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Déjà vu In Bible Prophecy

Part XXXVI

 

As the Double Double series has revealed the facts concerning how prophesied events consistently repeat in differing timelines, the events are now occurring with such rapidity that our weekly chapters of the series are barely keeping up with the revelations.

This week’s installment is a good example, as another event has occurred since our last weekly episode of the series. On Friday September 11, 2020 (obviously a very significant day in history), the Gulf Oil country of Bahrain abruptly announced they would follow the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) decision to normalize relations with the political state of Israel.

The pace of these developments indicates the world is hurriedly moving to a pivotal turning point, as the peace agreement between the UAE and Israel won’t even be signed at the American White House until a few days after Bahrain’s announcement.

Christian Media even predicted Bahrain’s move 2 weeks ago, as it is relatively obvious the flow of events is moving in accord with long standing prophecies issued from this ministry. The nation of Bahrain, for instance, is yet another member of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), a  Ten King alliance of Arab potentates that fulfilled the notorious prediction of Ten Kings in Revelation, years ago.

“And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which…give their power and strength unto the beast” (Revelation 17:12, 13).

In last week’s installment of Double Double: Déjà vu In Bible Prophecy, we noted how the phenomenon of doubling – which we’ve also referred to as Prophetic Echoes – was manifested in the much publicized move of the UAE. Starting with the fact the resurrected nation of Israel was original opposed by seven Arab states in 1948 – making Israel “the eighth [that] goeth into perdition” (Revelation 17:11) -- we noted how the UAE was comprised of Seven Emirates that were joined together in the early 1970’s. 

This eerie equation is not a coincidence, but is evidence of a Spiritual power that continues to reverberate within the earthly fulfillment of prophetically significant events.

A true understanding of how the ongoing probe into how the Arab oil kings have fulfilled prophecy – even though the vast majority of Christian prophecy figures are still seeking to twist the events so they will conform to their faulty projections – continues to elude prophecy observers. In recent installments of Double Double, we have sought to show how the two prophetic themes dealing with the Ten Kings and the Eighth Head converge in the history of the Arab oil kings.

For example, in the most simplistic sense, when the Antichrist figure of the Little Horn “uproots” three of the Ten Kings, the remaining equation then places the Little Horn in the role of the “eighth [that] goeth into perdiction” (Revelation 17:11).

What is singularly amazing is how prophecy pundits continue to resist the identification because it implicates the political state of Israel in the role of the Little Horn. Mainstream prophecy teachers are uniformly aghast at the casting, even though the events concerning the rise of the history of the Ten Kings of OAPEC was followed by the incredible fact that three of those kings were “subdued” by the Little Horn “head “ of the beast, in a strikingly accurate fulfillment of the prophecy.

The aversion to the actual facts is a testimony to the divine authority of the Word of God, for the SCRIPTURE pointedly tells us the Strong Delusion which has overtaken vast portions of Christianity is because those enmeshed in the deception do not actually love the truth – with the “truth” a symbolic euphemism for the person of the LORD Jesus Christ.

“For this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: and with all deceivableness in unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved” (II Thessalonians 2:11, 10).

For almost thirty years, this ministry has sought to point out that a legendary love for Israel on the part of the Christians is part of a supernatural snare (Luke 21:35) that has been carefully orchestrated for almost two centuries – with an extensive theological history that was transported to America from Europe many years ago.

The details of the religious developments which resulted in the British Rapture Cult in the 19^th century are too laborious to detail in this writing, but we will note that every time a modern “Rapture Cult” teacher avers that the doctrine of Dispensationalism (the more scholarly name for the doctrine of the “Rapture”) – was taught from the very beginning of the church age, he or she is manifesting the fact that they do not truly love the truth.

In other words, because the Scripture says if you’re caught in this “Strong Delusion,” it’s easier to deny the facts than it is to conform one’s belief to the historical truth surrounding the doctrine. This is, of course, the classic tactic of the Marxist oriented system known as the Dialectic, as the godless theoreticians flirting with belief in the Gospel continue to practice the formula of thesis versus antithesis equals the synthesis – with the synthesis equating to the leavened combination of the previous two perspectives.

“Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees” (Matthew 16:6, 12). 

At this point in the discussion, the moderns usually parrot the hackneyed expression we’ll just have to agree to disagree, while the Bible instructs the believer to do the opposite.

“If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds” (II John 1:10,11).

In this series, we have shown an ancient version of the Ten Kings was manifested in the ten city/states of the Decapolis (with the Greek “Deca” meaning 10, and “Polis” meaning cities), which were followed by the Old Covenant manifestation of the Little Horn. During the Seleucid-Ptolemaic conflict which occurred in between the Grecian reign of Alexander the Great and the full power of the Roman Empire, the Greek speaking Antiochian strain of the Seleucids was the Syrian Little Horn that reigned over the Decapolis.

