The Final Countdown

Cold War II is springing to life as Russia and the United States have spent the better part of a month trading barbs and quasi-threats. Russia even has a pair of top-of-the-line nuclear subs patrolling the east coast of the US for what is believed to be the first time in 15 years. This comes less than two weeks after VP Joe Biden assured the former Soviet republic of Georgia that the US would stand behind the nation in any further conflicts with Russia, who briefly invaded Georgia last year.

Tensions are further raised over missile defense plans. The US wants to put missile defense facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic, a move that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev promises will result in Russian missiles being pointed at Europe. Further, Russia has vowed to counteract any US moves by placing weapons in space, a move long predicted by some prophecy scholars. (Note that these predictions are generally based on Revelation 12. While it is possible this could be a “double prophecy” and reference two events, I am of the opinion that one must take these verses out of context to conclude it is talking about “war in space” between human nations.)

Vladimir Putin, the insanely popular once and future President of Russia, is regarded by many to be a strong candidate to be Gog of Magog, or the prince of Rosh who launches World War III in Ezekiel 38-39. We know that these chapters are specific to Russia because actually cities in the country are named. For instance, Rosh is Hebrew for Russia, Meshech for Moscow, and Tubal of Tubalsk.

Russia will lead a Middle East confederation of nations against Israel (Ezekiel 38:15; Psalm 83:4-5), with Iran being its key sidekick (Ezekiel 38:5). The partnership between Russia and Iran is growing stronger, and the two nations are even holding joint military exercises, and Russia is refusing to back any sanctions against Iran for attempting to acquire nuclear technology.

As part of the opening salvo that begins World War III, this Russian led group will almost certainly attack the United States (Jeremiah 50-51) using missiles (Jeremiah 50:14, 29; 51:3, 11) launched during a sneak attack (Jeremiah 50:24; 51:12).

Two quick stories to illustrate the cooperation of China, North Korea, Russia, and Iran:

• China wants Ahmadinejad election recognized
• Experts find Soviet parts in North Korean Missile

These four nations will work together to launch World War III. The battle begins when Russia forms a coalition of Arab nations whose purpose is to obliterate Israel (Psalm 83:4-5). This cabal marches on the Holy Land (Ezekiel 38:15), with Iran being a key driving force (Ezekiel 38:5). In the second half of the assault, China and North Korea march down the Euphrates River and into the Middle East (Revelation 16:12; Isaiah 11:15) to face the armies of the Antichrist (Daniel 11:44).

While unrest rules Iran over the recent election results, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can rest certain he has the backing of one group of nations–the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Ahmadinejad attended a summit with the SCO members this week.

We often talk about the Russian and Iranian led confederation of nations that will march on Israel (Psalm 83:4-5; Ezekiel 38:8, 16). But there is a second half to that invasion, and it occurs when China and members of the SCO, along with North Korea (Revelation 16:12), follow up the initial movement by marching  a 200,000,000 man army (Revelation 9:16) down the Euphrates River and into the Middle East (Revelation 9:14, 16;12; Isaiah 11:15). So look for more cooperation between the SCO, Russia, and Iran in the days ahead.

Meanwhile, Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said that Iran is actively seeking nuclear weapons technology. Iran continues to ratchet up the rhetoric, this time by claiming that they foiled a US terrorist plot to blow up polling places on election day.

The Tribulation begins when the Antichrist forges a seven year peace contract between Israel and the Arab nations of the Middle East (Daniel 9:27). But this will be a false peace for Israel, because the Jews will have made “a covenant with death and hell” (Isaiah 28:15). Because the Arab nations still want to eliminate Israel and Russia wants the oil from the Middle East, these nations will form a confederacy to come against Israel (Psalm 83:4-5). Russia is already assembling this coalition.

For this reason it is important to keep an eye on what Russia has to say about oil and energy concerns. Last month, Russian President Dimitry Medvedev said that his nation was “focused on getting hold of energy sources, including in the Middle East.” The chairman of the Russian energy group Gazprom, Alexei Miller, estimates that oil will hit $250 a barrel, providing even more incentive for Russia to find new supplies of oil, a goal Medvedev reiterated Tuesday.

Bloomberg news service reports that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is renewing his calls for a global currency system.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev may discuss his proposal to create a new world currency when he meets counterparts from Brazil, India and China this month, Natalya Timakova, a spokeswoman for the president, told reporters by phone today. Russia’s proposals for the Group of 20 meeting in London in April included studying a supranational currency.

“We need some kind of universal means of payment, which could create the basis of a future international financial system,” Medvedev said in a June 1 interview with CNBC. “Naturally, because of the crisis in the American economy, attitude to the dollar has also changed.”

The world is headed towards a global currency (Revelation 13:16-17). Major nations and globalist groups (such as the Bilderbergers) want to use the current economic mess to create a new global banking system, and have plans in place to make it happen within the next few years.

The Antichrist will use the world financial system to control the earth, but he uses socialism to attain his power (Daniel 11:24). Until recently, the United States has been the lone holdout among the superpowers of the world to shun socialism, but that has changed.  An editorial from the Russian online newspaper Pravda tells the tale:

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

Be ye wise and read the whole thing. If anyone knows the perils of Marxism, it is the Russians.

Stunningly, government handouts (such as food stamps & unemployment insurance) made up 16.2% of personal income during the first quarter of this year.  For the year 2009, government handouts will exceed $2 trillion–more than $17,000 per household on average.

Yet America still lives a life of luxury. In the United States, even the homeless have Internet access and Facebook accounts. The United States will remain the chief creator of the world’s wealth (Jeremiah 51:7; Revelation 18:3, 9-20, 23) and continue as a very wealthy nation (Jeremiah 51:13, Revelation 18:3, 7) until God sends His judgment upon the land, potentially depicted in Jeremiah 50:14, 28, 29; & 51:24.