“By his cunning he shall make deceit prosper under his hand, and in his own mind he shall become great. Without warning he shall destroy many. And he shall even rise up against the Prince of princes, and he shall be broken—but by no human hand” (Daniel 8:25).
According to a report in Sunday’s online edition of the Gatestone Institute an article appeared concerning Turkey in relation to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. According to the report it stated that it was a false report or a myth that the Ukrainian army using Turkish drones were inflicting “huge” damage on the invading Russian forces. The report stated that Drones, regardless of their capabilities, cannot be game changers in a conflict with vastly different powerful military armaments such as tanks, and heavily armoured vehicles and mobile missile launchers.
The report also stated that “the West must send jets, tanks, anti-aircraft, anti-armour and anti-ship missiles, and other weapons to Ukraine to repel Russia’s Chinese-backed aggression — fast — or the US and Europe will soon find themselves enmeshed in wars even messier to fight. It is common knowledge that Erdoğan has always been ideologically anti-western and his supposed friendship with the west is a mask for deceit.
In the report it also stated; “Erdogan seems to think that just because the madman of Russia did something mad, he, the president of Turkey, can once again fool the West by posing as a pro-Western ally. Believing that the TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles could be game-changers in Ukraine is similar to thinking that the Turkish drones could be used to stop a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.”
If Turkey was really an ally of the west why would they not send the Russian-made S-400 missile defence systems to Ukraine? It would seem that Erdoğan relishes the idea of western powers fighting a war with each other as the focus of the global media is on this war while the man from Turkey continues to establish his ultimate goal to see the historical Turkish Ottoman Empire resurrected and that this strategy is going under the radar of the global news media.
According to the report the West’s primary weapon against the Russian aggression is sanctions. While the western governments have targeted Roman Abramovich and several other Russian oligarchs with sanctions to isolate Putin and his allies for the most part have not targeted most Russian oligarchs or businesses. A second super-yacht linked to the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich docked in a Turkish resort. In addition, no one seems to be touching the $700 million yacht docked in Italy and reportedly owned by Putin.
A source in Ankara told Reuters that given the sanctions imposed elsewhere, Abramovich and other wealthy Russians were looking to invest in Turkey. Another source in Ankara said Turkey was not currently considering joining the sanctions action against Russia and was expecting wealthy Russians to purchase assets and make investments. Turkey apparently hopes to get all it can from this “Christian-to-Christian” conflict: “Let the infidels destroy each other as Turkey cashes in with geostrategic gains and spill-over Russian business from the West.”
While China concentrates its expansionist agenda in the South China Sea and the South pacific region and continues to seek economic relationships with Middle-Eastern and African countries, it does not have a military presence in the region. Turkey has a growing military presence in Syria and if the man from Turkey has his way he will have open access to the whole Middle-East militarily once Assad in Syria has been removed (Isaiah 17:1).
Recently we have seen so called peace negotiations being discussed in Ankara between representatives of Russia and Ukraine and this presents Erdoğan as a so called ‘peace-maker’ but Erdoğan by his cunning is making deceit to prosper and obviously making himself great in his own mind with the resurrected Ottoman Caliphate in view and of course no guesses as to whom he has in mind for the Supreme Caliph of the Islamic world.
We know from the Word of God that the Muslim Antichrist will be from Turkey and that Turkey will lead the Ezekiel 38 invasion of Israel (Revelation 2:13) (Ezekiel 38:1-3). As for Russia at present it is already engaged in a war within Europe so the Middle-East is not on the radar for Putin at present. How far and for how long the war will go no one knows but we do know from Revelation Chapter 9 that there will be a war that will see a third of the world’s population perish by possibly nuclear detonations and by the fallout (Revelation 9:17-19).
While all of the focus globally is on Russia at war with Ukraine the man from Turkey is seeking to expand his ultimate ambition to see a resurrected Turkish Ottoman Empire. While we are seeing Russia and China immerge as nations with very powerful military infrastructure and American military infrastructure in decline, the world has yet to see a unified Islamic Empire which the Islamic Antichrist will succeed in uniting under his war banner with the emblem of the crossed scimitars denoting Islam’s ideology of conquest by the sword.
We also know that Erdoğan agrees with the creed and ideology of the Muslim brotherhood which has a global agenda for an Islamic world ruled by Sharia law. The man from Turkey will curry favour with Russia especially having procured the Russian-made S-400 missile defence systems much to the chagrin of the United States. Added to this he is showing his favour towards Russia by allowing the Russian oligarchs to moor their million dollar yachts in Turkey and seeking Russian business investments.
Daniel tells us that the man of sin will, through cunning, cause deceit and subterfuge to prosper and become great in his own mind but when he has the upper hand, without warning, destroy many. His power will not be of human origin as we are also told in the Book of Daniel that he will be “a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences” (Daniel 8:23 KJV). In other words he will be a practitioner of the occult because Satan will have incarnated himself in this man. The Antichrist will rise to power but not by his own hand (Daniel 8:24). He is called “the son of perdition,” the same title given to Judas Iscariot of whom we are told that “Satan entered him” when Judas walked away from the light of the world and out into the darkness to betray the Lord Jesus (John 13:27) (Luke 22:3).
At present the world is being set up for the revealing of the man of sin, the son of perdition or the one doomed to destruction (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4). Israel and by extension the Body of the Messiah spiritually grafted into Israel, and all of the unbelieving Gentile nations are yet to be confronted by the Islamic Antichrist and his empire of global proportions. We also know that when the Antichrist ultimately opposes the Prince of all princes our Lord Jesus the Messiah, that this man of sin and his satanically empowered empire will be broken and that not by human hand but by the power of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords! (Daniel 8:25).
As we are told in the Word of God that this man of lawlessness (Torahlessness) doomed to destruction, who opposes and exults himself over everything that is called God or is worshipped, and who sets himself up in God’s temple proclaiming himself to be God, will be overthrown by the powerful breath (command) coming out of the Messiah’s mouth and destroyed by the splendour of His second coming accompanied by the armies of heaven! (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, 8) (Jude 1:14).
