God will use the Islamic Beast to punish the Apostate Religion Woman
The Beast FIRST carries her on his back because she sides with Islam
But turns on the Woman to destroy her when he forms his Caliphate
June 24, 2011
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Revelation 17:1-4,12-18 – And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: [2] With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
[3] So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
[4] And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: [12] 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. [15] And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes,
and nations, and tongues. [16] 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 – 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.
Revelation 18:8 – 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 from REUTERS via THE JERUSALEM POST
Analysis: Mideast Christians struggle during Arab Spring
By REUTERS
06/23/2011 12:53
Christians fear Arab Spring opens door to religious strife, toppled dictators often protected religious minorities.
VENICE – Middle East Christians are struggling to keep hope alive with Arab Spring democracy movements promising more political freedom but threatening religious strife that could decimate their dwindling ranks.
Scenes of Egyptian Muslims and Christians protesting side by side in Cairo’s Tahrir Square five months ago marked the high point of the euphoric phase when a new era seemed possible for religious minorities chafing under Islamic majority rule.
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Since then, violent attacks on churches by Salafists – a radical Islamist movement once held in check by the region’s now weakened or toppled authoritarian regimes – have convinced Christians their lot has not really improved and could get worse.
“If things don’t change for the better, we’ll return to what was before, maybe even worse,” Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria Antonios Naguib said at a conference this week in Venice on the Arab Spring and Christian-Muslim relations.
“But we hope that will not come about,” he told Reuters.
The Chaldean bishop of Aleppo, Antoine Audo, feared the three-month uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad spelled a bleak future for the 850,000 Christians there.
“If there is a change of regime,” he said, “it’s the end of Christianity in Syria.
I saw what happened in Iraq.”
The uncomfortable reality for the Middle East’s Christians, whose communities date back to the first centuries of the faith, is that the authoritarian regimes challenged by the Arab Spring often protected them against any Muslim hostility.
Christians had no choice but to depend on the favor of Arab dictators
Apart from Lebanon, where they make up about one-third of the population and wield political power, Christians are a small and vulnerable minority in Arab countries.
The next largest group, in Egypt, comprises about 10 percent of the population while Christians in other countries are less than 5 percent of the overall total.
Under Saddam Hussein, about 1.5 million Christians lived safely in Iraq. Since the US-led invasion in 2003, so many have fled from Islamist militant attacks that their ranks have shrunk to half that size, out of a population of 30 million.
Arab dictators led secular regimes not to help minorities but to defend themselves against potential Islamist rivals. Christians had no choice but to depend on their favor.
“There was no alternative,” said Reverend Milad Sidky Zakhary, director of the Catholic Institute of Religious Sciences in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria.
The conference, organized by the Oasis Foundation led by Venice Cardinal Angelo Scola, brought Middle Eastern Catholic clergy together with European and Arab analysts to examine how the changes in the region could help Christian minorities.
Olivier Roy, a leading French specialist on Islam, said the stress that Arab Spring protesters place on freedom, individual rights and better government could thwart any bid to establish an Iranian-style Islamic republic in the Arab world.
But this trend also meant that the tightly-knit Christian communities could no longer depend on protection as a minority. In an open system, Islamists may stoke American-style “culture war” controversies to set strict religious limits on policies.
“I think we’ll have several difficult years,” he said.
Reverend Zakhary, says “there is no Christian Spring”
Tunis Archbishop Maroun Lahham said some Islamists wanted to overturn authoritarian systems to impose sharia as the sole legal system, but noted that “young Arabs, especially Tunisians, do not seem to be too enthralled by the Islamist ideal.”
In Algeria, said former Algiers Bishop Henri Teissier, the state fosters Islam but has quietly tolerated a growing group of ex-Muslim converts to evangelical Christianity because they appealed to individual rights as the Arab Spring protesters do.
But in Egypt, where the Coptic Orthodox and Catholic minorities are under heavy pressure from Salafist Muslims, methods the state used to keep Christians in line before President Hosni Mubarak was toppled haven’t changed.
When there is a conflict between a Muslim and a Christian, the police still have them hold a “reconciliation session” that usually ends in the Muslim’s favor, Naguib said. “They do not refer to the law, to justice or the courts,” he said.
Zakhary agreed that laws proclaiming legal equality for all Egyptians are not enforced.
“As a Christian, I must hope.
But I must recognize that there has been no real progress,” he said.
Referring to one of Venice’s best-known musicians, he added: “The great Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi wrote the beautiful symphony The Four Seasons.
For us Christians in Egypt, there are only three seasons.
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