Turkey Takes On It's Prophetic Role

One of the most watched prophecies that has not been fulfilled is Ezekiel 38-39.  Ezekiel saw Turkey as a major player in it.  Only a handful of years ago it was impossible to see HOW that was going to be possible.  Turkey was the most Western Muslim nation on the planet and seemed to be drawing TOWARDS Europe....so how in the world were they going to join with Russia and Iran to form a coalition against Israel?

“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 put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee” ( Ezekiel 38:3-6).

In the late 1980s, and again in the late 1990s I served two, two-year tours of duty in Izmir, Turkey and Ankara, Turkey, respectively. I loved living in the Republic of Turkey. It was a unique anomaly in the world; a truly secular nation with a 95 percent Muslim population.

However, the nation I once knew…is no more, for since those times Turkey has dramatically changed to align itself into its prophetic end-time position.

The secular Turkey I loved…

It was a nation formed by the strong hand of Mustafa Kemel Ataturk in the ashes of post World War I, Ottoman Empire, as he helped save the Turkish people in a war of preservation against the nation of Greece. After the victory, he truly became a benevolent dictator for the remainder of his life and dedicated himself to reform Turkey into a westward looking nation.

Among his many accomplishments he: completely separated the Islamic religion from the federal government; made each person take a last name; gave woman equal rights and the vote; created a written Turkish language based on western letters, and most importantly for the freedom of his people set in place a constitution which guaranteed the military would keep in check the corrosive influences of the Muslim faith.

It was within this nation that he had formed, that I traveled freely about with my family and friends, taking in all the historically rich heritage that Turkey had to offer, and in particular its lush and lengthy biblical history.

Noah’s ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat. Abraham sojourned in Haran. The once lost Hittite Empire of Uriah the Hittite was discovered here. Paul of Tarsus was born here and would travel amongst, and preach and write epistles to many of its citizens.  The apostle John lived in Ephesus and the ruined cities of the seven churches he wrote of Revelations are here.  It was a wondrous blessing to visit this land where the hand of God had helped shaped Mankind’s path towards salvation.

Weekly we went to church with missionaries who were quietly planting the seeds among the Turkish people. Most of the Turks we encountered were welcoming people who were cultural, non-practicing Muslims. We all had hope of a slow gradual change in Turkey as one soul at a time was reached for Christ. We prayed that this secular yet Muslim nation would lead other Islamic nations to shake off the oppressive yoke of the Koran, so the Word of God could grow.

Unfortunately, I am saddened to say from a recent trip back to Turkey and what has been unfolding politically over the last decade, the nation of Turkey I once knew, and loved and prayed for is no more.

The Koranic curtain closes upon Turkey…

In short, over the last decade the cancerous growth of fundamentalist Islam has crept into the government and a building tide of events has placed the radical Islamist Recep Tayyip Erdogan in near dictatorial power. And now for years Erdogan has been systematically, and slowly undoing everything Ataturk once so wisely set in place.

Even more tragically, last year’s failed coup has shifted Erdogan’s pro-Muslim reforms into high gear as he silences his opposition through purging tens of thousands of secular Turks from the media, military, courts, government, and education systems. He has taken Turkey in a dramatic turn away from the West and it is now rushing head long back towards its Islamic roots.

We are now witnessing the spiritual darkness of what I call the “Koranic Curtain” closing down upon the people of Turkey in similar fashion to how the Iron Curtain fell and crushed the freedom of the peoples of Eastern Europe. But the darkness behind the Koranic Curtain is far,  far worse.

The people of every nation imprisoned behind the Koranic Curtain are subject to a theocratic group of evil men guided by the writings of a flawed sinful, man whose religious tome tells them they are justified in violently controlling every aspect of people’s lives.

Not a shock, but a prophetic fulfillment…

That said, as students of biblical prophecy this development should come as no shock.

