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The Establishment of the Final Empire:

The Ten Nation Confederacy of Daniel’s

Vision that Antichrist will use

During the Great Tribulation is being readied.

Who will it be fighting against?

 This army of the Revived Roman Empire was predicted to come to power in Revelation 17:12-17, “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. And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongue.  And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.  For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled”.

 The ‘Arch Nemesis’ (Iran) of the Revived Roman Empire in Europe, along with Turkey and Russia will be virtually destroyed by God in their attempted invasion of Israel.  The entire chapters Ezekiel 38-39 are a detailed description of this soon coming event.  It appears it will happen shortly before or after the Tribulation starts. Make no mistake, the Bible is clear that this will occur at the designated time in the ‘latter days,’ a time that always refers to the time when the people of Israel have been regathered into their promised land.  All that is left of Iran, Turkey and Russia’s military might is only 1/6th.  God destroys 5/6th of their forces (Ezekiel 39:2).  If the invading force were 36,000 soldiers, only 6,000 are left alive.  Why does God use ‘6’ (six) as his divisible?  6 is the number of ‘evil men.’  In God’s eye, these men that come against Israel are evil.  Six is also the number associated with the Beast (another evil man) and the False Prophet (Pope Francis — another evil man).  These are all literally flesh and blood, human beings.  Today, as of September 2019, Russia — Turkey — Iran are all in Syria and are firmly aligned with one another.  When the military backbones of these three countries are broken by God, they literally represent no challenge or military threat to the Beast, when Antichrist  acquires the ‘power, mind and will’ of the 10 Nation European Military Coalition.  The newly elected head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen stated in her acceptance speech that this is one her major goals to achieve.  The 10 kings of the world will give Antichrist their sovereignty and authority to carry out his will.

Ezekiel 39:1-5, “Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:  And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.  Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee:  I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.  Thou shalt fall upon the open field:  for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God”.

Revelation 13:4, “And they worshiped the dragon (Satan / Allah / Islam) which gave power unto the beast:  and they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast?  who is able to make war with him”?

Why won’t China, India, Pakistan, South Korea or Japan

(Kings of the East) stand up to the Beast?

 There is well documented proof that over the past several months in 2019, Europe has made a concerted effort to ‘buy’ the allegiance and partnership of exactly these five countries.  The EU has signed multi-billion dollar investment deals with Jinping, Modi, Khan, Jae-in and Abe.  These five countries are all ‘beholden’ to the EU for their financial largess.  They will not come against him for obvious economic, financial and political reasons.  They are almost exclusively beholden to him for their purchase of oil and other petroleum related products.  It would be suicide for them to go against the EU, the ‘King of Oil.’  Diplomatically, as of today, they are all in good standing and have good relations with the EU.  There is also lots of information that reveal the concerted efforts of the EU to shore up their claws with the ‘Kings of the East.’  The Bible also provides us a clue that the ‘Kings of the East.’ are not a threat to the Beast because it is not until the last day of the Tribulation (Day of the Lord) that the Beast deceives or draws the Kings of Armageddon.  Xi Jinping (China) is in league with the Beast in terms of its human rights violations, religious persecution of Christians and control of the population.  Birds of feather flock together. Loyalty to Royalty and State, above Christ.  Xi Jinping is almost a mirror image of the EU in the East, but doesn’t play a prophetic role in the tribulation until he is enticed  or deceived into coming to Armageddon.  Jinping has publicly gone on record strongly supporting the EU’s ‘great efforts at transforming Saudi Arabia.’  They are both playing from the same diabolical playbook.

 Throughout Scripture, God has made it abundantly clear that Jerusalem is the ‘apple of his eye’ and has his stamp of ownership on it … above all other cities on earth.  God makes it adequately clear in Zechariah 12:3 that any nation that attempts to cut or divide up Jerusalem, will themselves be cut up or divided.  As such, the U.S. is cut or divided politically because of its leadership role in  attempting to split God’s Holy City of earthly Jerusalem.

