DR. MLK: AMERICA'S PORKING PREACHER FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

Martin Luther King Cheated On His Wife & Other Lesser-Known Facts About The Civil Rights Leader For MLK Day

By  Jeff Stone 

 THE  MLK MARXIST TROJAN HORSE  WA. DC

 hare on facebookShare onore Sharing One of the easiest things to forget about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is that he was just a person. One of the most influential people of the 20th century, no doubt, but a person with unique flaws and quirks that made him different from the Christ-like figure he’s often portrayed as today.

At the time of King’s assassination on April 4, 1968, he was still the personification of the civil rights movement in the United States. But those near him said he appeared to have lost a step, in part because of conflicts in his inner circle of advisers and a growing estrangement from his former ally President Lyndon B. Johnson over the Vietnam War.

Five years after his famous “I Have A Dream” speech, though, and 40 years before the first African-American  became president, King stepped onto the balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennesse.

When racist assassin James Earl Ray aimed his rifle sight at King, he almost certainly saw the civil rights leader doing something King's children never saw him doing: smoking. King was a lifelong smoker, although very few – if any – pictures exist as proof because he never smoked in public. King didn’t want his family to know about the habit.

After King was shot, his advisers stopped the bleeding while one of them, Dr. Billy Kyles, removed a pack of cigarettes from King’s pocket. The Kennedy brothers allowed FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to wiretap King.
In July 1963, one month before King’s March on Washington, Hoover personally convinced Attorney General Robert Kennedy – brother of the president – to let the FBI install listening devices in King’s home, office and phone lines. Hoover created the FBI in his own image decades before, and by the 1960s Hoover had become paranoid and bitter.

  King was a serial adulterer. While the ethical reasons for the FBI’s monitoring of King were murky (at best), the recordings do make up much of what we now know about the man’s personal life. King had engaged in so many extramarital affairs that his wife, Coretta Scott King, had reportedly become disillusioned with their marriage.

FBI monitoring devices recorded audio of King during a tryst at a Washington, D.C., hotel, eventually sending the tape to Mrs. King in an effort to discredit him in his own home. King even spent the last night of his life with a woman who was not his wife. In the chaos outside the Lorraine Motel, his advisers told the young woman to stay out of the ambulance to avoid tarnishing his legacy.

(As the movie “Selma” is hitting theaters, the film will re-open old wounds not just about the civil rights struggle, but about the character of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. One of the deepest wounds is that of Senator Georgia Davis Powers—the woman who says she shared the dream with King and his bed.

Kentucky State Senator Georgia Davis Powers says she had a long-time love affair with Dr. King, Jr. She wrote in her autobiography that she spent the night with Dr. King his last night at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where he was assassinated the next morning.

In her book “I Shared the Dream”, Powers wrote, “When they put Dr. King into the ambulance, I instinctively began climbing in to go with him.” She continues describing the scene, writing, “Andy Young gently pulled me back. ‘No, Senator,’ he said. ‘I don’t think you want to do that.’ ” When asked about the incident, Andrew Young says that he doesn’t remember).

They met in 1964 on one of his visits to Kentucky, when she was assigned to greet him at the airport. It is not really clear why she began the affair, she says, except she was entering midlife and feeling unattractive, and he asked to see her.

" Their affair was an open secret in his inner circle. She was in Memphis on the April evening in 1968 when he was assassinated. He had asked her to come. She was fixing her hair in front of the dresser mirror in her motel room when she heard the shot on the balcony. She ran out and saw him "lying in a pool of blood that was widening as I stood there staring."

Much of the world looked on that day in horror, and millions of Americans could say that they, like Ms. Powers, "shared the dream." Her book could just as easily have been called "I Shared the Dreamer." From the cover photograph of a fedora-topped King marching ahead of Ms. Powers to the scenes of furtive meetings in hotel rooms to her account of his assassination in Memphis, his fame and prominence overshadow her story.

SOME may see her book as the anthem of a liberated mistress. After all, she had her own career, she was not pining away for her man -- she did not hold such proprietary views. If he called, she came. They caught up on each other's lives, had warm, tender moments, then went their separate ways until the next time. Yes, she suffered the indignities of being the other woman. When King was shot, she began to climb into the ambulance with him until Andrew Young, a King lieutenant, said: "No, senator. I don't think you want to do that." But, reading her words, one gets the sense that she knew precisely what she was doing and has few regrets. She wrote the book, she says in the prologue, to set the record straight, believing the Government has distorted her role both in King's life and in the movement.

REV: Ralph David Abernathy( MLK'S RIGHT HAND MAN OF THE SCLC) did acknowledge in his 1989 autobiography, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, (1989 autobiography) that Martin Luther King engaged in extramarital affairs (evidence of which was sometimes recorded by the FBI through hotel room bugs), but he said absolutely nothing in his book about King’s supposed “obsession with white prostitutes,” King’s using “church donations to have drunken sex parties,” or King’s hiring “white prostitutes and occasionally beating them brutally.” In fact, Abernathy stated quite emphatically that he never knew King to have any sexual involvement with white women at all:

Much has been written in recent years about my friend’s weakness for women. Had others not dealt with the matter in such detail, I might have avoided any commentary. Unfortunately, some of these commentators have told only the bare facts without suggesting the reasons why Martin might have indulged in such behavior. They have also left a false impression about the range of his activities.
Martin and I were away more often than we were at home; and while this was no excuse for extramarital relations/affairs, it was a reason. Some men are better able to bear such deprivations than others, though all of us in SCLC headquarters had our weak moments. We all understood and believed in the biblical prohibition against sex outside of marriage. It was just that he had a particularly difficult time with that temptation.
In addition to his personal vulnerability, he was also a man who attracted women, even when he didn’t intend to, and attracted them in droves. Part of his appeal was his predominant role in the black community and part of it was personal. During the last ten years of his life, Martin Luther King was the most important black man in America. That fact alone endowed him with an aura of power and greatness that women found very appealing. He was a hero — the greatest hero of his age — and women are always attracted to a hero.
But he also had a personal charm that ingratiated him with members of the opposite sex. He was always gracious and courteous to women, whether they were attractive to him or not. He had perfect manners. He was well educated. He was warm and friendly. He could make them laugh. He was good company, something that cannot always be said of heroes. These qualities made him even more attractive in close proximity than he was at a distance.
Then, too, Martin’s own love of women was apparent in ways that could not be easily pinpointed — but which women clearly sensed, even from afar. I remember on more than one occasion sitting on a stage and having Martin turn to me to say, “Do you see that woman giving me the eye, the one in the red dress?” I wouldn’t be able to pick her out at such a distance, but already she had somehow conveyed to him her attraction and he in turn had responded to it. Later I would see them talking together, as if they had known one another forever. I was always a little bewildered at how strongly and unerringly this mutual attraction operated.

A recent biography has suggested without quite saying so that Martin had affairs with white women as well as black. Such a suggestion is without foundation. I can say with the greatest confidence that he was never attracted to white women and had nothing to do with them, despite the opportunities that may have presented themselves.
Of course, J. Edgar Hoover became preoccupied with Martin’s private life early in the civil rights movement, and this preoccupation was a significant factor in Hoover’s pathological hatred of him and the movement he headed. Early in the game the FBI began to bug our various hotel rooms, hoping to discover our strategy but also to gather evidence that could be used against Martin personally.
I remember in particular a stay at the Willard Hotel in Washington, where they not only put in audio receivers, but video equipment as well. Then, after collecting enough of this “evidence” to be useful, they began to distribute it to reporters, law officers, and other people in a position to hurt us. Finally, when no one would do Hoover’s dirty work for him, someone in the FBI put together a tape of highly intimate moments and sent them to Martin. Unfortunately — and perhaps this was deliberate — [his wife] Coretta received the tape and played it first. But such accusations never seemed to touch her. She rose above all the petty attempts to damage their marriage by refusing to even entertain such thoughts.

“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.” (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
I Shared the Dream : MARCH 1995
 
 More Martin Luther King affair with Georgia Davis Powers  on this link:

Having concluded that King was dangerous due to communist infiltration, the FBI attempted to discredit King through revelations regarding his private life. FBI surveillance of King, some of it since made public, attempted to demonstrate that he also engaged in numerous extramarital affairs.^[288] Lyndon Johnson once said that King was a "hypocritical preacher."^[301]

In his 1986 book Bearing the Cross, David Garrow wrote about a number of extramarital affairs, including one woman King saw almost daily. According to Garrow, "that relationship ... increasingly became the emotional centerpiece of King's life, but it did not eliminate the incidental couplings ... of King's travels." He alleged that King explained his extramarital affairs as "a form of anxiety reduction." Garrow asserted that King's supposed promiscuity caused him "painful and at times overwhelming guilt."^[304] King's wife Coretta appeared to have accepted his affairs with equanimity, saying once that "all that other business just doesn't have a place in the very high level relationship we enjoyed."^[305] 

The FBI distributed reports regarding such affairs to the executive branch, friendly reporters, potential coalition partners and funding sources of the SCLC, and King's family.^[307] The bureau also sent anonymous letters to King threatening to reveal information if he did not cease his civil rights work.^[308] The FBI–King suicide letter sent to King just before he received the Nobel Peace Prize read, in part:

The American public, the church organizations that have been helping—Protestants, Catholics and Jews will know you for what you are—an evil beast. So will others who have backed you. You are done. King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. You have just 34 days in which to do (this exact number has been selected for a specific reason, it has definite practical significant [sic]). You are done. There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy fraudulent self is bared to the nation.^[310]

The letter was accompanied by a tape recording—excerpted from FBI wiretaps—of several of King's extramarital liaisons.^[311] King interpreted this package as an attempt to drive him to suicide,^[312] although William Sullivan, head of the Domestic Intelligence Division at the time, argued that it may have only been intended to "convince Dr. King to resign from the SCLC."^[283] King refused to give in to the FBI's threats.^[288]

In 1977, Judge John Lewis Smith Jr. ordered all known copies of the recorded audiotapes and written transcripts resulting from the FBI's electronic surveillance of King between 1963 and 1968 to be held in the National Archives and sealed from public access until 2027.

SOME FINAL THOUGHTS
There is a 20 page FBI dossier in which the last two pages focus on King’s sexual activities, including relentless adultery, conceiving a child out of wedlock, and sex perversions, among them orgies both heterosexual and homosexual. 
MLK had an illicit love affair with the wife of a prominent negro dentist from Los Angeles, CA. since 1962. MLK fathered a baby girl from this woman inasmuch as her husband is allegedly sterile. 
Michael Hoffman, American author and an authority on the Jewish Babylonian Talmud, wrote on November 5, 2017: “Martin Luther King was assassinated by his own handlers in 1968. He had become a liability as his sexual appetite increasingly entailed orchestrating group sex acts that were difficult to conceal. Meanwhile the nation was enduring escalating street violence on the part of his non-violent followers. The Cryptocracy that directed the Civil Rights revolution, King was worth more as a dead martyr than as a highly compromise hypocrite.”