Decades ago as I roamed the country of Turkey, I knew the prophecy experts of the day said the Gog/Magog War of Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 foretold that the peoples of these Turkish lands would accompany the Gog/Magog alliance in a war with the intention to exterminate Israel. Today’s prominent prophecy scholars still echo the same interpretation listing Turkey among the nations which shall march upon and then be crushed against the mountains of Israel.

However, way back in the later days of the Cold War it was very hard to image how a staunchly secular Turkey could join a military alliance with one of its greatest enemies, the USSR (pre-1990 communist Russia for you young readers), and a group of backward (in the minds of the Turks I worked with at that time) Muslim nations.

But here we are and Ezekiel’s 2,600 year old prophecy has come to pass.  Now Turkey’s greatest enemy the USSR has long since collapsed, and Turkey is now governed by a radical Muslim dictator who is aligning with the Koranic Curtain countries of the Middle East.

The Lord God will set the hook…

Turkey is now positioned ideologically and politically to fulfill its end time prophetic role.

Though a palpable tension still exists between Turkey, and Russia and its Iranian partner, it is not hard to envision that any issues can be readily set aside to execute mutually shared goals against Israel. As we read in the opening verse it is the Lord God’s mighty hand which shall set the hook in the jaws and bring forth these nations.

Be in awe as the Lord God methodically maneuvers the peoples, tongues and nations in order to bring about His divine purposes, working on a time scale and in ways we can only glimpse upon.

Keep watching the Middle East, as always it will remain the center of prophetic fulfillment.

Marantha!

http://www.raptureready.com/2017/02/07/turkey-a-prophetic-piece-aligned-by-joe-southerlandr/

Campus Prevents Conservatives Because Liberals Won't Feel Safe

It's interesting to me that the liberals are all screaming their warnings that Donald Trump is following the patterns that Hitler did in his rise to power. 

But do they also understand that bullying and restricting free speech was also a playbook used by the Nazi's?

As we are seeing time and time again, college campuses are restricting free speech.  The Berkeley riots were started because a openly gay man wanted to speak on campus.  Ordinarily, a gay man would be celebrated and welcomed to speak on any campus....but because this gay supported Trump....he was banned.

Today we read an article describing a University that won't allow a conservative group to form on campus because it would make some students feel 'unsafe'.

According to the Daily Caller, Santa Clara University student senate has turned down a petition for the formation of a Turning Point USA chapter at their college, and all because leftist students and faculty said the formation of such a group would make them feel “unsafe.”

During a meeting of the Associated Student Government, a group of 50 students and school employees took up an hour to explain why such a group should not exist on their campus right after a lengthy powerpoint presentation that attempted to tie Turning Point USA to white supremacist groups.

“It was a lot of repetitive stuff,” Caleb Alleva, one of the Turning Points USA petitioners, told The Daily Caller.

Opponents of the group insisted that a group promoting free trade and limited government on campus would make them feel “unsafe,” Alleva told TheDC.
“They were saying they were in danger but they couldn’t cite any facts,” the junior explained.

“A lot of them are lying about being afraid or they are genuinely in fear because of this false sense of danger promulgated by the media that anyone who is vaguely conservative is a Nazi or a white supremacist,” Alleva said.

According to student senator David Warne, the plan to have Turning Point USA rejected from the campus appeared to revolve around making the group appear to be a white supremacist group, linking them to the likes of Richard Spencer, the alt-right, and Project Evropa, all popular names in the white supremacy movement.

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/02/06/university-stops-formation-of-conservative-group-due-to-campus-leftists-feeling-unsafe/

I have no doubt that USA is in trouble.  A nation divided this severely isn't healthy. 

Remember to pray for Team Trump!

How Can a Dinosaur Bone Still be Found with Soft Flesh in it?

We all know that the evolutionists out there NEED to have millions and billions of years in order for their theory to work.  We also know they are involved in circular reasoning.  For instance, they find a fossil in a rock and say, "This fossil is 195 million years old."  If you ask them how they know that they will say, "Because it was found in a 195 million year old rock!"  If you ask them how they know the rock is 195 million years old they will tell you, "Because we found a 195 million year old fossil in it!"

