The Importance of Turkey...Turkey pt 1

https://billrandles.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/the-importance-of-turkey-turkey/ ^ | 07-19-16 | Bill Randles

[pastorbillrandles]

And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee. Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. 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.(Ezekiel 38:1-8)

The world is looking with horror on the brutal aftermath of the recent attempted “coup” in Turkey. Scenes of frightened young ‘soldiers” who happened to have been used in the attempt to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, cringe before the angry supporters of Erdogan, who have been allowed to beat them at will in the street.

One photo shows a gymnasium crowded with half naked soldiers, bound hand and foot and literally piled on top of one another, as they await whatever fate the victorious Erdogan has planned for them.

What happened and what is the significance of it in the light of Bible Prophecy?

Turkey is of vast importance in the world, having the largest army in Europe and is a NATO member. Until recently it was a fairly secular state, with a Muslim population but the extreme elements of Islam were kept at bay by the strict constitution enacted by Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish state.

Though it is a Muslim nation at present, in the earliest centuries of the New Testament church, it was in the Turkish region that the gospel first flourished beyond the borders of Judea and Samaria.

The apostles took the gospel to what then was refered to as the Roman province of Asia, within decades of the resurrection of Jesus. Paul taught there for two years as recorded in Acts 19.The original letters of the Apocalypse were addressed to churches in Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea, all in modern-day Turkey.

The epistles to Thessalonica, Galatians, I John, I and II Timothy and Revelation all originally addressed greek speaking converts in what is now called Turkey. Eventually the Roman Emperor Constantine, in the 4th century, built a city on the Dardanelles strait, Constantinople, as the eastern capital of the Roman Empire.

For the next thousand years, the Christianity that Constantine officially legalized, became the religion of the Byzantine empire, which extended over the middle east, a swath of eastern Europe and all of Turkey.

But with the rise and expansion of Islam, bit, by bit, Byzantium fell to the Muslims over the next eight centuries, slowly and steadily until in 1452 Constantinople fell to the Muslim invaders. The Turkish empire which replaced it, became known as the Ottoman empire, a Sunni Muslim empire which held sway for five centuries, but which collapsed as an outcome of World War 1, the Turks having been on the losing side.

We have to go back a bit and remember that until World War 1 Turkey was the seat of the five hundred year Ottoman Empire, and also of something Sunni Muslims refer to as the Caliphate, which is a centralizing Sunni authority.

Turkey chose the wrong side in the war, they allied with Germany. After the allied victory, the Ottoman Empire was dismantled and the Middle East was divided into new countries, protectorates and mandates governed by France and England under the Sykes Picot treaty. significantly to us, Israel was taken from the Turks and put under the British mandate.

Turkey remained an indépendant nation although its vast empire was stripped and divided among the victors under the Sykes Pichot treaty.

Gamal Mustafa aka Ataturk began a series of radical reforms, pushing Sunni Islam out of a dominant position and crafting a secular yet Muslim state.*

Ataturk also dismantled the centuries old Caliphate in 1922 , to the utter dismay and humiliation of the Sunni world. Most of the modern Sunni Jihad is an attempt to restore this “Caliphate”, i.e. the central ruling Sunni authority, under the “Prince of the faithful” which all Sunnis are required to swear “Bayat” to, i.e. pledge allegiance and engage in Jihad under his command.Isis was an attempt to restore the Caliphate but most of Sunni Islam regards Turkey as the proper abode of the Caliphate.

The Turkish Army was given the custody of the secularity of the Turkish state, closed guarding against Islamic extremism, and intervening several times , overthrowing other coups and always restoring the nation to the democratically elected leaders. Thus Turkey became a modern, progressive State with close relationships with the West in the Cold War and with Israel until recently.

But when Turkey was rejected for membership in the European Union, moods eventually shifted and Erdogan’s Islamist party steadily gained power. The coup, to the extent that it was real, was an attempt by the military to take back the nation from the corruption and increasing Islamization of Turkey.There are some who believe that the coup was doomed from the start, and used for the aggrandizement of Erdogan,like Hitler’s Reichstag fire.

Of course Obama and the US State department were on the side of the Islamists,(they always are), and now Turkey is even more entrenched on the disastrous path of any nation possessed by Islamists and the demons who drive them.

We must also remember that none less than Jesus himself located Satan’s throne in Pergamum, which is in Turkey, in his letter to the church at Pergamum,

And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges; I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.(Revelation 2:12-13)

Turkey is the region where Magog, Togarmah, Meshec,Tubal and Gomer hail from. They are slated to participate in the disastrous Gog invasion of Israel.

Zechariah 9 also prophesies that the Sons of Javan(lit) , translated Greece, but Turkey was once the main Greek landmass, would fight the sons of Israel,

When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man. And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.(Zechariah 9:13-14)

President Erdogan is a very strange man. He gives speeches to crowds under a spell of wild adulation, but often he is speaking through a hologram! He opened an international airport called Saladin, because Saladin was the last conqueror of Jerusalem. He is Sunni but has Sufistic tendencies, the mystical Islam,. Male secular reporters who have interviewed him have come away erotically in love with him.He is also a cruel and cunning man who would make a great candidate for Anti-Christ. We will see…

We are seeing the fulfillment of prophecy before our very eyes. We are also seeing blind complacency, even many Christian people have no idea what is happening around them, but major, prophetic and earth shaking event are occurring, to be proclaimed and interpreted by all who “Have ears to hear”.

* (Attarurk also committed one of the first mass genocides of the twentieth century, purging Turkish soil of Armenians, killing a million and a half of them, and driving the other two million out of the land).

