"This is a time frame the bible refers to in Isaiah, Joel, Amos, and the possible war of Ezekiel Chp 38 and 39. EVERY Christian should have their eyes on the middle east, and watching the events unfold....these are key indicators of prophecy, and the return of Christ"

Michael Parker.

Summarized information about each country in unrest....deeper than anyone realizes

EGYPT

The military have been running the country since President Hosni Mubarak, in power for three decades, resigned on 11 February following weeks of protests in the capital, Cairo, and other cities.

They are meant to oversee the country's transition to a genuine democracy this summer and Essam Sharaf, a popular former transport minister who sided with the protesters, has been appointed caretaker prime minister.

While much of the country has returned to normal, the protesters have staged weekly Friday demonstrations in Cairo's Tahrir Square to keep pressure on the military to deliver a swift transition to democracy.

The opposition Muslim Brotherhood group is expected to do well in any free and fair election but fears of a lurch towards Islamist rule is the main worry for Western powers and Israel.

Much of the unrest was driven by poverty, rising prices, social exclusion and anger at corruption and personal enrichment among the political elite, as well as a demographic bulge of young people unable to find work.

Almost 400 people died and more than 6,000 were injured during the protests.

Jordan

 

Unrest has been simmering since January but while protesters have clashed with security forces, the country saw nothing like the deadly violence in Syria and Egypt until 25 March, when a man was killed in the capital, Amman.

Protesters have been demanding better employment prospects and cuts in food and fuel costs, as well as electoral reforms that would see the prime minister directly elected and more powers granted to parliament.

King Abdullah II has replaced his prime minister with Marouf al-Bakhit, a former general and ambassador to Israel, together with a new cabinet.

However, a powerful Islamist opposition group, the Islamic Action Front, has called for the dissolution of parliament and criticized the king's efforts to initiate reform.

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a small country with few natural resources, but it has played a pivotal role in the struggle for power in the Middle East.

Syria

Syria had remained relatively calm as unrest rocked neighboring countries.

In an attempt to prevent similar unrest, President Bashar al-Assad promised to push through political reforms. He inherited power from his father, Hafez, in 2000, after three decades of authoritarian rule.

But on 16 March, about 150 people defied a ban on protests and took to the streets of the capital, Damascus, demanding the release of political prisoners. Some 35 people were arrested, including, reports said, a 10-year-old boy.

Two days later, thousands of people attended "day of rage" rallies in several cities - Damascus, Homs, Banyas, and in Deraa, south of Damascus, where at least four people were killed.

Those deaths sparked violent unrest in the following days - protesters set fire to government buildings while police attempted to break up the crowds with tear gas and batons and by firing live rounds.

Less than a week later, on 23 March, at least 10 people were killed in clashes between security forces and protesters in Deraa, with the next day thousands of mourners attending the funerals of the victims.

In response, Syrian leaders pledged to introduce reforms to meet the demands of protesters, even promising to study the case for lifting the country's state of emergency that has been in place since 1963.

The government also said it would bring to trial those suspected of killing protesters in Deraa.

The president later ordered the release of everyone arrested during the "recent events".

Generally speaking, the protesters are demanding greater political freedom, an end to corruption, action on poverty and the end of emergency law, in place in Syria since 1963.

Following the death of Hafez al-Assad, Syria underwent a degree of relaxation. Hundreds of political prisoners were released. But the granting of real political freedoms and a shake-up of the state-dominated economy have not materialized.

Iran

 

Long-simmering unrest over the disputed 2009 presidential election boiled over again on 14 February.

Thousands of people heeded calls by the two main opposition leaders to rally in the capital Tehran in solidarity with pro-democracy protests across the Middle East.

Security forces cracked down on the protest. Two people were killed and many more injured. Further protests on 20 February and 1 March were also suppressed.

Supporters of the government have been calling for the opposition leaders, Mehdi Karoubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, to be executed. They have been placed under house arrest.

Iran's complex and unusual political system combines elements of a modern Islamic theocracy with democracy. Its President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is a hardliner who has vowed to put down any protests.

