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Vedic Prophecies are prophecies that are written in the Vedas. Vedas are exhaustive scriptures of people who follow Hinduism. Each Vedic literature contains several sections and thousands of hymns. These hymns especially in Rig Veda are considered to be at least 6000-8000 years old. Vedas are originally written in Sanskrit, mother of all languages. They are believed to be revealed scriptures because they are considered to be divine origin. Since there are innumerable Vedic prophecies, I have only included major ones here.

The Prophecies listed are from the beginning of Kali Yuga (Age of quarrel, or Age of darkness). Just like there are seasons in the year, Vedic literature states that there are also seasons in the Universe. According to Vedic Scriptures, the current season (Kali Yuga – Age of quarrel or Age of Iron) began on February 20, 3102 B.C. It will last for 432,000 years. Of this only 5,000 years have elapsed leaving us with 427,000 years till end of this age. Then, another season (Satya Yuga – Age of truthfulness, Golden Age) will began which will last for 1,728,000 years. But it is also written that in this age of quarrel, there will be 10,000 years of Golden age where there will be one religion and one thought. Peace and harmony will flourish on the planet.

It is a general belief in Vedic Scriptures that birth of different religions at different time and place are part of a master divine plan to deliver the living entities from the ocean of birth and death. Furthermore, it is believed that God sends his pure devotee or comes Himself to teach people of that time and place only what they’re able to understand. So, it might seem that all of the major religions of the world differ practically on everything, but it is not so. Jesus Christ and Mohammed were sent to establish non-Vedic dharma and to put a degraded civilization back on the track of God Consciousness.

With our feeble mind we have a tendency to think of God and his wonderful activities in terms of only hundreds or thousands of years. We sometimes forget that it is Time that destroys everything and that Time is present during creation as well as during destruction of the Universe. Divine plans are written in Ages and not in hundreds or thousands of years. Most of these Vedic Prophecies are taken from the book, Vedic Prophecies by Stephen Knapp.

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Vedic Timeline
(The timeline describes major events as foretold in the Vedic Literature, which have or which will take place)

February 20, 3102 B.C. - Kali-yuga (Age of quarrel) begins - Length of age: 432,000 years - Characteristics: Decline in religious principles
??? BC - Age of Pisces begins (Nobody knows the exact date)
623 BC - Birth of Lord Buddha (Buddhism - Voidism)
6 or 7 BC - Birth of Jesus Christ (Christianity – Love of God)
571 AD - Birth of Mohammed (Islam – Impersonal philosophy, i.e. God has no form)
788 AD - Birth of Sankaracharya (Incarnation of Lord Shiva – Impersonal philosophy)
1469 AD - Birth Guru Nanak (Sikhism)
1485 AD - Birth of Caitanya Mahaprabhu (Taught Personal philosophy – Love of God)
1896 AD - Birth of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
(Start beginning of the new religion for the Age of Aquarius)
1898 AD - 5,000 years after beginning of Kali-yuga – Transition period for new Golden Age (10,000 years) begins – Characteristic: one religion,one thought, peace & harmony.
20th Century - End of Monarchy, Communism, Dictatorship, Imperialism, and slavery in most of the parts of the world. Beginning of New Technological age (Age of Aquarius is characterized as usage of Hi-Tech items). End of mainstream religion and medicine started. People are getting more Earth Conscious.
21st century (??? AD) - Wherever destructive, and dual ideas are still flourishing, it will end in 21st century. Mauritania and Sudan are two African countries still known to practice slavery. Monarchies in Middle East will end with WWIII. British Monarchy will also end. Communism will end in Cuba when Fidel Castro dies. Communism in China will end with WWIII. End of all major religions - Beginning of new age, one religion, one thought, peace and harmony for 10,000 years
2160 AD?? - Age of Aquarius begins (Nobody knows the exact date)
~11000 AD - End of Golden Age. Full force of Kali Yuga will take over for reminder of Kali Yuga (~ 417,000 years). No holy sites, no religion, No God left on the surface of the Earth.
429,000 AD - End of Kali Yuga. Lord Kalki will take birth and the dawn of Satya Yuga (Age of Truth – Golden Age) will began. It will last for 1,728,000 years.

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Characteristics of Age of Kali

Bhavishya Purana (1.4.16):
People would be reduced in their duration of life and would be inpatient, angry, and always disturbed. They will become overly attracted to the temporary glitter of materialism, reducing their ability to attain spiritual understanding.

Padma Purana (7.26.15-17):
In Kali-Yuga, which is the abode of sins, everyone is involved in sinful activities. They censure the Vedas, or spiritual truths, and engage in gambling and stealing. Brahmanas (Priests) will act fraudulently for a livelihood. Everyone will be addicted to women, sex, and intoxicating liquors. They will be stealing others’ wealth. Heretics and atheists will become prominent.

Padma Purana (3.7.13-14):
Men born in Kali-yuga will posess little luster and will be wrathful, greedy, untruthful, and be filled with jealousy, pride, anger, deceit, and malice.

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Coming changes during Kali-yuga (3102 BC and onwards)

Srimad Bhagavatam (12.3.39-40)
In the age of Kali, people’s minds will always be agitated. They will become emaciated by famine and taxation, and will always be disturbed by fear and drought. They will lack adequate clothing, food, and drink, will be unable to rest properly, have sex or bathe themselves, and will have no ornaments to decorate their bodies. In fact, the people of Kali-yuga will gradually come to appear like ghostly, haunted creatures.

Srimad Bhagavatam (12.3.24-25):
By the time the age of Kali begins, there will remain only 25 percent of all religious principles. As Kali-yuga unfolds, religious principles will decrease continuously until they all are finally destroyed. Atheism will become prominent in society.

Srimad Bhagavatam (12.3.38):
… uncultured men will pose as being affiliated with God and will accept charity and earn livelihood by making a show of being a spiritual authority. Such imposters will sit on a high seat and speak on religious topics, although they know nothing about true spirituality and cannot offer any real guidance.

Srimad Bhagavatam (58.44-45, 50):
… Saintly men will withdraw and keep aloof from the rest of society …. In the age of Kali, there will be wicked persons in the guise of sages …

Linga Purana (40.5):
Those who are expected to be qualified, such as teachers, priests, and brahmanas, will be defective.

Srimad Bhagavatam (12.2.4-5):
People will view the spiritual position by someone merely by the external dress and symbols he wears, and by that standard people will change from one spiritual discipline or rank to the next.

Narada Purana (1.41.44):
Brahmanas or chuchmen will be greedy for money, and will take away the wealth of good men and pious widows, but will perform no holy observances.

Golden age of kali will start 5,000 years after the age of Kali begins. This will last for 10,000 years, after which the full force of Kali-yuga will be felt. Then, roughly 15,000 years after the age of Kali begins, the Ganges, Yamuna and other sacred rivers should hide under the earth and wait to appear at the beginning of the next Satya-yuga (427,000 years from now).

Srimad Bhagavatam (12.2.6):
All of the sacred holy places will disappear. Later in Kali-yuga a sacred place will be considered as no more than a lake or river located some distance away.

Padma Purana (6.71.56-60):
As Kali-yuga unfolds, brahmanas [spiritual teachers and ministers] become heretics and engrossed in impious acts. They will not say their prayers or chant mantras, and will give up their vows ….

Srimad Bhagavatam (12.3.37):
Men will become so demanding in their attempt to satisfy their genitals that they will be controlled by women….

Sirmad Bhagavatam (12.3.34):
Women will become much shorter. They will lose all shyness, speak harshly, and engage in thievery, deceit, and bold audacity. They will eat too much and have more children than they can properly care for.

Narada Purana (1.41.79-80):
In Kali-yuga women will be self-supporting. Even women of noble families will be unfaithful to their husbands.

Vishnu Purana (Book Four, chapter 38):
Women will increasingly become ever fond of pleasure and follow whatever inclinations they have. They will become fickle-minded, short, and gluttonous. They will be selfish and untidy in appearance and habits. Arrangements of one’s hair will be all that women [or men] have to prompt their pride of beauty because, as Kali-yuga advances, there will be no more gold, jewels, diamonds, or fancy clothes with which to decorate themselves.

Padma Purana (7.26.25-27):
…. In Kali-yuga people will be wicked, even selling their daughters …

Note: In 3rd world countries, people do sell their daughters and sons to stay alive.

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Srimad Bhagavatam 1.3.24
Tatah kalau sampravrtteSammohaya sura-dvisam
Buddho namnanjana-sutahKikatesu bhavisyati
Then, in the beginning of Kali-yuga, the Lord will appear as Lord Buddha, the son of Anjana, in the province of Gaya, just for the purpose of deluding those who are envious of the faithful theist." -

Christ Following is taken from the book, Jesus Lived in India (Holger Kersten 1986 &1994.)

Jesus was mentioned in the Vedic literatures more than 3000+ years before he appeared.

ekadaa tu shakadhisho himatungari samaayayau
hunadeshasya madhye vai giristhan purusam shubhano
dadarsha balaram raajaa
Once upon a time the subduer of the Sakas went towards Himatunga and in the middle of the Huna country (Hunadesh - the area near Manasa Sarovara or Kailash mountain in Western Tibet), the powerful king saw an auspicious man who was living on a mountain. The man's complexion was golden and his clothes were white. (Bhavishya Purana 19:22.)

ko bharam iti tam praaha su hovacha mudanvitah
iishaa purtagm maam viddhi kumaarigarbha sambhavam
"The king asked, 'Who are you sir?' 'You should know that I am Isha Putra (the Son of God)'. he replied blissfully, and 'am born of a virgin.' "(Bhavishya Purana 19:23.)

mleccha dharmasya vaktaram satyavata paraayanam
iti srutva nrpa praaha dharmah ko bhavato matah
" 'I am the expounder of the religion of the Mlecchas (meat eaters, people who do not follow Vedic Principles) and I strictly adhere to the Absolute Truth.' Hearing this the king enquired, 'What are religious principles according to you opinion?' "(Bhavishya Purana 19:24.)

shruto vaaca maharaja prapte satyasya amkshaye
nirmaaryaade mlechadesh mahiso 'ham samaagatah
"Hearing this questions of Salivahara, Isha putra said, 'O king, when the destruction of the truth occurred, I, Masiha the prophet, came to this country of degraded people where there are no rules and regulations. Finding that fearful irreligious condition of the barbarians spreading from Mleccha-Desha, I have taken to prophethood'." (Bhavishya Purana 19:25-26.)

mlecchasa sthaapito dharmo mayaa tacchrnu bhuupate
maanasam nirmalam krtva malam dehe subhaasbham
naiganam apamasthaya japeta nirmalam param
nyayena satyavacasaa manasyai kena manavah
dhyayena pujayedisham suurya-mandala-samsthitam
acaloyam prabhuh sakshat- athaa suuryacalah sada
"Please hear Oh king which religious principles I have established among the mlecchas. The living entity is subject to good and bad contaminations. The mind should be purified by taking recourse of proper conduct and performance of japa. By chanting the holy names one attains the highest purity. Just as the immovable sun attracts, from all directions, the elements of all living beings, the Lord of the solar region, who is fixed and all-attractive, attracts the hearts of all living creatures. Thus by following rules, speaking truthful words, by mental harmony and by meditation, Oh descendant of Manu, one should worship that immovable Lord'." (Bhavishya Purana 19:27-30.)

isha muurtirt-dradi praptaa nityashuddha sivamkari
ishamasihah iti ca mama nama pratishthitam
"Having placed the eternally pure and auspicious form of the Supreme Lord in my heart, O protector of the earth planet, I preached these principles through the Mlecchas' own faith and thus my name became 'isha-masiha' (Jesus the Messiah)." (Bhavishya Purana 19:31.)

iti shrutra sa bhuupale natraa tam mlecchapujaam
sthaapayaamaasa tam tutra mlecchasthaane hi daarune
"After hearing these words and paying obeisances to that person who is worshipped by the wicked, the king humbly requested him to stay there in the dreadful land of Mlecchas." (Bhavishya Purana 19:32.)

svaraajyam praaptavaan raajaa hayamedhan cikirat
rajyam krtva sa sasthyabdam svarga lokamu paayayau
"King Salivahara, after leaving his kingdom performed an asvamedha yajna and after ruling for sixty years, went to heaven. Now please hear what happened when the king went to svargaloka." (Bhavishya Purana 19:33.)

Thus ends the second chapter entitled, "the age of Salivahara" of the story of Kali Yuga of the Caturyuga Khanda also called pratisarga-parva of the wonderful Bhavishya Maha Purana.

The following Sanskrit verses are taken directly from the Srimad Bhagavatam of Srila Vyasadeva, the original spiritual master, to support that what we are saying is coming from authorised the word of God that Bhavishya Purana is an authorised book written by Srila Vyasadeva.

Bhavishya Purana, Prati Sarg Parv III: 3, 3, Verse 5. The translation of Verses 5-27.
Translated by Dr. Vidyarthi
“A malechha (belonging to a foreign country and speaking foreign language) spiritual teacher will appear with his companions. His name will be Mahamad. Raja (King Bhoj) after giving this Mahadev Arab (of angelic disposition) a bath in the 'Panchgavya' and the Ganges water, (i.e. purging him of all sins) offered him the presents of his sincere devotion and showing him all reverence said, 'I make obeisance to thee.' 'O Ye! the pride of mankind, the dweller in Arabia, Ye have collected a great force to kill the Devil and you yourself have been protected from the malechha opponents (idol worshipers, pagans).' ‘O Ye! the image of the Most Pious God the biggest Lord, I am a slave to thee, take me as one lying on thy feet.' “The Malechhas have spoiled the well-known land of the Arabs. Arya Dharma is not to be found in that country. Before also there appeared a misguided fiend whom I had killed [note: e.g., Abraha Al-Ashram, the Abyssinian viceroy of Yemen, who attacked Mecca]; he has now again appeared being sent by a powerful enemy. To show these enemies the right path and to give them guidance the well-known Mahamad (Mohammad), who has been given by me the epithet of Brahma is busy in bringing the Pishachas to the right path. O Raja! You need not go to the land of the foolish Pishachas, you will be purified through my kindness even where you are. At night, he of the angelic disposition, the shrewd man, in the guise of a Pishacha said to Raja Bhoj, "O Raja! Your Arya Dharma has been made to prevail over all religions, but according to the commandments of ‘Ashwar Parmatma (God, Supreme Spirit), I shall enforce the strong creed of the meat-eaters. My follower will be a man circumcised, without a tail (on his head), keeping beard, creating a revolution, announcing call for prayer and will be eating all lawful things. He will eat all sorts of animals except swine. They will not seek purification from the holy shrubs, but will be purified through warfare. Because of their fighting the irreligious nations, they will be known as Musalmans (Muslims). I shall be the originator of this religion of the meat-eating nation."

Impersonalist Philosophy: Teaches that the material world is false. The impersonal Brahman, or great white light, is truth. One merges back into the Brahman, where there are no activities or spiritual characteristics, after giving up the ego or bodily consciousness. Lord Shiva completely rejected most of the Vedic literature and created impersonalist philosophy by word jugglery and convinced others by grammatical arguments. Like Buddha, he refused to answer question about the origin of the cosmos.

Padma Purana (6.236.5-12)
Shiva explains to his wife Parvati, that he will appear in the age of Kali (Known as Age of quarrel, begins at February 3020B.C.) to proclaim that the Buddhist doctrine is a false religion and illusory. He would propound the mayavada or impersonalist philosophy.

He explained, “The philosophy of Maya (impersonalist) is a wicked doctrine and is pseudo-Buddhist. In the form of a brahmana (priestly caste) I will proclaim this doctrine in Kali-yuga….”

Note: Shankaracharya (A.D. 788-820), also known as Shankara (Lord Shiva), was born of a South Indian brahmana (priestly class) family in the town of Kaladi on the banks of the Periyar river. When Shankara appeared, Buddhism had spread throughout India. It had been patronized by Emperor Ashoka in the 3rd Century B.C. and the followers of Buddhism had given up Vedas (Hindu holy books).

This shows that he was part of the divine plan to ultimately bring humanity on the level of worship personal form of God (theism).

In the Hindu epic the RIG VEDA
(i) In Mandala 7, Ush 5, Mantra 5 and Chapter 6
"when in the world the sinful ways will be on the rise and noble behavior will vanish, as the disappearance of the moon when on its wane on the darkest night, there will appear Vishnu as a prominent Prophet from the Keshatra Clan and will manifest in consecutive form through 10 Prophets to bring back the ways of virtue to the ailing world."

(ii) In the same Vedas, in another part even in the name NANAK and the clan he belongs to is recorded thus –
"For the preaching of religious ways and the earning of good karma, there will manifest Guru NANAK from the clan of the Veithees"

Note: Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh Faith, was born in Nankana Sahib near Lahore now in Pakistan in 1469 and breathed his last in 1539 at the age of 70. There were 9 other gurus (Prophets) that consecutively followed his lineage, all receiving Divine revelations but only under his name NANAK without attributing any such revelatory passages to their own names. Guru NANAK was one of the few, if not the only prophet who traveled widely outside the country of his birth, throughout the then known world. Before he died he is credited to have made millions of followers within the ranks of the Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists and those with no previous religious leanings.

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu: (To propound the personal philosophy of God.
Rejected impersonalist philosophy).

In the Atharva Veda, the Supreme Person says:
I will descend on the earth after the passage of four thousand years in the Kali-Age, [kalau chatuh sahasrabdhopari] and before the passage of five thousand years [pancha sahasra abhyantare]. I will come on the earth on the bank of the Ganges, [tira-sthah alakanandayah]. I will be a tall and saintly Brahmana devotee. I will have all the auspicious symptoms of an exalted person [dirghangah sarva-laksana-yuktah].

I will exhibit renunciation. I will have all auspicious signs. I will be a devotee, practicing bhakti yoga. I will taste the rasa (love) of My own devotional service.

In the Sama Veda, the Supreme Lord says:
I shall come to the earth, accompanied by My associates, in a place by the bank of the Ganges. I will advent to save the people who are afflicted and devoured by the sins of the age of Kali. I will manifest as an Avadhut Brahman Sannyasi.

Bhavishya Purana:
“The Supreme Lord said: In Kali-yuga, I will appear as the son of Saci, and inaugurate the sankirtana (chanting of the holy name) movement. There is no doubt about this.”

Note: Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared on this planet on 1485 AD as it was predicted as son of Saci.

Srimad-Bhagavatam 1:3:25
athasau yuga-sandhyayam dasyu-prayesu rajasu
janita visnu-yasasonamna kalkir jagat-patih

Translation
"Thereafter, at the conjunction of two yugas, the Lord of the creation will take His birth as the Kalki incarnation and become the son of Visnu Yasa. At this time the rulers of the earth will have degenerated into plunderers”.

Purport
He is to appear at the conjunction of the two yugas, namely at the end of Kali-yuga (Age of quarrel) and the beginning of Satya-yuga (Age of Religiosity). The cycle of the four yugas, namely Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali, rotates like the calendar months…. Therefore at the end of this period, the incarnation of Kalki will take place, as foretold in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. The name of His father, Visnu Yasa, a learned brahmana, and the village Sambhala are also mentioned.

