The Face of Evil

Caliph Abu Bakr al Bagdadi

Fairly innocent looking fellow, wouldn’t you say? Well you are wrong! You are looking at the face of evil!

Most of you already know about the creation of the Islamic Caliphate in northern Iraq and Syria.  You have witnessed just how swiftly they are conquering towns and cities on their way to Damascus.  The creation of this Caliphate is one of the most significant events in modern history because it will lead to the surrounding of Jerusalem by armies as prophesied in Luke:

Luke 21:20

And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.

The newly formed Caliphate known as ISIS or the Islamic State, has as its main goal the conquest of Jerusalem.

Does anyone really believe that they will stop at Baghdad or halt at the border of Israel?  Soldiers of the new Caliph are already threatening Lebanon[1] and Jordan[2].

A recent video put out by the Jerusalem Post shows an ISIS fighter standing on the border with Syria, saying that they will break all borders to reach Jerusalem. (see http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Watch-ISIS-fighter-says-they-will-break-all-borders-to-reach-Jerusalem-361019#!)

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt chanted, “Millions of martyrs march to Jerusalem, millions of martyrs march to Jerusalem” after their candidate Mohammad Morsi won the election.  Morsi is gone now, but the Muslim Brotherhood remains and their stated goal of reconquering Jerusalem from the Jews has not changed.

Hamas, for all practical purposes, IS the Muslim Brotherhood.  Hamas’ stated purpose is to wipe Israel off the face of the earth!  The goal has not changed.  These terrorist organizations are just closer to fulfilling their goal.

The West needs to wake up.  Once Jerusalem is captured, they will continue their march to world conquest.  Their aim is to spread their radical Islamic Caliphate until all the world is subjugated under their black flagged rule and Sharia law.  The Caliphate is nothing less than an evil counterfeit of the true Kingdom of God ruled by the real Messiah.  They want Jerusalem because that is the seat of the King of Kings.  They do not want Jesus to rule in Jerusalem!  They want their political/religious Caliph to rule in Jerusalem.

The problem is that until now, no one in the West has taken this EVIL seriously. We have only been exposed to it on a few network news services on the TV, if at all.  This is now getting increased news coverage because of the gruesome tactics ISIS uses and the moral outrage by more and more Christian groups.  It is getting more coverage in spite of the brain dead liberal media.

It is very similar to the 1930s in Germany.  No one saw the EVIL of the rule of Adolf Hitler coming.  Even when his brown shirted Nazi goons roamed the streets intimidating his opponents and he screamed his deadly racist rhetoric at larger and larger audiences, they still remained asleep to the growing menace from the Bottomless Pit.  They went about their lives as if nothing would happen.  Maybe they pretended that all would turn out OK.  Maybe they believed the flood of gross lies told by the Nazi propaganda machine.

The old saying goes: There are none so blind as those who will not see.

My inlaws lived in pre WW2 Nazi Germany.  My father-in-law had been a German soldier.  They tell me they just did not know what was going on.  I used to be skeptical of their assurance they knew nothing.  Looking at how the West is only just beginning to wake up to the powerful and swiftly growing evil menace in the Middle East, I now have changed my mind.  I now see how easy it is to NOT SEE!

Mat 24:38-39

For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away….

The Europeans and Americans did not recognize the evil of Hitler then and millions died in World War II, including 6 million Jews in death camps created especially for their extermination.

Can this happen again?  Of course it can, because the precursor is happening already.  ISIS is exterminating Christians in Iraq even as I write this blog post.

How horrible is it?  Is beheading children horrible enough?  What about crucifying teenagers?  Does raping and enslaving hundreds of women and young girls shock you awake yet?  What about burying Christians and other minorities alive?

What will it take to wake up our jaded and self-absorbed, professing Christian Western countries?  This is EVIL INCARNATE rising up!  Do you think they will somehow end the terror once they reach Baghdad?  Will these animals suddenly become peaceful and civilized at the gates of Jerusalem?  Will doing a Neville Chamberlain appease them?  Maybe we all can just hide our heads in the sand and pretend the growing evil will never reach our doorstep.

They will not stop until a larger force stops them in their tracks.  The Jihadi ISIS fighter in the Jerusalem Post video says, “This is not the first border we will break,” God will break all barriers..Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon…all of them until we reach Jerusalem. This is the first of many barriers we will break.”

The Caliphate already controls thousands of square miles of territory stretching from Aleppo, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea in Syria, to the gates of Baghdad in southern Iraq.  This territory includes oil and gas fields bringing in 3 million dollars per day.

On August 4, Max Boot wrote[3],

“While the West Dithers, ISIS Creates Facts on the Ground

‘“ISIS now controls a volume of resources and territory unmatched in the history of extremist organizations. It possesses the means to threaten its neighbors on multiple fronts, demonstrating a military effectiveness much greater than many observers expected.’”

