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John the Baptist said that he was a friend of the bridegroom and if a friend then not necessarily the bride. Was he not a follower of Christ? He was born with the Holy Spirit – even Jesus wasn’t; He received the Holy Spirit at His baptism (Matthew 3:16) – yet John did no recorded miracles, he simply preached repentance and baptism; something unheard of in those days and without scriptural merit, yet he fulfilled these verses:

Exodus 23:20 (KJV) Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

Malachi 3:1 (KJV) Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

Isaiah 40:3 (KJV) The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Note: “angel” and “messenger” in the verses above are the same word in Hebrew. Jesus quoted these verses in Matthew 11:10, yet when speaking of John Jesus said:

Matthew 11:11 (KJV) Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Why do I point this out? Because God deals with man over time differently. Some choose to use the inaccurate word dispensation: the ordering of life and events by God, but from Adam to Moses grace abounded. Because of the arrogance of Israel, the Law reigned from Moses to Jesus. Yet, David dared to challenge this arrogant teaching and lived by grace (not being killed for killing Uriah to steal his wife; unlawfully eating the showbread, etc.) My idea in all this is to point out that after the bride (the church) is removed, the preaching of the gospel will revert back to the Israel via the 144,000 male virgin Jews and the two witnesses supernaturally sent from heaven. The 144,000 having missed the rapture, understand what happened, accept the gospel they were obviously taught, become sealed by God to avert the wrath to come, and it is they that will continue the message of grace taught since the beginning of time. Another scenario would be they hear the two witnesses and accept the Gospel. God always leaves a way of escape and a remnant. These 144,000 male virgin Jews will be protected from God’s wrath on the earth, but the Antichrist will kill them. Persecution is not wrath.

The gentiles are not the only ones raptured, anyone who accepts the free gift of life, including ethnic Jews.

John 3:29 (KJV) He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

The preachers (144,000 male virgin Jews – Revelation 7 & 14) will be sealed to preach the gospel. The Antichrist will overcome those that turn to Christ and kill the saints (Revelation 7 & 13) as well as the 144,000 (Revelation 14). Thinking that no one can get saved during the tribulation? Of course people will be saved, who else will have the kids who will die as a child at 100 years of age in the Kingdom (Isaiah 65:20), or who will be left to rise up against the Lord at the end of 1000 years (Rev 20). If the believers are rapture and will be like the angels (Matthew 22:30), and when Jesus returns to set up His kingdom everything that is offensive will be gathered and thrown into the fire (Matthew 13:39-42), who will be left to have the children? Those that supported Israelis during this time of tribulation will be allowed to enter the earthly Kingdom (Matthew 25:40). Those Jews, in name only, who remained in the world and would not accept their heritage will be judge by Jesus in the wilderness (Ezekiel 20:33-38) and those who survive in Israel or Petra (Isaiah 16:1 & Daniel 11 & Matthew 24) will be accepted (Ezekiel 20:39-44 & Zechariah 12:10).

One of the greatest miracles in the world is when one accepts the free gift of salvation from the Lord Jesus. Although it’ll be much harder during the tribulation period, grace will still available for those who choose to accept the free gift of salvation from hell. Do so now, before it’s too late. Jesus died for YOU personally. I invite you to watch this video to set the record straight: http://youtu.be/4lnB38K-gmc

This is the most edited post I’ve ever done…Everything I say here I’ve had to wrestle with because I too have been taught many different theories and this is where “private interpretations” come from. Too many try to fit prophecy into a “current-events” model and until the events present themselves, it’s all speculation and private interpretation. If you read the Scriptures as they are written, without the lenses of preachers, theories, dogma and believe it is accurate when Scriptures say then the Antichrist is an Assyrian. It is man’s interpretation that the “north” is Russia. I’ll expand on this in a moment. Since there are a billion Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia, I don’t think 200 million fighting for their god is too much to believe that they’re Muslims, especially when a Caliphate is reinstated by Turkey. India could also produce that many, yet no one considers them, why not? Maybe it’s because they don’t have a beef with Israel. Yet, despite all the speculation, I do not believe that these are human men from some country, but those demonic insects loosed at the beginning of Revelation nine from the pit along with the four “angels” currently bound in the river Euphrates who were also loosed. Those loci are like horses whose tails where like scorpions. I don’t believe we humans could invent a “thing” that would prevent death for five months. Things in the end times won’t be like today in any way – a lot of supernatural “stuff” will occur which is the great deception and how the false prophet will be able to call down fire from heaven. No one is going to follow someone who can call missiles down from heaven, but the moment someone can call fire down like Elijah on CNN; half the world would become a follower overnight. Don’t forget the acts of the two witnesses either.

