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WORLD WAR 3



EZEKIEL 4:1-2:



"THOU also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem"

"And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about."

"Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel."



EZEKIEL 5:2-8:



"Thou shalt burn with a fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them."

"Thout shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts."

"Then take them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into the house of Israel."

"This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her."

"And she hath changed my judgements into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my statutes, they have not walked in them."

"Therefore, because ye multiplied more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgements, neither have done according to the judgements of the nations that are round about you."

"Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations."



NOTE:

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its largest city in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of 125.1 square kilometres (48.3 sq mi). It is located in the Judean Mountains, between the Mediterranean Sea and the northern tip of the Dead Sea.

A Picture of Jerusalem:

EZEKIEL 5:12-17:



"A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them."

"Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by."

"So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes."

"When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread."

"So I will send you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee."



EZEKIEL 6:2-6:

"Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them."

"Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places."

"And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols."

"And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars."

"In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your alters may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished."

EZEKIEL 6:8-14:



"Yet I will leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries."

"And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives."

"Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas, for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! For they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence."

"He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine."

"When their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols."

"So I will stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Dib'-lath, in all their habitations."



EZEKIEL 7:2-25:



"Also, thou son of man, An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land."

"The sword is without, and the pestilience and famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him."

"But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity."

"All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water."

"Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none."

EZEKIEL 12:19-20:

"And say unto the people of the land, Thus of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; they shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein."

"And the cities that are inhabited, shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate."



EZEKIEL 15:8

"And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass."



EZEKIEL 21:12-22:



"Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy sword toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel."

"Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh."

"Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more."

"Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers."

"I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter."

'Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city."

"Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rab'-bath of the Ammonites (Jordanians), and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced."

"For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver."

"At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter,to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort."

"And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, concerning the Ammonites (Jordanians), and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering."

"And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy."

"Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered."

EZEKIEL 22:3-6:



"Then say thou, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile her."

"Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused the days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years; therefore I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries."

"Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed."

"Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood."



EZEKIEL 22:14-15:



"Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee?"

"And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee."



EZEKIEL 23:23-29:



"The Babylonians, and the Chal-de'-ans (Iraqis), Pe-kod, and Sho'a (Assyrian District in Southern Kingdom of Judah) and Ko'a (Assyrian District in Southern Kingdom of Judah), and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses."

"And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments."

"And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire."

"Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:"

"And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy xxxxxdoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy xxxxxdoms."



EZEKIEL 23:46-47:



"I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled."

"And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire."



NOTE:

Relating to the Babylonians, and the Chal-de'-ans: Babylonia was a state in Lower Mesopotamia (Iraq), with Babylon as its capital. Babylonia emerged when Hammurabi (fl. ca. 1728 – 1686 BC, short chronology) created an empire out of the territories of the former kingdoms of Sumer and Akkad.



A map of Ancient Babylonia (Now modern day Iraq):





Picture of Ancient Babylon as it currently looks today:





Map of modern day Iraq (The Babylonians of today):





Relating to Pe-kod, Sho'a, and Ko'a: These are all districts in the Southern Kingdom of Judah.

The Kingdom of Judah consisted of the area known as Har Yehudah ("the mountain (district) of the gorge(s)"). The area seems to have originally been occupied by Kenites, Calebites, Othnielites, and in Jerusalem Jebusites.



Map of the ancient Kingdom of Judah:





Relating to Ancient Assyria: Assyria was a political state centered on the Upper Tigris river, in Mesopotamia (Iraq), that came to rule regional empires a number of times in history.



Map of Ancient Assyria:

EZEKIEL 25:2-17



"Son of man, set thy face against the Am'-mon-ites (The Syrians/Jordans), and prophesy against them, because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity."

"Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk."

"And I will make Rab'-bah (capital of the Ammonite kingdom east of the Jordan River) a stable for camels, and the Am-mon-ites (the Syrians/Jordanians) a couchingplace for flocks:"

"Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee;"

"Because that Moab (mountainous strip of land in Jordan) and Se'-ir (mountain range extending along the east side of the valley of Arabah) do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;"

"Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab (mountainous strip of land in Jordan) from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jesh'-i-moth, (South of the Arabah, near the Dead Sea), Ba'a l-me-on (Another city close to Jordan), and Kir-i-a-tha'-im," (Another city by Jordan).

"Unto the men of the east with the Am'-mon-ites, (the Syrians/Jordanians), may not be remembered among the nations."

"Therefore, I will also stretch out mine hand upon E'-dom (An ancient country of Palestine between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba), and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Te'-man (an oasis North of Medina); and they of De'dan shall fall by the sword."

"And I will lay my vengeance upon E'dom (An ancient country of Palestine between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba) by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in E'dom according to mine anger and according to my fury;"

"Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Phi-lis-tines (a people who invaded the southern coast of Canaan around the time of the arrival of the Israelites - modern archaeology has suggested early cultural links with the Mycenean world in mainland Greece), and I will cut off the Cher'-e-thims (one of the ethnic groups in the Levant), and destroy the remnant of the sea coast."

"And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes."



NOTE:

In relation to the Am'-mon-ites: The Am'mon-ites were member of an ancient Semitic people in the Bible who lived between the Syrian desert and the Jordan River between the 13th and 6th centuries bc. They were constant enemies of the Israelites.

In relation to Rab'-bah: Rab'-bah was the chief city of the Ammonites, among the eastern hills, some 20 miles east of the Jordan, on the southern of the two streams which united with the Jabbok.

In relation to Moab: Moab is the historical name for a mountainous strip of land in modern-day Jordan running along the eastern shore of the Dead Sea. In ancient times, it was home to the kingdom of the Moabites, a people often in conflict with their Israelite neighbors to the west.

A picture of the Moab Kingdom:



In relation to Se'-ir: Se'ir is the name of a mountainous region occupied by the Edomites, extending along the eastern side of the Arabah from the south-eastern extremity of the Dead Sea to near the Akabah, or the eastern branch of the Red Sea.

In relation to Beth-jesh'-i-moth: Beth-jesh'-i-moth was the point in the south from which the camp of Israel stretched to Abel-shittim in the plains of the Kingdom of Moab.

In relation to Ba'a l-me-on and Kir-i-a-tha'-im: Ba'a l-me-on and Kir-i-a-tha'-im were both cities near the heart of the Moab Kingdom which existed close to what is now modern day Jordan. Ba'a l-me-on is thought by many to be the location of modern-day M'ain in Israel.

In relation to E'-dom: E'-dom consisted of a Semitic-speaking tribal group inhabiting the Negev Desert and the Arabah valley of what is now southern Dead Sea and adjacent Jordan.

A map showing the location of the Kingdom of E'-dom:



In relation to Te'-man: Besides being the name of an oasis, Te'-man was also the name of an Edomite clan.

In relation to De'dan: De'dan was also an oasis kingdom and a roster of the trading partners of the city of Tyre (today in modern Lebanon), where Dedan is noted as a nation or kingdom which traded in saddle blankets.

In relation to the Phi-lis-tines: the Phi-lis-tines were a people who occupied the southern coast of Canaan, their territory being named Philistia in later contexts.

A map of the location of the land inhabited by the Phi-lis-tines:



In relation to the Cher'-e-thims (thought to be the same as the Chetherites): The Chetherites is a name given by the Hebrew Bible to one of the ethnic groups in the Levant. Their identity has not been determined with certainty.

A map of the location of the Levant (the home of the Chetherites):



Syria and Jordan:

Syria is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north.

Map of the location of Syria:



Jordan is an Arab country in Southwest Asia spanning the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba. It shares borders with Syria to the north, Iraq to the north-east, Israel to the west, and Saudi Arabia to the east and south.

Map of the location of Jordan:

EZEKIEL 35:2-15



"Son of man, set thy face against mount Se'ir (Jordan), and prophesy against it,"

"And say unto it, Behold, O Mount Se'ir (Jordan), I am against thee, and I will make thee most desolate."

"I will lay thy cities to waste, and thou shalt be desolate,"

"Because thou hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:"

"Therefore, as I live, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee, sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee."

