OPERATION WRATH OF GOD, Chapter 2

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All Bible quotations, unless otherwise stated or referenced, are taken from the online World English Bible (WEB), which is in the public domain. It is available at the following link: https://ebible.org/eng-web/index.htm. Sometimes I paraphrase the Bible and when I do so, I reference the chapter and verse. Direct quotations from the WEB are indicated by quotation marks. English language Bibles are translated from Hebrew and Greek manuscripts. I am no linguist, and I don’t know any linguists, so I have had to rely on others’ translations and romanizations of the Hebrew and Greek texts. Occasionally, I have examined the original Hebrew and Greek of the Bible, zeroing in on key words where the received English translation is debatable or misses the full meaning of the original. To clarify, the WEB refers to the Antichrist, the beasts, and the False Prophet, but makes no reference to any ‘Khan’ or ‘Lavani’, which are names for the Antichrist and the False Prophet given for the purposes of this book.

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor or a therapist and nothing in this book should be considered medical advice. Nor should it be considered a substitute for diagnoses, prescriptions and treatments from qualified doctors. If you have symptoms, I recommend that you see a doctor to rule out anything serious and get proper care.

Chapter 2: Where Did It All Go Wrong?

Years later

John Burrows wiped the sweat from his brow as he pushed himself up the gentle hill. The track was muddy from the recent rainfall. His thighs were burning, and mucus was accumulating in his lungs. Recently, the dad body had reached a level where intervention was necessary. This was his fourth run in ten days; he’d also started doing push-ups and lifting weights.

Finally, he reached the Ridgeway and stopped to get his breath. The Ridgeway was Britain’s most ancient road, a 5,000-year-old track across chalk hills running from Wiltshire to Buckinghamshire that supposedly predated the pyramids of Egypt and formed the beginning of the North Wessex Downs.

It was a fine view over the gentle rolling hills of the Lambourn Downs, fringed by budding coppices of beech, ash, and oak. Beside the swaying barley crops was a pasture of sheep, lowing for their shepherd. John could see his village, Scrumpton, from up here: a dense cluster of houses next to the Great Western Railway down in the Vale of the White Horse.

There was a wooden bench right in front of him, donated by Karen Badjobs of Upper Upham, according to the will of her late husband, Montague Badjobs. The bench’s construction was dated to 7 years ago. Just before the tribulation started.

Looking at the bench, John reflected on the past years. They were on his mind anyway, because he had been tasked with writing a report on recent geopolitical history for his employer, the defence think tank called Wargames. Despite being part of the Foresight Department, Burrows was ironically being paid to look backwards by his new boss, Sally Hughes. This was a punishment, he knew. He was being side-lined because she disapproved of his ‘bias’ and ‘religious tone.’ More to the point: he had been proven right, where she had been wrong. For his part, Burrows refused to let her forget it.

It had all started when Burrows had offered to serve God in exchange for healing. He was miraculously healed and saved right then and there. God revealed to him in a vision that he was John the Apostle, reincarnated to preach the knowledge of God in the End Times to prepare the way for the Second Coming of Christ, be translated at the Last Trumpet and serve under him in the coming millennial kingdom, a prophesied period of ‘one thousand years’ in which Christ will rule with his saints (Revelation 20).

In John 22, after Peter was told he must ‘follow’ (John 21:19) Jesus to Crucifixion and heaven, he asked about John’s fate. The Lord answered Peter, ‘if I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?’ (John 21:22). The disciples believed this meant that John would not die (John 21:23), but Jesus was saying that, in contrast to the martyred Peter, John will remain alive on the earth until the Second Coming, an event that did not happen during John’s lifetime in the Roman era, that therefore lies in the future and could only be fulfilled via reincarnation, since we have reports from the church fathers that John died in the reign of Trajan (98–117 AD).[i]

Though reincarnation is not part of mainline Christianity or Judaism, and belief in reincarnation is not essential for salvation, it is nonetheless implicit in several Bible verses. It is more generous to judge a soul who has had multiple lives than it is to judge on the basis of a single incarnation, especially if that soul was born into desperate circumstances. Reincarnation is important, because it enables basically decent people who were not saved during the church age to return in the millennium, a time when conditions for salvation and sanctification will be optimal; God wants as many as possible to be saved.

After submitting to Christ and receiving a miraculous healing, in a vision Burrows was shown the location of The Secret Gospel of John – a scroll buried beneath an ancient church on the isle of Patmos, where John was exiled in the Roman era for preaching the good news of Jesus Christ (Revelation 1:9). Burrows and his brother James, a rising-star Catholic bishop, were instructed by Christ to retrieve the ancient scroll and disseminate the information it contained. The Secret Gospel was written by John the Apostle, and plainly revealed the esoteric meaning of his better-known gospel. Agents of the adversary who had infiltrated the Catholic Church tried to intercept the archaeological find, but were destroyed by Burrows thanks to Christ’s intervention on his behalf in the small Greek chapel. After the Patmos Incident, The Secret Gospel of John and its reputed miraculous healing powers garnered press attention. Burrows was invited to speak at the Vatican, where he announced Jesus’ dissatisfaction with organised religion as it was being practised and the Lord’s imminent return to earth. Following Burrows’ dramatic speech, world events unfolded quickly. Very quickly.

John was knackered after the run uphill. He sat down on Monty’s bench. While he waited to catch his breath, he took the smartphone out of his jacket’s zip pocket and opened the pdf draft report of his latest Wargames white paper, provisionally entitled: WHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG? A RETROSPECTIVE.

John perused the draft:

‘A Third Temple was built on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem under the auspices of a hard-line rabbi called Jeroboam Mankiewicz, who was riding a wave of rising nationalism. Predictably, the Muslim world viewed it as a desecration of the third holiest site in Islam. There were protests, riots, violence and talk of war between Israel and neighbouring Muslim-majority countries.

