“And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast. These are of one mind, and they hand over their power and authority to the beast. They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.” (Revelation 17:12-14) (ESV) As the Middle East descends into chaos, if we look behind the scenes we can begin to see the outline of the shadows of the scriptures that define the End of the Age. There are powers that control Presidents and Prime Ministers, Generals and Kings. They are maneuvering forces into place that will make possible the rise of a single Leader for the World System. They’ve been at it for centuries…..one could argue for millennia……and they’ve almost completed their task.
WARS & RUMORS ….. WARS & RUMORS
Weakness births opportunity. And Vladimir Putin could both smell weakness and the opportunity to clothe his challenge to it in self-righteousness. After all, Putin had forced President Obama to back down on the Syrian front back in 2013. It took some heavy diplomacy back then – or specifically threats by the Russians ….and Chinese to turn any American incursion into Syria into a nuclear confrontation. Obama had suddenly seen the light and opted to find a more peaceful solution. Then there was Benghazi. This event, like no other, served as the linchpin for the changing of US imperial fortunes that the Syrian crisis represents. Doug Hagmann laid out the situation. “The road to World War III travels directly through Damascus. The road to global conflict was paved by the selection of Barack Hussein Obama II in 2008, and was further widened by the Clinton State Department as it went through Libya, specifically Benghazi, by a rogue crew of globalists acting at the behest of the Saudis. As I have always asserted, the attack at Benghazi was a critically important hinge moment in history. It was a warning from Russia by proxy to Obama, Clinton and the globalists in the US and the West, against overthrowing Assad and changing the balance of power in the Middle East on behalf of Saudi Arabia. It was a warning by Russia to stop arming the Islamists. It was a warning that went unheeded.”[i] Now here was yet another chance for to once remove another prop from the foundation of the American Empire while advancing the Russian position in the Middle East. He would not let this opportunity pass.
So Putin launched his foray during a speech at the United Nations by lecturing the United States on its support of the Arab Spring movement that swept the region. This supposedly democratic movement instead of producing freedom begat the rise of radical Islam to the seats of power. The Russian President indicted the US for the “slaughter, destruction, and chaos that Washington has brought to the Middle East, North Africa, and Ukraine, and the extreme jihadist forces that have been unleashed.[ii] Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster — and nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life. I cannot help asking those who have forced that situation: Do you realize what you have done?” It was the Arab Spring that created the power vacuum in the region which led in turn to the ascendency of radical-Islamist groups like ISIS. He then went on to make the case that America was not doing enough to address the threat.[iii] Former Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts correctly analyzed the situation. Two days after the Putin’s UN appearance: “They (the Russians have taken over the situation in Syria.” Then referencing the White House’s complicity in creating at the very least the conditions for the existence of ISIS he concluded: “When Russia blocked the intended US invasion of Syria, Obama sent these people to Syria and pretended they were a free Syrian army.” Brandon Smith went even farther. “The entire Syrian insurgency was conjured out of the ether by NATO interests, due to the suspicious nature of the Council On Foreign Relations and their public statements suddenly SUPPORTING Al-Qaida in Syria. US involvement in the funding and training of the organization we now know as ISIS (or al-Qaida 2.0) has been proven.”[iv]
But the Russians didn’t stop there. They immediately began a robust air campaign against rebel forces – both ISIS as well as the US-supported Islamist cadres. Make no mistake: These are not ‘moderate rebels’- and they certainly no ours. In the past they have proven this time and again by taking American money and arms before giving their allegiance fully to the ISIS camp. So as the attacks began, Moscow was virtually ordering American and allied forces to stand aside as Moscow’s air force delivered their lethal blows. What’s more, the attacks were proving effective as hundreds of ISIS and other rebel forces began to melt and surrender.
Within days other reports went out. Iranian troops were arriving to take part in the ground assaults to follow. Hezbollah was fully on board. The Russians were readying an army of 150,000 to take up positions in Syria. In response the US did little. The Pentagon considered whether to use military force to protect its Islamist militias.[v] Senator McCain called for arming those rebels with weapons that could take down Russian warplanes. Either of those options risked direct confrontation with Moscow.
The nature of this confrontation is unlike the Cold War dust-ups that periodically erupted between Washington and Moscow. America is neither standing as – nor presenting itself as – the champion of Christian civilization. It is Putin and Russia that is claiming that role for itself. And though it may be somewhat disingenuous and self-serving: There is a kernel of truth to the claim. The Russian Orthodox Church has declared this to be a ‘Holy War’ waged for the protection of Christians in the Middle East; not just Syria, but Iraq Egypt and Pakistan too. Officials from the Russian Church pointed to the many Christians dying for their faith in the region. “The fight with terrorism is a holy battle and today our country is perhaps the most active force in the world fighting it. The Russian Federation has made a responsible decision on the use of armed forces to defend the People of Syria from the sorrows caused by the arbitrariness of terrorists. Christians are suffering in the region with the kidnapping of clerics and the destruction of churches.”[vi] President Putin was only too happy to put on that mantle, real or feigned.
