Two Old Presidential Friends – Assad (Syria) & Talabani (Iraq) Seal another Link in a 10 Nation Chain!
January 12, 2007
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Another link in a four-toed power chain of nations is being sealed in a shepherds staff hook around Israel, which stretches from Iran across Iraq into Syria and Lebanon, then south to Hamas in Gaza. Assad and Talabani had good relations during the exile of Talabani in Syria during Saddam Hussein’s reign in Iraq. Iraq will quickly become one of the 10 toes of Daniel 2:36-45, after American troops are eventually withdrawn following 2007.
I believe the most likely candidates for the ten toes of Daniel’s Chapter 2 statue stretch across North Africa to Iran, and include the following nations: (1) Morocco, (2) Algeria, (3) Tunisia, (4) Libya, (5) Sudan, (6) Turkey, (7) Lebanon, (8) Syria, (9) Iraq, and (10) Iran. I believe the rulers of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait will in big trouble with their Islamic friends when the 10 toes attack Israel. I guesstimate the most likely time of the attack will be at a point in time between 2008 and 2012.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Iraqi President to make Landmark visit to Syria
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST
January 12, 2007
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani will make a landmark trip to Syria on Sunday, the highest-level Iraqi visit to the country in more than 24 years, to sign a series of deals only days after US President George W. Bush accused Damascus of fueling violence in Iraq.
Talabani’s visit aims to seal ties between the two neighbors after they restored diplomatic relations in early December, cut in 1982 amid ideological disputes between Damascus and the regime of the late Saddam Hussein.
Talabani will arrive in Damascus on Sunday and stay for four or five days, Talabani’s spokesman Kamaran Qaradaghi told the Associated Press on Friday.
State-run Iraqiya television said Talabani will meet Syrian President Bashar Assad and sign security and economic agreements.
Qaradaghi would not elaborate on Talabani’s talks in Damascus. But the Iraqi president was expected to discuss security on the country’s long desert border.
The United States and Iraqi officials accuse Damascus of allowing Sunni insurgents to cross the border freely to carry out attacks in Iraq. On Wednesday, Bush lashed out at Syria – and its ally Iran – in an address announcing a new strategy in Iraq, sending 20,000 more US troops in a bid to stem the country’s violence.
Bush accused Syria and Iran of fueling Iraq’s violence and vowed to break supply lines from them to militants in Iraq. He called on US Arab allies to rally behind Iraq’s Shi’ite-led government in what was seen in the Arab world as a move to isolate Syria and Iran.
Syria says it is doing all it can to patrol its border and blames the Americans and their Iraqi allies for not doing enough to monitor their side of the porous frontier.
Talabani’s visit to Syria illustrates the balancing act Iraq has taken between its supporter Washington and the United States’ top rivals in the region.
The restoration of diplomatic ties between Iraq and Syria marked a gradual warming between the two countries after years of hostility while Iraq was ruled by Saddam, followed by Syria’s shunning of the new Iraqi leadership that came to power after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.
Iraq’s interior minister and parliament speaker have made recent trips to Syria.
Similarly, Iraq’s US-backed Shi’ite leaders have close ties with Iran, whose own relations with the United States have been characterized by enmity for nearly 30 years.
Syria broke diplomatic ties with Iraq in 1982, accusing it of inciting riots in Syria by the banned Muslim Brotherhood. But ties between the two were already poor. They were ruled by rival branches of the Arab nationalist Baath party, and Damascus sided with Iran in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
Talabani spent considerable length of time in exile in Syria during Saddam’s 23 years in power and has maintained good relations with Assad, like he did with his father, the late Syrian leader Hafez Assad.
However, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki – who holds more power in Iraq than the largely symbolic office of president – has been colder to Damascus, insisting that Iraq’s neighbors should stop medding in Iraqi affairs or helping its foes.
