July 27, 2015 by Rodrigo Silva

Shiites appear to be reviving the Seleucid territory of Daniel 11

  

The beast of Revelation 13 looks like a leopard, has the feet of a bear and has the mouth of a lion. The lion, bear and leopard are the first three empires of Daniel 7. They represent the Babylonian, Medo-Persian and Grecian empires. The fourth beast of Daniel 7 which Daniel could not describe had 10 horns. The leopard-bear-lion beast of Revelation 13 also has 10 horns. This means the fourth beast of Daniel is the same beast of Revelation 13. It is a political and geographical conglomeration of the first three empires of Daniel 7.

  

According to Daniel 11, the Seleucid (ancient Syria-Lebanon territory) division of the Grecian empire is the geographic region where the antichrist rises as the last “king of the north.” The symbolism of Revelation 13 seems to primarily point to a political and geographical alliance between Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. This alliance covers basically the area dominated by the ancient Seleucid empire whose territory is revived in the last days (See yellow Seleucid map below).  

  
In comparing all the maps included, we realize that the beast empire of the last days is primarily Shiite in nature. (see green & blue map)

  

Since the beast has ten horns, it must include 6 other nations that are not Shiite. That is where the nations south of Israel come into focus. 

The Antichrist as the “king of the north” wages war against the “king of the south” and according to Daniel 11:40-45, the southern nations to be conquered by him are the Sunni nations of Egypt, Sudan, and Libya. Daniel 8 says the little horn also wages war toward the “east” which could refer to the Sunni nations of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

  

The symbolism of Revelation 13 seems to be primarily pointing to a northern alliance of Shiite nations that will wage war against their Sunni counterparts, thus conquering them and bringing a total of 10 nations under the rule of the Antichrist.

According to Shiite eschatology, the Mahdi will appear as a Shiite leader who will persecute Sunnis to vindicate the Shiite doctrine which states that the true Caliph of Islam must be a descendant of Mohammed through his cousin Ali who married Mohammed’s daughter Fatima. 

Another belief of Shiites is that when the Mahdi appears, he will make Kufa in Southern Iraq the capital of his Islamic Caliphate. The city of Karbala in Southern Iraq will be his religious equivalent of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. It is interesting to note that both Kufa and Karbala are located in the area of ancient Babylon. Another interesting fact about the Shiite Mahdi is that he was born in the city of Samara, Iraq which in biblical times was ancient Assyrian territory.

The Shiite Mahdi who was born in ancient Assyrian territory supposedly returns to rule from ancient Babylonian territory. This is very interesting in light of Micah 5 where we read that the Antichrist will be an “Assyrian” who will be associated with the “land of Nimrod”. According to Genesis 10:9-11, the land of Nimrod are the cities he built called Babel (Babylon) and Nineveh in the land of Shinar among others. This is known as Mesopotamia located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers within the borders of modern day Iraq.

  

With the current political and geographical alliance being formed between the Shiite governments of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, we can positively say that we are approaching the time of the end mentioned in Daniel 11:40 where the “king of the north” wars against the “king of the south” which culminates with the tribulation period addressed in Daniel 12 which is a continuation of the subject addressed in chapter 11. This is all covered in great detail in our book entitled The Coming Bible Prophecy Reformation. Get your copy today to learn more.

The Revived Seleucid & Ptolemaic Territory Wars of Daniel 11: Islam is in the Details

 July 18, 2015 by Rodrigo Silva

The Revived Seleucid and Ptolemaic Territory Wars of Daniel 11: Islam is in the Details

The Iran nuclear deal will apparently cause a realignment of nations in the Middle East. We already have a Shiite bloc north of Israel called “Shiite crescent” which is threatening Sunni Saudi Arabia and Egypt South of Israel. These Sunni nations have proposed to form a military alliance to face the threat of Shiite expansion in the Middle East. 

We are witnessing the beginning of two blocs of nations — a Shiite bloc north and east of Israel and a Sunni bloc south of Israel. We proposed this would happen in order to revive the wars between the kings of the north (Seleucid territory) and the kings of the south (Ptolemaic territory) of Daniel 11. 

If you have a copy of our book, you probably remember that we projected this development on pages 259-263 of chapter 9 entitled 
“The Role of Islam.” 

If you still have not ordered a copy of our book, below are screenshots of pages 259-263. Read them carefully and compare our projection to what is beginning to take place after the Iran nuclear deal.