There’s no question where the Antichrist comes from – Assyria. “The Assyrian” is mentioned 13 times in 13 verses and never in a good light. Click the link to see a map of Assyria: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Assyria.png

These compass directions of Daniel 11 and their meanings are no different than arguing the matter as to whether the Messiah would come from Bethlehem, Nazareth, or Egypt; they’re all correct when you’re given the whole story. Though Babylon is almost due east, any army would have to come from the north because no one wants to do what Laurence of Arabia did. Islam surrounds Israel so it can come from every direction except due east – Jordan – because the Antichrist doesn’t gain control of them for whatever reason and Jesus warns Israel to flee to the mountains. Isaiah 16 names Petra – aka Sela as the destination. If they’re in Petra, Jerusalem becomes west in relation to Israel trying to survive. East is where Assyria is as well as north if you look at the map. North could also mean someone from Turkey, the seat of the Caliphate, or even a Kurd, no? The fact that Assyria no long exists, could mean the Antichrist might actually be a Kurd and if three kingdoms surrender to him, could he not also call it Magog? Daniel’s statue contains all Islamic countries that have ruled over Israel. If anything Daniel 11 sounds like a battle between the Sunny and Shia’a legs of Islam. Verse 21 says that the Antichrist will rise up with peace and flattering (just as John said in Revelation).

Think of it this way – even though their beliefs are not all biblical, the Catholics still believe and state that Jesus is the Son of God and even if a Pope said that it was no longer true, would that be enough to turn Catholics to following him in a new religion? The more likely scenario is people will turn to Islam. Wow! That’s what’s happening right now around the world. There are a lot of specific things about the Antichrist that point to him being a Muslim (just from their own professed beliefs right now) that fit much more than trying to convert Catholics from believing Jesus is not the Son of God. Islam declares God has no Son that alone would lead me to believe the Scriptures that the Antichrist is a Muslim over being a Catholic. “…every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist …” This is why God warns about changing the book of Revelation but that’s just what the world has done. There’s almost a Pavlovian response by everyone to 666 but no one recognizes it’s really Arabic bismillah – In the name of Allah.

The ONLY reason the whole idea of the Catholics being the evil religion of the end times is because 400 years ago they ruled Europe and from a misunderstanding of Daniel nine verse 27 as to the identification of “who” the prince and “his” people are. When you study history, Titus didn’t have enough men, so he brought in the Alexandrian and Syrian legions and it was they who destroyed the Temple and literally gutted the Jews as they fled. Titus wanted the Temple for himself. So “his” people is referring to Arabs (thereby Muslims) and the prince who signs the “covenant” for seven years is the Assyrian, the Antichrist. Also, we use the word “anti” for the Antichrist, which means the opposite – if the Jews and Christians are on one side, who is then the “opposite”? Islam. Not to forget that every nation attacked by Jesus when He returns is an Islamic nation kind of puts the whole Catholic thing to rest. Also the Antichrist isn’t a homosexual because of what Daniel eleven verse 37 says, but that the Antichrist will not regard the God of his father (Abraham via Ishmael?), but also will not regard the desire of women. I can understand with the growth of homosexuality how one could come to this understanding, but when you study Islam you really see that the meaning is that women have no say in anything because they’re second class citizen. This is why when a woman is raped in Islamic nations, SHE is the one punished for being provocative.

Revelation 16 says the kings (plural) of the east will come and cross the Euphrates River. If you look at a map (http://g.co/maps/uuc9m) of the eastern part of the Middle East you can see the Muslim nations (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) would come to Babylon to march together to Har Meggedo. It’s not likely China would enter the Middle East via land due to the Himalayas. Why do people pick China? Because they mix the “army” number of 200 thousand thousand in Revelation 9 with “kings of the east” from chapter 16 and when you do that you figure only, incorrectly, that China could fit the bill with that many military members. India has a potential army of 319 million, why not choose them? China has a potential army of 385 million but currently has only 2.2 million on active duty. The FACT is that the two need not be mixed to understand. If the Caliphate calls for every able bodied Muslim to come and fight you could get that number from the Muslim countries I mentioned with only half their combined population of 385 million. My point is that all the end time events revolve around the age old battle between Isaac and Ishmael.

