Nearing Midnight: All the Demons Are in Iraq - Todd Strandberg - http://www.raptureready.com/rap16.html
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has become the most powerful religious terrorist group in modern history. Like locusts invading a field, the single focus of ISIS is to consume everything before it.
Anyone that ISIS views as an enemy faces summary executions. This militant organization has proven it will even kill fellow Muslims who fail to adhere to its version of Islam. ISIS has been most vicious in targeting Iraqi Christians and members of the Yazidi religious sect. Some 700,000 Yazidis are believed to have been displaced.
The barbarity of ISIS is a throwback to the carnage of medieval times. They have hanged children and placed their heads on posts, abducted young boys forcing them to fight, and girls are being used as sex slaves.
What makes me wonder if these people are part of the human race is the glee they have in showing their genocidal acts. They use social media sites to post endless streams of photos and videos of themselves brutalizing their innocent victims.
Recently, ISIS seized control of the vitally important Mosul dam. Because this group seems to have no limit in its capacity for evil, there is great concern that ISIS may hold an option that could dramatically change the future of the Middle East. By placing detonation charges on the dam, a massive flood would wash over southern Iraq. In a worst-case scenario, a breach could send a 15-foot wall of water crashing into Baghdad.
The situation in Iraq reminds me of the Rwandan Genocide, and a comment made by a missionary to that nation. I remember seeing the quote in TIME magazine saying: "There are no demons in hell. They are all in Rwanda." (Actually, there are no demons in hell.) The statement is profound in describing the extent at which forces of darkness had taken over that nation.
Back in 1994 for approximately 100 days, demonic insanity had Rwanda in its grip. The Hutu tribe suddenly began killing members of the smaller Tutsi tribe. During this time of madness, an estimated 500,000-1,000,000 Rwandans were slaughtered, constituting as much as 20% of the country's total population. Most of the Tutsis were hacked to death with machetes.
Even today, people marvel at how quickly the carnage swept over Rwanda. Just like the genocides carried out by Nazi Germany and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the global community was left wondering how people could stoop to this level of cruelty.
The Bible repeatedly makes it clear that demonic forces have a strong influence over the material world. It's not that people can say, "The devil made me do it." The demons provide the motivation and humans act on that impulse.
Demonic activity is like a drug addiction. Once demons are allowed to take over, they become very difficult to resist. The ability of 300 fighters to defeat 10,000 Iraqi soldiers has all the markings of demonic empowerment. The mass confusion in Iraq's capital is another indication that fallen angels are working on the side of ISIS.
Iraq is one of the worst places on earth because it is a venue for flare-ups of demonic driven despotism. The area has long been a hotbed of underworld activity. Babylon was the fountainhead all Luciferian and pagan religions. The Prince of Persia was a demon so mighty, he was able to withstand the archangel Michael for twenty-one days. Somewhere along the Euphrates river are bound four demons that are so powerfully evil. When they are released, they will kill one-third of the world's population.
"And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, 'Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.' And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men" (Revelation 9:13-15).
As we get closer to the Tribulation hour, we're likely to see more situations where it appears that all the demons have gathered together in one place for a campaign of devastation and destruction. Of course, once the Rapture takes place and the restraining power of the church is lifted, the entire world will look like Iraq.
"And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty" (Revelation 16:13-14).
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