"Thus I will make mount Se'-ir (Jordan) most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth."

"And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword."

"I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return:"

"Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it;"

"Therefore, as I live, I will even do according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee."

"And that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume."

"This with your mouth, ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them."

"When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate."

"As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Se'-ir (Jordan), and all Id-u-me'-a (The country inhabited by the descendants of Edom in southern Israel and adjacent Jordan), even all of it:"



NOTE:

In relation to mount Se'-ir: mount Se'-ir formed the south-east border of Edom and Judah, it may also echo the older historical border of Egypt and Canaan. It was the mountainous region allotted to the descendants of Esau, the Edomites. The Edomite people are known from history to have been a Semitic-speaking tribal group inhabiting the Negev Desert and the Aravah valley of what is now southern Jordan.

In relation to Id-u-me'-a: Id-u-me'-a was the name of a region between southern Palestine and the Arabian Petraea inhabited by Edom or Esau and his posterity.

A map showing the location of ancient Id-u-me'-a:

EZEKIEL 26:2-21:



"Son of man, because that Ty'-rus (Lebanon) hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:"

"Therefore, Behold, I am against thee, O Ty'-rus (Lebanon), and will cause many nations to come against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up."

"And they shall destroy the walls of Ty'-rus (Lebanon), and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock."

"It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: and it shall become a spoil to the nations."

"And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword,"

"Behold, I will bring upon Ty'-rus (Lebanon) Neb-u-chad-rez'-zar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people."

"He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field, and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee."

"And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers."

"By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach."

"With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground."

"And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water."

"And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard."

"And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more:"

"Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?"

"Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling: they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee."

"And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!"

"Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure."

"When I shall make thee a desolate city like the cities that are not inhabited;"

"When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;"

"I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again."

In relation to Ty'-rus: Ty'-rus (also known as Tyre) is a city in the South Governorate of Lebanon. Tyre is an ancient Phoenician city and the legendary birthplace of Europa and Elissa (Dido). Today it is the fourth largest city in Lebanon and houses one of the nation's major ports known locally in French as Soûr.

A map of the location of Tyre, Lebanon:



A picture of the city of Tyre, Lebanon:



In relation to Neb-u-chad-rez'-zar: Nebuchadnezzar II, also called King Nebuchadnezzar The Second, was a ruler of Babylon in the Chaldean Dynasty, who reigned c. 605 BC-562 BC. He is mentioned in the Book of Daniel, and he constructed the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. He conquered Judah and Jerusalem. He was traditionally called "Nebuchadnezzar the Great" (Daniel 1:1; Jeremiah 25:11). In contemporary Iraq and some other parts of the Middle East, he is glorified as a historic leader.

EZEKIEL 28:2-19



"Son of man, say unto the prince of Ty'-rus (Lebanon), Behold, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations and they will draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness."

"They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas."

"Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Ty'-rus (Lebanon), and say unto him, thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty."

"By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire."

"I will cast thee to the ground, and I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee."

"I will bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee."

"All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more."

EZEKIEL 28:21-26



"Son of man, set thy face against Zi'don (Lebanon) and prophesy against it,"

"Behold, I am against thee, O Zi'don (Lebanon); and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her."

"For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her street; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side;"

"And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them;"

"When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob."

NOTE:

In relation to Zi'don (Sidon): Sidon is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located in the South Governorate of Lebanon, on the Mediterranean coast, about 40 km (25 mi) north of Tyre and 40 km (25 mi) south of the capital Beirut. Its name means a fishery. It is a city of 200,000 inhabitants mainly of the Muslim Sunni, Shiite, and Christian Greek Catholic and Maronite.

A picture of the city of Sidon, Lebanon:



A map of the location of Sidon, Lebanon:

EZEKIEL 29:2-21:



"Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt."

"And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven."

"When they took hol of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder; and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand."

"Therefore, Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee."

"And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste;"

"Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Sy-e'-ne (a city in the south of Egypt) even unto the border of E-thi-o'-pia (a country situated in the Horn of Africa)."

"No foot of a man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years."

"And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries."

"Son of man, Neb-u-chad-rez'-zar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Ty'-rus (Lebanon): every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had no wages, nor his army, for Ty'rus (Lebanon), for the service that he had served against it."

"Therefore; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Neb-u-chad-rez'-zar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army."

"I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me,"

"In that day I will cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give the house of Israel thee opening of the mouth in the midst of them;"



NOTE:

In relation to Egypt: Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about 1,010,000 square kilometers (390,000 sq mi), Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west.

Map of the location of Egypt:



In relation to Sy-e'-ne: Sy-e'-ne is a city in the south of Egypt. It stands on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract and is a busy market and tourist center.

Picture of the city of Sy-e'-ne, Egypt:



In relation to E-thi-o'-pia: E-thi-o'-pia is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast.

Map of the location of E-thi-o'-pia:

EZEKIEL 30:10-15:



"Thus; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Neb-u-chad-rez'-zar king of Babylon."

"He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain."

"And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers:"

"Thus; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph (one of the most ancient and important cities of Egypt - It was the capital of Lower Egypt): and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt."

"And I will make Path'ros (the name generally given to Upper Egypt - the Thebaid of the Greeks, as distinguished from Matsor, or Lower Egypt) desolate, and will set fire in Zo'an (a minor provincial town in the 12th century. But with the establishment of the 21st Dynasty under Smendes, the town is transformed into Egypt's capital, and its "renown" is established in succeeding centuries as the country's capital, from ca. 1069 to 727 BCE), and will execute judgments in No."

"And I will pour my fury upon Sin (previously a city in Egypt, called by the Greeks Pelusium), the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No."



NOTE:

In relation to Noph: Noph or Moph was the Hebrew name for the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, which stood on the Nile near the site of modern-day Cairo. It is mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible (Isaiah 19:13; Jeremiah 2:16; 44:1; 46:14, 19; Ezekiel. 30:13, 16).

A map of the location of Noph, Egypt (Modern day Memphis, Egypt):



A picture of pyramids and ruins at Noph, Egypt:



In relation to Path'ros: Path'ros was a place located in Ancient Egypt. It is mentioned the Bible, in the Book of Jeremiah, chapter 44:1 and 15, Book of Isaiah 11: 11; Book of Ezekiel 29: 14; 30: 14. It is associated with Upper Egypt. Upper Egypt is a narrow strip of land that extends from the cataract section of Upper Egypt, between El-Ayait and Asyut is sometimes known as Middle Egypt.

A map showing the location of Upper Egypt:



In relation to Zo'an: Zo'an is an ancient city in Egypt. Its remains are located in the Nile River delta. Zo'an is now part of modern day Tanis, Egypt.

A map of the location of Zo'an, (Tanis) Egypt:



A picture of ancient ruins in Zo'an, (Tanis) Egypt:



In relation to Sin: Sin was a city in the eastern extremes of Egypt's Nile Delta, 30 km to the southeast of the modern Port Said.

EZEKIEL 30:16-26:



"And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin (previously a city in Egypt, called by the Greeks Pelusium), shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph (a city of ancient Egypt, situated on that western bank of the Nile, about nine miles south of Cairo, and five from the great pyramids and the Sphinx) shall have distresses daily."

"The young men of A'-ven (a place in the lower part of Egypt that borders the land of Goshen) and Pi-be'-seth (a town of lower Egypt situated on the west bank of the Pelusiac branch of the Nile) shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity."

"At Te-haph'-ne-hes (ancient city, NE Egypt, on Lake Manzala) also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity."

"Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt:"

"And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month,"

"Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand."

"And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries."

"And I will srengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man."

"But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt."

"And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries;"



NOTE:

In relation to Aven: In Ezekiel 30:17 Aven is generally believed to refer to ON, the city in Egypt called Heliopolis by the Greeks. Aven was one of the most ancient cities of Egypt, and capital of the 13th Lower Egyptian nome. The ancient city stood five miles (8 km) east of the Nile north of the apex of the Delta.

