Sermon Tone Analysis

*THE NEW AXIS OF EVIL*

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ON JANUARY 29, 2002, IN HIS STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS, PRESIDENT BUSH USED THE TERM *'AXIS OF EVIL'* FOR THE FIRST TIME.

HE IDENTIFIED IRAN, IRAQ AND NORTH KOREA AS STATES WHO ARE IN THE PROCESS OF ARMING IN ORDER TO THREATEN THE PEACE OF THE WORLD.

ON MAY 6, 2002, US AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS, JOHN BOLTON ADDED THREE MORE STATES TO THIS LIST.

HE ADDED LIBYA, SYRIA, AND CUBA.

GOD HAS A LIST OF EVIL NATIONS TOO.

THAT LIST IS FOUND IN EZEKIEL 38 AND 39.

 

THESE TWO CHAPTERS WERE WRITTEN

TWENTY SIX HUNDRED YEARS  AGO.

AND THEY MAKE UP ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND DRAMATIC PROPHECIES IN THE WHOLE BIBLE.

EZEKIEL'S PROPHESY IS OFTEN CALLED

THE PROPHESY AGAINST GOG AND MAGOG.

IT DETAILS THE INVASION OF ISRAEL

THAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE LAST DAYS.

THERE'S GOING TO BE A COALITION OF NATIONS THAT ARE

LED BY RUSSIA AND IRAN.

THERE'S GOING TO COME A TIME WHEN ISRAEL

WILL SIGN A PEACE TREATY

WITH THE NEW LEADER OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

THEY WILL TRUST THE EUROPEAN POWERS TO PROTECT THEM.

ESPECIALLY PROTECT THEM FROM RUSSIA.

BUT IT'LL BE A FALSE TRUST THAT WILL LAST ONLY

3 1~/2 YEARS.

EZEKIEL TELLS US WHO THE INVADING NATIONS WILL BE.

*THE IDENTITIES OF THE NATIONS ARE FOUND IN**;*

 

*Ezekiel 38:1-7 (NIV) \\ **38**     THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME: 2 “SON OF MAN, SET YOUR FACE AGAINST GOG, OF THE LAND OF MAGOG, THE CHIEF PRINCE OF MESHECH AND TUBAL; PROPHESY AGAINST HIM 3 AND SAY: ‘THIS IS WHAT THE SOVEREIGN LORD SAYS: I AM AGAINST YOU, O GOG, CHIEF PRINCE OF MESHECH AND TUBAL. 4 I WILL TURN YOU AROUND, PUT HOOKS IN YOUR JAWS AND BRING YOU OUT WITH YOUR WHOLE ARMY—YOUR HORSES, YOUR HORSEMEN FULLY ARMED, AND A GREAT HORDE WITH LARGE AND SMALL SHIELDS, ALL OF THEM BRANDISHING THEIR SWORDS.

5 PERSIA, CUSH AND PUT WILL BE WITH THEM, ALL WITH SHIELDS AND HELMETS, 6 ALSO GOMER WITH ALL ITS TROOPS, AND BETH TOGARMAH FROM THE FAR NORTH WITH ALL ITS TROOPS—THE MANY NATIONS WITH YOU.

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*7 **“ ‘GET READY; BE PREPARED, YOU AND ALL THE HORDES GATHERED ABOUT YOU, AND TAKE COMMAND OF THEM.

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MOST OF THESE NAMES IDENTIFY CERTAIN GRAND CHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN OF NOAH.

THEY WERE THE FATHERS OF NATIONS THAT FOR A TIME BORE THEIR NAMES.

(GENESIS 10)

 

AS WE IDENTIFY THESE NATIONS BY THEIR PRESENT NAMES AND LOCATE THEM ON TODAY'S MAP, WE CAN SEE HOW THE STAGE IS BEING SET FOR THIS  RUSSIAN ~/ ISLAMIC INVASION OF ISRAEL.

*GOG* IS THE EXCEPTION TO THE RULE.

GOG IS ACTUALLY THE TITLE OF A RULER.