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SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 233B
July 27, 2005
10 Jihad Kings among the Kings of Revelation 19:19!
Part 1 – The 10 Jihad Toes of Daniel 2
At the battle of Armageddon most of the kings of the earth will come to join the antichrist in a final attempt to eradicate the nation of Israel. Among them will be 10 nations representing the 10 Jihad toes of Daniel 2 that drove Israel into the Negev three and one-half years earlier.
Revelation 19:19 – 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.
Some three and one-half years before the final battle of Armageddon, which closes the tribulation period, ten kings of nations out of the territory once occupied by the ancient Roman Empire will attack Israel from the north.
Daniel 2:42 – 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.
II Thessalonians 2:3 – Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
The last evil kingdom of antichrist on this earth was to initially be comprised of 10 nations with 10 kings led by the man of sin himself. It was to arise out of the ashes of the old Roman Empire.
I have always believed it would rise out of the southern half of the Empire and be made up of 10 Arab nations. I believe the elements for its formation are in place today, and I suspect that the most likely Arab nations of which it will be comprised are Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Some of these nations are strong like iron, and some are as soft and pliable as clay.
I do not question that in the final battle of Armageddon the descendants of Ham, Shem, and Japheth will be combatants against the nation of Israel. But I have always contended, along with the Bible expositors of the 18th and 19th centuries, that the antichrist’s initial attack would be led by Arab descendants of Abraham. They are the mingled seed of his oldest son Ishmael with
the seed of the six sons he sired by Keturah, as well as some of the other offspring of his own father Terah. The empire of the antichrist will be an Islamic empire that eventually takes into it other old world nations.
And, in the final great battle of Armageddon, all those nations that made up the world as it was known in A.D. 95 will come against Israel, such that Japheth, Ham, and Shem’s descendants will also be involved.
Daniel 2:41-43 – And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of
the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. [42] 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.
The 10 toes will consist primarily of Terah’s descendants. Abraham came out of Terah. Out of Abraham came the leaders of the three great monotheistic faiths associated with Moses, Jesus, and Mohammad. And they have always been in conflict. (See Archive Update 78 Diagram)
The inspired word in Daniel 2:43, from which the word “mingled” comes, is ARAB, which means “to interlace or mix.” The “seed of men” refers to non-descendants of the man Abraham, from which both Jews and Arabs descended.
“They” refers to the 10 toes of Daniel’s statue in Daniel 2:42, which have 10 kings over them.
Isaac, the father of Israel, had seven half brothers – Ishmael from Hagar and the six sons of Keturah. It was from these seven half brothers that the Arab world has been primarily created.
The descendants of Israel have been more likely to marry within the blood line of the man Israel than have the Arabs to marry within their separate bloodlines of Hagar and Keturah, and the Arabs have also intermingled with non-descendants of Abraham more than have the Jews.
Daniel 2:43 – 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.
Just as iron and clay do not hold together very long, the 10 Arab nations will only hold together long enough to fulfill God’s end time tribulation period prophecies.
The saved will be caught up on the sounding of the seventh trump to be judged in heaven, and the kingdom
of God will all be united in heaven, waiting to return to earth with Christ at his Second Advent.
Revelation 11:15 – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
Daniel 2:44 – 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 God of heaven will call all the saved of all the ages together in heaven during the “days of these kings,” and will initially “set up” his kingdom, from whence he will return to earth with it as its head, after the saved have been judged in heaven. Christ’s coming kingdom will “break in pieces and consume all the kingdoms” of the present world, and his kingdom alone will rule.
Revelation 11:15-18 – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. [16] And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, [17] Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. [18] And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Christ, the stone, came from the mountain representing God, without any human instrumentation, but by God’s Spirit forming his body in a virgin’s womb. Christ will return to destroy those morally destroying the earth. All of the evil that came out of the Babylonian, Medo- Persian, Macedonian, and Roman Empires will be laid waste by his Second Advent.
Daniel 2:45 – Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
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