US sets 2027 deadline for Europe-led NATO defense, officials say

By Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk

Published: December 7, 20256:58 AM GMT

Smoke billows from a blast near Polish Abrams tank as Polish forces with NATO soldiers hold military exercises ‘Iron Defender’ at a military range in Wierzbiny near Orzysz, Poland, September17, 2025. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo

WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) – The United States wants Europe to take over the majority of NATO’s conventional defense capabilities, from intelligence to missiles, by 2027, Pentagon officials told diplomats in Washington this week, a tight deadline that struck some European officials as unrealistic.

The message, recounted by five sources familiar with the discussion, including a U.S. official, was conveyed at a meeting in Washington this week of Pentagon staff overseeing NATO policy and several European delegations.

The shifting of this burden from the U.S. to European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would dramatically change how the United States, a founding member of the post-war alliance, works with its most important military partners.

In the meeting, Pentagon officials indicated that Washington was not yet satisfied with the strides Europe has made to boost its defense capabilities since Russia’s expanded invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The U.S. officials told their counterparts that if Europe does not meet the 2027 deadline, the U.S. may stop participating in some NATO defense coordination mechanisms, said the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss private conversations.

This article shows that America is still pressuring Europe to step up militarily to take charge of their own defense. This will lead to fulfilment of Bible Prophecy with Russia being allied to Europe at the time of the end with a large army under a NATO like command and control.  President Emmanual Macron has also been on record saying that he wants to bring Russia back to the negotiating table and begin dialogue on some form of a Security Pact with Russia.

NATO must cease to exist and will most likely morph into the command and control centre for a European Army that is allied with Russia and with Russia taking a leading role to fulfil the Bible Prophecy that Russia will be a ‘Guard’ under Europe.

The Bible has long revealed that Russia and an EU Army will enter into a final conflict with Israel and the Middle East.  Germany is the key country in what Bible Prophecy refers to as the land of “Magog”. They are spoken of militarily as the “King of the North”.  Together the Bible says that Russia and the EU will invade the Middle East in the Last Days.  So Bible Students expect to see Germany and France taking a greater role in leading Europe.  It is also interesting to see Germany taking greater control of a continent they tried to take by war and failed.

Yet again we see in Todays News Headlines words that show how the Nations are fulfilling the latter day alignment of Nations as Prophesied by the Bible as NATO must come to an end.

See this article to learn more about this and the latter day prophecies of the Bible.

See this article for more on this subject: WHAT IS NEXT FOR EUROPE

Trump must lead the way to a comprehensive Middle East peace deal

Opinion Middle Eastern politics & society  By LANA NUSSEIBEH Published 2nd July 2025

Directly after Iran’s egregious June 23 attack on Qatar, the United Arab Emirates joined our Gulf partners at an emergency Gulf Cooperation Council meeting in Doha. We affirmed the indivisibility of our collective security, and offered practical pathways forward. The latest round of fighting should not have surprised anyone. It is the result of decades of missed opportunities and ineffective leadership, and the proliferation of proxy conflicts that have undermined the chances for lasting peace for all

For years, two false notions have taken hold in the Middle East: first, that force alone can secure stability and security. Second, that states in our region can be built securely on the basis of a zealous ideology. In fact, military victories in the Middle East are often hollow and fragile and extremist ideology can never create safe, stable and successful societies.

As the window to de-escalate closes, there is an opportunity for US President Donald Trump to forge a second-term legacy of peace in the Middle East, by building on his landmark first-term achievement: the Abraham Accords. Over the past 20 months of war in Gaza and the ongoing expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, UAE leaders have worked relentlessly with regional and international partners to advance ceasefire efforts. Through diplomacy and engagement with all sides, the UAE has consistently stressed the need to restore dialogue.

Last week, the GCC asked Trump to go even further. While commending him for “achieving a ceasefire between Iran and Israel”, Gulf states called on him “to exert efforts to achieve a permanent ceasefire in Gaza”. The ongoing war in Gaza is the consequence of a collective failure tobuild inclusive, just and sustainable peace. The conflicts that followed in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran have left the region at the precipice.

The path we choose now will shape the Middle East’s future for decades, just as when its destiny and borders were defined by outside powers at the end of the first world war. Today, the region lies at the heart of global stability; its waterways are the lifeline of global trade.

Peace must come to the Middle East prior to Christ’s Return and the Battle of Armageddon, the Bible is very clear on this as Ezekiel 38 shows.  Ezekiel 38 describes the Battle of Armageddon and the situation Israel at that time and it says that when Gog and Magog (Russia and Europe) come down to invade Israel will be a land at peace with “unwalled villages” which is a long way from anything we have seen so far.  This is what we read…

The word of the Lord came to me: ² “Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshek and Tubal; prophesy against him ³ and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshek and Tubal. ⁴ I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords. ⁵ Persia, Cush ^x and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets, ⁶ also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops—the many nations with you.