Iran's burgeoning nuclear program has long been regarded with suspicion in Israel and the West, as has its support for militant groups in the Middle East.

Bahrain

 

Unrest in the tiny island state has been making headlines because of its status as a key US ally, its previous image of stability and its unusual sectarian divide.

Predominantly Shia Muslim protesters have been demanding action to tackle economic hardship, the lack of political freedom and discrimination in jobs in favour of the governing Sunni Muslim minority.

For weeks, they occupied the centre of the capital Manama but King Hamad clamped down hard on 16 March, clearing the protesters' camp in a show of force condemned by the UN as "shocking".

He imposed a state of emergency and used hundreds of Saudi and UAE soldiers to beef up his security.

The monarchy has offered talks with representatives of the Shia community but it rejected key opposition demands such as the sacking of his prime minister, a fellow member of the ruling family.

Bahrain, home of the US Fifth Fleet, is unusual because, like Iraq, it is one of the few Arab states with a Shia majority and, as such, is seen as vulnerable to influence from Iran.

Oman

Unprecedented protests erupted at the beginning of March, with the deaths of several people.

The Gulf state, with its large and youthful population, had previously been regarded as stable.

It appears the protesters were not demanding radical political change but specific steps such as job creation and controls on food prices, as well as greater power for the semi-elected parliament and checks on corruption.

The oldest independent state in the Arab world, Oman has been ruled by Sultan Qaboos since he seized power from his father, Sultan Said bin Taimur, in 1970.

The oil-rich country is a popular tourist destination and a long-standing ally of the US and UK.

Yemen

 

Scores of people have been killed in violence between security forces and demonstrators since protests against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh began on 11 February.

Mr Saleh, in power for more than three decades, has announced he will not seek another term in office but his current mandate does not expire until 2013 while protesters demand he surrenders power immediately.

After at least 45 people were killed and 270 injured on 18 March, when protesters came under fire in the capital Sanaa, the president announced a national state of emergency.

A slew of ministers and ambassadors resigned following the 18 March shootings and Mr Saleh announced he was sacking the entire cabinet.

Both the US and France have condemned the mounting violence and urged the president to allow peaceful protest.

Yemen is the Arab world's most impoverished nation and, even before the current protests, it was becoming increasingly chaotic, with both al-Qaeda and separatist challenges to the government's authority.

Saudi Arabia

The challenge for the rulers of one of the region's wealthiest and most conservative nations has been to address pressure for reform while combating a growing problem of Islamist violence.

The kingdom, home to some of Islam's most sacred places, has seen no mass pro-democracy protests and opposition movements are banned.

However, there have been some small demonstrations by the Shia Muslim minority in solidarity with protesters in Bahrain.

King Abdullah, 82, is regarded in the Arab world as a supporter of wider Arab interests.

If the Saudis have played a role in the "Arab spring" at all, it has perhaps been to support fellow governments under pressure: Saudi soldiers were sent to Bahrain to help shore up the government and it was to Saudi Arabia that Tunisia's ousted leader, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, fled in January.

Libya

An uprising against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's rule on 16 February has developed into an armed conflict pitting rebels against government forces and drawing in a Nato-led coalition with a UN mandate to protect civilians.

At least several thousand people have been killed and many more have been injured as the two sides battle for control over territory.

The country's vital coastal cities are now roughly split between pro-Gaddafi forces controlling the capital Tripoli and the west, and rebels controlling Benghazi in the east.

Coalition operations have been largely confined to air attacks. These were initially aimed at imposing a no-fly zone but have latterly included strikes on government armored forces. The UN's Resolution 1973 authorizes "all necessary measures short of occupation".

In power since 1969, Col Gaddafi is the longest-serving ruler in Africa and the Middle East, and also one of the most autocratic. He and his allies face an International Criminal Court investigation into alleged crimes against humanity.

The UN believes at least 335,000 people have fled Libya since the beginning of the conflict, including at least 200,000 foreign nationals.

