Within days of New Year’s Day seven years ago I introduced this blog’s first readers to the Watcher in The White House, accredited Christian journalist William Koenig, in Points to Ponder: 2011-12 and Biblical Historical/Financial Cycles. It was the first of occasional sorties into the nature of Time and the Bible, now collated in this hub – Time: a Primer.
In last Friday’s Eye View from the White House Bill opens his weekly report with…
“22 significant new events that happened this week – This has been an amazing week of prophetic significance with continued final-day alignment activities” and briefly reports upon activities and then enumerates the events as follows:
“The following are news articles that are prophetically significant. Below the news is insight and information regarding Secretary Pompeo’s trip and more news.
- Turkey and the Kurds turn to Russia to solve problems sparked by U.S. exit from Syria – Washington Post
- Putin and Erdogan agree to hold talks soon, but exact date is not determined – Kremlin – Tass
- Erdogan calls for joint Turkish-Russian-Iranian control of US pullout from Syria in face of Moscow’s veto – Debka
- Bolton says U.S. Withdrawal from Syria is conditional: National security adviser says pullout depends on assurances Turkey will protect America’s Kurdish allies – Wall Street Journal
- Turkey’s Erdogan refuses Bolton meeting, slams Syria withdrawal shift – Axios
- Bolton warns Syria not to use chemical weapons – Wall Street Journal
- Trump prepared to ‘unleash fury’ on Syria, Pompeo says – Jerusalem Post
- Pompeo promises ‘every last Iranian boot’ will be expelled from Syria – Times of Israel
- Pompeo hopes to establish coalition consisting of GCC states, Egypt and Jordan Al Arabiya
- Iran’s supreme leader calls US officials ‘idiots,’ but hints sanctions hurting – Times of Israel
- Iran’s Zarif on Pompeo: U.S. brings chaos where it interferes – Reuters
- US to convene global summit on Iran February 13-14 – Times of Israel
- US Navy Update: 11 carrier strike groups and 9 amphibious ready groups; five groups deployed and 15 in US ports – Strafor Intelligence
- Pentagon pushes forward on Syria pullout: USS Kearsarge to back up troops at the vulnerable moment they are leaving Syria – Wall Street Journal
- USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) back in the Persian Gulf to continue ISIS fight; a show of force to nearby Iran – CBS News
- Amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD-2) is in the North Arabian Sea – USNI
- Netanyahu wants US recognition of Israel sovereignty over Golan Heights – Middle East Monitor
- In Arab world, belief prevails that Trump will recognize Israeli sovereignty over Golan Heights – Ynet
- Jordanian FM to Pompeo: Israel must eventually withdraw from Golan – Times of Israel
- After U.S. prod, ex-envoy to China says Haifa Port deal must be reversed – Jerusalem Post
- Israel-China experts downplay impact of Haifa Port decision – Jerusalem Post
- Egypt’s El Sisi Builds Middle East’s Largest Church – CBN.”
Bill doesn’t refer to specific bible prophecies because most of his readership, like mine, is familiar with Old and New Testament prophecies. [Those covering current events in the Middle-East are Daniel 7-8 (the vision of four beasts, the goat and ram), Zecharia 12 (Jerusalem and its enemies) and Ezekiel 36-19 (Gog & Magog) in the main.]
Next, he outlines the points Secretary Pompeo made in his speech in Cairo, which was a sensible turnaround of the seriously flawed one addressed to the whole Muslim world by Obama in 2009. [My critiques of Obama’s Cairo Speech followed by Europe and Two Daniels (ie. the EU) were some of my early emails on end-times.]
Subsequently, Debka reports Sunni Arab leaders are very uneasy about America pulling out of their region in the face of Iranian aggression, but they have to learn to look after themselves – in my opinion they will draw more closely alongside Israel, an alignment that started months ago. Also, it’s a necessary part of shaking off the shackles of the Obama pro-Iranian legacy.
Richard's Watch 
Re: the financial side of things, a number of secular commentators are wondering if there will be another global recession this year.
Re: Ezekiel 38-39, I find myself wondering if the invasion described is actually a multi-stage process, which could explain some of the difficulty in interpreting it. I believe that the end of it depicts the return of Christ, but I wonder if the earlier stages include multiple military events. One of my MPhil essays was on Antiochus Epiphanes, for which I had cause to read 1 and 2 Maccabees and Josephus. In those books we actually see a number of assaults on Egypt and Jerusalem in the space of a few years. The blurring between Antiochus and the Antichrist in Daniel suggests that some of those events will replay themselves.
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