COMING EVENTS

A)  THE YEAR 1997:

1.  Retreat from Hebron;

2.  Hongkong returned to Mainland, Communist China; strong probability for Taiwan  eventually to be annexed to Red-China. Communist China will become a tremendous economic and military power almost overnight.

  Could Red-China be that Red Dragon of Revelation 12:3? China's symbol has always been the dragon, and because of its Marxist-communist regime this dragon is red! 

  Red China has an army of 200 million men which she would like to march to the land bridge between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea --- and control the Middle East! Revelation 12:4a  may foreshadow such a conquest! 

 It certainly merits keeping a VERY close watch on the happenings in the Far East!

 In our days nations have begun to form power-blocs such as the former Soviet Union did: the European Community, NATO, the Arab League, the North-American Trade Alliance, and others. If Red-China, once again in control of Hongkong and maybe even Taiwan, forms an alliance with North and South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc., and perhaps even Japan, these nations would create a formidable power-bloc vis-a-vis the EC
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  Might they become the Kings of the East of  Revelation 16:12?!

3.  Turkey's Attaturk Dam project is completed. The river Euphrates, which flows through neighboring Syria and Iraq (whose economies are greatly dependent upon this river), originates in Turkey. Therefore Turkey claims sovereign rights over this river. The Dam project will turn the Euphrates into a mere trickle, parching Syria's and Iraq's irrigation network and forcing their river-boats into dry-dock. 

Syria and Iraq will not stand idly by, as their economy dwindles. As founding members of the Arab League they will call upon their "brethren" for help. Many of the League members, such as Egypt, Saudi-Arabia, Jordan, Iran and Lybia, will rush to their fellow-members aid. 

This will cause Turkey, who is a member of  Nato, to call on her fellow-members for assistance. The US will have difficulty to decline, because she is not only the leading ally of  Nato, but also holds naval and air bases in Turkey of immense strategic importance. If the US rushes to the "aid" of Turkey, the Europeans must join.

This, I believe, will lead to WW III, in which one third of mankind, i.e. almost 2 billion people (present earth population estimated to have reached the 6 billion mark in 1998) will perish, according to Rev. 9:14-17. The battle will likely be waged with conventional weapons such as we have seen applied in the Gulf war and in the Balkan conflict plus armored tanks, which can fire both missiles and biological gases, as well as launch flares of fire through a canon.

In view of the precise time -- year, month, day and hour -- of this war, it seems reasonable to assume that the official inauguration and opening ceremony of the  Attaturk Dam  is the moment that will precipitate WW III and the death of almost 2 billion.
 

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