NOTES ON THE SECOND SEAL AND THE DRUMS OF WAR: THREE GREAT CONFLICTS TO COME IN THE MIDDLE EAST Part I

PART I: “THE WAR OF PSALM 83”

PART II: “THE WAR OF ISAIAH 17”

PART III: “THE WAR OF EZEKIEL 38”

SCRIPTURE. “And when He broke the second seal, I heard the second living creature call out, ‘Come!’ And another horse came out, flaming red. And its rider was empowered to take the peace from the earth, so that men slaughtered one another; and he was given a huge sword.” – REVELATION 6:3-4, AMPC

QUOTATIONS

“All warfare is based on Deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.” – SUN TZU, ‘The Art of War,’ 5th Century BC; edited

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a Theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a Cross of Iron.” – GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, “Cross of Iron Speech,” April 16, 1953; edited

“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they Defend.” – J.R.R. TOLKIEN, ‘The Two Towers,’ 1954; edited

Selah.

1. FIRST THOUGHTS

It was early in the morning of May 17, 2015 (one month before Donald Trump would announce his candidacy for president of the United States), while getting ready for my daily time of study and prayer that I sensed a Stirring, subtle yet unmistakable, in my mind and spirit. 

Next thing I knew, ‘that Voice’ that I rarely actually hear, boomed out the following Command: “Finish the book now!”

CONTEXT. To explain, I had been teaching on matters of Political Eschatology for over three decades, and had always thought to prepare a manuscript on it of some sort, but just never got around to finish my several stutter starts. 

Until that morning.

One of the great discoveries of the work that came forth over the next two years was a growing focus on the unmistakable PARALLEL that exists between Revelation Chapter 6 and Matthew 24 – what we recognize as those ‘Birth Pangs’ that occur just prior to the Second Coming of the Messiah.

For me, the Theological Couriers of those Birth Pains are to be found spelled out in relation to what the Scriptures graphically describe as, ‘The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.’

2. THE FOUR HORSEMEN

While most people in the world have heard of The Horsemen, few could likely identify them in relation to their Biblical Symbolism. So, let me remind just a bit as we begin, to set some context for our study. – cf. REVELATION 6:1-8; KELLY, The Sixth Seal, 2017, Chapters 3-6; edited

THESIS. I wrote then and continue to argue now that The Horsemen are already Riding Forth on the earth right now, today, even as I write these words. This presupposes that the Lord Jesus Christ has begun to Open the first of the Seven Seals, or Judgments, on America and the World.

Now to some details.

• RIDER ON THE WHITE HORSE. Most theologians agree that the Rider on this horse is the Antichrist, the White color of the animal not so important as that one who goes forth “‘to conquer’ by largely human devices (Rev. 6:2). He is given a crown and holds a bow, though no quiver of arrows is present which suggests that whoever he is, he will do his conquering in an initially discreet political, likely deceptive, manner rather than as a military man, using both conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction.” – cf. Revelation 6:1-2; Kelly, 2017, p. 40

• RIDER ON THE RED HORSE. Now we see a second Rider come forth on a steed whose color of blazing Red “strongly suggests bloodshed, and that symbolic bloodshed described in this passage is the direct result of ‘warfare and carnage’ breaking out all over the earth. As with those Birth Pangs, these wars will begin to increase rapidly at some point in our not distant future…The great Culture War in America to which I often refer may quickly devolve into a Civil War if left unchecked by reason and morality and sound, strong and principled political leadership.” – cf. Revelation 6:3-4; Kelly, 2017, pp. 53, 57

• RIDER ON THE BLACK HORSE. The Greek word to describe this next Horse and Rider is ‘Melas’ [μέλας], meaning, quite literally, “Black as ink.” As I wrote in ‘The Sixth Seal,’ “The resident contextual implication is that black represents a time of ‘Great Mourning,’ as the trials and difficulties in the world grow still more intense,” in that very Dark Time (2017, p. 70). The Pair of Scales indicate a time of Great Scarcity of goods and services, along with an economic collapse of some kind, and ultimately, Famine and Starvation for many people. Much more happily, however, I argue that the phrase, “do not harm the oil and the wine,” are slightly veiled references to the Spirit filled and Blood bought, true followers of Christ. They are apparently ‘covered’ from these ravages to some significant degree. – cf. Revelation 6:5-6; Kelly, 2017, pp. 77-79