  

Middle East Redrawn and the Rebirth of Babylon

 November 20, 2015 by Rodrigo Silva

Middle East Redrawn & the Rebirth of Babylon 

This article which could also be titled The Balkanization of the Middle East and the Rebirth of Babylon expands on the redrawing of the Middle East briefly mentioned on pages 263 and 264 of our book titled
The Coming Bible Prophecy Reformation published in 2014 as seen on the screenshot below.

Many online reports have mentioned that western powers and Israel plan to redraw the map of the Middle East. We will include links to those reports at the end of this article. 

The Middle East borders that we know today came to exist after the allied forces defeated the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I. The Sykes-Picot Agreement between the French and the British created the modern Middle East map not based on social and sectarian divisions but on European interests. 

  

The map below show the current borders of the Middle East.

  

The plan of western powers and Israel is to redraw the Middle East according to sectarian and ethnic differences as the map below reveals.

  

Notice that on this new map Kurdistan becomes an independent state, Iraq is divided between Sunni Iraq and Shia Arab state and Saudi Arabia loses territory to Jordan, a new Islamic Sacred State, a Shia Arab State and Yemen. 

Although this has been proposed recently, it is not a new idea. Vanity Fair reported in 2007 that a recently uncovered 1918 map reveals T. E. Lawrence’s vision for a modern Middle East, which the British government ignored. This old map is almost identical to the map being proposed by  current western powers as seen below. 

 

As can be seen, as far back as 1918, T. E. Lawrence envisioned the same thing that is currently being proposed by western powers and Israel who wishes to Balkanize the Middle East by following a 1982 plan of Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs senior advisor Oded Yinon who published a revealing document for regional conquest and dominance. Still relevant today, it’s titled “A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s, translated, edited, and retitled “The Zionist Plan for the Middle East” by distinguished Professor Israel Shahak (1933 – 2001), longtime activist, analyst, and outspoken Israeli critic. 

Read more on the following link:
https://rense.com/general92/dsid.htm

Other online reports have shown a similar scatch of those maps. Notice on the map below how the proposed Arab Shia state or Arab Gulf Republic surrounds and controls the Persian Gulf.

  

I would like to draw your attention to the southern portion of Iraq which in the current proposal is called “Arab Shia State” referred to as
“The Crescent” by T.E. Lawrence in 1918. In both maps, the New Arab Shia State of Iraq surrounds the sea of the Persian Gulf.

  

An Arab Shia state would control most of the oil reserves surrounding the Persian Gulf which currently belong to Iran in the east and Saudi Arabia in the south as seen on the images below.

   

 
As we can see, a new Arab Shia state would control the oil fields of the Persian Gulf as well as the Persian Gulf itself which is the point of departure for oil exporting vessels. 

Jeremiah 51:13 (NKJV) “O you (Babylon) who dwell by many waters (Persian Gulf?), Abundant in treasures (petroleum?), Your end has come, The measure of your covetousness.”

This new Arab Shia state would become  the major producer and exporter of oil in the region. Saudi Arabia would no longer be the major oil producer and exporter in the Middle East.

The Prophetic Relevance of this Change

Revelation 17 & 18 say that the city called Babylon the Great will be the commercial center of the end times and the capital city that will be in control of the final Islamic beast empire.

Many today say that Saudi Arabia is the harlot of Revelation 17 but if you carefully compare Revelation 17 & 18 with Isaiah 13 & 47 and Jeremiah 50 & 51, you will notice that the expressions in Revelation are quoted almost verbatim from those Old Testament prophetic passages which refer to Babylon as geographically related to the land of the Chaldeans.

See on the image below how the land of Chaldea is located just above of the Persian Gulf in the land of Babylon. This is the same area that would be under the control of a new Arab Shia state.

  

Notice on the map below how the old country of Babylonia covered this same exact region just above of the Persian Gulf.

  

It is my belief that the  prophecy of Revelation 17 & 18 concerning Babylon must be taken literally. This is what we thoroughly documented in our book — that literal Babylon must rise to become the political and commercial capital of the Middle East.

Those who insist Saudi Arabia is the harlot of Revelation 17 don’t take into consideration that the harlot only rides the beast during the time of the beast’s existence which is the last 42 months of the Tribulation, therefore the harlot still does not exist since the beast still does not exist in its revived form.

According to Revelation 13, the beast is revived to rule for 42 months and in Revelation 17, Babylon as the harlot city will  ride the beast only after the beast rises to rule for 3.5 years, so the harlot still does not exist. The last verse of Revelation 17 tells us that the harlot of Babylon is that great city which “reigns” (present tense conversation between John and the angel) over the kings of the earth.