Contrast that with America’s new position. Raymond Ibrahim points out: President Obama “denies the connection between Islamic teachings and violence”….adopts policies that “habitually empower Christian-persecuting Islamists” and “even throws escaped Christian refugees back to the lions, while accepting tens of thousands of Muslim migrants.” [That number is expected to go to at least 100,000.] Mr Obama has been quick to declare America no longer a Christian nation, even a Muslim nation. Yet Putin, surveying a culture that contemptuously dismisses Christian values as out of date and repressive, declared: “We must protect Russia from that which has destroyed American society.”[vii] Now we may want to snicker when we hear this former KGB man piously intone the like of that – but even Franklin Graham, gives a nod of approval to Russia’s actions. “What Russia is doing may save the lives of Christians in the Middle East…. You understand that the Syrian government for their good and for their bad over the history of this country, they have protected Christians, they have protected minorities from the Islamists. If the government of Syria and its institutions were to fail, there would be a bloodbath of Christians. There were would be tens and tens of thousands of Christians murdered and slaughtered and on top of that you would have hundreds of thousands of more refugees pouring into Europe. So Russia right now, I see their presence as helping to save the lives of Christians.”[viii] The ironic bottom line seems to be that Moscow is effectively taking on ISIS and the Islamists while America and the West are embracing the terrorists and arranging for their invasion in the US and Europe.
But there is even more to this chaotic picture. The Saudis have declared that Assad has to go. Yet they face a crisis of their own with Iranian-backed Houthi rebels threatening neighboring Yemen. The House of Saud is aiding the southern rebel forces in Syria and fighting in Yemen. Turkey and Qatar are backing the northern rebels against Assad in northern Syria. Iranian missiles are targeting US bases and Saudi oil fields. One Iranian Brigadier bragged that Tehran has 2,000 missiles aimed at the Saudi Kingdom.[ix] (A strike on the oil fields could crash the world economy as the markets around the globe go into panic mode.) And as this newsletter goes to press, the Russians have launched cruise missile strikes against anti-Assad forces in Syria. The missiles – flew over both Iraq and Iran to get there. (It was effective – though a little sloppy – with some of the missiles falling short and exploding in Iran.)
In the event, Putin and Russia has stolen a march on Obama and the USA. With this insertion of Russian power into Syria, Vladimir has engineered the resurgence of Moscow’s global influence and established Moscow – once again – as a world power rather than a regional one. Despite the ineffectual blusterings of the United States, a new alliance has been formed consisting of not only Russia and Syria but also Iran and Hezbollah; this while Obama tried to limit Iranian nuclear ambitions with an ineffectual treaty. This is beyond embarrassing. And as Russia expands its military presence in the region even Iraq may fall to its influence. Here’s this from Business Insider. “One day after launching a campaign of airstrikes in Syria, Russia announced that it was considering going into Iraq. Iraqi President Haider al-Abadi told Western news outlets that Russian airstrikes were ‘a possibility’ and that Iraq would ‘welcome it’.”[x] The Middle East is a powder keg – ready to blow, as possible confrontations linger in the shadows – between the US and Russia, the US and Iran, the Saudis and Iranians, Iran and Israel, Syria and Israel, Russia and Israel. World War III is but a miscalculation away.
And Then There Is Israel
It was not long ago, the end of August to be precise, that rocket attacks against Israel are launched from Syria and the Israeli Air Force responds with air strikes. Russia warns Obama that he must use his influence to back down the IDF. That was before the beefed up Russian presence in the region. The White House is beginning to understand the nature and gravity of the situation. Explaining the administration’s view as enunciated by US Defense Secretary Carter, Dave Hodges writes: “What Carter is clearly saying, is that Russia is not in Syria to eradicate ISIS/ISIL. Russia is in Syria to ERADICATE ALL THREATS TO ASSAD AND TO GAIN A MILITARY FOOTHOLD IN THE MIDDLE EAST! Russia has inserted itself into Syria to destroy the CIA backed Syrian rebels in order to protect Assad.” That protection extends, if need be, even to taking on Israel. “Carter went on to say that ‘Others are present. The result of this kind of action will inevitably be simply to be to inflame the civil war in Syria.’ The phrase inflame the war in Syria strongly hints at a Russian escalation to World War III.”[xi]
But Israel is facing more than just the Russian threat. A new wave of terror has swept the nation. There was a multiple stabbing in Tel Aviv, rock throwing incidents in various locations and a couple was shot and murdered in the front seat of their car as their three young children watched from the back seat. And there is no apology from the Palestinians, accolytes in the ‘religion of peace.’ The reality is that this is another wave of the intifada; violence aimed at harming innocents. The situation on the Temple Mount is especially volatile. Arab anger has trumped fear of the Israeli security forces. The Jerusalem Post asks: “Israel has for quite some time lost the deterrence factor there. For quite a while, it has not had a grip over events there. How else does one explain the fact that any bearded Jew in the vicinity of Temple Mount becomes a walking stick of dynamite? All he has to do is close his eyes and recite the Shema Yisrael’ prayer – and we have another intifada.”[xii] And besides all of this, Prime Minister Netanyahu faces the threat from a nuclear ambitious Iran dedicated to Israel’s destruction – with a chief ally that has abandoned it on the issue – and the presence of possibly 150,000 Russian troops in the region to lend support to Tehran’s position.