JFK Files Just Dropped a BOMBSHELL About Martin Luther King 

SEX PEDDLING JEWS BY NATHANIEL KAPNER

SEX PEDDLING JEWS

JEWS ARE PEDDLING sex around the globe. The hub for the trafficking of Jewish-sponsored prostitution is the Zionist State of Israel which the Evangelicals say is a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy!

“Israel has become a routine destination for the global trafficking of women and girls as young as 12 years old,” noted Leonard Fein in Jewish News Weekly @ Israel’s Prostitution Hub And See: JEWISH TRIBUNE’S Report On Jewish Sex Slavery

Amnesty International, in its 2005 Report on Discrimination Against Women in Israel says:

——- “In the wake of large scale immigration to Israel, links between prostitution traffickers in Israel and former Soviet republics. Some 3,000 to 5,000 women are brought annually into Israel and forced to work as sex workers.” ——-

WORLD-WIDE JEWISH SEX PEDDLING

FOR THE LAST 125 years Jews have also controlled organized prostitution in Europe, the United States, and South America.

Jewish historian Edward Bristow, in his book Prostitution and Prejudice: the Jewish Fight against White Slavery, says:

——- “In Eastern and Central Europe, Jews dominated the international prostitution traffic that networked to North and South America, to India, Greece, and Europe. Jewish pimps preyed mostly on non-Jewish women. Many of the Jewish underworld figures saw no gap between their prostitution trafficking and their religious lives. A Warsaw thug, Shlomo Letzsky, organized a synagogue for Jewish madams, and pimps. This criminal community even had a rabbinical court to settle disputes between pimps.” ——-

In America, the Jew Reuben Sturman was a multi-million dollar pornographer operating out of a dark and dingy warehouse in Cleveland Ohio. Sturman was making around $300 million per year when he died (and went to hell) in 1997.

The Jew-writer Eric Schlosser praised pornographer Sturman in aUS News & World Report (owned by Jew Mortimer Zuckerman), eulogy upon Sturman’s death: “Sturman was a marketing genius whose intelligence and boundless self-confidence were responsible for his successes.” Well what more can we expect from these wretched Jews who stick together in their slime?

HOLLYWOOD’S SEX-PEDDLING JEWS

HOLLYWOOD JEWS OWN the foremost movie production companies that spew out sex and Anti Christian filth:

1. Universal Studios/MCA: Edgar Bronfman Jr., Owner of Seagram Liquor Co; President of the World Jewish Congress.
2. Paramount Pictures: Sherry Lansing, Chairman.
3.Warner Bros: Warren Lieberford, President.
4. Miramax Films: Harvey Weinstein, CEO
5. Columbia Pictures: Amy Pascal (Changed Her Jewish Last Name); Produced Bad Boys & Da Vinci Code
6. Turner Entertainment: Brad Siegal, President.
7. Dream Works: Steven Spielberg, Jerry Katzenberg, David Geffen.
8. New World Entertainment: Ronald Perlman; Owner of Revlon.

THE HOLLYWOOD JEW as listed above, spews out an endless series of perverted films to debase and degenerate the youth of America & Europe.

The message of the Hollywood Jew is the “heroism” of theisolated individual, stateless and rootless, outside of society and family, whose life is the pursuit of erotic pleasure. It is not the normal and healthy love of man and wife bound together by many children that the Hollywood Jew preaches, but a diseased erotic-for-its-own-sake, the sexual love of two grains of human sand, superficial and impermanent.

The Hollywood Jew cares nothing for the highest of Christian values, namely, marriage, honour, duty, patriotism, discipline, dedication of self to a higher aim. The Hollywood Jew distorts the God-created sexual life. The Hollywood Jew has created instead, “eroto-mania” which obsesses its millions of youthful victims throughout America and Europe.

SEX-PEDDLING JEWS MUST BE STOPPED

HOW DO WE stop the sex-peddling Jews? We must first commit our own lives to Jesus Christ ourselves and regular Church attendance.

Then we must insist that Jews no longer remain a “nation within a nation” but become Christians and join the “brotherhood of man” in the Mystical Body of Christ. Then we need to teach the Jews basic moral and ethical conduct.

Hopefully, this will save the Jews from the coming backlash against them which history shows is inevitable. For time and time again - when the Jews showed themselves to be a cancer in society, as they are now, the host nations struck back!

Brother Nathanael…Street Evangelist!

If Israel could do this to a young American Jew, imagine what Palestinia...

The true face of the supposed "only democracy in the Middle East". A young American Jew quietly and calmly voices his opposition to Israel's policies towards the Palestinians, both in the occupied territories and in Israel itself, and is attacked by the Israeli police, who drag him along the road face down and throw him into a police van.

American jewish boy roughly man handled and arrested in Jerusalem for sticking up for the Palestinians during jewish march.

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Police violently arresting a Jewish teenager in Jerusalem for speaking the truth and charged him for "attacking and biting a police officer" !!! For one American Jewish teenager, this year's Jerusalem Day earlier this month turned out to be an event not to remember, as he was detained for two days on suspicion of attacking and biting a police officer.

