The Middle East and North Africa in Bible Prophecy

......The gathering of the Nations against Israel

......Billions spent to Purchase Arms by Russia, China, and United

Arab Emirates
“...Modern Events Sliding into Prophecy ...”.

The Middle East and North Africa in Bible Prophecy ;

The “...Arab Revolution...” ;

The rise of Global Apostasy ;

The gathering of the Nations against Israel ;

Billions spent to Purchase Arms by Russia, China, and

United Arab Emirates ; etc etc
Billions spent on Arms whilst Millions Starve

Talks of Peace by United Nations and European

Union whilst billions are spent by Russia, China,
United Arab Emirates , USA and United Kingdom ;
 “...The 2008 Wall Street Crash...” ;
“...The rise of Oil Prices...” provides profits for
countries to spend Billions of USA Dollars to buy
arms instead of investing in Billions of USA Dollars in
the productive sector ;
Billions of USA Dollars spent on Arms whilst
hundreds of millions people starve in Third World
Countries ;
End Time Bible Prophecy
Countries that will gather against Israel in the last days
are listed in the Bible :-

Joel 2
Zechariah 12
Zechariah 14
Ezekiel 38 and 39
Matthew 24 verses 1 to 8
 Revelation 16
Bible Prophecy : Drying up of Euphrates River

QUOTE : “... 12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great
river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of
the kings of the east might be prepared.
 13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of
the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth
of the false prophet.
 14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth
unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to
the battle of that great day of God Almighty.....”. UNQUOTE.

See The BIBLE, The Book of Revelation Chapter 16 verses 12 to 14


The Drying up of Euphrates River
Campbell Robertson, 13 July,2009 : NEW YORK TIMES :

HEADLINES : “ Iraq Suffers as the Euphrates

River Dwindles .”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/world/middleeast/14euphrates.html

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Euphrates River Drying Up
 July 13,2009 Campbell Robertson .NEW YORK TIMES :-

QUOTE : “Throughout the marshes, the reed gatherers, standing on land

they once floated over, cry out to visitors in a passing boat. ‘Maaku mai!’ they
shout, holding up their rusty sickles. ‘There is no water!’ The Euphrates is
drying up. Strangled by the water policies of Iraq’s neighbors, Turkey and
Syria; a two-year drought; and years of misuse by Iraq and its farmers, the
river is significantly smaller than it was just a few years ago. Some officials
worry that it could soon be half of what it is now. The shrinking of the
Euphrates, a river so crucial to the birth of civilization that the
Book of Revelation prophesied its drying up as a sign of the end times, has
decimated farms along its banks, has left fishermen impoverished and has
depleted riverside towns as farmers flee to the cities looking for
work.”......”.UNQUOTE.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/world/middleeast/14euphrates.html
Sign of the End Times

13th July,2009 NEW YORK TIMES QUOTE :

The shrinking of the Euphrates, a river so crucial to

the birth of civilization that the
Book of Revelation prophesied its drying up as a sign
of the end times, has decimated farms along its banks,
has left fishermen impoverished and has depleted
riverside towns as farmers flee to the cities looking for
work.
Ezekiel 38

QUOTE : “.... Ezekiel 38

 1And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

 2Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against
him,

 3And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

 4And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and
horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them
handling swords:

 5Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:

 6Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.

 7Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard
unto them.

 8After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the
sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is
brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

 9Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many
people with thee.

 10Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou
shalt think an evil thought:

 11And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of
them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
 Ezekiel 38 Continued

QUOTE : “.... 12To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now
inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the
midst of the land.

 13Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to
take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to
take a great spoil?

 14Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel
dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?

 15And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon
horses, a great company, and a mighty army:

 16And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will
bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

 17Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which
prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?

 18And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my
fury shall come up in my face.

 19For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land
of Israel;

 20So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep
upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall
be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

 21And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be
against his brother.

 22And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon
the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

 23Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know
that I am the LORD......”UNQUOTE.
Russia to spend $ 650 Billion on Arms

Russia to spend $ 650 Billion

over next ten years .
Russia spends $ 650 Billion on Arms

QUOTE : “....Moscow – The graying bear is getting a make-over.

Russia's military is launching its biggest rearmament effort since
Soviet times, including a $650 billion program to procure 1,000 new
helicopters, 600 combat planes, 100 warships, and 8 nuclear-
powered ballistic missile submarines.
Analysts say Russia, while already the world's fifth-largest military
spender, needs strong conventional forces to reduce its overreliance
on its aging Soviet-era nuclear missile deterrent. Valentin Rudenko,
director of the independent Interfax-Military News Agency, says it
could create "a whole new ballgame.....”. UNQUOTE .

