SUPPLEMENT TO PREVIOUS BLOG ISSUED JUNE 12, 2014
I’VE TAUGHT THIS FOR MORE THAN 38 YEARS AT D.M.B.C.
June 13, 2014
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TIME TO THROW OUT THE EUROPEAN ANTICHRIST THEORY!
ACCOMPANIED BY HIS TEN EUROPEAN HORNS/TOES BELEF!
THE 3 “HE’s” IN DANIEL 9:27 ARE JESUS, NOT ANTICHRIST!
THE ANTICHRIST WILL BE MUSLIM OUT OF GREATER SYRIA
THE 10 HORNS/TOES WILL BE ISLAMIC OUT OF MID-EAST!!
RAPTURE WILL NOT OCCUR 7 YEARS BEFORE ARMAGEDDON!
IT WILLOCCURS WHENEVER REVELATION TRUMP 7 SOUNDS!
Iraq will be one of the 10 Islamic horns/toes regardless of who wins the current maze of confusion battle for Iraq. Iraq will either be dominated by an Iranian Shiite government or a Sunni Islamist Jihad fanatical sect.
Prophetic buffs have been trying to bring the Antichrist out of Europe since the Napoleonic Wars, but Napoleon wasn’t the Antichrist – Neither was the German Kaiser of WW-1, or Hitler of WW-2.
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The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of wars between Napoleon’s French Empire and a series of opposing coalitions led by Great Britain. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionized European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly owing to the application of modern mass conscription. French power rose quickly as Napoleon’s armies conquered much of Europe but collapsed rapidly after France’s disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812. Napoleon was defeated in 1814; he returned and was finally defeated in 1815 at Waterloo, and all France’s gains were taken away by the victors.Before a final victory against Napoleon, five of seven coalitions saw defeat at the hands of France. France defeated the first and second coalitions during the French Revolutionary Wars, the third (notably at Austerlitz), the fourth (notably at Jena, Eylau, and Friedland) and the fifth coalition (notably at Wagram) under the leadership of Napoleon. These great victories gave the French Army a sense of invulnerability, especially when it approached Moscow. But after the retreat from Russia, in spite of incomplete victories, France was defeated by the sixth coalition at Leipzig, in the Peninsular War at Vitoria and at the hands of the seventh coalition at Waterloo.The wars resulted in the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire and sowed the seeds of nascent nationalism in Germany and Italy that would lead to the two nations’ respective consolidations later in the century. Meanwhile, the global Spanish Empire began to unravel as French occupation of Spain weakened Spain’s hold over its colonies, providing an opening for nationalist revolutions in Spanish America. As a direct result of the Napoleonic wars, the British Empire became the foremost world power for the next century,[6] thus beginning Pax Britannica, and the Russian Empire, after the Battle of Paris in 1814, became, until the Crimean War in 1853, the paramount continental power of Europe. John Darby was born during the Napoleonic Wars.
Darby is noted in the theological world as the father of “dispensationalism”, later made popular in the United States by Cyrus Scofield’s Scofield Reference Bible.Charles Henry Mackintosh, 1820–1896, with his popular style spread Darby’s teachings to humbler elements in society and may be regarded as the journalist of the Brethren Movement. Mackintosh popularised Darby, although not his hyperdispensational approach,[13] more than any other Brethren author. In the early twentieth century, the Brethren’s teachings, through Margaret E. Barber, influenced the Little Flock of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee[14]Darby is credited with originating the “secret rapture” theory wherein Christ will suddenly remove His bride, the Church, from this world before the judgments of the tribulation. Some claim that this “the Rapture of the Saints” [date?] was the origin of the idea of the “rapture.” Dispensationalist beliefs about the fate of the Jews and the re-establishment of the Kingdom of Israel put dispensationalists at the forefront of Christian Zionism, because “God is able to graft them in again,” and they believe that in His grace he will do so according to their understanding of Old Testament prophecy. They believe that, while the ways of God may change, His purposes to bless Israel will never be forgotten, just as He has shown unmerited favour to the Church, He will do so to a remnant of Israel to fulfill all the promises made to the genetic seed of Abraham
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June 12, 2014-06-12
Iraq at risk of civil war as al-Qaeda-led uprising pushes to within striking distance of Baghdad
Fears of collapse of Iraqi state reignites debate over sacrifices made by Britain to topple Saddam Hussein
By Colin Freeman, Peter Dominiczak and Ben Farmer
9:27PM BST 11 Jun 2014
Iraq is facing a return to its darkest days of civil war after al-Qaeda-linked militants seized a vast swathe of the country’s northern region in a lightning advance which took them to within striking distance of Baghdad.
A day after snatching control of the northern city of Mosul, fighters were on Wednesday night within 60 miles of the Iraqi capital, encountering little resistance from government troops.
