The Antichrist's Arena

David Hill "The Antichrist's Arena "

Email :jesterbr549@yahoo.com

Posted on: May 22nd, 2002

Eze 38 "Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land
of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and
prophesy against him."

There have been many atempts to identify the a.c. in
the Church's History and in these modern times. And
as we procede, there will be more and more.

We must keep one thing in mind and that is that the
Lord stated that MANY False Christs would appear, and
based on this he told us not to be deceived.

These words can be interpreted two ways. The obvious
one is not to be deceived by any of these false
messiah's so that you won't be led astray.

The other, less obvious interpretation, is don't let
these false messiah's lead you astray so that you
DON'T RECOGNIZE THE REAL ANTICHRIST WHEN HE APPEARS!
If you do, while you are focusing on a False Messiah,
you will be blindsided by the Antichrist when he
starts his rise. This COULD have deadly consequences
for those thus deceived.

Juan Carlos, JFK, Reagan, Gore and a host of others
have been proposed. The most recent has been Prince
Charles. I have already critiqued this book on the
doves a few years ago when it first came out. I
purchased the book and read through it, and I
distinctly recall in the chapter on the calculation of
his name, that the author admited that he deviated
from the rules of the Hebrew Gemantria involved in
order to add up the name. He said something to the
effect that, 'because the Hebrew is 2,000 yrs old and
has been a dead language for so long, we have to make
a modern application of this letter, as it is used
now.' or something to that effect. If a person has
the book, he should be able to find the statement in
question very easily. And this makes the calculation
useless as far as we are concerned. That it adds up
in the English is of no use either because this was
never an alpha-numeric system as the Greek and Hebrew.

Now, I have noticed that many people (that author
included) explain away certain passages that are
speaking of the a.c. because it is detrimental to
their theory on his identity. This means that they
came up with the theory first, and THEN interpreted
the passages involved. This is bad policy when it
comes to the Word. One example of this can also be
seen in the identity of Mystery:Babylon in Rev 17.
Some people interpret this as a literal city, which I
agree with. But they already have a preconceived idea
of who the woman is, so they pick and choose what
parts of the passage they want to apply, and throw out
the rest. IF you interpret the City as being a
literal city, then you must ALSO interpret the
LOCATION of the city literally. If you literally
interpret the SEVEN MOUNTAINS then you MUST ALSO
literally interpret the FACT that this City of Seven
Mountains is located IN THE WILDERNESS. Which is
refering to the desert area south and EAST of Israel,
which is where the Plains of Shinar (Zech 5) is
located.

And by the way, according to the Creation Epic and the
World Map of Ancient Babylon the city WAS built upon
the Seven Mountain Ranges that surround the
Mesopotamian Plane 1)The Southern Zargos mountains cut
Shinar off from India. 2)The Northern Zargos cut
Shinar off from China. 3)The Caucuses cut Shinar off
from Russia. 4)The Taurus cut Shinar off from Europe.
5) The Lebanon Mtns cut Shinar off from the Med. Sea.
6) The Hijah Mtns cut Shinar off from the Red Sea. 7)
The Akaar in the Land of Sheba were concidered to be
the end of the world. This last one is SPECIFICALLY
mentioned in the creation epic of Babylon. You can
find the world map and epic on the net. The 'islands'
of the picture, according to their cosmology, are
indeed mountains, because they considered Heaven to be
a sea and the top of the mtns would be islands in the
heavenly sea.

So, back to the a.c., many scholars use Daniel 2 to
prove that the Arena of the Rise of the Antichrist is
the Geographical territory of the Roman Empire, which
is correct. And with that information, we can look at
the OTHER Geographical Territories mentioned in the
Word and connected to the a.c. in order to narrow this
down. And then, who ever the a.c. turns out to be, we
will know him IMMEDIATELY when he confirms the
covenant, because we knew, literally, where to look.
It is for this reason that the world leaders are
bringing MANY false christs to the forefront NOW
because they know that the leading Eschatological
experts in the world are living in America and that
MANY AMERICANS (of all ethnic groups) will probably be
able to spot him, unless they lay down a pretty thick
smoke screen (i.e. Rope-a-Dope's).

The Assyrian

The prophet Isaiah (chapters 10,14,30-31,52) in these
endtimes passages (easily determined from context)
links the a.c. to the ancient Assyrian Empire, and
Hosea (11) and Micah (5) echo this connection. The
a.c. in the first half of the trib will be the
Assyrian to the nation of Ephraim (also beamoth of
Job).

The Babylonian

Isaiah also calls this individual the Babylonian
(13,14 and 24). In fact, in 14:25 he links the
Assyrian TO The Babylonian as the SAME individual.
And this is confirmed by Jerimiah in 50-51. He will
be the Babylonian to the Nation of Judah in the second
half of the trib (Leviathan in Job).

The Little Horn

In Daniel 8, with as much authority as chapter 2, we
see that the a.c. MUST arrise from the geographical
territory of the Grecian Empire. Note as well that
this passage gives us the further details that he is a
little horn (possibly a physical description) and that
he waxes strong against the EAST (mesopotamia) and the
SOUTH (egypt) and ISRAEL (the pleasant land). As
well, this chapter talks about 1)The Last Days
2)Transgression (Abomination) of Desolation 3)Prince
of Hosts (Yehshuah) 4)Daily Sacrifices and thus proves
that it is refering to the same individual as in
Revelation and Daniel's Last Vision (see my post on
part three of this vision coming up soon), and is
definately refering to the a.c.

