Why and what is happening in Turkey?

On April 8th I handed in my last paper at Free University Berlin called  Arab states in Biblical Prophecy: Foretold history? - The constitution development of Iran, Sudan and Turkey in the last century. (I know Turkey is not an arab state, just needed a well sounding title for the whole peace that is not too far away from the course on constitution development in fragile states - and yes I know we can lead a long debate of wether fragile is an useful or even legitimate category for states...please forgive those minor restraints and let's focus on the content ;-))

Based on Joel Richardsons (http://www.joelstrumpet.com/) scientific analysis "Mideast Beast" (WND Books, New York, 2012) on biblical prophecy from Moses to Revelation and his thesis of a reviving Islamic Caliphate I analysed exemplified the political and constiutional development in these three key countries mentioned in biblical prophecy.

As I said I handed it in on April 8th the development in Turkey started end of May, please read the introduction and conclusion here and follow the political developments in Turkey from now on.

Also check Joel Richardsons blog for further development. (If you want to invest in one senseful book for a time like this in human history - please buy the book, absolutely recommened and necessary reading).

Thanks to all who are reading, caring and are interested in whats really going on in the world.

Please also note, especially to all my friends who believe in Allah, the interest of this work is not to insult their faith or religion in anyway, it is to shed light and analyse if and in what way biblical prophecy is unfolding in the events in the world we are witnessing right now. You know I love you and respect your devotion in faith, which some of us Christians are lacking dearly (especially in those critical times). God, the one God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, loves you the same passionate way he loves every single one on this planet, he is your father, the only way to Him and to have a living relationship as a son and daughter of God in the Holy Spirit is crucified Jesus Christ, the Messiah.

If you have further questions concerning the other content of the paper, please feel free to ask me anything, I will be glad to answer your questions or discuss with you (or again see and write to Joel Richardsons blog www.joelstrumpet.com),

Best & Love Jonathan

1.    Introduction

A constitution is formulated as the authoritative norm of a society. However, in many cases the constitutional reality strays far of the normative order, freedoms and rights that are formulated in this institution. Still it reflects a social consensus and direction to which a society is aspiring. In the following paper the constitutions of three countries are analyzed to find out whether the development of their constitutions reflects a direction for these countries that had been prophesied about in scriptural passages of the Bible considering the end times of Israel.

Although the country of Israel is as big as Hessen, the attention of the world community is sometimes as Jerusalem is the capital of the world. There are few places in the world where the religious and cultural heritage of mankind has been more impacted than from the holy land, the events and the people who lived there. If we take the scriptures of the Bible and the many prophecies that had come along for the Jewish people, it is stirring to which accurate degree the prophets in the Bible as Isaiah, Jeremiah and Daniel have foretold the history that happened sometimes hundreds of years after them.                                                                                                      

Among them was the siege of Jerusalem and the capture of the Israelis in Judea into the Babylonian exile and the rule of the Babylonian empire for 70 years, which was prophesied by Jeremiah around 580 B.C. (Jeremiah 25: 9 -12 and 32: 36) and happened in 609 B.C.. The dispersion of the Jewish people and the destruction of Israel which took place 67 A.D. and 132 A.D., when the Romans waged war against Israel and destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple, was prophesied by Moses 1400 B.C. (Leviticus 26: 32-33, Deuteronomy 28: 49 -52 and 29: 21-28), Daniel 530 B.C.( Daniel 9: 26), Micah around 700 B.C.(Micah 3:11-12) and  Jesus during the first century (Matthew 24: 1-2, Luke 19: 41-44 and Luke 21: 24).  Between 593 and 571 B.C. Ezekiel (Ezekiel 34: 13) prophesied that God will bring Israel out of the Nations back to their country, this is what we witnessed happening since the 15^th and 16^th century culminating in the Aliyah, the large migrations to Israel, in the 19^th and 20^th century from all over Europe and the world. The rebirth of Israel is the single incident in human history that a people has been in exile and dispersed for almost 2000 years, a nation without a homeland, and after that return and re-establish that homeland in a singular event as Isaiah had prophesied around 700 B.C. (Isaiah 66:8) which came to pass as of May 14^th 1948.

Jesus, among others, prophesied that in the last days there will be an unparalleled attack on Israel with an amount of suffering for the people which have never occurred in history (Matthew 24:21, Mark 13:19) known as the great tribulation, which is also in parts described in the book of revelation. As the foretold events of the return of Israel already took place, Richardson[1] extracted from the prophecies given all throughout the Bible which nations will be included in that attack on Israel. 

The following work shall examine the constitutional and political development in the nations that the Bible described to be a part of this attack on Israel. The method for the interpretation of the Bible passages will be the geographic-correlation-method, which consider the historic context of the prophets and relates the nations today to their geographical settings in the times of the prophecies. Another historic link that qualifies the prophecies given is the hostility of the Nations towards Israel now and then, which will execute the judgment that will follow them.[2]

The research question is: How did the constitutions of the countries described of being part of an attack on Israel in the Bible developed in the last century?

The hypothesis is: The nations mentioned in Biblical prophecies experienced an islamisation of their constitution.

Conclusion

Scrutinizing the political and foremost constitutional development in Turkey, Sudan and Iran in the last century one comes to a twofold conclusion. On the one hand we see in the dimension of politics a shift towards an anti-Israeli discourse in all of these countries, on the other hand we have a little more ambiguous result in polities concerning their constitutional development. The republic of Sudan and Iran are worldwide forerunners of Islamic constitution building and therefore confirm the hypothesis that their constitutions experienced an islamisation in the last century. The Turkish constitution had several political actors, most prominent the military, which prevented such a development until today, although now a constitutional reform process is initiated that could possibly trigger a slowly growing islamisation under the AKP and Reccep Tayyip Erdogan.

Regarding their role in prophetic biblical passages according to Richardson respectively Iran (Persia) and the Republic of Sudan (Cush) could historically, ideologically and politically already fulfill their role (as being mentioned in Ezekiel 38:5, Daniel 11:43 and Zephaniah 2:12) and be a part of the prophesied attack on Israel, while Turkey, as Gog of Magog from Ezekiel 38/39, would need a further political stretch on fulfilling its role as spearhead of the revived Ottoman Empire described in Daniel 2, 7 and 11.

The events unfolding in Turkey could spark exactely this political stretch towards an reviving Ottoman empire....let us watch closely on which networks will evolve as the most powerful ones in this time in history of Turkey.

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[1]  Joel Richardson, Mideast Beast, 243ff, WND Books, New York, 2012

[2] Joel Richardson, Mideast Beast, p.49 – 53, WND Books, New York, 2012