En route they seized major towns, oil refineries and military bases and embarked on an orgy of kidnappings and executions, forcing an exodus of more than half a million people across the north.
The extraordinary developments reignited the political debate about the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 alongside America, a conflict which cost the lives of 179 British Service personnel and cost at least £9 billion.
David Cameron faced questions in Parliament on Wednesday about his own decision to vote in favour of the controversial military intervention.
The Prime Minister warned of more attacks and suggested that Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, is not doing enough to prevent “breakdowns” across the country.
Asked about his decision to support the 2003 invasion, Mr Cameron said: “I have always made the point that I do not particularly see the point of going back over these issues. I voted and acted as I did, and I do not see the point of going over the history books.”
In a stark warning about the escalating crisis, the Prime Minister added: “Iraq has always faced the challenge of having Sunni, Shia and Kurdish populations. It requires politics and a political leader who can bring them together and make sure that everyone feels part of the whole.
“That has not always been the case with Maliki’s Government. It needs to be – otherwise we will see more breakdowns such as the one that has happened in the last 24 hours.”
The crisis is the most serious to hit Iraq since the summer of 2004, when a joint Sunni-Shia uprising against coalition forces ended hopes of a quick return to peace in the post-Saddam era.
By Wednesday afternoon, the militants were reported to have reached the holy city of Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad. It is feared they will try to reignite Iraq’s sectarian civil war by destroying a revered Shia shrine. An al-Qaeda bomb attack on the same shrine in 2006 sparked a two year sectarian conflict that killed an estimated 30,000 Iraqis.
The virtually unopposed advance by the terrorists has caused panic in Baghdad.
There are unconfirmed reports of Shia militias beginning to mobilise in the capital, a sign that the conflict could soon spread beyond the Iraqi government’s control.
Diplomats in Baghdad’s heavily-guarded “Green Zone” were activating contingency plans for emergency evacuations, one private security contractor told The Telegraph.
Mr Maliki has responded to the crisis in his country by asking parliament to declare emergency rule, while Iraq’s foreign minister, Hoshyar Zubari, called on his country’s politicians to bury sectarian differences and face “the serious, mortal” threat. “There has to be a quick response to what has happened,” he said.
As he spoke, however, Iraq’s US-trained forces appeared to melting away rather than putting up any kind of defence. The al-Qaeda offshoot group behind the uprising, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (Syria), which is known as ISIS, declared that it was in “complete control” of roads in and out of Mosul and the surrounding province. Gunmen were reported to have seized an oil refinery in the neighbouring town of Baiji, and kidnapped the head of the Mosul’s Turkish diplomatic mission along with 24 of its staff.
Unconfirmed reports also said that 15 members of the Iraqi security forces had been beheaded near the northern city of Kirkuk after being kidnapped earlier this week.
In the city of Tikrit, the birth place of the late Saddam Hussein, the governor was reported to have gone missing after militants over-ran his building on Wednesday. Roads across the region were jammed with queues of fleeing traffic, many of them driving past checkpoints abandoned by the Iraqi army.
Sources told The Telegraph that the Iraqi government had ignored warnings to increase security around jails holding insurgents in Mosul, three of which were broken into on Tuesday, resulting in more than 1,000 militants being freed.
Turkey, which is around 100 miles from Mosul, on Wednesday night called for an emergency Nato meeting to discuss the crisis. As a member of the alliance, Turkey can invoke Article IV of the Nato treaty which obliges other members to help it address threats to its territorial integrity.
Mr Cameron on Wednesday described the situation in Mosul as “extremely serious” and said that the threat posed by Islamist extremists in Iraq and Syria needs a “strong and co-ordinated response”.
He warned that there is a “risk” that terrorists could be trained in Iraq and Syria before coming to the UK to mount attacks.
William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, however dismissed suggestions that Britain has a duty to send military forces into the country because of its role in the 2003 conflict.
He said that the situation was of great concern but that the Government was “not countenancing at this stage any British military involvement”.
Lord Dannatt, a former head of the Army, cautioned against “rushing to apocalyptic judgments” about what was left of Britain’s legacy in Iraq.
He said: “Our involvement was in the south and this is in the north. Are we seeing Basra in flames? No we are not. This is a problem in the Sunni north and Baghdad. “
However, he acknowledged that the situation in the north appeared “very dangerous”.
He said: “It’s linked very closely to what’s going on in Syria. This is an insurgency that doesn’t respect national boundaries.”
John Hyde, whose son L/Cpl Ben Hyde was killed by an Iraqi mob in 2003, said the events in Iraq were “sad” but he was still proud of British troops had achieved.
He said: “They went in and they did what they set out to achieve. Our lads gave them freedoms that they hadn’t had. At the end of the day what our lads did was not to go in there and remove one regime and impose another. It was to allow them to sort it out themselves.”
