But America and her allies are fighting in the strength of man – and therefore victory has as yet eluded them. G-d had clearly warned against the timing of this war, that He was not going up with the armies⁸, and that this second war in Iraq against Saddam Hussein could hasten the prophesied disaster before the appointed time. 

For although extremely evil, Saddam Hussein stood as a barrier against the spread of fanatic [Shi’ite] Islam in Iraq. His aspirations were personal. [Shi’ite] Islam aspires to world domination to be achieved by global terror. Mere military might is no match for it. 
 

As the nine-headed serpent of Greek mythology, the Hydra, replaced one lost head by two new ones, so does Islam replace one lost terrorist by two or even more. The frightening, bloody terror of Islamic “Jihad” cannot, and will not, be stopped by the arm of flesh alone. (In the light of the latest killings of abducted non-Islamic civilians the decapitation of their victims certainly makes us think of Revelation 20:4 – for in our modern times who but Islam still practices this?)

Unhappily, terrorism cannot be overcome as long as the nations who war against it ascribe to a double standard by rewarding terror with more and more of G-d’s own pasturelands⁹. Terror will continue to spread across the globe with great success among those nations, which force tiny Israel to sign suicidal treaties and give up yet more of her covenanted Land.

Thus the downward vortex will increase steadily in size and power until the day of the sixth trumpet, when with a terrible roar, it will swallow up one third of mankind¹⁰. By horrifying natural catastrophes, and by arctic cold in tropical lands and heat waves in nordic spheres, G-d is warning plainly (and NOT “mother nature”): “Repent and mend your ways, O men of the earth, lest my wrath is kindled in ways against you, you have not yet imagined.”

Alas, mankind will not repent but will persist in worshipping the work of their own hands, thereby honoring demons and idols. They will cast truth to the ground and exalt all that is vile¹¹, making it the moral norm such as drug abuse, homosexuality and pornography. 

“Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the PUBLIC squares, and uprightness cannot enter. Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.”¹²

The birth pangs have long begun! The rider on the white horse is already gone out conquering and to conquer in the name of Allah¹³; the rider on the red horse is killing multitudes with wars, genocides, ethnic cleansing and terror; while the rider on the black horse causes hurricanes, floods, droughts, fires, volcanic eruptions and swarms of locust to destroy the harvests of the earth. The pale horse has gone out as well to kill with wars and famines and diseases in various places, with epidemics and creatures having turned malignant and vicious, invading human habitations.

The 5th seal will soon be upon those predestined for martyrdom, whose calling it is to be slain for the Word of G-d and for the witness they bear. Hundreds of thousands behind the former Iron Curtain have already fulfilled this Word, and millions more will give their lives and sanctify the Name of G-d with their testimony of Yeshua and the Word of G-d rather than yield to Islam and the reign of the beast¹⁴. 

The Return of the Lord Yeshua is at hand, but first we must go through the gate of birth pangs until, through perseverance and endurance, we shall receive the Kingdom of our G-d.