Tunisia

The downfall of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, who quit office in January after weeks of protests against poverty and corruption, inspired pro-democracy activists across the Arab world.

He was forced out of power after nearly a quarter of a century.

Public anger had been sparked by the suicide of a young, unemployed man, Mohamed Bouazizi, who set fire to himself on 17 December after officials had blocked his attempts to make a living selling vegetables.

Since the exit of Mr Ali, who later suffered a stroke, an interim government of technocrats has been set up pending elections on 24 July.

One key reform already enacted is the dissolution of the notorious political police and state security apparatus, which was blamed for many human rights abuses.

Algeria

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been under pressure to change the constitution and limit presidential terms after protests that have continued since January.

Strikes, opposition protests and riots have prompted concern among the ruling elite that the country may succumb to popular unrest.

Attempts by protesters to march through the capital, Algiers, have been broken up by huge numbers of riot police.

The trigger for the unrest appears to be mainly economic - in particular sharp increases in the price of food.

Algeria's government has considerable wealth from its oil and gas exports and is trying to tackle social and economic complaints with a huge public spending program

Mr Bouteflika has been president since 1999. He was re-elected for a third term in April 2009 after winning more than 90% of the vote.

Morocco

King Mohammed VI promised "comprehensive constitutional reform" in response to nationwide protests in February but unrest has continued.

Protesters want some of the king's powers to be handed over to a newly elected government.

While there have been deaths, notably when five people died at a bank that was set on fire, security forces appear to have made an effort to avoid violent confrontations.

The main opposition group has warned the "autocracy" will be swept away unless the government responds to the people's demands.

Morocco has been facing severe economic problems. It has announced an increase in state subsidies to try to counter commodity price rises.

Like Jordan, the country is a monarchy with strong support among sections of the public.

Obama or Iran? Who is behind the unrest in the Middle East.

The Obama administration finally sees it and Sec. Clinton commented on the fact that the Iran is behind much of the unrest and the recent uprising in the Middle East:

"We know that they are reaching out to the opposition in Bahrain," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. "We know that the Iranians are very much involved in the opposition movements in Yemen."

"They are doing everything they can to influence the outcomes in these places," Ms. Clinton said. "They are using Hizbullah to communicate with counterparts."

"They in turn communicate with counterparts in Egypt."

The administration has now realized and determined that Iran was and is behind the unrest in such countries as Bahrain, Egypt, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Officials also said that the Iranians were using Hizbullah and Hamas to destabilize Sunni regimes in Egypt as well as the Gulf.

Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Lebanon, Bahrain, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Libya and more. What is behind the turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa? The Western press continues to tell us that they are all seeking greater freedom but that is a very deceptive and naive view. In reality all of these nations have been in transition for some time with Muslim radical Islamists gaining ground and changing the entire picture of the Middle East

Last week I viewed some pictures on the internet of University graduation classes in Cairo of 1960, 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010. The transition was quite evident. In 1960 the women students were primarily in Western dress so also in 1980. By 1990 1/3 of the women were in traditional Muslim dress, in 2000 over half wore head coverings and by 2010 all of the women were fully covered in Muslim dress. The pictures demonstrate a transition in the Middle East towards Islamist fundamentalism like nothing else can. A gradual change that has been substantially ignored in the West.

A couple of weeks ago I also viewed some pictures of downtown Istanbul, Turkey from 20 years ago compared to today which also demonstrated this trend away from Western dress in a supposed ‘European’ capitol none-the-less towards traditional Muslim wear. In that time Turkey has transitioned from a modernist secular European leaning country which was a friend of Israel and a major American ally towards one which is now looking towards the east, linking up with Iran and Syria and talking about the rise of a new Islamist Caliphate.

Western intellectuals continue to talk about Islam as a ‘religion of peace’ that needs to be encouraged to go through some kind of moderate revival or ‘Reformation’ like Christianity went through. So many naively talk about this possibility and totally ignore the fact that Islam is in the midst of a revival all right -A fundamentalist radical revival that is affecting (actually infecting) nearly all Muslims around the world, even those in Western countries including America.

