Repeating Archive Prophecy Update Number 197AS (Get Outta Town).
February 24, 2006
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I love my country, President Bush, and the American men and women that are guarding our freedom on a worldwide stage, and I was fully in support of invading Iraq and getting rid of Saddam Hussein, but I have never been in favor of attempting to establish a democracy in Iraq. I gave my specific reasons for this belief in the last Blog. I first stated this before we invaded Iraq, became specific about it in Archive Prophecy Update Number 170B, and emphatic about it in Archive Prophecy Update Number 197AS, which I titled “Get Outta Town.”
I am reissuing 197AS exactly as it was written word for word in 2004. I am more convinced of it now than when I wrote it.
SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 197AS
November 9, 2004
“Get Outta Town” (Gradually and Graciously)
What follows is quoted from Special Prophecy Archive Update Number 170B, and, as I indicated in Archive Update 197A, my sentiments are still the same today. We are currently launching an offensive against all Iraqi cities used as hideouts for the terrorists, which will pave the way for the completion of successful democratic elections in late January of 2005.
Once that election is complete, we need to start removing our troops in a steady, organized manner, such that by 2006 no American troops will be in-country.
I believe any democratic government formed in Iraq will fall before 2007 ends.
BEGIN QUOTE FROM UPDATE 170B, ISSUED MAY 5, 2004
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR US TO ESTABLISH A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT IN IRAQ THAT WILL LAST – IT WOULD ONLY LAST AS LONG AS A LARGE AMERICAN ARMY WAS IN PLACE TO ENFORCE IT.
AMERICANS WOULD CONTINUE TO DIE IN HIT-AND-RUN-ATACKS, WERE THEY TO REMAIN IN IRAQ TO ENFORCE SUCH A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT.
The real problem in Iraq began in 1932, the year I was born.
Iraq was also born that year as the first of the League of Nations mandate states.
So, after 1932, Iraq was formally independent.
There was still, of course, a large measure of British influence and power there, but it was certainly independent earlier than any of the other Arab states. The British were largely responsible for the impossible attempt to merge together four major contentious groups into one state, the Shiite, the Sunni, the Kurds, and the Assyrians. It would have been far better to have four countries with separate borders than to attempt to put four wildcats into a sack and call the sack a state. And there are many other smaller groups of ethnic wildcats that also were placed in the sack.
It was inevitable that a government would eventually come into existence that would be held together by absolute force of a dictator.
It is most unfortunate that the dictator who finally grabbed power was Saddam.
Most dictators are happy to rule their own country with an iron hand, but Saddam had illusions of grandeur to be the great Islamic messiah who would even exceed the greatness of Saladin the Kurd and, in the end, be ruler over all of the Arab world. The only real solution to the problem, generated in 1932, is to establish governmental borders that separate the four major ethnic groups, and let each group internally fight it out as to the kind of government they want. After the dust has settled you may only have two or three states continuing to fight each other for dominance, but they will be fighting each other rather than the United States and Israel.
The continuous argument I have heard echo across the world’s political scenario from before Operation Desert Storm through Operation Iraqi Freedom is this – DO NOT DISTURB THE STABILITY OF
THE REGION! And everyone seems to agree on how important it is to NOT disturb it! I totally disagree!
I was hoping we would go in, get rid of Saddam, his henchmen, and his Baath Party, then pull out as quickly as possible, and let all hell break loose between the Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds, and many other ethnic groups that make up Iraq. They would not be able to concentrate on how much they hate us and Israel, because they would be too busy hating each other. Then, after the smoke and killing ended in a truce, Iraq would probably be splintered into three separate countries, Kurdistan dominated by Turkey, Sunnistan dominated by Syria, and Shiitestan as a part of Iran. As far as I am concerned, the more instability, political turmoil, and confusion we see among all of the nations of Islam, the better off the United States (the big Satan as we are called) and Israel (the little Satan) will be in the world’s fickle climate. If I thought there was any possibility of actually installing a democratic type of government in Iraq, then I would say it would be worth the price we are paying in American blood to do so, but it is a futile pipedream, no matter how noble it may seem to those who favor it. I have been a supporter of both father and son Bush in their presidencies. I do continue to admire them both, and will vote for the son in November. However, I do not agree with the idea of attempting to establish a democracy in the midst of Islam because it is impossible – admirable, but beyond the scope of possibility in this generation. We need to get out and let them slug it
out among themselves. In any case, whatever happens, Iraq will be one of the tens associated with Daniel 2 & 7, and Revelation 13 and 17. The Lamb King of the soon coming Kingdom foretold in Revelation 17:14 is the King of the Kingdom found in Daniel 2:44 and 7:27, and he is the only one who can bring lasting peace and stability to the Middle East under a theocracy. The Old Roman Empire had a large southern flank that, at one time, included all of what we know as the Islamic nations stretching from Morocco to Iran, which number more than the ten required to choose from as being the toes or horns in Daniel and Revelation.
Daniel 2:42,44 – 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. [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.
Daniel 7:24-27 – 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. [26] But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
[27] And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Revelation 13:1 – And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Revelation 17:12-14 – 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. [14] These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
END QUOTE FROM ARCHIVE UPDATE 170B, May 5, 2004
I believe events in the Middle East, as chaotic as they seem to be at the moment, are beginning to finally phase into the prophesied pattern the Scriptures indicate will lead into a brief period of false peace, which will eventually be followed by a surprise lightning Jihad against Israel.