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread668922/pg1
Russia To Upgrade it’s Army over Next Ten Years
 25th February,2011 RUSSIA RT QUOTE : “.... Russia has revealed details of its
ambitious plan to upgrade its army over the next ten years, planning to spend
US$650 billion on the project.
­The unveiled large-scale plans of the Russian defense ministry propose the
spending of vast sums of money up to 2020.

 First and foremost, Russian defense will focus on the development of strategic
nuclear weapons, construction of over 100 military vessels for Russian Navy,
including construction of four originally French-made Mistral-class amphibious
assault ships, and the introduction into the Air Force of over 1,000 helicopters
and 600 military planes, including fifth generation PAK-FA fighter.

Most of the military hardware will be equipped with next-generation weaponry.

For the first time ever, Russia is planning to buy military equipment from NATO-
member countries – two Mistral helicopter carriers will be bought in France
(with two more licensed to be built in Russia), as well as samples of armored
vehicles from Italy and elements of personal combat systems also from
France......”.UNQUOTE.
http://rt.com/news/military-budget-russia-2020/
Russia to buy Arms from Nato Countries
25th February,2011 ,USSIA RT QUOTE : “...... For the first time ever, Russia
is planning to buy military equipment from NATO-member countries – two
Mistral helicopter carriers will be bought in France (with two more licensed to
be built in Russia), as well as samples of armored vehicles from Italy and
elements of personal combat systems also from France.

Moscow’s plans to modernize Russian strategic nuclear forces do not contravene

the newly-signed New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with the US, which
aims at the reduction of up to a third of the strategic nuclear weapons in both
Russia and the US.

President Dmitry Medvedev came out and said that he really wants the Russian
military to be a source of innovation, and upgrading military forces is what all
the spending is based upon.UNQUOTE.

http://rt.com/news/military-budget-russia-2020/
China To Spend $91.5 Billion on Arms
QUOTE : “....On 4 March 2011, it was reported China would spend
$91.5 billion on the People Liberation Army, navy and air forces next
year, marking a return to double-digit spending. In the previous year
the defense budget rose 7.5 percent. The rise accounted for just 6
percent of China's national budget. The United States’ in February 2011
request was $553 billion for the 2012 “base” budget, up 4.2 percent from
2011, plus an additional $118 billion to fund military operations in Iraq
and Afghanistan, for a total of $671 billion. The Chinese military
budget, at official exchange rates, is one-seventh that of the United
States. But on a more appropriate purchasing power parity (PPP)
basis, the Chinese military expenditure is over $400,000,000,000,
nearlyl two thirds that of the United States......”.UNQUOTE.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/budget.htm
China Defense Spending Increases 12.9% Annually
GLOBAL SECURITY.ORG QUOTE : “.... On Thursday 04 March 2010 Beijing
published China's 2010 defense budget. It totalled 532.115 billion yuan (about
$77.9 billion at current exchange rates) or 7.5% more than last year. Chinese
defense spending had increased by an average of 12.9% annually since 1989
when Beijing launched an ambitious army modernization program, and this
was only the second year over that period in which annual growth was less
than 10%.
In Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of
China 2010 the US Defense Department estimated that actual Chinese
military spending was double this about, over $150 billion on an official
exchange rate (OER) basis. Purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates are
the value of goods and services produced in another country valued at prices
prevailing in the United States. This is the measure most economists prefer
when comparing use of resources across countries. .....”.UNQUOTE.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/budget.htm
Russia and China
 PROPHECY UPDATES AND COMMENTARY : GOG AND MAGOG WAR : QUOTE : “.... RUSSIA AND CHINA
NOW ABLE TO SINK ALL AMERICAN AIRCRAFT CARRIERS?

 Russianmilitary actions are becoming steadily more aggressive. The first link below (from
MSNBC) reports that Russian bombers were intercepted by US jets just off Alaskan
borders and that other Russian bombers have flown over US carriers and the important US
military base at Guam. This link notes the Russian military is coming out of hibernation as
“the Russian navy has finished construction of moth-balled submarines and restarted
large-scale naval exercises.” Russia’s military will continue to grow as it is fueled by
immense energy profits......

..... China is deploying many types of new cruise missiles which can be launched from
land, sea and air against US carriers or other US targets.......”.UNQUOTE .

http://stevenmcollins.com/WordPress/?p=211
End Time Worldwide Deception

QUOTE : “.... 13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs

come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the
mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false
prophet.

 14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles,

which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the
whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day
of God Almighty.....”. UNQUOTE.