 

GOG IS AN INDIVIDUAL RATHER THAN A NATION.  GOG IS EXPLICITLY CALLED "THE PRINCE" IN EZEKIEL 38:2 AND 39:1.

*MAGOG* IS BEST IDENTIFIED WITH THE SCYTHIANS.

THE ANCIENT HISTORIAN JESEPHUS MAKES THAT IDENTIFICATION AND WE THERE'S NO REASON TO

QUESTION IT.

 

THE SCYTHIANS LIVED IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF ISRAEL, AND THEN SOME OF THEM EMIGRATED NORTH MOVING ALL THE WAY UP TO THE ASIATIC CIRCLE.

HERODOTUS TELLS US THAT THESE SCYTHIANS WERE OF INDO-ARYIAN HERITAGE AND SPOKE AN IRANIAN LANGUAGE THAAT WAS RELATED TO PERSIAN.

USING THESE CLUES WE CAN IDENTIFY MAGOG TODAY AS THE NATIONS CALLED *KAZAKHSTAN, KYRGYZSTAN, UZBEKISTAN, TURKMENISTAN, TAJIKISTAN, AZERBAIJAN, GEORGA, AND POSSIBLY AFGANISTAN.*

ALL OF THESE NATIONS WERE PART OF THE FORMER

SOVIET UNION.

*ROSH*

THIS NAME IS FOUND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

OVER 600 TIMES.

DURING EZEKIEL'S TIME ROSH IS IDENTIFIED AS A NATION OF PEOPLE THAT LIVED NORTH OF THE BLACK SEA.

EZEKIEL TELLS US THREE TIMES THAT PART OF THE FORCE THAT'S GOING TO COME AGAINST ISRAEL WILL BE FROM THE DISTANT NORTH.

THE LAND THAT IS THE MOST DISTANTLY NORTH AND REMOTE TO ISRAEL IS *RUSSIA*.

WHEN THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSED IN THE 1990s, MANY THOUGHT THAT RUSSIA'S DAYS OF PROMINENCE AND POWER WERE OVER.

BUT LESS THAN TWO DECADES LATER RUSSIA IS SEEKING TO RECLAIM THE STRATEGIC GROUND SHE HAS LOST.

EDWARD LUCAS WARNS THAT RUSSIA IS RISING AGAIN AS A HOSTILE POWER.

LUCAS ALSO WROTE THAT THE WEST IS ASLEEP TO THE GROWING DANGER OF RUSSIA AND IS LOSING THE NEW COLD WAR.

SO SUCCESSFUL IS RUSSIA'S RETURN TO THE WORLD STAGE THAT TIME MAGAZINE CHOSE RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN AS IT'S 2007 PERSON OF THE YEAR.

FOR TAKING RUSSIA FROM CHAOS TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE IN THE WORLD TODAY.

PUTIN HAS ACCUSED THE WEST OF ENCROACHING ON RUSSIA'S BORDERS AND STARTING A NEW ARMS RACE.

IN HIS ATTEMPT TO JUSTIFY HIS HOSTILITY TOWARD THE WEST, PUTIN SAID

"WE RUSSIANS ARE STRIVING TO CREATE A FAIRER WORLD BASED ON THE PRINCIPLES OF EQUALITY... 

 

HE WENT ON TO SAY "TIME HAS SHOWN OUR VIEWS FIND SUPPORT IN ARAB AND OTHER MUSLIM STATES".

IN OCTOBER OF 2007 PUTIN VISITED IRAN FOR THE FIRST TIME AND REASSURED IRAN THAT

THE BUSHEHR NUCLEAR REACTOR WOULD BE COMPLETED.

PUTIN ALSO VISITED SEVERAL OTHER MUSLIM NATIONS FOR THE FIRST TIME.

SAUDI ARABIA, QATAR, JORDAN, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, INDONESIA, AND MOST RECIENTLY, LIBYA.

HE SIGNED MANY LUCRATIVE AGREEMENTS

BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THESE MUSLIM STATES.