The Run-Up To Something Bigger ?
Is all of this then, just the staging ground for something bigger and more dangerous to the whole world. There is much in the literature that suggests that there exists a cabal if you will, of Illuminati types that would welcome – or even work to engineer a confrontation between Russia and the West that would bring on the ascendance of a World Dictator. It would take a world-wide military event to effect that transformation. It is interesting – and really, really scary – to note that the American governmental and military establishment has begun preparing for such an event – a World War III type scenario, if you will. For decades during the Cold War, America held to a military doctrine that said we would never engage in a first strike in a nuclear war. We depended instead on our ability to dissuade the enemy (Russia) through the doctrine of MAD or Mutual Assured Destruction: (You attack us – We’ll destroy you.) But that changed several years ago. The fact is that military analysis has determined that the US and its NATO allies could never match a Russian-coalition in a conventional war. So the Pentagon strategy changed. To win such a conflict, America would need to launch a devastating first strike. The attack would come from land-based ICBMs, nuclear armed subs and deep-space platforms. The hope would be that this first strike would destroy enough of the enemies own nuclear arsenal to allow our HAARP defenses to take out a good deal of what the Russians would be able to send our way, and thereby survive the counter attack. But in reality, no matter the effectiveness, a nuclear exchange on that level would forever alter civilization. Just a few well placed nuclear explosions could create an EMP effect that many believe could result in the long-term death of 90% of the target population.[xiii]
And then there is this. The powers that run the world are moving this country into a very different future. There is something called the America 2050 plan. Here’s Dave Hodges to explain. “The enslavement of America has taken center stage and it is indeed called ‘America 2050.’ The plan for America 2050 is to herd Americans into 11 megacities consisting of six million people each totaling 66 million people. Under this plan, there are no provisions for any other population developments…. In this post-war America, 90% of the people are unaccounted for. However, the timetable for that plan to go into effect may be much closer than 2050. There also exists a CIA front group called Deagle that has projected America’s future – and it is not a pretty one. Hodges writes of the release of Deagle documents that demonstrate that “both the US and the UK lose most of their military before 2025. As is the case for the mega-cities concept, the Deagel documents demonstrate that the United States will have lost 90% of its people by the year 2025.” In 2014 Deagle published a document that showed the “projected demographic shift” for every nation on the globe. Here’s what it predicts for the US.
United States of America Projected Changes from 2014-2025
Year: 2013
- Population: 316 million
- Gross Domestic Product: $17 trillion
- GDP per capita: $52,838
- Budget: $5.8 trillion
- Military Budget: $726 billion
Forecast 2025
- Population: 69 million
- Gross Domestic Product: $921 billion
- GDP per capita: $13,328
- Military Budget: $8.0 billion[xiv]
There are forces at work that are planning this destruction. The Georgia Guide Stones for instance call for a global population of just 500 million. There are approximately 7 billion people alive today. That is suggestive of a terrifying scenario. But God! “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.” (Matthew 24:21-22) (ESV)
[i] Douglas Hagmann, Final countdown to World War III, Canada Free Press, October 2, 2015
[ii] Susan Duclos, Putin Vs Obama, All News Pipeline, October 5, 2015
[iii] Robert Spencer, Putin to those who supported “Arab Spring” in Middle East: “Do you realize what you have done?”, Jihad Watch,
September 28, 2015
[iv] Brandon Smith, Syrian Crisis: What Will Happen Next?, ALT Market, October 7, 2015
[v] Pentagon weighs using force to protect US-backed Syria rebels targeted by Russia, FOX News, October 2, 2015
[vi] Church says Russia fighting ‘holy battle’ in Syria, Yahoo News, September 30, 2015
[vii] Raymond Ibrahim, Front Page Magazine, October 6, 2015
[viii] Franklin Graham: Russian Air Strikes May Prevent Christian Bloodbath, Newsmax, September 30, 2015
[ix] Iran has rockets to attack Saudi Arabia , Middle East Monitor, October 3, 2015
[x] ‘This is a major world event’: The Syrian war is now fueling a ‘global cold war’, Business Insider, October 2, 2015
[xi] Dave Hodges, Russia and Israel On a Collision Course for World War III, The Common Sense Show, October 2, 2015
[xii] Analysis: Israel is one major terror attack away from Operation Defensive Shield 2, Jerusalem Post, October 8, 2015
[xiii] Dave Hodges, Can America Win World War III? A Critical Analysis, The Common Sense Show, October 2, 2015
[xiv] Dave Hodges, Globalist Documents Reveal America to Lose WW III Along With 90% of Its Population,
The Common Sense Show, September 29, 2015
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