I researched the measurements of this new temple and noted online that they did not match the dimensions of Ezekiel’s prophesied temple, the one that “Yahweh” (Ezekiel 43:5) in the form of a glorified “man” (Ezekiel 43:6–7, read: Jesus) would live in and rule the Promised Land from during the millennium.[ii] Therefore, I concluded that the recently constructed Third Temple was not Ezekiel’s temple, that it was instead the temple in which the Antichrist would masquerade as Christ and perform his “abomination of desolation” (Matthew 24:15–16). Subsequent events confirmed this prediction, as you will see.’

By doing so, Burrows had fulfilled the words of Revelation 11:1, when John the Apostle was told to ‘rise and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it.’

‘Then a young radical called Malik Khan was elected President of Iraq. The Iranians had financed his election campaign.’

Burrows later learned that Khan was an Iranian intelligence asset at that time, but he omitted that from his report; it was hard to tell who would read the report and whether they would be cleared for that information.

The report went on: ‘Khan’s mother was a German archaeologist so fascinated with the ruins of ancient Babylon that she became a naturalized Iraqi citizen. She married Malik’s father, Hassan Khan, an Iraqi business magnate, when she became pregnant and convinced the oligarch that the boy was his. Hassan had made a fortune in oil under Saddam and was a lynchpin of the Iraqi elite, belonging to one of the old families, a bloodline stretching back to Tamerlane, and, according to legend, Nebuchadnezzar II. Hassan died of a heart attack when Malik was young.

Malik Khan inherited a pale complexion and a shock of striking blond hair from his mother and seemingly nothing from his supposed father except a vast fortune.

Khan was short and a little on the pudgy side. His face was ugly, weird, and cruel, with an unsightly neckbeard sans moustache. When I saw him for the first time on the news, I felt a strong instinctive aversion and a visceral sense of dread.’ John smirked at the reaction Sally would have to this ‘subjective language.’

‘Khan’s eyes were as lifeless as a reptile’s. His eye bags were large and purple. His skin had a corpse like pallor. His blond hair was borderline peroxide. Central casting could not have done a better job if they were looking for an Antichrist. Nonetheless, Khan had a certain glib charisma and plenty of low cunning; he knew how to speak confidently, and passionately, and above all, he appealed to humanity’s inherent urge for self-destruction, which accounted for a great deal of his popularity.

Khan claimed to be a Muslim, but he was known to have been a hard-partying libertine in his youth, when he went to boarding school in Switzerland and studied Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford. He was kicked out of the university for taking drugs, quoting Hitler and arguing with his professors. Khan was rumoured to have dabbled in the occult during his student years. Wild stories circulated in the tabloids about him changing the weather and knocking skullcaps and hijab’s off at a distance through telekinesis. Most people didn’t give them much credence. At first.

After graduation, Khan became an actor, who specialised in playing the hero. He used his family connections and wealth to secure leading man status – but only within Iraq’s film industry. Khan sank into a quagmire of drug addiction that put his acting career on hold. His mother committed suicide under suspicious circumstances, following an argument with her son. She wanted him to pursue a corporate career; he just wanted to lounge about, have sex with prostitutes and snort cocaine like it was 1986. The parties became wilder and wilder. There were conspiracy theories that Khan had become a mugger or even a serial killer during drug fuelled rampages. There were several unsolved killings and disappearances of homeless children and young women in Baghdad around that time, but no evidence pointing to Khan.

At the age of 30, he decided to get his act together, quit the drugs and alcohol cold turkey and started going to his local mosque. Khan used the tale of his recovery to elicit sympathy and furnish evidence for his iron will, in the same way Hitler used his rise from homelessness as part of his personal, self-constructed mythos. Islam’s strict prohibition of alcohol suited Khan down to the ground. A man of extremes, Khan was either all in or all out. He quickly gravitated towards Islamic extremism.

Khan entered politics. He was elected a member of the Iraqi Council of Representatives. As a representative, he was noted for his partisan rhetoric, his religious radicalism, and his hard-line stance on drugs, Israel, corruption, crime and terrorism.

Then he ran for President. Rumours surfaced of financial ties to ISIS and other terror groups during the election campaign, but nobody could prove anything.

Khan’s opponents spread theories that Malik’s father was not Hassan. That he was in fact illegitimate, and his father was another European archaeologist or perhaps an oil company representative. Internet Christians theorized that Khan’s mother Lily was a Satan worshipper who indulged in ritual orgies and worshipped Babylonian idols, and that Khan’s real father was the devil. If true, any one of these rumours would prohibit Khan from running for President of Iraq: the Iraqi constitution stated that for a presidential candidate to be eligible, both of the individual’s parents must be Iraqi. The accusations about Khan’s paternity were never proven.

Khan was elected President of Iraq based on false promises of free healthcare, better infrastructure, Islamic traditionalism, law and order, stable government, a return to geopolitical power like that seen under King Nebuchadnezzar II, and an end to the corruption that had plagued Iraqi public life ever since the fall of Saddam Hussein. His core message was: ‘Iraq was better off under Saddam than it is now as a corrupt democracy, so elect me and I will be your new strongman’ – though he never put it in quite such plain terms. If the Second Gulf War had not turned Iraq into a hotbed of corruption and extremism, the Antichrist’s rise to power in that country would have been impossible. His pre-existing public profile in Iraq as an actor also helped, by conditioning people to see him as a hero. With borrowed money from Iran and China, Khan delivered on some of his promises. His first order of business was to clear out his opposition under the guise of an “anti-corruption” drive.

Terrorist attacks provoked a harsh clampdown and Khan was given emergency powers, which he abused to detain political opponents. Those who claimed his father wasn’t Iraqi mysteriously disappeared. Comments to that end were ruthlessly censored and punished.

Western conspiracy theorists accused Khan’s personal bodyguard, the Sacred Guard, of orchestrating a false flag attack on the Iraqi Council of Representatives – a kind of Reichstag fire – and blaming it on radicals to justify Khan’s sweeping new powers, making him Iraq’s first outright dictator since Saddam Hussein.

