WilliamL Posted October 25, 2016 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 99 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5,103 Content Per Day: 1.48 Reputation: 2,548 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/06/2014 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/01/1950 Share Posted October 25, 2016 In the past few weeks, a conflict between Ankara and Baghdad over Turkey’s role in the liberation of Mosul has precipitated an alarming burst of Turkish irredentism. On two separate occasions, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the Treaty of Lausanne, which created the borders of modern Turkey, for leaving the country too small. He spoke of the country’s interest in the fate of Turkish minorities living beyond these borders, as well as its historic claims to the Iraqi city of Mosul, near which Turkey has a small military base. ... Turkey’s pro-government media have shown a newfound interest in a series of imprecise, even crudely drawn, maps of Turkey with new and improved borders. http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/10/23/turkeys-religious-nationalists-want-ottoman-borders-iraq-erdogan/ U.S. officials are scrambling to contain flaring tensions between Ankara and Baghdad after Turkish officials announced their troops Sunday shelled Islamic State positions near the Iraqi city of Mosul... President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made a series of incendiary speeches in recent weeks emphasizing that he won't stand by and see Mosul controlled by Shi’ites and has adamantly rebuffed Baghdad’s demand to withdraw Turkish forces from northern Iraq. In one television interview he said: “But there is a major question, who will then control the city? Of course, Sunni Arabs, Sunni Turkmen and Sunni Kurds.” http://www.voanews.com/a/turkey-iraq-tensions-over-mosul/3564170.html "False anointed ones shall arise..." And Erdogan is clearly one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayin jade Posted October 25, 2016 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 44 Topic Count: 6,178 Topics Per Day: 0.88 Content Count: 43,795 Content Per Day: 6.21 Reputation: 11,242 Days Won: 58 Joined: 01/03/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted October 25, 2016 He is trying to reclaim the old ottoman empire borders. A once stable country is now attempting to join the fray of hostilities and instabilities in the middle east. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamL Posted October 26, 2016 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 99 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5,103 Content Per Day: 1.48 Reputation: 2,548 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/06/2014 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/01/1950 Author Share Posted October 26, 2016 2 Esdras 15:46 And you, Asia [Minor], who share in the splendor of Babylon and the glory of her person— 47 woe to you, miserable wretch! For you have made yourself like her; you have decked out your daughters for prostitution to please and glory in your lovers, who have always lusted after you. 48 You have imitated that hateful one in all her deeds and devices. Therefore God says, 49 I will send evils upon you: widowhood, poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, bringing ruin to your houses, bringing destruction and death. 50 And the glory of your strength shall wither like a flower when the heat shall rise that is sent upon you. 51 You shall be weakened like a wretched woman who is beaten and wounded, so that you cannot receive your mighty lovers. 52 Would I have dealt with you so violently, says the Lord, 53 if you had not killed my chosen people continually, exulting and clapping your hands and talking about their death when you were drunk? 54 Beautify your face! 55 The reward of a prostitute is in your lap; therefore you shall receive your recompense. 56 As you will do to my chosen people, says the Lord, so God will do to you, and will hand you over to adversities. 57 Your children shall die of hunger, and you shall fall by the sword; your cities shall be wiped out, and all your people who are in the open country shall fall by the sword. 58 Those who are in the mountains and highlands shall perish of hunger, and they shall eat their own flesh in hunger for bread and drink their own blood in thirst for water. 59 Unhappy above all others, you shall come and suffer fresh miseries. 60 As they pass by they shall crush the hateful city, and shall destroy a part of your land and abolish a portion of your glory, when they return from devastated Babylon. 61 You shall be broken down by them like stubble, and they shall be like fire to you. 62 They shall devour you and your cities, your land and your mountains; they shall burn with fire all your forests and your fruitful trees. 63 They shall carry your children away captive, plunder your wealth, and mar the glory of your countenance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayin jade Posted October 26, 2016 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 44 Topic Count: 6,178 Topics Per Day: 0.88 Content Count: 43,795 Content Per Day: 6.21 Reputation: 11,242 Days Won: 58 Joined: 01/03/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted October 26, 2016 2 Esdras is apocrypha, not scripture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezra Posted October 26, 2016 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 134 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 8,142 Content Per Day: 2.36 Reputation: 6,612 Days Won: 20 Joined: 11/02/2014 Status: Offline Share Posted October 26, 2016 22 hours ago, ayin jade said: He is trying to reclaim the old ottoman empire borders. That is correct. And you can thank Barack Obama for this mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamL Posted October 28, 2016 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 99 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5,103 Content Per Day: 1.48 Reputation: 2,548 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/06/2014 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/01/1950 Author Share Posted October 28, 2016 On 10/26/2016 at 11:15 AM, ayin jade said: 2 Esdras is apocrypha, not scripture. And your authority for this statement is...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayin jade Posted October 28, 2016 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 44 Topic Count: 6,178 Topics Per Day: 0.88 Content Count: 43,795 Content Per Day: 6.21 Reputation: 11,242 Days Won: 58 Joined: 01/03/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted October 28, 2016 44 minutes ago, WilliamL said: And your authority for this statement is...? Even the kjv at the time included it as apocrypha but not as scripture. It was clearly separated in the kjv. It was not considered as part of the canon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamL Posted October 28, 2016 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 99 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5,103 Content Per Day: 1.48 Reputation: 2,548 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/06/2014 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/01/1950 Author Share Posted October 28, 2016 13 hours ago, ayin jade said: Even the kjv at the time included it as apocrypha but not as scripture. It was clearly separated in the kjv. It was not considered as part of the canon. " To this date, the Apocrypha is "included in the lectionaries of Anglican and Lutheran Churches."[4] Moreover, the Revised Common Lectionary, in use by most mainline Protestants including Methodists and Moravians, lists readings from the Apocrypha in the liturgical kalendar...[5]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_apocrypha "A lectionary is a book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for Christian or Judaic worship on a given day or occasion." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectionary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayin jade Posted October 28, 2016 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 44 Topic Count: 6,178 Topics Per Day: 0.88 Content Count: 43,795 Content Per Day: 6.21 Reputation: 11,242 Days Won: 58 Joined: 01/03/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted October 28, 2016 That still doesnt make it the word of God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamL Posted October 30, 2016 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 99 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5,103 Content Per Day: 1.48 Reputation: 2,548 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/06/2014 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/01/1950 Author Share Posted October 30, 2016 On 10/28/2016 at 1:25 PM, ayin jade said: That still doesnt make it the word of God. Whether of not you accept it as the word of God is irrelevant to whether or not it is true. If you say that all truth is restricted solely to 66 books of the Bible, then you are saying that there are no more gifts of the Holy Spirit, including the gift of prophecy. What 2 Esdras 15 describes, in part, is a Last Days war between the land of Iran and "the nations of the dragons of Arabia." The current Sunni-Shia contentions in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere are then merely coincidence in the light of this prophecy? I don't think so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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