A map of the location of Heliopolis (Aven):



In relation to Pi-be'-seth: Pi-be'-seth was on the western bank of the Pelusiac branch of the Nile, about 40 miles North of Memphis, about 15 miles Northeast of On.

In relation to Te-haph'-ne-hes: Te-haph'-ne-hes was a city in Egypt located approx 18 miles (29 km) east southeast from Tanis.

A map of the location of Te-haph'-ne-hes (Modern day Tel Defenneh):

EZEKIEL 32:1-16



"Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the sease: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers."

"I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net."

"Then I will leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee."

"And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height."

"I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee."

"I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known."

"Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall."

"The sword of Babylon shall come upon thee."

"By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed."

"When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein,"

"This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude,"

EZEKIEL 32:18-32



"Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit."

"They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes."

"The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie, slain by the sword."

"Assh'-ur (a city of the Assyrian Empire) is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword."

"Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living."

"There is E'-lam (the province lying south of Assyria and east of Persia proper, to which Herodotus gives the name of Cissia) and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit."

"They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain."

"There is Me'-shech ( A son of Japheth who is said to be one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. In Arabic citations, his name is normally given as Yafeth ibn Nuh), Tu'-bal (A son of Japheth, who is said to be one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. In Arabic citations, his name is normally given as Yafeth ibn Nuh), and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living."

"And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen, which are gone down with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living."

"Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword."

"There is E'-dom (An ancient country of Palestine between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba), her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with them that go down to the pit."

"There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zi-'do-ni-ans (Lebanon), which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit."

"Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword,"

"For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude."



NOTE:

In relation to Assh'-ur: Assh'-ur was an ancient religious capital of Assyria. It is located on the Tigris River, 60 mi (97 km) south of Mosul, Iraq. The name Ashur was applied to the city, to Assyria itself, and to Assyria's principal god. The capital's site was originally occupied c. 2500 BC.

A Map showing the location of the Assyrian Empire and the city of Assh'-ur (also known as Assur):



In Relation to E'-lam: E'-lam was an ancient country of southwest Asia in present-day southwest Iran. It was established east of the Tigris River before 3000 b.c. and was known for its warlike people, traditionally thought to be descended from Noah's son Shem.

A Map of the location of the Elamite Heartland :



In relation to Me'-shech and Tu'-bal: Me'-shech and Tu'-bal were both said to be sons of the man Japheth who is said to be one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. In the Bible, Japheth is ascribed seven sons: Gomer, Magog, Tiras, Javan, Meshech, Tubal, and Madai. According to Josephus (Antiquities of the Jews I.6):

EZEKIEL 30:2-9



"Son of man, prophesy and say, Howl ye, Woe worth the day!"

"For the day is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen."

"And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in E-thi-o'-pi-a, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down."

"E-thi-o'-pi-a, and Lib'-y-a, and Lyd'-i-a ((Also known as "Anatolia", which is a peninsula of Western Asia which forms the greater part of the Asian portion of Turkey), and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword."

"They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Sy-e'-ne (a city in the south of Egypt). shall they fall in it by the sword,"

"They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down from the tower of Sy-e'-ne (a city in the south of Egypt) shall they fall in it by the sword."

"And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted."

'When I have set fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed."

"In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless E-thi-o'-pi-ans afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh."



NOTE:

In relation to E-thi-o'-pi-a: E-thi-o'-pi-a is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast. Its size is 1,100,000 km² with an estimated population of over 78,000,000. Its capital is Addis Ababa.

A map of the location of E-thi-o'-pi-a:



In relation to Lib'-y-a: Lib'-y-a is a country located in North Africa. Bordering the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Libya lies between Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west.

A map of the location of Lib'-y-a:



In relation to Lyd'-i-a: Lyd'-i-a was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern Turkish provinces of Manisa and inland İzmir. Its population spoke an Anatolian language known as Lydian.

A map of the location of Lyd'-i-a:

The final prophecies of Ezekiel/World War 3 that I will be posting involve the prophecies of The land of Gog/Magog. Now, there many theories of exactly where the land of Gog/Magog is really located, but I personally believe that Ezekiel was trying to describe China and Mongolia as we know them today.

One thing is absolutely made clear in the prophecies of Ezekiel about the land of Gog/Magog. And that is that of all the countries listed to be involved in World War 3 in the chapters of Ezekiel, no other country or countries appear to wield as much power as does the Lands of Gog/Magog. In fact, Ezekiel makes it very clear that countries like Persia (Iran) and others, will join this great army that comes out of the land of Gog/Magog in order to wreak destruction in the Middle-East.

In our modern day, there are only two countries that could fit the description of the army from the land of Gog/Magog which is to fill the entire Middle-East with soldiers. That would be the United States, and China. However, it is easy to see which one Ezekiel was talking about because even in our modern day, Persia (Iran) would not join forces with the United States against parts of the Middle-East.

Therefore, in my opinion, the only logical conclusion is that Ezekiel was describing the modern day Red Chinese/Mongolian Army when he referred to the "Lands of Gog/Magog".

The Qur'an also contains prophecies of World War 3 and the army from Gog/Magog.



The Qur'an:

A painting by Qasim, 16th century, illustrating the building of the wallGog and Magog appear in Qur'an sura Al-Kahf (The Cave), 18:83-98, as Yajuj and Majuj (Ya-juj/Ya-jewj and Ma-juj/Ma-jewj).

Some Muslim scholars contend that the Gog in Ezekiel verse 38:2 should be read Yajuj (there is a "Y immediately before Gog in the Hebrew version).

The verses state that "Dhul-Qarnayn (the one with two horns) travelled the world in three directions, until he found a tribe threatened by Gog and Magog, who were of an "evil and destructive nature" and "caused great corruption on earth."

"The people offered tribute in exchange for protection. Dhul-Qarnayn agreed to help them, but refused the tribute; he constructed a great wall that the hostile nations were unable to penetrate. They will be trapped there until doomsday, and their escape will be a sign of the end:"

“But when Gog and Magog are let loose and they rush headlong down every height (or advantage). Then will the True Promise draw near" - (Qur'an 21:96-97)

Some Muslim scholars including Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi and Tibri believe the Qur'anic Gog and Magog are intended to be the Mongols.

Sources note that Mogog may denote the Mongols, whose very name may be a corruption of Mogog. Indeed, Arab writers referred to the Great Wall of China as the “wall of al Mogog.

The Mongols were a serious threat to Muslim power during the Middle Ages, attacking Muslim civilizations such as the Seljuq dynasty in Persia (Iran), and eventually destroying the Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad and the Khwarezmian Empire of Central Asia.

In the Alexander Romance:

The older accounts influenced the authors of the Alexander Romance, a late and romanticized account of Alexander the Great's conquests. According to the Romance, Alexander came to a northern land devastated by incursions from barbarian peoples, including Gog and Magog. Alexander defends the land by constructing the Gates of Alexander, an immense wall between two mountains that will stop the invaders until the end times.



Marco Polo:

In The Travels dictated by Marco Polo, Gog and Magog are regions of Tenduk, a province belonging to Prester John, and governed by one George, fourth in descent from the original John. According to this account Gog (locally Ung) is inhabited by a tribe called the Gog, whilst Magog (or Mongul) is inhabited by Tatars. This may imply that the author had heard of the Tartars of Mongolia and was multiplying their attributes and territories, as well as mixing in the Prester John legend.

Marco Polo thought that Gog and Magog were the Mongols. According to him, the native names were "Ung and Mungul"- the Gog lived in Ung, and the Tartars lived in Mungul.

The descendants of Magog settled to the far north of Israel, likely in Europe and northern Asia (Ezekiel 38:2). Magog seems to be used to refer to "northern barbarians" in general, The people of Magog are described as skilled warriors (Ezekiel 38:15; 39:3-9).

The word "mongolian" is frequently used to define the whole population of inner and northern Asia. The mongol is Japhetic in origin. In the Indian language the word "mongol" is "mongou"; sometimes the ending MGG or MNG is introduced. According to this tongue the words "mangul" and "magog" are one and the same.

The word Mongolian is one which is frequently used to denote the whole population of inner and northern Asia. At the outset we must carefully define a term like this. The type of race so often called in manuals of ethnology 'Mongolian'. let us designate the term 'Turanian'-the significance of which is co-extensive with the scriptural 'Japhetic.'....'Mongol' must be reserved as the title of that race which, however far afield it may since have wandered, issued from the territory distinctively designated "Mongolia.'"

Now the name Mongol and the name Magog are, with slight variations, identical. "Mongol" Mongou. In India "Mongol" became Mogh-ul--Mgg represents Mng, "Mongol" is "Magog."

EZEKIEL 38:2-12:



"Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Ma'-gog (China + Mongolia), the chief prince of Me'-shech (Son of Japheth who was the son of the biblical Noah) and Tu'bal (Son of Japheth who was the son of the biblical Noah), and prophesy against him."

"And say, Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Me'-Shech (Son of Japheth who was the son of the biblical Noah) and Tu'bal (Son of Japheth who was the son of the biblical Noah):"

"And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:"

"Persia (Iran), E-thi-o'-pi-a, and Lib'-y-a with them; all of them with shield and helmet."

"Go'mer (The eldest son of Japheth the son of Noah), and all his bands; the house of To-gar'mah (third son of Gomer, and grandson of Japheth) and Georgia (The people of Kartlos who was a son of To-gar'mah and the great grandson of the Biblical Japheth the son of Noah) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee."

"Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them."

"After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them."

"Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee."

"Thus; it shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:"

"And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,"

"To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land."



NOTE:

In relation to Persia: Persia is another name for Iran and Iran was formerly known internationally as Persia until 1935. Iran is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea. Since 1949, "Persia" and "Iran" have been used interchangeably in cultural context, however, Iran is the name used officially in political context.

Iran has a population of over seventy million. It is a country of special geostrategic significance due to its central location in Eurasia. Iran is bordered on the north by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. As Iran is a littoral state of the Caspian Sea, which is an inland sea and condominium, Kazakhstan and Russia are also Iran's direct neighbors to the north. Iran is bordered on the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, on the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and on the west by Turkey and Iraq.

Map of the location of Iran:



In relation to Go'mer: Go'mer was the the eldest son of Japheth who was the son of the biblical Noah (and therefore Go'mer is of the Japhetic line), and father of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah, according to the "Table of Nations" in the Hebrew Bible.

In relation to To-gar'mah: To-gar'mah is the third son of Gomer (Eldest son of Japheth who was a son of Noah), and grandson of Japheth, brother of Ashkenaz and Riphat. In Ezekiel 38:6 the northernmost house of Togarmah will follow Gog. Through Assyrian folk etymology it became Til-Garimu, now the site of Gürün, Turkey (pronounced Gürin by Armenian, without vowel harmony).

In relation to Georgia: Georgia is a transcontinental country in the South Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russian Federation to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest. Georgians call themselves Kartvelebi, their land Sakartvelo, and their language Kartuli. According to legend, the ancestor of the Kartvelian people was Kartlos, one of the sons of To-gar'mah and also the great grandson of the Biblical Japheth who is the son of the biblical Noah. Kartvelian peoples are ethnic groups in southern Caucasus that speak South Caucasian languages. Georgia is one of the 4 main places that contains Kartvelian peoples.

A map of the location of Georgia:



In relation to Turkey: Turkey is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace (Rumelia) in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhichevan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea and Archipelago are to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north.

Map of the location of Turkey:

EZEKIEL 38:12-22:



"She'-ba (kingdom in Ethiopia or Yemen), and De'-dan (settlemen on the north-west coast of the Persian Gulf), and the merchants of Tar'-shish (a city of southern Asia Minor), with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?"

"Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, in that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou know it?"

"And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:"

"And thou shalt come against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes."

"Thus; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?"

"And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, that my fury shall come up in my face."

"And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains: every man's sword shall be against his brother."

"And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, and overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone."

In relation to She'-ba: She'-ba was a southern kingdom mentioned in the Jewish scriptures (Old Testament) and the Qur'an. The actual location of the historical kingdom is disputed between southern Arabia and the Horn of Africa; the kingdom may have been situated in either present-day Ethiopia or present-day Yemen, or both.

A map showing the location of She'-ba:



In relation to De'-dan: De'-dan is a roster of the trading partners of the city of Tyre (today in modern Lebanon), where Dedan is noted as a nation or kingdom which traded in saddle blankets (Ezekiel 27:20). The oasis kingdom is also mentioned in the the prophetic vision of the war of Gog and Magog (Ezekiel 38; see also, Revelation 20:8 ), and appears to be a nation of significance in this end-times prophecy of Ezekiel. In Ezekiel 38:13, Dedan is joined with Sheba, and "Tarshish and all her strong lions", all these nations joining together to inquire of the advancing armies of Gog. De'-dan is now known as modern day Al Ula in northern Saudi Arabia. The Al-`Ula oasis some 110 km southwest of Tayma (380 km north of Medina) in northwestern Arabia was located at the incense route. It was the capital of the ancient Lihyanites (Dedanites).

A map showing the location of De'-dan (Now modern day Al-Ula), Saudi Arabia:



In relation to Tar'-shish: Tar'-shish (also known as Tarsus) is a city, and a large district, in Mersin Province, Turkey, 15 km (9 mi) from the city of Mersin and near (40 km) to the city of Adana. With a history going back over 9,000 years Tarsus has long been an important stop for traders, a focal point of many civilisations including the Ancient Romans when Tarsus was capital of the province of Cilicia, scene of the first meeting between Mark Antony and Cleopatra and birthplace of Saint Paul.

A map showing the location of Tar'-shish (Tarsus), Turkey:



In relation to Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia is an Arab country and the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south. The Persian Gulf lies to the northeast and the Red Sea to its west.

A map showing the location of Saudi Arabia:

EZEKIEL 39:1-10:



"THEREFORE, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Me'-shech (Son of Japheth who was the son of the biblical Noah) and Tu'bal (Son of Japheth who was the son of the biblical Noah):"

"And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:"

"And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand."

"Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured."

"Thou shalt fall upon the open field:"

"And I will send a fire on Ma'-gog (China + Mongolia), and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles:"

"Behold it is come and it is done"

"And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:"

"So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them."

EZEKIEL 39:10-20:



"And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it the valley of Ha'-mon-gog."

"And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land."

"Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified,"

"And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search."

"And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Ha'-mon-gog."

"And also the name of the city shall be Ha-mo'-nah. Thus shall they cleanse the land."

"And, thou son of man; speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood."

"Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Ba'-shan (a country that extended from Gilead in the south to Hermon in the north, and from the Jordan river on the west to Salcah on the east)."

"And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you."

"Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war."



NOTE:

In relation to Ha-mo'-nah: Ha-mo'-nah is a name figuratively assigned to the place in which the slaughter and burial of the forces of Gog were to take place (Ezek 39:16).

In relation to Ba'-shan: Ba'-shan is a biblical place first mentioned in Genesis 14:5, where it is said that Chedorlaomer and his confederates "smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth," where Og the king of Bashan had his residence. At the time of Israel's entrance into the Promised Land, Og came out against them, but was utterly routed (Numbers 21:33-35; Deuteronomy 3:1-7). This country extended from Gilead (in modern day Jordan) in the south to Hermon (On the border of modern day Syria and Lebanon) in the north, and from the Jordan river (a river in Southwest Asia) on the west to Salcah (a Syrian city in the As Suwayda governorate, southern Syria) on the east.

A picture of the Jordan river (One of the borders of Ba'-shan):



A map of the location of the Jordan river:

EZEKIEL 39:20-29:



"And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them."

"So the house of Israel shall know from that day and forward."

"And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword."

"According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them."

"Therefore; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my name;"

"After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid."

"When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;"

"Which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there."

"Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel."

DANIEL 8:20-26:



"The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Me'-di-a (the areas of present day Kurdistan, Hamedan, Tehran, Azarbaijan, north of Esfahan and Zanjan in Iran) and Persia (Iran)."

"And the rough goat is the king of Gre'-ci-a (Greece): and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king."

"Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power."

"And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up."

"And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the people."

"And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand."

In relation to Me'-di-a: Me'-di-a was an Iranian Empire which stretched from the southern shore of the Black Sea and Aran province (the modern-day Republic of Azerbaijan) to north and Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and which included many tributary states, including the Persians, who eventually supplanted and absorbed the Median empire in the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

A map of the location of the Empire of Me'-di-a:



In relation to Gre'-ci-a: Gre'-ci-a translated means Greece, the country, and Greece being named after the Goddess of beauty from the Roman Empire. Greece is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula. It has borders with Albania, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east and south of mainland Greece, while the Ionian Sea lies to the west. Both parts of the Eastern Mediterranean basin feature a vast number of islands, islets and rock islands.

A map showing the location of Gre'-ci-a (Greece):

DANIEL 11:2-13:



"And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia (Iran): and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Gre'-ci-a (Greece)."

"And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will."

"And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those."

"And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion."

"And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times."

"But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:"

"And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north."

"So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land."

"But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then he shall return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress."

"And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand."

"And when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up; and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he shall not be strengthened by it."

"For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches."

DANIEL 11:13-26:



"And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall."

"So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand."

"But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed."

"He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him."

"After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him."

"Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found."

"Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days shall he be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle."

"And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries."

"And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant."

"And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people."

"He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time."

"And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him."

"Yea, they that feed of the portion of this meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain."

DANIEL 11:26-35:



"And both these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed."

"Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land."

"At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter."

"For the ships of Chit'-tim (The islands and coasts of the Mediterranean and the races that inhabit them) shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant."

"And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate."

"And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but people shall be strong, and do exploits."

"And they that understand among the people shall instruct man: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days."

"Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries."

"And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed."



NOTE:

In relation to Chit'-tim: Chit'-tim was the name of the area that originally designated the Phoenicians only, although it came latterly to be used as a name for all of the islands and various settlements on the sea-coasts which they had occupied, and then eventually as a name for the people who succeeded them when the Phoenician power decayed. Hence it designates generally the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean and the races that inhabit them. The Mediterranean Sea is a sea off the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe and Turkey, on the south by Africa, and on the east by the Levant.

A map of The Mediterranean Sea as well as its islands and coasts:

DANIEL 11:36-45:



"And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above ever god, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done."

"Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all."

"And at the time of them end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over."

"He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom (An ancient country of Palestine between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba), and Moab (mountainous strip of land in Jordan), and the chief of the children of Ammon (an area east of the Jordan river)."

"He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape."

"But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Lib'-y-ans and the E-thi-o'-pians shall be at his steps."

"But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many."

"And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him."

REVELATIONS 6:4-8:

"And there went another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword."

"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth."



REVELATIONS 9:16:

"And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand (200,000,000): and I heard the number of them."

REVELATIONS 11:3-10:



"And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth."

"And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them."

"And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom (one of a group of five towns in the Biblical Pentapolis region also collectively referred to as "the Cities of the Plain") and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified."

"And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves."

"And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth."



NOTE:

In relation to Sodom: According to the Old Testament Biblical book of Genesis, Sodom and Gomorrah were two cities in the Bible which were destroyed by God. For the sins of their inhabitants Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim were destroyed by "brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven" (Genesis 19:24-25). In Christianity and Islam, their names have become synonymous with impenitent sin, and their fall with a proverbial manifestation of God's wrath (Jude 1:7,) Qur'an. Sodom was one of a group of five towns, the Pentapolis (Wisdom 10:6): Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim, and Bela -- also called Zoar (Genesis 19:22). The Pentapolis region is also collectively referred to as "the Cities of the Plain" (Genesis 13:12) since they were all sited on the plain of the River Jordan, in an area that constituted the southern limit of the lands of the Canaanites (Genesis 10:19).

An illustration of the Destruction of the city of Sodom:

REVELATIONS 17:12-14:



"And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast."

"These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast."

"These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful."



REVELATIONS 19:11-21:



"And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war."

"His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself."

"And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron:"

"And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."

"And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army."

"And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone."

"And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh."

THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS PREDICTIONS



The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient texts stored in earthen jars and hidden in desert caves for centuries until discovered in 1947. A great apocalyptic scroll found among the Dead Sea library is called the War Scroll. It depicts, in a prophetic way, great conflict between the forces of good (the Sons of Light) and the forces of evil (the Sons of Darkness) at the end of the age. While a series of fierce battles is predicted, the battles themselves are not actually described.

Instead, the bulk of the document is a vivid description of liturgical praise. At the heart of it there is no fighting at all, but participation in a great liturgical ceremony, with trumpets, standards, and shining armor. In the final analysis, the battle is won by praise, by personal purity, by a noble state of mind. The longest of all the texts in the Dead Sea library is The Temple Scroll. The Temple Scroll represents the dream of a new spiritual center, in the heart of Jerusalem, beaming light to all the world, yet existing, for the time-being, only in minds of the sect called the Essenes.

THE BIBLE CODE:



In The Bible Code, "Syria" is encoded with "World War".

It is the country that stands out, because it is not expected.

"Russia", "China" and "USA" all also appear with "World War" in the Bible Code. But they are the three superpowers most likely to be inolved. "Syria" is the surprise.

The words "Syria", "Russia", "China" and "USA" all apear next to the words "World War" in the Bible Code.

"Iran" and "Libya" are also encoded next to the words "Syria" and "World War".

"Atomic Holocaust appears in the Bible Code. "World War" also appears in the same place.

THE BIBLE CODE:



The following words can be found encoded together in The Bible Code:

"Joel", "Ezekiel", "Magog", "War", "Vatic" "Apocalyptic", "Premonitory", "Prophetic", "registered", "written", "recorded","Israel", "Egypt", "Jordan", "Ethiopia", "tribesofEphraim", "Manasseh", "Reuben", "Libya", "Russia","China", "USA", "Japan", "Hawaii", "lion", "grizzlybear", "vulture", "eagle", "leopard", "panther", "tiger", "extermination", "destruction", "extinction", "annihilation", "ransack", "vaporize" "evaporate", and "steam".



NOTE:

In relation to Joel: Joel was the name of a descendant of the Biblical Reuben who was a son of the Biblical Jacob (son of the Biblical Isaac).

In relation to the "tribesofEphraim": The "tribesofEphraim" were an Israelite Tribe founded by a man named Ephraim, who was a son of the Biblical Joseph and who was the eleventh son of the Biblical Jacob (son of the Biblical Isaac).

In relation to Manasseh: Manasseh was the other son of the Biblical Joseph (Son of the Biblical Jacob who was the son of the Biblical Isaac). Manasseh was also the founder of the The Tribe of Mannaseh which was one of the Tribes of Israel.

In relation to Reuben: Reuben was the first (eldest) son of the Biblical Jacob (Son of the Biblical Isaac), and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Reuben in the Book of Genesis.

In relation to Japan: Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. Japan comprises over 3,000 islands making it an archipelago. The four largest islands are Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū and Shikoku, together accounting for 97% of Japan's land area. Most of the islands are mountainous, many volcanic; for example, Japan’s highest peak, Mount Fuji, is a volcano.

A map of the location of Japan:



In relation to Hawaii: Hawaii is a state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia.

A map of the location of Hawaii:

THE BIBLE CODE:



The following words can be found encoded together in The Bible Code:

"Pestilence", "Earthquake", "Poison", "Annihilation", "Destruction", "ruination", "devastation", "rocket", "projectile", "missile", "Babylon", and "China".



NOTE:

The term Babylon could be used to either describe the modern day countries of Iraq or the United States. So this is a code for what looks to be a potential germ warfare attack from China on one of the two of those places.

Another possibility is that this code could be describing a germ warfare attack on China from the United States. This is because it is highly unlikely that any such attack on China would originate from the country of Iraq.

