey because he saw no contradiction between Islam and democracy.

Those words were more or less similar to the

words he has said in the last 10 years in Turkey.

But Erdoğan took it further. He also said it was wrong to consider laicism as being anti-Islamic. He said that “our understanding” of laicism was that the state should respect everybody’s belief or non-belief (there he said “even atheism”) and remain at an equal distance to all of them.

He was taking three important steps at once.

First, he was trying to moderate the Islamist look within the Arab societies who think that after the secular dictators’ rule in Arab countries, Shariah rule in accordance with the strict dictates of the Quran is needed in their countries. That would have the effect of a kind of centrifugal force which would throw those Arab countries and

their peoples further out of the international system.

So he was trying to bring them toward the mainstream.

Secondly, he was trying to moderate the look, or concern among Western societies, that secular Arab dictators would not be replaced by promising democracies, but by Islamist

dictators.

Third, he was actually revising his political line by trying to revise, or bring a new definition to, laicism. By underlining the relationship between the state and religion, he was making a clear distinction between that and the French revolution-style “Separation of state from the church” definition, which was strictly adopted by the Turkish Republic in its early years in the 1920s after the abolishment of the Sultanate and the Caliphate.

Actually, that separation has never found comfortable ground in Turkey, a mostly Muslim society, largely because one can not define “the mosque” as one can define “the church” since there is no clergy in traditional Islam and no religious bureaucracy.

Perhaps that was the reason why Turkey invented a religious bureaucracy, the Religious Affairs Directorate, to regulate the matter.

So instead of getting the guidance from religion, the Turkish state started to give guidance to religious practice, a unique case in the Muslim world.

On the other hand, this weird system helped Turkey develop Western-style law, Western-style democracy and a Western-style economy – with all its ups and downs so far.

That system, after all, brought a pious Muslim like Erdoğan to power through a free vote, allowed him to consolidate his power while pushing him toward the political center and is now throwing him before the revolting masses of Muslim countries that are asking for more freedom.

This is new not only for the region, but for political theory as well.

It is worth paying a closer look to Erdoğan’s concept of neo-laicism

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Significant Pre-Tribulation Cry Is Now Being Heard IN Cairo

“Welcome, Salah al-Din” CRY in Egypt for a Turk is Great!

Middle East “Person of Interest” Worthy of Observation

Consider Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan!

PARTS OF Turkey Were Occupied BY Assyrian EMPIRE

Turkey was Occupied By the Ezekiel 38:3,6 Peoples

Southeast Turkey was once part of “Greater Syria”

Turk Rulers were Listed Among Kings of the North

Turkey HAS Experienced Great Economic Growth.

It has a powerful military with domestic Support

“[Not only did Erdogan recently win a third election campaign in Turkey, he also represents a regional power boasting great economic growth while the world faces a financial crisis. He has a powerful army, massive domestic support and the kind of influence that allows him to undertake regional moves vis-à-vis Israel, Syria, the Palestinians the Kurds and Libya.]”

I AM NOT SAYING ERDOGAN IS THE ANTICHRIST, BUT ONLY USING THE POLICE TERM SAYING “HE IS A PERSON OF INTEREST!”

I do not know the identity of the Antichrist, but I do know he will arise to the north of Israel, will come from a country once partially occupied by the ancient Assyrian Empire, from an area once occupied by the descendants of Meshech, Tubal, Gomer and all his bands, the house of Togarmah of the north quarters and all his bands, and many people with thee.

I have always taught the Antichrist would come out of Syria or Lebanon, but I have never excluded the possibility he could come out of Turkey or Northern Iraq. I still believe the most likely modern country for his appearance is Syria, but would not be shocked to see him come from Turkey. I would not be shocked because:

(1) Part of Turkey was once occupied by the Assyrian Empire

The Assyrians rose to power and prosperity around 12th century BC in Mesopotamia which today consists mainly of modern Iraq.

Their Empire extended to some regions of modern Turkey and settled in different cities in Anatolia.
Micah 5:5,6 – And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. [6] And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders. (See Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 64 and 65 in the whole numbered archive series from 62 to 69)

(2) Turkey was once occupied by those descendants in Ezekiel 38:3,6

Ezekiel 38:3,6 – And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: [6] Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.