Mecca in Saudi Arabia didn’t exist in John’s time and he knew from Isaiah 47 that Babylon in the land of the Chaldeans is the “Lady of Kingdoms” or capital of empires. In other words, literal Babylon is the city that ruled over the kings of the earth in the past and will again rule over the kings of the last empire in the future.

Whether or not this change of borders in the Middle East will really happen, only time will tell but something must happen in order to allow literal Babylon to become the major commercial center of the Middle East. Revelation 18 says that shipmasters will see Babylon’s destruction with fire as they watch from the sea. Those who ship Babylon’s petroleum via the Persian Gulf will cry when they see Babylon burning during her final destruction.

Saudi Arabia as the harlot of Babylon might make sense to you now but things are destined to change and when they do, you will finally realize how literal the Babylon of Revelation is, after all, she is associated with the Euphrates River in Revelation 16 and Isaiah 21 is about the historical fall of Babylon centuries ago, not a future destruction of Saudi Arabia as some will have you believe.

We know that that when the Antichrist appears, he will conquer the region which will be divided and governed by ten rulers. As the antichrist revives the final empire under a Caliphate, he will erase those western imposed borders which are unacceptable to Islam.

Read related articles on the following links.

• Lines in the Sand by Vanity Fair
• The New Map of the Middle East by The Atlantic
• New Middle Eastern Map by The Khilafa

 September 19, 2015 by Rodrigo Silva

Will Iraq become Iran’s nuclear base?

The translator and editor of The Cepher Bible Stephen Pidgeon  explained in an article that the original text of Zechariah 5 might be referring to modern rockets and missiles that will be housed in the land of Shinar also known as Babilonia which is located in modern day Iraq.

We wrote in our book that Babylon in Iraq would rise to political prominence in the end times to become the capital of the coming Islamic empire of the Antichrist. If Stephen Pidgeons’ translation and interpretation is correct, we shall see Iraq become a nuclear state in the years ahead and that will probably happen with the help of Iran and Israel will become Iran’s target in the end times.

Read Stephen Pidgeons’ article on the link below.

A Woman in a Basket?
 

Iraq, The False Prophet and Missles

March 2, 2017 by Rodrigo Silva

Iraq, The False Prophet and Missiles

Stephen Pidgeon who is the translator and editor of the Eth Cepher Bible has apparently discovered that the prophecy in Zechariah 5 refers to nuclear missiles being launched from the land of Shinar also known as the land of Babylon which is modern day Iraq.

We recommend you read his thought provoking article titled A Woman in a Basket? before proceeding. We also highly recommend you watch the video included at the end of his article which can be accessed by clicking here.

Below is an image summarizing the content of the article and video by Stephen Pidgeon.

If the “fire” which may refer to ballistic missiles or nuclear weapons mentioned in Zechariah 5 happens to be connected with the “fire” that the beast that rises out of the earth causes to come down from heaven in the sight of men in Revelation 13:11-14, an interesting picture emerges.

We know from Revelation 19:20 that the second beast who performs the “miracle” of causing fire to come down from heaven is called “the false prophet.”

This means that the second  beast is a human being who is a religious leader or cleric. The first beast is a geopolitical empire comprised of 10 nations/kings.

We have several articles on this blog in which we show the beast empire is a geopolitical and military alliance between Middle Eastern Islamic nations that surround Israel, particularly the nations of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon as the nations that form the final kingdom of the north mentioned in Daniel 11.

It is our personal belief that the false prophet and the 11th little horn who rises after the first 10 horns in Daniel 7 are one and the same.

This basically means that the false prophet of Revelation is the Antichrist himself who becomes the religious and political leader of the empire of 10 nations. 

We are told that he exercises the power of the first beast and that power is political and military as the beast empire wages war and is composed of ten political kings. 

We are told in Daniel 11:36-39 that the Antichrist who is the final king of the kingdom of the north geographically located in the region of the ancient Seleucid empire will promote a deity or god of fortresses and will wage war as he promotes his god and religion.

This in and of itself reveals that he is a fanatical religious leader and cleric, not just your average politician. It is our belief he will be a Muslim cleric who is also a militia/military leader and who is heavily involved in politics. 

Revelation 13 says that he causes fire to come down from heaven in the sight of men and exercises the power of the first political/military beast which wages war against Israel in the end times.  

In that context, causing fire to come down from heaven in modern terms means that he is waging some type of war that is capable of causing damage by fire from the sky.

This may have looked like a miracle to the first century writer and readers of Revelation but it is normal to the modern reader.

