MORE INSTABILITY IN SYRIAN GOVERNMENT
January 2, 2006
Papa Assad, the departed Godfather of the Alawi Mob Family, was able to hold this small family in power by cunning expertise and brutality, and ruled Syria with an iron fist. Without his leadership, the dynasty of his Son, Bashar Assad, is showing signs of unraveling.
Watching the events unfurl in Syria, (which was once a part of the old Assyrian Empire), over the next two years, could well prove to be very interesting. The current President of Syria, Bashar Al-Assad, simply does not have the expertise to measure up to the biblical characteristics and role laid out for the future antichrist.
I expect him to be taken out by a coup within two years and, after the coup and a brief period of struggle for leadership, I am looking for a strongman to pop up in the Syrian governmental structure, and take control decisively. He could be the Assyrian antichrist. Many are expecting the rise of the man of sin to be a long gradual process.
I am not!
I have always believed his initial appearance would be sudden and decisive.
Before the world sees the Son of man return in a cloud to end the tribulation period, become King over all the earth, and stand and feed in the strength of his Father, the Assyrian antichrist will attack the nation of Israel from the north.
It will be his attack that invokes the Son of man to return at his Second Advent some 3 and ½ years later.
Micah 5:2-6 – But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. [3] Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. [4] And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
[5] And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds,
and eight principal men.
[6] And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
All the “he’s” down to, and including the first “he” in verse 5, refer to the Messiah, Jesus Christ. The first “he” in verse 6 also refers to Christ.
All the other “he’s” refer to the Assyrian Antichrist.
The article, which follows, came from the DEBKAfile, and is another indicator of the growing confusion and instability in a government that I believe is likely to crumble during the next two years.
BEGAN DEBKAfile ARTICLE
Dramatic turn in UN Hariri assassination probe: a formal demand to question Syrian president Bashar Assad and foreign minister Farouk a-Shara on their role in the crime
January 2, 2006
This is the first time in UN annals that an inquiry commission established by the world body demands to quiz an incumbent head of state on the murder of an ex-prime minister of another nation.
He confirmed the UN report that found the Syrian president had threatened the murder former Lebanese PM Rafiq Hariri months before his assassination. Haddam, whom Bashar unseated after he succeeded his father as president, denounced the Syrian president for refusing to sack General Rustoum Ghazaleh, the former Syrian military intelligence in Lebanon, immediately after the assassination.
DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources note that Haddam insinuated in the interview that Assad had had pre-knowledge of the murder and could have prevented it.
He clearly laid the crime at Ghazaleh’s door and made it clear that no part of Syrian intelligence is free to act without Assad’s authority. This veteran Syrian politician’s diatribe against Assad is unprecedented and shocked opinion in Damascus and the Arab world.
END DEBKAfile ARTICLE