Finally, since so many use Paul’s words about the mystery of the Church, it’s applied to “mystery” Babylon and since Babylon hasn’t been around for thousands of year, it must mean some other “church”. The “evil” Catholics were in power so they were an easy target. Yet I say, that’s private interpretation, why can’t the “church” of Babylon be the religion of Babylon – Islam? What great lie than to have a pseudo-Jesus return to Jerusalem (a city of seven hills by the way – as recorded in The Book of Legends, edited by Bialik and Ravnitzky, p. 371, paragraph 111) and proclaim himself God? Also, what “wine” has the world become drunk? But if you look at this whole thing as being Islam, the “wine” is oil. Now we have something to hold onto in order to understand such a reference. Surely we all agree the world would do anything for that “black gold”.

I hope this helps shed some light or at least sparks the idea to re-evaluate the whole Catholic Antichrist idea. Re-examine all given prophecies with Islam in mind and you’ll see how easy it is to fit everything together.

God Bless 🙂

In an online book called “Recovering the Lost World” (2010), the author Jno Cook explains that all the ancient literature, mythologies, and legends speak the same story worldwide: that the moon, Saturn, and Mars were once much closer to the earth; enough to cause horrific chaos, including the biblical account of the Flood. As outlandish as it sounds, this would explain almost every question about ancient calendars and why they changed worldwide twice between 720 BC and 685 BC. It was during this time that the axis of the earth shifted enough to turn the land of “milk and honey” into baron rock and dust over time – “climate change”! Al Gore would be proud.

According to a book called “The Mars-Earth Wars” (1996) Mars had five “flybys” so close to the earth that it was the cause of the flood, shortening the length of the lunar month to 29.5 days, and lengthening the solar year to 365.25 days. I cannot refute their claims, but it does provide an understanding to how the length of time in Scriptures of old were different than today. Immanuel Velikovsky also wrote in “Worlds in Collision” that the old Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Egyptian, Chinese, Roman (during the time of Romulus), Hindu, and Mayan calendars contained twelve 30-day months. This fact eludes scientists today because they refuse to look at these ancient writings as true accounts and dismiss them as sloppy mathematics. Even an astounding, well-known book describes Mars’ moons (which are far too small to see with the naked eye – today that is). Gulliver’s Travels, written in 1726 by Jonathan Swift, in the “Voyage to Laputa”, the astronomers discover two moons of Mars. Today, scientists credit the discovery of the moons of Mars to Asaph Hall, who discovered them in 1877, 150 year after the writings of Jonathan Swift. Because Jonathan Swift’s book is indeed fiction, they chalk it up to coincidence. However, the names were given Phobos meaning panic/fear and Deimos meaning terror/dread that, according to Greek mythology, traveled with their father Ares (Mars), the god of war, into battle. How did the ancient Greeks know what Jonathan Swift knew? All over the world, the legends, stories, and myths, depict Mars are being fearful and evil. According to these books, the closer Mars would get to the earth on its flybys, huge earthquakes would occur and massive lightning strikes between the two planets would occur. Everyone on the planet would certainly witness this kind of event. The stories, naming, and visibility of Mars’ moons were chronicled.

As shown in Psalms 82:5 KJV, the foundations of the earth are out of their courses. Because of the sins of man, God changed His perfect dance of the earth, moon, and sun into chaos for a while. He did changed it again for Hezekiah and Joshua by making the shadow on the sun dial go back ten degrees and hold the sun and the moon in place for the length of almost a day, respectively. Science cannot explain this because they reject the notion that the current placement of our solar system wasn’t always so.

Even during Jesus’ crucifixion something occurred. The “eclipse” could not have been the moon because the moon is full during Passover, which means that the earth is between the moon and the sun. So what caused the darkness?

Matthew 27:45 KJV “Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.”

It is my belief that the darkness was God. When He visited Abram it was in a horror of great darkness and God spoke to Moses from a thick darkness.

Genesis 15:12 KJV “And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.”