Got it.

So one of the amazing things that has been happening recently is that scientists have found soft tissue in dinosaur bones.  To most of us this would be evidence that the dinosaur couldn't possibly be millions of years old because soft tissue would all be evaporated.

But instead of considering that common sense fact....notice what happens.  Also notice that this article is in Christian Science Monitor.

January 31, 2017 —Fossils can be so much more than dried out, mineralized bones. Researchers have found entire creatures exquisitely preserved in amber, dinosaur eggshells, and even the fossilized structure of a 515-million-year-old animal's nervous system.

But soft tissue has largely eluded scientists. Research over the last decade has suggested that proteins may be preserved in some fossils, which could revolutionize paleontology. But the only candidates came from the very end of the age of the dinosaurs, about 70 million years ago. 

Now, a new study may be resetting that timescale, and further opening the door to a new, molecular, approach to paleontology.

Paleontologists say they've found collagen, a protein found throughout all animal bodies, preserved in the 195-million-year-old fossilized bone of a sauropodomorph dinosaur, Lufengosaurus.

And, as "collagen is a basic building block for organisms," says Robert Reisz, an author on the paper and a paleontologist at the University of Toronto Mississauga, finding ancient proteins could shine a new light on old bones.

Schweitzer's own work has revealed preserved organic material in dinosaur fossils, and has been the subject of much scrutiny by other paleontologists. Her team has reported the discovery of blood cells and soft tissue preserved in dinosaur fossils. Their most recent finding, collagen in an 80-million-year-old dinosaur bone, was published last week in the Journal of Proteome Research. 

Dr. Brusatte sees Reisz's work as key support for Schweitzer's controversial research. Taken together, he says, this kind of research "tells us that soft tissues and microscopic tissues may be able to be preserved for a huge swath of time – hundreds of millions of years."

And, Brusatte adds, "If we can find these in lots of dinosaurs, we can perhaps use them to build better family trees of dinosaurs, and also to better understand the physiology and metabolism of dinosaurs." In other words, zooming in to examine fossils on the molecular level could shift how paleontologists see their enormous subjects. 

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0131/How-a-195-million-year-old-dinosaur-bone-could-still-have-soft-tissue-in-it

So the circular reasoning continues.  Rather than wondering if it is possible that the soft tissue present might mean the dinosaurs actually might only be thousands of years old, the scientists say, "Well, since we already know this dinosaur is 195 million years old, mother nature must have some way of preserving soft tissue for 195 million years!"

Something else to ponder.....I have some old venison steaks in my freezer and they didn't last 5 years before shriveling to black.  Common sense tells you that soft tissue can't last in a bone for 1000 years times 1000 years and take that all times 195.  Common sense tells you that the dinosaur bone found is a whole lot younger than the evolutionists insist.

Are We Actually Living in a Hologram?

The Bible says that the things we see aren't real and that only the things we can't see are real.

Of course this makes sense in that our human flesh will only survive in the realm for 70-100 years if we are fortunate....but yet angel Gabriel could be thousands of years old!  So HE is actually real....and we are just a mist....here in the morning and gone in the afternoon.

So what if it is even more strange than that?  What if we are actually characters in a video game?  The Bible tells us that God KNEW US before we were born....much like a video game programmer would KNOW his characters before he introduced them into HIS PROGRAM.

Now scientists are kind of wondering the same thing.

The universe might just be one "vast and complex hologram". And our vision of life as being in 3D may just be an illusion.

That's according to astrophysicists who have studied the cosmic microwave background, or the afterglow that is left over from the Big Bang. After doing so, they have found substantial evidence that our universe is holographic, they said.

There is at least as much evidence for the strange theory as there is for the traditional idea of the structure of our universe, according to the astrophysicists from the University of Southampton, who worked with colleagues in Canada and Italy.

What we see of the universe might be compared with what it's like to watch a 3D film at a cinema, even though those are not made with holograms. Just like those films, we experience the depth of the image – even though we know that it really all comes from a flat screen.

