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“THAT WICKED” IS WAITING IN THE WINGS OF PROPHECY – PART 11
*SOME JEWISH SOULS WILL BE SAVED DURING 7 WRATH VIALS*
*MICHAEL PROTECTS THE JEWISH REMNANT THROUGH 7 VIALS*
HE PROTECTS *JEWS WHO BELIEVE* THE 144,000 TESTIMONY,
*AFTER* THE 144,000 ARE CAUGHT UP AS TRUMPET 7 SOUNDS!
*THESE JEWS* ARE SAVED SOULS IN SINFUL FLESH LIKE MINE!,
THAT WERE SAVED DURING THEIR TIME UNDER 7 WRATH VIALS!
October 12, 2014
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THIS HAS NOT BEEN FULFILLED
Daniel 12:1 – And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

THIS WAS FULFILLED WHEN JESUS WENT TO HIS THRONE
Revelation 12:5 – And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and TO HIS THRONE

THIS IS WHERE WE ARE NOW IN PROPHECY
Revelation 6:9-11 – And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw UNDER THE ALTAR the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: [10] And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? [11] And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet FOR A LITTLE SEASON, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

HOW LONG IS “A LITTLE SEASON”?
THIS HAS NOT YET BEEN FULFILLED!
Revelation 12:6-17 – 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. [7] And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, [8] And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. [9] And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE DEVIL COMES DOWN
AND ANTICHRIST BECOME THE DEVIL INCARNATE?
AS SATAN COMES DOWN THE SAVED ARE CAUGHT UP!
JOY IN HEAVEN WOE TO THOSE LEFT ON THE PLANET!
THERE IS JOY IN HEAVEN AFTER THE RAPTURE WHILE
THERE IS GREAT WOE ABOUT TO COME DOWM ON LOST
Revelation 12:10-12 – And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. [11] And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. [12] Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

MOST OF WORLD WILL HAVE FLOWN BY AIR & LAND
TO THE NEGEV DURING A HUDNA WITH ISLAM TO BE
PACKED IN THE NEGEV WHEN SATAN COMES DOWN!
Revelation 12:11-14 – And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. [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. [15] And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. [16] And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. [17] And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. (Israel is the Woman and the Remnant of the Seed of Genesis 3:15)

AFTER THE TRUMPET 7 RAPTURE “THAT WICKED” INCARNATE WILL HEAD FOR JERUSALEM AND PUT HIS PORTABLE THRONE UNDER HIS PALACE BATTLE TENT WHERE A TEMPLE ONCE EXISTED. MICHAEL WILL THEN STAND UP AS GOD HAS SAID AFTER TRUMPET 7.
Daniel 11:43 to 12:1 – But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. [44] But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. [45] And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. [1] And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
(The Woman in Revelation is Israel and some are unlikely to believe until the 2nd Advent, but many will believe before the 2nd Advent and enter into the Millennial Reign as born-again believers still in the flesh, just as eternally saved and sealed believers are today – These are the remnant of the Seed of Genesis 3:15, who is the Seed of the Woman who is Jesus the son of David the son of man and the sinless Son of God in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily, making him as the fulfiller of the offices of the ONE God Isaiah 9:6,7).
Isaiah 9:6,7 – For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. [7] Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. THE ZEAL OF THE LORD OF HOSTS WILL PERFORM THIS.

GOD WILL AGAIN DESTROY FLOODS OF FOES AS HE HAS IN HISTORY!
THAT WICKED WILL CALL A MASSIVE OLD WORLD MILITARY FLOOD OF MEN AND WEAPONS TO DESTROY ISRAEL WHICH GOD DESTROYS!
Isaiah 59:16-21 – And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. [17] For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke. [18] According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence. [19] So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. WHEN THE ENEMY SHALL COME IN LIKE A FLOOD, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD SHALL LIFT UP A STANDARD AGAINST HIM. [20] And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord. [21] As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

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“THAT WICKED” IS WAITING IN THE WINGS OF PROPHECY – PART 10
October 11, 2014
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2 WITNESSESS GO UP – SAME HOUR QUAKE – QUICKLY TRUMP 7 RAPTURE!
2 REMNANTS – 1 SAVED BEFORE 7TH TRUMP – 1 SAVED DURING 7 VIALS
144,000 JEWS – A BORN-AGAIN REMNANT AS PART OF 2 MILLION JEWS
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SEAL 7 FOLLOWS 144,000 SEALING THEN 7 TRUMPETS BEGIN

Revelation11:3,7-14 – And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. [7] And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. [8] And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. [9] And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. [10] And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. [11] And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. [12] And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And THEY ASCENDED UP TO HEAVEN in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. [13] AND THE SAME HOURAnd was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and THE REMNANT WERE AFFRIGHTED, and gave glory to the God of heaven. [14] The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe COMETH QUICKLY. [15] And THE SAME ANGEL SOUNDED; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD ARE BECOME THE KINGDOMS OF OUR LORD, AND OF HIS CHRIST; AND HE SHALL REIGN FOR EVER AND EVER,

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144,000 will be Jews entering into last three and one half years of the Tribulation Period as born-again believers. They will be a remnant led by the two witnesses in the Negev Wilderness. They will live among, and be part of, the one-third of Israel that escapes from the Antichrist Islamic coalition of ten nations by fleeing into the Negev. They are a Jewish remnant within a larger Jewish remnant, and will be the witnesses of Christ to the much larger remnant during most of the time of both remnants in the Negev. The 144,000 will be part of about two million Jews that make it to the Negev Wilderness. Some four million Jews (2/3) will lose their lives to the armies of the Antichrist, and the Woman Israel, numbering approximately two million (1/3), will survive as a nation in the Negev for three and one-half years. At the end of that time, the Second Advent will occur, and by the power of the Son of God they will roar north, east, and west to claim the Land Grant God gave to Abraham in Genesis 15:18.

The 144,000 are chosen by God to be his witnesses in the Negev. They will live safely in the Negev after a Hudna (truce) with Islamic forces which will last more than 3 years.

