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Radical Sunni militants known as ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) have taken over several major cities in Iraq while government security forces laid down their arms and walked away.

The 70th anniversary celebrations of the D-Day landings on June 6 held in Normandy dominated the news media. Attended by some 20 world leaders, they included Barack Obama (USA), Vladimir Putin (Russia), the newly elected President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, and the supreme guest of honor, Her Majesty the Queen (UK).

There is a new war now erupting in Iraq and Syria, one which is quickly becoming a prelude to much more traumatic events, including the rise of a revived Islamic caliphate. Whether or not Iranian forces, Shi’ite militia, or the United States and others help the Iraqi government repel the latest wave of fanatic Islamists, you need to understand what Scripture reveals is unfolding in the Middle East right now. You need to understand how the spirit forces behind these events are setting the stage for coming world war between a European-based “king of the North” and the rising “king of the South” spoken of in the Bible prophecies of Daniel.

Recently in Wisconsin, two twelve-year-old girls attacked and brutally stabbed their twelve-year-old friend 19 times (CNN, June 4, 2014). A cyclist found the victim and she is now in stable condition. The two suspects apparently planned the attack since February. They have been charged as adults (ibid.).

In a recent West Point commencement speech, “President Obama said that the U.S. will remain the one indispensable nation in the century to come… ‘America must always lead on the world stage… If we don’t, no one else will’” (Washington Post, May 30, 2014).