Because Turkey was in the news over the weekend, the endnotes added today were all concerning the Ottoman Empire, which was judged by the sixth bowl of wrath.
Coup in Turkey?
If there’s a coup going on in Turkey, here’s why.
Turkish President Ergodan makes unprecedented move.
Okay, the Turkish president has been reinstated and massive arrests made throughout the army and the judicial branch which were acting in accordance with Turkey’s Constitution to check him, an Islamist autocrat who had been weakening said Constitution to consolidate his own power. This is the most instructive analysis I have read to date:
Turkey’s coup may have failed, but history shows it won’t be long before another one succeeds.
The coup attempt was against a president who was seeking a resurgence of the Ottoman Empire, according to the article. He will use the coup attempt as an excuse to tighten controls and advance more of his agenda. But we know that since the 6th bowl of wrath was poured out on the Euphrates, to “dry it up” for the way of the kings of the East, the Ottoman Empire is in the dustbin of history. Like Napoleon, who sought to re-establish the Roman Empire, he will not be able to succeed. Just as the above article states, look for another coup attempt in the coming months or years, which will NOT fail.
I thought it instructive though that this state is the one which perpetrated the Armenian genocide of 1915. More on that in another post …
Joel 3 Mirrors Revelation 14 through 16
That Joel 3 seems to mirror by common theme, the events of Rev 14 through 16, specifically, gathering to battle, harvests, grapes of wrath, earthquake, the 7th bowl, the return of the King:
9 Proclaim this among the nations:
“Prepare for war!
Wake up the mighty men,
Let all the men of war draw near,
Let them come up.
10 Beat your plowshares into swords
And your pruning hooks into spears;
Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’”
11 Assemble and come, all you nations,
And gather together all around.
Cause Your mighty ones to go down there, O Lord.
12 “Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
For there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe.
Come, go down;
For the winepress is full,
The vats overflow—
For their wickedness is great.”
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and moon will grow dark,
And the stars will diminish their brightness.
16 The Lord also will roar from Zion,
And utter His voice from Jerusalem;
The heavens and earth will shake;
But the Lord will be a shelter for His people,
And the strength of the children of Israel. Joe 3:9-16
Other OT scriptures possibly related (from my notes which Anne originally shared:) Gen. 9:11, Hab 2:14, Isa 44:1-5, Eze 38:19-23.
Revival in Russia
Russia Might Use Veto Power to Protect Israel at United Nations, Israeli Official Says
One of the research books used for Revelation Revealed, was Fred Miller’s (no relation) Revelation: A Panorama of the Gospel Age. In that book, he talks about a huge revival that will engulf Russia, starting in the Ukraine (see Russian Origins). Interestingly enough, the year after the Iron Curtain came down, David and I went to the Ukraine for 10 days on a short term mission at the invitation of what had been the underground church for the town of Kremenchug “City on the Rock.” By the time we left, the whole city had come to hear the preaching, receive prayer, and make decisions for Messiah! For the past year I have been seeing positive reports about Putin and an affection and respect he entertained for the Jewish people, due to kindness shown him as a boy in need by a Jewish family (does anyone have a link to that story?)
Before I saw this article, I had been wondering if the world superpower mantle would pass from the United States, to Russia, before the return of the King. We have abandoned our historic official blessing of Israel, while Russia might be seen to be taking it up, and we are also as a nation so infected with political correctness and foolish decision making at the very highest levels concerning government’s basic responsibility to secure our borders and provide for our common defense, something that Putin and Russia do not seem to be struggling with. So all that is to say, keep a watch on these things …
As far was whether Miller is right or not, I don’t know the answer to that yet. His assertion is based on identifying the events of Eze 38-39 with Armegeddon (the interval of the 6th and 7th bowl) and although I have ideas about how the final chapters of Ezekiel fit into the scheme of Revelation … still studying that … maybe that will be a future book?
UPDATE FROM ANNE ELLIOTT:
Vladimir Putin’s Heartwarming Tale About His Love for Judaism
UPDATE FROM CHRISTINE:
In Revelation’s Outline of History in the Appendix, Eze 38-39 is associated by thematic connection with the Rev 20:7-10 final battle of Gog and Magog: