TINY JEWISH ISRAEL
SURROUNDED BY MANY MUSLIM COUNTRIES
The Arab League was established in 1945. It has twenty-two
members: Algeria,
Bahrain,
Comoros,
Djibouti,
Egypt,
Iraq,
Jordan,
Kuwait,
Lebanon,
Libya,
Mauritania,
Morocco,
Oman,
Palestine, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia,
Somalia,
Sudan,
Syria,
Tunisia,
United Arab Emirates,
and Yemen.
ALGERIA
(Sunni Muslim)
BAHRAIN (ROYAL)
(60% Shi'ite Muslim, 40% Sunni Muslim)
COMOROS
(Muslim)
DJIBOUTI
(Sunni Muslim)
EGYPT
(90% Sunni Muslim,
7% Coptic Christian)
IRAQ
(60% Shi'ite Muslim, 37% Sunni
Muslim)
JORDAN (ROYAL)
(89% Sunni Muslim, 8% Christian)
KUWAIT (ROYAL)
(Sunni Muslim, Shi'ite Muslim, Christian)
LEBANON
(35% Shi'ite Muslim, 23% Sunni Muslim, 27% Christian)
LIBYA
(Sunni Muslim)
MAURITANIA
(Sunni Muslim)
MOROCCO (ROYAL)
(Sunni Muslim)
OMAN (ROYAL)
(75% Ibadhi Muslim, Sunni Muslim,
Shi'ite Muslim, Hindu)
ISRAEL (PALESTINE)
(85%
Judaism, Sunni
Muslim, Christian)
QATAR (ROYAL)
(Sunni Muslim)
SAUDI ARABIA (ROYAL)
(Sunni Muslim)
SOMALIA
(Sunni Muslim)
SUDAN
(Sunni Muslim)
SYRIA
(Sunni Muslim)
TUNISIA
(Sunni Muslim, Jewish,
Christian)
UAE (ROYAL)
(96% Muslim, Christian, Hindu)
YEMEN
(63% Sunni Muslim, 37% Shi'ite Muslim)
The
next three are not members of the Arab League but do fulfill Bible prophecy.
TURKEY
(Sunni Muslim, Orthodox)
IRAN
(94% Shi'ite Muslim, Sunni Muslim,
Zoroastrian, Christian,
Jewish, Baha'i)
ETHIOPIA
(Sunni Muslim, Ethiopian
Orthodox Church, animist)
Revelation
12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven;
and behold a great red dragon,
having seven heads and ten horns, and seven
crowns upon his
heads.
Revelation
17:11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
Of
the twenty-two Arab League countries EIGHT
of them are ROYAL having CROWNS
upon their HEADS.
1. Bahrain
2. Jordan
3. Kuwait
4. Morocco
5. Oman
6. Qatar
7. Saudi Arabia
8. The United Arab Emirates
The
Muslim Brotherhood is based in many countries. What
I find interesting is that the Muslim Brotherhood operates from inside eight of the twenty-two Arab League countries.
1. Egypt
2. Iraq
3. Jordan
4. Lebanon
5. Palestine
6. Saudi Arabia
7. Sudan
8.
Syria
“Allah
is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur'an is our law. Jihad is
our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."—Muslim Brotherhood
Lastly,
I wanted to point out one more interesting observance. Of the countries
above ten are 100% Sunni Muslim.
·
Algeria
·
Djibouti
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Libya
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Mauritania
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Morocco
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Qatar
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Somalia
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Sudan
·
Syria
·
Saudi Arabia
Revelation
17:11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
We
know that the seven
previous kingdoms that captured Israel were empires having ruling royal heads (Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander,
etc.) – but could the seven heads
be a clue to a telescoping prophecy, which will include seven heads having seven crowns in the near future?
Perhaps!
We
already know that these Arab countries are surrounding tiny little Israel,
but is there anything telling in the colors of their flags.
[My original study showed all the flags of the
countries above. If interested you may see the flags here: http://www.world-flags.info/Asia/Middle_East/middleeast.html
and by clicking on Africa on top of that page. Suffice it to say the colors of the flags
are mainly white, red, black, and green.]d
Let
us take another look at the four horses of the Apocalypse.
The
first horse is white,
the visual is a bow in his hand and a crown was given him, and he
that sat upon the white
horse went forth conquering, and to conquer.
The
next horse is red, the
visual is a great sword, and power is given to the rider upon the red horse to take peace from the earth,
and that they should kill one another.
The
next horse is black,
the visual is a pair of balances, and the rider upon the black horse is given power to bring famine i.e. hunger.
The
next horse is pale,
the visual is focused on the riders - Death and Hades,
and power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,
to kill with sword, and
with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts
of the earth.
The
Strongs meaning for Pale is
green.
The
term “in his hand” means that the rider is given power to carry out the judgment.
The
four horses sent from heaven are of the same colors that make up the colors
of the flags of most of the Arab countries.