Revelation 7:2-4–And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, [3] Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. [4] And I heard the number of them which were sealed and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

Zechariah 13:8,9 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. [9] And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

Isaiah 26:17-21 – Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord. [18] We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. [19]Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead [20] Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. [21]For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

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.

144,000 JEWS – BORN-AGAIN REMNANT AS PART OF 2 MILLION JEWS
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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.

The woman will number about two million. The 144,000 will be a believing assembly among the two million – They are believers in Jesus Christ as the Messiah, and give the gospel testimony of Him throughout the Negev, led by the two witnesses.

Revelation 12:5 – And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

Micah 5:2-4 – But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. [3]There-fore 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. [4] And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.

Genesis 3:15 – And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and HER SEED; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise HIS heel.

TWO DIFFERENT JEWISH TRIBULATION PERIOD NEGEV REMNANTS

Revelation 12:17 – And the dragon was wroth with THE WOMAN, and went to make war with THE REMNANT OF HER SEED, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

The Woman is Israel, and her Seed was Jesus – The 144,000 are Jesus’ Seed Remnant – There are two Jewish Remnants in the Negev in the Tribulation Period.

The 144,000 Jewish Remnant in the Negev that believes in Jesus as the Messianic Savior will be living in the midst of a 2 Million Jewish Remnant that does not believe Jesus is the Son of God.

The 144.000 Jewish believers will experience the rapture at the sounding of trumpet 7 along with all the saved across the earth.

Those unsaved Jews left in the Negev after the rapture will go through the 7 vials of the Revelation wrath, but they will be saved as they come to believe the testimony left behind by the 144,000. They will accept Jesus as their Messiah at his 2nd Event and enter into the Millennial Reign in bodies of flesh.

Micah 4:13 – Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.

2 REMNANTS – 1 SAVED BEFORE 7TH TRUMP – 1 SAVED DURING 7 VIALS
144,000 JEWS – BORN-AGAIN REMNANT AS PART OF 2 MILLION JEWS
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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.

Romans 11:25-28 – 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. [28] As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.

DO THOSE TWO THINGS SOUND FAMILIAR!

Matthew 28:19,20 – Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: [20] Teaching them to observe all things what-soever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

I WONDER WHAT STRANGE NEW MESSAGE THE WOMAN WILL HEAR

Matthew 3:1,2 – In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, [2] And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Mark 1:14,15 – Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, [15] And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

The 144,000 will preach and teach the gospel of the kingdom of God throughout the Negev to the other Jewish Remnant among whom they dwell. The 144,000 will be caught out on the sounding of the seventh trumpet, very soon after God’s two witnesses are caught out.

Revelation 14:6-8,12,13 – And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, [7] Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. [8] And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. 12] Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. [13] And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

144,000 JEWS – BORN-AGAIN REMNANT AS PART OF 2 MILLION JEWS
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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 11:3,7-15,18 – And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, cloth-ed in sack-cloth. [7] And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. [8] And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. [9] And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. [10] And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry and shall send gifts one to another: because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. [11] And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. [12] And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. [13] And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earth-quake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. [14] The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. [15] And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever. [18] And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

Revelation 14:1-8 – And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hun-dred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads. [2] And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: [3] And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand which were redeem-ed from the earth. [4] These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. [5] And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. [6]And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, [7] Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. [8] And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

2 REMNANTS – 1 SAVED BEFORE 7TH TRUMP – 1 SAVED DURING 7 VIALS

144,000 JEWS – BORN-AGAIN REMNANT AS PART OF 2 MILLION JEWS
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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.

Acts 2:20,21 – The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: [21] And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

Daniel 7:24,25 – And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. [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.

Matthew 24:14,15 – And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. [15] When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

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.

Daniel 11:45 to 12:1 – And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. [1] And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

Malachi 3:16-18 – Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. [17] And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. [18] Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

Matthew 24:22 – And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

144,000 JEWS – BORN-AGAIN REMNANT AS PART OF 2 MILLION JEWS
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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 12:12-14 – Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. [13] And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. [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.

Luke 21:25-27 – And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26] Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. [27] And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

Matthew 24:22 – And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

Micah 5:3,4 –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. [4] And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.

Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. [9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.

Zechariah 14:16-19 – And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. [17] And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. [18] And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. [19] This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

Micah 5:8,9 – And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. [9] Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.

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“THAT WICKED” IS IN THE WINGS OF PROPHECY!
THE SEALING OF 144,000 JEWS AS 6th SEAL OPENS!!
PART 9
Revelation 6:12 and 7:1-8 – And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; [1] And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. [2] And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, [3] Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. [4] And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. [5] Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand. [6] Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand. [7] Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand. [8] Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
144,000 Jews– A Born-Again Negev Remnant.

THE FINAL 1335 DAYS OF THE 70TH WEEK!
CTA———————–1335 Days—————–WF
JS———————1290 Days—————– AAD45
75IAJ ——————1260 Days——————-ETP
CTA – Clock Ticks Again WF – Week Finished
JS – Jesus Sacrifice AAD – Antichrist is A of D
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The 144,000 will be Jews that enter into the last three and one half years of the Tribulation Period as born-again believers. They will be a remnant led by the two witnesses in the Negev Wilderness. They will live among, and be part of, the one-third of Israel that escapes from the Antichrist Islamic coalition of ten nations by fleeing into the Negev. They are a Jewish remnant within a larger Jewish remnant, and will be the witnesses of Christ to the much larger remnant during most of the time of both remnants in the Negev. The 144,000 will be part of about two million Jews that make it to the Negev Wilderness. Some four million Jews (2/3) will lose their lives to the armies of the Antichrist, and the Woman Israel, numbering approximately two million (1/3), will survive as a nation in the Negev for three and one-half years. At the end of that time, the Second Advent will occur, and by the power of the Son of God they will roar north, east, and west to claim the Land Grant God gave to Abraham in Genesis 15:18.