 What does all his have to do with potentially coming against the Revived Roman Empire and the military and political allegiance from a revived European 10 nation coalition army?  The U.S. has no reason to challenge this arrangement.  Most, if not all members within the coalition are U.S. allies to varying degrees.  Trump has no complaint against Europe except that they don’t contribute enough of their fair share to NATO.  This leaves a ‘vacuum’ that will force the EU to increase the development of its own organized defensive military capabilities.  The U.S. has no need to come against its European allies.  One of the main reasons voiced recently by the new European Commission leader for the formation of this 10 nation coalition army is to combat Islamic terrorism that is plaguing Europe.  No one in the U.S. will question the use of the European military coalition to battle Islamic terrorism.  Additionally, the Rapture / harpazo will have depleted and perhaps rendered the U.S. military forces in becoming understaffed and ill-forced to participate in any international military confrontation.  This of course assumes that a decent percentage of the U.S. military forces are Christians at the time the ‘age of grace’ has been completed.

  Another tactic from the Saudi / House of Saud playbook has been to exploit religion  to shore up its legitimacy.  The title “khaadim al-haramayn al-sharifayan” — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques”, a reference to the mosques in Makkah and Madinah — has been useful for this purpose. The House of Saud (Bottomless Pit) is responsible for caretaking (being the custodian) of the two holiest Islamic mosques.  A prominent Imam in the Grand Mosque in Makkah described the Crown Prince as a “reformer” during a sermon watched by millions of Muslims around the world. The Imam used a religious epithet, mujaddid, a term which is attributed to Prophet Muhammad, who is reported to have said that once every century, god (Allah) sends a mujaddid, a great reformer, to reclaim or reinvigorate the Islamic faith.  Extolling Bin Salman in this manner implies that he is a divine gift to Muslims and that he is the mujaddid sent to revive Islam in our age.

 Middle East / North African (MENA), Arab / Islamic countries are the ‘many’ regional countries referred to in Daniel 9:27, regarding the confirmation of the regional peace and security’ agreement.

Daniel 9:26-27, “And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself:  and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolation’s are determined.  And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate”.

 Alphabetized List of many MENA (Middle East / North African) countries (Most commonly used); Algeria. Bahrain, Egypt, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, State of Palestine, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen. Almost all of these countries have a vested interest the outcome of the Israeli / Palestinian conflict. Why is the covenant confirmed for seven years (one week)?  That is the amount of time that will be agreed upon for financial investment being baked into the agreement to build up the Palestinian people.  Seven is also the divine number of God that refers to the divine of his plan or purpose.  The seven year’s confirmation is no coincidence and is and is a validation of other instances of scripture that use seven (7) in describing the outcome of event orchestrated by God.  Plain and simple.

 The last, and perhaps most profound impact that MENA has on prophecy is that collectively, these countries drive EU to seek and acquire the allegiance and strength of a large military force. What causes this?  In two words, Islamic Terrorism.

 The greatest danger of extremist terrorism is in distorting the reputation of our tolerant religion,” the crown prince lamented.  The crown prince has that, “we will not allow… elements to tarnish the image of Islam.”  He wants to make Saudi Arabia more religiously open, pluralistic, moderate, and tolerate or all religious denominations (lie, Christians will be persecuted to death / beheading for not denying Christ and in denying Islam, and not expressing ‘loyalty’ to the EU. Saudi Arabia is the only nation / country on the planet that beheads dissidents and those not loyal to the House of Saud.  Beheadings have increased dramatically since came Salman came to power in June 2017.

 Once Turkey and Iran are are ‘out of the way’ (Ezekiel 39:2) there is no political or military presence in the region to resist the Beast. The absence of an Iranian / Turkish military threat will accelerate the complete and total domination in MENA.

 The Bible also indicates that a 10 nation military coalition will come out of a ‘revived / reviving’ Europe / Roman Empire.  There is literally no other country, or group of countries that can do this.  Islamic terrorism is spreading internationally around the globe, like a cancer. Therefore, the Beast needs to give authority to a military force to be able to act internationally, on his behalf.

 In closing, Revelation 13:4, “And they worshiped the dragon (Satan / Allah / Islam) which gave power unto the beast:  and they worshiped the beast saying, Who is like unto the beast?  Who is able to make are war with him?

 No one is able or willing to come against the Beast — Russia, Iran, Turkey, United States, China, India, Pakistan, South Korea or Japan.  This leaves the only significant tribulation military force in the West to do the Beast’ bidding in fighting Islamic terrorism in Europe and in MENA.  The 10 nation military coalition from Europe. The Beast is hell-bent on defending the ‘reputation’ of Satan’s religion on earth, to defeat those who ‘give Islam a bad name,’ and in promoting a more ‘moderate form of Islam.  This is a deceptive satanic tactic to make Islam more appealing to a wider base of people around the world before they can come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

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