Here is what the Hopi Indians have prophesized about World War 3:



Emergence to the Fifth World:



"The end of all Hopi ceremonialism will come when a Kachina removes his mask during a dance in the plaza before uninitiated children. For a while there will be no more ceremonies, no more faith. Then Oraibi will be rejuvenated with its faith and ceremonies, marking the start of a new cycle of Hopi life. "World War III will be started by those peoples who first revealed the light (the divine wisdom or intelligence) in the other old countries (India, China, Islamic Nations, Africa). The United States will be destroyed, land and people, by atomic bombs and radioactivity. Only the Hopis and their homeland will be preserved as an oasis to which refugees will flee. Bomb shelters are a fallacy. "It is only materialistic people who seek to make shelters. Those who are at peace in their hearts already are in the great shelter of life. There is no shelter for evil."

Those who take no part in the making of world division by ideology are ready to resume life in another world, be they Black, White, Red, or Yellow race. They are all one, brothers. "The war will be 'a spiritual conflict with material matters. Material matters will be destroyed by spiritual beings who will remain to create one world and one nation under one power, that of the Creator.' "That time is not far off. It will come when the Saquasohuh (Blue Star) Kachina dances in the plaza and removes his mask. He represents a blue star, far off and yet invisible, which will make its appearance soon."

[Some Hopi spokespersons suggest that Hale-Bopp is the Blue Star.] The time is foretold by a song sung during the Wuwuchim ceremony. It was sung in 1914 just before World War I, and again in 1940 before World War II, describing the disunity, corruption, and hatred contaminating Hopi rituals, which were followed by the same evils spreading over the world. This same song was sung in 1961 during the Wuwuchim ceremony. "The Emergence to the future Fifth World has begun."

"The Fourth World shall end soon, and the Fifth World will begin. This the elders everywhere know. The Signs over many years have been fulfilled, and so few are left. "This is the First Sign: We were told of the coming of the white-skinned men, like Pahana, but not living like Pahana -- men who took the land that was not theirs and who struck their enemies with thunder. (Guns) "This is the Second Sign: Our lands will see the coming of spinning wheels filled with voices. (Covered wagons) "This is the Third Sign: A strange beast like a buffalo but with great long horns, will overrun the land in large numbers." (Longhorn cattle)

"This is the Fourth Sign: The land will be crossed by snakes of iron. (Railroad tracks) "This is the Fifth Sign: The land shall be criss-crossed by a giant spider's web. (Power and telephone lines) "This is the Sixth Sign: The land shall be criss-crossed with rivers of stone that make pictures in the sun. (Concrete roads and their mirage-producing effects.) "This is the Seventh Sign: You will hear of the sea turning black, and many living things dying because of it. (Oil spills) "This is the Eighth Sign: You will see many youth, who wear their hair long like our people, come and join the tribal nations, to learn our ways and wisdom. (Hippies) "And this is the Ninth and Last Sign: You will hear of a dwelling-place in the heavens, above the earth, that shall fall with a great crash. It will appear as a blue star. Very soon after this, the ceremonies of the Hopi people will cease."

"These are the Signs that great destruction is here: The world shall rock to and fro. The white man will battle people in other lands -- those who possessed the first light of wisdom. There will be many columns of smoke and fire such as the white man has made in the deserts not far from here. Those who stay and live in the places of the Hopi shall be safe. Then there will be much to rebuild. And soon, very soon afterward, Pahana will return. He shall bring with him the dawn of the Fifth World. He shall plant the seeds of his wisdom in our hearts. Even now the seeds are being planted. These shall smooth the way to the Emergence into the Fifth World."

"According to prophecy, the day will come when people in high places will be hunted. This will get out of control. The hunting will gather strength and spread. This situation might even erupt on our land. Finally, this will lead us to the Biblical version of Armageddon (the Hopi version is closely related). A final decisive battle between good and evil. This will occur under one God or Chief. The prophets say we will speak one language and that this will happen in Hopiland, in the village of Oraibi , where the new life plan will be drawn, in the pattern and cycle of religion. Here also a final decision will be made for the wicked. They will be beheaded and speak no more. If this does not materialize there will be a total destruction through the acts of man or nature."

"This prophecy is related to the Biblical version of that which may yet come to pass. It goes on to say that common people will become concerned and frustrated because of their hectic world. They will be particularly against the bloodthirsty policies and the deceitfulness of the world leaders. The common people the world over will band together to fight for world peace. They will realize that their leaders have failed. People in high places will be hunted down like animals, perhaps through terrorism. In turn leaders will retaliate and begin hunting each other. This condition will gather strength and spread far and wide. It will get out of control the world over. Revolution could erupt on our land. "The liberators will come in from the west with great force. They will drop down from the sky like rain. They will have no mercy. We must not get on the house tops to watch. They will shake us by our ears, like children who have been bad. This will be the final decisive battle between good and evil. This battle will cleanse the heart of people and restore our Mother Earth from illness, and the wicked will be gotten rid of. "If this fails to materialize, our Great Creator through nature will do the task according to their [sic] plans. It could be total destruction in any form."

"Eventually a gourd full of ashes would be invented, which, if dropped from the sky, would boil the oceans and burn the land causing nothing to grow for many years. This would be the sign for a certain Hopi to bring out the teachings in order to warn the world that the third and final event would happen soon and could bring an end to all life unless people correct themselves and their leaders in time. "The final stage, called The Great Day of Purification, has been described as a Mystery Egg in which the forces of the Swastika and the Sun plus a third force symbolized by the color red culminate either in total rebirth or total annihilation; we don't know which. But the choice is yours; war and natural catastrophe may be involved. The degree of violence will be determined by the degree of inequity caused among the peoples of the world and in the balance of nature. In this crisis rich and poor will be forced to struggle as equals in order to survive. "

"It is known that our True White Brother, when he comes, will be all powerful and will wear a red cap or red cloak. He will be large in population and belong to no religion but his very own. He will bring with him the sacred stone tablets. With him there will be two great ones, both very wise and powerful. One will have a symbol or sign of the swastika, which represents purity and is Female, a producer of life. The third one or the second one of the two helpers to our True White Brother will have a sign of a symbol of the sun. He, too, will be many people and very wise and powerful. [One will have the symbol of the moja, or cross.] We have in our sacred Kachina ceremonies a gourd rattle which is still in use today with these symbols of these powerful helpers of our True Brother. It is also prophesied that, if these three fail to fulfill their mission, then the one from the west will come like a big storm. He will be many in numbers and unmerciful. When he comes he will cover the land like the red ants and overtake this land in one day."

"Today I call upon all of us, from right here at home, Hotevilla, where we too are guilty of gossiping and causing divisions even among our own families, out to the entire world where thievery, war, and lying go on every day. These divisions will not be our salvation. Wars only bring more wars, never peace. Only by joining together in a Spiritual Peace with love in our hearts for one another, love in our hearts for the Great Spirit and Mother Earth, shall we be saved from the terrible Purification Day which is just ahead."

"The Forces of Purification We have teachings and prophecies informing us that we must be alert for the signs and omens which will come about to give us courage and strength to stand on our beliefs. Blood will flow. Our hair and our clothing will be scattered upon the earth. Nature will speak to us with its mighty breath of wind. There will be earthquakes and floods causing great disasters, changes in the seasons and in the weather, disappearance of wildlife, and famine in different forms. There will be gradual corruption and confusion among the leaders and the people all over the world, and wars will come about like powerful winds. All of this has been planned from the beginning of creation. We will have three people standing behind us, ready to fulfill our prophecies when we get into hopeless difficulties: the Moha Symbol (which refers to a plant that has a long root, milky sap, grows back when cut off, and has a flower shaped like a swastika, symbolizing the four great forces of nature in motion), the Sun Symbol, and the Red Symbol. Bahanna's intrusion into the Hopi way of life will set the Moha symbol in motion, so that the four great forces of nature (the four directions, the controlling forces, the original force) will rock the world into war. When this happens we will know that our prophecies are coming true. We will gather strength and stand firm. This great movement will fall, but because its subsistence is milk, and because it is controlled by the four forces of nature, it will rise again to put the world in motion, creating another war, in which both the Moha and the Sun Symbol will be at work. (To the swastika-like Moha -Germany- in conjunction with the Rising Sun -Japan-) Then it will rest in order to rise a third time. Our prophecy foretells that the third event will be the decisive one."