Just to get an idea how far removed from Western thinking many in the Middle East actually are, including those supposedly seeking freedom in Egypt: read the following:

“In Egypt, 82 percent want stoning for those who commit adultery; 77 percent would like to see whippings and hands cut off for robbery; and 84 percent favor the death penalty for any Muslim who changes his religion.

Asked if they supported “modernizers” or “Islamists” only 27 percent said modernizers while 59 percent said Islamists…”

Doesn’t sound like a push toward Western-style democracy to me but does seem to lend credence to my view that an Islamist revival is at the bottom of nearly all of the current changes, chaos, and turmoil in the Middle East.

By the way, I am not the only one saying this. Iranian President Ahmadinejad recently told European leaders that Islam was in the midst of a revival that would culminate in world-wide Muslim domination. He also said that the chaos in the Middle East was just the beginning and that the mythical  ‘12th Imam’ was behind the scenes controlling it all. Many do not realize that Iran controlled almost all of the middle east during the Persian Empire. This included Saudi Arabia. In a recent article just a few days ago April 3rd, 2011, Debka Files reported troops set up at the border of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, and Iran also set up troops and artillery along their border with Bahrain...military specialists are calling this a square off, and that war could be imminent between the two over control of Bahrain and it's oil. This is not getting much attention in the media as of yet, but will. We have also been told that US Marine Troops have landed in Libya, along with the CIA to try and locate it's leader. In addition,

After weeks of rising tension, Israel and Hamas have taken a step towards a full-blown military confrontation: Saturday, April 2, an Israeli air strike killed three senior Hamas Izz al-Din Qassam Brigades gunmen in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army spokesman said the operation pre-empted a major Palestinian terror-cum-kidnap campaign scheduled for Passover. Hamas warned Israel its "dangerous escalation" would have "consequences." debkafile's sources: The coming conflict will be influenced by the changing forces rising from current Arab unrest.

Then there is the chilling possibility according to some analysts that President Obama and secret service through Facebook and other social networks are behind the unrest calling for the demonstrations. This is all part of an elaborate plan to unify the Muslim world, bring all of the Arab nations under one Government control, and then launch a strike against Israel and take control of Jerusalem. Biblically, this is very true and feasible that these nations will come against Israel for the Holy Bible predicts such an incident. It is only a matter of time before the prophecy of these countries comes to pass, and that a strike on Israel is attempted. God will not allow the nation of Israel to be divided, nor will he allow any country to come against his people. They will know that Christ is their savior, and that Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. We challenge you to read the book of Isaiah, Amos, Joel, and Zechariah in the old testament. These prophecies are what is happening and what will continue to happen across the middle east until Christ returns.

Know this.....

Any nation that is involved in the dividing of the land of Israel, especially Jerusalem, God's judgment is already upon that land and people. This means the United States... Since its modern establishment, the state of Israel has been a hotbed of controversy. Jews and Palestinians have long battled over who should rightfully inhabit the land of Israel, a land promised to the Jews 4,000 years ago. In the Bible, the book of Genesis details the covenant God made with the descendants of Abraham.

"On that day, the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, 'to your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river of Euphrates.'" - Genesis 15:18.

For more than a decade, America has led attempts to settle that dispute, each time encouraging Israel to bring its covenant lands to the bargaining table, this time with the "Road Map" peace plan. Bible scholars say that may be a costly decision for the U.S. as America again stands at odds with God's covenant promise.

U.S. Consul General Jeffrey Feltman said, "What we need to do now is implement and focus on how we get the two sides back to a political process and towards the vision of a two-state solution: Israel and Palestine living side by side."

On April 30, 2003, America was positioned as the catalyst to jump-start the so-called "solution" to the Middle East crisis. As U.S.-backed Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas was sworn in, the "Road Map" peace plan was set in motion.

The very next day began the worst month of tornadoes in American history, more than 500 in a single month. Normally, 1,000 tornadoes hit the United States each year, but this year, in just eight days in May, 375 twisters ripped across the heartland of America.