When he had gained firm control of the Iraqi state at the tender age of 41, Khan set about brokering a peace treaty between the nations of the Middle East, including Israel, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan and others. The people of the Middle East were sick of the incessant conflict that had dogged the region since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and especially after 9/11. The people of Israel in particular were tired of war and relieved that Khan, a onetime anti-Zionist firebrand, had apparently undergone a change of heart.

A considerable part of the Antichrist’s appeal was that he offered “peace and safety” (1 Thessalonians 5:3).[iii]

It was a slogan that won him many friends in Israel and the west. Powerful friends. In fact, he became the golden boy of the western media and was hailed as a great humanitarian. ‘Young, dynamic and peaceful’, ‘Malik Khan: the breath of fresh air the Middle East needed’, ‘Meet the wunderkind who is Iraq’s best hope’, ‘He may be a Khan, but he’s no Genghis’, were just a few of the gushing headlines, that aged worse than flared jeans. Khan had links to western commerce through his parents. He was known to the Wall Street, Frankfurt and City of London financial elites from a young age. Initially, they supported him…they didn’t know who they were dealing with.’

Burrows did.

‘It was at this point that I recognised Khan as the prophesied “beast” who came “out of the sea” with “ten horns and seven heads” (Revelation 13:1). In other words, Malik Khan is the Antichrist, because he came from across the (Mediterranean) sea, due to his western education and German mother. The ten horns were ten kings (Revelation 13:1), who receive authority as kings with the beast for ‘one hour’ (Revelation 17:12) and these were the ten leaders who participated in the Olive Branch Accords with Malik Khan.[iv]

The symbol of Khan’s political party, The Olive Branch, looked like three 6’s arranged in the shape of an inverted triangle, with the loops directed inwards, and the curved stroke facing outwards. Parallels had been drawn with the design of the Nazi swastika, as well as the triskelion, an ancient symbol with three interlocked spirals emanating from a common centre. Revelation stated that the number of the beast is the number of a man, “six hundred sixty-six” (Revelation 13:18), a fact that was not lost on many online Christian commentators. Khan defended his symbol against what he called ‘outlandish conspiracy theories’, by saying that the spirals were not sixes, but were merely meant to represent olives from an olive branch connected to their fruit stalks. ‘It is an ancient symbol of peace, rooted in the history of the Mediterranean Basin’, he concluded.

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravening wolves. By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree produces good fruit, but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit. Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down and thrown in the fire. Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.” (Matthew 7:15–20). The olive tree and branch that figured so prominently in Khan’s party symbolism was the corrupt tree Jesus warned of, the tree that produces evil fruit and is known by its fruit. Khan even wore wool sweaters in winter.

He used the peace talks as an opportunity to schmooze the US President, whose approval was needed to make the pact a geopolitical reality. Unbeknownst to the US and Israel, Khan had secretly promised the President of Iran that he meant to break his peace treaty soon after ratification. The Olive Branch Accords were intended to lull Israel into a false sense of security, and to catch the nation off guard. This secret codicil secured the signatures of the Iranian, Lebanese and Syrian leaders, since Iran was the dominant influence in those countries at the time. I marked that day on my calendar, for the prophecy of Daniel (9:27) was fulfilled: “He will make a firm covenant with many for one week.”

This was not to be a standard seven-day week, however; the original Hebrew sheva means seven, and in Bible exegesis the weeks of Daniel are commonly understood to be seven-year periods. In the middle of the week, Daniel (9:27) prophesied the abomination of desolation would be set up, when the Antichrist takes away the sacrifice and the burnt offering from the temple. And Daniel wrote that 70 weeks were required “to finish disobedience, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy” (Daniel 9:24). In other words, God’s kingdom will be established in the final seven year “week” from the ratification of the Middle Eastern peace treaty.

But in my book I AM COMING SOON I calculated from the other prophecies in Daniel, and the durations of the Antichrist’s persecution given in Revelation – 1260 days (Revelation 11:6;12:3), 42 months (Revelation 13:5), time, times and half a time (Daniel 7:25) – that the true measure of time in these texts was not primarily the standard 365.25 day Gregorian solar year, or the Hebrew calendar year (which averaged out at roughly the same number of days), but the prophetic year of 360 days, because 42 x 30 day prophetic months = 1260 days. The prophetic year of twelve thirty-day months was selected by God because it was easier to calculate than Hebrew calendar months and years, which vary in duration. (However, the average Hebrew year of approximately 365 days is relevant to the prophetic timeline in other respects).

Adopting the prophetic year has also yielded accurate historical dates for the fulfilment of Daniel’s other prophecies. For example, Daniel wrote that after “seven and sixty two weeks” from the command to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, the Messiah would come, and that he would be “cut off” (Daniel 9:25): 69 weeks of years (483 prophetic years or approximately 476 Gregorian years) from 444–445 BC, when King Artaxerxes gave permission for Jerusalem to be rebuilt (Nehemiah 2), yields a date of 31–33 AD, the approximate date of Jesus’ final entry to Jerusalem and his Crucifixion.

On the day after the peace treaty was ratified, when the Israelis were still celebrating, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Hamas attacked Israel from all sides. The Libyans and some Sudanese radicals even joined in. The Israelis were caught off guard and surrounded. And so the scripture of Jeremiah (8:16) was fulfilled: “We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!”

While peace talks were underway, Iran had secretly developed a nuclear weapon, primarily in Iraq. It was calculated that Malik, the peacemaker darling of the west, combined with a “boy who cried wolf” effect resulting from the disastrous 2003 invasion of Iraq, and development sites cleverly distributed across three countries (requiring a military commitment on a scale that NATO no longer had the money or will to undertake), would prevent another western invasion to shut down the nuclear program. Malik used his regional diplomatic clout as a bargaining chip with western powers and Israel, whose intelligence agencies were aware of his nuclear aspirations. But after years of war and decades of hostility, they were willing to look the other way for the sake of a lasting peace. The Israelis daren’t use their nuclear weapons in the early days of the invasion, because despite having the sophisticated Iron Dome missile defence system, they knew about the nuclear capabilities of Iraq/Iran and didn’t want the fallout to affect Israeli citizens and territory.

Hezbollah operatives and Iraqi intelligence agents sabotaged Israeli vital infrastructure ahead of the invasion, and assassinated key figures in the military and government. This included a very sophisticated hack that shut down Israel’s military computer systems. A team of Iraqi commandos led by General Khalil Mansour even wore counterfeit Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) uniforms to increase the confusion. Syria gave permission for Iraqi and Iranian troops to pass through their territory in order to invade Israel from the north east. Israel was eventually conquered, but to the dismay of Syria, the foreign troops within her borders refused to leave. They seized the vital infrastructure and government buildings of Damascus and stuck around. They outnumbered the Syrian military, much of which was engaged in Israel. Khan had cunningly used the Syrian government’s hostility toward Israel – especially over the disputed Golan Heights – against them.

Then the armies of Iran and Iraq continued into Egypt in a surprise blitzkrieg attack and conquered that country, too. When the Egyptians tried to regroup and fight back – their armies were already split as a result of their participation in the invasion of Israel – Iraq dropped an atom bomb on Alexandria. Stunned by this display of overwhelming force, the Egyptians surrendered. Khan had stabbed three of his ‘allies’ in the back.

Western powers, including the US, did not intervene because of the American President’s stated desire to avoid foreign wars, combined with the fact Malik Khan had nuclear weapons and was clearly willing to use them. There were also many in the US who disliked Israel because of the Gaza situation, making an intervention on their behalf politically divisive. Malik seized Israel’s nuclear stockpiles and missiles as a priority target during his invasion and added them to the Iraqi nuclear arsenal.

Thus Egypt was given over to a “cruel lord” (Isaiah 19:4) and some Egyptian dissidents were enlisted as forced labourers along with Israeli forced labourers (Isaiah 14:2), to help build Khan’s latest and largest vanity project: a reconstructed old town of Babylon, intended to function as the ‘ceremonial’ capital of Iraq and the Olive Branch Alliance.[v] Babylon had once been the capital of the Old Babylonian Empire and the Neo-Babylonian Empire, but as the Bible prophesied (Jeremiah 51:37), it had been abandoned in the ancient world and had lain in ruins for centuries. For a long time, it was an uninhabited archaeological site. Saddam had begun rebuilding Babylon’s old town in Neo-Babylonian style back in the eighties. Khan meant to finish what his predecessor had started. This was to include a reconstruction of Etemananki, the tower of Babylon during the Neo-Babylonian Empire of Nebuchadnezzar II, which some believe was the basis for the original biblical Tower of Babel.

Other captives, especially the children and the younger women, were sold to human trafficking gangs around the Mediterranean to raise funds for Khan’s regime. And so the Scripture came to pass: the sons of Israel were sold to the sons of the Greeks (Joel 3:6) ­– ancient Greeks had colonies in Anatolia, Cyprus and Sicily, where the modern trafficking gangs operated.

And so it was that the “little horn” of Daniel (Khan) had “uprooted” (Daniel 7:8) three of the ten horns or countries: the kings to the north and south of Israel (Syria and Egypt), as well as the “glorious land” itself (Daniel 11:41), were defeated by one who rose to power through intrigue and “flatteries” (Daniel 11:21): Khan had won the election by flattering the Iraqi people, claiming they were the creators of civilization and the heirs to the vast empires of antiquity. Khan had also played the sycophant with the American President in order to secure his disingenuous peace treaty.

But because of his lands, nukes and missiles, Khan’s Iraq was now more powerful than Iran, and he became the de facto leader of the Olive Branch Alliance, whose name had taken on a new irony in light of recent events. Iran initially thought they could control Khan. They now realised they couldn’t. Khan threatened to use their own nukes against them if they didn’t play ball. As a dictator, he already had a cult of personality, but Khan’s popularity reached new heights after his conquests, as showcased by his many victory parades and speeches attended and applauded by legions of adoring fans. Or rather, fanatics.

Many people in the Muslim-majority nations around Israel had long resented Israel’s presence in the region. Khan had succeeded where others had tried and failed; he had conquered the nation they considered to be their enemy, and they loved him for it. In reality, he simply exploited their anti-Israel sentiment for his own ends. Khan began overtly styling himself as a king, an emperor like Nebuchadnezzar, and became increasingly arrogant, making cryptic allusions to himself as a Messianic figure. He had never denied it when his fanatical supporters claimed he was the Mahdi or even the Messiah, but his pretensions were becoming increasingly obvious.

There was famine in Israel as a result of the war, and inflation rocked the entire world because of the instability and conflicts in the oil-exporting Middle East, especially the audacious use of a nuclear warhead on Egypt, which sparked widespread ‘Armageddon’ fears, that were not entirely unfounded. This was followed by a large earthquake (Revelation 6:12) in the Middle East, accompanied by a temporary regional decrease in sunlight and a blood moon. “The sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood.” (Revelation 6:12).

Meteorites smashed into earth, mostly in the Mediterranean Sea and the Middle East. “The stars of the sky fell to earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.” (Revelation 6:12). Meteors are commonly known as shooting stars or falling stars. The death toll was in the thousands, and the impacts triggered tsunamis. “Every island and mountain was moved from its place.” (Revelation 6:14). It was the worst such incident in decades.

Jewish Christians, particularly in Israel and the Middle East, became an increasingly vocal minority around this time. They weren’t talking the conventional Christian language, they were talking about receiving the Spirit of God and having mystical out of body experiences, meeting God in heaven and returning to their bodies, they were dreaming dreams, prophesying and seeing visions (Joel 2:28) …and a surprising number of them had read my book I AM COMING SOON, which was only available in English, and was not exactly a bestseller. These were the elect, a group of 144,000 people from the twelve tribes of Israel, who converted to follow Christ. The elect are the main (but not the only) group of saints that are to participate in the rapture. Many of them did not believe they were Jewish until God told them of their heritage when he sealed them on the head with the Holy Spirit (Revelation 7:3). In fact, many of the elect were Middle Eastern former Muslims, because ten of the twelve tribes were mostly “lost” to history since the Assyrians destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel and took many Israelites captive in the 8^th century BC. They were led by two men, David Goldstein and Ezra Mizrahi, whom I identified as the two witnesses of the Book of Revelation (11:4), described as two lampstands and olive trees, a reference to Zechariah 4:14’s two olive trees who “stand by the lord of the whole earth”, a Scripture fulfilled in Mark 9, when Moses and Elijah appeared beside the transfigured Jesus.