Srimad Bhagavatam 2.7.38:
yarhyaalayeshv api sataam na hareh kathaah syuh
paashandino dvija-jana vrshalaa nrdevaah
svaaha svadha vashabhiti sma giro na yatra
shaastaa bhavishyati kaler bhagavan yugante

"Thereafter, at the end of Kali-Yuga, when there exists no topics on the subject of God, even at the residents of so-called saints & respectable gentlemen of the three higher castes and when the power of government is transferred to the hands of ministers elected from the low-born sudra class, and when nothing is known of the techniques of sacrifice, even by word, at that time the Lord will appear as the Supreme chastiser."

Srimad Bhagavatam 12.2.18:
sambhala-grama-mukhasya brahmanasya mahttmanah bhavane vishnuyashasah kalki
pradur bhavishyati

"Lord Kalki will appear in the home of the most eminent Brahmin of Shambhala village, the great soul Vishnuyasha."

Srimad Bhagavatam 12.2.19-20:
ashvam ashugam aruhya devadattam jagatpatih asinasadhu-damanam ashtair
aishwarya-gunanvitah vicharan nashuna kshaunyam hayenapratima-dyutih
nrpa-linga-chchado dasyun kotisho nihanishyatih

"Lord Kalki, the Lord of the universe, will mount His swift horse Devadatta
and sword in hand, travel over the earth exhibiting His eight mystic
opulence & eight special qualities of Godhead. Displaying His unequalled
effulgence and riding with great speed, He will kill by the millions those
thieves who have dared as kings."

Revelations (19.11-16 & 19.21):
“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, but no man knew but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies, which were in heaven, followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast live into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat on the horse.”

Comments:
At the end of Kali-yuga no one will know His name since only within 10,000 years from now religion will be wiped out from the face of this earth so what to speak of 427,000 thousand years from now. No on will have the slightest expectation of Him or His appearance. No one will know His name. And His army of brahmanas will be as pure as if they had descended from heaven. He will kill all of the miscreants and will deliver few saintly people from the present conditions of the earth, changing it back to the Golden Age of Satya-yuga.

“And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb [a typical symbol for the Divine or an incarnation of the Divine] stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps; And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.”

Comments:
One significant description in the above verses is that those who are redeemed from the earth will have God’s name written on their foreheads. This is a widespread custom of the Vaisnava brahmans in India to write the name of God, such as Vishnu or Krishna, on their foreheads. This is usually put on with clay made from the banks of a holy river (ex: Ganges and Sarasvati). It is applied in the middle of the forehead in the shape of a “V” which represent the name of God (Vishnu), and that the body is a temple of God. The mark is made while reciting a mantra, “Om Keshavaya namah,” which means “Salutations to Lord Keshava,” another name of Krishna or Vishnu. So when last of the society will be delivered from the earth during the end times, they will be those who wear the name of God on their foreheads.

Srimad-Bhagavatam 9:16:33 Purport:
… But at the end of Kali-yuga the entire population will consist of mlecchas because no one will follow the Vedic principles. At that time the incarnation Kalki will appear. He will kill all the mlecchas indiscriminately with his sword."

Note: Today village of Shambhala doesn’t exist anywhere in India or any other part of the world. But according to Hollow Earth Theorist, the city of Shambhala is currently located in the inner world. Hollow earth theory summary: The crux of the hollow earth theory is that the earth is a shell with walls about 800 miles thick. In the North and South Pole, there are holes 1400 miles across, with edges that curve smoothly from the outside of the shell around to the inside. A sear or surface traveler could proceed over an edge of the hole, like an ant crawling over the lip of a coffee mug from the outside to the inside, and not be aware that he was actually entering the interior of the earth. Bernard explains that the holes have never been seen from the air because pilots are fooled by their compasses into believing that they are crossing the pole, when they are actually following the hole's "magnetic rim". There are numerable examples in Buddhist and Hindu Holy Scriptures regarding the Hollow Earth and the area known as Shambhala. It is only logical; since everybody on the surface of our planet will be atheist and sinful activities to the grossest limits will be awaken in peoples’ hearts. Then, the only logical place for God to take birth will be in the inner world where religion will exist continuously. It is said that one can go to inner world from Mammoth caves of Kentucky, Himalayas, and from many other places in the world.

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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Century 1, Quatrain 96
A man will be charged with destroying the temple and religions altered by fantasy. He will harm the rocks rather than the living [believers]. Ears filled with ornate speeches. The man will be an eloquent religious revolutionary. The man mentioned will strike out against traditional rock-like dogmas, earning the unified wrath of the world's organized religions.

Bhaktivinode Thakura predicted in 1875:
“A personality will soon appear to preach the teaching of Lord Caitanya and move unrestrictedly over the whole world with His message”.

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Chanting of the Holy Name

Divyaprabhanda 1:10
Forty-six years before the beginning of Kali-yuga, Vishnuchittha, one of the twelve great Vaishnava saints of the Sri Sampradaya predicted:

"There will come a race which will tread the Earth with raised hands and vertical tilaka on their foreheads, who will chant the names of Hari (God); this will destroy the influence of Kali."
Note: The Hare Krishna devotees today chant with raised hands and vertical tilaka on their foreheads.

Prophecy of the Golden Age (1ast for 10,000 years)
from the Brahma Vaivarta Purana
By Jahnava Nitai Das

The following verses from the Brahma-vaivarta Purana that were spoken by Lord Krishna to Mother Ganga (Ganges) just before the beginning of Kali yuga (the age of quarrel and strife). Kali yuga began on February 20, 3102 BC, and it has a duration of 432,000 years, leaving us with 427,000 till the end of the present age. Within this 432,000 year period, there is a period of 10,000 years that will be a golden age. That golden age is being described below by Lord Sri Krishna. This text is taken from the Brahma-vaivarta Purana.

Text 49
Ganges said: O protector, Supreme enjoyer, on your departure for the perfect abode, Goloka, thereafter what will be my situation in the age of Kali?

Text 50
The blessed Lord said: On the earth 5,000 years of kali will be sinful and sinners will deposit their sins in you by bathing.

Comments: Kali Yuga began on 3102 BC. Therefore, 5,000 years finished on 1898 AD. Beginning of 20th century marked the cleansing process by way WWI and WWII. When too much bad Karma (Killing of innocent animals, intoxication, illicit sex, and gambling) is accumulated, major international disaster is a way of cleansing the Earth of sinful activity. Now we are on the eve of WWIII where bad Karma accumulated for last 60 years will be cleansed.

Text 51
Thereafter by the sight and touch of those who worship me by my mantra, all those sins will be burnt.

Text 52
There will be chanting of the name of Hari (God) and reading of the [Bhagavata] Purana. Reaching such a place, attentively hear.

Text 55
O Ganges, the whole planet will become a pilgrimage sight by the presence of My devotees, even though it had been sinful.

Text 59
For 10,000 years of kali such devotees of mine will fill the whole planet. After the departure of My devotees there will only be one varna [outcaste].

Text 60
Devoid of My devotees, the earth will be shackled by kali. Saying this Krishna departed.

Comments: Here it is talking about Earth after 10,000 years. It is saying, there will be no more devotees left on the planet. In other words, no more religion.

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12 Great Ages

Each of the 12 Great Ages (Ages refer to the signs of the Zodiac) last the same amount of time, about 2,160 years. This figure is based on 1/12th of the time for the precession of the equinox to make a complete cycle of about 25,920 years. In another words, it takes 25,920 years for our Sun to make a complete cycle, or 72 years for the precession to move 1 degree. Currently we’re in the Age of Pisces.

72 years x 360 degrees = 25,920 years for complete cycle
25,920 years ¸ 12 Ages = 2,160 years/age

Age of Pisces:
Excerpt from an Interview with Bob Zanotti from Swiss Radio International, Bern (1999) on Change.

Age of Pisces started right around the time of birth of Lord Buddha. Age of Pisces energies was for separation, duality, selfishness, individuality and authority. We went through industrialism, wars, political and religious fanatism, etc.

This is the time we see appearance of so many different types of thoughts and ideas. Births of so many different religions and political ideas took place in different parts of the world. We see birth of impersonal philosophy (Islam); personal philosophy, voidism (Buddhism), communism, democracy, dictatorship, monarchy, colonization, slavery, and so forth appeared. At the end of age of Pisces, we will see one by one all ideas will come to close and only one thought will remain. It will bring universal peace.

Age of Aquarius:
Excerpt from an Interview with Bob Zanotti from Swiss Radio International, Bern (1999) on Change.

Change is a universal law of nature. Everything is in a constant state of change and flux. Nothing remains as is. Stagnation means death.

We are currently living through major cosmic changes and these cosmic energies influence our world in every way. We are going through a change of the ages, from Pisces to Aquarius, and what we are literally experiencing is the destruction of the old world and the birth of a new world. We can say our planet is going through labor pains.

We are living through this chaos of change, some of us knowingly and others unknowingly depending on our state of consciousness.

The new energies of the aquarius age will see us going towards a world of harmony and unity on every level, of sharing, goodwill, group consciousness and globalization.

Age of Pisces energies was for separation, duality, selfishness, individuality and authority. The transition of the ages goes over a few hundred years, and during this time both the energies, which are contradictory, are influencing our planet and mankind. This explains the catastrophes, general chaos and personal upheavals.

20th century is considered to be a transition period between two ages. Many things have come to close in 20th century. For example, we saw fall of Monarchies, fall of communism, fall of dictatorship, fall of colonization, and fall of empires worldwide. These ideas are contradictory in the Age of Aquarius. We also saw slavery ended worldwide. Wherever it is flourishing in Africa it will end in 21st century.

In 21st century we will see end of communism in China, Cuba, and other parts of the world. Many dictators have been killed, assassinated, or removed. The most recent as we all know is Saddam Hussain. We will also see end of Monarchies in Saudi Arabia, and Syria. It has been predicted that English Monarchy will also end.

In the last 30 years, we saw people get into Occult, mysticism, Karma, Transcendental Meditation, and other Eastern thoughts. We saw movies like Harry Potter and shows like Charmed, X-Files, and so forth become popular. This is the beginning of integration of human thoughts and ideas in formation of one religion.