¹⁰ “ ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil scheme. ¹¹ You will say, “I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people—all of them living without walls and without gates and bars. ¹² I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land.”

So one of the key outcomes we can expect to see from the recent wars is more Arab countries joining the Abrahamic Accords and settling for Peace and Prosperity instead of war.

This has been Presidents Trumps goal from his first term when he established the Abrahamic Accords, will he now bring Peace to the Middle East.

MIDDLE EAST and WORLD PEACE

Putin’s real goal is to Destroy NATO

by Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet, Opinion Contributors – 03/17/25 7:00 AM ET
AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko

In the opening months of the war in Ukraine, we warned about the strange case of Dr. Vladimir and Mr. Putin. Duality of purpose and multifaceted end states have always been central to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s calculus and decision making. 

Controlling Ukraine and its mineral riches is his immediate goal as the would-be Don of the Donbas. But Putin’s broader geostrategic goal also includes dismantling NATO.

Putin knows, conventionally-speaking, that his military cannot defeat NATO in Ukraine, much less Europe. But he can create enough division from within its ranks to divide the United States, old NATO and new NATO in order to fracture trust from within the 32-member defensive alliance. 

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko confirmed as much during a press conference with Putin on Thursday. Referring to President Trump’s proposed 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, Lukashenko reminded the audience that he had observed early in the war that a deal between Washington and Moscow “would be the end of Europe.”

By “Europe,” he also meant “NATO.”

Putin seized on the point. He noted that if the U.S. and Russia cooperate on energy deals, Europe will then be able “to get cheap Russian gas.” Cheap, perhaps in terms of monetary cost, but as Putin knows, European independence — and by extension NATO — would again be undermined by its dependence on Russian sources of energy.

EU countries have spent more on Russian energy in the last three years than they have invested in Ukraine’s defense. This has, among other things, led to Hungary and Slovakia to veto NATO and EU measures to support Ukraine.

This is not real news as Putin as been wanting to divide the EU from America for a long time and to put an end to NATO.  The EU is already assessing what to do with Russia now that President Trump is back.  President Emmanual Macron has also been on record saying that he wants to bring Russia back to the negotiating table and begin dialogue on some form of a Security Pact with Russia, NATO’s existence in its current form will be an issue even more so now.

The Bible has long revealed that Russia and an EU Army will enter into a final conflict with Israel and the Middle East.  Germany is the key country in what Bible Prophecy refers to as the land of “Magog”. They are spoken of militarily as the “King of the North”.  Together the Bible says that Russia and the EU will invade the Middle East in the Last Days.  So Bible Students expect to see Germany and France taking a greater role in leading Europe.  It is also interesting to see Germany taking greater control of a continent they tried to take by war and failed.

Yet again we see in Todays News Headlines words that show how the Nations are fulfilling the latter day alignment of Nations as Prophesied by the Bible as NATO must come to an end.

See this article to learn more about this and the latter day prophecies of the Bible.

See this article for more on this subject: WHAT IS NEXT FOR EUROPE

President Trump’s “ultimate deal” to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Martin S. Indyk  February 14, 2017

In Unpacked, Brookings experts provide analysis of Trump administration policies and news.

THE ISSUE: President Trump wants to make the “ultimate deal” to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has put his son in law Jared Kushner in charge of achieving it.

Kushner will have a real challenge when it comes to being effective especially because the objective circumstances for Israeli and Palestinian peace making are very, very dismal.

THE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Because Kushner is seen as President Trump’s trusted confidant, the whole region will understand that he speaks for the president.
• Both Arab and Israeli leadership could take advantage of Kushner’s lack of experience in Middle East policy by employing tactics that will make it extremely difficult for him to move forward with a deal.
• The dismal circumstance surrounding Israeli and Palestinian peace making and failures on both sides to fulfil their commitments to the two-state solution will also make it challenging for Kushner to be effective.
• There are three ways President Trump, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas could help pave the way for a negotiated agreement:
• Settlement activity would need to be constrained.
• The Israeli government could help the Palestinian economy grow in the West Bank by enabling construction and development in areas that have been off-limits for the Palestinians.
• The Sunni Arab states – Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (the “Arab quartet”) – could be encouraged to join the process to provide cover and support for Palestinian concessions.
• These efforts might bear fruit because these four Arab states and Israel share a common interest in combating the threat from Iran’s hegemonic aspirations in their part of the Middle East.

