For years, Turkiye has been considered the most stable of the Middle Eastern nations. A member of NATO, a candidate for the European Union, one of the G-20, constitutionally secular, the Islamic (but non-Arab) country has been a beacon of reason in a sea of fanaticism and fascism. Though the population is all but 100% Muslim, since shortly after WWI the country has been more attached politically, even culturally, to Western Europe than to the Muslim Third World.
Things are changing. Turkiye is moving east!
If there ever was a place that could act as a bridge between the Muslim (21% of the world's population) and the non-Muslim world, Turkiye is that place. I would add, that it also follows, that if there was ever a leader who could bridge that gap, there's no more likely place for him to arise than Turkiye. Turkiye is situated, almost as no other place, to be the place to watch in the last days, a veritable hotbed for the development of the Antichrist.
The Apocalypse reveals that Pergamum (today Bergama in Turkiye) was the throne of Satan, the Antichrist's prime patron. According to Daniel's prophetic description of the antetype of the Antichrist, that ultimate figure will arise in the pattern of the King of the North. That antetype, Antiochus Epiphanes, had his capital in what is now Antakya, Turkiye. Is it mere coincidence that Satan and the type of the Antichrist both had their the "capital" in modern Turkiye?
Whether or not that makes someone like Recep Tayyip Erdogan a possible candidate to be the Antichrist, I'll leave to you.
If there ever was a place that could act as a bridge between the Muslim (21% of the world's population) and the non-Muslim world, Turkiye is that place. I would add, that it also follows, that if there was ever a leader who could bridge that gap, there's no more likely place for him to arise than Turkiye. Turkiye is situated, almost as no other place, to be the place to watch in the last days, a veritable hotbed for the development of the Antichrist.
The Apocalypse reveals that Pergamum (today Bergama in Turkiye) was the throne of Satan, the Antichrist's prime patron. According to Daniel's prophetic description of the antetype of the Antichrist, that ultimate figure will arise in the pattern of the King of the North. That antetype, Antiochus Epiphanes, had his capital in what is now Antakya, Turkiye. Is it mere coincidence that Satan and the type of the Antichrist both had their the "capital" in modern Turkiye?
Whether or not that makes someone like Recep Tayyip Erdogan a possible candidate to be the Antichrist, I'll leave to you.
Regardless, as far as the prophetic hotspot for the rising of the Antichrist, I think I'd have to say that the Turkiye's in the oven!