We will also see end of major world religions, and only one religion/idea will remain.

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End of all major religions foretold (21st century)
From the book 1000 for 2000, by John Hogue

Arghati Prophecy (centuries ago)
Men will increasingly neglect their souls …. The greatest corruption will reign on earth. Men will become like bloodthirsty animals, thirsting for the blood of their brothers. The Crescent [Islam] will become obscured and its followers will descent into lies and perpetual warfare.

Thirteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, (1932) Final Declaration
The holders of the faith, the glorious rebirths, will be broken down and left without a name. As regards the monasteries and priesthood, their lands and other properties will be destroyed.

Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet (c. 1980)
Most probably I am the last [Dalai Lama]. Nothing wrong. When there is no longer any benefit, then naturally the Dalai Lama ceases to be.

Note: It has been predicted by Buddhist Prophets that after Dalai Lama has been dethroned and after 2500 years of Buddhism, it will end. Buddhism is already 2500 years old, and Dalai Lama has been dethroned for last 50 some years. He has been exiled in India ever since China occupied Tibet. Currently, China is building railroad to Tibet to integrate it into China.

Prophecy of St. Malachy (c. 1140)
During the last persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there shall sit Petrus Romanus [Peter of Rome], who shall feed the sheep amid great tribulations, and when these have passed, the City of the Seven Hills shall be utterly destroyed, and the awful Judge will judge the people.

St. Malachy predicted that there would be 112 Popes until Doomsday. Pope John Paul II is named as Pope 110 and is in failing health.

Nostradamus (1555) Century 5 Quatrain 49
Not from Spain, but from ancient France, will be elected for the trembling ship [the papacy]. He will make a promise to the enemy who will cause great plague during his reign.

Cheiro(1931)
Cheiro’s world predictions
The cycle of Pisces, nearly two thousand years ago, ushered in the dawn of Christianity. Its period in the Precession of the Equinox is 2,150 years – it has nearly run its course.

Nostradamus (1557)
Epistle to Henry II
The Protestants will be entirely undone in all of Europe and part of Africa by the Islamics.

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Conditions at the End of Kali-yuga
(Kali-yuga lasts for 432,000 years of which only 5,000 years have elapsed)

Narada Purana (1.41.64-65):
At the end of Kali-yuga, five-year-old girls will give birth, but the maximum age of life will be only sixteen years. They will call boys up to seven or eight years youth, and old age will be anything beyond that.

Padma Purana (7.26.32-34):
Because of the wicked deeds of people, they will completely perish within ten to twelve years.

Linga Purana (40.26-73):
… Beasts of prey will become violent, and germs, mice, and serpents will torment men …. rain will be sparse and earth will have a short supply of useful of water and few fruits …. Earth will have no kings, riches, or food grains …. spiritual or Vedic texts will no longer exist …. people will be afflicted with fear as anarchy spreads …. People will be suspicious of each other …. Due to lack of rain, nothing will grow and they will give up agriculture. They will be force to live near rivers and oceans. They will live on whatever meat, roots, and fruits they can find …. People will be stunted in growth and will be forced to war tree barks, leaves, and skins.

Vayu purana (58.42, 52, 54, 55, 61-62):
Government administrators will be merely thieves and robbers …. Society will be full of foul conduct …. Men will be a minority and there will be many women …. People will be sickly and will have little strength …. Earth will be desolate with only scattered groups of people in the cities [obviously living among the ruins] …. Abundance and good health will be rare …. Spiritual knowledge and holy rites will have disappeared …. Worms, mice, and serpents will gain strength and size [Since everybody will live shorter lives, and nothing will grow, it seems that at the end of Kali-yuga we will have return of the stone age people]

Linga Purana (40.19-25):
…. Number of cows will decline and good men will disappear from all areas of society [This may mean that such men will live outside society, underground, or in mountain caves or will be living in a higher consciousness and on a higher vibratory level by which they simply disappear from the view of ordinary men].

Srimad Bhagvataam(12.2.12-16):
All true religious principle will have been destroyed or will have disappeared near the end of Kali-yuga. Religion will be atheistic …. physical size of all creatures will be much smaller. Even plants and herbs will be tiny. Trees will be dwarfed, thus providing no fruit or shade …. What few cows are left will be like goats….There will be continuous darkness, bad weather, earthquakes, and disasters .... All human beings will be no better than Asses.

WILL THE REAL MAHDI PLEASE STAND UP?
by Michael McClellan

April 8, 2004 (UPDATED April 24, 2004, 6:26 PM EDT) - There are two men in the Middle East seeking to fulfill this Islamic prophecy. One is so pretentious he has named his private army of followers "the Mehdi army," thus, in so doing, laying claim that he is the long-awaited al-Mahdi. The other is clever and calculating, still hiding in the mountains of Afghanistan. His claim to infame was the destruction of the World Trade Centre in New York. His claim to "messiah-hood" has been the addition of the name "Muhammad" to his signature.

According to KL's website, The Future Is For Islam, which I will shortly add below to my links to favourite sites, "throughout the history of Islam, a few individuals -- driven either by the desperate state of Muslims in their community or a selfish pursuit of power and prestige -- laid claim to being Mahdi and found a following among the uninformed masses, looking for salvation from heavens."

It appears that, once again, "a few individuals" are attempting to realise the vision by forcing the hand of destiny.

The fact that "he will be tall with a fair complexion, having a broad forehead and an aquiline nose, with a mole on his right cheek" would tend to eliminate the stout, short, Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr right off the bat. But it does seem almost applicable to Osama bin Laden, save for one detail: his complexion is swarthy, not fair.

Funny, too, isn't it, that "the Great Monarch" of France who appears in so many Catholic and European prophecies as a latter-day Charlemagne and victor over Islamic aggressors in Europe, is also described as being "tall with a fair complexion, having a broad forehead and an aquiline nose."

Will this be a real person or have we, through various prophecies from East and West, merely tapped into a universal archetype of "the hero?"

One more thing that is in Bin Laden's favour from an Islamic standpoint, according to Mahdi 'Alayhis Salaam: Allah's Khalifah by Sheikh Moulana Sayyid Muhammed Bidre-Aalimra and translated, edited, and published by Mufti Abdullah ibn Abdurahmaan:

"If you see the Black Banners coming from Khurasan (current day Afghanistan) go to them immediately, even if you must crawl over ice, because indeed amongst them is the Caliph, Al Mahdi."

Bin Laden's base of operations has long been in Afghanistan and the "Black Banners" were associated with the Taliban (and possibly the "new Taliban"). Bin Laden is also around the age of 40, the age the Mahdi will supposedly be when he is revealed to the world. Al-Sadr, who has never been in Afghanistan, is 30.

Still, it seems to me unlikely that Bin Laden is the al Mahdi. Would any authentic Mahdi stoop to such trickery as this?:

So, if neither al-Sadr or bin Laden are the al Mahdi, is it possible that either fulfills prophecy, Islamic or otherwise, in some other manner?

Among the signs preceding Imam Mahdi, is the appearance of the Sufyaani. The Sufyaani will emerge before the Mahdi from the depths of Damascus ...The Ahadith regarding the Sufyaani specify that he is a tyrant who will spread corruption and mischief on the earth before the Mahdi. He will be such a tyrant that he will kill the children and rip out the bellies of women. The Sufyaani will murder those from the household of the Prophet and will rule over Syria. When he hears about the Mahdi, he will send an army to seize and kill him.

However, according to KL, the physical characteristics of this evil predecessor do not even come close to matching the physical appearances of al-Sadr or bin Laden (he will have a large head, a pockmarked face, and white spots in his eyes). Also, al-Sadr comes from Iran, not Syria, and bin Laden from Saudi Arabia.

It is possible that this Sufyaani character may be another Saddam Hussein: an Arab leader who will come to power in Syria after the US-Israeli destruction of Assad, one that will be supported by Western Europe and perhaps the United States. Saddam was used as a weapon against Iran in the 1980s. Perhaps this Sufyaani will be used against al-Sadr's 10,000-strong, someday to be 100,000-strong, Mehdi army in Iraq and against Iran and the "Black Banners" of a new Taliban in Afghanistan (a 100,000-strong Iraq army is prophesied in the Hadith to be destroyed by the Western-supported Sufyaani). This would serve Israeli, EU, and US interests assuredly. But he will turn out to be an uncontrollable monster and slaughter innocents in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, and other places as also prophesied in the Hadith.

Then again, according to KL, Saddam Hussein was the Sufyaani, or rather, a Sufyaani archetype. His 8-year war with Iran, slaughter of thousands of Iraqi Kurds and Shiites, and invasion of Kuwait are part of what is prophesied this figure will do. Then again, is it possible that Saddam will no longer remain a US captive and go on to fulfill the rest of the Sufyaani's destiny?

Here is what is being predicted: "a victory parade in Jerusalem with liberated Saddam Hussein at the lead. This will follow after a war in Syria and the assassination of King Abdullah of Jordan. There will also be an assassination attempt against a high-ranking Egyptian official."

This could explain my dream visions that Saddam would not only survive last year's war, but also lead new attacks against pro-Western Arab states and Western military forces. Seems impossible now, but who can say?

I confess that I am a bit unclear as to exactly where this Sufyaani first appears. KL says Syria in some places and Iraq in others. The latter would not only favour Saddam as being this figure, but al-Sadr as well. I bring this up because it has been reported that "Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has warned neighbouring Kuwait to end the U.S. military presence at bases within the emirate" or face a possible invasion.

In any event, if Muqtada al-Sadr and Osama bin Laden appear anywhere, it is in Western prophecy.

