The coming tribulation could begin in the Middle East
with a war in which Israel (and then Egypt) will be
defeated by a massive Iraqi Army built up by the U.S.
to defeat Iran instead. Iran could join in on the
Iraqi attack against Israel by sending missiles
against Israel, and Syria could join in by sending
its own missiles and army into Israel.
In its death throes, Israel could retalitate against
Iraq, Iran, and Syria, with its nuclear weapons,
which could kill tens of millions of people. And the
radioactive fallout from the nuclear weapons could
land on hugely-populated South Asia and Southeast
Asia, killing hundreds of millions of more people
through radiation poisoning and famine and epidemics
brought on by radiation-ruined crop fields and immune
systems.
In the end, some 1.5 billion people could end up
dying because of the Middle East war and its
aftermath, making the Middle East war the terrible
war at the beginning of the tribulation, which war,
with its aftermath of famine and epidemics, will
end up killing one-fourth of the world (Revelation
6:4-8). The "great sword" of this war (Revelation
6:4b) could be Israel's nuclear weapons. This war
could happen in 2010.
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In the Middle East war, the Iraqi Army which will
defeat Israel and Egypt (Daniel 11:15-16) could be
led by an Iraqi General who is a Baathist (in Daniel
11:17, the Hebrew word translated as "daughter" is
"bath"). Baathism is an Arab-unity movement which
wants to bring together all of the Arab nations from
Dubai to Morocco into one huge United Arab States,
or Arab Union.
In the end, a resurgent Baathism, instead of Islam,
could be what will bring about the downfall of U.S.
hegemony in the Middle East and open the way for the
Antichrist to rise to power there.
The Antichrist could be an Arab from Tyre, Lebanon
(Ezekiel 28:2, cf. 2 Thessalonians 2:4) who will first
come to power on the world scene (Daniel 11:21) by
gaining control of a Baathist confederation of Iraq,
Syria, and Egypt, put together by the Iraqi Baathist
General before he disappears from the scene (Daniel
11:19).
The Antichrist could gradually and peacefully add
other Arab countries to the confederation (Daniel
11:24) until he's managed to fulfill the Baathist
dream of uniting all Arab countries into one Arab
Union.
Then he could convince an oil-thirsty European Union
to let the oil-rich Arab Union join with it into a
gigantic Mediterranean Union, which the Antichrist
could manage to gain control of and use as his base
of power to exert his hegemony over the entire world
(Revelation 13:7b).
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The Antichrist won't be a Muslim, but a gnostic
(1 John 4:3) Luciferian who will bring the whole world
into the worship of Lucifer and himself (Revelation
13:4-18).
The Antichrist could have grown up as a Druze in
Lebanon, and then been gradually initiated into
gnostic Luciferianism through membership in a
worldwide secret society the highest members of which
are gnostic Luciferians.
When the Antichrist first comes on the world scene,
instead of presenting himself to the world as an Arab
Muslim, he could present himself as an Arab Druze who
is very friendly toward both Islam and Arab political
unity under Baathism. He could then manipulate both
Islam and Baathism as needed to further his own ends
of gaining an iron grip over all of the Arab nations.
Once he has gained that, then he could begin to
downplay both Islam and Baathism and begin to speak in
more universal terms while he's wooing Europe to let
the Arab Union join the European Union to form a
Mediterranean Union.