Moses and the prophet Elijah, like John the Apostle,’ John wrote, somewhat obliquely, ‘were reincarnated for the last days, with a mission of protecting the Israeli remnant from the Antichrist and converting as many Jerusalemites and Jews as possible. This was also partly prophesied by the Hebrew prophet Malachi (4:5): “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.” Again, this was a prophecy of Elijah’s reincarnation as John the Baptist. But Elijah was scheduled to appear again, to pave the way for the Second Coming as he did the First Advent. That is what Jesus meant when he said of John the Baptist circa 30 AD, “this is Elijah, who is to come.” (Matthew 11:14). Obviously, Elijah could only return as John the Baptist, and again as David Goldstein in the End Times, via reincarnation.

As Revelation 11:6 promised, the two witnesses were delegated authority by God to create plagues and drought as often as they wished. Wearing sackcloth, they wrought havoc on those who opposed them, and the city of Jerusalem. Initially mocked and ignored, they gradually developed a grassroots following among the people of the city and the surrounding countryside, and became a terror to their enemies. Khan was wary of tackling them, given their powers, and their popularity, though they were highly “divisive” figures who split the population. Some believed in the witnesses’ miracles and judgements: others called them fraudsters and troublemakers.

Then a devastating rain of fire and bloody hailstones hit the Middle East. “One third of the trees were burned up” (Revelation 8:7) in a forest fire resulting from the fire coming from the sky. An asteroid smashed into the Mediterranean Sea near Gaza (Revelation 8:8). A meteor named Wormwood burned up in the atmosphere and its fragments landed in the rivers, turning a third of the waters in Israel bitter (Revelation 8:11). By this point, the fulfilment of Revelation’s seal and trumpet judgements, a series of divinely ordained catastrophes, became obvious. Atheism and agnosticism were increasingly thrown out by all but die-hard adherents as more and more people were convinced that the End Times prophecies were unfolding. Not just Evangelical pastors, theologians and Bible commentators, but regular people, including some who were previously uninterested in religion. But relatively few recognised Malik as the Antichrist. On the contrary, many looked to him for protection and deliverance during this troubled time.

The sun, moon and stars were darkened for one day, but not completely (Revelation 8:12). Shortly afterward there was a volcanic eruption in Syria and the smoke rose, darkening the sky again (Revelation 9:1–2).

People around the world were struck by pains but doctors were unable to find any internal causation. The damage to the skin seemed to be coming from the outside, but few sufferers had experienced injuries that could account for such damage. It was like they were being bitten and stung by a horde of invisible insects. This was in fact a demonic army, the ‘locusts’ of Joel 2 and Revelation 9. Interestingly, the main unaffected group were Christians in the Middle East, since that is where the bulk of the elect resided, and they were exempt from this judgement (Revelation 9:4).

Then all hell broke loose. Another demonic army swept the earth, starting at Khan’s new capital on the Euphrates (Revelation 9:13–16). Nine-foot-tall black-clad demonic horsemen rode across the whole world, killing people in their homes, in the street and even at sea. Their rampage lasted just three days and three nights, and by the end of it, one third of humanity was dead (Revelation 9:15). Many of his followers perished (increasing his reliance on robots), though Khan himself was spared. God was allowing him to continue, for he still had a purpose to fulfil.

Khan’s spiritual leader also survived. He was a renegade former Imam denounced by other Imams as a witch for his history in the occult and his shady past.

The man was called Joubed Lavani.

Joubed grew up in a poor household in Jerusalem. His alcoholic father was extremely abusive, and Joubed sought refuge in the streets. There he learned even more about the brutal reality of human nature. He was bullied, mugged, abused and beaten by gangs and other homeless individuals.’

There was a rumour, that made its way into Lavani’s SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) file, that Khan had beaten his future False Prophet up for sport on one of his late-night benders. Again, John omitted this from his report to avoid breaching the Official Secrets Act.

‘Lavani took up residence on the steps to the Temple Mount, where people were more inclined to donate. Lavani’s proximity to religious sites, combined with the extreme hardship of homelessness, sparked his profound interest in all three Abrahamic faiths. He read the Bible and the Koran with avid interest. He took an even greater interest in hallucinogenic drugs, which he believed would precipitate some kind of spiritual experience. One day, when he was 25 years old, Lavani saved up enough to buy some LSD, and he got more than he bargained for.

Lavani saw demons everywhere, claimed to be the Mahdi, the Messiah, Jesus, all on the steps of the Temple Mount. He made bizarre statements about having sold his soul to the devil for power and women. This attracted an angry mob and got him arrested. He was institutionalised for a complete psychotic break. The diagnosis was Paranoid Schizophrenia. Burrows had read the file from the mental hospital. It was pretty disturbing. It took seven orderlies to restrain him during one of his fits. Three of them ended up in hospital. They performed Electro Convulsive Therapy on Lavani. ECT comes with extreme risks and side effects, but sometimes it actually works. Lavani appeared to be one of those cases. He calmed down, stopped ranting and raving. The authorities discharged him from his institution. But his delusions and demons never left him. They merely went underground. They became smart enough to realise that more damage could be done under the guise of sanity.

Joubed Lavani set up on the street as a palm-reader and medium. He had learned some of these skills from his Roma cellmate in the mental hospital. He won a benefactor, a wealthy widow called Palmyra Asshoy, who was impressed by his intuitive reading of her character, past, and prospects. She hired him as a live-in medium and, some said, a toy boy. Lavani qualified as an Imam, all the while concealing his true beliefs and allegiance. Like Khan, he swiftly gravitated towards the radical end of Islam. Lavani became a preacher for ISIS during their campaigns in Iraq.

