One recent example is the Obama Administration’s rejection of any legislation implementing tighter security in “vetting” Muslim refugees coming into the U.S.
The thing these national personalities, etc., never seem to address is the real war; the war behind the scenes that even Israel, as it struggles for its existence in the Middle East today, fails to acknowledge it’s fighting.
Obama continues to give a wink and a nod to the Islamic State with his insistence on calling them the honorable name of “ISIL.” The letter “L” stands for the historic pro-Palestinian term “Levant.” You can find the reason for this “code language” with any quick Google search.
The website “Now The End Begins” explains, “When
Barack Obama refers over and over to the Islamic State as ISIL, he is sending a
message to Muslims all over the Middle East that he personally does not
recognize Israel as a sovereign nation, but as territory belonging to the
Islamic State.”
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In the Book of Daniel, a major prophetic book discerning future events, you read about the Medes and the Persians, and the Kurds are the modern-day Medes. The nations that made up the Media-Persian Empire still exist.
“Iran today is a powerbroker in the Middle East and yet it’s not an Arab country; the Iranians are Persians,” says Jordan. “The point in Daniel is there’s a spiritual element to the behind-the-scenes conflict and that’s really the real problem.
"There’s a connection between the spiritual world and the affairs of this earth. There’s a connection in the Bible between what happens in the angelic world, and the angelic conflict, and the affairs of men on Planet Earth.”
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The Book of Daniel makes clear that in the interpretation given Daniel by God to explain Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, the four parts to the funny-looking, gold-headed image depict the four world empires as: Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece and Asia.
In a nutshell, that means the Antichrist, or the “little horn” of Daniel 8:9, will emerge from one of the ancient Greek empire’s four sections represented by Egypt to the south, Greece to the west, Syria to the east and Asia Minor (or present-day Turkey) to the north. He, in fact, arises from Turkey.
In correspondence with Daniel 7, John relays in Revelation 13 that he “stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
[2] And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.”
The great sea is the Mediterranean Sea and when it says Satan gave the Antichrist “his seat and great authority,” Satan’s seat is in Pergamos, not Europe.
"This is today’s Turkey, the land bridge between Europe and the Middle East and Europe and the East. Constantinople and Istanbul are the same city.
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“There are things that have happened in the last couple of years that for 1500-1800 years weren’t there,” says Jordan in an old study. “Israel was not a nation; they are now.
“But, you see, if the Arabs went in there and just wiped them out tomorrow, that wouldn’t disturb me because what’s happening now, there’s no verse that’s been fulfilled. Maybe it’s a foreshadowing, but maybe it’s not.
“I don’t know of any prophetic Scripture about the ‘last days’ that you can look at and say, ‘That verse has been fulfilled.’ All the verses about Israel being in the land—okay, they’re in the land, but in those verses, He says, ‘I will gather you.’
“Well, if you know how Israel got put back into the land and made a nation and so forth, with the Balfour Declaration and all that stuff, boy, there was more UNgodliness than godliness in any of that!
“Now, God works through all kind of means, but I don’t know about that particular thing.
“They’ve certainly been re-gathered in unbelief, and that’s the way Scripture says it would be re-gathered. They will not only have to be in the land, they’ll have to be in control of Jerusalem—they’ll have to have a temple, so on and so forth.
“Maybe some of that is a foretaste, but then if I tell you it is, and they got wiped out, what’d I do to Bible prophecy? I said it didn’t come through. So I can’t guarantee it. Sure, I’d be happy if it was. I’m not trying to throw cold water on something, I’m just saying you got to be careful because you can’t just assume they can’t get wiped out.
“People used to talk about Russia coming down and invading them. Well, that’s not what Ezekiel 38 and 39’s about, but when we were scared of Russia, it made good press.
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“In the 21st Century, people who prognosticated what’s going to happen in the next 100 years (which is a stupid thing to do but people do it) said there are three potential places for there to be world wars.
“One is in the American West. You know it was just a little over 100 years ago there was the Mexican-American War and we took possession of Texas to California.
"Our country’s only been here a couple of hundred years so we think of it as monolithic, but it’s not necessarily that settled, so there’s that potential. That’s not a very big potential, but that’s one of the places they say.
“I was in Arizona last fall and I listened to one of these whack-jobs on the radio, and some guy calls in and he’s just hollering, ‘That land belongs to us; we need to take it back!’ He was a Mexican Independent, whatever. And the commentator did something I thought was brilliant.
“He said, ‘Let me get this right. You want to give New Mexico and Arizona back and what you want is for the Mexican government to run this part of the world and have the Mexican economy?’ The guy says, ‘Oh no, I don’t mean that!’ and the conversation just kind of faded away.
“The other place (predicted) was Poland, northern Europe, but in third place was Turkey.
“Turkey is the secular Islamic state that is very westernized. That part of the world has a tempestuous history and when I read about that I said, ‘Whoa, considering the things the Scriptures say will happen in the last days in that part of the world’ . . . You see, if I’m looking for something, I’m looking there because I know the Antichrist has to do these certain things, and has to be in control and things of that nature.”
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“You know all that stuff going on in Iraq and Syria and with this ISIS, you understand the Europeans drew all those boundary lines of the nations over there at the end of World War I. The Belgians and the French and the Englishmen. They divvied that up over there so they could control it and those national boundaries are man-made.
“After World War II the agreement was made, ‘Okay, now we’ve wiped out Europe and we’ve wiped out the East; we’ll go back and honor the boundaries that were set up after WW I so we don’t have to have another fight as to where the national borders ought to be.’ So they got reestablished.
“But those dudes over there, they don’t care about that stuff. And as long as somebody with a gun isn’t there to make them go by what some outlander said the borders are, they’re going to reestablish their own, and that’s what you’re seeing over there.
“Those people having tribal warfare; they still live in 7th and 8th Century kind of thinking processes. The feudal system Europe lived in is what they largely live in now, and as you take away the Western imposed structure, you see these things.
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“What you’re seeing is going to happen when the Antichrist arises. There are going to be ten nations there. Only ten and he’s going to come up and take control; subdue three of them and take over all of them and become the head of the ten and the verse in Daniel says he’s going to do it peaceably and ‘obtain the kingdom by flatteries.’
"The Antichrist's going to come in and stop the war, have the answer for peace and flatter everybody into thinking, ‘I’m the guy!’ Daniel 11:22 says, ‘And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.’
“He’s going to come in, deliver Israel and then make them rich and get their loyalty. Verse 25: ‘And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him.’
“The Antichrist's going to go out and there’s going to be another big war and verse 27 says, ‘And both these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.’
“You look at that and you think, ‘That just sounds like modern American politics,’ but what goes on in America goes on everywhere else. Listen, every country is the same way to one extent or another.
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“Now in the middle of all of that mess, verse 31 says, ‘And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.’
“You see there the daily sacrifice and the sanctuary? He has reestablished Judaism. One of the things the Antichrist does is rebuilds Israel’s temple and lets them have their Mosaic system again.
“Verse 32 says, ‘And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.’
“There are going to be some people who understand what’s going on. Verse 35 says, ‘And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.’
“So there’s going to be some wisdom among some people and they’re going to have an awareness. Where are they going to get the awareness? Out of these books (of the Prophets) that we’re reading!
“And Hosea says, ‘Who is wise? He’s going to understand. Who’s prudent? He’s going to know.’ The way they know it is because God gave it to them in a Book. These books!
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“You see that thing, ‘Who is wise?’ Isaiah 28:9 says, ‘Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.’
“How they’re going to know is they’re going to get it out of God’s Word. The Book of Hosea is the 28th book in the Bible. There’s a strange thing about the Book of Isaiah.
“How many books are in the Bible? 66. How many chapters in Isaiah? 66. Isaiah begins, ‘Earth, earth, earth, hear the word.’ The Bible begins in Genesis with, ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.’
“Isaiah 66 ends with a new heaven and a new earth and the lake of fire. The last book in the Bible, Revelation, concludes with a new heaven and a new earth and the lake of fire.
“How many books are in the Old Testament? 39. The first book in the New Testament, the Book of Matthew, quotes Isaiah 40 with, ‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness.’ John the Baptist shows up in Isaiah 40 just like he shows up in Matthew. Strange thing. If you read Isaiah, you’ll discover that each chapter in Isaiah, the thought patterns match that chapter of the Bible.
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“Daniel 11 is probably the hardest chapter in the Book of Daniel for me to understand. Starting in verse 5, the conflict between the king of the north and the king of the south is described. The way Daniel’s usually taught is that that’s Antiochus Epiphanes, and Scofield’s got all kind of hallucinations about who it is--Ptolemy and all these kinds of things, and that’s just speculation. It’s really the speculation of unbelief because it’s the excuse people use to try to put these things away.
“The whole chapter is future, and when you get down to verse 21, you’ve come to the Antichrist himself: ‘And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.’ ”
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