Seven
Empires
and the Promised Kingdom of God |
The Middle East--Past And Future |
SEVEN EMPIRES investigates the history, and future,
of a turbulent region that has become the focus of world attention. "Wars
and rumors of war—peace, peace and there is no peace" are ancient
sayings born in this region, proof there is really "nothing new under
the sun." The first link, The Past, combines thirty-three historical
maps with more than 1,300 dates and events in world history to show the
modern convulsions in the Middle East result from age-long rivalries. The
second link, The Future, shows these upheavals will soon reach a
terrible climax and then cease completely. |
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Seven
Key Prophecies
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Seven key biblical prophecies
reveal the long-awaited Kingdom of God is near. In this region of ancient
religious tradition and burning zeal, God Almighty will soon intervene to
fulfill the age-long pledge to establish His Messianic Kingdom. |
Four thousand years
ago God promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that their descendants, the nation
Israel, would inherit a special land, what is known today, variously, as
the Holy Land, the Promised Land, the land of Israel, and Palestine.
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Yet through the ages
Israel has enjoyed sovereignty over this small plot of land for only a few
short centuries. |
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This atlas lays before
our eyes those seven major civilizations that challenged Israel's claim;
Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Greek, Roman and Islamic.
These seven civilizations have had a major effect in shaping the world,
past and present. The maps plainly illustrate their domination of the land
of Israel as well, often by direct occupation. Today the nation Israel is
again in the Promised Land, regathered to the very heart of the Islamic
domain, the seventh civilization of the biblical world. |
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Solving
the Arab-Israel Conflict
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Nations around the world
share deep concern in trying to solve the Arab-Israel conflict. Unconsciously
they reveal that the future of the entire planet is bound up, in an organic
way, with Israel's destiny in relation to these seven civilizations. Israel's
future is locked up with her capital city Jerusalem. The destiny of the
Holy City hinges on her promised King, the Messiah. |
Today the seventh civilization
makes up one-fifth of the population of the globe. Its heart is seen in
220 million Arabs of the twenty-one nations of the Arab League. Bordering
non-Arab nations add 350 million more Middle Eastern Muslims. Islamic revival
is sweeping the Middle East driving secular Arab governments to take on
Islamic trappings, forcing moderate Islamic governments to implement a more
Koranic legal system, and unleashing the wrath of Muslim zealots seeking
to die in Jihad. Fueled by oil wealth and driven by the Koran, Arab-Islamic
shame over tiny Israel reclaiming residence in their Promised Land, with
Jerusalem as its capital, makes the miracle of real Middle East peace ever
so much greater. |
In spite of
past Middle East peace talks and attemps to reach a comprehensive "peace of the brave" between the government of Israel and the
governments of Arab neighbors, it is obvious that only a fundamental change
of mind of miraculous proportions in the Arab-Muslim world will ever guarantee
a real and lasting peace. If history reveals
anything, it says only Almighty God has enough power to cause the nations
of the world to "beat their swords into plowshares," to establish
His ancient promise of peace to Israel, the Middle East and the world. |
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Seven Empires shows
that God's Messiah, Yeshua (Jesus), who suffered long ago in weakness, will
return soon from Heaven to reign in Jerusalem, to dominate the world as
Prince of Peace. |
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