Al-Sadr may be none other than "the bloody Alus" and "the black and angry one" (black-bearded and black-turbaned) who appears in Nostradamus' Quatrain 6.33. Or Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may still be "the bloody Alus," but al-Sadr, as "the black and angry one," will pick up the pieces in Iraq after the defeat of Syria by driving out the United States with his ever-growing Mahdi army. He may even become the one called the "leader of Persia" by the prophet Daniel due to the massive support he is receiving from Iran.

And who might this "He" be? I have long felt that this applies to a US leader whose forces are trapped in a war in Iraq when "he" launches an air war against Syria, perhaps in concert with an Israeli attack. "He" may also be one of the good "great Arab" figures that appears in Nostradamus' quatrains. This "he" may be General John Abizaid, the top US commander in Iraq and an Arab American. Perhaps Nostradamus, practising a bit of arcane medieval wit, decided to name General Abizaid "Alus": al-US. This at once Arabicises the USA (or US in this case) by adding the Arab "al": indicating the US being led by an Arab military commander: thus, Gen John Abizaid = al-US.

And actually, it is, anyway. Once the US is driven out of Iraq or forced into a Lebanon-like withdrawal, you will see the region quickly become an inter-Arab, inter-Muslim war.

Crowds gather around burned-out cars in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad

There may be yet another quatrain that is intended for this radical cleric, al-Sadr, one that I had long thought applied to Saddam Hussein:

Quatrain 9.74

Within the city of Fertsod, homicide,
Again and again many oxen plow, not to slaughter,
A return again to the honours of Diana,
And to Vulcan dead bodies to bury.

Much of Baghdad is now being called Sadr City -- the additional "r" bringing the name much closer to "Fertsod" than "Saddam" ever did. There is no question that this city is "homicidal" and becoming more so everyday. Technically, one could also call Fallujah "Sadr City" as well, I suppose. As for "Diana," attention has returned to her in a number of ways since the new violence in Iraq began: from the inquest into her death, revelations revealed in one of her letters, look-alike Sophie of Wessex gaining in popularity, the recent televising of photos taken after Diana's fatal car crash in Paris seven years ago and the subsequent controversy for having done so, to a general international reflection on the life and death of the princess.

As for the bodies commended to Vulcan, the god of fire, this may refer to the coming "War of Alus" discussed in Quatrain 6.33 above: a calamitous Middle East war that could result in hundreds of thousands dead, a few million if battlefield nuclear weapons are used against Syria, Iran, and even the Iraqi Shiites themselves.

As for Bin Laden: he may be the "master of Mohammad's law" who is born in Saudi Arabia ("the fortunate country of Arabia"); the great terrorist who plagues the Romans, coming "from the Orient with an African heart" (Yemen, bin Laden's ancestral home, is quite close to Somalia and East Africa, whilst the terror mastermind himself lives in Afghanistan); and is also called "Adulancatif" (Calif Bin Ladun) -- a figure who appears in Quatrain 10.96. But again, due to his "great riches" and rumoured new close association with Iranian mullahs and Iran's terrorist network, could also be destined to become Daniel's "king of Persia."

In closing, without a definite match for either in the Hadith's prophecies of the Mahdi or the Sufyaani, we must conclude that we are not living in the very end of times for Muslim or Christian -- that time which corresponds to the final, biblical, seven-year era of Tribulation.

BASHAR AL-ASSAD IS PLAYING WITH FIRE
by Mike McClellan

August 12, 2003 (2:37 AM EDT) - UPDATED January 31, 2004 (10:10 PM EST) -- The time for launching terrorist rockeet attacks against the Israeli nation in the north is nearing its end. Neither the United States nor Israel will tolerate this sort of thing much longer. Last year's war in Iraq has not yet triggered the major regional confrontation warned of by the prophets, a fourth Arab-Israeli conflict that escalates until nearly all the world is undone; but the machinations of Syria, Lebanon, and their eastern partner Iran may still succeed in plunging the entire Middle East into a war the likes of which has never been seen.

NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION OF DAMASCUS

Isaiah 17:1-2, 14 --

The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be
a ruinous heap. The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall
lie down ... And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not.
This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

Aroer is the western area of Jordan, almost due south of Damascus in Syria. Not only will Damascus be utterly destroyed by nuclear fire, but this Palestinian region of Jordan will be depopulated by radioactive fallout. Hamath and Arpad were both located in northern Syria, illustrating the fullness of the wrath to come throughout the whole of the Syrian nation.

According to Jane's Defence the USA is preparing for the next phase of its war on terror: attacks against Hezbollah sites in southwestern Lebanon that will function as a pretext for bombing targets deep inside Syria.

The biblical prophet Jeremiah describes a major Middle East war where Damascus is destroyed, apparently by nuclear weapons:

Jeremiah 49:22-28 --

Behold, he shall come up and fly as an eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah [Busra, SW Syria
OR Bosra, SE Iraq]: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom [S. Jordan,
NW Saudi Arabia] be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. Concerning Damascus,
Hamath [N. Syria] is confounded, and Arpad [N. Syria]: for they have heard
evil tidings: they are fainthearted ...

Damascus is waxed feeble, and turns herself to flee, and fear has seized on her: anguish and sorrows
have taken her, as a woman in travail. How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
Her young men shall fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off
in that day, says the Lord of hosts.

And I [the God of Israel] will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces
of Benhadad. Concerning Kedar [Jordan] and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor [N. Israel], which
the king of Babylon [Iraq] shall smite ... go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east [Iran].

At first I thought Jeremiah's "king of Babylon" (leader of Iraq) was Saddam Hussein. Thus, I saw this as a devastating Israeli attack on Syria followed by an Iraqi attack on Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and northern Israel, leading to Iranian involvement. A major Arab-Israeli "war of wars" in other words.

However, now, for the time being anyway, the king of Babylon (Iraq) is no longer Saddam Hussein but the United States and its leader President George W. Bush. Note that this king is even described as "flying as an eagle": the eagle being an animal symbol of the USA. Thus, the war described by Jeremiah may well be a US air war conducted against Syria, Palestinian militants in western and southern Jordan and the West Bank, possible Al Qaeda camps in NW Saudi Arabia, and Hezbollah sites along the northern Israeli-southern Lebanon border. Such action would almost certainly drag in the Iranians ("the men of the east") on the side of Lebanon and Syria.

Quatrain 6.33

His last hand through the bloody Alus (AL-ASsad? AL-USA?),
His protection by sea will not be guaranteed:
Between two rivers, dreading the military hand,
The black and angry one will make him repent.

It is no secret that the US is as eager to neutralise Syria in its goal to wipe out every terrorist nation from the face of the earth as Israel is to free itself from Syria's military and WMD threat. Israel's war would quickly become America's war, especially with US troops in neighbouring Iraq. Which of the two nations would use nuclear weapons against Damascus and other Syrian targets first is difficult to say, but clearly the goal of the Bush administration is being realised in line 1. It will be the US military's final triumph in the Middle East since "the last hand" will be played.

Regarding line 2, after the war in Iraq was declared officially ended by George W Bush on May 1, 2003, he then began to withdraw many US naval and air forces that were used during the Iraqi campaign. The ground forces the US now has in Iraq, "between two rivers" (the Tigris and Euphrates), will not have the "protection by sea" that will be required during such a major conflict if it is prematurely ignited by Israel, Lebanon, and Syria.

As for the last two lines, a Shiite mullah strong in Iraq, possibly the young, charismatic cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, or else a powerful ayatollah from neighbouring Iran will overwhelm the US forces now occupying the land "between two rivers" and make the US President "repent" having placed American troops into Iraq!

The defeat of the West and the United States in the Middle East is also prophesied by two modern European prophets. According to the Seer of Waldviertel and Erna Stieglitz, the US will be defeated in Saudi Arabia and the oil fields of the Persian Gulf will be taken over by Russia. When fighting spreads to Egypt, Nato or the European Union will become involved, and terrible nuclear battles will be fought in the Balkans, the Adriatic Sea, and the Eastern Mediterranean. On this point two other prophets, Nostradamus and Alois Irlmaier, also agree.

How long will this great Middle East war last? It already has been in progress since Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003). Both conflicts continue as low level guerrilla wars that occasionally become very hot, especially in Iraq. Like a snowball being rolled down a snowy hill, the existing war will only grow larger and larger. The latest I would expect it growing to include both Syria and Iran is October 2005. The US or Israel may attack Syria anytime now and Iran could be at war with the US by August.

Personally, I believe it is the Bush administration's plan to go after Syria first, in 2004 or 2005, and then Iran a year or two later (2006 or 2007). However, this will be a miscalculation. Iran and Syria are close military allies. War with Syria would quickly, perhaps not immediately, but within a few months draw Iran into the conflict. Thus, a war with Syria in 2004 will likely mean war with Iran later in 2004. If Bush waits until 2005, we can expect the same situation in that year instead. Iran is the ultimate beneficiary of the coming war. Most of the Middle East could be lost to Iran and her allies (which may include Russia) by July 2006.

My initial prognosis was that a war with Syria would begin in 2003. It appears that, like my projection for war in Iraq, I will be off by one year. For my prediction of an Israeli-Syrian war with possible US involvement in Lebanon and Syria starting in June 2003 go to 2003 (Part Two). For my projection of a US-led war against Syria and Iran, with a heavier emphasis on Iran and Turkey, beginning in August 2003 go to 2003 (Part Three).

PREVENTING WORLD WAR III
by Michael McClellan

December 31, 2003 - One of the most important properties about prophecies is often overlooked. We tend to look at a prediction as though it is written in stone and cannot be altered or mitigated. Sometimes this is true; but often it is not.

One of the most written-about events in the history of prophecy is World War III. To be certain there have been other prophets who have seen far beyond it to other future wars, but they, like their shorter-sighted fellows, still envision the same scenario. Over and over, from the Book of Daniel to the Catholic prophets of the first millennium to the Central and Western European prophets (and master prophets such as Nostradamus) of the second millennium, we see the same theme repeated for what can only be called a Third world war.

