With the fall of the Assad regime Turkish Commandos are preparing for Turkey’s imminent invasion of Syria. The US allies are in panic as Erdogan readied his forces. After the rebel takeover the United States fears an imminent Turkish invasion of Syria. Clearly Erdogan is taking an advantage of the weak presidency of the Biden Administration and wanting to enlarge the Turkish “Empire” before Trump comes into office.

Also Erdogan does not want Israel to enter Syria and to take control of it up to the Euphrates River. Clearly Turkey and its allied militias in Syria want to invade the Kurd-held areas. U.S. officials are aware that Turkey is preparing for a large scaled military incursion into Syria. There is a significant Turkish military build-up near Kobani, a Kurdish majority city, sparking fears of an imminent conflict.

This current build-up is similar to that of the Turkish movements ahead of its 2019 invasion. According to the US officials a cross-border operation may well be imminent. A new offensive by Turkey would only deepen the instability in the region. A potential invasion would undermine efforts to maintain security against ISIS.

Already the deployment of Turkish uniformed commandos has been confirmed. Turkish artillery units and allied militias have been placed in strategic positions along the border with Syria. A Kurdish official wrote a letter to U.S. President elect Donald Trump over the potential Turkish invasion urging Trump to put pressure on Erdogan to abandon the planned operation by Turkey. The letter claims that Turkey aims to seise control of Kurdish territory before President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

It seems that Turkey wants to force the Trump administration to recognise Ankara’s authority in the region. Having said this, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has confirmed the collapse of ceasefire talks in Syria. The talks mediated by the United States could not reach a new deal between Turkey-backed rebels with the SDF. Meanwhile, Turkish backed forces have actually surrounded Kobani from east to west.

Erdogan of Turkey has long dreamed of resurrecting the Turkish Ottoman Empire of his forebears. Since Turkey lost Jerusalem to the allies at the end of WW1. Erdogan, who came to power in 2014, and who sees himself as the first Caliph of a resurrected Turkish Ottoman Empire, has for many years wanted to invade the Holy land Israel and re-conquer Jerusalem for Islam as his Islamic forebears did for 600 years after the fall of the Eastern leg of the remaining Roman Empire to the Ottoman Turks. If Erdogan can get control of Syria then he will be well on the way to establishing the caliphate. He is Sunni and the majority of Muslims in the world are also Sunni. Assad was Shiite.

If Erdogan conquers Syria then Turkey will be virtually in Israel’s back yard and able to invade Israel from the north which happened in the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, a major type of the Antichrist in scripture. It seems the stage is being set for the last war between the king of the north with the king of the south, a repetition of the first war between the king of the north Antiochus from Syria with Ptolemy the King of the South in Egypt.

The campaign of the Antichrist will mirror the campaign of Antiochus, and if Erdogan is the last king of the north his military campaign will mirror that of Antiochus. See (Daniel 11:29-43). Armed forces will oppose him as they did Antiochus (vs. 44). He will make his headquarters at Jerusalem as Antiochus also did, and there ultimately as the last king of the north the Antichrist will come to his end with no one to help him (vs.45). When you read Daniel 11:36-37 in relation to the character of the Antichrist it mirrors 2 Thessalonians 2:4 where the man of sin is mentioned having the exact same character traits as Antiochus had.

Erdogan of Turkey seems to be of the same character of Antiochus, whose name meant “god-manifest” and who was nicknamed “the madman” and his hatred of the Jews and his vehement desire to control Jerusalem was clear. Antiochus was a deluded despot with a megalomaniac mindset accompanied with a disposition to be worshipped as deity and to set up his empire with his capital city Jerusalem with supreme control.

From Jerusalem the Antichrist will seek to expand his empire throughout the Middle-East with its tentacles eventually reaching into Europe and into North Africa and down into Egypt. The western powers will be hard-pressed to stop him and the expansion of his empire. Israel is now on high alert since the fall of the Assad regime.

Since the collapse of the Assad regime the IDF have quickly taken over the demilitarized zone along the Golan Heights border with Syria including Mt Hermon, as well as strategic positions outside of the demilitarized zone, after the posts were abandoned by soldiers of the Syrian Armed Forces upon the collapse of the Assad regime, almost two weeks ago.

At present the IDF have established a buffer zone in light of the uncertain situation in Syria. Also Israel is protecting itself at this strategic border in light of the rebel forces still active in Syria and the possible threat from Turkey to invade Syria to conquer the territory currently held by the Kurds on the excuse of fighting the Kurdish YPG Militia. If the truth be known Erdogan wants Syria to be part of his caliphate.

It would seem with the possible conquest of Syria by Turkey that we may well see Daniel 11:36-45 occur in the near future which lays out the military campaign of the Antichrist. If Erdogan conquers Syria, more than likely it will result in Turkey invading Israel from the north over the Golan Heights. If this occurs it will possibly kick start the Time of Jacob’s Trouble (Jeremiah 30:1-7) (Matthew 24:15, 21-22) (Daniel 12:1), but he (Jacob/Israel) will be saved out of it by God. The LORD will break the yoke of servitude off from the necks of Israel and tear of their bonds and no longer will foreigners enslave them.

Instead, they (Israel) will serve the LORD their God and David (the Messiah our Lord Jesus) their king, the king of Israel, whom God will raise up for His people when He, our Lord Jesus returns to sit on David’s throne at Jerusalem (Jeremiah 30:8-10) (Psalm 132:11-12) (Luke 1:32-33) (Acts 2:30) (Isaiah 9:7) (Jeremiah 23:5). In that day God will tell them not to fear or be dismayed, and Jews will come home to Israel from the nations where they have been living, and in that day Israel will have peace and safety and no one will make them afraid! (Jeremiah 30:10). At last Israel will have their king sitting on the throne of David at Jerusalem!