Can the World endure a Northern Tsardom and a Southern Caliphate?
October 4, 2007
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
A very interesting article from the Times-On-Line follows our lead-in article.
From this article, which follows our article on what I believe will be a great future southern Caliphate below what was once the mighty Soviet Union, it appears Russian President Putin is attempting to reestablish what will amount to a Russian Tsardom north of an Islamic Caliphate.
Having gone to military schools, lived among, worked with, and trained those of the Islamic faith as a much younger man, plus being familiar with prophecy since my youth, I have not only been waiting for many years for the true Messiah, Jesus Christ, but I have also been waiting for the arrival of the 12th Imam on the scene prior to the arrival of Jesus. I have long believed the 12th Imam Mahdi will be the 11th little horn of Daniel, and the beast of John’s Revelation.
I have long identified him as the leader of the 10 toes of Daniel’s great latter day empire of the descendants of the descendants of the twelve sons of Ishmael and the six sons of Keturah, all of them being the sons of Abraham. In all my books, the first written in the seventies, I have never swerved from identify
ing the ten toes as being Islamic nations.
(Please read Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 125B. 121C, 78, 74B, and 54 at: http://www.tribulationperiuod.com/ under the heading of “Prophecy Updates.”)
As I have written in many Archive Prophecy Updates and Blogs, in Genesis Ishmael is called a “wild” man as Abraham’s descendant. The Hebrew word translated “wild” is donkey, a wild ass, which has long been manifested by the inability of Islamic nations to get along with each other or any other nation for very long. So, one of the things I did not know, when I wrote my first book, was how in heavens name you could ever get clay and iron to come together, and hold long enough to form a temporary latter day empire. It would be as difficult as trying to keep a herd of wild asses together in a wilderness with no fences.
Daniel 2:41-43 – And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. [41] And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. [42] And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
[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.
I knew that God would put it into their hearts to come together, but I did not understand the instrument he would use to being their hearts together into the unholy union of Jewish and infidel destruction.
Revelation 17:12,13 – And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. [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.
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all came together for me with the rise of Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, where he was successful in driving out the Soviet army by Islamic Jihad guerilla warfare. The 9/11 attack left no doubt that the world’s future was headed for the rise of Islamic fanaticism, which is the instrument that is uniting the 10 toes, the 10 horns, in a common united cause, namely, the destruction of Israel, and other infidel nations that do not honor their Prophet Muhammad and Allah.
There is no question in my mind that Islamic Jihad is the spirit of the antichrist. All that Islam masses need is for a man to show up who they will accept as the 12th Imam, and they will unite as surrendered souls to follow him to the death.
We have gotten a taste of the fever of Islamic Jihad fanaticism in the French Riots, and the devoted religious extremism over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad has triggered riots, burnings, and deaths across Europe and the Middle East in many of the countries and states. It is this religious Islamic fever that will unite all Arabs under the banner of the 12th Imam when he arises. If you think what seems to the West to be isolated extremism, from the lips and actions of the current Iranian President, is just a microscopic cult belief, you are quite wrong. The Shiites are the most zealous of the Muslims in their devotion to the 12th Imam, but the Sunni also have their own version of him, as do virtually all of the branches of the Muslim faith. I know this by my association with Islamic believers from many countries.
I hope you will have time to look back in our Archive Prophecy Updates at Number 165B, “The Coming Messiah of Islamic Tradition,” April 1, 2004, for more information on the 12th Imam.
Begin Article from THE TIMES ON LINE
PUTIN’S BID FOR TSARDOM
Russia’s President decides to continue in office as prime Minister
October 2, 2007
President Putin’s announcement that he would like to become prime minister is a coup de th�âtrefor which this shrewd political operator is justly famous. For months speculation over his future has obsessed Russia. He has insisted repeatedly that, after he leaves office in March, he wants to continue serving his country in some capacity.
How he would do so has always been unclear, however. Would he take the job as head of Gazprom, the vast state energy monopoly that is so vital to Russia’s future? Would he revitalise the job of National Security Adviser? Or would he become a roving ambassador, holding no official post but exercising influence behind the scenes as Deng Xiaoping did in China?
In a recent convers
ation with The Times and other Western reporters and academics, Mr Putin made it very clear that he had no intention of leaving the political scene. He made it equally plain that he would not change the Constitution, but would retire, as required, in March.
He did not rule out returning as president in 2012 – though tried to downplay this scenario. But he insisted Russia must still have a strong president, as its parties were still too undeveloped to play the role they do in Western democracies.
His remarks suggested an impossible contradiction. How could any successor be a strong president if Mr Putin was still very much in the political arena? Speculation within Russia has been increased by his unexpected reshuffle of the Government, three months before parliamentary elections, and the appointment of the elderly and relatively unknown Viktor Zubkov as Prime Minister. Mr Putin insisted this was to ensure that all the Government kept working properly until the final day. Most Russians assumed, however, that Mr Putin was either grooming Mr Zubkov as a future, pliable president – or that he was deliberately keeping in play the two deputy prime ministers and likely contenders for the top job, Sergei Ivanov and Dmitry Medvedev, so as not to make a preference known that would inevitably make him a lame duck president.
Mr Putin had already dismissed the idea of becoming prime minister himself.
Several things, however, may have changed his mind. The first is that the pressure on him to make an announcement has become intense. And it is increasingly clear that there is no other job that would give him the power and properly defined responsibility that he craves. Secondly, with popularity ratings running at about 80 per cent, there is a danger that his supporters and those who have enriched themselves during his reign will be so fearful of change that they stage a crisis to force a change in the Constitution and Mr Putin’ s continuation in office.
Thirdly, his wish, real or assumed, to build up the party system and turn United Russia into something more than just a vehicle to bolster his power meant that he would have to declare his intentions before the party holds its extraordinary congress this month to decide who to head its list for the Duma elections.
The effect will be to reverse the power balance between the president and prime minister.
It underlines the weakness of Russia’s democracy and constitution, which must still bend to the dominant personality.
Russians have lauded the economic benefits of a Putin presidency, but may well have cause to regret his impact on a still-emerging democratic system.
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