EUROPE ISN'T BLIND TO WHAT'S GOING ON IN RUSSIA.

RUSSIA APPEARS TO BE WINNING THE ENERGY GAME.

THEY'VE SIGNED INDIVIDUAL DEALS WITH EURPEAN UNION STATES AND ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.

*MESHECH AND TUBAL * ARE THOUGHT TO BE PART OF PRESENT DAY TURKEY.

*PERSIA* IS EASY TO IDENTIFY BECAUSE IT KEPT IT'S ORIGINAL NAME RIGHT UP TO MARCH 1935

WHEN IT WAS CHANGED TO *IRAN*.

TODAY WITH IT'S POPULATION OF 70 MILLION PEOPLE, IRAN HAS BECOME A HOTBED OF MILITANT ISLAM AND ANTI-SEMITIC HATRED.

IRAN'S GOVERNMENT IS OFFICIALLY A THROCRATIC REPUBLIC WHOSE ULTIMATE POLITICAL AUTHORITY RESTS

 

IN IT'S SUPREME RELIGIOUS LEADER, WHICH IS CURRENTLY AYATOLLAH  ALI  KHAMENEI.

AHMADINEJAD IS ONLY A FIGUREHEAD UNDER  KHAMENEI

 

IRAN'S LOCATION ON THE PERSIAN GULF AND THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ GIVES HER GREAT POWER TODAY.

HER VAST OIL RESERVES AND THE UPWARDLY SPIRALING PRICE OF CRUDE OIL BROUGHT IN SIXTY BILLION DOLLARS IN FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES FOR IRAN.

I UNDERSTAND THAT IRAN IS A PRIME PLAYER IN THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING TRADE.

THEY'RE ALSO A KEY TRANS-SHIPMENT POINT

FOR HEROIN THAT'S HEADING TO EUROPE.

THE UNITED STATES HAS IDENTIFIED IRAN AS A STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM.

THE WORLD HAS BEEN IN CONTINUAL CONFRONTATION WITH IRAN OVER ITS URANIUM ENRICHMENT CAPABILITIES.

BUT IRAN JUST IGNORES WHAT THE REST OF THE WORLD SAYS.

IT SEEMS TO ME THAT IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME UNTIL IRAN HAS A NUCLEAR WEAPON.

AND IT MAY NOT BE THAT MUCH LONGER.

THE IRANIAN REGIME IS WELL KNOWN FOR ITS HATRED OF ISRAEL AND ITS DESIRE TO ELIMINATE HER.

AHMADINEJAD DECLAIRED TO THE WORLD;

"AS THE IMAM SAID, ISRAEL MUST BE WIPED OFF THE MAP... AND ANYBODY WHO RECOGNIZES ISRAEL WILL BURN IN THE FIRE OF THE ISLAMIC NATION'S FURY.

IN MARCH OF 2008, HEZBOLLAH CHIEF, HASSAN NASRALLAH RAILED AGAINST ISRAEL WHEN HE SAID;

 

"THE PRESENCE OF ISRAEL IS ONLY TEMPORARY AND CANNOT GO ON IN THE REGION.

WE WILL SEE YOU KILLED IN THE FIELDS, WE WILL KILL YOU IN THE CITIES, WE WILL FIGHT YOU LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE".

HEZBOLLAH IS AN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST GROUP,

AND THOUGH ITS BASE OF OPERATIONS IS IN LEBANON,

ITS AUTHORITY COMES FROM THE SAME PLACE THAT AMADINAJAD'S AUTHORITY COMES FROM.

THE AYATOLLAH  ALI  KHAMENEI.

THE AGRESSIVE THREATENING INFLUENCE OF IRAN IS INFECTING AND CONTROLING OTHER ISLAMIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS.

IRAN HAS PROVEN THAT OUR NATIONAL LEADERS ARE RIGHT ON TARGET

BY INCLUDING IRAN AS A MEMBER OF THE AXIS OF EVIL.

*CUSH* WAS THE FIRST BORN OF HAM'S FOUR SONS.

HAM WAS A SON OF NOAH.