Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: mesaint@gateway (MikE SAINTcross) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Iraq - Eschatology Message-ID: Date: 3 Oct 90 07:49:06 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 50 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu "Look at the nations and watch - and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe even if you were told. I am raising up the Babylonians ... Habakkuk 1:5-6 (The whole book of Habakkuk actually) "Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar ... drove his army in a hard campaign against Tyre ... Yet he and his army got no reward. I am going to give Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar." Ezekiel 29:18-21 "Cush, Put, Lydia and all Arabia, Lybia and the people of the covenant land will fall by the sword along with Egypt." Ezekiel 30:5 (the whole chapter is pertinent, from this perspective) Saddam Hussien has certainly suprised the world (maybe not Israel) with his conquest of Kuwait two months ago. Mr. Hussien has compared himself, or aspires to be, like King Nebuchanezzar or Nimrod even, leading the Arab world to a position of power as in the days of old (Washington Post) I found it interesting to find in Nevaiim such a suprise foretold even though it has happened once, it is happening again. As to the long campaign against Tyre, Iran could fit this scenario. Iraq recieved nothing from that war. "every head rubbed bare, every shoulder made raw" ?? Chemical weapons? The Iraqis used them against Iran. The most suprising thing I find is the reference to the people of the covenant land. This is closet occurence of the modern day form of "Artzot Habrit" (the United States) in the Nevaiim (Prophets) It says "Bnai Aretz Habrit". Well, we're all gathered there. All the nations of the earth are represented in this first act of the NEW WORLD ORDER (Pres. Bush Speech) I guess we'll just have to what happens. The prophets foretell Babylong getting alot of now real estate, without Israel being involved (Ezek, 29:21) Rather than waste bandwidth analyzing all this out, I just touched on some interesting highlights (with typos, this is my first/last? post) E-mail address: mesaint@gateway.mitre.org Mike Saintcross Sys Admin/NSC