"Lucas," a 19 year-old from Philadelphia, cut a rather different figure in the Jerusalem Day flag parade in the capital. Like many participants in the event, he wore a skullcap on his head; unlike the others, however, a Palestinian flag and a keffiyeh were also part of his outfit.
The youth, who arrived in Israel as part of a trip arranged by a Jewish-Christian group, claims he was attacked by a policeman during the celebrations.

The parade turned ugly this year when a small group of participants walked through East Jerusalem, and the Old City's Muslim Quarter, chanting "death to Arabs." Lucas, with a few comrades, stood opposite these demonstrators, and shouted out slogans in support of ending Israel's occupation of the territories. He says that dozens of Palestinians gathered behind him, and formed a spontaneous protest.

In a videotape, Lucas can be seen refusing to give policemen his passport, after he was apparently identified as the leader of the protest. After a few minutes, in the clip, a police officer is seen dragging Lucas forcibly into a police car, "Israel is occupying the Palestinian people in my name, in the name of world Jewry," Lucas, clutching his American passport, tells the camera. "And I myself, an American Jew, is here to say that is completely unjustified and ethically reprehensible.

"And we, world Jewry and all people of the world, will not stop until this occupation ends and until the Palestinian people have their right - the right of return, the right to live without occupation, and equal rights within Israel. That is why we are here."

Israel Police claims the young man attacked and bit an officer - however, the video does not show Lucas provoking any officers. It shows a group of policemen forcing him to the ground and handcuffing him; as a result, he required medical treatment afterward.
For his part, Lucas adamantly denies that he attacked a police officer.

"I didn't bite anyone," he says. "The police officer showed me his cuts [later], but they were caused by a sharp instrument, and there weren't any bite marks."

Lucas was held in detention for two days. The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court denied a police request to extend his remand; at the advice of his lawyer and family, the youth left the country after being released.


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Babylon the Great & The Caliph Antichrist

The Revived Islamic Empire Of The Antichrist

 BY JOEL RICHARDSON

While the information that we have covered thus far is certainly quite interesting, ultimately, if Islam is indeed the primary vehicle that Satan will use to fulfill his final rebellion against God, it is the Bible that must be the primary litmus test.  What does the Bible say about the nature and the make-up of the Antichrist’s empire?

The Bible is abounding with proofs that the Antichrist Empire will consist only of nations that are today, all Islamic. If one were to do a thorough study of all of the various examples of such from the various Hebrew prophets, it would require an extensive study.   But for brevity and our purposes here, we will present a limited argument based on some portions of Scripture from the Book of Ezekiel and the Book of Revelation. Despite the numerous and prevailing arguments made for the future emergence of a revived European Roman Empire as the Antichrist’s power base, we will see quite clearly that today, all of the specific nations that the Bible mentions that will make up the Antichrist Empire are all Muslim nations.  Pretty simple.  This fact leaves us with only a couple of options.  The first option is to assume that before the coming of the Antichrist, most of these Islamic nations will experience significant transformation and leave their Islamic roots behind.  There are problems with this option:  While there are ample reports of individual Muslims coming to follow Jesus from throughout the Muslim world, there are really no concrete signs of any of these nations abandoning their Islamic roots on a larger scale.  In fact, many of the nations that we will look at are presently seeing a resurgence of Islamic Fundamentalism sweeping throughout their lands.  Nevertheless, I have heard Bible teachers for years express that before the coming of the last-days, Islam as a religion would basically fizzle out and become entirely irrelevant.  The present reality – long term statistical trends – simply do not bear this out. 

The other option is really far more reasonable, which is to simply conclude that indeed, the future Antichrist Empire will be an Islamic empire.  This one fact alone, that of the Islamic dominance of all of the participant nations in the Antichrist Empire should be enough to make most Bible scholars and students of eschatology at least consider the role of Islam in the last-days very seriously.

In this chapter we will examine exactly which modern nations the Bible says will be the primary players in the last-days empire of the Antichrist. 

Ezekiel’s Identification

The Prophet Ezekiel actually lists the nations of this final empire quite specifically as he prophesies the future attack of the Antichrist Empire against Israel.  In the thirty-eighth chapter of his book, Ezekiel begins by directly addressing the Antichrist whom the Lord refers to by the unusual name of “Gog.”  The name Gog is a specific title particular to a ruler from the land of Magog.  It could be likened to the Pharaoh and Egypt.  Pharaoh is an ancient title particular to rulers of Egypt, and “Gog” was a title particular to the land of Magog.

The word of the LORD came to me: "Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; prophesy against him and say: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.  I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army-your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords.  Persia, Cush and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets, also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops-the many nations with you."  'Get ready; be prepared, you and all the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them.   Ezekiel 38:1-7

I encourage you to open your Bible and read through all of Ezekiel 38 slowly.  The specificity in which Ezekiel describes modern day Israel is quite astonishing.  Prophesying to the Antichrist, Ezekiel says, “In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate.”  Israel is described as, “the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods.”  Clearly Ezekiel was describing the Israel of today. 

So Ezekiel gives us the specific names of countries that will be involved in the invasion of Israel which will be led by Gog.  Listed in order, they are Magog, Meschech, Tubal, Persia, Cush, Put, Gomer and Beth Togormah, as well as “many nations with you.”

Is Gog Antichrist?

