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Subject: Is Another War Brewing?
Do you recall as a child taking that long automobile trip somewhere and being so excited about arriving that you continually hounded your parents by asking: "Are we there yet, are we there yet?" In some ways, those of us who monitor news events with a view towards fulfillment of Bible Prophecy are like small children, as it seems we perpetually wonder: "Are we there yet?" Could humanity on Earth, indeed now be "there," (or should we say "here"?) at the exact moment, when the final acts of Biblical Prophetic fulfillment are indeed playing themselves out before our very eyes?
We are glad in one sense, and perhaps sad in another to say that we are NOT yet at that point. As Christians, we eagerly await the time when we will unite with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and fulfillment of Bible Prophecy brings us to that moment of permanent presence with Him. We could be with Him in a matter of minutes or days, or hours or perhaps yet a number of years from reaching the exact moment when events do transpire.
I speak of such events as the first fiery judgment upon Mystery Babylon, or the shout of the Lord and the catching away the remnant of Believers into the clouds with the Lord, or the "man of sin" confirms or reaffirms a covenant with Israel.
We have long suspected that the very first event that will transpire before the eyes of the world will either be the Rapture of the Church or some supernatural intervention that somehow safely removes Believers from the geographical area (i.e. a nation) known as Mystery Babylon, followed swiftly by the fiery first destruction of Mystery Babylon.
There does seem to be a quickening of the pace of current events that seems to rushing headlong into some sort of major, historical turning point in human history that will unfold somewhere in the Middle East or some major event that unfolds on American soil. This quickening pace moves in fits and starts though as we have noticed but there does seem to be a trending direction and it is moving forward even if in a herky-jerky manner in the space-time continuum. This has been especially true since the events of 9-11 and the buildup to two wars in the Middle East.
Even before the US invasion of Iraq, we here at A-O have been monitoring comments from Mid-East experts as reported in the mass media and online as well as former residents of the Mid-East as well as military sources for their assessments of the future of Iraq. We have monitored such opinions and assessments based upon our own research work regarding the Biblical prophecies regarding a future Babylon, i.e. "Mystery Babylon.
We have posted articles here at A-O in the past regarding such opinions and conclusions about the future of Iraq. The majority of these sources speculated that Iraq would likely devolve into a civil war at some point after a US invasion instituted "regime-change." Now that regime-change has transpired, we here at A-O have watched the unfolding events evolve into a rapidly deteriorating situation inside Iraq, which points towards an impending civil war and or a partition of Iraq that will forever alter the geo-political landscape of the entire Middle East region. We ask ourselves how such changes will interact with what we already know about the Biblical prophecies pertaining to a future Babylon a.k.a. "Mystery Babylon."
We have been modestly quiet on this subject for the past several months in part because our earlier articles seemed to have remained up-to-date. That is perhaps about to change and thus, we are revisiting the subject amidst our own ongoing re-evaluation of our conclusions about the first destruction-judgment of Mystery Babylon.
We have recently noticed a British "think-tank" report regarding its study concerning the future of Iraq. The report concludes that Iraq is poised for a Civil War unless it can control the violence now being committed by various ethnic groups in the country, namely the Shi'ites and the Sunni Muslims.
The report says that failure by the interim government to stop the violence and establish order will lead to a destructive civil war and especially likely if the United States withdraws its military forces from that nation. The London-based "Royal Institute of Inter-national Affairs" issued its report, which noted that even if the US forces continue to prop up the interim government, the situation might still spiral out of control.
The report looked at various potential scenarios that might unfold over the next year and a half but none of the scenarios looks particularly promising for peace to develop any time soon. The various scenarios in general appear rather bleak at best.
The information from that "think-tank" report strongly suggests that a collapse of authority throughout the present nation of Iraq will lead to Iranian influence if not outright control over much of the Iraqi countryside except for northern areas under Kurdish control leaving the Kurds to break away and form their own nation. We also saw an interview on CNN with a Time magazine female news correspondent stationed in Iraq for the past 18 months (now back in the USA) who stated concerns that the future for Iraq was very grim and not at all optimistic that the US would be able to see the interim government build a new nation. This correspondent indicated that next year's scheduled elections seemed unlikely to transpire.
