Scripture For Today, 8-27-19: Israel's Enemies

Bible Prophecy Speaks of Future End Time Destruction of Israel's Enemy Nations - None of them from Europe

The Lord God said, "the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations. 11 And I will execute judgments upon Moab [Jordan] ​; and they shall know that I am the Lord. 12 Because Edom [Jordan] ​ hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them. 13 Therefore, I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman [Africa]; and they of Dedan  [Persia/Iran] shall fall by the sword. 14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance. 15 Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred. 16 Therefore, I will stretch out Mine hand upon the Philistines  [Palestinians Gaza] , and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. 17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay My vengeance upon them."

Ezekiel 25:10-17

​8-18-19, * -- In the Old Testament Bible book of the Prophet Daniel we read about his vision of a "lion, bear and leopard" kingdom. These are the "beasts" of Daniel 7:4-6 of Babylon, Medo-Persia and Greece; they reappear together again - the only time - in Revelation 13:1-2 and combined ... they represent a single composite "beast"/kingdom.
 
Seven heads are the seven successive kingdoms that ruled John's whole "world" through time. The ten horns could be the ten Islamic caliphates.   (Daniel's beasts are assigned the masculine gender as "his.") The reverse order was perhaps because Daniel's prophecy was forward looking at these kingdoms to come, while John's prophecy was in part a review of history and their fulfillment.
 
It's necessary to understand that in the context of the times during which John was writing - looking through his eyes at his world - to apply this ethnographic hermeneutic; terms like "whole world" are not about Peoria, Illinois in the USA.  The verse "that deceiveth the whole world" - Strong's explains: 3625 oikoumene {oy-kou-men'-ay}

1) the inhabited earth
1a) the portion of the earth inhabited by the Greeks, in distinction from the lands of the barbarians
1b) the Roman empire, all the subjects of the empire
 
Thus John's "whole world" is virtually and entirely Islamic, with the exception of Israel, and small percentages of persecuted Christians in a few other countries in the area. [See Ezekiel 38:5-6; Daniel 7:8, 11; Revelation 17:9-13]
 
While those Islamic countries may have theological and political differences, and separate national identities [Iran is Shiite and Turkey is Sunni], they are all perfectly united spiritually through the false prophet Muhammad and his book, Koran. Each and every follower of Muhammad is an antichrist (1 John 2:18-22, 4:3; 2 John 1:7) as an article of their faith because they must deny and even blaspheme the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ.
  
Some Muslims claim the Bible was corrupted to demonize Islam, but this would have been an impossibility since it had been copied thousands of times and translated into many languages over hundreds of years before Muhammad was ever born [580 AD]. 
 
Excerpted and adapted full original reports from the late great Ellis Skolfield here [not to be confused with the late Cyrus Scofield]
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See Brother Skolfield's 12 Part series explaining Daniel & Revelation here

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