QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, I don’t recall which WEC occasion it was again within the nineties, however you projected Israel’s destiny and the Rule of 9, which confirmed this was the tip cycle for the Center East. Would you continue to have that chart mendacity round?
See you in London, it’s been too lengthy because you got here to Europe
Jared
ANSWER: Oh, you’ve gotten an ideal reminiscence. Which means you aren’t certified for public workplace and definitely not the pinnacle of state. Sure, the historical past of that area did conform primarily to the Rule of 9. The British Mandate was proper on schedule. Whereas that is the final cycle earlier than a significant change, that also can be past most individuals’s lifetimes in the summertime of 2103. My concern is extra concerning the rapid cycle of warfare, which we are going to cowl on the convention.
To the Jews and Christians, this is called the Temple Mount, whereas the Muslims name it the Dome of the Rock. It comprises an enormous rock that the Jewish custom says is that that is the place Abraham was instructed to sacrifice his son. To the Muslims, the rock is the spot from which the Prophet Muhammad was taken up into heaven for an encounter with God (an occasion often known as the Miʿrāj). Thus, it’s the similar rock, symbolizing the conflict between these religions. It was actually an awe-inspiring place.
We have now zealot Jews and Christians who need to conspire to destroy the Dome of the Rock to allow them to rebuild the following Temple, ushering in Armageddon. In accordance with the Ebook of Revelation within the New Testomony of the Christian Bible, Armageddon is the prophesied location of a gathering of armies for a battle in the course of the end-of-the-world state of affairs, interpreted as both a literal or a symbolic location. In Islamic theology, Armageddon can also be talked about in Hadith because the Biggest Armageddon or Al-Malhama Al-Kubra (the good battle).
Megiddo is an enchanting website of twenty cities constructed immediately on high of each other. It has been inhabited constantly from 3000 to 300 BC and lies at a strategic junction of north-south and east-west roads. Whoever had management of Megiddo had management of one of many main commerce routes of antiquity. There have been no cash produced by Egypt till the Ptolemy and the conquest by Alexander the Nice. Likewise, there was no coinage of Judah. This can be a replica of a Jasper Seal of Shema found at Megiddo in 1903.
Many battles have been fought at Megiddo. One nice Battle of Megiddo occurred in 609 BC when Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt joined his allies, involving the Neo-Assyrians and the Neo-Babylonians. This required passing by territory managed by the Kingdom of Judah. The Judaean king, Josiah, refused to let the Egyptians go. The Judaean forces battled the Egyptians at Megiddo, leading to Josiah’s dying, and his kingdom then grew to become a vassal state underneath Egypt. The battle is recorded within the Hebrew Bible, the Greek 1 Esdras, and the writings of Jewish historian Josephus. There’s all the time an opportunity of shedding each time there’s warfare. That is how the smug all the time fall.
There stays appreciable debate about whether or not that is actually or symbolically a Nice Battle to be fought on the aircraft of Armageddon, neglected by Megiddo, which made sense in these days because it was a significant hyperlink between the East and West, or are we taking a look at that as simply symbolic of the world ar massive.