The 144,000 are chosen by God to be his witnesses in the Negev. All will live safely into the Negev.
Revelation 7:2-4–And I saw another angel ascend-ing from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, [3] Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. [4] And I heard the number of them which were sealed and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Zechariah 13:8,9 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. [9] And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
I Thessalonians 5:4 – But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
Isaiah 26:17-21 – Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord. [18] We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. [19]Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead [20] Come, my people, enter thou into thy cham-bers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. [21]For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
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.
The woman will number about two million and the 144,000 will be a believing assembly among the two million. They are believers in Jesus Christ as the Messiah, and give the gospel testimony of Him throughout the Negev, led by the two witnesses.

Revelation 12:5 – And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
Micah 5:2-4 – But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. [3]There-fore 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. [4] And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
Genesis 3:15 – And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and HER SEED; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise HIS heel.
Revelation 12:17 – And the dragon was wroth with THE WOMAN, and went to make war with THE REMNANT OF HER SEED, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

DO THOSE TWO THINGS SOUND FAMILIAR!
Matthew 28:19,20 – Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: [20] Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
I WONDER WHAT STRANGE NEW MESSAGE THEY WILL PRESENT TO THE WILDERNESS WOMAN – HOW ABOUT WHAT FOLLOWS?
Matthew 3:1,2 – In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, [2] And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Mark 1:14,15 – Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, [15] And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
The 144,000 will preach and teach the gospel of the kingdom of God throughout the Negev to the other Jewish Remnant among whom they dwell. The 144,000 will be caught out on the sounding of the seventh trumpet, very soon after God’s two witnesses are caught out.
Revelation 11:3,7-15,18 – And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, cloth-ed in sack-cloth. [7] And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. [8] And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. [9] And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. [10] And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry and shall send gifts one to another: because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. [11] And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. [12] And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. [13] And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earth-quake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. [14] The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. [15] And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever. [18] And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Revelation 14:1-8 – And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hun-dred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads. [2] And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: [3] And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand which were redeem-ed from the earth. [4] These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. [5] And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. [6]And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, [7] Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. [8] And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

WILL JEWS BE SAVED IN THE NEGEV?
Acts 2:20,21 – The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: [21] And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
Daniel 7:24,25 – And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. [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.
Matthew 24:14,15 – And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. [15] When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
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.
Daniel 11:45 to 12:1 – And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. [1] And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Malachi 3:16-18 – Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. [17] And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. [18] Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. Matthew 23:38,39 – Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. [39] For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Luke 21:25-27 – And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26] Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. [27] And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
Matthew 24:22 – And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
Micah 5:3,4 –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. [4] And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. [9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.

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“THAT WICKED” IS WAITING IN THE WINGS OF PROPHECY
TO INITIATE THE FINAL RELIGIOUS WAR OF GENTILE AGE!
Part 8
October 9, 2014
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PART 8 – I’ve taught for some 40 years that Revelation seal 6 was a preview of the rest of the tribulation period from Seal 7 through the 7 trumpets and 7 vials. The first 5 seals were the “Beginning of Sorrows.” I taught they would intensify into the tribulation period which would begin when as seal 6 was opened. I believe seal 6 will open at a point in time after Obama leaves office during the administration that follows him. Seals 4 and 5 are now open and we are waiting for “THAT WICKED” to initiate the final religious war of the age of the Gentile Age, which will end some 3 and ½ years later at the final battle of Armageddon.(See Archive Prophecy Update Diagram 321). The final battle will be ended by the 2nd Advent of Christ.

THIS IS WHERE WE ARE NOW IN PROPHECY – Revelation 6:8-11 – And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. [9] And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: [10] And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? [11] And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

THIS IS WHERE WE ARE GOING IN PROPHECY – Revelation 6:12-17 – And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; [13] And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. [14] And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. *[15] And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; [16] And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: [17] For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

*SAVED TO BE CAUGHT UP BEFORE 7 WRATH VIALS – Revelation 11:15,18 – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. [18] And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and *SHOULDEST DESTROY THEM WHICH DESTROY THE EARTH.
FALSE RELIGION BELIEVERS LEFT ON EARTH PERISH – 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. Revelation 17:17 – For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

AGE OF THE GENTILES BEGAN WHEN JESUS ROSE – Israel was led away captive into all nations some 40 years later – The Age or The Times of The Gentiles will end at the 2nd Advent of the Messiah, the King of Israel, Everlasting Father of all believers, the Man Christ Jesus, in Whom dwells all the fullness of Almighty God, the Comforter Holy Spirit, as the God-man Godhead of Eternal Life in the Eternal Peace of his Kingdom. I am complete in him and he will never leave me nor forsake me. Colossians 2:9,10 – For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. [10] And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power; – John 5:24 – Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. John 3:18 – He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 11:26 – And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

LUKE 21:24 WAS FULFILLED IN 70 AD – 25 to 33 SOON WILL BE – Luke 21:24-33 – And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the GENTILES, until the times of the GENTILES be fulfilled. [24] And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26] Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. [27] And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. [28] And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. [29] And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; [30] When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is NOW NIGH at hand. [31] So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. [32] Verily I say unto you, This GENERATION (GENEA) shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled. [33] Heaven and earth shall pass away: but MY WORDS shall not pass away. – I do hope you will consider the DEFINATION of Gentiles and Generations –

GENTILES – In the O.T. it means it means those who are not of Israel, and in the N.T. it means those who are neither of Israel nor of the Church – Bullinger – I Corinthians 10:32 – Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God – GENERATION denotes an age or generation from the point of race – Bullinger (We now live in the GENERATION that will end the AGE of the Gentiles.)

