is what has prompted me to post this
further extract from Chapter
16, from my new book that is
being written, titled ― The Eighth alliance,
and the harlot in the
wilderness.
It
is at this
point that additional information is given about an eighth
alliance that will
rise up from all seven former historical kingdom ‘heads’
(or empires) that
spread across Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.
(Rev. 17:11)
Note:
The SUNNI branch of Islam via the [x 2] historic
Caliphates that formed
the seventh ‘head’ on the beast, is not the only
branch of Islam that has
been authorised to conduct war against their perceived
enemies: by the Quran,
Hadith and Sunna ― the sacred books and
traditions that came from
the ‘mouth’ of Muhammad― who was called
the Seal
of the Prophets, because he purportedly was the
last spokesperson and Messenger
of Allah.The
words in those
Holy books gave authority and power to Muslims of all stripes,
including the TWELVERSHIA branch of Islam in Iran (Rev.
13:2), to declare war
when a qualified Islamic scholar (a Mufti) makes a ruling in
Islamic law to
declare a Fatwa or Jihad against
Christians, Jews and
non-believers (aka kaffirs and infidels). [1]
Accordingly,
it was not
until the Iranian Revolution in 1978‒79 when the Pahlavi
monarchy in Iran was
overthrown, that the first signs of a reinvented SHIA
dynasty came into
being, which allowed Ayatollah
Ruhollah
Khomeini, a Shi’a
cleric,
to become theultimate
religious
authority and Supreme
leader of the
Republic of Iran, for the next ten
years. His successor
Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei (1989‒2026) who ruled for thirty-seven years
as Supreme leader,
enthusiastically
endorsed TwelverShi’ism as
the State Religion of
Iran. Unfortunately, within Iran’s Islamic
Republic government, where Twelver
Shi’ismis the state religion, their leaders are
even more extreme and
militarily opposed to Yahweh God and His people (Jews and
Christians), than is
Islam’s more traditional SUNNI branch; especially when the
SHIA regime
persistently names Israel ‘little Satan’ and cries ‘death’
to Israel;
while calling the USA ‘big Satan’ and crying ‘death’
to America! speaker
However,
although
we have been aware of the Iranian regime’s revolutionary
existence for some
time; it is only since the harlot woman
aka the great
city’s ‘physical’ existence has lately become
pictorially known and
widely recognised during the 21st Century ― partly
due to Saudi
Arabia’s rapid expansion and modernisation of facilities in Mecca―that
her Biblical
alias of Mystery Babylon has been revealed.It
is only now in the
third decade of the 21st Century, as the last
stages of Mecca’s
regenerative ‘do-up’ is revealing her new public and
glamorous persona,
that her other moniker as the great city in the
wilderness, which is
sitting on the beast’s Islamist kingdom has been
exposed for all to see.
Notably
therefore,
it is while Mecca’s reinvention is
coinciding with the
multiple geopolitical ‘signs’ pointing to the Iranian
SHIA led
Axis
of Resistance proxy forces as being the eighth
alliance in
support of the dragon’sagent the beast (Rev.
13:2;
16:13); therefore these ‘geopolitical signs’ are revealing in
advance who
it is that will be at enmity
with Israel, the USA, the western world and their SUNNI Arab
neighbours in the
end time when the
battle of the great day
of God Almighty takes place. The agglomeration of SHIA Iran, its IRGC
forces, Axis of
Resistance combatants,NTO’s, and 10 kings who
have no kingdoms as
yet, who become of one mind to give their
power and authority
to the beast, will therefore provide the mixture
of Islamist combatants
with conflicting ideology and objectives, who gather to form
the eighth
alliance.Already,
seditious
forces exist among them, who will one day decide to take
matters into their own
hands because they hate
the harlot
for her idolatrous symbolism, and they want to make her desolate, naked and
burn her with fire: thus indicating how the great
city ― Mecca
― could be destroyed suddenly in only one hour. (Rev.