Deuteronomy 5:22 KJV “These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.”

God has promised that all the chaos would return in the last days. Here are a few verses:

Isaiah 13:9-13 KJV “Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.”

Joel 2:30-31 KJV “And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.”

Luke 21:25-26 KJV “And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.”

Revelation 8:12 KJV “And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.”

Now if you read this last verse carefully, you’ll notice that the only way to have the sun, moon, stars, night and day shine a third less, would be if the earth’s rotation increased by eight hours. Therefore, a day would no longer be 24 hours, but 18 hours long. So horrific will the last days be that Jesus Himself states:

Matthew 24:22 KJV “And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.”

If you do some homework, you’ll come across an idea that Hezekiah was the first to increase the calendar, but if you read Scripture, Hezekiah repaired that Temple and called Israel and Judah to repent. This happened in Nisan and they did not finish sanctifying the House of the Lord nor themselves until the sixteenth of Nisan – after the date they should have had the Passover. Not having kept the Passover for so long, Hezekiah calls all of Israel and Judah to come to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover in the second month, the month Iyyar. So many people came that they had to enlist the help of the non-priest Levites to help with the sacrifices. They kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days and when it was finished, asked to keep an additional seven days with great joy. Many claim that this is proof that the calendar changed. I do not believe this to be true because the changing of the sun’s shadow didn’t happen until many years later. Sadly, there is a lot of open debate on this topic in the Talmud (Tractate Sanhedrin), but that is because they choose their oral traditions over Scripture, or more accurately, their traditions blind them. I just want to point out that this story shows that though God commands men to keep His word, He is flexible and forgiving when it comes to the matter of the heart; whether it be humbled and repentant or not. (II Chronicles 29-32 KJV; II Kings 18-20 KJV; Isaiah 36 KJV)

Finally, Scripture implies that the calendar will revert to a 360-day year again. Daniel prophesied that when the antichrist desolates the temple, 1290 days would pass before the end. Daniel 12:7 KJV and John in Revelation 12:14 KJV speak of time, times, and half a time. Revelation 11:2 KJV and 13:5 KJV speak about the passage of 42 months before the end. Revelation 11:3 KJV says the two prophets will preach for 1260 days, and in 12:6, the “woman”, i.e. Israel, would be carried away and protected for 1260 days. If a “time” is a year, then a “time, times and half a time” would be 3.5 years. 1260 days is exactly 3.5 years in a 360-day year, as is 42 months containing 30-day months! But Daniel says from the desolation to the end is 1290 days. If you count from 1 Nisan 3.5 years you get 1 Tishri, the day I believe Jesus will return to begin His reign on earth, at the Feast of Trumpets!

Having lived in Bahrain for three years, I clearly believe it can only be Islam because scripture says its HQ will be in Babylon (in Iraq) (where it all started). Consider their beliefs while remembering Scripture:

• they behead non-believers
• they await a mark on their foreheads by their messiah by using the rod of Moses
• they can raise an army of 200 million (more like a 700 million) if needed when a caliphate is established
• they worship the moon-god Allah (aka Baal from the Hebrew Scriptures)
• “Lucifer” in Hebrew, the same word in Arabic means “crescent” as in “crescent moon” and Jesus said He saw “him” fall like a star
• they worship a meteorite (the black stone in Mecca) in the desert where John was taken and seeing the beast (Islam) rise up out of the sand (Mecca)
• the world drinks the wine of her fornication – oil – the world will do anything to keep the oil flowing
• Islam is the #1 killer of Christians within their borders
• All nations of Daniel’s statue were/are Islamic (Rome controlled most of the modern Islamic nations)
• John’s 5 kingdoms are fallen were all countries that ruled Israel and they all worship Baal – today Allah, 1 “is” = Rome, one to come – Ottoman, is wounded (1924 the caliphate was disbanded), and raises again where the little horn comes, is the 8th which comes from the 7th – Ottoman Empire
• the antichrist is called the Assyrian – search “the Assyrian” in the Scriptures and think antichrist and Islam and you’ll see it
• they deny Jesus’ work on the cross and say that Judas was crucified instead of Jesus
• they believe Jesus will return to point the lost “Christians” to the correct religion of Islam
• their messiah (Mahdi) will come in his own name – everything they do begins with “in the name of Allah” in Arabic is Bismillah and is the two right letters written in Greek in Revelation 13:18 (see “Mark of the Beast” from my book at http://www.abdicate.net/book.aspx)
• they reject any requests (desires) of women (since they’re 2nd class citizens, inferior, and have only 1/2 a brain), this is why Wahhabism doesn’t allow women to vote, drive a car, be seen in public without a male relative, and must be covered up as the tempter is worse than the “victim” of the temptation
• they are a religion of war
• they wish to change all laws to sharia’a law
• they would force anyone under their control to convert to Islam
• they would remove the Gregorian calendar for the Islamic calendar
• they would remove the “weekend” from Sat-Sun to Fri-Sat as Friday is their holy day
• they wish to “free” Jerusalem from the oppression of the Jews
• they “must” kill all Jews
• the Mahdi (aka antichrist) will set the caliphate in Jerusalem
• they claim Revelation 6:2 as being their messiah – yes, they believe the Scriptures, but the Quran “fixes” the mistakes in Scriptures
• their messiah will make a 7-year peace treaty with a Levite
• they occupy all religious buildings and claim them for Allah – remember the tall Buddhas in Afghanistan they blew up? The main mosque in Istanbul used to be a Greek Orthodox church
• they believe the Dejjal – their “anti-messiah”, our Yeshua haMashiach (Jesus Christ) – will come and fight the Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus
• U.S. Department of State (http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/171751.pdf) proclaims that there are no longer any churches in Afghanistan, just as Islam’s holy book, the Quran, commands (http://quran.com/2/191) – I guess Iraq is next as well as Egypt
• when Jesus returns, who does He fight according to Scriptures? All Islamic countries and although “Rome” is mentioned 15 times in the Scriptures, never in judgement

There is so much more, and in my 33 years as a Christian, I never could see this until my eyes were opened – I believe that this is the fulfillment of:

II Thessalonians 2:11 “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:”

What “is” the lie? That Islam is a peaceful religion.

You must study Islam and reread and believe what the text says – no allegories, no substitutions.

Scripture is the only way to answer this question this verse states:

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Events won’t ever contradict scripture. As for the popes, I don’t believe they’re part of the ETP but if they are it would only be to endorse a Muslim Jesus – called Isa. Here’s why.

Read these verses:

Daniel 9:26-27 KJV “And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”

I want to bring to you attention the importance of the second part of verse 26: “…and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary…” Because Titus was the one in charge when the temple was destroyed, many equate this with him being the “prince” and thereby the “people” being Romans. The truth of the matter is the “prince” is the antichrist, not Titus. Therefore, where will the antichrist come from? First, Josephus states that Titus had no desire of destroying neither the city nor the temple. Hearing that the temple was on fire, he ran to the site with his commanders running behind him, and after them legions of Roman soldiers. It almost reads comical! Titus gesturing and yelling for the men to put out the flames, the soldiers completely ignored him and “neither any persuasions nor any threatenings could restrain their violence, but each one’s own passion” Roman soldiers were renowned for their stiff obedience, yet these were blatantly disobedience. Why?

Tacitus states that Titus went to Judea and found three legions there, left by Vespasian. “To these he added the 12th from Syria, and some men belonging to the 18th and 3rd, whom he had withdrawn from Alexandria. This force was accompanied by … a strong contingent of Arabs, who hated the Jews…”

As you can see, the real soldiers, who were uncontrollable, even to the point of beatings, were Arabs. Every word in the Scriptures is important. In these verses, we see the Holy Spirit use the word “prince” and the historian Tacitus uses the word “Prince”. They do not mean the same person and I believe that is why today, so many pastors and authors use Rome as the seat of power for the antichrist. I remember when the European Union grew to ten nations and everyone started with “this is it, Jesus is coming!” The word “prince” used by the Holy Spirit was referring to the antichrist; Tacitus used it to refer to Titus. Scripture says that “he”, the “prince”, will confirm a covenant for one week. From this, we understand that the antichrist will sign a treaty with Israel for seven years.

This is important because in order to understand the prophecies about the antichrist and the end times, you must know from where the antichrist comes from. Scriptures speak of “the Assyrian”:

Micah 5:5-6 KJV “And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.”

Isaiah 10:24-25 KJV “Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.”

