Russia and The Last Days III

Members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

What is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)? It's a Eurasian political, economic and military organization that was founded in 2001. What's its purpose? To provide the eastern world with an effective counterpart to the European Union and NATO.

The SCO consists of 17 nations: Six members (China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan); five observer states (Afghanistan, India, Iran, Mongolia, Pakistan); three dialogue partners (Belarus, Sri Lanka, Turkey) and three guest attendees (ASEAN, CIS, Turkmenistan). 

What's so significant about the SCO? It's the progenitor of the coming eastern world power that the Bible identifies as Gog, Magog. (Ezekiel 38-39) 

Who are Gog and Magog? Gog is Russia and Magog will initially consist of Austria, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Poland and Slovakia. 

Eventually, the Russian alliance will grow to include Switzerland, France, Belgium, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and the United Kingdom. 

Some of these nations are current members of NATO. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) consists of 28 members and was formed in 1949 to defend the world against tyrants such as Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin who possessed visions of world supremacy. 

NATO was also created to provide a wedge against the old Soviet Union in order to prevent the Communist leviathan from spreading its influence across the globe. 

In response to NATO, the Soviet Union instituted the Warsaw Pact in 1955 to prevent NATO and the western world from encroaching into its territory. Thus, the Cold War waged between the west and the east until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world's police force has grown bored and lazy. Despite the threat that's risen from Islamic fundamentalism that seeks to export Islam across the world with the goal of establishing a global caliphate, many NATO members now refuse to take Islamic fundamentalism seriously.

As such, a growing portion of the western world is slowly and methodically succumbing to Islam. Many of the emerging nations in the eastern world have taken notice and want nothing to do with Islam. Russian president Vladimir Putin has emphatically stated that "we had better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Muslims are taking over those countries and they will not take over Russia." 

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But Russia is destined to take over Europe, the Middle East, much of Asia and Northern Africa. And when the Bear does, Islam will go away and for good.

And what will Russia replace Islam with? Orthodox Christianity that has its historical roots in the Roman Catholic Church. And the "Christianity" that Russia will impose over her empire will be similar to the Catholicism that was imposed by Rome over the Holy Roman Empire for nearly 1,000 years; very legalistic, paternalistic and authoritarian.

In other words, those who are citizens of the coming Russian empire will be given a choice to either convert to Christianity or go elsewhere. The end time global religion identified in the Bible isn't Islam. Rather, it's a counterfeit form of Christianity that forces everyone to worship the Antichrist as God.

And the Bible reveals that Gog and her military alliance Magog will attempt to invade Israel at some point in the future at an event the Bible identifies as Armageddon: "In the latter years you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered from many people on the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they were brought out of the nations, and now all of them dwell safely. You will ascend, coming like a storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all your troops and many peoples with you." (Ezekiel 38:8-9)

And then the Lord will return to rescue Israel and destroy Gog and Magog: "And it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of Israel," says the Lord God, "that My fury will show in My face. For in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken: Surely in that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel, so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at My presence. The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains," says the Lord God. "Every man’s sword will be against his brother. And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the Lord." (Ezekiel 38:18-23)

Indeed, the future belongs not to the west, but to Russia and her military alliance. The current economic sanctions against Russia won't last. And Russia will remember who tried to hurt her.

Thus, bad times are ahead for the west. And bad times are also ahead for the entire world when Gog and Magog rise to power.