While in Israel, Assistant Secretary of State William Burns told a group of left-wing activists that "common sense" would override the conservative and Christian viewpoints concerning the road map.

May 9, 2003, President Bush addressed students at the University of South Carolina. Bush called on the Palestinians to embrace the road to peace, and see the flag of Palestine raised over a free nation.

Hours later, tornadoes returned and Oklahoma City again became the bulls-eye for deadly twisters, reducing what was left of businesses and homes to splinters and bricks. The tornadoes of May devastated the Midwest with the third worst property damage in American history. Since then, the Road Map has endured a rocky road to June, coinciding with what may be America's most rain-drenched spring in history.

On the East Coast there have been less than 10 rainless weekends the entire year. And in the West, certain crop-eating pests are having their best year in six decades amid dry conditions.

In the early stages of the Road Map peace process, weather catastrophe and recent violence in Israel have competed for the headlines. That violence coupled with America's own battles at home are leading some to question the Road Map. Is there a connection between dividing the Holy Land and utter disruption? Some Bible scholars think so.

In the book of Joel, God warns against dividing the land of Israel. Joel 3:1-2 says, "...I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of my people and my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they have divided up my land."

Bill Koenig, author of Israel: The Blessing or the Curse, said, "We know for a fact that God gave this land, through the Abrahamic covenant, He gave the land of Israel to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their descendants, and this land is God's land."

Koenig said the U.S. should not consider such chaos a coincidence. "These are warning signals, these are warning judgements to America that this is My covenant land and it's not to be traded for promises of peace and security. This land is not to be parceled," he said.

In the last 12 years, the U.S. has stepped up its efforts to pressure Israel to give up her covenant lands, several times sharing the spotlight with major storms.

On October 30, 1991, in a meeting scheduled by the first President Bush, Israelis and Palestinians discussed ways to achieve peace in the Middle East. Opening talks focused on trading the lands of Israel for a peace agreement.

That same day, thousands of miles away, a powerful storm was brewing off the coast of Nova Scotia. On October 31st, what would be called "The Perfect Storm" smashed into New England, pummeling the President's Kennebunkport, Maine home with waves 30 feet high. It was a storm so rare that the weather patterns required to create it only happen once every 100 years.

August 23, 1992, Middle East peace talks resumed in Washington, D.C. The issue remained surrendering the biblical lands of Judea and Samaria in exchange for peace. Hundreds of miles south, Florida was the target of the worst natural disaster in American history. Hurricane Andrew tore through with an eye more than 30 miles wide and winds up to 178 miles per hour leaving a $32 billion disaster.

Koenig said, "The world leaders have attempted to parcel the covenant land, so as Israel's property and land is at risk, so is the property of the nation that's promoting the peace process. And I might add that the greater the pressure on Israel to give up this property, the greater the repercussions and the greater the following events that take place afterwards."

In the Bible, the prophet Zechariah warned the nations that would come against Jerusalem. "On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves," says Zechariah 12:3.

Koenig said, "We have the nations of the world right now siding with the Arabs and the Muslims that are focused on the covenant land, but we know God is standing with the nation of Israel."

Is America playing a dangerous game? As the Road Map peace process encounters resistance, the Bush administration's determination to see it through has escalated.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said, "We have a plan, we have the commitment of leaders and now we have to execute that plan, keep moving forward and not allow ourselves to be distracted or thrown off point, from the promise that's out there with the Road Map, by this surge of violence. We've got to punch our way through it."

But, up against biblical prophecies, Koenig said America is standing against the very Word of God and should expect major obstacles.

"I believe the Lord will allow these events to happen that disrupt the peace process," he said. "As long as you are going to have a terrorist infrastructure that's allowed to co-exist in the nation Israel, we're going to have a problem."

And with those same terrorist groups opposed to America's brand of peace, the future of the Road Map is dim. Israelis maintain they will be relentless to protect their country while all plans to split up the tiny nation may be curbed.

Koenig said, "God loves the nation of Israel. He still, to this day, loves this nation. He is in hot pursuit of the people of Israel. Through these events, we look at the tragedies and we look at the trials, but God's trying to wake up the world."