• RIDER ON THE PALE HORSE. Perhaps the most mysterious of all is this Horse and Rider, introduced by many Bibles with the heading, “Widespread Death on the Earth.” The Greek term for this ghostly imagery of a “Pale Horse” is ‘Chloros’ [χλωρός], a reference to an animal that is “Sickly pale or livid as a corpse” (Kelly, 2017, p. 84). The Rider’s name, “Death and Hades,” chillingly speaks volumes about his mission, given by Heaven the power and authority over a fourth of the earth “to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth” (Revelation 6:8). Cleary this is a desperate Culmination of sorts, the dire consequences of the Four Horsemen at nearly full gallop now, wreaking Havoc throughout the earth in the combined Chaos they bring to those who dwell on the earth – save for the true followers of Messiah. Selah.

TRANSITION. Of these Four Horsemen, we see strong evidence of the First Rider (Antichrist) commencing his ‘Peaceful Subversion’ of the International Order. Likewise, the Third Rider of economic instability is increasingly apparent as we witness 40 million Americans out of work, record closures of small businesses, and an unstable stock market radically out of sync with the rest of us. Concerning the Fourth Rider, no one needs reminding of the burgeoning numbers of infected and dead from Covid-19, with prospects of another Third Wave about to erupt across the planet in the winter of 2020-2021.

But what of The RED HORSE AND RIDER – where are they, I cannot help but wonder? Not yet burst forth, though ‘out there’ by most doctrinal and historical reckonings, Waiting their Turn at the nations.

MY THESIS. War is very near to us, beloved, concomitant with the Foment already erupting around the Presidential Election of November 3, 2020. Our Enemies are watching for our sustained weakening, planning to take brutal advantage of our Historic Confusion and Disunity. Of that I am fairly firmly convinced. 

Now to work the additional details about what the Scriptures portend of the World in the Opening Phases of the Era of Antichrist.

3. WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS

Perhaps one the most iconic passages in all of Scripture is the one quoted the most, by both religious and nonreligious folks. It is found in Christ’s monumental Olivet Discourse, and introduced in the following brief description.

“The Olivet Discourse or Olivet Prophecy is a Biblical passage found in the Synoptic Gospels in Matthew 24 and 25, Mark 13, and Luke 21. It is also known as the ‘Little Apocalypse’ because it includes the use of apocalyptic language, and it includes Jesus’ warning to his followers that they will suffer Tribulation and Persecution before the ultimate Triumph of the Kingdom of God. The Olivet Discourse is the last of the Five Discourses of Matthew and occurs just before the Narrative of Jesus’ Passion beginning with the anointing of Jesus.” – ‘Wikipedia, May 9, 2020; edited

THE QUESTION. In this uniquely Apocalyptic Sermon, Jesus was responding to His disciples’ eager Inquiry that most of us would also love to ask: 

“While He was seated on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately and said, ‘Tell us, when will this take place, and what will be the sign of Your coming and of the end (the completion, the consummation) of the age?’” – MATTHEW 24:3, AMPC

THE ANSWER. I quote this at some length, for its terrible importance to establishing an Accurate Context for what follows in these Three Commentaries.

“Jesus answered them, ‘Be careful that no one misleads you [deceiving you and leading you into error]. For many will come in (on the strength of) My name [appropriating the name which belongs to Me], saying, I am the Christ (the Messiah), and they will lead many astray.

And you will hear of WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS; see that you are not frightened or troubled, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in place after place; all this is but the beginning [the early pains] of the BIRTH PANGS [of the intolerable anguish].” – MATTHEW 24:3-8, AMPC; emphasis my own

VERSE 6. Note the unmistakable Symmetry here with the Second Seal’s Red Horse of War (Revelation 6:3-4) discussed earlier. Now let’s take a closer look at what Jesus had in mind regarding “Wars and rumors of wars.”

• WARS. From the Greek word, ‘Polemos’ [πόλεμος], from which we derive “Polemic,” meaning: “To destroy; from the root word, ‘Pallo,’ meaning ‘to shake;’ a fight, a battle; it is used even of single combat; warfare (literally or figuratively; a single encounter or a series; embraces the whole course of hostilities, related to the actual stock in arms of hostile armies and outright insurrection.”

• RUMORS OF WARS. From the Greek, ‘Akoé’ [ἀκοή], meaning: “A sense of hearing or having been heard of; an overt report or a spiritual hearing (discerning God’s voice re: what is true and not true); also, news, hearsay or rumor. Webster (1828) adds: A flying or popular report; a current story passing from one person to another without any known authority for the truth of it; or, conversely, a report of a fact; a story well authorized.”