[justa-hairyape]

Today the Turkish police have entered Incirlik and are investigating to see if there is a connection between the coup and the US. The Turkish base commander and 10 officers were arrested yesterday as coup participants. Does not look good going forward.

[delchiante]

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President Erdogan is a very strange man. He gives speeches to crowds under a spell of wild adulation, but often he is speaking through a hologram! He opened an international airport called Saladin, because Saladin was the last conqueror of Jerusalem. He is Sunni but has Sufistic tendencies, the mystical Islam,. Male secular reporters who have interviewed him have come away erotically in love with him.He is also a cruel and cunning man who would make a great candidate for Anti-Christ. We will see

He (Erdogan) is Antichrist. And the 1st Protestant Reformers called the pope’s Antichrist.
and Netanyahu is Antichrist.

Islam, Judaism and parts of Christianity are already Antichrist- if we allow Scripture to tell us what antichrist is.

[Fitzy_888]

Babylon the Great and the Turkish Anti-Christ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyRQQ9qC9e8&sns=em

[MarMema]

Really? I did not know this...

[MarMema]

Erdogan is a very strange man. He gives speeches to crowds under a spell of wild adulation, but often he is speaking through a hologram! He opened an international airport called Saladin, because Saladin was the last conqueror of Jerusalem. He is Sunni but has Sufistic tendencies, the mystical Islam,. Male secular reporters who have interviewed him have come away erotically in love with him.He is also a cruel and cunning man who would make a great candidate for Anti-Christ.

He is at least a psychopath. Do you have a ping list?

[justa-hairyape]

Conflict News‏ @Conflicts

BREAKING: Police and prosecutors begin search of #İncirlik NATO air base in #Turkey - @CNNTURK_ENG

[justa-hairyape]

An additional 8 Turkish soldiers from Incirlik have been arrested today. Total so far 18 including Turkish base commander. Looks like they are building a case to officially charge the US and Incirlik as bring involved in coup. Time for the turkeys to fly the coop.

[pastorbillrandles]

not sure how that works

[MarMema]

How often do you post here?

[pastorbillrandles]

quite a bit, about once a week

[MarMema]

me and you on these mediterranean things....and yep, I am so disgusted and dismayed.

They will just torture people to get said what they want said...and this applies to the guy in Pennsylvania as well.
Kerry asked for evidence. I told my husband they will get him evidence from tortured soldiers.

I truly believe we should get our soldiers outta there NOW and get those nukes moved ASAP too.

Erdogan makes Mugabe look kind and rational.
This is the single scariest thing I have followed since 9-11 in the world.
And we have Obama and Kerry at the helm. What could go wrong?

Oh and an afterthought...did you see the Russians flew a plane over and evacuated personally all Russians?
Some days you wish you were under that kind of care.

[MarMema]

So there will be people like myself who want to read what you post. And a collection of them can be saved and used to call them to read what you post.

[pastorbillrandles]

I hate to sound stupid but is there a place to “collect” them?

[MarMema]

Laz can you help him get a ping list going for his posts?

[justa-hairyape]

There was an article linked in another thread that stated the 50 nukes at Incirlik, can not even be delivered by the planes that are over there. Not A10 warthogs obviously and apparently too heavy for F16s. Only B52 or B1 can deliver. Do not know it that is 100 % accurate, but why have them there if no planes there can even deliver them ? We have to fly B1s in, load them up and then deliver ? That’s a half day operation. And yeah this is getting very bad, but Asia is also heating up. Looks like the world is going to throw a goodbye party for Obama. Norkie’s just fired off three missiles and they sent out coded messages last Friday. First time in 16 years apparently.

[Jeremiah Jr]

Bereshet 3:14 So the YHVH ELoHIM said to the serpent:

“Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”

The churches form the outline of a foot with Pergamos the heal...

And don't miss...

Who is Gog and Magog?

http://absolutetruth613.blogspot.com/2012/04/who-is-gog-and-magog.html

...and...

Gog's weapons are already on Israeli soil...

http://www.rense.com/general66/excl.htm

...Go and read... The Gog wars are the wars of GeOrGe...

[Jeremiah Jr]

The Ruler/Anti-Christ

Daniel 7:8 “While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a human being and a mouth that spoke boastfully.

Muammur Kaddafi was the third king uprooted, the other two, Hosni Mubarak and Saddam Hussein. And uprooted is the perfect word as these three had nearly 100 years of combined rule in the M.E. No small feat indeed. Psalm 83 contains the list of the ten nations (tribes) from Daniel and Revelation.

Daniel 8:23 “In the latter part of their reign, when rebels have become completely wicked, a fierce-looking king, a master of intrigue, will arise. 24 He will become very strong, but not by his own power. He will cause astounding devastation and will succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy those who are mighty, the holy people.

He will become very strong, but not by his own power

The fierce looking king stands up. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/274302.stm

Google: Amman seven mountains

There's lots more...

Daniel 9:25 ‘Know and understand this: from the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven “sevens”, and sixty-two “sevens”. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.

Restore Jerusalem

History of Jerusalem
On January 23, 1950, the Knesset passed a resolution that stated Jerusalem was the capital of Israel It is also the largest city in the country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jerusalem

January 23, 1950 + 49 (seven sevens) = January 23, 1999 Who ascended to power in at that time? The Ruler

World: Middle East
Friday, January 22, 1999 Published at 23:19 GMT

King Hussein drops heir
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/260875.stm

World: Middle East
Monday, January 25, 1999 Published at 23:23 GMT

Hussein names son as heir
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/262604.stm

Once again, Google: Amman seven mountains

[pgkdan]

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