This is why we do not expect the West to support Putin in the coming Russian-Turkish war in Syria. Mark my words, we will hear that Russia is the most ‘corrupt kleptocratic regime in the world’, and we will hear the similar call to end Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait echoed again telling Putin to exit from Syria.

It will be a repeat of the U.S. optimism during the Arab Spring. The West will ignore Turkey’s aggression and focus on Russia’s interference in the Syrian affairs regardless that Russia was legally invited by Syria. Who can deny that such Arab Spring optimism gave way to chaos and Islamist violence across once-stable parts of the Middle East and North Africa?

Turkey knows that it cannot control Syria without Muslim terrorists and is why the Russian Air Force has conducted 302 sorties targeting 1,093 terrorist targets from December 18-23 alone and by that they defeated Turkey’s plans to become the regional superpower.

The Russian-Turkish conflict in Syria is not going to be an easy one for either party. If Russia threatens to cripple Turkey by cutting-off the gas supplies, it will also hurt Russia’s economy while Muslim Azerbaijan will gladly provide Turkey with a new gas-hookup bringing the Turkic states closer to Istanbul and further from Moscow. On the other hand, the increasing Muslim global menace is the fire necessary for Christendom’s refinement, unity, and even bringing Jerusalem (which no longer trusts Turkey) closer to Cyprus.

This conflict is the new equilibrium that will create the neo-Ottoman hegemony to form the nations of Ezekiel 38. The crucial factor to be considered is that if Turkey and Russia had a full out blown war in Syria, Turkey will initially be the victor. Putin’s military options are constrained. He has only limited forces in Syria and the Trans-Caucasus area bordering Turkey, while Ankara has the second-largest fleet of F-16s in the world and the second-largest army in NATO. It also has logistical and geographical advantages that include control of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus, Russia’s egress to Syria.

But even if Turkey initially wins, it will eventually be crushed by Russia, but only in the end. This is rooted in history stretching back to the Ottoman Empire. At one point or another, the Ottoman Turks ruled over or defeated all of modern Turkey’s neighbors except Russia. Between the fifteenth century, when the Ottoman and Russian Empires became neighbors, and 1917, the year of the Bolshevik revolution, the two peoples fought at least seventeen long wars, all of them instigated — and won — by the Russians.

But in the meanwhile the conflict will regroup Turkey’s ancient allies. Russia, with its deep political, economic, and military ties to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, has been unable to get these to stand against Turkey over the Syria issue. The Russia-Turkish conflict will further catapult Turkey with its sister nations (originally Ottoman) to come closer together.

Such resurrection of the dead Ottoman Empire will be the revival of the greatest threat to Israel and Christendom. This will magnetize Christendom back where it will bring Russia and Armenia (biblical Ararat, Mini and Ashkenaz) and the eastern European block, closer together, where in the end, they will join the battle with Russia against Turkey. Today we see the Muslim flood into Europe causing a likely referendum where the Visegrad group of countries (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic), the strongest critics of EU migrant policies to soon split. It will be the formation of two regional players where a Christendom block will form (primarily Catholic/Orthodox) to thwart the neo-Ottomans, while Germany, England and the U.S. will repeat the same history of Lepanto when the Lutherans and the Calvinists stood with the Ottoman Muslims in the beginning of the war.

WHY MANY SO-CALLED CHRISTIANS WILL BE LEFT OUT
People get confused as to how prophecy unfolds. The second coming will have the same two party lines as the first coming. One party thought that Messiah comes riding on a horse coming to defeat the Romans, while the other party examined the text to only conclude the man in Jerusalem riding that donkey is their Messiah.

One party lost salvation while the other party won their salvation.

From Genesis (Cain and Abel) until Christ’s second coming God always divided between two (sheep and goats). This Second Coming, messing up, has eternal consequences. This is why Christ refers to this time as the virgins with oil and virgins without. The faulty prophetic scenarios drawn by many will cause the party of the lost to miss the hour of the second visitation.

Interpretation has eternal consequences and is why it should be decided by a few. Just to show how interpretation has eternal consequences I will give but one example. Many teach that the Antichrist is recognized when he initiates a peace-treaty with Israel. But if we ask, where is this “peace treaty with Israel” in the Bible? They would instantly refer to Daniel 9:27.

But what we find in Daniel 9:27 is that there is no mention of Israel. This covenant is more of the same type of allegiance Muslims gave to Caliph Al-Baghdadi of ISIS which will switch soon to the Ottomans. Daniel says: “He will confirm a covenant”. This is not a “peace treaty”. And he confirms it with “many”. This is not with “Israel” as has been claimed. Revelations 13 even confirm this: “They [the ten horns] give their power and authority (allegiance) to the beast” (Revalation 17:16).

