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Why are Kurdish groups in Iraq being attacked amid the US-Iran flare-up?
Hey Watchmen,
You see this and you think it's just another flashpoint in a messy region, but look closer — Iraq's Kurds are getting hit right in the seam between Iran and Turkey, and that seam is not random real estate on the map. That's the exact corridor I've walked you through before — Northern Iraq, Northeastern Syria, that river running up toward Armenia. Iran does not want Turkey pressing on its northwestern border, and Turkey isn't backing off. The Kurds sit right in the middle of that pressure, caught between two powers that have hated each other's guts for years, and every time Washington and Tehran flare up, it's the Kurds who catch the fallout because they're the pressure valve nobody asked to be.
My friends, this is exactly what I mean when I say watch the players, not just the headlines. Daniel 8 gives us a war at the river Ulai, in Susa — and something has to provoke that. You don't need me to tell you a Kurdish flashpoint sitting on that very fault line is worth your attention. I'm not saying this is the fulfillment today. I'm saying the terrain Scripture names is heating up right now, in real time, in front of your eyes. Elohim is not surprised by any of it — He numbers the nations and sets their boundaries, and He is not wringing His hands over Erdogan or Tehran. "He changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings" — that's Daniel's own testimony, and it still holds.
So don't get lulled into thinking this is just background noise from a region that's always on fire. The players are lining up right where the prophets said to watch. Stay in the Word, stay off the sensational headlines and onto the sober ones, and keep your lamp trimmed — because the hour is later than it looks. Shalom, and stay ready.
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