In every account there is a sense of fatalism, of an encounter with the inevitable. Still, even if this war cannot be erased from the horizon, it can be pushed farther back and once again out of view. If the future cannot be changed, it can at least be postponed.

Every prophesied event is dependent upon the matrix of concurrent events in the world for the shape it shall take. Change the matrix for the better and the event must await another matrix that is more favourable for it to accomplish its fulfillment.

That is the lesson I have always hoped my base 7 system of prediction would teach.

We now know from careful study of prophecy who the two most powerful antagonists of World War III, when it finally comes, will be. We know them in prophecy by many ancient and historical names, but today we know them simply as Russia and Iran.

They will have allies of course. But all of these, save China and North Korea, can do nothing very much independently of Iran and Russia save, at worst, to prosecute limited regional conflicts.

So let us stop all the silly talk about the United States being the next Nazi Germany. Prophecy does not support the idea of America being some sort of ultimate antagonist in ANY world war.

Knowing that Russia and Iran are destined to one day start a horrible war against the nations of the West is important. It is important because it can only happen if the proper global matrix is in place for it to happen.

Is it? I believe the current conditions are now beginning to form an acceptable matrix, but it is not too late to change things.

All the US has to do is to ernestly accept the olive branch President Khatami of Iran has been reaching out since 1997. The people of Iran do not want war, only the mullahs want this. It is time to forgive the events of 1979-81 -- many of the young people in Iran were not even born when this happened or were only very small children.

The other thing the US must do shouldn't hurt at all: get off the throne and get the US-Russian relationship back on track. America has not been a very good friend to Russia in recent years. It was good under Reagan and it was good under Clinton; but both Bush presidencies have chosen to ignore and to criticise Moscow.

Is this appeasement? No! Neither Iran nor Russia has done anything hostile nor threatening to other nations so that befriending them would be an act of appeasement. Both nations are still operating within a matrix where they can benefit economically from international relations and there are no territories under serious dispute.

Sadly, the same cannot be said about China or North Korea. There is territory under dispute -- territory that China, at least, is willing to sacrifice its own future over. Russia sees this too and recognises the danger of a Pacific war ... not only to its neighbours, but to itself. Like the US, she is doing what she can to keep China focused on economic growth and not territorial expansionism.

Nevertheless, we may need the help of Russia, I fear. Although World War III can be postponed to a future generation and a future matrix, the maw of the abyss is widening for a terrible Pacific war the like which we have never seen.

Terrorism, too, is not something that is going to go away any time soon ... probably not for another 50 years. Still, even this can be reduced by taking a more pragmatic approach towards Middle East policy.

A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION: SEEK THE REAL HARMONIC CONCORDANCE
by John Hogue

Worldwide interest in Nostradamus' 500-year birthday this month has swamped me with TV, Radio and print interviews. Thus my report today will have to focus briefly on answering the two current themes generating the most queries and comments from you all: 1.) Saddam Hussein's capture (and how this relates to the Mabus/Third Antichrist prophecies); and, 2.) The significance, if any, in the Harmonic Concordance in November.

Does Saddam Hussein's capture take him out of the running for Nostradamus' "Mabus"?

In my opinion, it has put him back in the running. The American occupying forces might rue the day Saddam Hussein did not fight and die like his two sons, when cornered. If Saddam Hussein faces a very public trial the Americans will need to find some way to save themselves from being viewed and accomplices in many of his crimes against humanity in the 1980s. Saddam on the witness stand could talk about the years the US provided him with the satellite targeting intelligence and the materials to make his weapons of mass destruction. The same weapons that gassed five thousand civilian Kurds "and" hundreds of thousands of Iranian soldiers during the Iraq-Iran War. He could implicate Donald Rumsfeld and many others in the current Bush administration who had a hands-on relationship with supporting the Iraqi dictator in the past as their surrogate foe against the Ayatollahs of Iran. Saddam could weave lies with truth and successfully propagate the illusion that he is a martyred hero of the downtrodden Arabs and stir radical elements across the Islamic world. Finally, Saddam might face a public execution that could make his name a rallying cry of Islamic fundamentalists for the coming 27 years of terrorism. Thus as quatrain 62 of Century 10 in Nostradamus' prophecies states: "Mabus [Saddam] soon dies" and he becomes the rallying cry for "a terrible destruction of people and animals." Or, as Quatrain 77 of Century 8 adds, "The third Antichrist is very soon annihilated." The Arab/Islamic world could remember Saddam's trial as a farce of western Crusaders and their puppet Iraqi government. His public execution becomes martyrdom. Moreover, his martyrdom triggers the war of the Third Antichrist: "Twenty-seven years his bloody war will last..."

There are other scenarios, of course--other candidates who may fall early in their war, such as President Bush or Usama bin Laden and trigger a generation of new fighters and conflict. We shall have to see. If American leaders wish to avoid a scandal of historic proportions, they should block public access to the courtroom and keep Saddam Hussein sedated and mentally compromised throughout the coming trial.

The Harmonic Concordance came and went. Many in the New Age movement defined it as a new paradigm shift in consciousness. They eagerly awaited this spiritual shift to come heralded by a total lunar eclipse on 8/9 November coinciding with an astrologically auspicious alignment of stars. It seems the moon and stars had little or no effect on our consciousness. Why is that, in your opinion?

To me the reason it is not working is simple. It is the same reason why the Harmonic Convergence of August 1987 did not change anything, even though it was a wonderful day for many to gather in silence, love and meditation.

Harmony does not "converge" or "concorde" from without. It is not something influenced by stars. It is not something you can hope for or expect from others, or phenomena outside of yourself.

Even the act of gathering people for one seemingly auspicious day sabotages the effort to perceive and be harmonious every regular day, every precious moment.

Harmony comes ever from within. And it comes to us in this sacred moment. Every moment is the Harmonic Convergence. All we have to do is become aware of it.

If you can be watchful and meditative the morning after a harmonic concordance, and every moment after for the rest of your life, then there is a possibility that harmony will flower in this world.

Meditation is the only way I know to obtain a glimpse of this harmony. My New Year's wish to each one of you is that you become that meditative, blissful, witnessing consciousness--beyond mind, emotion or forms.

John Hogue
Rogue Scholar/Author:
--Nostradamus: A Life and Myth (coming inn autumn 2003)
--Essential Nostradamus: Prophecies for tthe 21st Century and Beyond
--Nostradamus: The New Millennium
--Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies --Messiahs, The Visions and Prophecies foor the Second Coming
--The Last Pope: The Decline and Fall of the Church of Rome
--The Millennium Book of Prophecy
--1000 for 2000 Startling Predictions forr the New Millennium

BASE 7 ALERT: Arrest of Manuel Noriega is
Repeated by Capture of Saddam Hussein
by Michael McClellan

ALERT POSTED (December 14, 2003): Well, it has happened again. There are times an event I am considering posting as a prediction occurs before I am able to. As with the case last year of the death of actress Teresa Graves in a house fire, a repetition of the fire death of actress Butterfly McQueen seven years earlier, we have yet another instance where history repeated itself before I could make a decision to post notice of it.

Far too much debating has been going on the last month or so over the identity of "Chiren" and the "great monarch" or whether or not he is coming soon or in 2038. Too much arguing with a "cut and paste expert" who set me up for endless debates against whatever arguments he could discover by simply using a search engine. Too much arguing about the future of Madonna or the credibility of John Titor and many other diverse topics. A complete waste of my time tracking down the moron who threatened me in an email yesterday and writing a letter of complaint to his Internet Service Provider.

There is a price to pay when I focus my attention on those who wish to occupy so much of my time that work on the website suffers. Therefore, when I say I foresaw the big event of today possibly taking place in December 2003, you can only take my word for it. I cannot prove otherwise.

Sadly, it is too late for me to present this as a prediction. Yet, even though I had a strong suspicion that Saddam's capture might take place, I was not eager to take a chance on scoring another big fat zero like I did last year when I predicted Ariel Sharon or Yasser Arafat would be assassinated. "End of year" predictions have not been too successful in recent years. Committing myself to what would have been a most laughable prediction if it had failed -- Saddam's capture -- was not something I was sure I wanted to gamble on. The base 7 evidence was there -- but it was also *there* for Sharon or Arafat being assassinated last year.

I can only say I wish I had followed through and posted the capture of Saddam based on the past evidence. So unexpected to most people was this development (but not to me) that the prediction of its happening in December would have silenced most the sceptics once and for all.

On December 20, 1989, fourteen (2 x 7) years ago, Panama was invaded by U.S. troops in Operation Just Cause. The Panamanian dictator, Manuel Noriega, found asylum in the Vatican embassy on December 24 and was finally captured on January 4.

Although I was long aware of this, having watched the capture of Noriega on television, my initial consideration this year was that the US would move into Venezuela (South America again) and seek to topple Hugo Chavez. However, a few months ago, considering the search for Saddam ongoing in Tikrit, I asked myself if it was possible that it would be Saddam instead that would be captured in December or January rather than Chavez.

And so, now the capture of Saddam Hussein is history and, seemingly, a defining moment of the 21st Century. Saddam is certainly a much bigger fish than Noriega was, but Bush Sr was as obsessed with grabbing Noriega as Bush Jr has been with meting out justice to Saddam. Besides, 1989 was peacetime, whilst 2003 is wartime. In the end, it is the base 7 system we must judge, not me. The system definitely works. The degree of success one will have using it will vary from person to person.

U.S. forces capture Saddam near hometown -- 'In the history of Iraq, a dark and painful era is over,' Bush declares

NBC, MSNBC and news services

4:06 p.m. ET Dec. 14, 2003

Photograph of Saddam Hussein after his capture BAGHDAD, Iraq - Eight months after the fall of his government, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces near his hometown, Tikrit, where he was hiding in a farmhouse cellar, U.S. officials said Sunday. The arrest, which was carried out without a single shot being fired, was a major victory for the coalition, which has been battling an insurgency for months, and for President Bush, who has fended off criticism for failing to find him for almost as long.

Saddam had evaded capture and assassination attempts since the U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq on March 20. Despite a $25 million bounty on his head, Saddam remained a political thorn in Bush's side and an inspiration to anti-U.S. insurgents even as the coalition sent out thousands of soldiers to search for him from its new headquarters in the sprawling, gold-edged Republican Palace compound in Baghdad.

Sunday, Bush was able to make the proclamation that the White House had awaited for months: "Yesterday, December the 13th, at around 8:30 p.m. Baghdad time, United States military forces captured Saddam Hussein alive." Addressing the nation from the Cabinet Room, Bush promised that "the former dictator of Iraq will face the justice he denied to millions. In the history of Iraq, a dark and painful era is over. A hopeful day has arrived." But Bush warned that "the capture of Saddam Hussein does not mean the end of violence in Iraq. We still face terrorists who would rather go on killing the innocent than accept the rise of liberty in the heart of the Middle East."

Video of a tired Saddam

The U.S. administrator in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, said Saddam was captured in the town of Adwar, 10 miles south of Tikrit, ending one of the most intense manhunts in history. Adwar holds special significance for Saddam; it is the place where his official biography says he swam to freedom, while wounded, after a failed assassination attempt on the life of Iraqi President Abdul Karim Qassem in 1959.

U.S. military officials told NBC News that while Saddam appeared disoriented at first, "he wouldn't stop talking" once he got his bearings. "He was so tired of running," one of the officials said. "He almost appeared relieved it was over." Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, who saw Saddam overnight, confirmed that the deposed leader "has been cooperative and is talkative." He described Saddam as "a tired man, a man resigned to his fate."

At the news conference announcing his capture, U.S. forces aired a video showing a bearded Saddam being examined by a doctor who held his mouth open with a tongue depressor, apparently to get a DNA sample. Then they showed a photograph of Saddam after he was shaved. U.S. military officials told NBC News that he suffered a slight head injury. Sanchez would not disclose where Saddam was being held, but U.S. military officials told NBC News that he was still in Iraq and was most likely being held at Baghdad International Airport, where other high-level detainees are in custody.

"This success brings closure to the Iraqi people," Sanchez said. "Saddam Hussein will never return to a position of power from which he can punish, terrorize, intimidate and exploit the Iraqi people as he did for more than 35 years."

Again, in closing, if we learn anything at all from this, it is that base 7 system repetitions can, on occasion, be nearly exact and that precedents should never be ignored, however unlikely a repetition may appear to be.

Fortunately, in this particular case, the event was not something that could have resulted in the loss of many innocent lives. So, better for me to fail to project the capture of Saddam than not to warn of things of greater importance -- like the location and time of the next major natural disaster or the likely outbreak of the next major war.

NOTE (December 17, 2003): I will NOT be taking "credit" for predicting this event when calculating my accuracy rate for 2003. I have had no intention of doing so. The "Capture of Saddam" is classified as a "Base 7 Alert" and presented here for the sole purpose of drawing attention to the unerring phenomenon I call the Base 7 repetition theory. However, since I never got the chance to post the event as a prediction beforehand, I do not feel it would be fair to consider it a personal "hit" by me.

SANANDA'S 8th MESSAGE

December 7, 2003 - My thanks to Bev for sending this along. Most of these messages are not available to the general public. However, I understand that in this particular message, within it there is a request to share it with a larger audience.

I won't pretend that I understand the philosophy behind "the Lightworkers - those who actively work with the Light in meditations and visualizations." However, as this is a largely prophecy-oriented website, there are some important points in the communication by the "ascended master" known as "Sananda" regarding future events that perhaps should be presented. For this reason, and also due to the great length of the message itself, much of the channeling intended solely for the understanding of the "Lightworkers" has been edited out by me, and only the prophetic points presented.

Sananda's 8th Message (prophetic excerpts from)
As Channelled via Lois Hartwick

"Now, I'm taking you into this in a much different manner than I might normally for some of your work coming forth because there are several things I wish you to see. First of all, turmoil in your world erupts elsewhere and is very often considered as something 'out there' -- not part of your reality much further than TV. This has been a predominant feature up until now. And yet, in the time ahead, there will be some changes here in the United States as well. These disruptions will create, on some levels, fear. And whether or not you are a group engaged in actively rewebbing an area, you certainly can send specific light to disseminate and lessen the amount of fear which may be generated as a result ... Chinese attack on Taiwan

"I am here tonight primarily to tell you there is going to be forthcoming another short war. One you have not yet anticipated or seen. It will be coming to Light shortly and within this spectrum will come a shift in power and certainly, another opportunity for the United States to take a greater look at the world view and begin to harmonize far more definitively as a people -- not as a government -- as to what you wish to do.

Opportunities are aligned with the configuration of the Harmonic Concordance and the position of the stars in this structure in the Star of David -- each one being notable and holding a specific place within the sky that is allowing for transmission of energy to be replicated on the Earth plane now. This replication will increase tensions until they are freed ...

A shifting of power is occurring. As people are awakening, their consciousness will take hold of what seems right. That energy is directed toward their hearts to vibrate and trigger an awakening of great magnitude. For those who do not come to this position, there will be much change and alteration of the plans they have long held. It is a time of reckoning, and although you have been told of the time of transition, I will say that the world peace so longed for, will be called forth in this new time ahead. That may be as a result of additional turmoil, and awareness that where you are headed produces little satisfaction.

Government officials have, for a long period of time, held specific positions publicly and others privately. You have not necessarily seen those networks that have been woven and the webs of intrigue which exist. Forthcoming are several coming to Light, which will greatly alter American's perception of what has occurred.

"I encourage each of you to include in your prayers a transition for your country as seamless and as easy as possible in the days ahead, and then I would suggest you add and also include in your prayers, the Far East, which will equally be replicated in turmoil until some decisions are consciously made ...

The economics of your planet have been greatly altered, and within the structure that is present, there are a dominant few that control the market. These people are not necessarily known to you, although there have been discussions in the past of this group or that, but ultimately, there is a problem with this perspective and this holding of power. More will come into view in the days ahead. And as that occurs, each one of you pay attention to what is said in response to what is revealed. Within it you will know the Truth because your heart will vibrate to that which is most highly aligned ...

"Certain structures will fall and you've already been seeing them fall as a result. People who are seeking to reap millions of dollars at the expense of someone else's money or holding a structure that serves them and not others is not going to be easily maintained. That is not a flow of energy that is coming to this planet much longer in any positive way can support these types of structures or these types of activities.

This will be a worldwide situation. When you are looking at your economic base that is being held by a certain group or groups of people, those structures will start to weaken. They will be brought into question; those activities related to how money is disseminated on your planet. This will be transformed into something new, but there may be some times in which it will appear very shaky.

The same may be true with military proposals or government takeovers, or perhaps, economic deals that benefit a few and not the other. In all sorts of ways the changes are occurring. Now as I speak about this, it's also important for you to understand that the energy of harmony is very present within this star alignment and configuration, and merely one needs only to tap into it to be part of that flow. So it is a consciousness that accepts this by recognizing it is there. Many consciousnesses will not recognize this, so the two dynamics will be very opposite for a period of time.

Your President will misunderstand this flow. He is going to undertake actions which are precarious and dangerous, not understanding higher reality, but rather, choice of his own making or those of his Administration to control once more, outcomes. The American people are going to understand that much has occurred that is not to their liking, and any further changes and implementations or directions that are taken without consideration for the overall well-being of this country, will put him in jeopardy for the next presidential election.

Part of what is happening with the energy of harmony, so specified at this time, is an enormous imprint upon your planet, like a giant kiss from heaven, which says 'you are loved', 'we are here' and 'we are supporting the higher manifestations of Light on your planet'. In that recognition, some things will have to go.

I am asking Lois to disseminate this message to a large audience and it will be given that there will be those who will refute such information and find it to be distasteful and perhaps, not of the Light. But I can assure you this is not an accurate assessment, for many have felt abandoned, confused and concerned about the planet and the plans of moving ahead with so little vision in sight as to how to rebuild and construct that which you carry in your hearts. As you witness certain things fall, please recognize there is provision for what will be a higher rebuilding to take place ...

"This time will trigger many memories and remembrances of who and what you are. And whether consciously or not, with the general population, many will start to have fear in their hearts that something is wrong. That something is not being played out right. That too many lies have been told. And too many difficulties have arisen.

A consciousness will begin to develop for mankind in which embracement of other cultures, other areas that have been delineated as vastly different from your own begin to meld. For not only do the dimensional frequencies start to become more enfolded into your plane and reality -- in other words, the veil being lifted or thinned on the third dimension -- the same will be true of cultures, of countries, of barriers that have been placed there for many specific reasons that have little to do with the human heart.

It is time to turn your attention to the more Utopian prospects of what can be. You may witness more months of extreme hardship and difficulty, but we are walking through, perhaps, that Dark Night of the Soul to come to the aspect of Light, and within it, a dream has manifested. A time forthcoming where Light prevails on planet Earth.

Be blessed, my friends, in every moment you live. I am a part of all you experience, and offer you my heart within this level of reality, within this dimension, and those aspects of self that you may not yet see."

CRISIS 2004
by Michael McClellan

If the US did not already have troops committed to Iraq and the Middle East, the first eight months of the year would be quite peaceful, relatively speaking. Limited Balkans or Caucasus conflicts similar to Macedonia's several months of war in 2001 or the brief Chechnya flareup in January 1996 might happen along with a few Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel and that is about it. Maybe not even that. Maybe eight months or nine months of nothing but peace.

