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It has been a year now since the Saudis signed a military cooperation agreement with Russia.
Saudi Arabia and Russia on Monday signed an agreement to develop joint military cooperation between the two countries, according to the Kingdom’s deputy defense minister.
“I signed an agreement today with the Russian Deputy Minister of Defense Colonel General Alexander Fomin between the Kingdom and the Russian Federation aimed at developing joint military cooperation between the two countries,” Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman tweeted.
This came in the wake of the fall of Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, exposing the weakness of America under the Biden regime.
Much has changed in the course of a year. Now the Saudis are looking to join the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).
https://focuswashington.com/2022/07/14/saudi-arabia-among-the-countries-set-to-join-brics/
Three more countries – Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey – are expected to join BRICS International Forum soon with the possibility to discuss and decide on their membership bids at BRICS Summit next year in South Africa.
Other nations are scrambling to join BRICS as well, including Egypt and even Turkey. It seems that Turkey has given up on joining the EU. They applied for membership decades ago, but with no success. Algeria, too, now wants to join BRICS.
https://www.africanews.com/2022/08/02/algeria-wishes-to-join-the-brics/
Algeria is interested in joining the BRICS, the economic bloc of developing countries which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The appeal was publicly made by the northern African leader, Abdelmadjid Tebboune during a TV interview broadcast on Sunday, July 31.
Even the United Arab Emirates is moving toward BRICS membership.
The National Development Bank (NDB), founded by BRICS states Brazil, Russia, India China and South Africa, has admitted the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as its new member. “We warmly welcome the UAE into the NDB family…. “The UAE will have in NDB a new platform to foster cooperation in infrastructure and sustainable development with BRICS and upcoming new members,” it said.
All of this has happened since it became clear to the world that America and Europe are in a state of decline. Even the sanctions on Russia have not deterred these countries from getting on the bandwagon. The BRICS represent the majority of the earth’s population, especially with China and India on board.
A combination of US/EU sanctions and the expansion of BRICS threatens to leave the EU and US allies in the corner by themselves not many years hence. The West thought that sanctions on Russia would isolate Russia. The opposite is true. The US/EU merely sanctioned themselves, cutting themselves off from the energy resources that are needed to maintain their economies.
Nigeria signed a military cooperation agreement the day after the Saudis did. That agreement will be a year old tomorrow, August 25. How long will it take before Nigeria joins the BRICS nations?
The BRICS nations are planning to create a new international reserve currency to compete with the US dollar and the IMF. This was announced at the BRICS conference in June.
https://fintechs.fi/2022/07/25/brics-nations-plan-to-create-a-new-international-reserve-currency/
While inflation data in Europe and the U.S. has risen significantly higher last month, Russia and members of the BRICS countries revealed leaders in the five major emerging economies are in the midst of “creating an international reserve currency.” Analysts believe the BRICS reserve currency is meant to rival the U.S. dollar and the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) currency.
These developments are shaping the world and dividing it into West vs. The Rest. The 30-year era of the Lone Superpower is coming to an end. The BRICS empire, if we can call it that, is rising, led by the kings from the east—China and Russia. This rising empire is now drying up the Euphrates, so to speak, as they gradually overthrow Mystery Babylon’s finances (liquidity).
The original kings of the east, the Medes and Persians (Daniel 5:28), set the prophetic pattern for modern events prophesied in Revelation 16:12. We are now in the time of the sixth bowl of wine being poured out on the Euphrates to prepare the way for the kings of the east.
The Hailstorm is Coming
The seventh bowl is coming soon—and may already be upon us—splitting Babylon “into three parts” (Revelation 16:19). The hail of truth is coming to expose and destroy Babylon (Revelation 16:21). We read in Job 38:22, 23,
22 Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail, 23 which I have reserved for the time of distress, for the day of war and battle?
Snow is a biblical metaphor for spiritual warfare, and hail is a metaphor for truth. So Isaiah 28:17 says, “hail will sweep away the refuge of lies.” Lies are exposed by truth. Mystery Babylon’s power depends on secrecy. It is not only a secret government, but also secrets of corruption and human trafficking (Revelation 18:13 KJV).
A Foundation Stone is Being Laid
Isaiah 28 is a prophecy about Ephraim and its misuse of the new wine of the Spirit that was given on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2. The prophecy is addressed to “the drunkards of Ephraim” (Isaiah 28:1), who were overcome with Babylonian wine instead of being filled with the Spirit.
Isaiah 28 is the great Pentecostal prophecy about the gift of tongues, which Paul quotes in 1 Corinthians 14:21 in his discussion of this spiritual gift. I wrote about this in my commentaries on 1 Corinthians and Isaiah. Isaiah 28:16, 17 links the foundation stone to the hail that is coming.
16 Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a costly cornerstone for the foundations, firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be disturbed. 17 It will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level; then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the secret place.”
The “costly cornerstone” was laid when Jesus was buried in the tomb of Joseph. It was costly because it cost Him His life. Paul says in Ephesians 2:20 that “Christ Jesus Himself” is “the corner stone.” Isaiah says that laying this cornerstone “will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level.” In other words, He will establish the law of God as the standard of righteousness and justice.
In Jesus’ prayer, He said in John 17:17, “Your word is truth.” Hence, the word of God, being the standard of truth, is also the hail that sweeps away the refuge of lies. Being also “the sword of the Spirit” (Ephesians 6:17), it is our weapon of choice in destroying deception and lies.
It is important to see that in the midst of the overthrow of Babylon, there is also a building project that is replacing that which is being torn down. While Babylon itself is being devastated, the world will not be left in a chaotic state. A golden age is emerging, an era of peace and prosperity. We are moving steadily in that direction, even if few can see beyond the chaos of collapsing empires.
Dr. Stephen Jones has been writing blog posts since 2005 on a variety of topics from Bible Studies to World News, and he has been writing books since 1992. Dr. Jones' most important writings came after God brought him back into the full-time ministry in 1991. It is here that all his earlier years of searching the Scriptures began to come into clear focus. He combines a knowledge of the Old and New Testaments with a personal revelation of God that began and developed during the "wilderness" period of his life, which he often refers to as God's True Bible College... Read More
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