SYRIA’S LATEST “GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE”!
November 3, 2005
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In the United States communities are constantly alerted to the need to come into a store that has a huge sign in front stating “GOING OUT OF BUSINESS.” However, after pulling out the sign once
a year for 40 years, the local residents know it is a sales gimmick, and the store is not going out of business until hell freezes over.
I long ago lost count of how many times Syria has drawn out the banner “WE ARE CLOSING ALL OF THE 12 TERRORIST GROUP HEADQUARTERS IN THE CITY OF DAMASCUS.” They then shuffle the terrorist groups into different apartments, where they continue to operate as before.
Once again, due to international pressure, Syria is using the same old worn banner, but rest assured, they will not run the terrorist groups out of Syria until hell freezes over. For decades, the leaders of Syria have played a split-tongued game with the free world.
They have assured the world they have closed the many Palestinian terror offices while, at the same time,
they continue to assure the many terrorist groups privately they can still operate freely in new in-country locations.
The Alawites are in trouble! Assad must have a stomach that seems full of butterflies from the anxiety he is suffering as a result of pressure, from family, terrorists, terrorist nations, friends, and foes. Alawites have a long history of killing many Sunnis and Shiites that disagreed with their political rulership.
Their dictatorship, over the government, military, and security services, has been in place for some 35 years, and yet, they comprise less than 13 percent of the population of Syria. They take their name from Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of the prophet of Islam, Muhammad. The term Alawi was recognized by the French when they occupied Syria in 1920. Historically, the Alawites have been called Nusairis, Namirila, and Ansariyaa.
The name Ansariyaa seems very similar to Assyrian. The tern Nusayri became one of abuse, and they themselves preferred to be called Alawis to show their reverence for Ali.
In 1970, Air Force Colonel Hafez al-Assad, an Alawis, took power and instigated a “correctionist movement” in the Ba’ath Party. In 1971 he became President of Syria, a function that the Constitution only allows a Muslim to occupy.
So, in 1974, Imam Sadr, leader of Twelver Shiites of Lebanon and the founder of the Amal Movement, was asked to issue a proclamation that he accepted the Alawites as real Muslims. Most of the Muslim authorities, both Sunni and Shiite, still do not recognize them as Muslims. Under the dictatorial regime of Bashar Assad’s father, Hafez, minorities were generally tolerated, although during the Hama Massacre in 1982, perhaps 20,000 predominantly Sunnis
were killed.
After the death of his father in 2000, Bashar maintained the outlines of his father’s regime. Although Alawites dominate the top military and intelligence offices, the civilian government and national economy is led primarily by Sunnis.
This is one of the reasons I expect Bashar Assad to be out of office before 2007. The latest “GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SIGN” may eventually be the last time they drag it out. The Alawites could finally actually GO OUT OF BUSINESS in Syria.
But you may rest assured that, regardless of any regime change, the terrorist groups will still be in Syria when hell freezes over.
Do not expect a coup by the Sunnis to suddenly produce a government favorable to the United States, the “Great Devil” in their belief. It may seek at first to assure such a takeover will be in the best interests of the United States, but the future leader of the coup, or the one who later forces him out in a time of great instability, could well be the Assyrian found in Micah 5:1-9, who I believe will be the antichrist. Please consult our non-suffixed Archive Prophecy Updates 62 to 69, which are titled as: “Nationality of the Antichrist.”