Flash Forward to 2011;  President Obama is the only President to make his first speech as President to Egypt..the first country to experience unrest, and the fall of it's government to the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood, a organization he denies to have any ties too (but we know better)...And we see in just a 90 day period, a complete riot of events taking place in all of the middle east among the young people where unemployment is in the 25% range, where food prices have soared, and where social unrest is at an all time high for what some call "democracy"
 

I implore you to watch and Pray. These are the events that the Bible has spoke of, that would take place just before the return of Christ. Pray for the nation of Israel. Pray for God's hand to protect them during this time of evil, and the unrest of Muslim nations gaining control through a hatred for Israel. We have very few precious moments left as a country. Reach out to your friends and loved ones. Tell them about Christ and beg them to come to salvation...it litterly is this close..even at the door.

The Kings of the East...Pakistan signs agreement with China for Troops to march against the west

April 1st. 2011

An apocalyptic report prepared by Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov for President and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Medvedev is warning today that the strategic military agreements signed this week between China and Pakistan signal that the “end game” between the East and West over the vital energy resources of the Middle East “has now begun.”

According to Minister Serdyukov, the most vital aspect of this new strategic agreement is the allowing by Pakistan for Chinese military forces to begin the“immediate use” of the Karakoram Highway which will allow China’s massive ground forces direct access to the Middle East and into direct confrontation with the West.

Important to note about the Karakoram Highway [aka China National Highway 314 and in Pakistan as N-35] is that it is the highest paved international road in the world stretching over 1,300 km (800 miles) without which China would have no direct access to the sub-continent.

Upon India’s learning about this new agreement it announced it would be spending $10 Billion to build 558 new roads along the Pakistan-Chinese border to ensure its own security, but which this report warns will not be completed soon enough to protect the West.

China’s “grand strategy” behind this new move, Minister Serdyukov’s report continues, is to join its ground forces with those of its air forces it has pre-placed in NATO member country Turkey, both of whom have been carrying out joint air defense exercises since last year much to the alarm of the United States and European Union.

Even more alarming to the West has been China’s air route for refueling its warplanes being readied for a Middle East war which include Pakistan, Iran and Turkey.

Minister Serdyukov further states in his report that China’s actions to protect its energy future based upon Middle East oil (of which it could not survive without) is its belief that the United States is about turn against Israel using the same type of United Nations maneuvering it used to launch attacks on Libya.

China’s fears are, apparently, being borne out as just hours ago, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands captured in previous wars  is “morally, politically unsustainable” and former speaker of the US House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, further warned this past week that the United States under President Obama is “dominated by a secular, anti-Christian and anti-Jewish elite.”

The critical importance of Israel in maintaining global peace, Minister Serdyukov continues, lies in fundamental Russian Military doctrines which adhere to a balance of forces where no nation can undertake an attack on another without both destroying themselves, a doctrine successfully implemented during the Cold War (1947-1991), which for nearly 70 years has averted another World War.

Upon the ending of the Cold War, Minister Serdyukov says, the United States “unleashed itself” and along with its allies under UN “control” began its first war against Iraq in 1991 and has continued to this day its unrelenting assault to gain the last remaining energy resources available to our world, nearly all of which are centered in the volatile Middle East.

Now at this point it is critical that the reader understand that the United States under both Bush and Obama have fundamentally changed the alliance of America from one of backing Israel and Sunni Arab nations to one backing Iran and Shiite Muslims. In our previous report “Obama Warned Is Preparing World ForReturn Of “The Moon God” we fore-echoed Gingrich’s warning about this titanic shift, but unlike the fearful elites in the US who know the truth, we detailed how Obama’s new ally is Iran.

To fully understand why America is abandoning Israel and its former Sunni Arab allies and turning its support to Shiite Muslims one has to first know the difference between these two factions of Islam.

Sunni Muslims are the largest branch of Islam comprising nearly 85% of the Muslim faithful while Shia Muslims comprise the other 15%.