 See The BIBLE, The Book of Revelation Chapter 16 verses 13 to 14

Top Middle East Buyers
The Jerusalem Post : 14th March,2011

UAE, Saudis, Egypt, Algeria top ME arms buyers

QUOTE : “....Middle East accounted for 1/6 of the

world’s arms imports while having just 1/15th of
the world’s population in 2010, study finds.....”.
UNQUOTE.
Rise in Price of Oil helps Purchase of Arms in Middle East

JERUSALEM POST TALKACKS QUOTE : “.... The governments of the

Middle East and North Africa dug deep into their pockets last year to
stock up on weapons, according to the annual study by the Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Experts doubt the
current wave of political turmoil will do much to change that.

This year, the region’s security forces have been aiming their weapons
mostly at their own citizens, but during 2010 countries like Saudi
Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE) as well as Morocco and Algeria,
were at least as focused on external threats, SIPRI said in a report
released Monday. The price of oil rose about 14% last year to $90 a
barrel, helping governments to pay for the purchases .....”. UNQUOTE .

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=212128&R=R3
Protests in the Middle East and North Africa
 QUOTE : “ ..... Countries in the Middle East and north Africa have been rocked by
protests against political repression and economic hardship which resulted in the
ousting of long-serving rulers in Tunisia and Egypt.
 "It has been agreed to postpone holding the Arab summit for a maximum period until
May 15 in order to understand the situations which are taking place now in some
countries," said Ali al-Moussawi, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's media adviser.
 "The postponement has nothing to do with Iraq, which is ready to hold this summit."
 The Arab League summit is viewed as important for Iraq's reintegration into the Arab
world eight years after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein.
 A successful summit would help Iraq to reassure its neighbours, mainly Sunni Arab-
dominated governments, who view the rise of Iraq's Shi'ite majority with suspicion and
fear the growing influence of Shi'ite-dominated Iran.
 It would also be a test of the readiness of its army and police as U.S. troops fully
withdraw by the end of the year. (Reporting by Waleed Ibrahim; writing by Jim Loney
and Serena Chaudhry;.....”.UNQUOTE.

 http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/03/oukwd-uk-arableague-summit-idAFTRE7221
ZG20110303
The Middle East
NEW YORK TIMES 28th February,2011 QUOTE :- “.... Until January 2011 Tunisia was
known mostly as the most European country of North Africa, with a relatively large
middle class, liberal social norms, broad gender equality and welcoming
Mediterranean beaches. But now it has taken center stage as the launching pad of a
wave of revolt that has swept through the Arab world and beyond.
For all its modern traits, Tunisia had one of the most repressive governments in a
region full of police states, and levels of corruption among its elite that became
intolerable once the economic malaise that has gripped southern Europe spread to
the country.
In what became known as the Jasmine Revolution, a sudden and explosive wave of
street protests ousted the authoritarian president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who had
ruled with an iron hand for 23 years. On January 14, Mr. Ben Ali left the country,
after trying unsuccessfully to placate the demonstrators with promises of elections.
According to government figures issued later, 78 protesters died and 94 were injured
during the demonstrations......”. UNQUOTE.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/tunisia/index.htm
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Protests in the Middle East and North Africa

QUOTE : “ ..... Countries in the Middle East and north Africa have been rocked by
protests against political repression and economic hardship which resulted in the
ousting of long-serving rulers in Tunisia and Egypt.

"It has been agreed to postpone holding the Arab summit for a maximum period until
May 15 in order to understand the situations which are taking place now in some
countries," said Ali al-Moussawi, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's media adviser.

"The postponement has nothing to do with Iraq, which is ready to hold this summit."

The Arab League summit is viewed as important for Iraq's reintegration into the Arab
world eight years after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein.

A successful summit would help Iraq to reassure its neighbours, mainly Sunni Arab-
dominated governments, who view the rise of Iraq's Shi'ite majority with suspicion and
fear the growing influence of Shi'ite-dominated Iran.

It would also be a test of the readiness of its army and police as U.S. troops fully
withdraw by the end of the year. (Reporting by Waleed Ibrahim; writing by Jim Loney
and Serena Chaudhry;.....”.UNQUOTE.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/03/oukwd-uk-arableague-summit-idAFTRE722
1ZG20110303
Clinton, in Egypt, Embraces a Revolt She Once Discouraged

16th March,2011 QUOTE : “.... CAIRO — The motorcade — armored, but not overly conspicuous
in the snarled traffic — stopped at the edge of Tahrir Square on Wednesday morning, and Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton emerged for a stroll through the symbolic heart of an uprising that
toppled an autocratic government the United States had long supported.