There is a divergence of opinion among prophecy teachers and Bible scholars regarding the identification of Gog and his coalition of nations.  The majority position for the past few decades however, is that the invading army of nations described in Ezekiel 38-39 is not the army of Antichrist, but of another army led by another world leader.  I personally reject the idea that Gog is anyone other than Antichrist.  While a smaller book could be written examining all of the various reasons why this is so, for now, we will only very briefly examine two of the primary reasons why I think this is untenable.

Thou Shalt Have No Other Gog

There are two specific mentions of Gog and Magag in the Bible.  Gog is mentioned not only in Ezekiel but also in the Book of Revelation.  Let’s look at the passage from Revelation:

When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth--Gog and Magog--to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore.  They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city he loves.  But fire came down from heaven and devoured them.  And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown.  They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.  Revelation 20:7-10

Even after the earthly thousand-year reign of Christ from Jerusalem, the Bible says that yet another army will form to attack the holy city of Jerusalem.  Again, the leader of this army is called Gog and his army, Magog.  Those who take the position that Gog is not the Antichrist must wrestle through the fact that this “Gog” and his armies are resurrected so to speak at least a thousand years after the first Gog.  This is a difficulty.  Obviously, the first “Gog and Magog” shares more than a mere name with the second “Gog and Magog.”  There is a correlation between the two that extends beyond this very unusual title.  Those who see Gog and the Antichrist as two separate entities must be able to explain just what similarities the Gog of Ezekiel and the Gog of Revelation bear that merits them both carrying the same name.

 

Actually, in order to estimate who Gog is, all one must really do is take a look at who Antichrist is.  Antichrist, quite simply, is the devil incarnate - or at least the closet thing to it.  There are actually passages of Scripture that shift from speaking of Satan to speaking of the Antichrist seamlessly as if they are one and the same. (See for instance Isaiah 14)  And as we have seen, Satan will even share his worship with Antichrist.  Simply stated, Antichrist is Satan’s puppet that he will use to attack Jerusalem.  And at least in the Book of Revelation, Gog is also Satan’s puppet that will serve the very same purpose.  In terms of both role and function, Antichrist and the Gog of Revelation are essentially the same.  Even as Satan will raise up a man to carry out his work in the days to come, so will Satan also raise up a man to carry out his final rebellion against God one more time at the end of the Millennium.  Both times, the leader of Satan’s rebellion against Jerusalem is referred to as Gog and his army is called Magog.  Why should we view the basic nature of the first Gog as being any different than the second?  Those who view Ezekiel’s Gog as a competitor to Antichrist find themselves taking a very inconsistent position.

But if you are not yet sure, consider this second point.  Ezekiel says specifically of Gog that the prophets spoke of Him in times past:

This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Are you not the one I spoke of in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel?  At that time they prophesied for years that I would bring you against them.  Ezekiel 38:17

The question must be asked then, if Gog and Magog are spoken of by Israel’s former Prophets prior to Ezekiel, then where are all of these references?  One will be very hard pressed to find any unless one does some serious stretching of the Scriptures.  But if we take the position that Gog is Antichrist, then it is very easy to find numerous passages about Antichrist and his invading Army throughout the prophets.

While there are several more very good arguments to support this view, I will assume that this is enough to move on.  Gog and the Antichrist are one and the same.  Now let’s take a look at which specific nations will make up Gog’s coalition. 

Rosh?

Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of  Meshech and Tubal; prophesy against him…  Ezekiel 38:2

Some Bible translations differ on how to interpret the portion of this verse that says, “the chief prince of.”  In Hebrew, the word translated as “chief prince” is “rosh.”  The problem is that while rosh most probably means “prince,” or “head,” some argue that it should be treated as a proper noun, referring to the name of a place.  Those who feel as though it is a place, use the word “Rosh” to find Russia here as one of the nations.  The basis for doing so of course is due primarily to the similar sound of the two words.  This opinion is also supported by the fact that Ezekiel specifically says that Gog would come from the North.  While indeed, Russia is perfectly north of Israel, the actual interpretation of the word Rosh however is based on a bogus principle.  One cannot simply take a word from an ancient Semitic language (in this case, Hebrew) and find a correlation to a modern name from a drastically different language (in this case an early form of Scandinavian) simply because the two words “sound the same.” 

The Hebrew word “rosh” is used well over five hundred other times in the Bible and is each time interpreted as meaning “head, chief, top, best” or something similar.  It is the same Rosh that we find in Rosh Hashana – “The Chief day of the Year” - the Jewish New Year.  Also, consider this: of the eight nations mentioned, all except one are grandsons of Noah.  The other is Persia.  Persia however was a very well known nation in Ezekiel’s day having formerly been the head of the Medo-Persian Empire that ruled the entire Middle East.  Now juxtapose this to Russia, which did not even exist in Ezekiel’s day.  To simply attempt to toss “Rosh” into the mix, an alleged name that is neither a descendant of Noah nor a well-known nation of that day is certainly out of place.  As Bible scholar Dr. Merrill F. Unger admits, "Linguistic evidence for the equation [of Rosh with Russia] is confessedly only presumptive." ¹

During the cold war, of course, this opinion was a popular one.  The reasoning of many was that because Russia was the “head” of the great Communist (read: atheist) Soviet Union, surely such an anti-God empire was the fulfillment of Bible prophecy.  But we must be very careful not to read our assumptions or modern events into Scripture.  We must allow Scripture to speak for itself.  Unfortunately, many Bible teachers still seem to cling to this interpretation.  The notion that Russia is specifically mentioned here in Ezekiel, is a strong, if not irresponsible stretch, and certainly should not be treated as anything more than a mere speculation built on a very weak foundation.