COMMENTARY. “Clearly, it appears that many wars proliferate almost overnight at some point, as critical events escalate the conflicts at an increasingly heightened pace. Throughout the world, people and even little children begin to think and talk much of these wars and conflicts and widespread violence, which is the underlying explanation of why people begin to spread information about the wars, but also begin to speak frantically about ‘rumors of wars.’ As a consequence, gun stock and gun sales in the US are already skyrocketing as such rumors proliferate, alongside the former President’s (Obama) recent threat to increase his efforts at gun control.” – cf. Kelly, ‘The Sixth Seal,’ 2017, p. 54; G. Aisch & J. Keller, “Gun Sales Soar,” ‘NY Times,’ March 18, 2016; edited

AN INTERREGNUM. One might view this ‘Birth Pang’ as an Interregnum of sorts – an ‘In between’ period in which we are hearing of what Luke the Apostle calls, “Commotions,” in the run up to Real War, either Civil or International, or both.

As I have argued previously, I am convinced that we are currently in that ‘Interregnum,’ in sometimes nervous anticipation of ‘Something’ about to break forth imminently. A spiritual and natural Discernment that ‘It’s coming’ any time now.

4. ASAPH’S WAR: PSALM 83

“Keep not silence, O God; hold not Your peace or be still, O God. For, behold, Your enemies are in tumult, and those who hate You have raised their heads. They lay crafty schemes against Your people and consult together against Your hidden and precious ones. They have said, ‘Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be in remembrance no more.’” – PSALM 83:1-4, AMPC

Here we have a condition in Ancient Israel wherein the Jews are surrounded by virtually all their neighboring enemies. Not unlike today, beloved; not unlike today. Here is a simple Summary of the situation likely during the 900-700 BC Period BC.

“The ominous background of this Psalm of National Lament lies in the threatening Confederacy of almost all of Israel’s hostile neighbors (verses 5-8). Nowhere in the Old Testament is there such an assortment of enemies arrayed against the nation, with the possible exception of a similar group that opposed Jehoshaphat (2 Chron. 20:1-12).” – EDITORS, ‘Bible Study.org,’ Ret. October 26, 2020; edited

THE DEBATE. Bible scholars continue to argue over whether or not this was also a Prophecy fulfilled by the “Six Day War” of 1967, whose significance was largely found in Israel’s retaking the Eastern City of Jerusalem, giving them access to The Western Wall of the presumed Temple for the first time in 2,000 years.

I am persuaded of the Psalm 83 War being Yet Future more than those who believe otherwise, for Two Reasons. One, this Lament of Impending War was written in an Era of Peace, likely in the Davidic-Solomonic Period between the 900 to 800s BC. There simply was no threat when Asaph penned this Psalm.

Second, that view has strengthened since the president’s Middle East Peace Proposal has been made public. Let me briefly explain.

TEN HOSTILE NATIONS. This following breakdown of the Ten Confederacy Members is taken from the Editors of the ‘Messianic Bible Prophecy Project,’ that bases their work on the original Hebrew Bible concerning such matters as this. – Ret. October 26, 2020; edited

Like other scholars of that period, most agree that the List of Confederacy Nations would translate into these Modern-Day peoples.

• TENTS OF EDOM. Palestinians and Southern Jordanians.

• ISHMAELITES. Saudis (Ishmael is the father of the Arabs).

• MOAB. Palestinians and Central Jordanians.

• HAGRITES. Egyptians (Hagar is the matriarch of Egypt).

• GEBAL (BYBLOS). Hezbollah and Northern Lebanese.

• AMMON. Palestinians and Northern Jordanians.

• AMALEK. Arabs of the Sinai area.

• PHILISTIA. Hamas of the Gaza Strip.

• TYRE. Hezbollah and Southern Lebanese.

• ASSYRIA. Syrians and Northern Iraqi’s.

NOTE. My contention for a ‘Yet future’ fulfillment is also based on the stark absence of a single member of the Abraham Accords parties from the Agreement, which currently is being considered by Bahrain, the Saudis, Sudan, and the UAE. This combined with other historical sources persuades me that this War is very possibly next, as the Non-Signatory Arab nations are frustrated with the Peace Plan, and wish to seize upon the opportunity while they still can.

More on this a bit later.