The specter of Iraq fragmenting would leave the door open to next-door neighbor involvement of Iran, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and possibly even Kuwait. Such a situation would likely end forever the concept of a nation called "Iraq" and most likely would create several smaller nations that would be poor and defenseless against neighboring nations. In such a situation, those smaller states would have a hard time even maintaining established borders.
Here at A-O we have been hearing of such possible outcomes since even before the war began. We have heard from "experts" interviewed in various media outlets. We have held our own private interviews and conversations with those having experience and know-ledge of the region and or lived in the region. Much of what we have tracked provides similar conclusions, which we have expressed in earlier articles published here at A-O.
Here is a compilation of what we have been able to put together only in light of the Biblical Prophecies about a future Babylon:
#1. Iraq is likely to break up into smaller nation-states. Those states will likely be poverty-stricken for many years, lacking sufficient natural resources to develop into any kind of strong nation - either militarily or economically.
Such smaller states that might have some oil resources will be hard-pressed to have sufficient monetary capital to exploit that oil to garner an advantage to build any kind of a militarily or economically powerful nation as noted in the Biblical prophecies of a future "Babylon." In other words, it would take several generations of development to get one of these smaller states that would arise out of Iraq, to build itself up to 2nd-world status let alone 1st-world status. Virtually every small regional nation that might emerge from what is present-day Iraq would likely be a pitiful 3rd-world nation for several generations to come if even that.
#2. Look For Iran, Turkey & Syria to Try To Carve Up Iraq More likely is a scenario in which Iran, Turkey and Syria would try to divvy up the biggest geographical portions of Iraq, leaving at most only small, desert regions in the south-western sector of present-day Iraq as perhaps 'independent nations.' Indeed, such a break up could even lead to conflicts between Iran and Turkey and Syria, but most likely, Iran could be the big winner. However, there is a caveat to all of this.
The caveat is Israel and the USA blocking Iran from gaining control by exerting military force i.e. a war against Iran and its nuclear weapons program. Such a war, could be viewed as necessary for not only the safety of Israel, Europe, and America, but also for the future of Iraq. In such a case, we could see a war in Iraq between Iranian invasion forces and Allied forces of the USA, UK, the EU, Russia and Israel and possibly even Turkey or per-haps Turkey might align itself with Iran for a share of the booty known as Iraq or for Muslim pride.
Most likely, such a war would end up becoming a 3rd World War between the Muslim world and Christianity. Such a war - might well be the Gog-Magog war we have written about in a previous 2-part Biblical study. [Part 1 here and Part 2 here.] Such a war could be just around the corner. Is such a war around the corner? Are we here at A-O predicting such a war and soon? NO! We merely mention that such is a real possibility but dependent upon a number of factors that must first-of-all fall into place but which now, does not seem likely.
We are also considering the possibility that such a war would be the start of a Mystery Babylon war that results in the devastation of US forces in Iraq and of Israel. We are even considering (just considering) the possibility that the Gog-Magog war is co-joined with the Divine judgment of Mystery Babylon America! We are still studying the possibilities as found in the Jeremiah 50-51 prophecies where context of events is somewhat murky.
It should be noted that - right now - from a Biblical Prophetic standard: #1. America "owns" Iraq/ancient Babylon. #2. America controls ancient Babylon's ruins. #3. U.S. troops are stationed in ancient Babylon. #4. America's Leaders (Bush, Congress) "rules" that entire land once known as Babylonia,
These facts alone, by Biblical Prophetic standards make the USA in the prophetical sense Babylon or better yet Mystery Babylon.
These facts stand totally independent of all of the remaining facts found inside the continental USA that demonstrate that America is more Babylonian in the Mystery Religion aspects than ancient Babylon of Nebuchadnezzar! Yes, that is correct. You have to know however, the hidden and "mystery" facts about the shadowy portion of the true America, which God sees and has seen all along.
