Turkish magazine calls for revival of CALIPHATE amid Hagia Sophia conversion. At the center of the accusation is the latest issue of the magazine, published on Monday, which features a cover stating: “Get together for caliphate. If not now, when? If not you, who?“ An interview with Dilipak, a veteran Turkish conservative journalist, is one of the lead stories in the edition.
Ozer, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, said critics of the story were misinterpreting it. “Our journal demands that the countries of Islam come together, just as Europe has come together and established a union, just as others have made similar ones. Our call has nothing to do with any country,” he said.
The Caliphate cover story and the furor that followed comes on the back of Turkey’s decision to convert the Hagia Sophia, one of its national treasures, back into a functioning mosque. Originally constructed as a Christian church, it was converted into an Islam house of worship after Constantinople fell to the Ottomans. Ataturk transformed the building into a museum in 1935.
Biblical end times prophecy is centred on the Middle East with Israel at the centre. As mentioned in many previous posts, Turkey the Goat of Daniel 8, also plays a lead role as a revived Ottoman Empire which is eventually broken up into four nations out of which the Little Horn (Antichrist) arises. Biblical prophecy is the most significant proof that the Bible is God inspired and inerrant. Just as the Bible prophesied Jesus first coming in detail it also prophesies His second coming in even greater detail. Be encouraged.
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I was searching for anyone who thought the goat was Turkey. And here you are. This is a hard thing to defend, given that the angel straight up tells Daniel that the goat is Greece. I’d love to read how you explain that. Do you believe in multiple fulfillments, or is it a translation error calling it Greece?
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Who is the goat? The Hebrew word translated “Greece” is actually YAVAN. Yavan were an ancient people that occupied eastern Greece and western Turkey. The principle city within the region is Istanbul. The Angel is not referring to Greece but rather to the land once occupied by the Yavan people who lived in western Turkey! Hence, Turkey is the goat.
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These verses are one of the primary stumbling blocks of historic expositors. They see the names of ancient kingdoms and think, “Aha! This has an ancient fulfilment.” Nothing could be further from the truth. One verse earlier Gabriel advised Daniel that the entire vision concerns the appointed time of the end. Angel Gabriel makes three separate references that this vision applies to the time of the end and the final indignation. What could be clearer? Media and Persia disappeared over a thousand years ago. So why did the angel use the names of these ancient kingdoms? The name “Iran” (which occupies the same land as ancient Media and Persia) would have meant nothing to Daniel who lived 2500 years ago. The angel gave Daniel names of the ancient peoples who occupied the piece of land that currently is Iran. Those names Daniel was familiar with. Iran is already pushing west, north and south with its proxies. Most of this information comes from Nelson Walters book Revelation Deciphered (p. 334). Ready for Jesus Publications. Kindle Edition.
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