A Dark Kingdom Arises then Falls to the Lion of Judah, Who brings His Kingdom of Light!
June 12, 2007
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The first two paragraphs, extracted from today’s Jerusalem Post, in an article titled “UN envoy: ME picture is ‘getting darker,” give reason to feel the dark winds of war blowing across the plains of the Middle East.
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“[UN envoy Terje Roed-Larsen raised an “alarm” about the situation
in the Middle East, warning that the region faces the possibilities of full-scale war, a fresh effort to contain the current violence, or energetic diplomacy to try to bring lasting peace.
“The picture which emerges is very dark, and apparently getting darker,” he told reporters on Monday.
‘So there are reasons for real concerns in the international community.’]”
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The full Jerusalem Post article follows my comments on today’s Middle East situation.
This picture does not alarm me in the least – In fact I have anxiously waited some 40 years for it to become clear like a picture developing in a darkroom.
It has become clearer and
clearer with each passing year, and I rejoice in it, because the Middle East is being transformed into the picture God said in his word would be visible in the latter times of this age. The fullness of the Age
of the Gentiles will come at the Second Advent of Christ, the Messiah.
The dark kingdom now coming together from Morocco to India and from Turkey to Saudi Arabia, will be a modern day Caliphate, which will consist of 10 Islamic nations having the characteristics of iron and clay mixed together.
They will only hold together for a short period of time, and the dark kingdom will be destroyed by the Messiah upon his return at Armageddon, to be replaced by his kingdom of light. The 10 Islamic nations are symbolized as toes or horns in prophecy. (For a Full Exposition Please Consult Parts 1 through 5 of “10 Jihad Kings” found in our Prophecy Update Archives as Numbers 233B, 234, 234A, 235, 235A, 236A, and 236B)
Daniel 2:42-44 – And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
[44] And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
This Kingdom and its Lamb King, who Daniel’s people rejected at his First Appearance, will soon return for his Second Appearance to bring in his Kingdom as its Lion King of Judah. I have always believed these ten toes would indeed arise out the territory once controlled by the two legs to which they were attached, namely, the southern flank of the old Roman Empire.
The two legs of Daniel’s statue, during the time of their existence as an empire, stretched their long toes into the nations now identified as Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
I believe these 10 nations will be directly involved in the coming Jihad against Israel. I believe the 10 toes found in chapter 2 of Daniel are the 10 horns found in chapter 7 of Daniel, and that the “little horn” of Daniel 7 comes out of Syria or its immediate surrounding area. I believe the Antichrist will subdue the king of Syria to become the 11th horn, and will also subdue the kings of Lebanon and Iraq.
Daniel 7:24-27 – 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 h
and until a time and times and the dividing of time. [26] But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
[27] And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
For those of you who follow my Blogs, you know I have believed for many years that the expiration of a 40 year generation, which began in 1967, would be associated with an attack against Israel, and would set in motion a final major war culminating some three and one-half years later at Armageddon. You also know my guesstimate for the point in time the initial attack will occur is from 2008 to the end of 2012.
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UN envoy: ME picture is ‘getting darker’
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST
June 12, 2007
UN envoy Terje Roed-Larsen raised an “alarm” about the situation in the Middle East, warning that the region faces the possibilities of full-scale war, a fresh effort to contain the current violence, or energetic diplomacy to try to bring lasting peace.
“The picture which emerges is very dark, and apparently getting darker,” he told reporters on Monday. “So there are reasons for real concerns in the international community.”
Roed-Larsen, the current UN envoy for Lebanon-Syria issues who for many years was the top UN Mideast envoy, said “the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East has changed fundamentally over a few years.”
“A few years ago, as it had been over many, many decades, the center of gravity for all the conflicts were the Israeli-Arab conflicts,” he said. “Now, there seems to be four epicenters of conflict in the region with their own dynamics, the Iraqi issues, the Iranian issues, the Syrian-Lebanese issues, and of course the heart of hearts, the traditional conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli issue.”
“The new phenomenon seems to be that all these conflicts are now completely intertwined so that it is very difficult, maybe impossible, to find a solution to one of them without finding a solution to all of them,” he told reporters after briefing the UN Security Council.
Roed-Larsen called the current situation “alarming” and said there are three alternatives.
“One is that we continue on the path of violence – the kind of mildest one being that we continue on the slippery slope of violence that we’ve seen not only in Lebanon but also in Gaza, West Bank, Iraq and elsewhere in the region,” he said. “The other one is that it leads to a full confrontation, and worst case to a regional confrontation with arms.”
The second option is “energetic diplomacy” by the international community to address the underlying problems, he said.
Roed-Larsen said this is “extremely difficult” today because the four conflicts in the Middle East are separate, but have become entwined.
“Hopefully there is still a possibility to address this diplomatically and with peaceful means,” he said. “However, that this will happen in the very foreseeable future is not that likely.”
The third option, he said, is “a vigorous containment policy which stems the slide on the slippery slope” and moves to address “broader regional tensions.”
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