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Neither Al-Baghdadi Or Bashar Al-Assad Are Antichrist.
Once the Islamic Caliph Antichrist takes Charge In Syria
He drives Israel into the Negev after Obama leaves Office

He Will Then Agree To a UN 3+ Year Hudna With Israel
And then consolidate power in Cairo after Egypt’s Defeat
When Egypt Falls Islamic Nations quickly Join His Caliphate

And It Will Stretch to the East From Morocco to Indonesia
He’ll then go to Jerusalem to call for all Old Eorld Nations
And breaks the Hudna by attacking Israel on Trumpet 7
None can help him as Michael protects Israel Remnant
When God’s 7 Vials of wrath pour down on the Earth
Followed by return of the saved at the 2nd Advent
October 8, 2014
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Daniel 11:40 to 12:1 – 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: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. [42] He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. [43] But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. [44] But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. [45] And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. [1] And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Begin Excerpt from MEMRI
Middle East Media Research Institute
Inquiry Analysis Series Report
No. 1116
September 10, 2014
Growing Support For The Islamic State (IS) From South Asia To The Far East; Four New Jihadist Groups Planning Islamic Caliphate Comprising Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, And Southern Philippines
By: Tufail Ahmad*
The following report is a complimentary offering from MEMRI’s Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). For JTTM subscription information
Indian Muslims sporting ISIS T-shirts at a mosque in Ramanathapuram district
Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. Support From Pakistani Jihadists
a) Bai’yah From “Tahreek-e-Khilafat Wa Jihad”
b) Bai’yah From “Ansar Al-Dawla Al-Islamiyyah Fi Pakistan”
c) Radical Pakistani Cleric Abdul Aziz Endorses IS
III. Support From Afghanistan And Pakistan
IS’s Pashtu-Dari Magazine Distributed In Pakistani And Afghan Towns
IV. Support From Kashmir And Other Parts Of India
a) Indian Cleric Salman Nadwi Greets Al-Baghdadi
b) Kashmiri Youth Wave ISIS Flags; Australia-Educated Kashmiri Moves To Syria
c) Tamil Nadu Muslim Youth Wear T-Shirts In Support Of ISIS
d) Four Youth Flew From Mumbai; 80 Indians Fighting In Iraq And Syria
V. Jihadists From The Maldives; 20 Maldivians Fighting In Syria
VI. Jihadists From Singapore; Indians In Singapore Went To Syria
VII. From Indonesian Prisons, Jihadists Urge Bai’yah For Al-Baghdadi
VIII. The Philippines Bai’yah Offered By Jama’at Ansar Al-Khilafa
IX. IS Bomber From Malaysia; Jihadists Plotted A Wave Of Bombings
X. New Jihadist Groups Floating Islamic Caliphate Across Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Southern Thailand and Southern Philippines

