Is the Woman preparing to mount the Revelation Beast
?
November 17, 2007
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Revelation 17:15-18 – And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. [16] And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
[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. [18] And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
In John’s day the city of Rome ruled over most of the known world. Today the Vatican dominates most of the religious preferences
of the European section of the old Roman Empire. The “woman” represents the Catholic Church. Initially she will ride on the power of the back of the beast by turning against Israel, and will seem to gain Islam’s favor for having done so, but after Islam has driven the Israelis into the Negev and established its vast Caliphate, in the last portion of the tribulation period the Mahdi will turn viciously against its rider.
The ten horns are ten Arab kings who will soon come against Israel led by the Mahdi, who is the eleventh horn on Daniel’s fourth beast, and the Islamic 12th Imam. He will represent an Imam who has come back to life to lead Islamic forces after an absence of hundreds of years.
Daniel 7:24-28 – 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.
The ten Arab kings will accept the Mahdi as their leader “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.
” The Prophet Mohammad loudly proclaimed he was Allah’s prophet, and was called by the angel Gabriel.
Today some 400 million followers of Allah are scattered across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, believing that he is God. Allah is a word compounded of the article “al” and the word “ilah,” which means “the God.”
I believe the Catholic faith will acknowledge the Antichrist as being the Islamic Mahdi, and the Islamic faith will accept him as their Messiah from Allah. Most of the many faiths would love to have a flesh and blood man to lead them, one who has returned from the dead. Many different faiths across the earth have multiple gods – some sects in India have hundreds of gods – but each sect always has one god who is more powerful than all the others. All the religions, both small and great, will believe that the Mahdi is the one sent by the most powerful god in their worship system.
Unfortunately for the “woman,” the Arabs have always hated religious Christianity, and near the end of the tribulation period they will vent their full religious zeal on the religious woman of Rome. John attests to the woman’s final destruction by the sons of Allah in verse sixteen – “And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.”
Islam will do to the idols of all other religions what she has already done to other Asian idols. Islam will destroy them and burn all their religious buildings across her Caliphate.
I am including the 2006 Supplement we issued to Archive Prophecy Update 165B in 2004 on the 12th Imam, the Islamic Mahdi who is prophesied to return from the dead to lead Islam to victory. The Supplement appears after the YNet News Article, which immediately follows this paragraph.
Begin YNet News Article
Vatican: Ties with Israel worsening
Pope’s ambassador to Washington blames Israel for deterioration of relations with Catholic Church, says Israel cannot be trusted and laments that ties were better ‘when there were none at all’
Associated Press
A senior Vatican diplomat who served as papal envoy to Israel has described Vatican-Israeli relations as worsening, blaming the Jewish state for failing to keep promises related to church land, taxes and travel restrictions on Arab clergy.
Archbishop Pietro Sambi lashed out at Israel in an interview posted Friday on Terrasanta.net, an online publication about the Holy Land.
”If I must be frank, the relations between the Catholic Church and the state of Israel were better when there were no diplomatic ties,” said Sambi, interviewed earlier in the week in Washington, where he now serves as Pope Benedict XVI’s envoy to the United States.
”The Holy See decided to establish diplomatic relations (in 1993) with Israel as an act of faith, leaving to latter the serious promises to regulate concrete aspects of the life of the Catholic community and the Church” in Israel, Sambi said.
Among the issues hanging are the status of expropriated church property, services that Catholic groups perform for Israel’s Jewish and Arab population, and tax exemptions for the Church.
The Vatican diplomat also cited a current sore point – the granting of permits for Arab Christian clergy traveling to and around the West Bank.
Israel has rescinded some travel privileges for those clergy because of security concerns.
Israel and the Palestinian territories are home to a small Christian minority.
Sambi complained that the Knesset, Israel’s legislature, has failed to give necessary approval to various accords that had been signed by both sides, and noted that an impasse over taxes has been discussed on and off for nearly 10 years without resolution.
He blamed the situation on Israel’s ”absence of political will.”
”Everyone can see what kind of trust you can give to Israel’s promises,” Sambi said.
Asked about Sambi’s criticisms, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said: ”Israel is interested in good relations with the Vatican and Israeli and Vatican officials are working to overcome gaps that exist.”
Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said the interview with Sambi ”reflects his thinking and his personal experience” during the diplomat’s former posting in Israel.
Lombardi said the Holy See reiterated the hope, expressed in September when Benedict met with Israeli President Shimon Peres, for a ”rapid conclusion of the important negotiations” and a common solution to ”existing problems.”
Tensions between the Vatican and Israel grew this year after the Pope decided to revive an old Latin mass calling for the conversion of Jews.
Several months earlier the Vatican’s ambassador to Israel announced he would boycott a Holocaust memorial service because of allegations that during World War II Pope Pius XII was silent about the genocide being perpetrated against Europe’s Jews.
Begin 2006 Supplement to Archive Prophecy Update 165B
Islam – Waiting for the 12th Imam to Arise to Lead its Inflamed Masses!
Supplement to Archive Special Prophecy Update Number 165B
February 6, 2006
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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 writ ten in the seventies, I have never swerved from identifying 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.
It finally 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.
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