Satan’s Coalition Of The Willing

Now let’s identify the nations that are mentioned.  Of the eight nations that are mentioned, specifically: Magog, Meschech, Tubal, Persia, Cush, Put, Gomer and Togormah, seven are mentioned in the Book of Genesis as being descendants of Noah and his three sons.  Bible scholars and historians are able to trace the names of Noah’s sons to certain people groups and regions and thus to identify them with modern nations.  While the identification of some of these people groups is somewhat debatable, there is a general measure of agreement among Bible scholars as to their identification.

Meshek and Tubal

Regarding Meshek and Tubal, here again, we find some prophecy teachers once again giving them a Russian identification.  Many very well-known prophecy teachers base their opinions primarily on the fact that the Scofield Study Bible identifies these two “nations” as correlating to the modern Russian cities of Moscow and Tobolsk.  The problem again, is that the basis of this interpretation comes primarily from the similar sound of the words: Meshek – Moscow, and Tubal – Tobolsk.  While this may be convincing to some, the weakness of this reasoning has already been discussed above.  Again, unless one can legitimately trace the roots of a particular word back to its Hebrew origin, then the argument is based on very weak evidence.  It is a forcing of the puzzle piece where it doesn’t naturally fit.

Mark Hitchcock, a well-known Bible teacher accurately points out that Meschek and Tubal are mentioned in Ezekiel 27:13 as trading partners with ancient Tyre.  Tyre was in what is today Lebanon.  “It is highly doubtful” says Hitchcock, “that ancient Tyre was trading with people as far north as Moscow and Tobolsk.”  In fact, it is questionable whether or not these areas were even very well populated in Ezekiel’s day.  Hitchcock concludes that:

A closer study of these names reveals that Meschech and Tubal are the ancient Moschi/Mushki and Tubalu/Tibareni peoples who dwelled in the area around, primarily south of, the Black and Caspian Seas in Ezekiel’s day.  These nations today are in the modern country of Turkey, possibly parts of southern Russia and northern Iran. ²

Meschek was located near what was known as Phrygia, in central and western Asia Minor, while Tubal was located in eastern Asia Minor.  So with Meshek and Tubal, we are dealing with portions of modern Turkey.  Today this region is predominantly Islamic.  While modern Turkey has undergone a drastic secularization in the last century, within even just the past few years there have also been some quiet, though very strong trends toward a return to a stronger Islamic identification. ³

Magog

Regarding the identity of Magog, there is some difference of opinion among Bible teachers and historians.  Referring to the Magogites, The Matthew Henry Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible speaks of this diversity of opinion:

Some think they find them [Gog and Magog] afar off, in Scythia, Tartary, and (Southern) Russia. Others think they find them nearer the land of Israel, in Syria, and Asia the Less [Turkey]. ⁴

Those who argue for a Scythian connection find their best argument in a reference from the ancient Jewish historian Josephus, who wrote, “Magog founded the Magogians, thus named after him, but who by the Greeks are called Sythians.”  Hitchcock says of the Sythians:

The ancient Sythians were a great nomadic tribe who inhabited the ancient territory from Central Asia all across the southern part of ancient Russia.  The descendants of Magog were the original inhabitants of the plateau of Central Asia.  Today the land of Magog is inhabited by the former Soviet Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and possibly even northern parts of modern Afghanistan. ⁵

Former Muslim Walid Shoebat agrees.  Shoebat points out that:

The Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, citing ancient Assyrian writings, places the location of Magog in the land mass between ancient Armenia and Media - in short, the Republics south of Russia and north of Israel, comprised of Azerbajian, Afghanistan, Turkestan, Chechnya, Turkey, Iran and Dagestan.  Significantly, all of them are Muslim nations. ⁶

Thus, while the specific nations that comprise Magog may be partially in question, the same general area is agreed upon.  We are dealing with Asia Minor, and possibly parts of central Asia – some of the southern regions of the former Soviet Union.  Today, Islam dominates this entire region. 

What if we take the alternative interpretation made by some Bible scholars, that Magog is speaking of Syria?  Even if this were the case, we still have an Islamic nation.   

But here is the real key to identifying Magog:  By identifying Meshech and Tubal – which we have already done.  The reason for this is the wording of Ezekiel: “Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief (or head) of  Meshech and Tubal.”  Magog, is the “head” of land of Meshech and Tubal.  We have already seen that Meschech and Tubal are located in modern day Turkey.  Thus it would be foolish to assume that Magog as their “head” is in some other distant region or nation.  While it seems more likely that Magog is either a portion of Turkey or a conglomerate of the former Soviet Turkic “istans”, whether it be these or Syria, we are definitely dealing with an Islamic entity. 

This point is essential.  Because we know that Gog – The Antichrist - will come from the land of Magog, which is definitely an Islamic region, it very unlikely that he will not be a Muslim.  While I suppose that anything is possible, particularly in the distant future, it is very hard to imagine a non-Muslim ruling over any one of these nations, at least not anyone who doesn’t outwardly pose as a Muslim.  Now, let’s move on to identify the remaining member states of Antichrist’s coalition.