When ISIS was defeated territorially in 2017, he was captured as a prisoner of war by Iraqi intelligence, who conducted experiments on him. Lavani was a willing volunteer; his participation in the program, codenamed Project Djinn, meant he enjoyed better living conditions and a reduced sentence. He underwent experiments with hallucinogens, brainwashing, hypnosis, remote viewing, telekinesis and precognition, as Lavani appeared to have certain psychic “gifts”. During a telekinesis experiment, Lavani claimed to have killed a man. The subject died of a massive heart attack when Lavani was trying to make him lose consciousness. Because almost nobody believed in telekinesis, and the incident occurred in the context of an off the books scientific experiment, no action was taken against him.

When his sentence was up, Lavani was allowed to work for Iraqi intelligence as an agent. He tried to infiltrate various esoteric groups and sects such as the Yazidis and Mandaeans, but these were closed ethnoreligious groups who did not accept converts. You are born a Yazidi, or you are not a Yazidi. Lavani made more headway with a neo-pagan secret society called the Brotherhood of the Ziggurat. They were alleged to conduct Satanic rituals, including sex rituals, animal sacrifice and perhaps human sacrifice in the archaeological ruins of ancient Mesopotamia. Their membership was rumoured to include some of the Iraqi business elite.

After trawling through the occult netherworld of Iraq, Lavani founded his own bizarre cult, the Order of Babylon, which claimed (falsely) to be an ancient, esoteric Islamic sect. He gained a number of followers. Lavani predicted early in the election that Khan would win and become ‘a great ruler’ who would conquer Israel. This brought him to the attention of Khan, whose bodyguards abducted him one evening and brought him to the mansion in Baghdad, where he was placed blindfolded next to Khan’s caged pet lions and leopards, who duly roared at him. Lavani remained absolutely calm. When the blindfold was removed, Khan asked him, “Did you know they were behind bars?” Lavani confirmed that yes, he already knew the beasts were caged, using his extra-sensory perception.

Khan wanted to know where Lavani had gotten his predictions from. Khan had procured Lavani’s INI (Iraqi National Intelligence) file for a fee and was impressed with him. He had read through the secret studies and believed Lavani was a genuine psychic. That evening, the two men became allies. Lavani would praise Khan, calling him the Messiah, as a means of building his cult of personality and gauging the public’s reaction to such claims. In return, Khan would finance Lavani’s cult, and Lavani gained many followers. Around this time, I concluded that Lavani was the False Prophet of Revelation (13:11), also known as the beast “out of the earth”, who made the earth worship the “first beast” (Revelation 13:12), Malik Khan.

The False Prophet started performing so-called miracles in the beast’s presence at rallies and speeches (Revelation 13:12–13). The weather changed. Stormclouds appeared out of nowhere. Lightning and fire came down from the sky (Revelation 13:13) in public demonstrations in Babylon and Jerusalem. These were not true miracles. The effects were generated with the aid of weather weapons. On the technological front, the Antichrist invested heavily in Iraq’s tech sector and developed drones with Iran’s aid, as well as armed robots, some of which were used in the War of The Three Horns. Israel’s advanced tech sector and some Israeli skilled workers were assimilated into his systems and worked on his robotics projects (Revelation 13:14).

When Israel was conquered and the resistance pacified, with the exception of the powerful witnesses and some of their Jerusalemite followers, the Antichrist walked into the temple in Jerusalem, removed the regular burnt offering (Daniel 12:11) and falsely declared himself to be Christ, the Messiah and Son of God. Lavani placed a six-pointed crown on his head, called him King Khan, and led the people in worshipping him. Then Khan set up a statue of himself in the Holy of Holies and demanded that people worship it, and him. Anyone who didn’t worship him within the borders of his empire was to be executed.

This incendiary act split the Muslim, Jewish and Christian worlds. Some from all three major faiths believed the Antichrist (Revelation 13:8), for two main reasons: he twisted some Messianic prophecies so that on a superficial level, it looked as if he fulfilled them; and he and his False Prophet were able to perform their false ‘miracles’. Others, including many within Khan’s empire, absolutely rejected his Messianic claims. In this camp were the elect and many Muslims who stuck to the core Muslim belief that no man can be divine or a son of God, not even Jesus.

The beast had thus committed the prophesied ‘abomination of desolation’ in the holy place (Matthew 24:15) and marked himself out as the Antichrist to all with discernment. The prophet Daniel (12) predicted that there would be 1290 days from the abomination of desolation and that those who come to the 1335 days would be blessed.

At this point, Burrows had started his countdown, believing that 1290 days later Jesus would return and 1335 days later, God’s kingdom would be inaugurated.

John’s report continued: ‘Khan had sat in the temple of God and pretended to be God, as Saint Paul predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:4.[vi] Whilst pretending to be Muslims and Christians there was intelligence chatter that Lavani and Khan were still secretly Satan worshippers, and had been all along, but they kept this from his public; it was a closely guarded secret that bound the two men together.

During their ministry, the two witnesses reiterated that Jesus was the Messiah and Son of God, but warned that the Antichrist would come first, as Saint Paul foretold in his aforementioned second letter to the Thessalonians (2:3). The witnesses told Israel: when you see the abomination of desolation, flee to the mountains, a reiteration of Jesus’ famous words. Then Goldstein and Mizrahi identified Khan as the Antichrist, and his presence in the temple as the abomination. Some Israelis took the witnesses’ advice; anticipating the persecution prophesied in Daniel (7:21) and the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24:9), they fled to Petra, located within the mountainous Seir region of Jordan. Shortly afterward, however, under pressure from Malik and his alliance – including the threat of sanctions – Jordan closed its border to further Israeli refugees (Obadiah 1:14).

