A Preview of Coming Attractions for the Woman
Across The Middle East In The Tribulation Period,
When the 10 horned Beast bucks her off his Back!
November 5, 2010
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
When John wrote the Book of Revelation the one city that ruled over the known world was Rome, which is the home of the Vatican today.
Revelation 17:16-18 – And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. [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. [18] And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
Revelation 18:4-8 – And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. [5] For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. [6] Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
[7] How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
[8] Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
Begin Excerpt 1 from Middle East Online
Bloodshed in Baghdad cathedral hostage drama
37 Christians killed when US, Iraqi forces storm Sayidat al-Nejat Syriac cathedral to free hostages held by Al-Qaeda.
By Khalil Murshadi – BAGHDAD
November 1, 2010
Thirty-seven Christians including two priests were killed when US and Iraqi forces stormed a Baghdad cathedral to free dozens of hostages being held by Al-Qaeda gunmen, witnesses and officials said Monday.
The bloodshed, in which seven security force members were also killed, came after the gunmen raided the Sayidat al-Nejat Syriac Christian cathedral in Baghdad’s Karrada district during evening mass on Sunday.
A witness said the attackers immediately shot dead a priest on entering while worshippers huddled in fear.
“They entered the church with their weapons, wearing military uniforms. They came into the prayer hall, and immediately killed the priest,” said one of the freed hostages, an 18-year-old man who declined to give his name.
“We heard a lot of gunfire and explosions, and some people were hurt from falling windows, doors and debris.”
Traces of Flesh, blood, bullet marks and shattered glass littered the cathedral.
“It resembles a battlefield,” he said.
The attack was claimed by an Al-Qaeda group.
The gunmen had attacked the cathedral after killing two guards at the nearby headquarters of the Baghdad stock exchange.
Among those killed in the carnage were five women, seven children and two priests, an interior ministry official and witnesses said. Ten women, eight children and a priest were among the wounded.
Five attackers were killed and eight arrested, the official said, adding there had been more than 100 worshippers at the cathedral in central Baghdad when the gunmen stormed in.
Witnesses said the hostages crowded into the main prayer hall when the gunbattles began with security forces.
The Chaldean bishop of Baghdad, Bishop Shlimoune Wardouni, said that two priests had been killed, and one shot in the kidney.
“It’s a great sorrow, because this was an inhuman act. Even animals are not doing this to each other,” Wardouni said.
Officials had said that at least one of the gunmen who raided the cathedral had blown himself up with a suicide belt as police made a first attempt to enter.
“We came here to help the police and army free the hostages, and we released them with the help of the Americans,” a member of Iraq’ s anti-terrori
st unit said.
Wardouni said earlier that the gunmen were demanding the release of detainees held in Iraq and Egypt.
The SITE monitoring group said Monday that the Islamic State of Iraq, the local branch of Al-Qaeda, had claimed the Baghdad attack, saying its fighters had captured the Christians and also gave the Coptic church in Egypt a 48-hour deadline to release women it said were being held captive by the Christians.
The group in a statement posted on jihadist websites said it was giving the Coptic Christian Church in Egypt 48 hours to release Muslim women “imprisoned in… the monasteries of disbelief and the churches of idolatry in Egypt.”
“This was an operation that was planned a long time ago,” said Yusef Mirkis, head of Iraq’s Dominican church. “If you look at the weapons and explosives used, it could not have been planned in just a day or two,” he said.
SITE said the threat comes amid calls by jihadists and Al-Qaeda’s media arm for Muslims to take action against the Egyptian Coptic church over the alleged imprisonment of two women, both wives of Coptic priests.
It said jihadists believe one of the women had converted to Islam and was then imprisoned in a church, while the second had allegedly wanted to convert to Islam and suffered the same fate.
The Vatican, Italy and France were among the first to condemn the hostage-taking in Baghdad.
Around 800,000 Christians lived in Iraq in 2003 but their number has since shrunk to 550,000 as members of the community have fled abroad, according to Christian leaders.
Iraqi Christians have frequently been the target of violence, including murder and abductions.
Hundreds have been killed and several churches attacked since the US-led invasion to oust Saddam Hussein in 2003.
“What is clear now is that they (Christians) will all leave,” said Pius Kasha, vicar of Iraq’s Syriac Catholics.
Violence has abated in Iraq since its peak in 2006-2007, but deadly bombings, gunfights and kidnappings are still routine.
The US military officially ended combat operations in Iraq at the end of August, but around 50,000 troops still remain in the country.
All Christian centres, organisations and institutions, leaders and followers, are legitimate targets for the mujahedeen (holy warriors) wherever they can reach them,” said the statement.
The group which claimed the capturing of Christians in a Baghdad church that ended Sunday with the killing of 46 worshippers in a rescue drama, had said that the attack was to seek the release of the alleged converts in Egypt.
Let these idolaters, and at their forefront, the hallucinating tyrant of the Vatican, know that the killing sword will not be lifted from the necks of their followers until they declare their innocence from what the dog of the Egyptian Church is doing,” the ISI said in its latest statement.
It also demanded that the Christians “show to the mujahedeen their seriousness to pressure this belligerent church to release the captive women from the prisons of their monasteries.”
The women, Camilia Shehata and Wafa Constantine, are the wives of Coptic priests whom Islamists have said were forcibly detained by the Coptic Church after they had willingly converted to Islam.
Shehata disappeared for a few days in July, setting off Coptic protests. Police found her and escorted her back home, triggering protests by Islamists who said the church was detaining her after she converted to Islam.
Footage of a woman claiming to be Shehata after converting to Islam surfaced on the Internet, firing up the protests. The Coptic Church says she was not the woman in the footage.
Wafa Constantine also went missing, in 2004, reportedly after her husband refused to give
her a divorce. She was temporarily sequestered at a convent as reports of her conversion were circulated.
The two cases threatened the fragile sectarian balance of the country, where Copts make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s 80-million population and have been the target of sectarian attacks.
Sunday’s bloodbath began when gunmen stormed the Sayidat al-Nejat Syriac Christian cathedral in central Baghdad during evening mass, witnesses said.
The attackers immediately shot dead a priest and took worshippers hostage. The standoff ended when Iraqi forces backed by US troops stormed the building. Officials later announced that 46 Christians had died, including two priests, and around 60 had been wounded.
Seven security members also died, as well as five attackers.
Defense Minister Abdul Qader Obeidi hailed the rescue drama as a “quick and successful operation.”
Before the US-led invasion of 2003, around 800,000 Christians lived in Iraq but that number has since shrunk to 550,000 in the face of repeated attacks against the community and its places of worship.
Nationwide, violence has abated in Iraq since its peak in 2006-2007, but attacks are still frequent in the capital Baghdad and the main northern city Mosul.
On Tuesday evening, 11 coordinated car bombs rocked Baghdad’s Shiite neighborhoods, killing at least 63 people and wounding 285.
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