NEWSBITE 15.8.2026

Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have just signed a defence pact agreeing to band together if one of them is attacked. It has also been reported that Egypt might join them as well. Very soon after this alliance Pakistan’s defence minister told a local news outlet that Israel was a threat to the whole Muslim world and called for a united military front against the Jewish nation.

This calls into question Turkey’s loyalty to NATO and whether the United States should supply them with American weaponry especially the F-35 fighter jets.

Why would Turkey, a significant member of NATO be in yet another military alliance with Islamic countries? On one hand Turkey is a member of NATO and on the other hand it is common knowledge that Turkey has openly threatened to destroy Israel, one of the United States closest allies.

Not so long ago President Erdogan publically called for all Muslims to invade the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

On other occasions we have seen his public vitriolic tirade against Israel. We also know that his burning passion and insatiable appetite is to see the Caliphate of the Ottoman Empire of his Turkish forebears resurrected and established in Jerusalem. No guesses of course who he has in mind for “the top job!”

The man from Turkey is becoming the predominant player in the whole of the Middle-East region. Biblically it would seem that scripture is revealing to us the last beast empire that received a seemingly fatal wound that has now been healed and resurrected once again.

For further reading see “The Two Beasts of the Apocalypse”

In Bible prophecy related to Eschatology “Beasts” represent empires and “horns” rulers over those empires. The prophet Daniel mentions four main beast empires that are related specifically to Bible prophecy being Assyria, Babylon, Medio-Persia, the Greco-Roman Empire and the fourth and last beast empire eclipsing all of these former empires being the Turkish Ottoman Empire that destroyed the last leg of the Roman Empire.

In Daniel Chapter 7:7-8 we see that this fourth beast empire that will be the Empire of the Antichrist. This empire will not assimilate with any other culture. It will be terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It will be like a wild beast with large iron teeth that crushes and devours its victims and tramples underfoot whatever is left. It will be different from all former empires and will consist of ten leaders of ten nations, three of which the Antichrist will overthrow (Vs.20).

In light of past history and scripture and what is happening in the Middle-East today and in western democracies this end-time empire would have to be an Islamic Empire. We also see that the people of God will suffer persecution within the realm of this empire of global proportions (Vs.21). Daniel also describes its demise and the faithful believers in the Messiah receiving the Millennial Messianic Kingdom (Vss. 9-14, 22, 26-27).

For further reading see “The Fourth Beast”

In Revelation Chapter 17:12-18 we see these ten “horns” or “kings” that are yet to come whose kingdoms have as yet not been established as part of the main beast empire. However, for a very short period of time they will receive authority as kings along with the main beast empire and its leader the Antichrist.

We are also told that they will have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast empire’s leader being the Antichrist also titled in scripture as the man of lawlessness (2 Thessalonians 2:3).

We are also told that this alliance of nations will make war against the Messiah our Lord Jesus, the Lamb of God Himself, but that He will overcome them because He is Lord of lords And King of kings- and with Him will be His called, chosen and faithful followers, the saints of the Most High that will inherit the Messianic Millennial Kingdom after He has returned to earth at His Second Coming (Daniel 7:13-14, 21-22, 24-27) (Revelation 5:9-10).

We are also told in Revelation Chapter 17:15-18 that these ten kings will hate the prostitute or harlot empire that has ruled over nations economically and destroy it with fire according to God’s will.

This is the harlot city and its kingdom described in Revelation chapter 18 and located in the desert, and whose destruction is heard at the Red Sea (Jeremiah 49:20-21) (Revelation 17:3-6),

also called Mystery Babylon the Great the Mother of Prostitutes and of the Abominations of the Earth and the source of all false religion and idolatry that has spread throughout the nations.

This city and its kingdom would have to be Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the very heart of the Islamic world, the harlot of Islam of whom we are told was drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus (Revelation 17:6). Today in Saudi Arabia faithful New Covenant believers are still being killed as in most Islamic countries.