17:10, 16‒18) [2]
But, another
interesting fact arises when the eighth
iteration of the
beast finally appears, because we find that
the eighth
(Rev. 17:11) is given a masculine gender, with the word ‘himself’
attached
to it.[3]
It is concluded
therefore, that the eighth
iteration of the beast that
opposes Yahweh God,
which comes from a coalition of disparate Islamist and
terrorist
organisations derived from many countries, will be led
by a human leader...
i.e., ‘himself’ (aka Paul’s man of sin/the
lawless one, 2 Thess. 2:3, 8), who is yet to
be ‘revealed’ as
such; whose activities involve demonic signs, deception, lies
and
self-aggrandisement. ‘His’
coming to
power is according to Satan’s power and lying wonders,
when he is
supported and endorsed by the latter-day religious leader
(usually called the false
prophet)who is described in the Bible as a ‘man
of action’ who exerts
the authority of the eighth alliance.
(Rev. 13:13‒17;
16:13b‒14; 19:20).
Note:
However, taking-into-account recent developments in the Middle
East since the
Ramadan War in Feb. 28, 2026 ― with regard to the Iranian
leadership that is in
disorder, resembling a power-struggle, or competition between
parties ― a BBC
report on May 18, 2026 pointed to the rising influence of the
man appointed “Speaker
of the Iranian Parliament’ since 2020, viz., a hard-liner
called Mohammad
Bagher Ghalibaf(aged
64), who comes from both a military and political background,
as ex, Mayor of
Tehran, (following in the footsteps of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad),who had also grown
up in the Revolution. [4](Cf. Rev.
13:5 re the additional ‘mouth’ given
to the beast.)
Because
the
dragon’s authorisation and power was given
to the
animal-beast along
with a ‘mouth’ (Rev. 13:2‒5), and thence to the false
prophetwho
acts on the beast’s behalf,this evil
trio (that is indwelt by demonic
spirits like frogs) is ultimately responsible for
gathering the eighthalliance
combatants from all of the lands occupied by the previous
seven‘heads’/kingdoms; by
telling them to assemble at the place called Armageddon in
preparation for
Jihad, Holy War! (Rev. 16:13‒14)
Subsequently, the
preview provided (Rev.
17:8b), tells us how the world reacts to this further
manifestation of warring
evil via the beast, when those whose
names are not written in the Book of Life, (i.e.,
Pagans, non-Christians
and Muslims) from among those alive on the earth ― whose
ancestors have been
ruled by the idolatrous spirit called Mystery Babylon
for centuries ― will
be amazed to see yet another iteration of the beast,
that was, and is not,
and yet is... when it finally reappears as the eighth! (Rev.
17:8b)
We should note however, that the eighth… is
nowhere described as
another ‘head’ (i.e., a single kingdom providing
tenure for the
beast). Instead, the eighth consists
of a ‘gathering’
(i.e., a coalition, an alliance, or a
conglomerate of
like-minded God-opposing Jihadist combatants), who support the
agenda of the dragon
― viahis agent the beast with
its
‘speaker’ ―whose power is enforced by the false prophet.
(Rev. 16:14, 16)
Therefore, the eighth and final manifestation of the
dragon’s power will rise
to notoriety from all seven‘head’
kingdoms that have embraced the beast’s
political dominance
and suffered from Mystery Babylon’sidolatrous influencethroughout
Middle Eastern history; i.e., from the time of Babel’s tower,
to the Sunni and
Shia Islamic nations based across Asia, Mesopotamia, the
Middle East and North
Africa today.
However,
even as
this book is being written, the co-ordinated attack on
Iran conducted by
Israeli and USA forces that began during Ramadan on
February 28, 2026 →
may well be the defining moment (producing unforeseen
repercussions for the
world), which will cause the eighthalliance
to rise up and activate their opposition to Israel and the
USA, in sympathy
with the Twelver
Shi’ite powers of
Islam, based in Iran, Iraq and other countries. The fact
that Iran’s
seafaring Navy ships, Air Force and their air assault
ballistic munitions,
drones and nuclear development operations have been
systematically destroyed,
while their long range military response has been degraded
during the last two
to three years, since October 7, 2023, may leave them no
option other than to draw
in combatants from outlier SUNNI and SHIA terrorist groups,
who will embark on the
prophesied ground invasion into the Glorious Land
(Israel), in a war
involving multiple Middle Eastern countries, led by the
un-named leader
referred to as ‘himself’ aka the king of the north. (Dan.
11:40‒45; Cf. Rev.
