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.
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