(3) Southeast Turkey was once part of “Greater Syria”

While for many years scholars and journalists have focused on the more obvious manifestations of political life in the Middle East, one major theme has been consistently neglected. This is Pan-Syrian nationalism–the dream of creating a Greater Syria out of an area now governed by Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Turkey. Though not nearly as well known as Arab or Palestinian nationalism and hardly studied in depth, Pan-Syrianism has had a profound effect on Middle Eastern politics since the end of World War I.

In “Greater Syria”, the noted Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes provides the first comprehensive account of this intriguing, important, and little understood ideology. (Oxford Press Excerpt)

(4) Turkish rulers were included among the Biblical Kings of the North

Jeremiah 25:26 – And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

(5) Turkey has Experienced great Economic Growth

(6) It has a powerful Military with Domestic Support

(7) Erdogan is being welcomed in Egypt with “Welcome, Salah al-Din”

Salah al-Din al-Ayubbi founded the Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt and Syria.

Known as S aladin in the West, S

alah al Din al Ayubi was born in 1138 in Tikrit. Saladin, a Kurdish warrior, became the Sultan of Egypt and known as a champion of Islam. Salah al Din became a legend in the East and West for his role in clearing the Crusaders from Jerusalem. His capture of Jerusalem, and the Muslim triumph that followed, gave him a remarkable place in the pages of history. The rise of a new, unified Islamic state centered in Egypt was accomplished by the skilled leadership

of Saladin.

September 16, 2011

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

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The Mideast’s new hero?

Op-ed: Turkey’s Erdogan seeks to become regional leader, show Arabs the ‘right path’

Roee Nahmias

September 15, 2011

“Welcome, Salah al-Din” – this is how tens of thousands of enthused Egyptians received Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the man who in his own eyes is emerging as the next Arab leader with every passing day.

The “Turkish Sultan,” who initiated a head-on clash with Israel, greeted the welcoming youngsters in Cairo in Arabic. The young Egyptians embraced him, but Arab leaders may soon develop a dislike for the leader who talks to the masses above their heads

Some 5,000 people have joined the Facebook page calling for a warm welcome to Erdogan. This page and the photos from the Cairo airport are precisely the kind of images he seeks to display: In a period where large parts of the Arab world are entering a vacuum or paralysis following the regional upheaval, Turkey’s PM wants to show that he is the only regional leader who travels freely and can offer his patronage.

Not only did Erdogan recently win a third election campaign in Turkey, he also represents a regional power boasting great economic growth while the world faces a financial crisis. He has a powerful army, massive domestic support and the kind of influence that allows him undertake regional moves vis-à-vis Israel, Syria, the Palestinians the Kurds and Libya.

The new Nasser?

Under the current state of affairs, it is no surprise that more Arab media outlets endorse the view that Erdogan seeks to enter the leadership vacuum in the Arab world and turn into a pan-Arabic and pan-Islamic figure – a sort of modern-day version of former Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser, who sought to unite Arab states under his pan-Arabism and mostly under his leadership.

However, reality is cruel to Egypt.

Instead of Cairo leading the way, it hosts a regional, non-Arab leader (this carries great weight) who seeks to assume a leadership role and show Egypt and its sisters the “right path. In an interview with Egyptian TV, Erdogan stressed that “Turkey constitutes the model for a proper secular state.”

While the substance of Erdogan’s suggestions is important, the tone is even more significant. Turkey’s leader toured three states that recently toppled their leaders – Egypt, Tunisia and Libya – while offering many recommendations, and mostly one word of advice: Follow me, I’ll show you the way.

Erdogan’s tips

Speaking at a special Arab League convention, Erdogan also took the liberty to offer his tips to Arab states. “Recognizing the Palestinian state is a right, not a duty,” he reprimanded them.

He also resorted to his cus

tomary habit, slamming Israel as the m

asses cheer.

Indeed, Turkey’s leader portrays himself as the only one who can pose a significant threat to Israel and put the “West’s spoiled child” in its place.

Mideastern leaders are likely unhappy to hear Erdogan’s zealous declarations. However, in the climate created in the region, many people buy into the Turkish PM’s arrogant statements. Over time, Arab leaders may not be willing to play into the hands of the “Muslim lecturer” who wishes to bring them under his leadership.

Yet until that time, Erdogan shall continue to take pleasure in the flattering headlines.

And what will come next? This depends on the crises to follow in the region. In any case, the Turkish prime minister will be lying in wait in order to score more political and leadership points.

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