5. THE TEACHING

PSALM 83:1-4. Now to the point by point consideration of this Prophetic Psalm and its description of a War against Israel’s Enemies, largely centered upon the furiously disappointed and disaffected Palestinians. Palestinian officials erupted in Outrage – the operant term here – with accusations from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the Grand Mufti, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein that this disenfranchises them even more than before. 

Here then are the Key Elements of the Prophecy.

• DO NOT BE SILENT. Though intended for the Lord of Hosts, there is an extended meaning for us all here. The Hebrew term for “Silent” is, ‘Domi’ [דְּמִי], translated as: “Cessation, a pause, a quiet, a rest; a cutting off, quiet, silence; to not speak, remain mute; habitually taciturn; speaking little; not inclined to much talking; not loquacious; not acting; not transacting business in person; as a silent partner.”

• ENEMIES IN A TUMULT. From the Hebrew word, ‘Hamah’ [הָמָה]: “To murmur, growl, roar, be boisterous; as with wicked men who groan (in distress, lamentation); like the roar of waves; be in commotion, stir; surely to no [good] purpose they bustle about; clamorous, concourse, cry aloud, be disquieted, loud, mourn, be moved, make a noise; to make a sound like a loud hum; to be disquieted; rage or roar tumultuously; to be in an uproar.”

• THEY HATE GOD. From the word, ‘Sane’ [שָׂנֵא]: “To turn against God, consider Him an enemy; to be utterly odious; to hate violently, become completely alienated from; unloving, untrustworthy; ranging from intense hatred to simple opposition of persons, ideas, words, or inanimate objects; express ill will and aversion to (verbally or nonverbally); vile hypocrisy.”

• THEY CONSULT TOGETHER. From the Hebrew, ‘Yaats’ [יָעַץ]: “To advise or give counsel; more accurately, to conspire against, to plot; to admonish, direct or devise (a plan); to decide or purpose; more ominously, to seek the opinion or advice of another by, by a statement of facts, and suitable inquiries, for the purpose of directing one’s own judgment; to agree, by oath, covenant or otherwise, to commit a crime; to plot; to hatch treason; n law, to agree falsely and maliciously to indict an innocent person of felony.” 

• TO CUT THEM OFF. Here the last word is ‘Kachad’ [כָּחַד], with their ultimate purpose being: “To hide, secret away; be effected, destroyed; efface or annihilate as an object of wickedness; to conceal, cut down or desolate; to reduce to nothing; to destroy the existence of; to annihilate a house by demolishing the structure.”

DK COMMENTS. Do you see it, beloved, the utter Evil and Violence in those who turn against God’s people and thereby, Him? This is utterly Satanic in Origin, taking us straight back through the Eons and Epochs to that First Fall of Lucifer, to the Temptation to Pride and Death in the Garden, to Nimrod’s massive Hubris and Brutality, then to, I argue, Donald Trump’s America and Donald Trump’s Christianity.

Pause here to consider that claim. It is vital to my argument.

6. TWO POLITICAL CAVEATS

It occurred to me as I composed this essay that there have been Two Arab Nations that have already struck a peace accord with Israel, and have held true to their commitments for several decades.

Egypt and Jordan. But let me take them one at a time to show you their somewhat unusual Responses to the Abraham Accords proposed by the president.

EGYPT. One of the most historic events in modern Middle East international relations was the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty of March 26, 1979, following the 1978 Camp David Accords hosted by then-president Jimmy Carter. Somewhat miraculously cosigned by Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, it marked the Normalization of relations between these two nations after years of bloody armed conflict. 

President Sadat would later be assassinated by an Egyptian Army hit squad led by Lt. Khalid Islambouli, on October 6, 1981, as his price for peace was exacted.

But what of today, under the leadership of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, former Director of Military Intelligence and General of the Army? Seems that Egypt is less than pleased, and not likely to sign on anytime soon. Here is an excellent analysis by ‘Bloomberg,’ that explains some of the more sensitive interstitial elements of these matters.

“Egypt’s 1979 Treaty with Israel was also attended by questions over weapons purchases. Indeed, President Anwar Sadat’s decision to make peace helped pave Egyptian access to American arms and military aid after he had downgraded ties with the Soviet Union and expelled Soviet military advisors. The two deals have something else in common: They have reduced pressure for a peace between Israelis and Palestinians…

The two countries had been at war with each other four times in the three preceding three decades. Egyptian and Israeli families had lost loved ones in the fighting. On each side, military and security agencies were used to regarding the other as a potential threat. The treaty allowed both countries to secure increased financial support from the U.S. while ending any serious risk of another war, but it never fully dissolved the distrust between them…

Could the Israel-UAE agreement hurt the limited Israeli-Egyptian economic ties? That’s unlikely…But the absence of a history of war and greater economic compatibility between them will allow the UAE to develop a much deeper relationship with Israel than Egypt has managed in the past 40 years. It helps, too, that the UAE is much more open to foreign businesses and investments than Egypt. Israelis are not alone in finding the Egyptian marketplace inhospitable.” – TIMOTHY KALDAS, “Why Egypt Didn’t Profit from Peace with Israel as the UAE Will,” September 9, 2020; edited

JORDAN. Here we have an even tougher sell, as the current Jordanian King of the Hashemite Kingdom, Abdullah II, reigning since February 7, 1999, at peace with Israel since the Wadi Araba Treaty struck on October 26, 1994.. In an interesting article published at the beginning of the year by ‘Haaretz,’ here’s what we need to know in the run up to several other Arab nations getting on board the Peace Plan.

The Disconnect began with Trump strategically excluding Jordan and the Palestinians from the details of the Agreement.

“Jordan is once again seeking political asylum. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Benny Gantz will hear the details of the ‘Deal of the Century’ in Washington this week, King Abdullah will apparently only be able to guess at the nature of the ambush U.S. President Donald Trump is laying for him.

Based on the statements of senior Jordanian officials, the Kingdom is still officially in the dark, and speculation relies mainly on leaks to the Israeli media. But their greatest fear is that Jordan will become the alternative Palestinian homeland…

Jordan now faces three threats that it defines as existential. The first is the expected American pressure to adopt Trump’s peace plan. This could include cutting American economic aid and military support, thwarting the king’s efforts to raise money from international financial institutions and even promoting Saudi Arabia’s aspiration to become the custodian of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem.

The second threat, which is even more dangerous, is a scenario in which the Jordanian public launches protests against the deal and demands that the Kingdom sever ties with Israel, or even cancel the Peace Agreement. And the third threat will come to pass if Israel adopts the U.S. deal, annexes the Jordan Valley and other settlements assigned it under the plan and thereby severs Jordan from the West Bank.” – ZVI BAR’EL, “In Trump’s Peace Plan, Jordan Only Sees an Ambush,” January 264, 2020; edited

SYRIA. I mention a Third Arab Nation that will be a participant in the expected Psalm 83 War, as member to the Ten Nation Confederacy that will attack Israel as part of what I interpret as their fierce opposition to the Abraham Accords Proposal. 

Here is an explicit piece that leaves no doubt about the age-old antagonism.

“Syria affirmed on Thursday that it remains staunchly opposed to any normalization agreements with Israel, i24NEWS reports.

A source in the Syrian Foreign Ministry was quoted as having told the official SANA news agency that Syria ‘was and will remain against any agreements or treaties with the Israeli enemy based on its firm conviction that such agreements harm Arab causes in general, foremost among which is the Palestinian cause, which has been proven by previous experiences, that normalization and signing treaties and agreements with this enemy only increased its arrogance and obstinacy.’

The comments were Syria’s first official response to Israel’s recently signed agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.” – ELAD BENARI, “Syria Affirms Opposition to Normalization Deals with Israel,” ‘Israel National News,’ February 10, 2020; edited

7. LAST THOUGHTS

Well now, that’s a bunch of volatile ideological and underlying spiritual stuff, isn’t it? Here’s my admitted Hypothesis about these Ten Nations in the Region, as they are Tethered to, or in Opposition to the historic Abraham Accords that I treated in an earlier Commentary. – cf. “Notes on the Historic Abraham Accords: Israel’s Liberty or America’s Rubicon?” Parts I-III, August 22, 26, and 29

Just this, as we return to note the FOUR NATIONS remaining outside the Abraham Accords, in my anticipation of their Membership in the Ten Nation Confederation who will engaged The Psalm 83 War.

• TENTS OF EDOM. Palestinians and Southern Jordanians.

• MOAB. Palestinians and Central Jordanians.

• HAGRITES. Egyptians (Hagar is the matriarch of Egypt).

• AMMON. Palestinians and Northern Jordanians.

• ASSYRIA. Syrians and Northern Iraqi’s.

MY POINT. If I am correct in my informed presupposition that the Psalm 83 War did not in fact already become fulfilled by the Six Day War in 1967, then these now clearly Disruptive New Alignments constitute Evidence for my argument that this War is yet to come, and come soon. 

Here is Additional Fuel to my argument that the seriously FLAWED PEACE PLAN will Provoke Antagonists toward Three Great Conflicts, starting with the Asaph’s Psalm 83 War.

• GENERAL FLAWS. “First, the dissonance between its pretension and its timing: It purports to change history, but coming just one month before Israel’s elections, it serves petty politics. Second, there is a mismatch between the Plan’s stated aim and the actors who are meant to put it into place: It seeks to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians, but the Palestinians are not full partners in its implementation. Third, and the biggest problem: The Plan doesn’t meet the Palestinians’ minimum conditions.” – MICAH GOODMAN, ‘New York Times,’ January 29, 2020; edited

• BORDER FLAWS. “The deal offers a provision that people and communities, Jews and Arabs alike, will not be evacuated from their homes. It entails highly entangled and complex borders, ensuring that most of the largest Jewish settlements in the West Bank and another approximately 150 smaller settlements will be territorially connected to Israel. This is a sharp turn from the agreed-upon notion of annexing only a one-digit West Bank percentage to Israel, i.e., the large ‘settlement blocs’ adjacent to the June 1967 lines… Trump’s deal will leave out 15 settlements that could not be attached to the main Israeli territory under any boundary line [as a ‘Land Giveaway’]. These enclaves are supposed to remain within the Palestinian state once established.” – GILEAD SHER, ‘Baker Institute Blog,’ April 16, 2020; edited

• SPIRITUAL FLAWS. “Today’s announcement of a Peace Treaty between the Jews and Arabs contained within the ‘Abraham Accord’ brokered by Jared Kushner and the Trump administration sent shock waves throughout the bible prophecy world today. But it is only many hours later, as the dust begins to settle, that the ‘True Picture’ of what actually took place this morning comes fully into view. The ‘Abraham Accord’ is the missing link the Vatican needed to complete its launch of ‘Chrislam,’ otherwise known as The Abrahamic Faiths Initiative.” – GOEFFREY GRIDER, ‘Now the End Begins,’ August 13, 2020; edited

THE ABRAHAMIC FAITHS INITIATIVE (Rome, January 16, 2020). To put this entire Commentary properly to bed, is a stunning discovery I made regarding that above claim concerning Spiritual Underbelly of the Abraham Accords. Penned by a noted Islamic scholar, we must pay the closest of attention to it for the days just ahead.

“It was this [an] Islamic idea…An Abrahamic unity of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam based on the Hanifi Religion [see Koran 3:67] of Abraham, the din al-fitrah, is a real possibility…The Muslim will continue to believe in and work for this Unity, confident that his God [i.e., Allah!] Whom he knows to be one as truth is one, and the moral law is one, cannot but desire One Religion…[T]he Islamic stand toward other faiths, having brought all faiths under a single roof or din al-fitrah, satisfies the only condition for constructive dialogue and inter-relation.” – DR. ANDREW BOSTOM, “Frontpage Mag,’ February 11, 2020; edited

CODA. While the entire world – and even Hal Lindsey by the way – sees the Trump-led Movement to Peace in the Middle East as a miraculous “Paradigm Shift” toward bringing peace and harmony to the nations, I remain a sometimes screeching minority Voice of Warning, reminiscent of an old saying:

‘Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes,’ a Latin phrase from Aeneid (II, 49), written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, normally translated in English as the Proverb, “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts”. Its literal meaning is, “I fear the Danaans [Greeks], even those bearing gifts” or “even when they bear gifts.”

To this point: I confess loudly that I fear virtually anything that this President brings as ‘A Gift’ to benefit anyone but himself. I do, and with a mountain of evidence for good cause. Evidence that I have labored hard for over three years to bring to public attention.

A WARNING. Best proclaimed by an ancient Jewish Prophet for these Last of the Last Days.

“For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness (to greed for unjust gain); and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely. They have healed also the wound of the daughter of My people lightly and neglectfully, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.” – JEREMIAH 6:13-14, AMPC

Wisdom, Discernment and Courage together beckon, beloved, as never before in our generation. May we embrace them as did the Sons of Issachar, once more, “who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel [the Church and America now] ought to do.” – 1 CHRONICLES 12:32, AMPC

And if we do, the Question hangs in the air like those Divine Scales from Patmos, waiting to Signal God’s Next Moves: Will anyone listen to us? Or as the Messiah said it: 

“However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find [persistence in] faith on the earth?” – LUKE 18:8, AMPC

Will He indeed. 

Ever your servant, DK

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