Our universe may just be a more convincing version of the same thing – meaning that we can touch the objects and they look and behave as if they are real.

The idea that our universe is a hologram was first proposed in the 90s. It suggests that all of the information – what we think is our 3D reality, and time – is actually just contained on a flat surface on its boundaries.

"Imagine that everything you see, feel and hear in three dimensions (and your perception of time) in fact emanates from a flat two-dimensional field," said Kostas Skenderis, a professor of mathematical sciences at the University of Southampton. "The idea is similar to that of ordinary holograms where a three-dimensional image is encoded in a two-dimensional surface, such as in the hologram on a credit card.

The research could unify two of the most central parts of our understanding of physics – general relativity, which explains it at the biggest scale, and quantum theory, which explains it at its very smallest.

"Holography is a huge leap forward in the way we think about the structure and creation of the universe," said Professor Skenderis. "Einstein's theory of general relativity explains almost everything large scale in the universe very well, but starts to unravel when examining its origins and mechanisms at quantum level.


"Scientists have been working for decades to combine Einstein's theory of gravity and quantum theory. Some believe the concept of a holographic universe has the potential to reconcile the two. I hope our research takes us another step towards this."

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/universe-hologram-holographic-evidence-3d-astrophysics-university-of-southampton-a7553766.html

You may read this and think it is so bizarre that you don't even want to ponder it.....but if you do decide to ponder it while you read your Bible, you may discover that the idea actually makes a lot of sense.

Another Red Heifer Found?

I believe most of my readers are understanding that a Third Temple will one day be built in Jerusalem.  The Bible tells us in Daniel 9 that the Antichrist will go into the Temple...so there needs to be a Temple.

One sign, among many, that shows us we shouldn't be surprised if Christ returned today, is that the Jews are clamoring to build the Third Temple.  But the Jews know that even if they managed to get the Temple built that the priest would need the ashes a perfect red heifer to purify themselves with before they were to go into it.

So the Jews have been watching for a perfect red heifer...and they may have found one.

A rabbi in a remote region of Mexico he went to a dairy farm to purchase milk, and was shocked when he saw a vital element of the Third Temple right in front of his eyes: a red heifer calmly chewing its cud under the Baja sun.

“I’ve grown up with the stories, so I know how rare and valuable the red heifer is,” Rabbi Benny “Bentsion” Hershcovich told Breaking Israel News. “I’ve never seen a red heifer and I never expected to see one. My heart literally jumped when I saw it.”

The red heifer, one of the most perplexing Torah commandments, is a necessary element for purifying Jews in order to enable them to do the service in the Temple.

And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of B’nei Yisrael for a water of sprinkling; it is a purification from sin. Numbers 19:9

Over the course of the approximately one thousand years the First and Second Temple stood, only nine Red Heifers were used in preparing the waters used to purify Jews. According to Jewish tradition, the tenth one will be used by the Messiah.

Rabbi Hershcovich is the emissary to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico for Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism which emphasizes the role of the Messiah. He works hard to serve the spiritual needs of the small Jewish community in Baja, but adhering to the extra-stringent Chabad customs regarding the preparation of food presents a challenge in the exotic locale.

“Even though we are in this far-flung region, we decided not to compromise on any of the kosher standards we held in Brooklyn,” Rabbi Hershcovich explained to Breaking Israel News. This adherence to ritual led him to a remarkable discovery illustrating that the Third Temple is very close indeed.

Rabbi Hershcovich’s kosher stringencies require that he personally oversee the milking for making his own dairy products. While visiting a Mexican farm, the rabbi looked up from the milking and was shocked to see a distinctively colored cow wandering among the herd: one which appeared completely red, without a blemish or spot.

Rabbi Hershcovich asked the farmer about the calf. The perplexed Mexican farmer explained that it had been born several months earlier, and that while the color was odd, he considered it to be “just another cow”. The farmer had never heard of the Biblical commandment and did not understand why the rabbi was so excited.

https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/82957/rare-red-heifer-eligible-third-temple-offering-discovered-mexico/#lLTJdL5vwl60H4ri.97

As you know, it only takes one or two hairs out of place on the heifer for it to be disqualified, so for now we will have to watch and wait while the Jews continue their preparations for a Temple.