Now, if you take all of the above descriptions, and
look at the land that is COMMON to ALL THOSE EMPIRES
you will see that you are pretty much limited to
Turkey, Syria, Israel and Egypt. This last passage
rules out the latter three (as well as my post on
Daniel's last vision showing that the a.c. rises in
the estate of the king of the west - The Vile Person
who comes to power with a small people) and that
leaves you with ONLY TURKEY as the location of the
rise of the a.c. Turkey would be considered a small
people as far as global influence at this time.

And all this is proven by the verse that I started
this post with. This verse is NOT refering to an
invasion of Israel by Russia at the start of the trib,
but it is refering to the invasion of Israel at the
mid-point and end of the trib by the a.c., proven by
the Feast for the fowls of the air (also compare 38:13
with Daniel 11:30 and compare 38:5 with Daniel 11:43
and also see my next post on Daniel for even more).
And this proves, like the other geographic clues
above, that the a.c. rises to power in the ancient
geographic territory of Magog - The Land of Gog.

Gog was actually a ruler at the time Ezekiel wrote
those words and his kingdom was in western Turkey.
Scribners Bible Dict. of 1900 says, "The Hebrew name
corresponds with that of the Lydian King who is called
Gyges by the Greeks and Gugu in the cuniform
inscriptions. Gyges was the first King of W. Asia
Minor...[Gomer] is the Gimirra of the Assyr.
inscriptions, the Cimmerians of the Greeks. The
Cimmerians were an Aryan people who inhabited the
Crimea [Ukraine area around Black Sea] and adjoining
disctricts of Southern Russia, and in the 7th cent.
B.C. poured through the Caucasus into W. Asia
(Herod.IV.12)...Gyges or Gugu, the Lydian King, sent
an embassy to Ninevah for help...Phrygia had been
occupied by them...Cappadocia had been so completely
conquered by them as to bear hence forward amoung the
Armenians the name of Gamir...The Cimmerians (Gomer)
are included in the Army of Gog; and as the invasion
of Asia Minor by them brought about a great
displacement of population, one result being the
retreat of the Moschi and Tibareni (Mescheach and
Tubal) from Cappadocia to the shores of the Black
Sea."

So here we see that the Geographic Territory of Gog,
the Land of Magog, with Meshech and Tubal are ALL in
Turkey. Note as well that Gomer is refering to the
Ukraine and is IN SUBMISSION to Gog (Turkey) at the
time of the end. This shows the submission of Russia
proper to the Ukraine, and their submission to Turkey.
As well Togaramah "Of the North Quarters and his
bands" can also now be identified with this
information, for this is not specifically Russia
itself. Togaraman is listed (chapter 27) along with
Tubal and Meshech which we know is Turkey, so
Togaramah is refering to a country along Turkey's
Northern Flank or Border( both are specific
definitions of 'quarters'). Their northern most point
is the Caucus Mtn region containing Georgia,
Azerbaijan and Armenia and would possibly include the
very southern part of Russia.

The "many people with thee" (Gog) is thus refering to
the rest of the European nations like Javan (Greece)
which are Japheth's descendants. But notice, as well,
that they are all in submission to Gog and not the
other way around. Here we have a DRASTIC change in
the Geopolitical situation in the EuroAsian Arena
before the end of the trib. Keep in mind that the
Euphrates River ORIGINATES in Turkey, and this source
is actually the area that the four angels are bound in
Rev 7:1 and loosed in Rev 9:14.

Hence you have Gog (the a.c.) leading Magog, Meshech
and Tubal (all in Turkey) and Gomar (Ukraine and some
of Russia) and Togarmah (Georgia and parts of Russia)
and Javan (and parts of E. Europe) in a coilition
against Israel from midtrib to the end at Armegeddon.
Remember also that ALL OTHERS (i.e. the three other
beasts of Daniel seven etC) are trampled under foot by
this confederacy.

This shows a 'revival' of the Babylonian, Assyrian,
Media/Persian, Grecian and Roman Empires in these end
days (proven by Daniel 2:35, for though the stone hits
the feet, all these kingdoms are "Broken Together" by
it. However, what it clearly ALSO teaches is, in
effect, A REVIVAL OF THE OTTOMON EMPIRE!!! [Wasn't
even thinking about that at all.]

Remember that Turkey is already a memeber of NATO.
So, lets take a look at some current events. A couple
of years ago Israel and Turkey started forming a
closer relationsip. On May 15th on the sw I heard
that Turkey considers itself the primary target (after
Israel) of Iran's rocket program and that they should
start countermeasures (they made this decision based
on Israeli intelligence). Turkey just recently agreed
to take over control of the International Security
Force in Kabul starting this summer (about the time
they got hit by an earthquake on Sunday), which
decision was influenced greatly by the EU a couple of
days ago. Turkey and Europe are planning on building
a tunnel under the Bosporus starting next year like
the chunnel between England and the mainland. They are
set to join the EU (a must for everything I have said
so far) next summer. Short Wave rumor back in May was
that they would join in the upcoming invasion of Iraq.
Turkey and Georgia and Azerbaijan have signed a
Security Agreement against Terrorism specifically in
reference to the pipeline that they are going to build
between Azerbaijan and Turkey (this was signed at
Trabzone). And last, but certainly not least, there
are plans for the upcoming International [Mid-East!?!]
Peace Summit to be held in Ankara, Turkey. I wonder
if the Antichrist will be in attendance?

He will probably start his rise by solving the Cyprus
issue, at least that is something to keep in mind.
So, you might want to go back and read my posts on the
Four Beasts, and my other posts on geopolitics, cause
this pretty much is the capstone to everything that I
previously stated. Along with my next post on
Daniel's last vision, which also supports what I have
said here.