In a few weeks, Americans will celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. The advertisements will be filled with food items including the usual centerpiece item—the turkey.
Yet, over the past ten days the newspapers and headlines have been filled references to Turkey, but this one doesn’t “gobble”. While the one on Thanksgiving may be a part of gratefulness, the Turkey in the recent news reports is of a more ominous sentiment.
Turkey announced October 9th that it was pulling out of an annual joint air force exercise with Israel, the United States, Italy and NATO. The reason: Israel used its planes in “crimes” against Gaza residents earlier this year. This is significant as Israel and Turkey not only have a peace agreement but are also military allies. Israel has provided billions of dollars of weapons to Turkey since their 1996 agreement.
Equally disturbing is that when Turkey pulled out of the joint military exercise, it held a joint military exercise with Syria. Recent events show Turkey moving closer to an Iran, Syria and Russia and pulling away from the West and especially Israel.
This shift in policy was dramatized on Turkey's state-run broadcasting network (TRT) portraying an Israeli soldier walking up to a Palestinian child and barbarically shooting her point-blank. The series portrayed Israeli soldiers murdering children and committing other atrocities against innocent Palestinians.
Since the Turkish Islamist Party first won control of the government in 2002, the country has been steadily moving away from its former pro-Western stance and closer to the radical Islam influences.
George Friedman is the CEO and founder of STRATFOR, the world's leading private intelligence and forecasting company. In his recent book, "The Next 100 Years", Friedman agrees in no uncertain terms that Turkey will soon emerge as a regional superpower. “The Islamic World is incapable of uniting voluntarily. It is, however, capable of being dominated by a Muslim power. Throughout history, Turkey has been the Muslim power most often able to create an empire out of ...the Islamic world.”
These developments are consistent with Bible prophecies found in Ezekiel 38-39 which indicate that in the “last days” Turkey [identified in the prophecies as “Gomer” and part of “Beth Togarmah”] will join a Russian-Iranian alliance against Israel. The Jewish-turned-Roman historian Flavius Josephus identified Gomer with the Galatians. "For Gomer founded those whom the Greeks now call Galatians, [Galls,] but were then called Gomerites."
Turkey’s application to the E.U. was put on “hold” and now seems to have had unintended consequences. Turkish PM Erdogan instead has turned his attention to re-establish Turkey's historical influence in the Turkic countries…and beyond.
Turkey's shift toward an Islamic caliphate and its Russian supporter puts Turkey right where the prophet Ezekiel said it would be in the last days.
So the next time you are getting ready to “gobble” some turkey, remember this: Jesus is coming soon!
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