God Will Hold 10 Clay And Iron Islamic Toes Together,
As 10 sharp pointed horns on the Daniel 7 great Beast,
For Some Three and One-Half Years in Tribulation Period,
But Will Then Pull The Islamic Toes APART AT Armageddon,
Crushing them with his great wrath to end the Gentile Age,
As Messiah Returns at His Second Advent to Begin His Reign!
April 25, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The various Islamic Sects of Moderate and Extremist Islamic Nations and Groups are like Iron and Clay, in that they don’t cleave together very long.
Daniel 2:41-43 – 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.
But God will turn the clay and iron toes into sharp horns, and hold them together long enough to fulfill his many Tribulation Period prophecies.
Daniel 7:24,25 – 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.
Revelation 17:12,13,17 – 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.
God will allow them to be driven into the same place they wandered for forty years, where they will remain for 1260 days, during which time he protects and sees they are fed.
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
But, at the end of that time, the Son of God will return to destroy Israel’s enemies and establish his Kingdom on this present earth for a thousand years.
Daniel 2:44 – 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.
Luke 21:25-27 – And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26] Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
[27] And then shall
they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
Revelation 19:19 to 20:3 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. [20] And the be ast
was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. [21] And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. [1] And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. [2] And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, [3] And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Begin Excerpt from The Daily Star via World News
Meaningful peace won’t work if Hamas and Fatah are at odds
By Michael Broning
Friday, April 24, 2009
As representatives of Hamas and Fatah prepare to meet for the fourth round of national unity talks in Cairo, perhaps this month, not only Palestinians but also Americans and Europeans will be watching closely. The top-level talks, hosted by Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, will be crucial to ending nearly two years of bloody confrontation between Hamas-ruled Gaza and the Fatah-ruled West Bank, governed by the Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Given previous failures, this round of talks might prove to be the final chance to re-establish Palestinian unity.
The continuing internal schism between the more moderate and secular Fatah and the Islamist Hamas has not only left the Palestinian leadership in disarray, but has also made meaningful peace negotiations with Israel next to impossible.
Moreover, continued internal disunity continues to thwart reconstruction efforts in Gaza, which are urgently needed in the aftermath of Israel’s military offensive earlier this year.
Thus, the outcome of the negotiations in Cairo will have repercussions for Palestinians and Israelis – and, indeed, for anyone with a stake in the Middle East peace process.
In previous rounds of talks, the different factions agreed in principle to forming a united government for the West Bank and Gaza, and to holding legislative and presidential elections in the Palestinian territories by January 2010. But Fatah and Hamas still differ fundamentally on how to form a government tasked to prepare elections. Discussions also center on the control of the security services – a field in which neither Fatah nor Hamas has much room to maneuver. Disagreement also prevails on the type of electoral system to be used. Whereas Fatah favors a clear majority voting system, Hamas calls for a more personalized approach.
Furthermore, the question of including Hamas in the Palestine Liberation Organization is crucial. Contrary to common perception, the PLO has always been the only official negotiating partner with Israel and does not include Hamas. In a rather obscure linguistic debate, Hamas has in previous negotiation rounds refused to “commit’ itself to past PLO agreements with Israel, but has instead offered to “respect” them. Negotiators in Cairo will thus have to discuss if such an indirect recognition of Israel’s right to exist will be acceptable.
Underneath this clear-cut quid pro quo of political bargaining, the representatives from Fatah and Hamas are charged with finding the means to reconcile Hamas’ tremendously popular political ideology with Fatah’s traditional secular aspirations. This is not merely an internal Palestinian affair, for it reflects a conflict raging across the entire Middle East. Until now, no Arab society has managed to harmonize these opposing trends. Instead, most governments have opted for a more or less confrontational approach of suppression and exclusion, banning Islamists from participating in elections or bullying them into semi-legality. The case of the Palestinian territories, however, is different.
In the absence of a strong central authority, the predominant divide between secular nationalism and politicized religion has led to the actual geographic disintegration of the Palestinian territories into two distinct parts. Given the difficulties that even major players in the region face when dealing with the challenge of political Islam, it becomes clear that for the Abbas-led Palestinian Authority, only compromise and dialogue is a feasible way to heal the rift.
The fate of the Cairo talks is anything but certain.
Failure to come up with a unified Palestinian position would play into the hands of the newly elected Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
He has made it clear that he favors continued conflict management in terms of “economic peace” over far-reaching political processes based on mutual respect and cooperation.
Faced with continued internal division, pressing for a meaningful peace process is very difficult for the Palestinians. As a consequence, Israel’s willy-nilly expansion of West Bank settlements might finally bury comprehensive peace efforts for good.
But success in Cairo might prove even more challenging.
If the negotiations lead to the establishment of a Palestinian government supported by both Fatah and Hamas, there will be a tough choice to make – not primarily for Palestinians, but first and foremost for Western decision makers. Will the West continue its policy of boycotting Hamas politically and financially, or will it adopt an alternative approach?
Given Hamas’ belligerent ideology, any change in the West’s approach toward Hamas in the aftermath of successful Palestinian dialogue in Cairo would be difficult. But a modified and more pragmatic stance that focuses on Hamas’ behavior on the ground, rather than on abstract conditions, would not only be demanding for Western decision makers; it would pose a major political challenge for Hamas as well.
Michael Broning is director of the East Jerusalem office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, a political foundation affiliated with Germany’ s Social Democratic Party.
THE DAILY STAR publishes this commentary in collaboration with Project Syndicate (c) (www.project-syndicate.org).
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