Khan was given emergency dictatorial powers over Israel and the region in response to revolts in multiple places provoked by his abomination in the temple. That marked the beginning of his 42-month authority, as stated in Revelation 13:5. The great persecution started, the persecution of saints (Daniel 7:21) and anyone who refused to worship Khan.

Khan’s scientists developed an injectable AI-nanobot implant. Nanobots are tiny self-propelled machines, that may have some independence and the ability to reproduce. Khan sold the mark as a life extension technology, an intelligence booster, an advantage in the jobs market, and a way to combat the many diseases that were ravaging the earth at that time by having nanobots enhance the immune system, functioning as auxiliary white blood cells. He promised the implant would lead to the creation of a new race of transhuman hybrids. In reality, the new technology enabled Khan to control the minds (souls) of those who took his mark by algorithmically censoring certain thoughts and feelings and promoting others. Anyone with the implant had enslaved their will to Lavani, Khan, and their spiritual father, Satan, and ensured their destruction in the lake of fire at the Last Judgement (Revelation 9:11). The mark of the beast, called the Security ID, was a 666-symbol tattoo on the right hand or the forehead (Revelation 13:16–17) received upon injection, that served as a visible outward token of the implant. Its presence was tracked via the tiny RFID chip injected with the nanobots.

Just as the Antichrist was, as the name suggests, the opposite of Christ, the mark of the beast and the associated technological implant was a materialistic Satanic inversion of the indwelling wisdom giving spirit, an inner abomination that rendered the temple of the human body (1 Corinthians 6:19) desolate, which is to say, bereft of God’s presence. Jesus presented the true path for humanity’s future development – receiving the Spirit of God, and eventual glorification. The Antichrist offered an alternative, false trajectory for human evolution, via his invasive biotechnology. Scientific materialism and technology are humanity’s prideful attempt to undo the curses of the fall – suffering, birth pains, death and labour (Genesis 3:14–19) – without God’s help. AI, nanomachines and robotics represented the nadir of that centuries long project.

The mark was also very straightforwardly a sign of loyalty to Khan and his regime. Anyone without it was viewed as a rebel who refused to acknowledge him as the Messiah and the king. As John had prophesied in the Revelation (13:16–17), without the mark, it was impossible to buy or sell legitimately, since Khan had made his economy cashless in the countries under his control; finance and commerce were 100% digital, in theory. He and Lavani also forced every town, village and city in the countries of his alliance to worship Khan’s ‘image’ (Revelation 13:14) – an armed robot. In a perverse imitation of God creating man in his image (Genesis 1:26–27), the Antichrist created these beastbots in his likeness.  Khan’s drones and robots were programmed to kill anyone who refused to worship the beast and his image, and anyone who refused the mark (Revelation 13:15). This was obviously the fulfilment of John’s prophecy about a living, moving, speaking, killing eikon – image or statue (Revelation 13:15) – which is how an ancient person would describe a robot.[vii] The beastbots were a tyrant’s dream: an army of followers who were strong, ruthless, didn’t need to be paid, were unswervingly loyal and unable to think for themselves. Many people from all three major Abrahamic religions were killed, including some of the elect.

Then Khan finally killed the two witnesses, Moses and Elijah (Revelation 11:7). They were a thorn in his side; their very existence undermined his authority and encouraged others to follow suit. They were shot dead in Jerusalem by a sniper team firing 50 calibre rounds (Khan was taking no chances). They lay dead on the street for three and a half days (Revelation 11:8–10), then they were resurrected and ascended to heaven, as was prophesied in the Book of Revelation chapter 11, verses 11 and 12.

This event was captured on cell phones and spread like wildfire on the internet. The Antichrist’s regime denounced the videos as fakes. When asked to produce the bodies, they furnished the corpses of two vagrants with superficial similarities to the witnesses, altered by cosmetic surgery, with the same kinds of gunshot wounds; but the two men were not even the same height as Mizrahi and Goldstein, as several online commentators pointed out. The ascension of the witnesses convinced many of the veracity of their message and provoked even stronger resistance to Khan among the people of Judea. He had quelled the worst of the resistance but there were those without the mark who had fled to the wilderness and those who stayed put and traded precious metals and barter in a burgeoning black market.

After this event, the persecution continued. The mark was not mandatory outside of Khan’s Middle Eastern empire, but he and Lavani gained followers and adherents around the world (largely through social media) who took the mark and stirred up internal unrest in their countries of residence. Some beasters called themselves Christians, since they mistakenly regarded Khan as the Christ. They infiltrated and attempted to co-opt the major denominations, even churches located beyond the Olive Branch Alliance, provoking varying degrees of opposition within those organisations.

Before the tribulation period began, many Christians (especially evangelicals) were expecting to be taken up into the air by Jesus in an event known as the rapture, spend around 7 years in heaven, then return triumphant with the Lord to reign over the earth. This theological school of thought was called pre-tribulation dispensationalism, or pre-tribulation rapturism. But after the events of Revelation clearly started to transpire, at a time when the rapture had yet to take place, it became obvious to some pre-tribulation adherents that they had been mistaken, and the rapture would come at or towards the end of the tribulation period, after the Antichrist’s appearance, following a lull in the catastrophes. Thus ‘sudden destruction’ would come upon those saying ‘peace and safety’ (1 Thessalonians 5:3) and the days before the coming of the Son of Man were likened to the days before the flood when people were feasting and marrying (Matthew 24:38), because of the pause in divine judgements after the sixth trumpet judgement (though the persecution remained underway, especially in the Middle East). That “break” in the sequence of natural catastrophes and wars was still ongoing as John caught his breath on the Ridgeway, staring at the dark clouds gathering. He saw this time as the eye of the storm.

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[i] Eusebius. Church History.

[ii] Ezekiel’s temple will be the temple of God’s thousand-year reign on earth, because the dimensions and ordinances of his temple differ from those of the first and second temples and in the New Jerusalem there is no temple (Revelation 21:22).