The notorious despots Antiochus I through Antiochus IV (with the latter known as Epiphanes) controlled the Decapolis, and presided over the change of the “head” of the union in Gadara, which was “plucked up” (Daniel 7:8) and replaced by the city of Damascus. The history is a bit convoluted, but obviously the Syrian dictators sought tighter control over the ten city/state trade cartel through the transition.

Thus, the headquarters city of Gadara was replaced, with the likelihood that other members were shifted as well. Our last installment noted the demonic dimension of Gadara (also known as the land of the Gergesenes – Matthew 8:28) with the presence of the infamous tale of the Gentile herd of swine.

The central thesis of Double Double was again accentuated when we learned the ten-fold configuration of the Decapolis fluctuated, with some ancient sources suggesting at times the union was comprised by fewer than ten, as well as others who said the Decapolis was once comprised of a total of fourteen members. This ambiguity precisely comports with the contemporary count of the many Arab oil potentates, as they formed multiple political confederations that also fluctuated in their number of member states.

In the contemporary parallel, last week we examined how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was formed with six dynastic heads, but a year later the 7^th member came in. This was a “Prophetic Echo” of the Revelational text which shows six kings, then a “seventh” which is “not yet come,” as well as a reference to the “eighth” which “goeth into perdition.

“And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is [for a total of six at that time], and the other is not yet come...And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition” (Revelation 17:10, 11).

The various organizational structures of multiple Arab powers continues to reverberate with this mystical formula. For instance, the Gulf Cooperation Council is a political and economic alliance of six oil producing Arab states, in contradistinction to the ten original members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries. The GCC was established in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in May 1981 to foster unity among its members based on their common objectives.

A little known fact is how In May 2011, Jordan’s request to join the GCC, which had been first submitted 15 years earlier, was accepted, making Jordan the seventh. Although a plan for accession into the GCCGulf Cooperation Council (GCC), continue to tell the world the GCC consists of an economic alliance of six Middle Eastern countries – Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman.

Obviously, with Jordan as the seventh, Israel is once again the “eighth” in this reckoning. Jordan is, by the way, only the 2^nd Arab state (after Egypt) to make peace with Israel.

Confusion frequently surrounds the subject on many fronts. If, for example, one searches the Internet for information on the Arab states of the oil producing Gulf region, many websites will return the following:

“The Arab states of the Persian Gulf are the seven Arab states which border the Persian Gulf, namely Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)”  (Wikipedia, BarnesandNoble.com, etc).

Even though the political configuration of our complex world is constantly shifting, Christian Media seeks to base our perspective on the unchanging Word of God. In this regard, even though the facts conclusively identify the modern state of Israel as the Little Horn – the “eighth” [that] goeth into perdition” (Revelation 17:11), many believers are unaware that both testaments speak of seven nations that have historically opposed the people of Israel.

“About the time of forty years [the LORD] suffered [Israels’] manners in the wilderness. And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land to them by lot” (Acts 13:18, 19).

As the Arab component of the Islamic nations fueling an ongoing hatred of Israel was “subdued” (Daniel 7:24) in the events surrounding the secretive 1974 restructuring of American/Arab relations, the Islamic states of Turkey, Iran (as well as ambitious nations such as Russia), and non-oil producing Moslem nations moved to the forefront of Israeli antagonism.

The rapidly accelerating pace of Gulf oil nations now embracing the American/Israeli military partnership indicates advance knowledge of a forthcoming confrontation, in which Gulf oil nations are quietly drawing closer to Israel, because they are aware of American/Israeli military power that is not commonly known. Thus, the collective of Arab oil kings, who have “one mind” (Revelation 17:13) are drawing closer together, in anticipation of a massive forthcoming destruction, as they see Israel as the inevitable victor.

“And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, Saying, Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” (Revelation 13:4).  

Islamic prophetic tradition suggests the Moslem Saviour figure, known as the Mahdi, will be identified as the one who is able to destroy Islam’s ancient Jewish foe. Because of this, Christian prophecy figures, already leavened by their false perspective that the flesh and blood nation is scheduled to be spiritually revived after the so called “Rapture,” have adjusted their prophetic expectations to identify this leader as the “Antichrist.”

Further, this coming clash is usually called Gog and Magog, described in the book of Ezekiel.

“Thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee…and thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land” (Ezekiel 38:15, 16).

The fact is, the False Prophets that have been integrated into the leadership of Spiritual Israel – still erroneously called the “Church” – are subject to the same deceiving spirits that long ago seized the leadership of the resurrected Jewish nation, as well as the Islamic powers that are presently jockeying for position.

“For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty” (Revelation 15:14).

But further details on the true story of the Spiritual forces now unleashed in the heavenlies will have to wait for the next installment of Double Double: Déjà vu In Bible Prophecy.

 

-- James Lloyd

To Be Continued