The Horns on the Beast of the East are Sprouting,
And the Toes on the Statue are all Wiggling,
Fullness of Gentile Age now coming In,
To Close at Jesus’ Second Advent,
The Beast, False Prophet, Army,
Are Judged at the last Battle,
OF Armageddon BY Christ!
December 3, 2010
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THE TOES FOLLOWED BY CHRIST’S KINGDOM
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. [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. [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.
THE HORNS FOLLOWED BY CHRIST’S KINGDOM
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.
THE INIQUITY OF THE GENTILES IS FULL AT ARMAGEDDON
Romans 11:25-28 – For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
[26] And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: [27] For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
[28] As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
A PROMISE OF GOD TO REPAY THOSE WHO HATE HIM
Deuteronomy 7:6-10 – For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
[7] The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: [8] But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto
your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. [9] Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; [10] And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
Zechariah 2:8 – For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
THE JUDGMENT BY CHRIST AT THE LAST BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON
Revelation 19:19-21 – 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 beast 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.
THE 10 TOES ON THE STATUE AND 10 HORNS ON THE BEAST ARE:
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Eight of them are mentioned in this Excerpt, only Sudan and Algeria do not appear.
Begin Excerpt from Gulf News via World News
Lebanon’s behind-the-scenes players
As the world focuses on the Syrian-Saudi dialogue, Turkey and Iran hold the key to making any political deal work.
By Sami Moubayed, Special to Gulf News
Published: 00:00 November 30, 2010
There has been much talk about Syrian-Saudi dialogue over Lebanon, but very little focus on Turkish-Iranian understanding over the tiny Mediterranean country. Last week, however, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a groundbreaking visit to Beirut, followed this week by his Lebanese counterpart Sa’ad Hariri’s equally historic visit to Tehran.
At first glance, the common drive behind this shuttle diplomacy is fairly clear: the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) which many fear will name senior Hezbollah figures in the 2005 murder of Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafik Hariri.
Both Turkey and Iran are trying to use their heavyweight influence in the international community to postpone indictments in the Hariri Affair, expected anytime between now and next March.
Both of them, however, are handling Lebanon at a macro-level, preferring to leave details of any broad deal between Hariri and Hezbollah to the Syrians and Saudis. A closer look, however, tells another side of the story, complementing what is being engineered by Damascus and Riyadh.
When the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power, many coined its new foreign policy, via the neighbourhood, as neo-Ottomanism, suggesting the revival of Turkish cultural, political and economic influence over former territories of the Ottoman Empire. Many wrongly interpreted Erdogan’s policy towards the Arab world as purely a Syrian-Turkish alliance. By nature of his new orientation, Erdogan was striving to resto
re Turkey to its rightful place amongst Arab and Muslim nations, and that by no means stops at the gates of Damascus. It is a policy that embraces Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Iraq and, of course, Lebanon.
Almost a year ago, Erdogan received Hariri in Turkey, where the two leaders agreed to boost technical and scientific cooperation in military affairs and lift visa requirements between Lebanon and Turkey. Bilateral trade, which stood at $225 million (Dh825.75 million) in 2002, now stands at $900 million.
It also means that Turkey has now lifted visa requirements with six Arab countries, the others being Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan and Syria. Erdogan best explained it by saying that a “regional Schengen” system, similar to the agreement signed between European countries in Luxembourg in 1985, has now gone into effect in the region, removing border controls between these countries — making them closer to how they had been under the Ottoman Empire.
Erdogan’s latest visit to Beirut follows similar visits in 2007 and 2008. During the war of 2006 and its aftermath, he sent 600 Turkish troops to take part in peacekeeping on the Lebanese-Israeli border by Unifil. Erdogan saw to it that $50 million worth of aid was given to reconstruct southern Lebanon, along with building 41 schools, five parks and a rehabilitation centre worth $20 million.
On the Iranian side, Tehran has also made it clear that it wants to maintain a strong influence: economic, political, and social and has the advantage of a 20-year precedence over Turkey in Lebanese affairs. It achieved that with thundering success through non-state players like Hezbollah since the end of the Civil War and is now seeking to establish sound institutional ties through Lebanese officialdom.
According to Iranian sources in Beirut, the trade volume between the two countries has the potential to reach $10 billion annually. Iran is already heavily involved in academic, cultural and religious exchanges with entire districts in South Lebanon.
Some might wrongly say that “competition” for Lebanon is under way between Turkey and Iran, but the term is grossly exaggerated given that it is not in Turkey’s interest. Besides, Ankara doesn’t have the ability to venture so strongly into territories regarded for years as spheres of influence for Tehran in the Arab world.
Both countries, however, clearly have a well-planned agenda for the Arab world. Both are regional superpowers with the ability to deliver, and both happen to share similar political views — if not approaches — on several issues related to the Palestinian cause, Hamas, and Hezbollah.
Today the two countries find yet another commonality in wanting to shelter Lebanon from the STL, seeing that indictments against Hezbollah members could spell disaster for the entire neighbourhood. Erdogan has the ear of Hariri while Hassan Nasrallah always listens to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Deal in the making
Syria and Saudi Arabia are trying to hammer out a deal that focuses on postponing the STL indictments and getting Hariri to relinquish his country’s political, financial and legal commitments to the STL. This has to be done, all parties are told, before the STL issues its indictments. Hariri would also be asked to reaffirm his commitment to “protecting and embracing the arms” of Hezbollah, and to take serious action against false witnesses in the Hariri Affair. When he does that, Hezbollah will see to it that he is empowered as a national leader in Lebanon, that his cabinet is preserved through a truce between all parties that will last until the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections.
Turkey can provide the Lebanese with plenty of business opportunities to distract them from bickering among themselves, while Iran can make sure that any deal signed off by Saudi Arabia and Syria, is upheld and respected by Hezbollah. Syria and Saudi Arabia will do the rest.
Sami Moubayed is editor-in-chief of Forward Magazine.
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