Hmmm…SO! So then, where did President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flee to on January 14th 2011? He went somewhere he had allies! Somewhere he felt SAFE! Somewhere he felt someone more powerful than himself, more powerful than his enemies could shield him…he took Exhile in SAUDI ARABIA! And who rules PREVALING INFLUENCE IN SAUDI? YEMEN!
And we have in Daniel and ONGOING affair by two wicked Kings, drawing others into their quarrels! And in NAHUM 3 we see this Kingdom of the South could be applied by at least one application to “SHEBA” or “YEMEN.” But can we harmonize this elsewhere in Scripture? Can we see such elsewhere, say in the book of Daniel?
In Daniel we see two kingdoms in bed with one another…the Wicked King of the South and the Wicked King of the North! And we see these two kings by their wicked ways cause strife in the world, and with each other and draw other kings and kingdoms into their strife. And if America represents “The Modern Assyrian” the “KING OF THE NORTH” in our day, who then are we most at war with in recent history? Could it be that Worldly Kingdom of the south, “Sheba”…YEMEN?
Has America in Recent modern History suffered any strife from Yemen?
Well, YES, and NO! We addressed this Earlier!
The government itself has not been at war with the USA officially, but one if it’s citizens went to war with the USA. Osama Bin Laden, originnally from Yemen, was greatly angered by the USA presence in KuWait during the Gulf War.
He publicly Criticized the King of Kuwait until he was exhiled from Saudi Arabia for the same. And in 2000, the Attack on the “U.S.S. COLE” off the Coast of Yemen, was carried out by the organization Osama bin Laden started…”Al Quieda.’
This is very telling…either YEMEN influenced Saudi Arabia, was the Ally of the King oF Tunisa, Ally in a 3 handed Chess game, or perhaps YEMEN, was his true Commander!
Is that an unreasonable assertion?
Well perhaps. And Perhaps not. Consider that Modern Tunisa has only been it’s own nation since 1956. For the Century prior, it was a French Colony after France invaded it in the 1800s. And it’s primary NAMED modern Ally is FRANCE. So then, why when it fell into Revolution, did it’s Former President, on January 14th, 2011 not FLEE TO FRANCE?
Hmmm, good question.
What else do we know about Tunisa?
Well, historically, it was inhabited by Berers. IT began formation as a nation about 1000 BCE by semitic Phonecians, so they share roots in Cannann as do the Hebrews.
About 814 BCE its most powerful Seaport ‘Carthage’ was built by Dido, and heavily influenced by Phonecians.
Literature suggests child sacrifice was practiced in the region. One of the primary deities of the land was Baal, and this was true into the timeframe of the Lifetime of Daniel between 600 to 500 BCE.
Carthage dominated Trade on the Mediterraian Sea becoming the Dominate Western Mediterrainian Power after a series of wars with Greek City States, from the 5th century BCE. The highest point of its power as an independent civilazation was of this era for about 350 years until the City of Carthage was conquered by Rome in 149 BCE! Rome controlled the region for the next 579 years until the region was conquered by Gemanic tribes and held from
430 to 533 when the Berbers joined forces with Rome, to defeat the Germanic Vandals and re-establish Roman Rule, which lasted until 670 CE.
Now CARTHAGE was an early SEAT of Christianity, but that influence only lasted in dominance for about 300 yrs. Christianity was a State Persecuted Religion until Contstantine Declared Tolerance for the religion in 311 CE.
359 years later, Carthage was invaded by Arab Muslims!
The nation has been conquered and re-quonqured by one Muslim Faction or another ever since, but has remained under Islamic Rule until the French Invasion in the mid 1800s!
They are like the spoiled wimpy rich kid who worked in his dads Candy store, and Dad had to go home to check on an emergency with mom and left the kid in charge of the store!
He can say its his store all he wants, but he is only 8 years old and every Tom, Dick and Harry bully his own age and up, and maybe a couple really mean 6 year olds Learn he is in charge, they are gonna bum rush the place one at the time and do whatever the hell they want until a meaner bully comes along and takes over, and then repeat, repeat, repeat!
So while Tunisa, via CARTHAGE saw a luxurious rise to Power and a good run with that power…once they lost it, and everyone else saw what they had, KEY POSITION to control the Western Mediterranian, everybody wanted a piece of the action and Tunisa has been the puppet of one outside ruling empire or regime or another since 149 BCE! And they have spent 1780 of the 1880 years under ISLAMIC RULE!
So, yeah, there is merit to suggest that The King of TUNISA, while a KING, was in fact more like a ROYAL MINION to another, and it doesn’t look like it was FRANCE! King Ben Ali, when he was ousted in January of 2011 following the rise of rebel factions seeking to take advantage of Barak Obama’s New Policy Change in the Summer of 2010 and Surprise (without consulting Congress) Pledge of US SUPPORT in any way, not excluding Military support to rising groups in “Unstable” regions in the Mid-East seeking to establish “new Democracies”, King Ben Ali, did not flee to France, he fled to where his Loyalites truly Lay…to Saudi Arabia, whose “KING OF THE SOUTH” is Yemen.
Well, we went to war in 2001, against whom? Afghanistan? NO, we went to “War “IN” Afghanistan”…but we went to war “WITH TERROR!” And in the name of that war, the USA has entered MANY LANDS! Who was the figurehead of that war? Who was PUBLIC ENEMY number one? Who represented our opposing KING? It was Osama Bin Laden, an ancient descendant of The tribe of Queryish, (Ko-resh), who was raised in, and whose family hails from “YEMEN!”
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