Image of the beast and 666

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THE IMAGE

The first beast, the Image of the first beast, and the scarlet beast the harlot rides, are all the same Islamic Empire in different stages of it's existence.

Creating the Image
Rev. 13: 14-15

Oct. 22, 1999- Today, as I walked into the bedroom, I heard the Lord say "Write this down". I turned and walked to my computer, but stood there realizing that I didn't know what to write down. I waited but nothing more came. So I turned and walked back to the bedroom, and the Holy Spirit shook me, and a wave of heat came over me, and I felt a shaking within. I heard the Lord's voice within me say, very loudly: "The image began with Bosnia."

I remembered that the war in Bosnia had been a bit too confusing for me to understand at the time. I knew it had been a civil war, but that was the extent of my knowledge. I sure hadn't thought it had anything to do with the book of Revelation. So I searched the internet for anything that could help me understand what the Lord had said. I didn't come up with much.

But as time passes those things the Lord says to me slowly begin to make sense.

The first thing to remember is that the second beast is the one to cause the world to create the image of the first beast. So what was the UN, including US and Britain, doing during the Bosnian war that would cause the creation of this new beast/image?

Some News items may help us.

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July 2, 2002- News What was President Bill Clinton's two prime foreign policy
objectives during the Bosnian and Kosovo Wars?

1. Promoting the national aspirations of ethnic Muslims in the Balkans, especially in Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia, at the expense of the Serbs (Christian). According to DEBKAfile’s military sources, the Clinton administration secretly funneled US arms, funds - as well as allowing Americans of Albanian decent to join Muslim ranks -to support the establishment of three independent Muslim republics in the heart of Europe centering on Albania. The Milosevic regime was to be discredited and smashedand Serbia, then considered the sharp edge of Russian and Chinese influence in the Balkans, reduced to a strategic nonentity hemmed in by four strong Muslim states

2. The Balkan precedent was to have provided leverage against the Israeli political camp opposed to a Palestinian state and acted as an inhibitor for Israeli military operations against the Palestinians. Behind this thinking was the assumption that holding the IDF on a tight leash would lend Israeli policy-makers the freedom to make profound and sweeping concessions to the Palestinians.
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Believe it or not this is giving strength to the Islamic world!

Even though it began with Bosnia it continued with Kosovo. This war was to create an Islamic state called Greater Albania in place of Kosovo. Although it is now being understood that there was NO genocide taking place against the Muslims, but that the Serbian Kosovo army had been killing members of the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army). They were an army of Islamic terrorists that was trying to bring down the Kosovo government and set up an Islamic state. I feel like we were duped. Article about how we were lied to Click here.

It dawned on me that this "image" centered around the growth of radical Islam. As it grows so does the beast gain its strength.

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BIN LADEN AND BOSNIA

In the aftermath of America's "Black September," it was confirmed in Sarajevo that the Muslim authorities of Bosnia-Herzegovina had issued a passport to Osama bin Laden at the Bosnian embassy in Vienna in 1993. The intention was obviously to facilitate the movements of a man who was fast acquiring the reputation of a dangerous terrorist.

That the government in Sarajevo was sympathetic to Islamic militants is neither surprising nor remarkable, of course, but in this particular case there was an old debt to be repaid. Osama Bin Laden was an early supplier of weapons to the Bosnian Muslims. His early efforts in 1992-93 were known to the Clinton administration and quietly tolerated by it. He was given a free hand in the Balkans and eventually established a strong foothold in the heart of Europe, initially under the guise of humanitarian work.

The facts of the case were known to the media. In the summer of 1996, the Washington Post confirmed that "the Clinton administration knew of the activities of a so-called Relief Agency which was, in fact, funneling weapons and money into Bosnia to prop up the Izetebegovic Muslim government in Sarajevo."

It was funneling troops, too. The mujahideen had first come to Bosnia in 1992 and numbered over 3,000 by the summer of 1995. They included volunteers from the Middle East, as well as deserters from the Turkish, Malaysian and French UNPROFOR units. They never took prisoners: wounded Serb soldiers were usually decapitated.

Under the Dayton Peace Accords, all Islamic volunteers who fought with the Muslim government army were supposed to leave the country. An undisclosed number remained, however, having been given Bosnian citizenship and permanent residence. Several hundred had taken over what was the Serbian village of Bocinja Donja, in central Bosnia, and provided instruction to local Muslim forces in terrorist activities.

They first attracted attention when on December 18, 1995--only a month after Dayton--a car bomb prematurely exploded in the central Bosnian town of Zenica. It was apparently meant for American troops stationed nearby, as revenge for the sentencing of Sheik Omah Abdel Rahman in connection with the World Trade Center bombing.

Two months later, in February 1996, SFOR units raided the training center of the Bosnian government's secret police (AID), located near Fojnica. Several persons were arrested for preparing terrorist actions. It transpired that instructors from the Middle East were teaching AID officers how to disguise bombs as toys and ice cream cones.

Only months later the Bosnian Connection started making an impact abroad. Reporting on the bombing of the Al Khobar building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the New York Times reported on June 26, 1997, that several suspects had served with the Bosnian Muslim forces and were linked to Osama Bin Laden. From that point on the United States and its allies had complained periodically and ineffectually to the Muslim authorities in Sarajevo about the continued presence of the mujahadeen in Bosnia.

By late 1999 this connection attracted further attention when U.S. law enforcement authorities discovered that several suspects who have visited or lived in Bosnia were associated with a terrorist plot to bomb targets in the United States on New Year's Day. Among them was Karim Said Atmani, who was identified by authorities as the document forger for a group of Algerians accused of plotting the bombings. He is a former roommate of Ahmet Ressemi, the man arrested at the Canadian-U.S. border in mid-December 1999 with a carload of explosives. Atmani has been a frequent visitor to Bosnia, even after Ressmi's arrest. Another Bosnian veteran, a Palestinian named Khalil Deek, was arrested in Jordan in late December 1999 on suspicion of involvement in a plot to blow up tourist sites; a second man with Bosnian citizenship, Hamid Aich, lived in Canada at the same time as Atmani and worked for a charity associated with Osama Bin Laden. A third suspect, an Algerian named Abu Mali, was regarded as a "community leader" in the Bosnian village of Bocinja. Mehrez Amdouni, yet another former resident, was arrested in September 1999 in Istanbul, where he arrived with a Bosnian passport. It has been confirmed that Ahmet Ressemi had ties with Said Atmani, another terrorist who fought in the El Mujahadeen unit in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Canadian authorities deported Atmani back to Bosnia-Herzegovina on October 18, 1998, supposedly without knowing of his alleged participation in terrorist activities through Europe. The New York Times Magazine reported on February 6, 2000 that "last year, sources in Jordan say, the Mukhabarat, the intelligence service, alerted the C.I.A. to at least three plots by Bosnian-based Islamic terrorists to attack U.S. targets in Europe."

While an elaborate Islamic terror network was developing in Bosnia, Osama bin Laden was busy looking for fresh opportunities in the Balkans. The victims would remain the same; and yet again he could count on the quiet complicity of the U.S. government.

The rest of this article can be viewed at http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/News/Trifkovic/NewsST091901.htm

And if you have time read this page http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO110A.html It will make you sick knowing the US involvement under Clinton.

Bearing record of these events;
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From 'The Canberra Times' (Australia ) April 28, 2000 - Page 8

"BIN LADEN IN KOSOVO ACTS
"BELGRADE: Islamic Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden, wanted for terrorism by the United States, is in Kosovo. The official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said bin Laden, whom it described as a " terrorist and Islamic fanatic" , arrived from Albania after having formed a group of 500 Islamic fighters in the eastern region around Korce and Pogradec to carry out " terrorist acts" in Kosovo.
"He planned similar acts in the southern region of Serbia bordering on Kosovo, including Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac, the agency said."