As Turkey called for an emergency Nato meeting to discuss the crisis, Toby Dodge, a professor at the Middle East centre at the London school of Economics and one of Britain’s best-informed Iraq experts, told The Daily Telegraph that he could see no immediate way out.
“It is a very, very big mess,” he said. “Getting Mosul back under Iraqi army control will be extremely difficult, given that the government has not even managed it with Ramadi and Fallujah. I am pessimistic that Iraq is heading back into civil war.”
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June 12, 2014
Obama warns of US action as jihadists push on Baghdad
After Sunni Islamists and Kuridish forces took over cities in northern Iraq, US president says he ‘won’t rule anything out.’
President Barack Obama threatened US military strikes in Iraq on Thursday against Sunni Islamist militants who have surged out of the north to menace Baghdad and want to establish their own state in Iraq and Syria.
Iraqi Kurdish forces took advantage of the chaos to take control of the oil hub of Kirkuk as the troops of the Shiite-led government abandoned posts, alarming Baghdad’s allies both in the West and in neighboring Shiite regional power Iran.
“I don’t rule out anything because we do have a stake in making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold in either Iraq or Syria,” Obama said at the White House when asked whether he was contemplating air strikes. Officials later stressed that ground troops would not be sent in, however.
Obama was looking at “all options” to help Iraq’s leaders, who took full control when the US occupation ended in 2011. “In our consultations with the Iraqis there will be some short-term immediate things that need to be done militarily,” he said.
But he also referred to longstanding US complaints that Shiite prime minister Nuri al-Maliki had failed to do enough to heal a sectarian rift that has left many in the big Sunni minority, shut out of power when US troops overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003, nursing grievances and keen for revenge.
Vice President Joe Biden assured Maliki by telephone that Washington was prepared to intensify and accelerate its security support. The White House had signaled on Wednesday that it was looking to strengthen Iraqi forces rather than meet what one US official said were past Iraqi requests for air strikes.
With voters wary of renewing the military entanglements of the past decade, Obama last year stepped back from launching air strikes in Syria, where the same Sunni group – the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) – is also active. Fears of violence spreading may increase pressure for international action, however. The French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, said international powers “must deal with the situation”.
In Mosul, ISIS staged a parade of American Humvee patrol cars seized from a collapsing Iraqi army in the two days since its fighters drove out of the desert and overran the city.
At Baiji, near Kirkuk, insurgents surrounded Iraq’s largest refinery, underscoring the potential threat to the oil industry, and residents near the Syrian border saw them bulldozing tracks through frontier sand berms – giving physical form to the dream of reviving a Muslim caliphate straddling both modern states.
Air power
At Mosul, which had a population close to 2 million before recent events forced hundreds of thousands to flee, witnesses saw ISIS fly two helicopters over the parade, apparently the first time the militant group has obtained aircraft.
It was unclear who the pilots were, but Sunnis who served in the forces of Saddam have rallied to the insurgency, led by an ambitious Iraqi former follower of al-Qaeda’s Osama bin Laden.
State television showed what it said was aerial footage of Iraqi aircraft firing missiles at insurgent targets in Mosul. The targets could be seen exploding in black clouds.
Further south, the fighters extended their lightning advance to towns only about an hour’s drive from the capital, where Shiite militia are mobilizing for a potential replay of the ethnic and sectarian bloodbath of 2006-2007.
Trucks carrying Shiite volunteers in uniform rumbled towards the front lines to defend Baghdad.
The forces of Iraq’s autonomous ethnic Kurdish north, known as the peshmerga, took over bases in Kirkuk vacated by the army, a spokesman said: “The whole of Kirkuk has fallen into the hands of peshmerga,” said peshmerga spokesman Jabbar Yawar.
“No Iraqi army remains in Kirkuk now.”
Kurds have long dreamed of taking Kirkuk and its huge oil reserves. They regard the city, just outside their autonomous region, as their historic capital, and peshmerga units were already present in an uneasy balance with government forces.
The swift move by their highly organized security forces to seize full control demonstrates how this week’s sudden advance by ISIS has redrawn Iraq’s map – and potentially that of the entire Middle East, where national borders were set nearly a century ago as France and Britain carved up the Ottoman empire.
Since Tuesday, black-clad ISIS fighters have seized Mosul and Tikrit, Saddam’s home town, and other towns and cities north of Baghdad. The army has evaporated before the onslaught, abandoning bases and US-provided weapons. Online videos showed purportedly a column of hundreds, possibly thousands, of troops without uniforms being marched under guard near Tikrit.
Security and police sources said Sunni militants now controlled parts of the town of Udhaim, 90 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, after most of the army troops left their positions.
