Prophecy Update: Rumblings in the Middle East 10/10/19
I have been preparing a prophecy update on the inter faith movement designed to destroy true Christianity in the world. I want to do a whole update on it but the news on Monday changed my mind. So I am going to wait on doing that. The US is pulling out of Syria and this has caused a lot of consternation. That is big news because it sets up the Gog Magog War in ways I did not anticipate. I believe that the USA has to be out of the region or so weak it could not respond to the Turkey, Russian, Iranian alliance and invasion into Israel.
First, you need to know that Erdogan of Turkey wants to conquer Israel so he can establish the new Caliphate for Islam. Turkey pays people to work in Jerusalem to convince Muslims that Turkey has the right to set up the Caliphate and rule over the land of Israel. That land up to 1918 was under the Ottoman Empire ruled from Turkey. Secondly, Turkey also pushes on Jordan to give them the right over Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. The tension between the countries Jordan and Turkey is real and mounting. Plus, Turkey has observed from the US response to Iran that they can take Syria bit by bit as the Iranians have attacked us bit by bit and we have had no response worthy to make the Iranians back off. Remember that the Muslim governments do not care about the death of their people because they believe any Muslim who dies in Jihad goes to heaven.
Whatever made Pres. Trump make the decision to pull some of our troops out of Syria; it fits the biblical view of the Gog Magog War. The president is receiving a lot of flak for this move. The Turks want to establish a buffer zone 20 miles wide into Syria to resettle the Syrian refugees (1.6 million) in their country. We only have 1000 troops there. That is not a lot of people and Trump is only moving 100 of them. The press has really pushed this beyond reality. Here is one headline about that: “US withdrawal in Syria is only a small number of special operators, says Trump administration.” The US wants the buffer zone to be 9-10 miles. The prophetic implications of Erdogan’s military invasion of Syria, despite the overwhelming criticism of Trump, from an end-of-days perspective, it looks like he got it right.
“Trump says despite pullout plan US has not ‘abandoned the Kurds’ The Times of Israel article points out that Trump is not abandoning the Kurds, here is the quote: “President again warns Turkey over incursion and says US continues to support Kurds, who he called ‘special people and wonderful fighters,’ with money and arms.” A senior administration official told reporters Monday that Sunday’s announcement did not constitute a full U.S. withdrawal from Syria and that only 50 to 100 U.S. special operations forces were moving to other locations in Syria. “The official explained that Trump’s decision to move the special operators out of the zone of a potential Turkish operation was done to protect troops and keep them out of the crossfire.”
The Kurds are an ethnic group without a country and have been fighting for a country for the last 60 years. They live mostly in Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Turkey. The words “Kurds”, “Kurdistan”, or “Kurdish” were officially banned by the Turkish government. Following the military coup of 1980, the Kurdish language was officially prohibited in public and private life. Many who spoke, published, or sang in Kurdish were arrested and imprisoned. So since the 70’s the Turks have dreamed of wiping out the Kurds as they did the Armenians. The Armenian Genocide, also known as the Armenian Holocaust, was the Ottoman government’s systematic extermination of 700,000 to 1.5 million Armenians, mostly citizens of the Ottoman Empire. It is clear to me that the Turks will invade Israel in the future and they are going to move many troops into Syria to do it. Ezekiel 38:9 says, “You will go up, you will come like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your troops, and many peoples with you.” That is a lot of people and the armies of Iran, Russia, and Turkey are currently increasing in Syria!
The Gog Magog prophecy is multinational, many nations and we have our own Gog Magog representative in congress. Ilhan Omar who is from Somalia which is ancient Ethiopia, pushes for the destruction of Israel every day. It is no wonder that Erdogan supports her and cheers for her. ISIS has 10,000 fighters detained in the region that Erdogan is invading. If he releases these barbarians, they constitute fighters from many nations including the ones in the Gog Magog prophecy. Erdogan has two goals, wipe out the Kurds and then wipe out Israel. At this point Erdogan is against ISIS but the enemy of my enemy is my friend as they say. It is possible that Erdogan makes a deal with ISIS.
Today, this headline appeared: “After Inviting Nations to Third Temple, Foreign Minister Stops Erdogan from Encroaching on Jerusalem.” “Today we are learning that Yisrael Katz is taking it a step further by launching a campaign designed to halt the Turkish government’s activities in Jerusalem reports Yisrael Hayom.
