IRAN
Iran is so symbolic in the historical context.
Ancient Iran or those who lived there then must have been involved in the fate of the ancient Mesopotamia kingdoms. It might have even influenced the fate of Ur from which Abraham departed. Then ancient Iranians had been able to contribute to the origin of Hebrews or Judaists, Later Iran represented the East, if not Asia, to fight Alexander the Great and subsequently the Roman Empire.
Today, Iran stands against Israel and Saudi Arabia in addition to the U.S. Iran has a huge amount of crude oil reserves, though the central issue on Iran is its nuclear development program.
Iran is something though it did not take its place among Iraq, Egypt, India, and China as the birth places of ancient urban civilization.
As I once calculated and found that the Second Coming of Christ started around 2010, the Iranian crisis today is really a symbolic event for this age.
Although the city (Pella in Palestine where early Christians fled) was still inhabited as late as the tenth Century CE, it was the deadly earthquake of CE 747 that ended its long history as a city of major influence in the region.
http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2011/08/blog-post_21.html
720 - The second oldest exisiting imperial chronicle and myth of Japan called Nihon Shoki (Record of Japan) was compiled following an imperial order. This book has become one of major documentary resources for shintoism.
752 - The world's largest bronze statue of the Buddha, called "Daibutsu" in Japanese, was built in Heijyo-kyo (Nara City), following an imperial order.
http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2011/08/having-eyes-see-ye-not.html
"(Islamic) Golden Age" (750–1258)
Under the Abbasids, Islamic civilization flourished in the "Islamic Golden Age", with its capital at the cosmopolitan city of Baghdad.
http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2011/08/have-ye-your-heart-yet-hardened.html
The Battle of Talas (or Battle of Artlakh in 751 AD between the Arab Abbasid Caliphate and the Chinese Tang Dynasty, resulting in transfer of paper production technology from China to Europe.
http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2011/10/greater-than-all.html
In Yahuda MS 7 Newton twice gives 800 A.D. for the beginning of "the Pope's supremacy". The year 800 is a significant one in history, as it is the year Charlemagne was crowned emperor of Rome in the west by Pope Leo III at St. Peter's in Rome. Since Newton believed that the 1260 years corresponded to the duration of the corruption of the Church, he added 1260 to 800 A.D. and arrived at the date 2060 for the "fall of Babylon" or cessation of the apostate Church. ttp://www.isaac-newton.org/update.htmlBut I think it is 750 but not 800 due to the events above listed. Accordingly, 1260 + 750 = 2010. This must be the beginning of "fall of Babylon" or cessation of the apostate Church.
Yet, what was the situation in Iran around 750, specifically, that produced the Islamic Golden Age?
The Abbasid caliphate was founded by the descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad's youngest uncle, ‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib, in Harran in 750 CE and shifted its capital in 762 to Baghdad. It flourished for two centuries, but slowly went into decline with the rise to power of the Turkish army it had created, the Mamluks.
Abbasid Caliphate (light and dark green) at its greatest extent, c. 850. Territories in dark green were lost early on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbasid_CaliphateIt is thought that Iranians actively joined Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Caliphate took Iranians actively into its imperial structure. Abbasid Caliphate abolished position of advantage given to Arabs so that every Muslim, regardless of his/her ethnic background, came to be treated equally. In this way, Islam became a world religion. Or, for Islam to expand to the world, it needed involvement of Iranians first of all.
So, today's Iranian issue is so significant, symbolic, and even prophetic in terms to the Second Coming of Christ Jesus.
If people involved, including Iranians, Arabs, Judaists, Europeans, Americans, and even Russians and Chinese, cannot repent to come back to their right sense, something decisive could happen around the Persian Gulf where 80% of tankers Japan has, namely 3400 ships, pass every year to bring crude oil to Japan.
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Mr. Romney won in Florida as everybody knows.
But, it was a dirty game mobilizing TV commercial power. Is it an act enough to claim due respect from American voters who want a hero that can contribute more to America not only economically but culturally and spiritually than incumbent President Mr. Obama?
Mr. Obama became US President using his ability to deliver impressive speech while Mr. Romney is trying to be using his ability to manipulate indecent TV ads? Is the US degenerating?
1Ki 2:1 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,
1Ki 2:2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;
1Ki 2:3 And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself: