(03-04-2026, 09:13 PM)YesItsMe Wrote: As a veteran I say that any notion of end times theology driving the war is absurd. There is ZERO chance that those in charge would be giving orders or sermons to the troops on it. And anyone who knows Christian theology knows that Iran doesn't play a major roll in the end times. Any thought of that comes from the Muslim end times Mahdi teachings, which read like the antichrist in Christian teachings.
Exactly. The prophecy of "black flags riding out of Khorasan" is a Muslim prophecy, not a Christian or Jewish one. "Khorasan" is a vague and undefined area in eastern Iran and western Afghanistan. I can find no reason that Christians would suddenly embrace Islamic prophecies.
I did, however, find a video of one lunatic reaching hard, trying to equate modern events with prophecies from the Old testament about the Elamites.
Elam was a very small area in what is now western Iran, right on the Gulf bordering Sumeria, and not going any farther into Iran than the first few mountain ranges of the Zagros.
Elam had ceased to exist by 550 BC.
It was a Big Deal back in the days of Sumeria and Assyria, say around 2500 BC to maybe 1500 BC, but by end-of-life it had dwindled down to a footnote of history, hardly worthy of any prophetic notice. That's why they could get away back then with "prophecies" of Elam's impending doom - it was already gone.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake