Different authorities have
said North Korea dictator Kim Jong-Un’s ruthless and reckless behavior,
including executing family members and peers for being “traitors,” reminds them of
Saddam Hussein. Kim Jong-un is widely believed to have ordered the assassination of his brother, Kim Jong-nam, in Malaysia in February of 2017.
An article from the New York Times after
9/11 quoted two experts on personality disorders who emphasized Saddam Hussein
was not a madman to be passed off as insane or psychotic, but was actually a
"malignant narcissist.”
This
"severe form of narcissism," reported the story, gives people an
"adeptness at charm and manipulation" that is beyond that of classic
narcissists, who are defined as being "grandiose, self-centered,
over-sensitive to criticism and unable to feel empathy for others."
"Inordinate narcissism," explained
one of the researchers, "is expressed in grandiosity, a confidence in
themselves and the assurance that they know what the world needs. They express
their aggression in cruel and sadistic behavior against their enemies: whoever
does not submit to them or love them."
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Saddam's
self-professed idol and role model was Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon from
604-562 BC and responsible for besieging and demolishing Jerusalem, including
the Temple built by Solomon, leading to the exile of the citizens.
“Astrology was one of the four classes of
the occult Nebuchadnezzar relied on for guidance in helping him to make
decisions,” informs Noah Hutchings in his 1990 book Daniel
the Prophet. “Astrologers were also called stargazers and they were very
much like the astrologers today.
“They
would come in to the king and tell him whether he would be positive that day,
and win friends and influence people, or whether he should go back to bed and
pull the covers over his head. In other words, they provided his daily
horoscope.
“Next came
the sorcerers. In ancient manuscripts, they are called the ‘mutterers of magic
formulae.’ They used drugs and potions to deceive the mind. The root word for sorcery
is the same word from which pharmacy or drugs is
derived.
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“It would
appear that the magicians or wizards of those days corresponded to the male
counterpart of the witch. They performed all kinds of magic, including
consultations with the dead.
“The
Chaldeans were from the province of Chaldea, located in the southern part of
Babylonia along the Euphrates River. As best as Bible scholars can
determine, they were the remnant of the Tower of Babel society who did not
experience a change in language. They composed a priesthood that continued to
commune with the gods of Babel.”
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Nebuchadnezzar’s
dream represents one of the key passages in all of prophetic Scripture for
revealing the details of the political reign of the Antichrist.
Preacher Richard Jordan gives the account like this: "Nebuchadnezzar has this big dream. It really bothers him so he calls in his
religious muckety-mucks; the Chaldean magicians and all that business.
“He says,
‘I have this dream and I need you to interpret it for me.’ It’s obviously
important enough to him that he wants to get the real skinny on the thing, and
since he doesn’t really trust these guys, he says, ‘I’ll tell you what, what
you’re gonna have to do is, first, you’re going to have to tell me the dream,
and then give me the interpretation.’
“The
thinking is, ‘If you tell me the dream, I’ll know you really got something
beyond just the little Psychic Network kind of stuff.’ I mean, those guys make
you think they’re reading your mind and all that stuff, but you really told
them what to tell you. They just keep doing that little song and dance with you
and that kind of thing.
“As soon
as Nebby said, ‘You gotta tell me the dream first,’ they argued, ‘Nobody ever
required this of us!’ and he says, ‘Well, I am, and, by the way, if you don’t
do it, it’s your throats and I’m going to go out and get me some new guys!’
“Well,
they couldn’t do it, of course, and so then Daniel steps forth and says, ‘I can
do it.’ He explains, ‘There is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and
maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy
dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these. . .’ (Dan. 2:28)
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“You see,
that’s the difference between prophecy in the Bible and Nostrodamus, or Jeanne
Dixon, or Madame Blavatsky. It’s like what God says to Isaiah: ‘You go tell
them.’ He’s saying, ‘The difference between me and all these guys who tell you
they’re gods—from all these religions out there—is I can tell the future. I’ll
tell you now what’s going to happen and you just turn the calendar and watch it
come to pass exactly like I said.’
“Nebby had
the vision, but nobody could tell him the vision, so God supernaturally
revealed it to Daniel. And when Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar what the dream was,
Nebby said, ‘Yep, that’s exactly what I dreamed!’
“So you
have independent correlation about the interpretation because Nebby was the
only one who knew the dream. The fact that these (astrologers) don’t lose their
heads means the dream was what Nebby really dreamed. So, the interpretation of
it is validated by the circumstances.
“Realize,
you don’t ever have to just say back to someone, ‘Well, it’s God’s Word.’ No,
the circumstances make it obvious that it’s true. That’s the fascinating thing
about the Bible. The claims of the Scripture are not claims that are just
sucked out of the end of somebody’s thumb. They’re things that were obviously
demonstrated at the time.
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