The Final Strong Delusion is Rising to a Head!
Age old strife between Persians & Arabs,
And between the Shiites and Sunnis,
Represents Part Clay & part Iron,
And are 10 toes of Daniel Two,
Mixed together by our God.
Put together by our God,
To Fulfill His Prophecy,
To end Gentile Age,
By Jesus’ Return,
To Break Clay
& Iron Bond
FOREVER!
December 22, 2009
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Tom McElmurry
Clay and Iron don’t naturally hold together – nor do Shiites and Sunnis or Persians and Arabs. It takes a spiritual goal to hold them together for a common Islamic interest akin to their individual national interest. The spiritual mixing is the bond of Islamic Jihad.
It has, and is, creating a strong delusion in the minds of some 1.6 Muslim minds on planet earth.
Because of this strong delusion, God is giving them up to it, and will allow it to hold them together to accomplish his will in the final attack on Israel, much as he did with the Egyptian King who pursued them into the Red Sea. The end result of God putting it in Islamic hearts will be to fulfill his word Islam would not receive, just as the Ruler of Egypt would not receive it.
II Thessalonians 2:8-12 – And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: [9] Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, [10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. [11] And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: [12] That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Daniel 2:43 – 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.
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.
Revelation 17:17 – 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.
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.
Begin Excerpt from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert
December 21, 2009
The Eclipsing of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Michael J. Totten (Commentary)
According to a new study of public opinion by the folks who host the Doha Debates in Qatar, a clear majority in 18 Arab countries now thinks Iran poses a greater threat to security in the Middle East than Israel.
The leadership in most of these countries has thought so for years. That average citizens now do so should be encouraging news for everyone in the region.
Some may find it hard to believe that so many Arabs think Iran is more threatening
than Israel, but I don’t. Leave aside the fact that Iran really is more threatening. Arabs and Persians have detested each other for more than a thousand years, ever since Arabs conquered premodern Iran and converted its people to Islam. The lasting ethnic enmity between the two is compounded by religious sectarianism. Most Arabs are Sunnis, most Persians are Shias, and Sunnis and Shias have been slugging it out with each other since the 8th century.
After the Iranian revolution against the Shah in 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic Republic exploded into the Arab Middle East with a campaign of imperialism and terrorism. Khomeini never concealed his ambition to lead the whole Muslim world, and the government he founded has been hammering the established Sunni Arab order with a battering ram ever since.
The Arab-Israeli conflict is a minor historical hiccup compared with the ancient feuds between Arabs and Persians, and Sunnis and Shias. It has barely lasted a fraction as long and has hardly killed anyone by comparison. Arabs and Persians killed hundreds of thousands of each other in the Iran-Iraq war alone in the 1980s.
The civil war between Sunni and Shia militias in Baghdad a few years ago was much nastier than any of the Israeli-Palestinian wars.
Begin Excerpt from UK Guardian
Iran’s mini-incursion into Iraq
Baghdad is little concerned with Tehran’s temporary takeover of an oil well in disputed territory
Ranj Alaaldin
UK Guardian
December 21, 2009
When Iranian forces entered an oil area in Iraqi territory, the response from Baghdad was a quiet one. This starkly contrasted with the fierce nationalistic and potentially violent reaction that might have been expected of Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Was this just a taste of Baghdad’s future receptivity towards potential Iranian expansionism? Not exactly.
The Fakka oilfield – in an uninhabited part of Misan province where the precise line of the border with Iran is disputed – currently produces about 10,000 barrels per day; Iran took control of one (inoperative) well out of the seven in the field. On Sunday, it was reported that Iranian troops had withdrawn partly, though Tehran had initially denied ever crossing into the territory in the first place.
Despite the sensationalist reporting that followed the event, on the ground sources have confirmed that incursions into the territory have been carried out by Iran on previous occasions. As negotiations between the two neighbours continue over the field’s status, both sides send their personnel in at different periods to work in the field and then, once finished, hoist their country’s flag.
In allowing it to continue and providing a feeble response to this latest and widely documented incursion, Iraq’s Shia-led government gives leverage to the more nationalistic, anti-Iran elements within the country.
The Sunni parties, in particular, will look to capitalise on the event at Iraq’s national elections in March by playing to the nationalistic sentiments of the Iraqi population. They would place particular emphasis on the close relationship between Tehran and leading Shia groups like the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, and the Islamic Dawa party of Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, who were exiled in Iran.
Iran’s move pushed oil prices up to its benefit, suggesting a calculated decision; it also came just days after Iraq awarded leading international energy companies contracts to operate seven oil fields in the country.
The fact that Iraq’s increasingly attractive energy sector has the potential to rival that of Saudi Arabia probably worries Tehran, given that it has its own dilapidated oil industry
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