9; Joel 3; Zech. 14)
As
a result of the
Israeli and USA sudden attacks on Iran during the Ramadan war,
which killed Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei and several
members of his family;Mojtaba Khamenei (Ali
Khamenei’ssecond
son), a hard-line SHIA cleric,
was appointed in March 2026 as the third
Supreme Leader (Ayatollah) by Iran’s Assembly of
Experts. [5]
Since he was severely injured and facially disfigured in that
same missile
attack, no one has reportedly seen him or heard
him speak in
public (as at mid-May, 2026, because he is hidden);
therefore doubts have
arisen over whether he is still alive and perhaps too
disfigured to be seen in
public, or if decisions are being made in the name of the
Supreme Leader, by
others!
It
is possible, of
course ― in our new age of AI, portraits, photos, holograms,
T.V., movies, and
3D projections ― that some ‘doctored’ representation
of Mojtaba Khamenei
as the Supreme leader (aka
the SHIA beast) of the eighth alliance
may eventually be
produced in effigy by the second beast called the false prophet,
who
deceives the people and fulfils the prophetic words in the
latter half of
Revelation 13. Noticeably, the scriptures leave space for a dual
fulfilment
of Revelation 13:3: firstly, via the mortal
wound affecting the seventh ‘head’Ottoman Empire that was healed after 92
years and revived,
via the resurgent Islamic
State (ISIS)
= [x2] Sunni Caliphates: and secondly, on this later occasion
(below) when the
SHIA beast’s representative has only been ‘wounded’
yet lived;
as per Mojtabe
Khamenei!Could
this be the reason why the false
prophet decides that an
image
of the
beast representative needs to be produced as a
‘stand-in’ ― so the
people can be forced to worship it and give their allegiance
to the
beast’s image at the point of death?
Telling those who
dwell on the earth to
make an image to the beast who was wounded
by the sword and lived. He was granted power to
give breath to the
image of the beast, that the image of the beast
should both speak
and cause as many as would not worship the image of the
beast to be killed. (Rev. 13:14b‒15)
Note:
This requirement to worship an image of the ruler
is eerily
reminiscent of what Daniel and his three friends underwent in
Daniel 3:1‒27,
when they refused to bow down to the golden image (reproduced
for King
Nebuchadnezzar), at the point of death in the fiery furnace!
Thus, after ‘revealing’ in
public the
image(of the beastvia any one
of the abovementioned
methods), the Supreme
Leader of the
beast’s SHIA eighth alliance, aka ‘himself,’ will
be proven to still
be alive and worthy of their adulation. (2 Thess. 2:7‒8)
But from an Iranian
apocalyptic point of view, the
disfigured Ayatollah is not the only candidate for the role of
SHIA beast;
especially since the SHI’ITE
Twelver branch
of Islam in Iran,
has already
assembled a coalition of marginalised terrorist Islamist
combatants called ‘Axis
of Resistance’ to fight on
the
beast’s behalf! Therefore, we should be made aware
of the long-held
belief by TwelverShi’ites that
a person named in
later Hadith books as a messianic figure ― a
descendant of Muhammad,
who will inherit the prophet’s mantle ―who is called
Imam
Muhammadal
Mahdiwho has been in ‘occultation’ since the
9th Century,
is expected to return to rid the world of evil and injustice
during a time of
intense trouble, chaos and anarchy. Consequently, the
combatant Jihadist
members of the SHIA
Twelver branch
of Islam ― who are subject to the same idolatrous doctrines
and militant
Islamism as that dispensed via the great City
of Mecca
through the Islamic holy books, the Quran and Hadith ― hope to
awaken their al Mahdi
(12th Imam) from his 12 Centuries of ‘occultation’
so he will lead
them to victory in the ‘last day,’ as they plan to conquer the
world for Islam
under the black-banner of Jihad, and rule it via Sharia Law. [6]
Note:
At this point, it should be mentioned that the jihadists
involved in the eighth
alliance will be recruited by the ‘demonic
spirits’ which perform
signs, which look like ‘frogs’ that spew forth their propaganda, via
the mouths of the dragon,
the beast and the false prophet.
