Dear friends:

Happy Chinese New Year to our Chinese friends!

On the Chinese calendar, it is "the Year of the Pig."  Hmmmm.  The pig is an unclean animal, according to the Bible.  Could the antichrist be revealed in the Year of the Pig?  In the second century B.C., antichrist type Antiochus Epiphanes IV was associated with pigs.  He proclaimed himself the incarnation of the Greek god Zeus and placed his statue in the most holy place in the Jewish temple, desecrating it, where he did the unimaginable -- he sacrificed pigs upon the altar.
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From http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/02/14/070215043912.onjqts5b.html :

The world can expect a roller-coaster ride of conflict and unrest, natural disasters and a plunge in global stock markets once the Year of the Pig begins, Chinese soothsayers say....

It is anticipated that there will be more international conflicts and disharmony, which will even lead to regional warfare, uprising and unrest, or the overthrow of governments in certain countries.

The Chinese calendar moves in 60-year cycles, meaning the world will experience in the new year events similar to those that took place in 1947.
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1947?  Hmmmm again.  The year 1947 was a significant prophetic year.  It really began a major cycle in world affairs.  On November 29, 1947 the UN General Assembly Resolution 181 was enacted and served as the foundation for the Israeli Declaration of Independence and birth of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948.

The next day, on May 15, 1948, the Arab League Secretary General Abdul Razek Azzam announced the intention to wage "a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades."  (Wikipedia.)

That war is still raging.  How will it progress in the Year of the Pig?  Will the ultimate desecrator and hater of Israel, the antichrist, appear?  Stay tuned.

Jim