Rockets and missiles are no miracle to us in the twenty first century but could have easily been seen as a great sign,  miracle or wonder to the writer of Revelation since swords, spears and shields were all the weapons of war available at that time. 

It is interesting to note that the geographic area where the “fire” of ballistic or nuclear missiles in Zechariah 5 will be housed is the land of Shinar.

That is the land of Assyria and Babylon according to Genesis 10:8-11 and is what we know today as modern Iraq. We have also extensively written that the Antichrist will rise in Iraq as the “Assyrian” and the “king of Babylon” who is given power to destroy wonderfully the mighty and the holy people (Israel) according to Daniel 8:23-25.

By now you must have already made the connection. 

The second beast/false prophet is the Antichrist himself rising in the land of Iraq who will cause fire to come down from heaven as he launches nuclear missiles from his military base in the land of Shinar and Babylon known today as Iraq.

At least that is what we believe and it is what we have written in our book which goes by the same name of this blog and it can be purchased by clicking here.

The US led invasion of Iraq in 2003 which supposedly took place in order to find weapons of mass destruction happened a bit too early. That reality still awaits fulfillment under the Antichrist/false prophet.

 Read our related article titled Will Iraq Become Iran’s Nuclear Base? written back in 2015.

 August 1, 2015 by Rodrigo Silva

Bible prophecy calls for a Mesopotamian empire in the last days

Borders of Mesopotamia on a modern map

Revelation 17:9-11

“And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains (empires) on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five are fallen

 1 Egypt

2 Assyria

3 Babylon

4 Medo-Persia

5 Grecia 

 one is 

6 Rome

and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space 

7  Islamic Caliphate

And the beast that was (past history) and is not (no longer exists as a king or empire during John’s time) , even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.”

This passage tells us that the beast that was before John’s time, “is not” or no longer exists during John’s time, is the 8th king and is of the seven. This  is an empire that returns in the end times. This empire is symbolized by a “mountain” as mountains are used symbolically to represent biblical kingdoms. The text clearly says that the empire or kingdom to return is one that existed before the time the angel gives John the Revelation and that it no longer existed during that time which was the time of  the kingdom that “is”, meaning the Roman Empire.

Jeremiah 51:24-25 tells us that Babylon in the land of the Chaldeans also known as Shinar in Hebrew and Mesopotamia in Greek will be destroyed by fire and God calls Babylon a “destroying mountain” which comes to destroy the earth.

In Daniel 2 we read that when the stone that comes out of heaven to strike the metal image, the gold, the silver, the brass, the iron and the clay are destroyed TOGETHER. This means that the head of gold which is Babylon which ruled over ancient Mesopotamia will again be the head of the empire of the end times ruling over the feet of iron and clay which came out of the legs of iron which history records as the Islamic Caliphate as Islam crushed the previous three kingdom of Daniel as required by Daniel 2:40: 

And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others.

This was fulfilled by Islam as the Islamic Caliphate crushed the territory of the Babylonian, Medo-Persian and Grecian empires, something Rome was never able to do as history and any map will reveal. 

We read in Micah 5:5-6 that the savior born in Betheleham (verses 1-2) comes to save Israel from the “Assyrian” and to destroy the “land of Nimrod.” This is none other the the Antichrist whom Jesus destroys. Genesis 10:8-11 tells us that the land of Nimrod was the cities he built in the land of Shinar and Nineveh in Assyria.  

Map of the land of Nimrod according to Micah 5:5-6 and Genesis 10:8-11

This land was known to the ancient Greeks as Mesopotamia. The ancient peoples of Mesopotamia worshiped a pagan deity called “SIN” known as a moon god. As the Mesopotamian empire is revived, it is controlled by a harlot religion called Babylon the Great because of her religious connection to ancient pagan Babylonian and Mesopotamian deities. It appears the text is referring to ancient history to show what will happen in the future — a Mesopotamian empire ruled by a religion whose deity is a “moon god” whose symbol is a crescent moon.

Ancient Mesopotamian Crescent and Star and the moon god called “Sin”

Do you see an empire currently being revived in the region of Mesopotamia which is controlled by a religion whose deity is the moon god and whose symbol is the crescent moon and star?

Map of ancient Mesopotamia encompassing modern Syria and Iraq

The Shia crescent is attempting to create an empire with its capital in Iraq.

 April 14, 2024 by Rodrigo Silva

The King of Babylon is the Man of Sin Who Will Cause the Abomination of Desolation

Pay very close attention to the following verses

All students of end time prophecy know that what Jesus referred to as the “Abomination of Desolation” spoken of by the prophet Daniel is what Paul alluded to as the man of sin who will sit in the temple of God in 2 Thessalonians 2. This unique and anticipated prophetic event will take place on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem sometime in the near future.

