“But the court will convene, and his dominion will be taken away and completely destroyed forever.” (Daniel 7:26)
According to the History Website Online it stated; “The Armenian Genocide was a terrible atrocity committed against a Christian country by the Islamic Ottoman Turks. The Armenian genocide was the systematic killing and deportation of Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire. In 1915, during World War I, leaders of the Turkish government set in motion a plan to expel and massacre Armenians. By the early 1920s, when the massacres and deportations finally ended, between 600,000 and 1.5 million Armenians were dead, with many more forcibly removed from the country. Today, most historians call this event a genocide; a premeditated and systematic campaign to exterminate an entire people. However, the Turkish government still does not acknowledge the scope of these events.
The Armenian people have made their home in the Caucasus region of Eurasia for some 3,000 years. For some of that time, the kingdom of Armenia was an independent entity: At the beginning of the 4th century A.D., for instance, it became the first nation in the world to make Christianity its official religion. But for the most part, control of the region shifted from one empire to another. During the 15th century, Armenia was absorbed into the huge Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman rulers, like most of their subjects, were Muslim.
They permitted religious minorities like the Armenians to maintain some autonomy, but they also subjected Armenians, who they viewed as “infidels,” to unequal and unjust treatment. Christians had to pay higher taxes than Muslims, for example, and they had very few political and legal rights. In spite of these obstacles, the Armenian community thrived under Ottoman rule. They tended to be better educated and wealthier than their Turkish neighbours, who in turn grew to resent their success.
This resentment was compounded by suspicions that the Christian Armenians would be more loyal to Christian governments (that of the Russians, for example, who shared an unstable border with Turkey) than they were to the Ottoman caliphate. These suspicions grew more acute as the Ottoman Empire crumbled. At the end of the 19th century, the despotic Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid II – obsessed with loyalty above all, and infuriated by the nascent Armenian campaign to win basic civil rights – declared that he would solve the “Armenian question” once and for all. “I will soon settle those Armenians,” he told a reporter in 1890. “I will give them a box on the ear which will make them…relinquish their revolutionary ambitions.”
Between 1894 and 1896, this “box on the ear” took the form of a state-sanctioned pogrom. In response to large scale protests by Armenians, Turkish military officials, soldiers and ordinary men sacked Armenian villages and cities and massacred their citizens. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians were murdered. On April 24, 1915, the Armenian genocide really began. That day, the Turkish government arrested and executed several hundred Armenian intellectuals. After that, ordinary Armenians were turned out of their homes and sent on death marches through the Mesopotamian desert without food or water.
Frequently, the marchers were stripped naked and forced to walk under the scorching sun until they dropped dead. People who stopped to rest were shot. At the same time, the Young Turks created a “Special Organization,” which in turn organized “killing squads” or “butcher battalions” to carry out, as one officer put it, “the liquidation of the Christian elements.” These killing squads were often made up of murderers and other ex-convicts. They drowned people in rivers, threw them off cliffs, crucified them and burned them alive. In short order, the Turkish countryside was littered with Armenian corpses.
Records show that during this “Turkification” campaign, government squads also kidnapped children, converted them to Islam and gave them to Turkish families. In some places, they raped women and forced them to join Turkish “harems” or serve as slaves. Muslim families moved into the homes of deported Armenians and seized their property. Though reports vary, most sources agree that there were about 2 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the time of the massacre. In 1922, when the genocide was over, there were just 388,000 Armenians remaining in the Ottoman Empire.
Armenia today is a small region that lies within the Turkic speaking country of Azerbaijan, previously part of the former Soviet Union on its southern border and one of the Muslim countries surrounding Armenia. This past Sunday another war erupted again between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Turkey has backed Azerbaijan. The ethnic Armenian majority in the region fought a bloody war of secession from Azerbaijan as the Soviet Union fell apart three decades ago. A tense cease-fire that produced no lasting peace has since kept tensions high in the Caucasus, an area where Russia, Turkey and Iran have historically competed. Now a conflagration has erupted once again.
According to a report in NPR Online it stated; “Turkey’s relations with Armenia are clouded by the Ottoman Empire’s 1915 mass killing of Armenians, which many historians have described as genocide. Turks and Azeris share ethnic and linguistic kinship, and ties between neighbours Turkey and Armenia have been frozen because of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. “Turkey continues to stand with the friendly and brotherly Azerbaijan with all its facilities and heart,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said this past Monday, blaming Armenia for the renewed fighting. The Armenian Foreign Affairs Ministry claims Azerbaijan is receiving “large-scale military-political support from Turkey” in the form of advisers and weapons, including drones. The ministry says the people of Nagorno-Karabakh, known as Artsakh in Armenian, are fighting a “Turkish-Azerbaijani alliance.”
When you look at the big picture it is clear that the man from Turkey wants the entire region to become part of his resurrected Turkish Ottoman Empire. He, like his Ottoman predecessors before him, will stop at nothing to achieve a united caliphate and exterminate all Christian resistance. This is what is behind this war. In fact it will be tantamount to Turkish Tyranny! When you look at a map of the Middle-east Armenia is surrounded by Islamic countries. The man from Turkey might also try to get Afghanistan and Pakistan on board for the future caliphate. Iran will follow the Turkish caliph as they are waiting on the arrival of the Mahdi and Erdogan knows it. The world cannot really see what is taking place in the unseen spiritual world. The Biblical ‘Prophetic’ focus is not on Europe but the Middle-East. Russia, being Christian orthodox at its roots, supports Armenia for now but is playing both sides of the fence. Armenia cannot rely upon Russian intervention unless there is something in it for Russia. In the end more than likely Russia will not intervene if Armenia falls to the Turkish-Azerbaijani alliance and whether this happens remains to be seen.
When you look at the Islamic countries in the whole region around Armenia Russia could not stand against a field of 200 million soldiers armed to the teeth and who are remorseless killers for Allah especially when you consider the next generation already in their teens and hot to trot for Allah’s cause. Millions of young minds throughout the entire Muslim world will have been indoctrinated from day one in Islamic ideology and militancy. When the vast army headed up by Turkey “invades the Holy land” (Israel) no one will be able to stop them. Israel will be overrun according to scripture and only after three and a half years of Islamic despotic occupation will the Lord Jesus intervene and rescue the surviving Jews, liberate Jerusalem, destroy all of the armies arrayed against Israel, and set up His Millennial kingdom on earth. As believers we will also be part of this Messianic kingdom. To this the prophets testify!
In a nutshell, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wants to finish the Armenian genocide started by his Turkish Ottoman forbears so that the whole region can become part of his revived Turkish Ottoman Caliphate and eventually get rid of the Christians. If he is indeed “the King who exults and magnifies himself above every god and says unheard-of things against the God of gods,” he will succeed for a short time until the court of heaven will convene, and his dominion will be taken away and completely destroyed forever.” At the Zenith of his despotic rule his power will be completely and utterly broken and his empire smashed to pieces, not by human hands, but by the ‘huge rock’ of the Messianic Kingdom when it is established on earth. The Messiah Himself will co-reigns with all of His saints from Jerusalem! (Daniel 2:34-35, 44-45) At this time the saints will inherit the Kingdom! (Daniel 7:18, 22, 26-27) It will see Turkish Tyranny terminated!