“We are waiting for reinforcements, and we are determined not to let them take control,” said a police officer in Udhaim.
“We are afraid that terrorists are seeking to cut the main highway that links Baghdad to the north.”
ISIS and its allies took control of Falluja at the start of the year. It lies just 50 km west of Maliki’s office.
Oil price surge
The top UN official in Iraq assured the Security Council the capital was in “no immediate danger”. The Council offered unanimous support to the government and condemned “terrorism”.
As with the back-to-back war in Syria, the conflict cuts across global alliances. The United States and Western and Gulf Arab allies back the mainly Sunni revolt against Iranian-backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but have had to watch as ISIS and other Islamists have come to dominate large parts of Syria.
Now the Shiite Islamic Republic of Iran, which in the 1980s fought Saddam for eight years at a time when the Sunni Iraqi leader enjoyed quiet US support, may share an interest with the “Great Satan” Washington in bolstering mutual ally Maliki.
The global oil benchmark jumped over 2 percent on Thursday, as concerns mounted that the violence could disrupt supplies from the OPEC exporter. Iraq’s main oil export facilities are in the largely Shiite areas in the south and were “very, very safe”, oil minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi said.
ISIS fighters have overrun the town of Baiji, site of the main oil refinery that meets Iraq’s domestic demand for fuel. Luaibi said the refinery itself was still in government hands but late on Thursday police and an engineer inside the plant said insurgents were surrounding it.
Militants have set up military councils to run the towns they captured, residents said. “They came in hundreds to my town and said they are not here for blood or revenge but they seek reforms and to impose justice. They picked a retired general to run the town,” said a tribal figure from the town of Alam.
“‘Our final destination will be Baghdad, the decisive battle will be there,’ – that’s what their leader kept repeating.”
Security was stepped up in Baghdad to prevent the Sunni militants from reaching the capital, which is itself divided into Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods and saw ferocious sectarian street fighting in 2006-2007 under US occupation.
By midday on Thursday insurgents had not entered Samarra, the next big city in their path on the Tigris north of Baghdad.
“The situation inside Samarra is very calm today, and I can’t see any presence of the militants. Life is normal here,” said Wisam Jamal, a government employee in the mainly Sunni city, which also houses a major Shiite pilgrimage site.
Low morale
The million-strong Iraqi army, trained by the United States at a cost of nearly $25 billion, is hobbled by low morale and corruption. Its effectiveness is hurt by the perception in Sunni areas that it pursues the hostile interests of Shiites.
The Obama administration had tried to keep a contingent of troops in Iraq beyond 2011 to prevent a return of insurgents, but failed to reach a deal with Maliki. A State Department official said on Thursday that Washington was disappointed after “a clear structural breakdown” of the Iraqi forces.
Iraq’s parliament was meant to hold an extraordinary session on Thursday to vote on declaring a state of emergency, but failed to reach a quorum, a sign of the sectarian political dysfunction that has paralyzed decision-making in Baghdad.
The Kurdish capture of Kirkuk overturns a fragile balance of power that has held Iraq together since Saddam’s fall.
Iraq’s Kurds have done well since 2003, running their own affairs while being given a fixed percentage of the country’s overall oil revenue. But with full control of Kirkuk – and the vast oil deposits beneath it – they could earn more on their own, eliminating the incentive to remain part of a failing Iraq.
With Syria’s Kurds already exploiting civil war there to run their own affairs, Iraqi Kurdish expansionism could worry US ally Turkey, which has its own large Kurdish minority and fears a renewed attempt to redraw borders and create a Kurdish state.
Maliki’s army already lost control of much of the Euphrates valley west of the capital to ISIS last year, and with the evaporation of the army in the Tigris valley to the north, the government could be left with just Baghdad and areas south – home to the Shiite majority in Iraq’s 32 million population.
Iran, which funds and arms Shiite groups in Iraq, could be brought deeper into the conflict, as could Turkey to the north, also home to a big Kurdish minority. In Mosul, 80 Turks were held hostage by ISIS after Ankara’s consulate there was overrun.
Maliki described the fall of Mosul as a “conspiracy” and said the security forces who had abandoned their posts would be punished. In a statement on its Twitter account, ISIS said it had taken Mosul as part of a plan “to conquer the entire state and cleanse it from the apostates” – meaning Shiites.
Militants were reported to have executed soldiers and policemen after their seizure of some towns.
ISIS, led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, broke with al-Qaeda’s international leader, Osama bin Laden’s former lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri, and has clashed with al-Qaeda fighters in Syria, often employing brutal methods against enemies. In Syria, it controls swathes of territory, funding its advances through extorting local businesses, seizing aid and selling oil. In Iraq, it has carried out regular bombings against Shiite civilians, killing hundreds a month.
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