Check out these dates –
During WWI, Jerusalem fell to
the British Empire’s Egyptian Expeditionary
Force on December
9, 1917; having taken it from the
Ottoman Turks; an action that led to the end
of WWI, and the eventual defeat and
dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire in
1922/24.
General Allenby entered the Old
City section of Jerusalem—on foot via the
Jaffa Gate on December
11, 1917.
This action ended the tenure of
the seventh head/empire on the God-opposing
beast of Revelation 13:1, and adequately
describes its demise through the “sword” of
war (Rev. 13:3, 12b, 14b); together with its
eventual healing.
During the course of its
revival, the Middle Eastern
“leopard/bear/lion” composite “Beast” (cf.
Daniel 7:12)—known as the Islamic
State/Caliphate— was resurrected as the eighth
head on the beast, and was declared alive
again on Ramadan, June
29, 2014. This
declaration was followed by the public
appearance of the self-appointed Caliph
Ibrahim during his Friday sermon on
July 4, 2014.
Revelation 13:2–5 indicates
that “the dragon… gave authority
to the beast… to continue (to make
war—as in the past), for forty–two
months.”
This forty–two month period “of
authority” by the Caliphate expires on December
31, 2017.
NOTE THIS –
On December 9/10,
2017, the P.M. of Iraq
declared that the war with ISIS
in Iraq was over, just as Russia had
declared two days earlier that the war with ISIS
in Syria was over. December
9, is the 100 year anniversary of
Allenby’s capture of Jerusalem from the
Ottoman Caliphate. Its
revived successor—Islamic State— has thus been
declared defeated on exactly the same date.
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The time from the
Islamic State Caliphate’s declaration on
June 29, 2014, until it was declared
destroyed on December 10, 2017, is 1260
days.
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From the appearance
of Caliph Ibrahim of July 4, 2014, 1260 days
brings us to December 14/15, 2017, the
Middle day/candle of the Festival of
Chanukah, which represents Christ.
However, this does not mean
that the revived God-opposing eighth (Beast
Caliphate/Empire) has disappeared—it means
that the period for its authority
to act as a Caliphate has expired (i.e.,
it has lost its land and Capital). Later
in Revelation 16 we see that “three unclean
spirits like frogs” come out of the mouth of
the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet,
“…which
go out to the kings of the earth and of the
whole world, to gather them to the battle of
that great day of God Almighty… And they
gathered them together to the place called
in Hebrew, Armageddon.” (Rev. 16:13–16)
Obviously, these entities are
still around to initiate another World War!
Consequently it looks as if “the
battle of that great day of God Almighty”
is the next event on the scriptural agenda,
and we may well wonder what horrific event
causes the kings of the earth to embark on
this destructive course — perhaps the fall of
Babylon?
The Beast and Babylon – The
Revival of Radical Islam