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'The Charleston Gazette.' November 30, 1998 - Page 2A

"BIN LADEN RUNS TERRORIST NETWORK, REPORT SAYS
"LONDON - The man accused of orchestrating the U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa operates a terrorist network out of Albania, The Sunday Times reported.
"The newspaper quoted Fatos Klosi, the head of the Albanian intelligence service, as saying a network run by Saudi exile Osama Bin Laden sent units to fight in the Serbian province of Kosovo.
"Bin Laden is believed to have established an Albanian operation in 1994 after telling the government he headed a wealthy Saudi humanitarian agency wanting to help Albania, the newspaper reported.
"Klosi said he believed terrorists had already infiltrated other parts of Europe from bases in Albania. Apparent confirmation of Bin Laden's activities came earlier this month during the murder trial of Claude Kader, 27, a French national who said he was a member of Bin Laden's Albanian network, the newspaper said.

"Kader claimed during the trial he had visited Albania to recruit and arm fighters for Kosovo.

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FROM 'THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN,' May 28, 1999

"...As U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe long has predicted, American troops go into Kosovo against the Serbs, they'll be fighting alongside a terrorist organization known to finance its operations with drug sales - including some to the United States.

"By joining hands with the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which intelligence sources say bankrolls itself by selling heroin and cocaine, the United States also would become partners of a sort with Osama bin Laden, the international terrorist behind last year's bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the Washington Times reports. According to the newspaper's sources, the KLA is linked to an extensive organized crime network head quartered in Albania. In 1998 the State Department listed the KLA as an international terrorist organization that supported itself with drug profits and through loans from known terrorists like bin Laden.

"Such an ally is the result of Bill Clinton choosing sides in a centuries-old civil war. "They were terrorists in 1998 and now, because of politics, they're freedom fighters," a top drug official told the Times. "In Bill Clinton's war, where bombing has been turned into a humanitarian application, such a paradox fits right in.

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Rev. 13: 14-15

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The UN bombed in Bosnia and in Kosovo. We sided with the terrorists! We fought against the Christians of those countries! We did not brake the backs of the terrorists power...we aided them. We began the creating of the Image of the first beast! God help us.

"The image began with Bosnia."
It will continue to grow until it is a full blown revived Islamic Empire.

What we saw was the Muslims trying to increase their boarders in Bosnia and Kosovo and now it is happening in other along the old boarders of that past empire. The UN and US through Clinton were causing the world to call good evil for the purpose of secretly controlling Israel so that a peace agreement could be made between the PLO and Israel, but they had begun the creation of something else, when they took the side of Islam instead of the side of the Christian countries. They had begun to cause the creation of the Image. It wouldn't be long before these tactics used by the Islamists in Bosnia would become a world wide problem, with terrorism threatening any country that dared to speak against them or control them. Islamic countries had very little pull in the world in 1997 but now it has become a huge threat. When I first began on the internet in 1997 to tell people that the first beast was the Islamic Empire and that it was going to be revived in the last days, people scoffed at me. They saw NO threat from these third world countries. Now the light is dawning on them, especially after September 11th. We have watched the creating of the Image of the first beast. We have breathed life into it and now it has a voice in the world. We have defeated Iraq but now can we defeat Syria and Iran? How much can we really do to keep this beast from throwing its weight around?

Al-Qiada moved into the Sudan as early as 1992 and they began the killing and driving people from their homes and hunderderds of thousands died, either in war or from starvation or the deseases that it brings. In Dufur in the last four years 200,000 have been killed by these means.

Even though I was given a prophetic dream showing that Bush was being used by God to take away Saddam's kingdom, what Bush is doing is also helping to create this Image, inadvertently, because we are threatening the Islamic ways by trying to make them change to Democratic countries. This causes them to work together, behind the scene, to try and stop it, even those Muslim nations that are our allies, and so they strengthen themselves against it and join together in the name of Allah. And since one of the horns on the head of the old Islamic Empire is Iraq then anything we do there has a huge effect on the future of this world and the creation of the Image of the first beast.

Back before Sept 11, 2001 the Lord said the word "Taliban" to me. I had never heard the word before. Sounded like a name for a Cuban cigar or something. But God was working to get me to look in that direction. Bin Laden began his first terrorist training camps under the Taliban in Afghanistan. The men trained in these camps were the ones sent to Bosnia and Kosovo, and now to many places in the world. Some of these men stayed in Bosnia and from there went to America and tried to blow up the World Trade Center the first time. The second group that succeeded in destroying the towers were also from Bosnia.