The Pope met with both Mahmoud Abbas and Erdogan of Turkey and kissed them and agreed with them that Jerusalem is not Jewish. “Particular attention was reserved for the status of Jerusalem, underlining the importance of recognizing and preserving its identity and the universal value of the holy City for the three Abrahamic religions,” He gave both of them medals saying their angels of peace.
My problem with the situation in the Middle East is that the desire to kill the Jews has gotten stronger the last 30 years over the same period we tried peace agreements that were not worth the paper they were printed on. If Turkey gets this foothold in Syria as prophesied, they will not leave until they are killed in the Gog Magog War. They will fail in their desire to kill Jews and lead the Muslim Caliphate bent on the destruction of Israel. These last 30 years God has used Islam to discipline Europe and America for our defection from the faith. All of these nations that were Christian have abandoned the faith for multiculturalism! It is only going to get worse for America if we don’t repent. Western Europe is overrun by Muslims.
How weak is the West against Islam, consider these headlines:
Canada: 14 year old girl sexually assaulted by muslim migrant, school asks her to consider the situation from his point of view.
A female doctor working in Germany warns the world about the dangers of Muslim refugees.
THE NEW AMERICA: Muslims take over a small southern town and force absolute hell on their terrified Christian neighbors.
North America: Christian student takes school to Supreme Court for forced Islamic prayer. Can a public school force a Christian student to recite an Islamic prayer of conversion and say there is “No God, but Allah?” A Maryland school is defending its actions at the Supreme Court after the student fought back.
The Muslim Brotherhood wanted to divide France and it is succeeding. The goal is to Islamize the Muslims of France through the trusted protectors of Qatar, the Muslim Brotherhood, which controls a tenth of the mosques in French territory and is very active in religious propaganda ….
POPE FRANCIS APPOINTS 13 NEW CHRISLAM-FRIENDLY CARDINALS WHO WILL HELP GUIDE THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH INTO ADDING BOTH THE LGBTQ+ AND ISLAM. Among his picks, Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Miguel Guixot, the President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. Guixot has a long history of working with Muslim leaders on religious cooperation, having spearheaded talks with Grand Imam Ahmed el-Tayeb of Cairo’s Al-Azhar mosque, and represents Pope Francis’ push for interreligious dialogue between Catholics and Muslims. FROM CNN: The Pontiff’s new cardinals have defended the commitment to fighting populism, supported the inclusion of gay Catholics, sought to improve inter-religious dialogue with Muslim communities, and expressed concern with the environment and youth issues, according to their biographies.
We can see in these articles this week that the west is weak and appeases radical Islam. China, Russia, and the EU support Iran and her aspirations against the USA, Israel, and freedom loving democracies. One article that talked about this called it a world war:
“World War III has already begun” by Ken Abramowitz. “As the aggressor, Iran relatively successfully uses all six forms of modern warfare: physical, cultural, economic, legal, demographic, and cyber. It has created three worldwide terror arms, specializing in physical terrorism, narco-terrorism, and cultural terrorism, with an estimated 450,000 terrorist/operatives in over 30 countries. Reacting defensively, the United States is fighting back primarily with economic warfare, some cyber warfare and very limited physical warfare, the latter mostly through passive shows of force.” This is how we are opposing Turkey and Iran—it is not working! Iran’s goal is to take over the world and convert everyone to Islam, particularly its Shiite version, using all forms of warfare. America’s goal, in contrast, is to live in peace and prosperity, while encouraging all democracies (50% of the global population) and dictatorships (the other 50%) to join in worldwide economic growth. Iran and Turkey could care less about what the US wants! “There is no compatibility between these two national objectives. Either one or the other can prevail, but not both. Therefore, we find ourselves in World War III, even though we don’t want to be, don’t think we are and don’t even want to consider the possibility we might be.”
We live in strange days for sure—as the US pulls out of Syria the Gog Magog scenario is building to a climax. It should cause all Americans to repent and pray for forgiveness. God honors righteous living in His people, obey the Lord today and seek after His kingdom and His righteousness! If you are radical in these small ways you will be radical when the bullets start to fly!! Proverbs 28:1, “The wicked flee when no one is pursuing, But the righteous are bold as a lion.” Be bold for Jesus this week!
