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Islamic State supporters continue to send messages of destruction.

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The Islamic State (also known as ISIL or ISIS) has now publicly burned 19 women alive who refused to be raped:

June 6, 2016

Nineteen Iraqi Yazidi girls who refused to have sex with their Islamic State captors were placed in iron cages and burned alive in front of a crowd of hundreds in Mosul on Thursday, activists and witnesses say.

“The 19 girls were burned to death, while hundreds of people were watching,” a witness told ARA News. “Nobody could do anything to save them from the brutal punishment.”

ISIS took the girls – and thousands of others — as sex slaves after overtaking a northern Iraqi region they called home in August 2014.

“They were punished for refusing to have sex with ISIS militants,” local activist Abdullah al-Malla told ARA News. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/06/06/19-yazidi-girls-burned-alive-for-refusing-to-have-sex-with-their-isis-captors.html

Even though they are ethnically Kurdish, Yazidis are a distinct and independent religious community with their own unique culture. They tend to live near Nineveh in northern Iraq.

A while back, the Islamic State distributed a question and answer pamphlet about non-Muslim females, with many of the answers horrifying:

December 13, 2014

Perhaps you were wondering if all the terrible tales of sex slavery by ISIS could be true? After all, they claim to be a very religious group. Unfortunately, new evidence reveals the situation is indeed as grim, if not grimmer, than the reports.

The 27 questions and answers of the pamphlet translated by MEMRI reveal a systematic look into sexual slavery, answering a variety of questions, such as if one can sleep with two sisters , buying and selling slaves and covering up the slave during prayer.

Harrowing personal accounts from female escapees of ISIS’s sexual slavery have been flowing into the media over the last few months. This pamphlet’s publishing implies that questions concerning sexual slavery were becoming frequent following ISIS’s rise. Unfortunately, this confirms reports of thousands of Yazidi woman and other minorities being taken into sexual slavery by the terrorist group. http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-published-female-sex-slave-handbook-384510

December 13, 2014

(CNN)— Can you take non-Muslim women and children captive? Yes, says ISIS.

Can you have sex with them, even prepubescent girls? Yes, according to the Islamist extremist group.

Can you sell them or give them as gifts to others? The answer is yes, once again.

People in Mosul — the Iraqi city now under control of the group calling itself the Islamic State — got these and other messages loud and clear after sunset prayers Friday, when armed men handed out a color-printed pamphlet “Question and Answers on Female Slaves and their Freedom,” three residents told CNN.

“People started gathering in small groups chattering about this (document),” said one of the men, whom CNN didn’t name for security reasons. “Most are shocked, but (we) cannot do much about it.” …

Its militants have justified their actions — like the beheadings of journalists and aid workers — in God’s name.

Even then, it is rare to see its rationale laid out as plainly as in “Question and Answers on Female Slaves and their Freedom.”

In the document, for instance, it is explained that capturing women is permissible if they are “nonbelievers.” It adds, “Female slaves are the women that Muslims took from their enemies.”

Much of the pamphlet talks about ISIS’ policy on having sexual intercourse with a female slave, something that the group cites the Quran to justify. …

As to girls: “It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse,” the document reads. “However, if she is not fit for intercourse, he (the owner ) can only enjoy her without intercourse.”

The Q&A is clear that, young and old, the captors have full control of their captives.

As such, the ISIS document claims, “It is permissible to buy, sell or give as a gift female captives and slaves, for they are merely property.” http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/12/world/meast/isis-justification-female-slaves/

We all need to pray, as Jesus said, ‘Thy kingdom come’ (Matthew 6:10, KJV; see also, the free online booklet, The Gospel of the Kingdom of God).

Because of actions by groups such as the Islamic State, many in the West as well as in many of the Islam-dominated countries have decided that a coalition of nations in North Africa and the Middle East is what is needed for ‘peace.’ Eventually a ‘peace’ will come. But this, according to the Bible, will not last (Daniel 11:39-43) as the final King of the North will cause war (cf. Revelation 13:4), though he also looks to at first be associated with a deal that will lead to a time of temporary peace (Daniel 9:27; see also The ‘Peace Deal’ of Daniel 9:27). This could muzzles groups like the Islamic State.