The three verses prior in Micah speak of the prophecy of the Messiah’s birth in Bethlehem. As you can see, it is the Messiah Who will fight the Assyrian and lay waste the land of Nimrod also. Since Jesus didn’t do this during His first visit, we know this will occur in the last days. The land of Nimrod was in Babylon, Iraq. The original land of Assyria was from Babylon, to southern Azerbaijan, to eastern Turkey. Today, the indigenous people call this land Kurdistan.

When the antichrist comes to power, it may be that the three nations that are overcome by him will become the Gog and Magog of Ezekiel 38 and 39.

Isaiah 34 and 63 speaks of how the Messiah will take vengeance on Edom and Bozrah, the ancient capital of Edom. Today, Edom is Jordan. Ezekiel 25 speaks how the Messiah will destroy Ammon and Moab, which are also part of Jordan. Joel 3 speaks how the Messiah will deal with Zidon and Tyre, which is Lebanon today, and the coast of Palestine, which is Gaza today. Balaam, the cursing prophet, spoke on this wise in Numbers 24:14 KJV “…come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people (the Hebrews) shall do to thy people (The Midianites) in the latter days.” Midian is hard to point out, but it is outside of Egypt so it is my opinion that it’s the extreme western part of Arabia and southern Jordan along the eastern shore of the Sea of Aqaba. Ezekiel 30 shows that Egypt, Libya, and Ethiopia will also be destroyed. These verses in Ezekiel have a dual message – past and yet future.

Now if the Antichrist and the false prophet were to come from Rome, why would the Messiah devastate all the kingdoms and nations mentioned above, including all those of the dream of Nebuchadnezzar when He returns? In almost every Hebrew Scriptures book, any nation marked for destruction is currently Islamic. Up until September 11, 2001, Islam was not well known to the West and sadly, most Christians are completely ignorant to their beliefs. This lack of knowledge is a direct result of why pastors 400 years ago, and still today, believed the false prophet is the Pope, and the Antichrist is to be a European. A key to understanding if we are indeed in the end times is the unlocking of the book of Daniel when you read it with the eye on Islam. Christians, not patient enough in years past, have been led astray with this Roman false teaching of the end times, a tactic of the devil to deceive and misdirect the followers of Jesus Christ. Now that the West is at war with Islam – though they do not yet know this – the books have been unsealed for us to understand the truth.

Revelation 17:1-2 KJV “… the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 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.”

The waters are many people and nations. What nation hasn’t adjusted their convictions for oil? In May 1908, a British investor succeeded in drilling for oil in Iran, and so the great whore was born. Engineers from the United States, commissioned to drill for water, ended up creating Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, because everywhere they drilled, they got oil. Dhahran was born to support the vast number of American employees and they created the American Oil Company (Aramco). The Middle East is not the place just for oil, but gold, precious stones, and the only place to still get natural pearls (Bahrain).

Revelation 17:3 KJV “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.”

To the Lord God of Israel, everything about Islam is blasphemous. They worship a man (Muhammad), a meteorite in Mecca they call the “Black Stone”, and their god (Allah) is clearly Satan. Muhammad took the Scriptures and turned it inside out to become the Koran. I don’t know how much more blasphemous a religion could be! As to the seven heads, they are seven kingdoms that John prophesied on later in verse ten, and the ten horns are kings: five are fallen, one is, and one is yet to come.

The fallen kingdoms that once ruled over Israel are:
• Egypt 1 King – 1 Kingdom
• Assyria 1 King – 1 Kingdom
• Babylon 1 King – 1 Kingdom
• Media-Persia 1 King – 1 Kingdom
• Greece 4 Kings (Alexander’s four generals) – 4 Kingdoms

One is (at the time of John’s writing):
• Rome 1 King – 1 Kingdom

One is not yet come (at the time of John’s writing):
• Islamic Caliphate 1 King – 1 Religious System of varying Kingdoms

The ten horns were/are the leaders. When Greece’s leader died (Alexander) his kingdom was divided amongst his four generals so in the Lord’s count, Greece gets a count of four because the empire of Greece did not remain whole. Rome has many “kings” but they were still only one system. Islam, though a non-unified group of nations, they were the kingdom “yet to come”, they came, and now they are not, but their Caliphate will re-emerge.

Revelation 17:11 KJV “And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.”