What most have failed to realize is the connection that the man of sin has to the king of Babylon in Isaiah 14. The entire context of Isaiah 13 & 14 is about the future destruction of Babylon geographically located in the land of the Chaldeans during a time when the “sun, moon and stars will be darkened ” and when God will punish the world for its evil (Isaiah 13:10-11, Matthew 24:29-30) with the first verses in chapter 14 referring to the future and final restoration of Israel in the promised land and God’s punishment of their end time oppressor known as the “king of Babylon”, the same Babylon whose future destruction is the entire context of these chapters and whose king is also called the “Assyrian” a few verses later. (Isaiah 14:25)

Maps of the land of Chaldea

Source: https://www.kidsbiblemaps.com/land-of-babylon.html#google_vignette

Those who try to spiritualize the text and only see a reference to Satan or Lucifer in Isaiah 14:12-15 have ignored the entire physical and geographical aspect of this prophecy. When you compare these chapters in Isaiah to other passages like Daniel 8, 11 and 12 which talk about the Abomination of Desolation and whose geographical context is the latter part of the “kingdom of the north” historically known as the Seleucid empire which must be revived and resurrected in its final form to fulfill the particular prophecy about the Abomination of Desolation, a clear picture emerges.

The last days oppressor of Israel who will invade Jerusalem and sit as god on Mount Zion on the “sides of the north” known today as the Temple Mount to the Jews or as Haram al-Sharif to Muslims to fulfill the Abomination of Desolation prophecy must be a future ruler who will rise in a nation that is within the confines of ancient Babylon geographically located in the land of the Chaldeans which was also the center of the ancient Seleucid empire.

Map of the the Seleucid empire

We extensively covered the geographical aspect of this end time scenario in our book titled The Coming Bible Prophecy Reformation and there are other articles on this blog written almost a decade ago which are all related to this particular topic and will be linked below.

Bible prophecy calls for a Mesopotamian empire in the last days

Revelation 17:9-11 “And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains (empires) on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five are fallen       1 Egypt 2 Assyria 3 Babylon 4 Medo-Persia 5 Grecia   one is  6 Rome and the other is not yet come; and when he … Continue reading

Bible prophecy calls for a Mesopotamian empire in the last days

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Iraq, The False Prophet and Missiles

Stephen Pidgeon who is the translator and editor of the Eth Cepher Bible has apparently discovered that the prophecy in Zechariah 5 refers to nuclear missiles being launched from the land of Shinar also known as the land of Babylon which is modern day Iraq. We recommend you read his thought provoking article titled A … Continue readingIraq, The False Prophet and Missiles

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Middle East Redrawn and the Rebirth of Babylon 

This article which could also be titled The Balkanization of the Middle East and the Rebirth of Babylon expands on the redrawing of the Middle East briefly mentioned on pages 263 and 264 of our book titled The Coming Bible Prophecy Reformation published in 2014 as seen on the screenshot below. Many online reports have … Continue readingMiddle East Redrawn and the Rebirth of Babylon 

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God says: “I will break the Assyrian in My land.”

“That I will break the Assyrian in My land, And on My mountains tread him underfoot. Then his yoke shall be removed from them (Israel), And his burden removed from their shoulders.” (Isaiah 14:25) If you read Isaiah 13 & 14 as single chapter without considering the chapter division, you will discover that those chapters … Continue readingGod says: “I will break the Assyrian in My land.”

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The Revived Seleucid and Ptolemaic Territory Wars of Daniel 11: Islam is in the Details

The Revived Seleucid and Ptolemaic Territory Wars of Daniel 11: Islam is in the Details: The Iran nuclear deal will apparently cause a realignment of nations in the Middle East. We already have a Shiite bloc north of Israel called “Shiite crescent” which is threatening Sunni Saudi Arabia and Egypt South of Israel. These Sunni nations … Continue readingThe Revived Seleucid and Ptolemaic Territory Wars of Daniel 11: Islam is in the Details

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Shiites appear to be reviving the Seleucid territory of Daniel 11

   The beast of Revelation 13 looks like a leopard, has the feet of a bear and has the mouth of a lion. The lion, bear and leopard are the first three empires of Daniel 7. They represent the Babylonian, Medo-Persian and Grecian empires. The fourth beast of Daniel 7 which Daniel could not describe … Continue readingShiites appear to be reviving the Seleucid territory of Daniel 11

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