I) Introduction
On August 20, a media report surfaced that the Islamic State, which executed U.S. photojournalist James Foley, had “sent a laundry list of demands for the release of the foreigners [captured by the militants in Iraq], starting with money but also prisoner swaps, including the liberation of Aafia Siddiqui, an M.I.T.-trained Pakistani neuroscientist” who is imprisoned in the U.S. over ties to Al-Qaeda.[1] This paper examines the growing support across Asian countries, from Pakistan to Indonesia, for the Islamic State (IS) led by jihadist commander Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.
In an audio statement released on June 29, the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan in the Middle East, Abu Muhammad Al-Adnani, the spokesman of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), announced that the group had established an “Islamic Caliphate” and its leader Al-Baghdadi was appointed as the Caliph of Islam.[2] Al-Adnani also announced that the name ISIS would no longer be used and only “the Islamic State,” representing the single Islamic caliphate, would be used.
The Islamic caliphate has religious resonance across the Muslim world. This will trace how the Islamic State is inspiring jihadists outside the Middle East, mainly from South Asia to the Far East. It should be noted that the June 29 statement declaring Al-Baghdadi as the Caliph of Islam, known also as Emir-ul-Momineen (Leader of the Faithful Muslims), came after several weeks of jihadist rampage in which ISIS fighters took control of several Iraqi cities, butchered hundreds of Iraqi government soldiers, killed Shia Muslims in Iraq, and demolished holy shrines across the country. The declaration that Al-Baghdadi is the new Caliph of Islam also denotes a division in the global jihadist movement. The title of Emir-ul-Momineen, or the caliph, had so far been held by Mullah Muhammad Omar, the leader of Afghan Taliban and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Al-Qaeda’s slain leader Osama bin Laden and other Al-Qaeda affiliates in several countries have offered their bai’yah (oath of fealty) to Mullah Omar.
Since the Al-Baghdadi-led ISIS had been expelled from Al-Qaeda, it was inevitable that it would declare a rival caliph. However, the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban groups have refrained from commenting on the announcement of the caliphate by Al-Baghdadi, though their rank and file are enthused by ISIS’s spectacular achievements across Iraq and Syria. Therefore, statements of support for the IS and its leader Al-Baghdadi began coming from many parts of the world, including Asian countries such as Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, the Philippines, and Indonesia. However, it is relevant here to keep in mind that there is another category of jihadists in Pakistan who share the ideological objectives of Al-Qaeda and the IS, but haven’t publicly expressed support for Al-Baghdadi. This is mainly due to the fact that these groups, namely Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), were created by and work at the behest of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the branch of Pakistani military known for creating and nurturing jihadist organizations.
In view of the jihad by Al-Qaeda and its allied groups over the past decade and more, it is difficult for common Muslims to distinguish the Islamic State from Al-Qaeda. Therefore, a number of Muslim youth, motivated solely by jihad, joined either ISIS/IS or Jabhat Al-Nusra, an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, over the past few years. These youth went from Afghanistan-Pakistan region as well as from the Maldives, Jammu & Kashmir state, and elsewhere in India, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia to fight in Iraq and Syria. In Bangladesh, on India’s eastern border, the government has bravely countered the jihadists over the past five years, yet in August, there was at least one video in which a group of Bangladeshis expressed bai’yah to Al-Baghdadi.[3] Based on media reports that emerged this year, this paper reviews these developments: expressions of support for Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, especially the formal offerings of bai’yah, and reports about Muslim youth moving to Iraq and Syria to join various jihadist organizations, as well as the strengthening of jihadist groups as a result of the inspiration from the ISIS/IS in the Far Eastern countries of Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and others.
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Declaration of bai’yah by Pakistan-based Tahreek-e-Khilafat Wa Jihad
II) Support From Pakistani Jihadists
a) Bai’yah From “Tahreek-e-Khilafat Wa Jihad”
Outside the Middle East, the Pakistan-based Tahreek-e-Khilafat Wa Jihad (TKJ, or Movement for the Caliphate and Jihad) became the first terrorist group to formally offer bai’yah to Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi after he declared himself as the Caliph of Islam. The KTJ has been active in Karachi and its surrounding towns over the past 3-4 years. The jihadist group was previously seen in the company of Al-Qaeda in Pakistan.
In a statement in Urdu published on a Pakistani jihadi forum, the TKJ offered a formal bai’yah to Al-Baghdadi, adding: “From today [July 9], the caliph of Muslims, Sheikh Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, may Allah protect him, [should] consider us in Pakistan as one of the arrows he has in his bow. We pray that he may [allow] us to see the day when the borders of the Islamic caliphate will expand to the Pakistan-India Subcontinent and Khorasan [Afghanistan-Pakistan region].”[4]
The statement also explained: “The establishment of the caliphate … is compulsory on all Muslims in the same way that prayer, fasting, and jihad are compulsory. One hundred years have passed since the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate, whereas the jurists [of the past] wouldn’t accept the absence of the caliph for more than three days…”[5] In an earlier statement dated February 27, 2014, the TKJ had outlined its objectives: to liberate Muslim lands from the infidels and demolish the oppressive system of government prevalent there and establish Islamic sharia rule there, explaining that the duty of jihad is compulsory on every Muslim.[6]
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Pakistani youth express support for ISIS in June
b) Bai’yah From “Ansar Al-Dawla Al-Islamiyyah Fi Pakistan”
Over past few years, a number of Pakistani jihadists were reported to have moved from Pakistan to Syria and Iraq to fight against the government forces; the movement of many such youth was also informally facilitated by Pakistan as part of its pro-Saudi policy on Syria. Therefore, it was not surprising that first videos of support for Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi came from Pakistani jihadists fighting in the Iraq-Syria region. Before the June 29 declaration of the caliphate by Al-Baghdadi, two videos were released by ISIS.[7]
In the first video, released on YouTube on June 19, several Pakistani youth, who were most likely based in the Iraq-Syria region, identified themselves as members of the Ansar Al-Dawla Al-Islamiyyah Fi Pakistan (The Supporters of the Islamic State in Pakistan). Their brief oath of fealty to Al-Baghdadi was delivered in Arabic and they held banners that indicated they were based at a militant training camp known as “Camp of Shaheed Shiraz Tariq Abu Musa Al-Pakistani,” named after a Pakistani militant who died in Syria in December 2013. This bai’yah was offered before Al-Baghdadi declared his caliphate on June 29.
In the second video, a masked man claimed to be a member of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, or Movement of the Pakistani Taliban) and was described as “the mujahid brother Habibullah Habib.” Expressing support for Al-Baghdadi, Habib stated: “We in the Taliban movement [in Pakistan] declare our support for the oppressed [Islamic] State. And we declare that our lives and money – Allah willing – support the Islamic State. We inform Sheikh Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi – May Allah protect him – oh dignified sheikh, do not listen to the enemy’s words, continue [on your path] with Allah’s blessing, since you are on the right path. We are your soldiers in Pakistan. If you wish to direct a blow against anyone through us, then we are [ready] for it.”[8]