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Another symbolic picture of the Image can be seen in Chapter 17

I believe the Image of the first Beast is a revived Islamic Empire under the control of the Angel, Abaddon, from the bottomless pit as we see in Chapter 17.

A couple weeks ago I was looking up the word Abaddon, the evil angel that is loosed during the 5th trump. I had looked up this name many time before and never found anything more than that he was the "Angel of Destruction". But this time I Goggled the name and up came information I had never heard. The Jews believed that Abaddon was the "Angel of Death" in charge of the bottomless pit. The word perdition (hell) is also translated as destruction, hence the "angel of destruction".

We are told about the angel of Death in three places in the Book of Revelation;

1. The 4th seal. The rider is Death and Hell follows.
2. The 5th trump as the Angel of Death, Abaddon, ascends out of the pit. So the 4th seal represents the events of the 5th trump.
3. And as the scarlet beast with seven heads and ten horns, that the harlot Israel rides in chapter 17. This scarlet beast being the same Image of the first beast seen in chapter 13, now transformed by the one that comes out of the bottomless pit to go to destruction, as a revived Empire, symbolized here by an 8th head.

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Rev 17:8
The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

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This means that the Scarlet beast of Rev 17 is just another view of the Image of the first beast. A revived Islamic Empire given authority by the fallen angel of the bottomless pit. So when Abaddon is let out of the pit during the timing of the 5th trump, it takes over the Image. These nations of the old empire (beast) are united in their hatered of the Holy Covenant and because of that end up giving their authority to this evil being, and the desire to rule the world under Allah reawakens. They begin to try and destroy Israel and Christains around the world, and because most of the world is pro-Islam.... Israel will receive very little help.

The first beast being the Islamic Empire that once ruled over the middle East, stretching into the Balkans, the Islands of Asia, clear to Afghanistan and southern Russia, the upper parts, and East coast, of Africa. As this beast (an Image of it's former self that rises to power once again. An 8th head that is really one of the 7 coming back into power). I believe that when John saw the Image (in chapter 13) it looked just like the first beast with the body of the leopard and feet of the bear, but now he is being shown it as a scarlet beast with the same heads of the first beast and same ten horns, the beast is now scarlet because of the angel that came out of the pit. Just as satan is shown as a red serpent with the same 7 heads and ten horns. This symbolism of the color red shows that the beast/empire is now under the control of a fallen angel. This beast of Islam doesn't fool the Christians though, we know the actions of the Muslim empire, how it has killed both Christians and Jews for centuries. And even though a leopard can not change it's spots, this image of it has. It took on the likeness of the evil angel that has gave it its authority to act.

There is another place that John was shown this evil angel in his visions.

Rev 6:8
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

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This then appears to be the Angel of Destruction at the opening of the 5th trump. If you have read the earlier parts of this study then you understand how the seals an trumps work together.

Everywhere that those that live and die for the cause of the Holy Jihad go, death and destruction soon follows and thousands of thousands die. Jews and Christians die, but they also kill people of their own faith, any that go agianst them, or simply happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when one of them is sent to blow themselves up for the cause. There is no value in human life to these terrorists that kill in the name of Allah.

666?
Making this 666 fit a name is a pretty easy thing to manipulate and so seems a silly thing to do. Also UN Resolution 666 opened the door for using the humanitarian aid as a way of giving aid to Muslim people during the Gulf war, and Bin Laden comes into countries claiming that he is giving humanitarian aid to Muslims also and can do so because of the president set by that Resolution. I don't know if there is a connection here but the timing of this resolution brought it to my attention.
But it is a mark of man (mankind). A mark of the first beast and the first beast worshiped Allah. And the first beast was given its authority by satan. So the number six hundred and sixty, six is telling us that this mark (seal) does not represent the God of Israel but instead a man made god of this earth. And if a person worship this man made god then he has the seal or mark on his forehead and right hand of that god. If they don't follow this false teaching the they will not be able to buy and sell.


These signs show us that the Lord is soon to return! Amen! So be it!