(Rev. 16:13‒4)
Therefore, it is not so surprising to see that
anti-establishment groups in
Portland USA, are resorting to ‘frog’ imagery in their
‘faux pas’
resistance to the Trump administration’s policies, to remove
criminal illegal
aliens from their city. [7]
Perhaps their ‘frog’ costumes are an advance warning of
the demonic
spirits’ (like
frogs) who will issue invitations to Jihadists
and to the kings of
the earth and of the whole
world(via modern media technology), to gather
themselves to the place
called Armageddon and assemble for indoctrination and training
before engaging
in the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Cf. Jerusalem
Post article,
Feb. 25, 2026, regarding the consolidation of ISIS terrorist
fighters being
trained in camps throughout the world. [8]
On the other hand, it
appears from Revelation
17:11‒13, 16‒17; that the odd mixture of Jihadist terrorists
who are ‘gathered’
from the SUNNI and SHIA radical Islamists to join the SHIA led
eighth alliance,
(who desire to embark on Holy War against God’s people in the
end time), may
initially have very diverse and polarising aims and
objectives that
divide their opinions and therefore their plans for action;
this
initially makes them reluctant to give their resources
to the
beast ― although they appear willing to do so
later ―but not
until they become of
one mind! Thus:
The ten horns
which you saw are ten
kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they
receive authority for one hour as
kings with the
beast. These are of one mind, and they will give
their power and
authority to the beast… (Rev.
17:12‒13)
However, quite
unknowingly, they are about to be
influenced by the
will of God…
(via a ‘God imposed’ diversion to a fresh target), because God
has destruction
of another sort in mind... to fulfil His
words delivered by His ancient prophets Isaiah and
Jeremiah regarding
Babylon.
And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these
will hate the harlot,
make her desolate and
naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire. For God has put it into their hearts to
fulfill His purpose, to
be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast,
until the words
of God are fulfilled.And the
woman whom you saw is
that great city
which reigns
over the kings of the earth. (Rev. 17:16‒18)
But, quite apart from God’s
purpose and the desired
fulfilment of God’s prophetic words; it seems to be
patently unclear for
what possible ‘human reason’ the hateful action that
is yet to be
undertaken by the ten rebellious horns against
the harlot woman
is intended!
Therefore, by using some
imaginative thinking: it is
possible that the jealous
Shia rebels
might want to remove the great city
of Mecca
from the ‘allegedly corrupt’ caretaker-ship role permanently
held over the two
holy mosques in Mecca and Medina by the Sunni King
of Saudi Arabia,
by destroying it! Or, would the rebellious Sunni Salafis or
Wahhabis destroy Mecca
by fire, because they hate Mecca’s modernisation,
iconism and the idolatrous-harlot
symbolism that is inherent in the Ka’aba when it
is annually dressed
in its black embroidered Kiswah complete
with its belt called
Hizam?Perhaps the
seditious Shia elements within
the eighth
alliance hope that if they destroy Mecca, the Qiblaexistingin Mosques
throughout the worldmight
be redirected for daily prayers
and pilgrimages to one of SHIA Iran’s holy centres in Mashad or Qom? Or, perhaps there is a
group of anti-Saud and
anti-Mecca rebels among the ten horns and NTO’s in the eighth
alliance, who hope
that after Mecca’s destruction, the Qibla will once
again be directedto
Jerusalem (the third holiest site in Islam), as
it was for the
16‒17 months after Muhammad migrated to Medina), before he
redirected it back
to Mecca?
Note:
Their attack on Mecca may tie in with their longer term
plans (via the next
event on their agenda), which is to make war with the Lamb,
and conquer
Jerusalem on behalf of the beast.
(Rev. 17:14; 2 Thess.
2:3‒4; Zech. 14:1‒9; Joel 3:1‒2) Potentially therefore, the
sudden destruction
of Mecca
could be conceived and premeditated by combatants in
the eighth
alliance, as a ‘false flag’ operation
that is
blamed on Israel. In doing so, they provide a ‘wake-up call’
to rally ‘the
hordes of troops’ from the vast Muslim territories who believe the
lie, and
enthusiastically invade the land of Israel in their attempt to
‘wipe Israel off
the map. Such an invasion is prophesied to occur under the
leadership of the
unnamed king of the north (Dan. 11:36‒50), aka
‘the
lawless one’ described by Paul (2 Thess. 2:3‒12),
who after he is
revealed, sits in the ‘naos’
(Grk.
