The Last Days Alignment of Middle East Nations – It is “A-Forming!”
January 17, 2006
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For many years I have advised that the most likely final alignment of Islamic nations involved as the 10 toes or 10 horns of Daniel 2 and 7 will be Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
The passage of time has led me to be even more certain this will be the case.
For some 33 years I have omitted Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia as nations that will not be a part of the initial attack but, after Israel is driven into the Negev, will become a part of the antichrist’s Middle East Islamic Empire, with all their leaders being replaced by his own puppet rulers. I do not believe these nations will be in the “secret closed door” meetings prior to the attack of the ten toes. The following article, by Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, was taken from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily Alert, January 17, 2007.
These are the nations whose leaders will be in serious trouble once the antichrist has taken over Egypt. They will all be replaced after the antichrist conquers the land of Egypt.
Begin Extract from Daily Alert
Arab States Signal Iran to Avoid Meddling in Iraq
Glenn Kessler
A group of eight Arab nations on Tuesday joined the U.S. in issuing a veiled warning to Iran against interfering in Iraq’s affairs. The statement, written in diplomatic jargon, warned against “destabilization” of the Persian Gulf and expressed support for the “principle of noninterference.” It was supported by Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and the UAE. (Washington Post)
End Extract from Daily Alert
The antichrist will suddenly enter the glorious land of Israel in a Jihad from the north backed by 10 Islamic nations. He will bypass Jordan, driving Israel into the Negev Wilderness south of Beersheba, then move quickly southwest from
Beersheba to conquer Egypt.
Ezekiel 38:8,9 – After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and THEY SHALL DWELL SAFELY ALL OF THEM.
[9] Thou shalt ascend and come LIKE A STORM, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
Daniel 11:41 – He shall enter also into THE GLORIOUS LAND, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these SHALL ESCAPE out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief
of the children of Ammon.
The ancient boil of conflict between the descendants
of Jacob, Ishmael, and the six sons of Keturah, with all its internal blend of impurities, is finally coming to a head in the Middle East. The current drastic rise in the conflict between the sons of Allah and Israelis will, in the end, be the catalyst that brings a temporary false peace between them. The reasons for this false peace have been outlined in countless Blogs and Prophecy Updates for some time. This apparent genuine peace will be shattered suddenly by a rapid blitzkrieg attack from the north.
Forces of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran will move southward through the “glorious land” of Israel like a fast moving thunderstorm, bypassing the land where the people of Moab, Ammon, and Edom were settled when Daniel wrote his prophecies in about 600 B.C. The descendants of Edom (Jacob’s brother), and Ammon and Moab (the sons of Lot), as can be found on every published map for this time period, were settled immediately to the southeast, east, and northeast of the Dead Sea, precisely in the country we know as Jordan today. Hence, we can know that the antichrist will bypass Jordan while moving south through Israel.
Why would he bypass Jordan? She has no strategic, political, or economic advantage to offer him, but the Suez Canal and Egypt do, so he will head southwest toward that area after having driven the woman Israel into the Negev Wilderness south of Beersheba.
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 thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Daniel 11:42,43 – He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. [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.
Saudi Arabia will be among those nations that initially protest his take over of Egypt.
He will replace Saudi Arabian rulers and all religious leaders with a more fanatical Islamic view of Allah’s plan for mankind.
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 coloniz
ing 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 Spa
in 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 anti-Christ will take Jerusalem within four days of his initial strike in the north, and within three weeks most of Israel will have fled into the Negev south of Beersheva, 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 13:8 to 14:2 – [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. [9] And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God. 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.
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