Persia

Persia is very easy to identify.  Essentially, Persia is modern day Iran.  Many Iranians in America, if asked where they are from, will simply say they are from Persia.  In fact Iran was still called Persia until 1935.  Obviously Iran is a predominantly Muslim nation.  While there are some wonderful signs of change in Iran due to a growing dissatisfaction with Islam among Iran’s massive youth population, it does not seem likely that a majority of Iranians will leave behind its Islamic roots anytime soon.  ⁷

Cush

Cush is also relatively easy to identify.  Some Bible translations merely interpret Cush as Ethiopia, though this is not accurate.  The Cush of Ezekiel’s day was far more northwest than the Ethiopia of today.  In Scripture, Cush was often associated with Egypt and was a border nation to her:

Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD.  Because you said, "The Nile is mine; I made it," therefore I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt a ruin and a desolate waste from Migdol [Northern Egypt] to Aswan [Today in southern Egypt], as far as the border of Cush. Ezekiel 29:9-10

Also, one of Cush’s defining characteristics was her rivers. (Isaiah 18:1)

Being a border nation with Egypt, the rivers were most likely the five rivers that fed the Nile.  Of course, the context of Ezekiel is the best context to interpret where Ezekiel was referring.  If we look at a map, the Nile river flows directly into the southern border of Egypt from the modern nation of Sudan.  In the nation of Sudan, there are five rivers which all merge to feed the Nile to the north.  The only legitimate identification of Cush then is modern Sudan, officially known as The Islamic Republic of Sudan since the 1989.  While Sudan does have a large Christian minority, it is ruled by the Muslim majority.  Today Sudan is an absolute cesspool of Islamic oppression toward the minority Christians.  The Sudanese government is Islamist to its core.  As Hitchcock accurately says, “One would be hard pressed to find a more rabid enemy of Israel and the West today than Sudan.”  Sudan is thus identified as another Islamic participant in the Antichrist’s empire.

Put

Biblically, Put (or Phut) is the region west of Egypt.  Today this is the nation of Libya.  The Septuagint translates the word Put here as Libue.  Most modern scholars seem to agree with this interpretation.  Shoebat however includes Algeria, Morroco and Tunis along with Libya.  Either way, we again have another region or nation that is entirely Islamic. 

Gomer

Gomer, it seems to be almost universally agreed upon among scholars, “refers to the Celtic Cimmerians of Crim-Tartary.” ⁸ Regarding the identification of Gomer, Baptist Pastor Fred Zaspel, accurately points out that:

Gomer is well known to the ancient world as Gimarrai of north central Asia Minor [Cappadocia]. These people are also known as the Cimmerians. This seems to be the simplest, most obvious interpretation. ⁹

So Gomer is Gimarra is Cimmeria is Cappadocia.  Cappadocia is simply central Turkey.  Again, another Islamic region.

Togarmah

Zaspel again sums up the identity of Togormah quite well:

Togarmah was a descendant of Noah through Japheth then Gomer (Gen.10:1-3). He is know to Assyrian records as Tilgarimmu… Tilgarimmu was a city state in Eastern Anatolia (Asia Minor, modern Turkey), more specifically, as Ryrie states, "the southeastern part of Turkey near the Syrian border." This identification is generally acknowledged by all. ¹⁰

Once more then we have another region that is in present day Turkey.

Assessing the Eight Nations

Thus in the final assessment we have five of the eight nations mentioned by Ezekiel occupying modern Turkey and possibly some of the southern Russian regions near the Caucasus Mountains as well as some of the Turkic nations of Central Asia.  Obviously, the Lord directed Ezekiel to significantly highlight Turkey.  The other three nations mentioned: Libya, Sudan and Iran, together with Turkey form a perfect circle around Israel.  Turkey covers Israel’s entire northern horizon, while Iran is east of Israel, Sudan is South, and Libya is to the west.  Israel finds herself surrounded on all four corners by the Islamic nations of the Antichrist Empire. 

While many Bible teachers have for years prophesied a coming invasion of Israel headed by Russia, we see that the Bible simply does not substantiate this position.  In fact, it is fair to say that the entire argument for a primary Russian involvement is based on weak scholarship and actually requires a violation of basic linguistic norms.  Instead, we see an Islamic Invasion of Israel, most likely led by Turkey and involving minimally three or more other Islamic nations.  While there is always the temptation to read ones enemies into Scripture, we should instead simply take the Bible for what it says.  While presently, there is not any pressing reason to see Turkey as the leader of an imminent world Empire, this is nevertheless, what Ezekiel prophesied.  And as we are about to see, this is indeed confirmed through other portions of Scripture as well.

What Is The Seventh And The Eight Empire?

Before we procede, I wish here to acknowledge someone who has greatly contributed to my understanding of this issue.  His name is Walid Shoebat.  He is a former Palestinian terrorist and is the author of Why I left Jihad.  I highly recommend this book.  It may be ordered through his web site at www.shoebat.com

Beyond the above identification of the nations of Ezekiel 38, the Book of Revelation also confirms the notion that indeed the region of Turkey will be the head of the future Antichrist Empire.  Let’s examine these passages from the Book of Revelation:

There I saw… a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.  Revelation 17:3

Here we see the final “Beast” empire of the Antichrist.  The Beast is seen to have seven heads and ten horns.  We already know from the Book of Daniel that the ten horns represent the ten nations or kings that will comprise the Antichrist Empire.  But the seven heads are seven empires that have existed throughout history that all have been foreshadows of the final empire that is to come.  As usual, whenever a prophecy is given in the Bible that may be difficult in its symbolism, the Bible clarifies the symbolism and explains the passage for us:

This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.  They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for a little while.  The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction. Revelation 17:9-11

Now the seven heads are called seven mountains.  The Bible often uses mountains as a symbol representing a kingdom or an empire.  But most importantly this passage gives us insight into the fact that before Jesus returns, there will actually have been a total of eight “Beast” empires.  The eighth empire will be ruled by the Antichrist.  How can this passage help us gain insight into the identification of the final Antichrist Empire?  First, we see that at the time that it was written to John, five of the empires had already fallen.  This is seen in the phrase, “five have been.”  These empires are generally accepted by Bible teachers as being the following:

• The Egyptian Empire

• The Assyrian Empire

• The Babylonian Empire

• The Persian Empire

• The Greek Empire

After these five, the angel tells John that one empire “is.”  At the time that John wrote the Book of Revelation, Rome “was.”  It ruled the Middle East, Northern Africa and much of Europe.  Thus the sixth empire was the Roman Empire.  The next empire, of course, is the seventh, and then the eighth will be the empire of the Antichrist.  So the seventh empire is the empire that we need to identify.  Because according to the verse above, it is the eighth empire that will be a resurrection or a revived version of the seventh empire:

“The beast who once was, and is not, is an eighth king.”

Let me just paraphrase this portion for clarity:

“The seventh beast (empire) that existed, but then did not exist, will come back as an eighth empire.”

So if we are now waiting for the final eighth empire, then what was the seventh?  What empire followed Rome? 

Because of the harsh anti-Semitic nature of the German third Reich, some Bible teachers have speculated that Germany was the seventh empire and thus Germany will come back as the eighth. ¹¹

The most common belief however, held almost universally by Bible teachers, is that the Antichrist Empire will be a revived Roman Empire.  There are however some glaring problems with this theory:  Firstly, Rome was the sixth empire.  If Rome was the sixth, and will also be the last, then what happened to the seventh?  This theory has a gaping hole.  Is Rome the sixth, seventh and the eighth empires?  Neither Scripture nor history nor common sense supports this.  Secondly, every one of the previous six empires ruled the Middle East, including Jerusalem.  This is very important.  We must always remember that the Bible is thoroughly Jerusalem centric.  It is not America centric, nor is it Western centric.   In the biblical view of things, Jerusalem is the center of the earth.  This point cannot be underscored enough.  Any theory that revolves around a revived Roman Empire based in Europe - for instance on the European Common Market - is a foreign concept to the Bible.  Unless the empire rules over or directly affects Jerusalem, it is actually a bit irrelevant to biblical mind-set.

And the third crucial point is that if we look at the first six empires, each succeeding empire either destroyed or absorbed the empire that preceded it.  There is a very natural sucession.  If we look at each empire, we see that they all fulfill these two characteristics:  they ruled over Jerusalem and they defeated or absorbed their predecessor.  The Egyptian Empire ruled all of Egypt and Israel as well.  But the Assyrian Empire defeated the Egyptian Empire and likewise ruled over a vast portion of the Middle East, including Israel. After this, the Babylonian Empire defeated the Assyrian Empire and became even larger than its predecessor, again, ruling over Israel.  Such is the pattern with each successive empire:  The Medo/Persian Empire succeeded the Babylonian Empire only to be succeeded by the Greek Empire.  The Greek Empire was in turn suceeded by the Roman Empire.  Which leads us to the seventh empire.  Who overcame the Roman Empire?  In order to answer this question, we need to briefly review the fall of the Roman Empire.  What exactly happened?

In 395 A.D., The Roman Empire was divided into two portions; the eastern and the western portions.  The Eastern portion became known as the Byzantine Empire.  In 410 A.D. the western capital city of Rome fell to invading Germanic tribes known as the Visigoths or Barbarians.  The western/European half of the Empire including its capital had fallen but the Roman Empire nevertheless continued.  How so?  It simply shifted its capital and its throne from Rome to Constantinople – a thousand miles east.  The western European portion of the Roman Empire fell but the Eastern Byzantine portion of the Roman Empire lived on for nearly another thousand years with Constantinople as its capital. The Roman Empire didn’t actually completely fall until the eastern portion of the Empire finally fell to the Turks in 1453 A.D.  Likewise it was the Islamic Caliphate of Umar Ibn al-Khattab that took Jerusalem in 637. Thus we see that it was the various manifestations of Islamic Empire culminating with the Ottoman Empire that suceeded the Roman Empire and ruled over the entire Middle East, beginning with Jerusalem for over thirteen hundred years. ¹² The Turkish Empire existed right up until 1909.

Thus we see that the only empire that fulfills the patterns necessary to be considered the seventh empire is the Turkish/Ottoman Empire.  This of course corresponds perfectly with Ezekiel’s list of nations with such a heavy emphasis on Turkey. 

The Coming Restoration Of The Caliphate

The Turkish Empire was the seat of the Islamic Caliphate.  It was not until 1923 that the Islamic Caliphate was officially abolished.  Today the Islamic world is awaiting the restoration of that Caliphate.  The Bible teaches that someday soon the Turkish Empire will be revived.  

The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because he once was, then he was not, and yet came again. Revelation 17:8

At that time, we may expect to see the Islamic Caliphate restored.  Eventually this position will possibly be given to a man whom the Muslim world would refer to as the Mahdi, but whom people of understanding would identify as the man known biblically as the Antichrist.