“So wrote my Council on Foreign Relations colleague Janine Davidson on July 24. And that was before this weekend’s reports that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria had routed Kurdish fighters from the town of Sinjar near the Iraq-Syria border–one of the few border posts it did not already control–and that it may have taken control of the Mosul dam, which if blown up could flood much of northern Iraq with a 65-foot wave.

“Other reports indicate that ISIS has taken control of a Syrian oil field near Homs. As the Washington Post notes in a very comprehensive round-up of depressing news:[4] “Experts estimate the group is pocketing as much as $3 million per day in oil revenue by selling off resources on black markets in the greater Levant.” Oh and ISIS also just staged an attack in yet another country–Lebanon.

In short, the news is about as bad as it could be. The question that remains is: What is the U.S. doing about it? So far President Obama has dispatched 825 military personnel to Iraq to make a survey of the situation and to conduct some liaison work with the Iraqis in two headquarters. That’s about it, aside from some fiery rhetoric.”

F. Peter Brown wrote August 5 in Western Journalism[5],

“Terrifying: This ultra-violent group is now the most powerful extremist organization in history.”

“{They have}…a volume of resources and territory unmatched in the history of extremist organizations.”

The capture of Syrian oil and gas fields means they have the finances to fight a protracted war.  The capture of tons of left behind American arms and ammunition in Mosul means they have the weapons to keep on going.

The only people standing in their way at present are the Kurds.  The Kurds are an ethnic group who inhabit the Mountainous border regions of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria.  They are the modern day remnants of Parthian tribes.

Who were the Parthians?

The Parthians were a great empire that controlled the lands east of the Euphrates to the Steppes of Russia across the Caucasus Mountains and east as far as India.  The Parthians were made up of the Northern Tribes of Israel that went into captivity to Assyria and were resettled in the Caspian and Black Sea areas.  The Parthians were as powerful as the Romans and defeated the Romans in many fiercely fought battles.  At one time there was a Parthian king of Jerusalem named Antigonus, a descendant of King David who ruled Israel from 40 – 37 B.C.[6]

The Kurds are known as good fighters.  Up until now the U.S. has refused to give them arms and ammunition to fight ISIS which was able to capture several Kurdish cities.  Even without the help of America, the Kurds fought their way through ISIS fighters and were able to open a corridor to help trapped and surrounded Christians and other minorities to escape to Kurdistan.  The Kurds deserve our admiration.  As descendants of Parthians, they are long lost Israelite cousins.

Now I have received news that the U.S. has decided to supply arms, ammunition and training to the Kurds.  This will save them and other minorities.  The Kurds will fight this evil Caliph and his ruthless followers.

What is wrong?  How could such evil have been allowed to come to power?

America came into Iraq and got rid of Saddam Hussein.  He was replaced with what?  Frankly nothing worth talking about.  President Obama pulled the U.S. troops out with no clear plan to keep the radicals at bay.  As a result, the radical Islamists, including Al Quaeda, filled the vacuum.  Abu Bakr was a part of the Al Quaeda in Iran.  It will be much harder now to defeat them.

America is like a rudderless ship tossing and turning on the waves with no compass and no clear course.  America underestimated or simply ignored the threat.  Left unchecked, this evil will grow and more innocents will die.  What options is ISIS offering its victims?  Convert to Islam – leave all your possessions behind and flee – stay and be a slave – or die.  That’s it.

America does not understand its enemies and the level of rabid hatred people who are part of ISIS have for the USA and Britain – anyone for that matter who does not submit.  Do we in America or Britain want our children beheaded?  Do we want friends and neighbors buried alive?  Do we want to be forced to convert to Islam or die?

One can talk about non-violent Muslims all you want.  One can say all you want about the Koran condemning violent and hateful murder of innocents.  Tell that to the ISIS animals that are killing Christian children.

If the Caliphate is not stopped now – ISIS will eventually arrive at the gates of Jerusalem and then come knocking at your door.  Evil unchecked grows until it engulfs and destroys all in its way.

We, as the modern remnants of the nations of Israel need God’s protection now more than ever.

President Ronald Reagan told us that,

“If we forget that we are a nation under God, we will be a nation gone under.”

President Reagan is dead, but his words ring truer now than when he said them.  We are a people that have forgotten God, and we will reap the whirlwind.

It is time for America to turn back to God, not turn its back on God.  We have a great evil to fight and we need His help.

Leon Sexton

Legacy Institute

[2] See ISIS Threatens to Invade Jordan, ‘Slaughter’ King Abdullah, http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4354/isis-jordan#

[3] Max Boot | @MaxBoot

[4] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/04/islamic-state-now-controls-resources-and-territory-unmatched-in-history-of-extremist-organizations/?tid=hp_mm&hpid=z3

[5] http://www.westernjournalism.com/washington-post-islamic-state-now-controls-resources-territory-unmatched-history-extremist-organizations/

[6] See Steven M. Collin’s book, Parthia, for more details about the Israelite Parthian Empire.

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