Is Team Trump Hostile to Islam?

Time Magazine probably doesn't have any reporters or staff who voted for Donald Trump.  So we expect it to lean towards liberals in all their articles.  That's not a surprise.

Last week they did an article about how Trump's travel ban was dividing the Middle East between the 7 nations who are on the list and the Muslim majority nations who aren't on the list.

I will let you read all the article by attaching a link below.

But here are a few specific paragraphs that caught my eye.

There are fears the order will set the tone of the White House's approach to the Muslim world over the next four years. Certainly, there's a history of hostility to Islam; Stephen Bannon, the White House’s influential chief strategist, has in the past called Islam a “dark” religion. National security advisor Michael Flynn once said that fear of Muslims is “rational.”

“I think it reflects a deeply-held dislike of Islam among Trump and his top advisors. And I think the evidence for that interpretation is now overwhelming,” says Shadi Hamid, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. “We know what people like Steve Bannon and Michael Flynn have said explicitly about, not just disliking extremism or Islamism, but Islam as a religion, and seeing Islam as a civilizational and ideological threat.”

See Time Article here;  http://time.com/4658762/donald-trump-middle-east-saudi-arabia-egypt/

So wait a second.....could Islam actually be a civilizational and ideological threat?

What if it is but no one is allowed to say it or point out the facts surrounding it?....because they may be ridiculed and/or persecuted by leftists even for asking a question?

NOW PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO called The Third Jihad.  It is extremely well done and is written and narrated by a Muslim who is a doctor in Arizona.  He loves USA and is appalled that his fellow Muslims refuse to stand up against Islamic extremism and Islamic terrorism.  He wants NOTHING to do with shariah law and believes in secular law.

According to Pew and him, many, many Muslims around the world, together with those who are already in America, actually want Islam to dominate America.

So isn't it, in fact, possible that Islam actually IS A THREAT to Western Civilization?

Watch video here;  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dytL0a5YePw

This video was actually made about 7 years ago.....and it would seem that rather than serving the purpose of waking America up to radical Islam.....we seem to be even more asleep to the threat than we were 7 years ago.

Nations That Ban Israelis

Of course the liberal world has been coming apart ever since Team Trump announced a temporary ban on certain citizens from seven countries coming into America.  Even though the order never had the word "Muslim" on it, the seven nations have Muslim majorities....so the media was quick to pounce on this and announce it as "Trump's ban on Muslims!"

But wow....check out how many Muslim majority countries actually BAN ISRAELI CITIZENS from coming into their countries.

Trump Travel Ban Exposes Hypocrisy Of Muslim Nations That Ban Israeli Passports

The ongoing global debate over US President Donald Trump s controversial travel ban executive order has drawn online attention to discrimination displayed by some Muslim-majority countries against Israeli passport holders.

A total of 16 nations around the world prohibit entry to Israeli citizens. And as some commentators have pointed out, this group includes six of the seven countries targeted by Trump s action.

Photos showing the list of 16 nations   including Algeria, Bangladesh, Brunei, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen have gone viral on Facebook.

At a session of the British Parliament on Monday, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was asked about the treatment of Israelis by these countries.

I think it s right that the House of Commons should be aware of that discrimination, of that ban that already exists, Johnson said. 

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=983

I know the media has been sending their cameras to airports in the USA to document the families who were disrupted by the "Trump ban"....but wondering if they have any plans on going to the airports in any of these 16 nations and asking questions like, "Do you feel its right to ban Christians from bringing their Bibles into your country when they arrive here on business?"....or...."Do you think the world should hold your nation accountable for the fact that you don't let Jews or anyone with an Israeli passport freely come to your country?"

Don't hold your breath.  When it comes to bleeding hearts, the liberals seem to illogically make them bleed especially hard for Muslims.