[iii] Part II: Apocalypse Now? Peter Thiel on Ancient Prophecies and Modern Tech. Hoover Institute. YouTube video. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTNI_lCvWZQ

[iv] The following nations and cities are prophesied to come against Israel in the End Times and to be allied with or conquered by the beast and assimilated into his empire: Cush (Zephaniah 2:12; Ezekiel 38:5), Ethiopia (Daniel 11:43, although the biblical Ethiopia does not really correspond to modern Ethiopia), Libya (Daniel 11:43) or Put (Ezekiel 38:5), Egypt (Isaiah 19), Assyria (Isaiah 30), Babylon (Isaiah 48), Pekod (Jeremiah 50:21), Persia (Ezekiel 38:5), Tyre (Joel 3:5), Sidon (Joel 3:5), Philistia (Joel 3:5), Tubal, Meshech, Rosh (Ezekiel 38:3), Togarmah (Ezekiel 38:6), Gomer (Ezekiel 38:5) and Magog (Ezekiel 39:6; Revelation 20:8). Most of the descriptions of the divine judgements that are specific to a named locale pertain to some of those nations listed above. Elam, Egypt, Hamath and Assyria (in addition to the ‘islands of the sea’) are also listed as places Jews will be regathered from in Isaiah 11. Ethiopia and Cush in the Bible were used to denote the territory currently held by Sudan and parts of southern Egypt. Tubal and Meshech were probably in the land currently under Turkish control. Tyre and Sidon (Saida) are still cities in what is now Lebanon. The ancient nation of Put lived in what is today Libya, since Phut was thought by Josephus to be the founder of Libya. Elam was an ancient state located in the west of modern-day Iran, a country officially known as Persia until 1935. Hamath was an ancient name for the city of Hama, currently situated in Syria. Pathros denotes Upper Egypt. Pekod was an ancient region near Babylon in southern Babylonia. Togarmah was likely ancient Anatolia and/or the Caucasus. In his Antiquities of the Jews, Josephus identified Magog as an ancestor of the Scythians, the ancient inhabitants of what is today southern Russia. Rosh was one of Benjamin’s sons (Genesis 46:21) and is probably the ancient basis for the name of Russia. (To get a better idea of where the nations listed in the Bible are located, consult the map entitled, ‘the World as known by the Hebrews’ in the Maps and Images section). The ‘Gog and Magog’ nations listed as aggressors in Ezekiel 38, Revelation 20 and nowhere else – Magog, Meshech, Rosh, Gomer, Togarmah and Tubal – may be involved in the tribulation alliance, but we know for sure thanks to John’s clarification that they will be involved in the final Armageddon campaign at the end of the thousand years (Revelation 20:8). Gog, a man and the ruler of the alliance, will not live for over a thousand years to spearpoint both revolts, and in both sources, Ezekiel and Revelation, he is so named. Even if we exclude the nations which only appear in Ezekiel 38 and Revelation 20, that leaves us with at least eight out of the ten ‘horns’ or ‘kingdoms’ given in Daniel and Revelation as comprising the Antichrist’s empire. If we include the Gog and Magog nations, we have ten or eleven states. Either way, the list paints a predominantly regional picture of the Antichrist’s alliance and wars, which aligns with a more limited interpretation of the Greek word ges used in Revelation 13:8 to describe the beast’s dominion (ges can be translated as earth, land or region), though I cannot rule out non-regional powers being embroiled in the Antichrist’s alliance and wars.

[v] In Revelation (17:8), Babylon is called ‘the great city which reigns over the kings of the earth’, and is metaphorically described as a woman who rides the ten-horned ‘beast’ (Revelation 17:3), clearly identifying it as the Antichrist’s capital. There are numerous theories about Babylon’s location, with Rome, Babylon and Jerusalem suggested as candidates by exegetes. In Isaiah 13 the literal Babylon on the Euphrates is in view, since it is described as ‘the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride’ (Isaiah 13:9). The Chaldeans were the ancient Babylonians, who were prouder of their own capital city than Jerusalem, and had never even heard of Rome. Isaiah 47 contains a warning, somewhat similar to the ‘prostitute of Babylon’ passages in Revelation 17, that the ‘virgin daughter of Babylon’ (Isaiah 47:1) will be stripped naked and deprived of her throne. Further corroboration that Revelation’s Babylon is Isaiah’s Babylon is provided by references in Isaiah 47 to Chaldea, another name for the Mesopotamian Babylon, and the enchantments, stargazing and sorcery of Babylon, which was indeed a centre of ancient learning, astrology and astronomy (Isaiah 47:12–13). God promises to ‘suddenly’ (Isaiah 47:11) make her a widow for her wickedness against Israel; indeed, Babylon conquered Judah and was conquered in her turn by Cyrus the Great and his Persians, so this prophecy has in one sense been fulfilled, but in light of Isaiah 47 and earlier chapters, it also awaits an End Times consummation. This is made apparent when God promises Babylon sudden ‘desolation’ (Isaiah 47:11), for although Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon quickly, his conquest was relatively bloodless, and he did not destroy the city utterly or leave it a wasteland. ‘Go up against the land of Merathaim…and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Kill and utterly destroy after them,” says Yahweh’ (Jeremiah 50:21). Merathaim means ‘double rebellion’ and is believed by some to mean Babylon. Pekod was an ancient region near Babylon in southern Babylonia, further solidifying the historical Babylon as the location of the eschatological Babylon. Using Babylon as a codeword for Jerusalem or Rome I can understand, but if that were so, why would Jeremiah, and the Spirit that moved him, refer to the Mesopotamian Babylon and its environs in the next breath? At a certain point you have to admit that the Bible has the literal Babylon in view as the Antichrist’s capital. Also, the historical Babylon was on the River Euphrates and in Revelation, the Euphrates is described as drying up (Revelation 16:12). John refers back to the Babylon of Jeremiah and Isaiah on numerous occasions in the Revelation, deliberately identifying his Babylon with theirs.

[vi] ‘He opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.’

[vii] John Rich: Donald Trump, the Darkness of Eminem’s New Album and the Song Inspired by God. Tucker Carlson. YouTube Video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaFNktRoTbo.