Sabbath Message 8/11/35/120

Dear Friends,

This month is now progressing into the gathering storm. The Fundamentalist Islamists have begun to increase their pressure but the NATO forces of Europe are now hitting back and supporting the African countries that are trying to resist the expansion of the Islamists into the governments over North Africa and on into the Middle East. NATO has consolidated with Turkey and contained the expansions to the North.  Iraq will continue to increase its activism and so will Afghanistan over the next twelve months. Sunni Islam is continuing to move against Shi’a Islam and Indonesia is moving against Muslims minorities such as Shi’a and other groups there. Sunni Islam in Indonesia maintains the view that Shi’a is a deviant sect as are the Alowite offshoots and others found in the Middle East and in the minority in Indonesia. This internal crisis within Islam will be its undoing. However, all the sects hate the West more than they do one another. Their proximity is all that promotes their antagonism. They cannot live in tolerance with any group on an equal basis.

They are moving now to take over the Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS) system and in the interest of stable government the ECOWAS governments must combine to combat the Fundamentalists from the north. The Tuareg militants that form the fundamentalist militants of the northern desert groups are moving South into Nigeria and firstly they are trying to take Mali and overthrow its government. ECOWAS must support Mali and to that end the NATO troops must also assist them. For that reason France has intervened and moved into Mali against the Islamists.

After its initial deployment France has agreed to triple its troop deployment to the West African nation of Mali, saying its commitment will last as long as needed.

A more than 3,000-strong African force is expected to arrive within days to complement the expected 2,500-strong French contingent.

Nigeria will lead the mission, with its commander Major General Shehu Usman Abdulkadir and a forward technical mission already on the ground preparing for the arrival of troops.

Nigeria has tripled the size of its deployment, offering up 900 soldiers. Benin, Ghana, Niger, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Togo have also pledged troops.

Since France began airstrikes last weekend, Islamist rebels have been pushed out of three towns under control, including the world heritage listed city of Timbuktu, but seized the town of Diabaly, closer to the capital Bamako and also seized the former government held town of Konna, which prompted the French intervention to prevent the advance on the capital. The Malian and French troops then moved on and attacked Diabaly, with the Islamists putting up a tough resistance so the French report.  French airstrikes are going deep into their territory.  The French and Malian troops are struggling in the attempt on control of Diabaly.

The French Defence Minister said that "Malian forces have been sorely tried in recent combat. Our presence has strengthened them," he said.

French president Francois Hollande said that his government does not intend to keep forces in Mali, but will remain until security is restored and "terrorists" eliminated.

On Monday the 15-nation UN Security Council expressed its unanimous support for the French offensive. Washington has also welcomed the action.

Australia's Foreign Minister Bob Carr says there are echoes of Afghanistan in the Islamist challenge in Mali. Australia strongly supports the French intervention, but is not considering sending Australian troops there.

Senator Carr says he fears the consequences if Islamist extremists are able to create a safe haven spreading through parts of Africa. "The great issue that confronts us here is the advance of Islamist rebels on the south of Mali, which would threaten a situation akin to that of Afghanistan with Mali given over to terrorist activity," he told ABC News Breakfast.

The reality is that the plan of the Fundamentalists there is to establish a pan-African terrorist system based in the deserts of North Africa.  To assist the Mali Islamists the Al-Qaeda elements in Algeria have occupied a major joint BP, Statoil and Sonatrach facility in the In Amenas gas field and are trying to use their seizure of forty-one European workers there to pressure the French out of Mali and the use of Algerian Air space. A Briton and Algerian were killed in the attack and six others wounded. 150 French employed Algerians were also held at the facility and later reported freed. A prisoner exchange is being negotiated with the Algerian authorities with a planned release to northern Mali. This conflict will escalate and they have also threatened to incite Islamist insurrection in France. That was a given and is only a matter of time before it spreads to Europe generally.

Libya is assisting the attacks on Israel and the Muslim Brotherhood is assisting in the conflict in Syria to destroy the Assad regime but they are supporting the Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.

The problem in this situation is that NATO forces and the planned NWO under the IMF controls know full well that they have to control these Egyptian and Libyan forces and the Middle East to take control of the world financial system. To that end the government of Egypt under the Brotherhood has to be brought under economic control of the IMF and the forces in Libya have to be also under their control.  That is also in accordance with prophecy as we see in Daniel 11:42-43.  NATO will have to occupy the Middle East and this short lived evacuation of Iraq and Afghanistan will not last, if it is even completed in Afghanistan.  This text shows clearly that the treasuries of Egypt will be under control of the King of the North in this last phase and Libya and Ethiopia will do the bidding of the King of the North. That financial control of Egypt is now being put into place and the Egyptian Fundamentalists will seek to eradicate Israel and stimulate the Middle East. However, it will not last and NATO will be forced to occupy the Middle East in the near future as the conflict escalates all over North Africa and the Middle East and then moves north to Iran and on into Afghanistan and the old Soviet Republics (Dan. 11:44-45). Russia and China are continuing to bumble along into this crisis, obstructing the efforts to resolve it.

After this massive conflict, with a third of the world dead, the NWO will occupy the Middle East from Gaza to Jerusalem as its World Headquarters for forty-two months. During this time also the Two Witnesses will stand before the god of this world at Jerusalem. After this they must be killed and then Messiah will come (see the paper The Witnesses (including the Two Witnesses) (No. 135)).

This push at the Northern powers will continue to escalate now into full blown war.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General