Is
it possible that all the above including Israel
with white in their
flag are the ones who ink out the peace
covenant?
Is
it possible that the above with red
in their flag are the ones given power to take
peace from the earth and make
war?
Is
it possible that the above with black
in their flag are the ones given power to bring
hunger?
Is
it possible that the above with green
in their flag are the ones given power to kill
with the sword, with hunger,
with death, and with the beasts of the earth?
Revelation
12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven;
and behold a great red dragon,
having seven heads and ten horns, and seven
crowns upon his
heads.
The
imagery in the first description is looking at the previous seven empires that ruled over Israel.
In
this next description we see the ten horns
having ten crowns.
Revelation
13:1 And I 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.
Moreover,
this is when this transpires.
Revelation
17:12 And the ten horns
which thou sawest are ten kings, which
have received no kingdom as yet;
but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
The
second imagery describes the ten horns
who become kings with the beast for one hour i.e. in combination they rule over Israel.
Daniel
7:8 I considered the horns,
and, behold, there came up among them another
little horn, before whom there
were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold,
in this horn were eyes like
the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Daniel
7:20 And of the ten horns that were in
his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that
spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his
fellows.
Daniel 7:24 And the ten horns out of this
(final) kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
Daniel 7:21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed
against them;
Daniel
8:24 And his
power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he
shall destroy wonderfully,
and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy
the mighty and the holy people.
Daniel
11:21 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.
Daniel
11:22 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.
Daniel
11:23 And after the league made with him he
shall work deceitfully: for he
shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
Daniel
11: 24 He shall enter peaceably
even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and
spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the
strong holds, even for a time.
Are
we to believe that three horns are uprooted to make room for the
little horn? If this is true then the ten horns that become kings for one
hour with the beast are not the same horns. Further, three of the ten kings
are said to be subdued by the little horn.
From
this study I have seen many different ways in which these prophecies could
unfold. One thought is that the ten
horns will give their backing
to the beast to strengthen the covenant. Is this the time that they will
be kings for one hour? This could very well refer
to the hour in which the covenant is confirmed which will allow Israel
to erect an altar to carry out animal sacrifices. However, the term one
hour could also represent the entire 42 months of the
beast rule over Israel
i.e. the time of THE GREAT TRIBULATION,
or it could represent a percentage of the entire beast rule. We calculated
the one hour percentage of the 42
months to be 52.5 days.
The
Anti-Christ spirit is made manifest in the eighth
and final beast where he is enabled to
conquer Israel
and he is described as having ten horns
in his head. The ten horns give their power to the beast, and
the beast subdues three of the ten horns at sometime during his 42
month rule. Via email with a friend one consideration for the three
that are uprooted are - Iraq, Libya, and Syria
to make room for the rising of the little horn. At some point the little
horn who is now the beast subdues three of the ten that gave him
their power. Alternatively, the uprooting and the subduing may be one in
the same in which case the little horn is the one who uproots three of the
kings as he rises to power. The timing, the imagery, it is all subjective to interpretation.
The Holy Spirit did not make it easy to
understand the imagery that is for sure. Until He does uncover the mystery
we cannot know until it
unfolds in real time.
We are like Bible Geologist, we dig, we
sift, we feather brush the find and we present what we discover then we
can ponder if we so desire. We are only presenting possibilities for only
God knows the beginning from the end. He gives us small windows to see through
and if we are wise we write them down and then we add to that information
as He opens another window to see through. Many things are certainly possible.
This is part of fellowship – we share, and compare and by doing so
we can shed light on what each have seen in study, in turn our faith is increased. This
is what one friend and I do all the time. We are
on the phone for hours going through Scripture and the Lord always opens
the passages and gives us a little more understanding. The passages in Daniel and Revelation about the last
Anti-Christ beast are probably some of the most difficult to understand.
It is only as we compare Scripture with Scripture that we begin to see glimpses
of the total picture.
What
we have come to understand is that there will be a seven-year peace agreement
inked between Israel
and her surrounding enemies.
There
will be an overflowing flood of God’s wrath coming straight from God’s
throne that will come upon the whole earth, but the prophetic focus is back
upon Israel.
I
know this has been a very long and detailed study and I hope we did not
lose anyone in the process. If you made it all the way to here – bless
you for sticking with us. We trust the Holy Spirit will give us pause to
realize that as we see these events draw closer so too our redemption.
I love the way the seven-year tribulation ends:
Revelation
17:11-14
And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them:
for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings:
and they that are with him are
called, and
chosen, and faithful.
The
called, and chosen, and faithful are the called out body of Christ;
all who have believed upon Jesus
for their personal salvation are “In Christ”
and return with Him
when He overcomes the last ruling empire beast
and his minions.
Ah
– our prayers are answered – and we
will see the PEACE of
Jerusalem.
Many,
many blessings,
De~