Now I’m going to deviate from the norm concerning Rome. In Daniel’s statue, the bronze belly and thighs are Greece. What people forget is that this “Roman leg” division happened at the “thighs” of Greece, with its division into the East and the West. At the knees, the body splits off into two bones – the tibia and the fibula. I believe the western leg was the political Roman system until the knees. The division into two bones became the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox systems. The eastern leg is Islam, and at the knees, divides into Sunni and Shia systems. All these groups “pray” on their knees.

The eighth king comes from the seventh kingdom and it is this eighth king that will go into perdition. The sixth kingdom was Rome, so the seventh to rule over Israel was Islam (Ottoman Empire), therefore the eighth kingdom will be the rise of Islam. The Caliphate is the seat of power for all Islam, a ruler who is like a president, a general, and a spiritual leader. The position is inclusive. The first Caliphate was Muhammad in Medina, Arabia around 630 AD. After his death, there were successive Caliphates, but in the end, Islam split into the Shi’a and Sunni belief systems that still thrive today. The Caliphate ended in March 1924 with the creation of the secular Turkish government after the abolishment of the Ottoman Empire. Hence, the feet of clay – so mixed and weakened without purity of beliefs. In fact, in Hebrew, “arab” means “mixed people”. Someday soon, the Turkish people will elect a Sharia government, which will reinstate the Caliphate. In an excellent article in the Hudson New York, Steven Simpson writes in his article Turkey: Islamism’s Consequences for the West, “For now, Turkey, still a powerful member of NATO, and still presumably a friend of America, teeters between East and West. A ‘neo-Ottoman’ Empire — like a ‘neo-Czarist’ Russia that appears in the making — is something that America, the West, and Israel, should take seriously.

“In the Middle East, the past is never forgotten and never forgiven. The future in the Middle East often consists of the merging of the present with the past. The West might therefore be well advised to prepare for the day that a once pro-Western secular Turkey no longer exists. The once ‘sick man of Europe’ of the 18th and 19th centuries has now become the 21st century ‘strongman of the Middle East.’ While the secularist Kemalist ship is sinking in the Straits of the Bosporus, the neo-Ottoman Islamist ship of Erdogan is docking at the port of Istanbul.”

Revelation 17:12-13 KJV “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. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.”

Now if there’s anything I learned about Scripture, it’s that many verses have a double meaning and these ten kings are not just from the statue of Daniel, but are future kings which will surrender everything to the Antichrist. These kings will destroy the whore and make her desolate. Verse 18 states that this is a great city – Babylon, Iraq. It will be rebuilt. So why would these Islamic nations destroy Babylon and the Islamic system and the oil?

Daniel 11:36-38 KJV “And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.”

As you can see, the Antichrist will rise to power and then do what he wants – especially when he’s fooled the world by his power. “And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast…” (Rev 13:14a) Notice in the verses of Daniel above, the antichrist will neither regard the God of his fathers – Abraham via Ishmael – nor regard the desire of women (won’t listen to their pleas because in Islam, women are second-class people). Who else in the entire world today beheads (Rev 20:4 KJV) their enemies? Islam! The Antichrist (Satan possessed) will declare that he is God, yet he will honor the god of forces – violence, military, and terrorism. Babylon may or may not be rebuilt to the opulence it once had, but from Daniel’s statue, the starting place of Islam’s history to its very end of history, when destroyed, will come full circle.

With the birth and growth of Islam, and their pure unifying hatred of Israel, these ten kings and the Antichrist, in war with the West, destroy the lifeblood of the West’s economy – oil. A great military strategy. Nevertheless, their end is destruction:

Daniel 2:34-35 KJV “Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.”

Daniel 2:45 KJV “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.”

Jesus Christ comes from heaven to earth (the Stone) to destroy those who have attacked His own. Notice that the statue: the iron, clay, brass, silver and gold are broken “together”. Not only will the world marvel at the head that was wounded and brought back (the Caliphate) but the enemies throughout all of history of Israel in one new kingdom, the Antichrist’s kingdom. Who is it that is destroyed? Throughout Scripture, they are all today Islamic countries. His garments will be dyed in blood of His enemies (Isaiah 63)! Jesus Christ comes to set up His one thousand-year reign! Glory to God! What a time that will be!

It is my desire to share some information on various subjects from the Scriptures. I pray you enjoy it.