Of course there would still be a high probability of a tragic death of a blonde female celebrity in August that would affect millions of people followed by a short global crisis in August, September, or October that would be rather quickly resolved (think along the lines of the Soviet downing of a Korean Airliner in 1983 or the United Nations crisis with Iraq over weapons inspections in 1997-98).

Unfortunately, America is at war in Iraq and also poised for conflict against Iran, Syria, North Korea, and even China (if China attacks Taiwan).

This means, at the very least, that we are going to see another year like 2003, only worse. The quagmire that is Iraq (and Afghanistan still) will get nastier, there will be more soldiers returning home in body bags, there will be much larger terrorist attacks. In other words, something as bad as Lebanon, maybe even as bad as Vietnam. Something truly awful will force a withdrawal in February 2005. But if America is not out of Iraq and Afghanistan by February 2005, it may be there until March 2010.

2004 is a bad year to be caught in a quagmire in the Middle East and with a diplomatic crisis ongoing with North Korea and China.

1) By August or September 2004, Iran and possibly Syria may enter the war, attacking not only US troops in Iraq and US ships in the Persian Gulf, but also Israel (if Syria is involved), Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and all the little oil kingdoms like Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman. Fighting in Iraq might also spill over into neighbouring Jordan. Russia will quickly join in on the side of Iran and Syria, with its air and sea power, but probably not with ground troops.

An economic meltdown in the US would follow due to various factors, some due to a debtor's cartel formed in Latin America and a resulting banking crisis, leading to the US attempting to take control of the Saudi oil fields. A conventional engagement with Russia in the oil fields and Iran in the Persian Gulf would go badly, and the US would be forced to withdraw from the entire region in February 2005.

2) It is also possible we will see a major CRISIS develop in October 2004 that may threaten the United States mainland. It may start over something like a plane or sub being accidentally destroyed by one side or the other. A second Cuban Missile Crisis might then play out, but this time the nukes will come from North Korea and/or China. Also, Cuba may not be the only country that will have them positioned against the US. We may also have to add Venezeula to the list. North Korean and Chinese nuclear subs off the US coast may also be spotted.

Like 1962, this crisis may be able to be worked out without a bloodbath. Or we could see the destruction of all major cities on the West Coast, the East Coast, and in Florida. In return, North Korea and large parts of China will cease to exist. The worst-case scenario is that Russia throws in with China and North Korea and attacks the US with its nuclear arsenal. If that happens, no more USA. The end. It will be up to Europe to contend with Russia and the Middle East.

One other point regarding China and North Korea: although I predicted a war would begin in 2003 between the two communist allies and the United States, and thus far we have had instead a festering diplomatic crisis, perhaps October 2004 will be the actual trigger of the war. Obviously, such a war will likely turn nuclear, so again it would be both a war and a nuclear crisis.

I would say the odds of both 1 and 2 happening are slim. It would probably be one or the other.

In the case of 1, the quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan would drag out until August or September when Iran and Syria would enter the war, with possible Russian support, as I have described.

In the case of 2, the quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan would drag out and become the backdrop to the more dangerous events that materialise in October with China and North Korea.

Of course, if we are really unlucky, both 1 and 2 could play out or aspects of both 1 and 2 could play out.

Also, neither 1 or 2 might happen. Just a never-ending quagmire in Iraq with minor crises and little wars elsewhere to contend with. Yet even here, an especially crippling terrorist attack in October 2004 could force the US to withdraw in February 2005.

Sadly, US withdrawal would only be the beginning of something worse. Autumn 2005 through summer 2006 have much darker aspects that will threaten a catastrophic Third World War, with or without US participation.

Ironically, it might be better if the US remained in a never-ending Vietnam-type quagmire in Iraq. If that happened, the dangers of 2005 and 2006 might be mitigated or never even surface at all. Dragged out until 2010, the US could enter into a phased withdrawal as early as May 2007. Iraq would become something the US would prefer not to see, but relative stability in the Middle East would be achieved in time. In other words, a Vietnam in Iraq instead of World War III is possible.

THE WAR OF GOG
By Michael McClellan

August 12, 2003 (2:37 AM EDT) - Iraq has become a magnet. Soldiers from all over the Arab and Moslem worlds are flocking to fight America. The Al Qaeda organisation and neighbouring states like Syria and Iran are seeking to expell the invaders and fill a perceived political and religious vacuum. Soon, United Nations members and even some Nato members will send peacekeepers to aid the US.

The Russians must strengthen their flanks, before they against Western Europe attack ... The southern
flank is comprised by Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Greece, and Yugoslavia.

So, how does Russia go about strengthening her southern flank? By negotiated alliances and defence pacts such as Moscow currently enjoys with Iran; supporting a "winning" side in a proxy war in some of these countries, and, if necessary, by direct military intervention.

Iran already belongs to Russia through an alliance. Moscow is nurturing a close relationship with Greece and working closely with Greek Cypriots, arming them for a possible future struggle with the Turkish Cypriots over the future of the island. A new Taliban run by Mullah Omar is being supported by Russia in an effort to reclaim control of that country. This makes Mullah Omar, the one-eyed cleric, one of Moscow's top generals in the southern flank. Turkey and Yugoslavia it is prophesied by several sources Russia will invade, conquer, and occupy.

Iraq is another matter and how the Red Bear will manage to take control of that country is not clear.

However it is being reported by DEBKAfile that the Chechens, through the support of Syria, are joining the ranks of Islamic fighters battling US forces in Iraq. Thus, a link is being formed between the Middle East and the southern Caucasus mountains. A major war in Iraq and Syria involving the US and Israel could mean a major war in Chechnya and surrounding areas.

The Ukrainian prophet, Josup Terelya, who was imprisoned in a Russian gulag when he was a young man, was revealed a series of prophecies by the Virgin Mary concerning the future of Russia when he was locked up in an unheated room with an open vent to the outside, left by the guards to die by freezing. Miraculously, he survived and was released back into the prison's general population until he was freed some twenty years later. Please realise that what follows is from memory as I recall it on the documentary Ancient Prophecies III, an episode I don't have a copy of (I have only I and II). This is the gist of what was prophesied:

The Soviet Union will cease to be. Russia will be free of communism. But the day will come when it will
fall under a dictatorship. The people will rally around one man. 'Vladimir' will be his name. There
will be a great flame, a great fire, in southern Russia, and Vladimir will stir up the people of
Russia to go to war against Israel. Afterwards fires will break out everywhere,
and the whole of Russia will burn ...

There are two Vladimirs in Russia today. One, Vladimir Putin, has been president since December 31, 1999 and remains relatively popular among Russians despite perceived mishandlings of the Kursk submarine rescue in 2000 and a botched rescue of civilians from a packed Moscow theatre held by Chechen and Arab terrorists in 2002. Along with the hostage takers, 20% of the captives died from poison nerve gas. He has appealed to the nation's sense of patriotism by waging a brutal war against a small people, nearly obliterating the million-strong Chechen nation from the map in 1999 and 2000.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the firebrand politician who made the world shudder in 1993 and 1994 by threatening that he would go to war with Finland and take it by force, irradiate Germany and Poland, and wage a nuclear war against Nato and the US if he ever became president, is perceived by many to be a harmless buffoon, a has-been clown who can only criticise and verbally threaten his enemies, and one who has no realistic chance of ever becoming leader of Russia. Of course, that is what they said about Adolf Hitler in the 1920s and the 1930s before he orchestrated the Reichstag Fire in Berlin and forced President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint him as chancellor in March 1933.

So, a terrible event in southern Russia, possibly a nuclear explosion, may trigger massive Russian military intervention into Transcaucasia, Asia Minor, and a great Middle East war.

Russia, with the aid of Iran, will conquer and occupy the buffer state of Asia Minor, the nation of Turkey:

Quatrain 5.54

From the Black Sea and great Tartary,
A king there will be who will come to see France.
He will pass through Alania and Armenia,
And in Turkey leave his bloody Rod.

Ezekiel 38:1

Son of Man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meschech
and Tubal [now in modern-day Turkey], and prophesy against him ....

YES ... "Vladimir" will be none other than GOG, leader from the land of Magog, and chief prince-to-be of the land of ancient Byzantium, modern day TURKEY. The conquest of Turkey by itself could trigger a war between Israel and the Russian Federation: Ankara and Jerusalem have had a mutual defence pact since 1997. However, when Damascus and many other Syrian cities are destroyed by Israeli retaliatory nuclear strikes, Russia will be forced to side with the Arabs against the state of Israel.

"Vladimir will stir up the people of Russia to go to war against Israel."

God Himself sends a fire to consume Gog and 5/6 of his army, and the land of Magog, and the allies of Gog, and the many nations on the waters, and those who dwell carelessly in the isles.

Thus, what we are witnessing here in Ezekiel's vision and Terelya's vision is possibly another aspect of World War III. We are now quite familiar with Alois Irlmaier, Erna Stieglitz, and the Seer of Waldviertel and their collective view of a Russian invasion of Europe and the horrific repercussions that will follow, not only for much of Europe, but also for Russia and the United States.

But what will be happening in the Middle East at the same time Russia receives thousands of casualties from a "yellow dust" and wages a total thermonuclear war against the US? We know there will a terrible war there as well, even before Russia launches its westward blitzkrieg. Could it be that the "war of Gog, land of Magog" is what will be transpiring?

Perhaps, and perhaps not. But if so, there is very little hope for the majority of the world's population. For all we know, the fire sent by God upon Gog and the world may be a spaceborn catastrophe -- perhaps the very one we have been awaiiting in the form of PLANET X or whatever name you choose to call it.

Ezekiel 38:18-22, 39:1-2,6 --

Asteroid airburst by Don Davis - Sky & Telescope

At the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel ... there shall be a great shaking in the land ... and all the men who are upon the face of the earth shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: and I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel ... And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles.

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