Turkey is seldom out of the news media in recent times. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, it has a role to play in the build up to Armageddon and the return of our Lord. Secondly, it has a unique geopolitical setting. It is a bridgehead linking the continents of Europe, Asia and also the …
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After the conclusion of the First World War, a conference was convened at San Remo, taly, in 1920, which gave legitimacy to the Balfour Declaration and the establishment of a Jewish Homeland in Palestine under the protection of Britain. At the San Remo Conference, Britain and France divided the Tur…
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Assos is a city on the coast of the western part of what is now Turkey. It is only mentioned in the Bible in Acts 20:13-14.
A famous resident of Assos was Aristotle, who lived from 384-322BC. According to Britannica, he was a philosopher, psychologist, logician, moralist, political …
Rhodes is an island 18km from South West Turkey and is one of the furthest islands from Greece. It’s mentioned possibly in Genesis 10:4 and 1 Chronicles 1:7 where the LXX renders Dodanim as Rodanim, or Rhodes, and occurs in Acts 21:1 when Paul is travelling to Jerusalem a day after stoppin…
In the previous article, we began by considering the Roman dragon as it developed in the region of modern Turkey. We examined, in broad terms, the beginning of the Byzantine Empire, tracing the development of the various powers that impacted on the purpose of God. We concluded our considerat…
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One hundred years ago the British Government issued a document which would change the face of Middle East politics for ever. On 2 November 1917 the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Lord Arthur Balfour wrote to Lord Walter Rothschild, a leader of the Jewish community in Britain and annou…
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One hundred years ago the empire of the Ottoman Turk was dismantled. Today, occupying a much reduced territory, is the Republic of Turkey. The region is rich in history and has been described as the “cradle of civilisation”. It was in this region that Noah emerged from the ark on the mountains o…
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Palestine – 31st October 1917
“And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up” (Rev 16:12).
One of the fascinating and wonderful privileges we have as students of Bible prophecy is to look back over history w…
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Dwelling Carelessly in Isles
Who would have thought that prior to Christ’s return to believers we would be writing about Russia’s move into the Middle East? This is the situation we now find ourselves in. Yet one of the most extraordinary aspects of these events is that they hardl…
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The foundations of the modern Middle East were laid in the aftermath of the First World War. This conflict set in motion the final acts of the long, slow drying up the “great river Euphrates” (Rev 16:12). While the well-known 1917 Balfour Declaration led to the eventual creation of the state of …
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