c) Radical Pakistani Cleric Abdul Aziz Endorses IS
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Maulana Abdul Aziz in a video dated July 28
In a video interview dated July 28, which emerged sometime in mid-August, radical Pakistani cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz expressed his support for the Islamic State under Al-Baghdadi. Abdul Aziz is the brother of Maulana Abdur Rasheed Ghazi, a radical cleric who was killed during the 2007 military operation in the Red Mosque of Islamabad. The two brothers controlled the Red Mosque and its adjacent madrassa for girls known as Jamia Hafsa. The military operation was ordered after the girls began enforcing Islamic Sharia code in Islamabad.
A terror training camp named after Abdur Rasheed Ghazi has been operational in Iraq-Syria region for a few years now. It is also the case that some members of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), a jihadist group that specializes in killing Shia Muslims in Pakistan, is reportedly part of the Abdur Rasheed Ghazi training camp. Importantly, Maulana Abdul Aziz is a towering leader among Pakistani jihadists of all factions in Pakistan. In his July 28 interview, Abdul Aziz was asked to comment on Al-Baghdadi’s declaration of the caliphate and he responded: “See, we ourselves want a caliphate and we want that the caliphate should be established in the entire world including Pakistan. And the caliphate is the solution to problems. So, if these Arab mujahideen have brought about the establishment of the caliphate, we view it as good omen for the Muslim Ummah. Allah willing, as their organization is, if it continues, we will see its springs across the world….”[9]
Maulana Aziz also spoke about the Israeli action in Gaza, urging the Palestinians to march on the path of jihad. He stated: “The only solution is jihad. And the Palestinians will continue to die like this unless they rise on [the path of] jihad. For the Palestinians, our lord Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, had given the path of jihad [which they should follow]. Israel will not bend like this unless it is diagnosed through jihad. If a big power like the Soviet Union can break up by being defeated in the field of jihad [in Afghanistan in the 1980s], Israel is a very small thing. Only that it should come to the mind of Palestinians, to adopt the path of jihad instead of dying like this, begin guerilla war; Allah willing, Israel doesn’t stand.”[10]
III) Support From Afghanistan And Pakistan
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The cover page of the Islamic State’s Pashtu-Dari bilingual magazine
IS’s Pashtu-Dari Magazine Distributed In Pakistani And Afghan Towns
In August 2014, it emerged that a bilingual magazine in Pashtu and Dari languages was issued by the Islamic State and distributed to people in Peshawar and neighboring regions of Pakistan as well as in Kabul and other towns of Afghanistan, as confirmed by independent journalists who also spotted cars in Peshawar carrying slogans like: “Salute to ISIS.” The 12-page magazine was printed in black and white and on low-quality paper.
It carried an article titled “Message to the Muslims and Islamic Ummah,” which stated: “All the Muslims and mujahideen should avoid all kind of illegal discrimination at jihadist fronts and maintain Islamic brotherhood and unity in their ranks in real meaning and continue boycott of all the enemies of Islam, the American taghoot [the one who rules by laws other than those of Allah], all the apostate governments and rulers.”[11] It noted: “As you see the Islamic Caliphate was announced and established in Syria and Iraq [by Al-Baghdadi on June 29] and journey towards the establishment of Islamic caliphate is continuing in Khorasan [Afghanistan-Pakistan region], it is a fact – soon to be proved – that the Islamic caliphate would soon be established in the world and implemented on the Earth as per orders and law of Allah.”[12]
Another article titled “Revival of the Islamic Caliphate” stated: “The hadiths and predictions of the Prophet of Allah [Muhammad] about the current situation and jihad in Khorasan and Syria prove that the ongoing holy jihad in Afghanistan, Khorasan, and Syria against the historic international Crusade war show that the arrival of Imam Mehdi is near. Similarly, it has been ascertained from the hadiths that an Islamic caliphate must be established before the arrival of the Imam Mehdi [the messiah who will be born] and will be imposed in practice. Praise be to Allah, the Islamic caliphate was established, revived and installed in Syria and Iraq in the month of Ramadan of the current year, and Allah again blessed the Muslims with Islamic caliphate after 90 years [since the fall of Ottoman Caliphate in 1924].”[13]
IV) Support From Kashmir And Other Parts Of India
a) Indian Cleric Salman Nadwi Greets Al-Baghdadi
Soon after Al-Baghdadi’s declaration of an Islamic caliphate, leading Indian Islamic scholar Maulana Salman Al-Husaini Nadwi wrote an open letter, greeting him on becoming the Caliph of Muslims. Salman Nadwi is the great grandson of noted Islamic scholar Maulana Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi and teaches at the Nadwatul Ulama seminary based in the northern Indian city of Lucknow. He has been known for his advocacy of jihadist groups worldwide and heads an organization of Muslim youth. The letter issue was raised by a Lucknow-based Urdu daily Aag on July 13.[14]
In the letter, which was sent through social media messaging service WhatsApp, and subsequent statements in Hindi and Urdu, Nadwi referred to Al-Baghdadi as Emir-ul-Momineen (Leader of Faithful Muslims) and prayed — “May Allah protect you.” He urged Syria-based jihadist organizations to end their differences, spoke of “good news of victories” in Iraq by Al-Baghdadi’s fighters and advocated that Muslims “abide by” the Emir-ul-Momineen “if he follows Allah’s sharia.”[15] Nadwi also appreciated the “united struggle by Iraq’s different jihadist organizations in making the revolution successful” against Iraq’s then-elected leader Nouri Al-Maliki. He dubbed Al-Maliki “the world’s biggest terrorist” for causing Shia-Sunni differences but in the same breath praised Al-Baghdadi, whose forces are killing Shias, having declared them as infidels.[16]
Indian website NewageIslam.org noted that Maulana Salman Nadwi might have acted at the behest of the Saudi embassy in Delhi, noting: “It is doubtful that Maulana Salman Nadwi would go to these lengths without instigation from the Saudi Embassy in New Delhi.”[17] Later, it also emerged that sometime earlier, Salman Nadwi had written a letter to the Saudi government, asking it to train Indian Muslims to fight against Shia militias in Iraq. An Indian daily reported: “Sunni theologian Maulana Salman Al-Nadwi … has asked the Saudi government to prepare an army of five lakh [500,000] Indian Sunni Muslim youth to fight against the Shia militias in Iraq and elsewhere. The letter has generated strong reaction within the Muslim community.”[18]
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Indian cleric Maulana Salman Nadwi wrote letter to Al-Baghdadi
b) Kashmiri Youth Wave ISIS Flags; Australia-Educated Kashmiri Moves To Syria
On at least two occasions in July, masked Kashmiri youth were seen carrying ISIS flags at a mosque in Srinagar, the capital of India’s Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) state. A media report stated:
“The unexpected appearance of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, flags during recent anti-Israel protests in Srinagar has left government authorities, Sunni-Barelvi scholars and even Kashmiri separatists searching for answers. Masked Kashmiri youngsters were seen carrying ISIS flags on at least two occasions: first outside the Jamia Masjid on July 11 and then on July 29, the day of Eid. The J&K police have so far been unable to round up the masked men…”[19]
In August, it also emerged that a 26-year-old Kashmiri youth from Srinagar, Adil Fayaz, who had an MBA degree from Australia’s Queensland University, went to join the jihadists in Syria, perhaps directly from Australia. The family members thought he was “ostensibly working with an NGO in Turkey” but the Indian intelligence agencies said: “Adil was radicalized by Islamic fundamentalists in Australia. He then… left for Turkey and entered Syria via Jordan to join jihadists in the civil war in June 2013. Although his family claim Adil is working for an NGO in Turkey to help Syrian refugees, they don’t have the name of the NGO or its phone number. Their son talks to them on voice over internet protocol (VoIP).”[20]
c) Tamil Nadu – Muslim Youth Wear T-Shirts In Support Of ISIS
In early August, it emerged that Muslim youth in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu wore ISIS T-shrits (see the topmost image) and posed for a group photograph at mosque in the state’s Ramananthapuram district. An Indian daily reported:
“A group photograph of two dozen Muslim youth, sporting black T-shirts with ‘ISIS’ emblazoned on it and posing in front of a mosque, has gone viral on social media, prompting the intelligence wing of the State police to step up surveillance in Ramanathapuram district, despite initial reports clearing the group of any suspicious behavior. Confirming that the picture was taken in front of the ‘Periya Pallivasal’ (Big Mosque) in Ramanathapuram district, a highly-placed police officer… [said] it was posted on Facebook from an overseas location.”[21]
d) Four Youth Flew From Mumbai; 80 Indians Fighting In Iraq And Syria
In mid-July, Indian investigative journalist Praveen Swami reported that four Muslim youth flew from Mumbai on May 23 as part of a group of Shia pilgrims headed to Baghdad and broke away to join ISIS. The four youths, whose families live in Kalyan, a suburbs of Mumbai, were identified as: Arif Majeed, Fahad Sheikh, Shaheen Tanki and Aman Tandel.[22]
Swami noted: “Other pilgrims on the trip have told investigators, the four Kalyan men hired a taxi to Fallujah, a city west of Baghdad that has emerged as the epicenter of Iraq’s lethal insurgency. Then, the men went silent. Iraqi intelligence officials say Arif Majeed’s cellphone connected to a tower in the Mosul area — and went dead.”[23] It was also reported that four Indian Muslims based in the UAE joined ISIS, but a few of them returned to their homes later.[24] In July, an Indian media report, based on interviews with members of Indian intelligence services, estimated that up to 80 Muslim youth from India have joined the jihadists in Iraq and Syria.[25] Initial reports had put the figure at only eighteen.[26]
An Indian security official was quoted as saying: “Many of these men who joined the war through Singapore have been identified — two are from Thane [suburb of Mumbai], one from Bangalore and another from Chennai. There are others who come from interiors of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh [states of southern India]. Surprisingly, none of them is from north India even though a bunch of UP [Uttar Pradesh, a northern state] youths owing allegiance to [the militant group] Indian Mujahideen has been fighting in Afghanistan alongside the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.”[27] It should be noted that a group called Ansar ut-Tawheed Fi Bilad Al-Hind (Supporters of the Islamic Monotheism in India) emerged in Afghanistan in the summer of 2013. Its videos have shown nearly a dozen Muslim youth from India undergoing militant training. The group might be part of Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State.
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Maldivian suicide bomber Abu Turab (second from left)
V) Jihadists From The Maldives; 20 Maldivians Fighting In Syria
Early in 2009, it emerged that Maldivian nationals were arriving in Pakistan to join the global jihad. That year, according to a Maldivian news website, Ali Jaleel became the first Maldivian national to have carried out a suicide bombing. Jaleel took part in an attack on the Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence headquarters in Lahore on May 27, 2009.[28] In January 2010, Indian intelligence agencies warned that Pakistan-based jihadist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was using Maldivian nationals for attacks in India and Air India flights were indeed put on hijack alert.[29]
By 2014, the scenario has changed, as Maldivian nationals are moving to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside other jihadists. In May, it emerged that Maldivian national Abu Turab was among a group of suicide bombers who carried out an attack in Syria.[30] He was part of Jabhat Al-Nusra, an Al-Qaeda affiliate, not ISIS, which had previously been part of Al-Qaeda. In June, the jihadists in Syria paid tribute to Abu Turab, saying: “He was a loving husband, a father, and a grandfather”; “Yet he joined the caravan of jihad.”[31]
Importantly, Abu Turab was not an exception, as many youth have been reportedly attracted to the jihadists based in Syria. In October 2013, two Maldivian nationals, ages 25 and 35, were detained by the Maldivian authorities as they tried to board a plane at the Ibrahim Nasir International Airport of Malé on way to join the jihadists in Syria.[32] As of July 2014, about twenty Maldivian jihadists are believed to be fighting alongside the Islamic State and Jabhat Al-Nusra in Iraq and Syria as per reports appearing in the Maldivian press.[33]
VI) Jihadists From Singapore; Indians In Singapore Went To Syria
In June, Indian intelligence agencies issued a look-out alert for an Indian youth after Singaporean authorities conveyed that he had possibly joined the jihadists. Haji Fakkurudeen Ali, a resident of Singapore, was born in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, where the two dozen Muslim youth posed for a group picture with ISIS T-shirts. As per media reports, Ali was radicalized by another Indian youth from Tamil Nadu, Gul Mohammad, who was deported by Singapore to India.
According to an Indian daily, “Gul Mohammad is believed to have revealed [during interrogation by Indian intelligence officials] that he had financed the trip to Syria of one of several radicalized youths from Tamil Nadu. His disclosures were crosschecked, and investigators discovered that Ali, who had been in touch with Gul Mohammad, had left for Syria in January via Turkey to participate in jihad.”[34]
A media report profiled Haji Fakkurudin Ali: “In March this year, Usman Ali of Paranagipettai near Cuddalore, a picturesque coastal village north of Tamil Nadu, was shaken out of his stupor. It was a call on his wife Rokhyaa’s mobile. Their son Haji Fakkurudeen Ali (37) had phoned to say he was well and his dream had come true. He was now living in Syria with wife Ayesha Siddika and their three children, and fighting alongside ISIS … militants against the Bashar Al-Assad regime. The voice crackled after a brief exchange of words and the connection snapped.”[35]
Singapore was one of the key centers of the Indonesian jihadist group Jema’ah Islamiyyah, whose leaders are now in jail for several terror attacks including the 2002 Bali bombings. It is feared that several Singaporeans, those who are not connected to India, are also part of the jihadist machine in Syria and Iraq. “[A] female Singaporean is believed to have gone to Syria with her foreign husband and two teenaged children. The whole family is taking part in the conflict in various ways, either joining the terrorist groups to fight, or providing aid and support to the fighters,” according to a Singaporean media report.[36] Several Singaporeans who attempted to join the ISIS and other jihadists in Syria were issued with restriction orders as per the Singaporean laws in December 2013. In July 2014, Singaporean Interior Minister Teo Chee Hean expressed concern that the returning jihadists could carry out terror attacks, stating: “This threat is magnified if these returnee fighters are Singaporeans.”[37]
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Abu Bakar Ba’asyir (Source: The Jakarta Post)
VII) From Indonesian Prisons, Jihadists Urge Bai’yah For Al-Baghdadi
On July 22, the IS media company Al-Hayat released a video in which a group of eight jihadist fighters from Indonesia were shown to have arrived in Iraq and were part of the Islamic State. In the video, Abu Muhammad Al-Indonesi, one of the fighters, delivered a message urging Indonesians to join the Islamic State and swear fealty to Al-Baghdadi. The message stated: “We are your brothers from Indonesia who have come to the Islamic State”; “By Allah, we emigrated for the sake of hijra [emigration] and jihad in the path of Allah.”[38]
However, soon after Al-Baghdadi being declared the caliph, elder jihadist leader Abu Bakar Ba’asyir of the former militant group Jema’ah Al-Islamiyyah, which came to global prominence following the 2002 Bali bombings, urged his followers to support Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and swore fealty to the new caliph. While existing as an underground terror organization, Jema’ah Al-Islamiyyah has now also transformed into Jamaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT), and is allied to Jabhat Al-Nusra, an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria. According to JAT chairman Mochammad Achwan, Ba’asyir’s support for IS was “conveyed after he gathered high-ranking JAT leaders and his family members on Thursday [July 10] in the supposedly maximum-security Pasir Putih prison in Nusakambangan, an island near the coast of Cilacap, Central Java [province of Indonesia where he is serving a 15-year jail term].”[39]
Prominent jihadist clerics who expressed support for the IS at Ba’asyir’s decision included Halawi Makmun of Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (MMI) and fugitive terrorist Santoso of Mujahidin Indonesia Timur (MIT), but it was rejected by several JAT leaders, including his two sons. The sons, Abdul ‘Iim’ Rohim and Rosyid Ridho, and JAT chairman Mochammad Achwan split over the oath of fealty from the parental organization and established their own group known as Jamaah Ansharusy Syariah (JAS), which will continue supporting Jabhat Al-Nusra, the Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, while the JAT supports the Al-Baghdadi-led IS.
VIII The Philippines – Fealty Offered By Jama’at Ansar Al-Khilafa
In May 2014, a group of jihadists from the Philippines declared support for the ISIS. In August, it released a video in which the jihadists, who belonged to Jama’at Ansar Al-Khilafa (JAK), formally swore fealty to Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. The video, in which the faces of the jihadists were blurred, was produced by the jihadi media outlet Al-Battar.
In the video, the jihadists chanted the oath of fealty in unison and fired in the air. According to a review of the video, after firing in the air, one of the jihadists read out a more detailed oath, in which he welcomed the establishment of the Islamic State and the appointment of Abu Bakr as caliph, declaring their group JAK would wage jihad for the sake of Allah “until the sharia rules the world or we die for its sake.”[40]
In August, it emerged that scores of Filipino jihadists have joined the Islamic State in Iraq. Fidel Ramos, the former president of the Philippines, told a newspaper: “At least a hundred of our young Filipino-Muslims have infiltrated Iraq where they get training and they can launch jihad when they come back to the Philippines.”[41] Some of these jihadists are connected to the Jema’ah Islamiyyah of Indonesia which remains active across the Far Eastern countries.
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Akel Zainal, former Malaysian rock band drummer from Team Ukays, now fights in Syria
IX) Suicide Bomber From Malaysia; Jihadists Plotted A Wave Of Bombings
On May 26, Ahmad Tarmimi Maliki became the first Malaysian suicide bomber. As part of an ISIS martyrdom operation, the 26-year-old factory worker carried out an attack in Iraq’s Al-Anbar province, killing more than two dozen Iraqi soldiers.[42]
According to a Malaysian website, “Tarmimi’s family members said their last meeting was in March before he left for the Middle East to further his Islamic studies. He had been working in a factory in Selangor [state of Malaysia] since 2012. While he did not act strangely, Ahmad Tarmimi had become more pious and more secretive… From Facebook postings, it is learnt that Ahmad Tarmimi first went to Syria via Turkey before finally ending up in Iraq.”[43] It appears Ahmad Tarmimi is not alone, as Malaysian authorities have identified several youth attracted the jihadist message of the Islamic State.
In August, it emerged that this year Malaysian police foiled several terror plots by jihadists that could have led to a wave of bombings in the country. A media report quoted Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay, a top Malaysian counter-terrorism official, as saying: “[At least] 19 suspected militants arrested from April-June were formulating plans to bomb pubs, discos and a Malaysian brewery of Danish beer producer Carlsberg…”[44] He also disclosed that an estimated 40 Malaysians have gone to Syria for fighting.[45] Among those who have joined the jihadists in Syria are Akel Zainal, former rock band drummer from the Team Ukays, while several jihadists in Malaysia are on the run, including a university lecturer, having fled to the Philippines.
X) New Jihadist Groups Planning Islamic Caliphate Across Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Southern Thailand and Southern Philippines
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Jihadists planning regional Islamic caliphate in the Far East
Around the time Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was announcing the establishment of his caliphate, a Singaporean newspaper reported on July 1: “Four new terrorist organizations aiming to establish an Islamic Caliphate in the [Far East] region – called Daulah Islamiah Nusantara and comprising Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, southern Thailand and southern Philippines — have emerged and are embarking on an aggressive recruitment drive.”[46] Also, in June, ISIS released a video which claimed that Muslims from Cambodia were among its ranks.[47] Myanmar and Thailand are also not insulated from global Jihadism.
The July 1 report was based on intelligence sources who examined the threat matrix originating from Jema’ah Islamiyyah of Indonesia and Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia. “They reject the democratic system adopted by nations in the region and are believed to be operating out of Malaysian states such as Perak and Selangor… The announcement [on the establishment of the regional caliphate] comes less than a decade after several regional terror groups with the same aim of establishing a Caliphate in the region were broken up and their leaders arrested [notably those of Jema’ah Islamiyyah in Indonesia in the wake of the 2002 Bali bombings].”[48]
According to the report in The Straits Times of Singapore, “the four groups, although independent of each other, subscribe to the same Salafi Jihadi ideology, similar to that of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Leaders and senior members of the new groups had also established links with similar groups in the region, as well as with ISIS and the Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf. Besides the four new groups, police are also monitoring a terror organization in Sabah [state of Malaysia] called Darul Islam Sabah.”[49]
The plan for a regional Islamic caliphate – Daulah Islamiah Nusantara – was also confirmed in August by Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay, the Malaysian counter-terrorism official whose investigations led to the arrest of the 19 jihadists in Malaysia. Ayob Khan confirmed that the militants “had visions of establishing a hardline Southeast Asian caliphate spanning Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Singapore, and planned to travel to Syria” to learn from the Islamic State.[50]
* Tufail Ahmad is Director of MEMRI’s South Asia Studies Project
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