The following is an excerpt from David Bay'e Cuttingedge newsletter. I've always been interested in the Kurds. They are an ancient race. They trace their ancestry to the Medes, but they themselves seem to have little to no idea of where the Medes came from. They are universally hated in the world of Islam, even though the great Kurdish warrior, Saladin, defeated the Crusaders and drove them from the Middle East. 

Quite a few years and computers ago, I undertook the tasks of discovering 1. Who were the Medes? and 2. Why are they hated? After hundreds of pages of bad leads, fictions and general garbage, I did find VERY old, obscure and learned philological treatises pointing to the Mede ancestors being driven from India. I also found equally obscure treatises claiming their utter and complete domination of Mesopotamia long before Nebuchadnezar. In fact, the claim was that civilization did not arise in Mesopotamia until the Mede ancestors dominated.

Are these obscure references correct? I don't know, I wasn't there, and history is written by the victors. But, it's an interesting hypothesis. I postulate that the hatred of the Kurds stems from ancient tribal hatreds long preceding Islam. The cause of these ancient hatreds has long been forgotten, but the hatred remains.

I also postulate that the Kurds have a major end time role to play, that they are possibly the trigger of Ezekiel 38. David and I have had a long, intermittent discussion on the subject for quite a few years. I regard his following observation as brilliant. It might be wrong -- time will tell -- but brilliant.

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Yes, all-out warfare looms between Shi'ite and Sunni for control. Iran is Shi'ite and is controlling Prime Minister Maliki, also a Shi'ite. The Sunni faction is funded and armed by Shi'ite Saudi Arabia. The likelihood is that these two religious factions will shed enough of each other's blood that they will be weak and spent, and an inviting target of the Kurds from the north.

When the Kurds strike, they will fulfill God's End of the Age judgment, as we explain in NEWS2150, shown above. What kind of physical judgment is the Kurdish military going to inflict upon the poor Shi'ite and Sunni of Iraq (Ancient Babylon)? Remember, the Kurds of today are the descendents of the Ancient Medes.

"Everyone who is found will be thrust through, and everyone who is connected with the slain and is caught will fall by the sword. Their infants also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished ... I will stir up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold [and thus cannot be bribed]. Their bows will cut down the young men [of Babylon]; and they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb, their eyes will not spare children. And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them. [Babylon] shall never be inhabited or dwelt in from generation to generation." (Isaiah 13:16-20; Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary)

God's judgment against present day Iraq (Ancient Babylon) is going to be fierce, and the Kurds (Ancient Medes) are sitting quietly in the north, awaiting the time when Shi'ite and Sunni bleed each other to death.

Then, the Mede (Kurds) will strike -- just as this prophecy foretells.

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