Israel can never be one of the ten horns. No where does Scripture ever teach that Israel will give allegiance to the Antichrist. Israel, just as Christendom, will be “refined through fire” (Zechariah 13:9, 1 Pet 1:7) to becoming closer to Christ and further from the Antichrist. This is the equilibrium where no matter what the devil does, God always wins. There is zero mention of Israel in these verses. Daniel 9:27 speaks of the entry to the Temple (he never mentions a Temple in the Jerusalem) and we should consider Hagia Sophia which was considered the Temple of the Word (Christ). Daniel 9:27 speaks of abolishing the Eucharist “Grain Offering”. This will include the wine offering since alcohol is prohibited in Islam.

These ten kings will make a covenant with the man of sin. This is not a peace-treaty between Israel and the Antichrist, but is the formation of the “league” (Ezekiel 30:5) which some of the states are spelled out by name including Egypt and Libya and with Isaiah 17, Damascus is doomed because this one too is in the realm of Antichrist.

So why does believing in a seven-year peace treaty between Israel and the Antichrist have eternal consequences?

The answer is simple. The devil, by such an interpretation, is tempting (the five lost virgins if you will) to commit “spiritual suicide”. As a result of the Russian-Turkish fallout, Israel is moving further from making a peace-treaty with Turkey and is clinging to Greece. This makes the virgins-without-oil see Greece as the Antichrist instead of Turkey. This is why the devil works at the BBC painting Putin as Gog.

It is the same with the lost virgins who see Russia as Gog/Magog and the Vatican as “harlot”. Israel, as it seems, is getting closer to Greece and is getting further from U.S NATO ally Turkey.

The conflict between Russia and Turkey is bringing what used to be Christendom closer together. Greek Cyprus and Russia are finalizing a deal that would allow Russian military jets to use Greek Cypriot airports in case of emergency. This will drag Greece into the war. So it looks like Israel is getting closer to what was Christendom rather than Islamdom. While Greece is currently fallen-away from the faith, this will eventually change (just as in Russia), so when Turkey persecutes it, the lost biblical gymnasts will hail Turkey over Greece, Turkey over Russia, Turkey over Rome … all the while they see the Muslims as the instrument of God.

And it is for these reasons that the five virgins with no oil have a difficult time weighing Islam in the prophetic equation.

The Turkish-Russian tension is not paving a road to Israeli reconciliation with Ankara.

This is why it is crucial to heed Christ’s instruction in these times. The sons of satan, just like the five lost virgins, also use and interpret Scripture to only end up with the five virgin without oil commit spiritual suicide.

The devil, like many today who run to and fro love to quote Scripture like a biblical gymnast. The first uttering from the devil to Jesus was when he tempted Christ quoting Psalm 91:11 as explained in Matthew 4:6:

“If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written [in Psalm 91:11]: “‘He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”

The devil, by using Psalm 91:11, wanted Christ to unintentionally commit suicide by adding what was not in the text “throw yourself down”. Deception could either be intentional or unintentional, yet it matters not, since both are identified as deceivers according to scripture, and all claiming faithful need to examine continually their own hearts (Psalm 26:2, Psalm 129:23).

Geneva’s historic and spiritual divide with Rome, includes with it some wild traditional interpretations, that stems from historic time with England’s propaganda machine. Today nothing changed. We have many who stand with Turkey instead of Christian Russia. You can tell the virgins without oil from their ad nauseam statements, spin after spin, of demonically influenced web of contentions, that are always presented as if they are “simple” claiming that they are straight from the “Bible” and that “all I need is Jesus” and we should only “focus on the essentials”.

There is not one single verse with “thus says the Lord” that is non-essential. This is the devil’s lie. Prophecy is given to us to learn which side we stand with.

The lazy always gripes over Muslims flooding Europe with Muslim immigrants (Revelation 11-12), while forgetting the Red Dragon behind this flood. I always run into divisive devils who tell us to hate Russia, China and to focus on the European Union and Greece with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras as the enemies of God.

These devils exist on the top of the Republican party down to pastors with Hawaiian shirts selling their wares using mass-marketing schemes. The devil is effecting the elections as we see it and is why I am for Protestant Donald Trump who sees that Russia and the Arab nationalists as not the enemy, who sees China as an economic issue and not a military threat. The ascetic Greek Orthodox monk Saint Paisios predicted that:

“There will be war between Russia and Turkey. In the beginning the Turks will believe they are winning, but this will lead to their destruction. The Russians, eventually, will win and take over Constantinople.”

It is just as we alluded to earlier, Turkey will win first, and Russia later. Saint Paisios is correct. Turkey in the short-run will pack tremendous problems for Russia, but Russia in the long-run will prevail (Daniel 11:44).

We can already hear the drumbeats of war. While the sounds of it are low, just wait, it will soon thunder.

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