Those shadowy facts are NOT in your history books. "America, The Babylon: Volumes 1 and 2" present 600+ pages of facts and data-points which reveal a hidden American government bound up in the Mystery Babylonian doctrines and dogmas of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar and the chief Babylonian mystery god, Baal. These "mystery doctrines" encompass the equally secret and mysterious doctrines of Freemasonry and Illuminism, which have controlled the American government secretly since 1776.
We will not go into such details in this article but encourage readers to do their diligent home work for themselves using such studies as "America, The Babylon" and "Red Moon Rising" and "Babylon, The Great Is Falling" as textbooks and roadmaps for the readers own individual research.
Suffice it to say that under the present circumstances, we are evaluating whether or not the first of two judgments upon Mystery Babylon/America is tied into a war on the Euphrates with Iran and her allies exclusively. We ask: "Is the first judgment itself a supernatural event conducted by angelic forces?" Thereafter will we find Iran and her allies' mop-up American forces in Iraq afterwards? Again, there are contextual issues that we are still evaluating in conjunction with other scholars now also part of the evaluation.
Other information we are evaluating involves the nearly constant (yet quietly under-reported in the media) threats coming from Iranian leaders towards either Israel, the United States or against both nations. Turkey and Iran are seemingly moving towards very close diplomatic ties as evidenced by a report from Debkafiles. Iran has heavily pressed Turkey to pull away from its prior close associations with Israel. Iran has done the same with former Soviet republics that have a predominant Muslim population.
Current Conclusions: At the moment, we can only conclude that we're not sure exactly how the first judgment will be executed, but we DO NOT BELIEVE the prophetic texts of scripture foretell of Mystery Babylon's first destruction on her homeland via a Red China - Russia or any other nation's nuclear attack or conventional invasion.
We are not so certain about an Iranian induced massive coordinated nuclear terror attack. We would consider that as perhaps a long shot interpretation of contextual issues of Jeremiah 50-51. We simply cannot completely rule it out, but contextually, we are more inclined towards the Iran-equation in the first judgment to be limited to the areas around the Euphrates and inside Israel.
We can conclude only that more study is necessary before drawing any "absolute" conclusions but we're still 99% convinced that the homeland of Mystery Babylon is destroyed by angelic forces in a direct angelic assault that takes place in less than an hour at some future point in time that leaves the continental United States a desert wasteland. We believe that either the Rapture of the Church will occur prior to this event, or angelic forces will whisk away believers to safety just as was the case with Lot and his family prior to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
We believe there is evidence of the rapture in Revelation 18:4 where we find the term: "Come out of her, my people." Such a verse may have dual use - both for the "rapture" and for the super-natural evacuation of the Jewish people from America. It would be the "shout" of the Lord.
One thing we are certain of - the first judgment - will encompass the entirety of the nation and not just the East Coast or New York City. It will include the East Coast, the South, the Midwest, and the West Coast along with Alaska and Hawaii too.
Jeremiah 50
41 "Behold, a people shall come from the north,
And a great nation and many kings
Shall be raised up from the ends of the earth.
42 They shall hold the bow and the lance;
They are cruel and shall not show mercy.
Their voice shall roar like the sea;
They shall ride on horses,
Set in array, like a man for the battle,
Against you, O daughter of Babylon.
43 "The king of Babylon has heard the report about them,
And his hands grow feeble;
Anguish has taken hold of him,
Pangs as of a woman in childbirth.
44 "Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the floodplain of the Jordan
Against the dwelling place of the strong;
But I will make them suddenly run away from her.
And who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her?
For who is like Me?
Who will arraign Me?
And who is that shepherd
Who will withstand Me?"
45 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that He has taken against Babylon,
And His purposes that He has proposed against the land of the Chaldeans:
Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out;
Surely He will make their dwelling place desolate with them.
46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon
The earth trembles,
And the cry is heard among the nations.
...the earth trembles...
Also: Isaiah 47
It also ends with a flash.
43, the king of Babylon...reminds me of those 7 minutes on 9/11.