Upon the death of the Prophet Muhammad (8 June 632) the Islamic faith split into these two factions with the majority Sunni’s instituting a caliphate [dominion of a caliph refers to the first system of government established in Islam] that began with Abu Bakr, but the Shiites following Muhammad’s cousin Ali who as a member of theAhl al-Bayt (the People of the House) was appointed to lead the Islamic faith by the decree of God.

Interesting to note is that the Christian faith suffered the exact type of schism as Islam did when the majority of its faithful began following the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church centered on the writings of Apostle Paul (who never met or knew Jesus) instead of the teachings of Jesus’ family led by his brother James.

Also like Sunni Islam, the Christian religion under the Roman Catholic Church centered its power on the establishment of governments designed to control every aspect of its adherent’s lives, a position strongly opposed by both Shiite Muslims under Ali, and his successors, and Christians being taught by James and his successors too.

The common thread connecting Shiite Muslims following Muhammad’s family blood-line through Ali, and the Christians following Jesus’s blood-line through his brother James, is one of the major Iranian Gnostic religions called Manichaeism that taught an elaborate cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness. Through an ongoing process which takes place in human history, light is gradually removed from the world of matter and returned to the world of light from which it came.

Before Muhammad, however, the Roman Catholic Church launched a centuries-long persecution against Manichaeism and the direct blood-line of Jesus culminating in the largest massacre in European history prior to World War II when on 22 July 1209 a crusader army came under the command, both spiritually and militarily, of the papal legate Arnaud-Amaury slaughtered over 20,000 men, women and children in the Languedoc region of France under his order  “Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.”—“Kill them all, the Lord will recognize His own.”

This slaughter of the last known Manichaeism (aka Catherism) stronghold in Europe destroyed the church of St Mary Magdalene named after Jesus’s most beloved disciple whom all of these believers knew to be his wife the originator of his blood-line, but who had been labeled by the Roman Catholic Church as a “whore.”

Most interesting to note about the Roman Catholic Church’s slaughter of the Manichaeism Christian’s is that they never found the massive treasures that they were known to have, or their most sacred works, and which even today the “legends” say were protected by the Order of the Knights Templar who were, likewise, ordered destroyed by Pope Clement V when in 1314 their “treachery” in protecting Jesus’s blood-line was discovered.

Meanwhile, while the Roman Catholic Church was destroying the last vestiges of Jesus’s blood-line the Prophet Muhammad was reviving Manichaeism throughout the Persian and Arab worlds, but as we had previously mentioned was thwarted in his ultimate goal of uniting mankind with the splintering of Islam between the Shiite and Sunni factions.

Not known to many Westerners about the Shia followers of the blood-line of Muhammad is their belief in what is called The Occultation that says the Mahdi will one day return alongside Jesus Christ and fill the world with justice.

Muslims believe that Jesus will return at a time close to the end of the world. The Qur’anic verse they allude to as an indicator to Jesus’ future return is as follows: “And (Jesus) shall be a Sign (for the coming of) the Hour (of Judgment): therefore have no doubt about the (Hour), but follow ye Me: this is a Straight Way.”[Qur'an 43:61]

According to Islamic tradition, Jesus’ descent will be in the midst of wars fought by the Mahdi, known in Islamic eschatology as the redeemer of Islam, against the al-Masīh ad-Dajjāl (“false messiah/anti-Christ”) and his followers.

Jesus will descend at the point of a white arcade, east of Damascus, dressed in yellow robes—his head anointed. He will then join the Mahdi in his war against the Dajjal. Jesus, considered in Islam as a Muslim and one of God’s messengers, will abide by the Islamic teachings. Eventually, Jesus will slay the Dajjal, and then everyone from the People of the Book (ahl al-kitāb, referring to Jews and Christians) will believe in him. Thus, there will be one community, that of Islam.

Sahih Bukhari Volume 3, Book 43, Number 656: Narrated Abu Huraira: “Allah’s Apostle said, “The Hour will not be established until the Son of Mary (i.e. Jesus) descends amongst you as a just ruler, he will break the cros