Why did I Chose Sudan but not Saudi Arabia as a Daniel 2 Toe?
May 12, 2008
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I chose Sudan as one of the 10 toes many years ago because of Daniel 11:43. I did not select Saudi Arabia because of Ezekiel 38:13. People who know me very well will tell you how methodical and thorough I am in
all that I present in prophecy. I retired as a synoptic analyst from the National Security Administration, USAF Branch, at Fort George G. Meade. I believe all Scripture is 100 percent accurate, so the problem I face is this – What is the correct interpretation? I make mistakes in interpretation. I have made them in the past and will make them in the future until the Lord comes for me. I apply all I have learned as an analyst to the Scriptures, and then tell you either “I don’t know,” or “here is what I believe it means.” But if I learned nothing else in the agency, I learned this – Don’t ride a dead horse out of pride! When you are wrong, admit it, and go back to the drawing board. Thus far I have found nothing to dissuade me from what I have believed for the last 32 years concerning the 10 toes of the great Daniel 2 statue. In fact, all that I see happening in the Middle East supports that conclusion.
I have never included Saudi Arabia as one of the 10 toes because of Ezekiel 38:13, as you may read in this extract from our Archives, which follows.
Begin Extract from Prophecy Archives Exposition of Ezekiel 38:13
Ezekiel 38:13 – Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
Verse 13 mentions three other descendants which were not mentioned previously as being among the horde that attacked Israel, namely, Sheba, Dedan, and Tarshish. Sheba and Dedan settled in the land we know as Saudi Arabia, later colonizing across the Red Sea in the horn we know today as Ethiopia. Tarshish is much harder to nail down to a specific location. The descendants of Tarshish were sea merchants who became the peoples of the Mediterranean Sea coast. The headquarters of the descendants of Tarshish is now generally accepted by most biblical authorities as a district in the south of Spain where the city of Tartessus once existed. The merchants of Tarshish scattered their descendants in village settlements along most of the coastal sections of Europe.
I am persuaded that Europe represents the descendant offspring of Tarshish. It is quite possible that God may look upon the rest of Western Civilization as being the offspring (descendants) of Europe (“the young lions thereof”). The countries of the New World became the “melting pot” of Europe. It is very interesting what Saudi Arabia, Europe, and the rest of Western Civilization have to say to Gog about his attack on Israel: “Art thou come to take a spoil? Hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? To carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?” This is no more or less than the perfect description of a diplomatic protest to Gog’s actions. When the anti-Christ and his armies roar south into Israel in a blitzkrieg lightning strike, the rest of the free world will protest, protest, protest – and do nothing about it. The Antichrist will take Jerusalem within a few days after his initial strike in the north, and within three weeks most of Israel will have fled into the Negev south of Beersheba, where she will remain for some three and one-half years. Jerusalem will fall and only one-third of Israel’s population will make it safely into the Negev.
Zechariah 14:1,2 – Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. [2] For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
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 thous and two hundred
and threescore days.
Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
End Extract from Archive Prophecy Exposition of Ezekiel 38:13
I did select Sudan as one of the 10 toes because at one time the ancient Roman Empire extended across Egypt’s southern border into biblical Ethiopia, whose northern sections became Sudan when the British left in 1965. The population of Sudan is more than 70 percent Sunni, and they are a well known terrorist supporting nation.
Begin Extract from Archive Prophecy Exposition of Daniel 11:43
Daniel 11:43 – But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
The three most “precious things” in Egypt are: the Suez Canal, the Nile River and its Delta, and Cairo, its capital.
He will conquer the Suez Canal zone and all of Egypt. So just what is Egypt
? Many are inclined to establish it as the land bordered on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, on the west by Libya, on the south by Sudan, on the southeast by the Red Sea, and on the northeast by its Sinai border with Gaza and Israel’s Negev. And, geographically, that is quite correct. However, in reality, that is not Egypt. The real Egypt, where her people live, is much, much, smaller.
Egypt is the land along her north and east coastlines up to about two miles inland, the Nile Delta, and the land along the Nile River extending about fifteen miles either side of its banks.
The Antichrist will send messages to leaders of two of the original 10 nations confederated with him, namely Libya and Sudan, requesting them to mass their troops along the northern coastal border with Libya, and along the border where the Nile enters Egypt from Sudan. This will cause the diversion of some Egyptian troops away from Cairo and the Suez Canal in order to protect their western and southern borders. And this will allow the antichrist to rapidly push across the Suez Canal into Cairo and along her western and eastern coastlines, then to quickly progress southward down the Nile with little resistance.
I believe he will control Egypt within two weeks after he reaches the Suez Canal.
Once he has conquered Egypt, he will make an assessment of his geopolitical position.
After having done so, he would be a military fool to return to his home country.
He will establish his capital at Cairo, and will remain there for more than three years.
After three years he will receive news that causes him to quickly return to Jerusalem.
If a military leader plans to put down his roots for a while, what would be one of his major concerns? The relationship he has with the rulers of the nations that are on his immediate borders.
That is, how sure he is they will not pull a surprise attack on him. So, through the prestigious position he has gained in the eyes of the Islamic world by this time, it will allow him to use the terrorist groups, already in Sudan and Libya, to overthrow their leaders, and in their place to install two of his stooges, where they will remain in control for some three years. He will already have plucked up the ruler of Lebanon, and replaced him with a stooge. It will surprise me if Lebanon, Sudan, and Libya are not the countries from which his stooges
will rule.
End Extract of Prophecy Archive Exposition of Daniel 11:43
The following article from DEBKAfile discusses the terror link which exists between Iran, Syria, and the Hizballah Terror Army in southern Lebanon. It seems to me that all the pieces are coming
together to show the end time picture laid out in prophetic Scriptures.
Begin DEBKAfile Articles
DEBKAfile Exclusive: Amid heightened threats from president Ahmadinejad, Tehran opens a back door into Israel for its penetration-cum-terror agents: Sudan to the Negev
May 11, 2006, 12:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources reveal that two Iranian Revolutionary Guards companies were dropped at Khartoum’s military airfield May 2 by a C-130 transport and driven to a secret military installation on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital. Their arrival signals the onset of an Iranian military airlift to Sudan of a fully equipped RG brigade with armor, a major escalation of the clandestine Iranian threat to Egypt and Israel alike.
DEBKAfile’s security sources report the ongoing routine of illicit Sudanese infiltrations into the southern Israeli Negev, shepherded by any of three local smuggling rings: the Palestinian gang headed by Jamal Samhadan, the Hamas government’s new appointee as commander of its security forces, Sudanese-Egyptian crime organizations and al Qaeda’s Sinai network.
All three are readily available to operate under the orders of the Iranian RG intelligence officers posted in Sudan.
The scale of the Negev traffic is such that hardly a day goes by without Sudanese infiltrators being caught attempting to steal across the Egyptian border into southern Israel. Many are job-seekers; a few, mules for gunrunners or spies collecting data on army installations in the desert region; some were caught recently near the town of Mitzpeh Ramon. They are led to their destinations by Egyptian intelligence agents familiar with the territory, Palestinian terrorists from Gaza or a sprinkling of Israeli Arabs.
An Israeli security source told DEBKAfile that the current Egyptian-Israeli-Gazan border situation offers Iranian agents and terrorists mixed in among the Sudanese infiltrators an easy route into southern Israel.
The RG agents are Arabic speakers, having acquired the language from their stint as military instructors with the Lebanese Hizballah
End DEBKAfile Articles
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