In reality to the Jihadist Islamic mindset we see exemplified in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Egypt, the city of Mecca in the desert near the Red Sea is viewed by them as the Harlot of Islam because of its dealings with the west. Also the other Arab kingdoms, apart from Qatar, are also is the missile sights of Iran and the Jihadists who vehemently hate the west.

At present the Houthis in Yemen backed by Iran are sending missiles and drones against Saudi Arabia, yet Turkey and Pakistan have done nothing to go to the defence of the Saudis. So much for the pact to defend each other if attacked. Both Turkey and Pakistan most likely view the Saudis as apostates of Islam.

When Mecca is hit hard by powerful missiles and the oil reserves under the ground in the Saudi Arabian desert are ignited we may well see the fulfilment of Isaiah’s prophecy. It will be God’s judgment on the Arab kingdom for its treatment of New Covenant Messianic believers. Isaiah wrote…

“For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulphur; her land will become a blazing pitch (oil reserves under the desert). It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it” (Isaiah 34:8-10). See also (Revelation Chapter 18).

A nuclear detonation would cause the whole Saudi Arabian Peninsula to become a raging inferno out of control which will not be able to be quenched. For this conflagration to occur Saudi Arabia would no longer be numbered among the ten kings. As to whom these final ten kings will be we do not know, however, I am inclined to think and am persuaded, they will be an alliance of fundamentalist Islamic nations following strict Sharia law.

For further reading see “Fallen, Fallen is Babylon ”

The source of Meccas religious harlotry goes all the way back to Nimrod the founder and builder of Ancient Babylon and Assyria, one who was a rebel in God’s face and the first major type of the Antichrist in scripture (Genesis 10:8-12). In Bible prophecy the kings of Assyria and Babylon all foreshadow, and are types of the Antichrist. All false religions then have their original source in the Babylon of Nimrod in the Book of Genesis.

The ‘gods’ of all of the ancient pagan nations have straddled each successive empire only their names have been changed.

As we see this new three nation Islamic alliance clearly spearheaded by Turkey are we seeing the embryotic form of the ten kings mentioned in Daniel and Revelation? It is interesting to note that Turkey militarily is the main player in the Middle East. The man from Turkey is seeking to rally the whole Islamic world to his war banner to unite against Israel. Saudi Arabia is the central religious component of this emerging alliance, and Pakistan has nuclear capability.

In light of the gathering Islamic storm against Israel and the faithful Body of Messiah spiritually grafted into Israel we may be seeing in this alliance the formation of the armies of the nations in the future that will invade Israel. It will be an Islamic invasion led by Turkey, not Russia (Ezekiel 38:1-5). We also know that there will be the armies of other nations that will join this invasion force (Vs.6). Saudi Arabia and some other nations will not join this alliance when it invades Israel (Ezekiel 38:13).

As for Israel the LORD has not rejected His covenant people. He has a remnant chosen by Grace that will not only survive the invasion and all that comes with it, but are destined to be kept through this Time of Jacob’s Trouble to be saved out of it (Jeremiah 30:1-10), when they see the Messiah returning to the Mount of Olives and recognise that their salvation is only in Him.

After He has destroyed all of their enemies arrayed against them they will co-reign with the Messiah our Lord Jesus in His Messianic kingdom on earth with His throne established in Jerusalem! (Zechariah 13:8-9) (Revelation 12:1-6, 13-16) (Zechariah 12:10-13:1).

As for these ten kings led by the Antichrist that have waged war against the Lamb of God, the Lamb Himself will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings- and with Him will be His called, chosen and faithful followers, including the rest of the spiritual offspring of the woman Israel-those who have come out of great tribulation, have washed their robes in the Lamb’s blood, who have obeyed God’s commandments and who have held fast to their testimony of Jesus (Revelation 7:14-17; 12:17, 20:4-5). Selah.