“To see where this revolution happened, and all that it has meant to the world, is extraordinary for
me,” Mrs. Clinton said in a scrum of security guards, journalists and curious, courteous passers-by
who ambled with her for 10 minutes through the square, which was cleared of the last protesters a
week ago by the army.

Mrs. Clinton’s walk — symbolic and scripted, though not announced — reflected the fine diplomatic
line that the Obama administration has had to walk as the democratic aspirations that have upturned
the Arab world have given way here to wariness, in Bahrain to foreign intervention and in Libya to a
merciless military suppression.

Mrs. Clinton is the highest-ranking American official to visit Egypt since the wave of popular revolt
began in Tunisia in January. That wave has eroded the pillars of American diplomacy in the region,
which Mrs. Clinton, as the top American diplomat, must now try to rebuild.....”. UNQUOTE .


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/world/middleeast/17clinton.html?_r=1&ref=tunisia
Iraq agrees to delay Arab League summit in Baghdad

 3rd March,2011 REUTERS QUOTE : “...... - Iraq has

agreed to postpone an Arab League summit scheduled
for March 29 in Baghdad at the request of Arab foreign
ministers because of turmoil in some countries in the
region, a government official said on Thursday......”.
UNQUOTE.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/03/oukwd-uk
-arableague-summit-idAFTRE7221ZG20110303
Israel cease ship flying Liberian Flag

QUOTE : “....Navy intercepts ship with Iranian arms bound for Hamas

....Cargo vessel flying Liberian flag found with Chinese-made anti-ship

missiles, as well as instruction manuals in Farsi.
..... The Israel Navy seized a cargo vessel early Tuesday morning in the
Mediterranean Sea that was carrying advanced weaponry, including anti-ship
missiles that could alter the balance of power in the region.

Israel believes the weaponry originated in Iran and was destined for Hamas and
other terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip....”UNQUOTE.

http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?id=212234
Israel Seizes German Vessel carrying weapons

QUOTE : “.... Yesterday, Israel seized another German-owned vessel

containing Iranian weapons on its way to the terrorist group Hamas in the
Gaza Strip. Commenting on the cargo of the German-owned ship Victoria,
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “we discovered many
weapons destined for terror groups in the heart of Gaza. The source of the
weapons was Iran which is trying to arm the Strip.”
The Jerusalem Post reports that, “The Victoria cargo ship that was boarded
by Israeli Navy commandos on Tuesday morning was carrying advanced
Chinese-made anti-ship missiles that would have threatened Israeli sea-
based strategic installations and navy vessels.”..UNQUOTE.

http://
www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/israel-seizes-german-owned-vessel-aiming-
arm-its-enemies_554674.html
German Naval vessels fail to enforce 2006 UN –
Brokered Cease-fire

QUOTE : “.... This is not the first time Germany has been lax on enforcing sanctions
against Iran's merchants of death. In October 2009, the Hansa India—sailing under a
German flag and owned by the Hamburg-based Leonhardt & Blumberg Company—
was stopped in the Red Sea by the U.S. Navy for unlawfully transporting ammunition
to Syria and Hezbollah. The next month, the Francop, a German-owned vessel,
was seized by Israel’s navy because it was carrying weapons destined for Syria and
Hezbollah.
German naval carriers were supposedly enforcing the 2006 U.N.-brokered cease-fire
between Hezbollah and Israel after the second war in Lebanon. But while German
chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration pledged to deploy its navy as part of the
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon to prevent the rearming of Hezbollah along
the Lebanese coast, Hezbollah has ably stockpiled between 40,000 and 50,000 new
rockets on Israel's northern border since the war ended....”.UNQUOTE.

http://
www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/israel-seizes-german-owned-vessel-aiming-arm-its-
enemies_554674.html
Israel Seizes Weapon Ship
HAARETZ 16 th March,2011 : QUOTE: “.... Iran responds to
weapons ship seizure: Israel is regime of lies ....
....Iranian Major-General Ataollah Salehi slams Israeli claim that
Iran is the source of Gaza-bound ship smuggling tons of
weapons, Iranian news agency reports....
The commander of the Iranian army has rejected Israel's claim that a
ship it seized on Tuesday was smuggling weapons from Iran to
militants in Gaza, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported on
Wednesday.....”.UNQUOTE.

http://
www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/iran-responds-to-w
eapons-ship-seizure-israel-is-regime-of-lies-1.349552

When Shall These Things Be ?
Quote : “...... QUOTE: “....  1And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his
disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
 2And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall
not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
 3And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying,
Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the
end of the world?
 4And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
 5For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
 6And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these
things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
 7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be
famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
 8All these are the beginning of sorrows..........”. UNQUOTE.

( Matthew 24 verses 1 to 8 ; King James Bible )