‘building’) on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, where he
convinces himself that
he is God!
However, only God knows
what ‘thoughts He puts into
the hearts and minds of these rebels’ ...which cause them to
hatefully destroy the
harlot! But, for whatever reason, whether it is
God’s ― because Mystery
Babylon’s immolation is endorsed in scripture as
being the will of
God, via the propheticwords
of Isaiah
and Jeremiah) ― or whether the seditious rebels consider the
possibilities
listed above are good enough reasons for Mecca
to be burned by fire! In any case, the great
city’s demise is sudden and deliberate; occurring
in one
hour,on one dayas emphasised in
Revelation 14:8; 18:8, 10,
17, 19; when God uses the beast’s own proxies to exact revenge
on Mystery
Babylon (sitting on the throne of the beast,
in the
wilderness),for her sins against His people. (Rev.
18:20, 24; 19:1‒3) Cf.
6th Seal ‘anomalous earthquake’ (Rev.
6:12‒17, 19:21), which
resembles a nuclear explosion and fall-out.
Thus, it is only when
the kingdom base and throne
of the beast (gifted by the great red dragon) have
been destroyed, that
― at the sounding of the 7th trumpet:
The
kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our
Lord and of His Christ,
and He shall reign for ever and ever. (Rev. 11:15)
It is also possible that
this attack on Meccamay
be directed remotely, via long-distance ballistic missiles
fired by IRGC from
Iran or by the Houthis rebels from Yemen; which causes the
seafaring merchants in
the Red Sea ports to stand far-off, for fear of her plague and
torment; (Rev.
16:18‒21; 18:10, 15, 17) but it must occur before the eighth jihadist
alliance
― that is gathered by the dragon, the beast and
the false
prophet at the place called Armageddon ― engages
in the battle of the
great day of God Almighty;
because it is during this later warfare that the armies of the
eighth
alliance, along with the beast and the false
prophet, will
finally be defeated by the Lamb (Rev. 16:14; 17:14; 19:19‒21).
Note: It is
increasingly important therefore ― as developments between
SHIA Iran versus USA and Israel during the Ramadan War
further
deteriorate in the Middle East (February 28, to June, 2026) ―
that the identity
of the SHIA leader
of the eighthalliance
together with its Axis
of Resistance members,
plus the allied NTO’s
and 10 terrorist
‘kings’ who have been
incentivised by the ‘signs’ they performed that ‘makes fire
come down from heaven
on the earth in the sight of men’ (Rev. 13:13;
16:14), causing the
destruction of Mecca should quickly be recognised;
before they can rise up
from the previous seven
kingdom ‘heads’
on the
beast (Cf. Maps provided) to declare a Global Jihad(Holy War) against the Lamb
and His people, and march
on Jerusalem.
[1] E.g. Osama bin
Laden’s two Fatwas made in
1996 and 1998 in Islamabad, Pakistan, declaring Jihad
(war) against USA, with
five signatories, identifying them as the ‘World Islamic
Front for Jihad
against Jews and Crusaders.’ Fatawā of Osama bin Laden (en-academic.com)
[2]Notably, Iran’s TwelverShi’ism is adamantly opposed to the
Wahhabi and Salafi doctrines
dispensed by Saudi Arabia, which condemns the veneration of Muslim Imams and
saints and the building of shrines or
any representation of living things in images, in art, or
in statues.
Importantly, Shia
doctrines also
espouse a strict monotheism devoted to the pure worship of
Allah, as practiced
by the first three Imams who succeeded Muhammad. AlthoughWahhabism
is most often associated with the Saudi royal family and
the religious
establishment in Saudi Arabia, Salafism is a
broader term that
encompasses a variety of groups across the Muslim world.Groups such as Al-Qaeda and ISIS have
been
associated with the [Jihadist] interpretation of
Salafi thought, using violent tactics to
establish a global caliphate and impose their
interpretation of Islam.
Think
about the ‘demonic spirits’ like frogs coming from
the mouths of the
dragon, the beast and the false prophet ― in modern
parlance ― as issuing forth
from the ‘dark web-internet’ which summons these radical
terrorist combatants
to gather and fight against Israel and her Christian
allies. (Rev. 16:13‒14) Dark
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