As far as being burnt alive goes, Christians also have been persecuted with burning throughout the Church age (see Persecutions by Church and State).

Furthermore, perhaps I should mention here that the Bible and Greco-Roman prophecy indicates that those who are faithful to God who keep the seventh-day Sabbath will in the future be subject to persecutions such as being burnt alive themselves.

Consider that the biblical King of the North seems to be the same one that certain Catholic “prophecies” call the Great Monarch who will rule a revised Roman Empire. Notice that Catholic prophets have indicated that heretics will be eliminated by their Great Monarch, and that a small “sect” will have their possessions (and probably some of their bodies) burnt:

St. Francis of Paola (Born in Italy, 15th century). “the Great Monarch will annihilate heretics and unbelievers. He will have a great army, and angels will fight at his side. He will be like the sun among the stars. His influence will spread over the whole earth. All in all, there will be on earth twelve Kings, one Emperor, one Pope and a few Princes. They will all lead holy lives.” (Dupont, Yves. Catholic Prophecy: The Coming Chastisement. TAN Books, Rockford (IL), 1973, p.38).

Capuchin Friar (18th century)…”A scion of the Carolingian race, by all considered extinct, will come to Rome and behold and admire the piety and clemency of this Pontiff. who will crown him, and declare him to be the legitimate Emperor of the Romans. He shall destroy the Ottoman Empire and all heresies” (Dupont, p. 34).

David Poreus (17th century): The Great Monarch…will crush the enemies of the Pope…(Dupont, p. 31).

Anne Catherine Emmerich (Purification day 1822) “I saw during the last few days marvellous things connected with the Church. St. Peter’s was almost entirely destroyed by the sect, but their labors were, in turn, rendered fruitless and all that belonged to them, their aprons and tools, burned by the executioners on the public place of infamy. They were made of horse-leather, and the stench from them was so offensive that it made me quite sick…” (Schmöger Carl E. The Life and Revelations of Anne Catherine Emmerich, Volume 2. Approbation: Bishop of Limbourgh Peter Joseph. TAN Books, reprint 1976, p.292)

The Eastern Orthodox have a prophecy that various Sabbath-keepers will be publicly executed and the time period is supposed to be when the “Great Monarch” rises up:

Blessed Hieronymus Agathaghelos (1279): And lo, an evil assembly of the crafty leader, dressed in black mourning apparel…those who were taking in a most hypocritical manner the most holy name of Christ…those were the most filthy citizens of Pentapolis…these are semi-godless men…they will have to pay the price before the public executioner of the Sabbatians. (Tzima Otto, H.  The Great Monarch and WWIII in Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Scriptural Prophecies. Verenika Press, Rock City (SC), 2000, pp. 134,135,240).

Note “public executioner of the Sabbatians” is how that portion of the phrase is shown as a translation on page 240 of the above source. Sabbatians means Sabbath-keepers. The fact that there is prophesied to be a “public executioner” for them, supports the idea that people like us in the genuine Church of God will be subject to execution and other likely forms of persecution, like being burnt alive, by Greco-Romans in the end times..

Burning and persecution of God’s faithful in the end was predicted in the Bible.  Notice what the prophet Daniel was inspired to write:

28 While returning to his land with great riches, his heart shall be moved against the holy covenant; so he shall do damage and return to his own land…32 Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits. And those of the people who understand shall instruct many; yet for many days they shall fall by sword and flame, by captivity and plundering. Now when they fall, they shall be aided with a little help; but many shall join with them by intrigue. And some of those of understanding shall fall, to refine them, purify them, and make them white, until the time of the end; because it is still for the appointed time (Daniel 11:28, 32-35).

The persecutions above are by one called the King of the North (Daniel 11:40; 7:25a), who like prophecies about the ‘Great Monarch’ has a ‘great army’ (see Daniel 11:25). More on end time persecutions for Christians can be found in the article Persecutions by Church and State.

It is horrific that Yazidi girls were burned alive for refusing to be raped by terrorists. But, sadly, this will not be the last time that those on Satan’s side will use fire and other persecutions.

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This entry was posted on Monday, June 6th, 2016 at 7:00 am and is filed under Prophecy.

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