“I am hoping Vlad or his pals in the KGB (I forget their new name) can get us his real Kenyan BC. I think the Russians may end up being are allies against O and his Islamist pals.”
Whoever does the Biblical end times ping should probably jump in on this one.
The common end-times scenario (as described in the Left Behind books) that has Russia leading a coalition of Islamic countries against Israel, a revived Roman empire comming out of the EU, and a European anti-christ is pretty much falling apart before our eyes.
It looks more like a revised OTTOMAN empire (which would be a fundamentalist muslim empire), Europe subverted by a muslim fundamentalist population that pushes sharia law, the US and China so dependent on middle-east oil that we go to war with the revived Ottoman empire to aquire it when they cut it off. And in steps the anti-christ to make peace.
Ironicly, in that scenario, Russia looks like the last man/indendent-nation standing. Far from being an ally of Islam, they may be the last counterbalance to an anti-christ led Islamic world power based around a revived Ottoman empire (the empire we in the west forget about, even though it lasted from the mid-1400’s until WWI and covered the middle east, n. africa, and the “stan” countries that were part of the old soviet union.)
How we forget to talk about a major empire (that ruled Jerusalem for 600 years) when talking Biblical prophecy seems amazing. But we do.
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