"The third and last, which will it bring forth, purification or destruction? The third event will depend upon the Red Symbol, which will take command, setting the four forces of nature (Moha) in motion for the benefit of the Sun."

"Now at this second meeting with Massau'u, he told us that within the life of this current world, there would be three phases of life where the whole world would be shaken up. Three nations would rise up and shake the world. This we interpret to mean world wars. Now up at the left side we see a symbol. This is what is painted on the Hopi ceremonial rattles that are given to children. The rattle symbolizes the world. The painting on the rattle shows the symbols of the countries that would shake the world three times. I think that the swastika in the middle symbolizes the German people, who had that for a symbol. They brought the United States into the First and Second World Wars. The sun symbol signifies the Japanese people who brought the United States into the Second World War. Pasivaya, an old religious leader from Shipaulovi, told me that the third nation to rise up would have its national symbols in red. The people would wear red caps or red robes. The world has been shaken up twice already. There is one more war left."

"If you, the nations of this Earth, create another great war, the Hopi believe we humans will burn ourselves to death with ashes."

"Hopi prophecy states that World War III will be started by the people who first received the Light -- China, Palestine, India and Africa. When the war comes, the United States will be destroyed by "gourds of ashes" which will fall to the ground, boiling the rivers and burning the earth, where no grass will grow for many years, and causing a disease that no medicine can cure. This can only mean nuclear or atomic bombs; no other weapon causes such effects. Bomb shelters will be useless, for Those who are at peace in their hearts already are in the Great Shelter of Life."

Here is the prophecy of some kind of missile attack on the Western United States (The California Region) by a spaniard named A. C. Valdez:



"In 1929 I was preaching in Vancouver, British Columbia. I had gone to the 6th Avenue Church that seats 1,000 people. The old building is gone now. I sat down on the platform, and looked down on the congregation for the Sunday morning service. There were 18 people. I had crossed the continent, from Los Angeles, to get to that meeting. Eighteen people in my first service. My first thought was, My Lord and my God, the nerve, asking me to come across the country to stand here in front of eighteen people. Now, that was my first thought. Now, I no sooner thought that, when God spoke to my heart and said, "Son, I want you to comfort these people." They needed comfort. Brother, he gave me the capacity to comfort them. I started preaching comforting words. If I had given way to the human, I would have skinned them alive, and tacked their hides up on the wall. People in a condition like that don't need a skinning, they need comfort. God helped me. He poured in the oil and the wine. He helped me to comfort those people. They began to cry all over the place, as they needed comfort, the tears began to stream down their cheeks. They had gone through a terrible trial in that city. And the name of "Pentecost" was in the newspapers of that city, and it wasn't very good. The things that they had put into the newspapers were enough to keep most anybody away. I had eighteen people on the inside, and thousands on the outside. God began to work and the Spirit began to come forth."

"By the following Sunday the place was well filled. The Holy Ghost began to bring them in. By the end of the third week they had to take down the partition that separated the coat room from the main auditorium to put more seats in that auditorium that seated a thousand. It packed out. They packed the place, standing up and down the winding stairs, and outside of the church building and out into the street. The Glory of God came down. Souls began to get saved and the sick were healed. We had a glorious victory of the world of the flesh and the devil. The ministers were so happy. They said, "Lord, in spite of that death, you've given us victory." Right in the middle of that victory, I stood in 6th Avenue Church one day with the power of God on me. All of a sudden, the ceiling just disappeared. Now when I say vision, my friends, I know that some visions are what the Bible calls "night visions", like in a dream. You will find that in the Bible. Dreams are also called visions. Generally speaking, a vision is differentiated by what you see with your eyes open. That which you see when you are not asleep. I began to see this vision and the Lord showed me. I looked up, I saw what answers to the description of an I.C.B.M. (Inter-continental Ballistic Missile). Just as real as any picture that you would see, or the real thing, if you've ever seen one of those missiles. It was just as real as you would look upon one if it were right in front of you, two or three feet away."

"I saw it! It was passing over a skim of clouds. Not heavy clouds, but a thin skim of clouds. I was standing on the side of this mountain, a residential district. I was looking over into a bay area. It would appear like I was in Berkeley, if you've ever been to Berkeley, and the Berkeley Hills. I was looking into the bay area toward San Francisco. The San Francisco Bay region, that direction. I saw the freeway. I don't say that it was the Oakland freeway that is there today. I don't know where it was, my friends. I do know this, that I was standing on the side of this mountain, overlooking a huge metropolis. When I saw this missile directed toward the city, and suddenly, being electronically controlled no doubt, it plummeted right down into the city and then exploded. Then I saw the fireball, which answers to the description of what I have seen in a civil defense film release of the first Hydrogen bomb explosion. This happened in 1929! Yet I saw it as clear as I see you here tonight. There was a purpose in it. I have been warning people ever since, that this thing is coming. As the day approaches, my friends, I feel more vibrant than ever before. I have got to bear testimony to what I saw with my eyes! I have got to warn God's people that they must live in the Spirit, and walk in the Spirit and be filled with the Spirit, if they want God's protection in these last days! I saw this thing blossom out in all of its beautiful colors. Did you ever see a picture of it? It's a beautiful sight, but a horrible sight. All of the colors of the rainbow you can see in that big ball as it swells out. Then the pressure that it creates following the explosion. It demolishes everything before it. It leaves a crater over 300 feet deep and over 2 miles across. It is capable of destroying a huge metropolis the size of New York City in one blast. Even though there were no freeways in 1929, I saw freeways. I saw them run and jump in their cars to escape, but there was no escape!"

"I saw the aftermath of this explosion. I saw all of the detail. The Spirit of the Lord picked me up. Like St. Paul, whether in the body or out of the body, I don't know. All I know is, my friends, that God took me, and whisked me across that area where the bomb hit in the midst of that huge metropolis. There was nothing left. The center where it struck was molten, like molten glass. It wasn't until I was carried away beyond the residential area that I began to see any sign of debris. Finally, I came to what looked similar to snow or sand drifts piled up against the fences and buildings. I saw piles of iron, like broom straw, only much finer than broom straw. It was in piles, and in patterns. Everything completely destroyed! Finally, way, way out, beyond what I felt was the residential area, I began to find signs of human beings, only in pieces. Torsos, heads, hands, arms and legs. They were scattered around everywhere! The Spirit of the Lord carried me out further. I began to find signs of life. People were running. Everybody was blind. I didn't know in 1929 that if you are 35 miles away from the explosion and you happened to be looking in that direction you would never see again. I didn't know that at that time. Everybody was blind, my friends; they were running and screaming and bumping up against this and that and the other, bouncing back, children blind and screaming, and crying out for their parents, and parents for their children."

"The farther I went the more the confusion, and the cries increased! My friends, even tonight, while I am speaking to you, I can hear those cries! I can hear those cries, children and parents screaming out for one another! It was a terrible sight to behold! If I were to live ten-thousand years I know I could just close my eyes, and hear those screams, and see the terror that was written all over the faces of parents and children! A terrible sight indeed! (NOTE: After seeing this destruction, he then sees another people. He does not understand what he is seeing, but these are the people that "Escape to a Dwelling Place of Zion". He is in truth, seeing an end time vision, surely given to him by God.) Then, my friends, the Spirit of the Lord took me, oh, I wonder how fast I was going. I could see the mountains and the hills just passing before me. I came sweeping down over a large valley. In the distance, I could see as I began to approach, a body of people that looked like tens of thousands. I don't know how many were there. It was a sea of people. Long before I got there I could see, as I came down closer, I could discern them. They had their handkerchiefs, they were wiping their tears from their eyes."

"Then for the first the first time, I began to hear heavenly anthems. Heavenly anthems, I could hear the Hallelujahs in bass, in tenor, in soprano and in alto voices blending together. That mass of humanity were lifted together by the heavenly music. I came right down in the midst of them. There they were, God's people. This is what I saw, friends. They were all dressed up like they were ready for the Sunday service. Their hair was parted, nothing was disturbed. There was no soil on their shirts, they were cared for so perfectly that everything was in order. Their faces were clean, their clothing was clean. Everything was in order. The only word that you could use to describe them would be meticulous! Glory to God! It is going to be a marvelous thing to be in the hands of God in these last days! Glory to God! What a wonderful thing to be in the hands of God! I say that God is going to protect His people in these last days IF! . . . they live in the Spirit, and walk in the Spirit and keep filled with the Spirit!"

Here is a Cherokee Prophecy regarding the past and World War 3:



"A black ribbon would be built across the land, and a bug would begin to move across the ribbon - a sign that very soon the Earth would shake so violently that the bug would be thrown into the air and begin to fly." (The black ribbon is thought to be the first roadways, and the bug moving across it is thought to be the first automobile, mass-produced for the first time in 1908. Soon after, the violent shaking of the Earth, the First World War, "threw the bug into the air" i.e, initiated the widespread usage of the airplane).

"A cobweb would be built across the World through which people would talk." (A few hundred years after this prophecy telephone lines reached into virtually every corner of the globe).

"A sign of life in the east would turn on its side and be surrounded by death, and one day the Sun would rise in the west, bringing a second violent shaking of the earth ever worse than the first." (The cross, a sign of life, was turned on its side to form the Nazi swastika, the symbol of the Japanese empire was the rising Sun, and the Earth's "violent shaking" in the Second World War was indeed even worse than the first).

"Gourds of ashes would fall from the sky, creating more ash from all living things in their path and preventing new growth for years to come." (The atom bomb fir that description perfectly.)

"The eagle would someday fly in the night and land on the moon." (In 1969 the safe arrival on the moon of the Apollo 11 spacecraft was announced by astronaut Neil Armstrong to the NASA control room with simple words, "The eagle has landed").

"A house would be built in the east that would welcome all the peoples of the Earth, and it would sparkle like the Sun reflecting off the desert mica." (The United Nations, founded in 1945, moved its original headquarters from San Francisco to a shimmering golden glass monolith in New York City in 1952).

"If we miss our opportunities after the first two shakings of the Earth to come together as a Human Family of Brothers and Sisters - as we have - the Earth will be shaken for a third time (World War 3), more violently than ever before."

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Ok so I went ahead and collected all of the countries that are listed in prophecy both from this thread and my other thread related to World War 3 and this is what I came up with for the list of countries that are written in prophecy to be involved in World War 3, if there ever is one. I pray that there isn't, and that Humanity chooses to avoid it. But in case it does happen, here is the list of the countries and sub divisions of countries that are supposed to be directly involved:



Libya

Egypt

Ankara

Syria

Russia

Iraq

Italy

Mongolia

China

France

Albania

Turkey

Circassia

North Ossetia

Morocco

Iran

Israel

Spain

Switzerland

Sicily

Malta

Africa

the Balkan peninsula (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro)

Jordan

Lebanon

Palestine

Ethiopia

Georgia

Saudi Arabia

Greece

Azerbaijan

Afghanistan

Pakistan

The United States

Japan

India

Vietnam

North Korea

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Well, great work! You have helped me to improve my knowledge about this field. Thank you so much for sharing.

You might check this site out if you haven't already.

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hoangtrang1;1247465 wrote: Well, great work! You have helped me to improve my knowledge about this field. Thank you so much for sharing.


Very glad you enjoyed reading it.

Yeah, those 3 (Edgar Cayce, Jean Dixon, and Nostradamus) sure were something else hey.

I enjoyed reading your posts on this, and clearly you put a lot of work into this. However, these types of predictions are so vague that it could have applied to anything.

WW1 was fought a great deal in France, After WW1 the bird flu killed up to 100 million. This fact was lost in the devastation of WW1.

WW2 all throughout Italy, Africa and many of the other places you talked about. What you are saying of China now, could have been the Soviet Empire. The reference of Asia could have been Japan in WW2. Prior to the attack on America they had invaded and conquered China, they definitely ruled the sea in the east until they went to war with the USA.

Regarding the South of France, that was the coastline the US used to access the European mainland from the south during WW2. Although Normandy clearly gets the news for the main D Day invasion, it was the not so heavily defended south of France that US forces came in by.

Italy is talked a lot about in this thread, but Italy suffered horrible during WW2, it was one of the hardest countries to gain back control from the Germans, as well the Italians were also split against each other, those for and those against Mussolini.

Although I never studies Nostradamus in any detail, I scanned his stuff with interest as I find this kind of thing interesting. I think however his predictions were more of WW1 & WW2 as they fit easily into those time periods more that what is happening in the world now.

The argument about China being the invading country does not make sense, well for now anyway but who knows what the future will hold.

Marching to world domination: Why the West should be worried about China

Dominic Sandbrook

Daily Mail

Friday, October 2, 2009



Beneath today’s orgy of celebrations that marks the anniversary lurks a disturbing reality. Mao’s successors may have embraced cut-throat capitalism to a degree that makes even Western economists blanch. But the arrangements for the parade are a reminder that China remains a deeply authoritarian society.

Kites have been banned from the centre of Beijing, pigeons have been culled and soldiers with machineguns are on every street corner. Scientists are even seeding the sky with chemicals to prevent inclement weather spoiling the celebrations.

None of us should begrudge an industrious and innovative people their return to the top table.

Yet there is a dark side to China’s revival – a disturbing instinct for sabre-rattling and neo-imperialism that arguably poses the biggest threat to world peace since the Cold War.

What terrifies China’s neighbours is the thought that they might be in for the same treatment as Tibet and Xinjiang. And the most obvious target for Chinese expansion is the island of Taiwan, the self-styled ‘Republic of China’ that was established after the American-backed Kuomintang lost the civil war against Mao in 1949 and fled across the narrow Taiwan Strait.

Even though Taiwan now stands as a highly successful state in its own right, the Chinese Communists have never abandoned their ambition to incorporate it into their empire.

Perhaps most worrying, however, is the evidence of Chinese expansionism and interference in Africa.

In 1873 the Victorian explorer Sir Francis Galton suggested that one way to modernise the so-called Dark Continent was to fill it with ‘ industrious, order-loving Chinese’, with Africa becoming a ’semi-detached dependency of China’. Such was the outcry that Galton soon dropped the idea. But more than a century later, he seems to have been ahead of his time.

For in the past decade, more than 750,000 Chinese have settled in Africa, and the red flag now flutters over jungles and prairies alike.

In the ports of East Africa, Chinese cargo ships are loaded every day with oil, timber and diamonds.

Vast Chinese-owned mines pay African labourers less than £1 a day to scratch out copper for the gigantic smoke-belching cities of East Asia. And deep in the heart of Africa, acres of forest are ripped down every day as timber for China’s industrial revolution.

But there is another side to this new Scramble for Africa. For in return, the Chinese are selling African leaders the assault rifles, warplanes and mortars they need for their bloody wars of conquest and ethnic cleansing.

Only last year, Zimbabwe’s despotic Robert Mugabe received a cool £200m in Chinese military aid.

And even the brutal slaughter in southern Sudan, in which hundreds of thousands of non-Muslim peasants were murdered by government militias, was carried out with £55m-worth of Chinese weapons, sold to the Sudanese in defiance of a UN arms embargo.

Marching to world domination: China celebrates 60 years of communism with a display of military might that should worry the West | Mail Online

I just want to say that I have been closely listening to and watching the current tension unfolding with North Korea and South Korea right now and I will say with 100% confidence that we (the World) have never been more close to World War 3 than we currently are at the moment.

All signs are pointing to the fact that at the moment if nothing is done to avert this disaster than I do believe even this year that we could enter into World War 3. The bloodiest, deadliest, most damaging war ever waged on the surface of our planet.

Jeane Dixon said that North Korea would eventually pull us into a battle with China. And Nostradamus and his predictions are literally unfolding before my eyes. Many Arab nations are to side with the Red Chinese as well as certain factions of the African nations. We are literally on the brink of this catastrophe. And it is one catastrophe that need not take place, for Humanity has within it the power to prevent it from happening.