This will be an interesting development to watch.  Bible Prophecy says that Israel will be a land dwelling in Peace so we must yet see things develop to allow for this.  The removal of all Terrorists is vital to allowing this to happen.

We also know from Bible Prophecy that Israel and its neighbours especiall Eqypt will be an area not only dwelling in Peace by also very prosperous, a place where goods and gold have increased to the point the the King fo the North will want to come to take a “great spoil”.  This is what we read in Ezekiel Chapter 38 the chapter that describes the King of the North led by Russia coming down into the Middle East.

⁷ “ ‘Get ready; be prepared, you and all the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them. ⁸ After many days you will be called to arms. In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and now all of them live in safety. ⁹ You and all your troops and the many nations with you will go up, advancing like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.

¹⁰ “ ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil scheme. ¹¹ You will say, “I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people—all of them living without walls and without gates and bars. ¹² I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land.” ¹³ Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all her villages will say to you, “Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder?”

This ensuing Battle will constitute the Battle of Armageddon as described in the Bible.

See this article to learn more: The Battle of Armageddon

And this one on the development of the “King of  the North and the King of the South”

Israel is Projected to be the Future of the Middle East

Abysmal demographics and tribal traditions mean the Muslim world will fall while a more modern Israel rises.

by Spengler Published: August 15, 2024

United Nations’ demographers project that, by the end of this century, Turkey’s labor force will fall by half and Iran’s will fall by two-fifths while Israel’s will double.

Turkish women in 2023 were estimated to have an average of just 1.5 children over their lifetime, half of Israel’s total fertility rate of 3 children per woman. The World Bank puts Iran’s  2022 fertility rate at 1.7.

Improbable as it may seem, the core scenario according to present trends will make Israel the economic center of the Middle East sometime toward the end of the century.

The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong, Damon Runyon offered, but that’s how the smart money bets. Any number of things could upend a linear projection of present trends. The exercise nonetheless leads to striking conclusions.

Chart: Asia Times

Israel’s per capita GDP is now about US$55,000, or five times Turkey’s $11,000. One might quibble about the yardstick, but there is no doubt that Israelis produce more than Turks do. If these trends continue, Israel’s GDP will exceed Turkey’s by sometime in the middle of the present century.

The largest Middle Eastern country by population, Egypt, has a GDP per capita of just $3,500. Its problems are of a different order than Turkey’s or Iran’s and its chances of becoming an economic power are minimal.

Chart: Asia Times

There is no question as to the cause of declining fertility in Muslim countries. Female literacy disrupts the norms of traditional society. Once Muslim women achieve a certain educational level, they reject the constraints of tribal society along with marriage and motherhood.

The link between female literacy and fertility is well documented by academic studies in the case of Iran, as I reported in my 2011 book “How Civilizations Die, and Why Islam is Dying, Too.”

In the case of Turkey, the evidence is overwhelming. The chart below compares the female literacy rate as reported by the World Bank (left-hand axis, inverse scale) and the total fertility rate.

Chart: Asia Times

The same pattern emerges from a comparison of female literacy rates and total fertility rates in countries where female literacy is less than 60%:

Chart: Asia Times

The poorer countries of the Global South are repeating the so-called demographic transition of the West (from agricultural traditional society to modern urban society), but in a fraction of the time.

That leaves Iran and Turkey in a dilemma. Turkey now makes more cars than France and has built its own modern fighter plane. Iran has demonstrated its prowess in missiles and drones and is close to, if not past, the point of a nuclear breakout.

Both can educate scientists and engineers at world standards in significant numbers, but they can only do so by giving their people an off-ramp from traditional society.

In different ways, the Iranian and Turkish governments seek to preserve traditional Islamic mores – Iran in a far more pervasive and oppressive way, to be sure. But their efforts to impose Islam from the top prompted many of their most talented to emigrate.

“For many, the way out is through education visas to study abroad or work permits,” the Associated Press reported last year in a study of Turkey’s brain drain. “TurkStat, the government’s statistics bureau, said 139,531 Turkish citizens left the country in 2022, compared with 103,613 in 2021. Those aged 25 to 29 formed the biggest group,” the AP report said.

Studies of Iran’s brain drain estimate the annual loss to the country’s economy at between $50 billion and $150 billion a year. Gallup’s Potential Net Migration Index, taken between 2015 and 2017, found that more than one-quarter of highly educated Iranian residents would leave the country if they could. By some estimates, 80% of graduates of Sharif University, the country’s top engineering school, have emigrated.

The fastest decline in fertility has occurred where fertility was highest. In the case of Turkey, the biggest drops in fertility between 2010 and 2022 were registered in the provinces that had the highest fertility rates in 2010.

Nine Turkish provinces had total fertility rates (TFRs) higher than 3.0 in 2010. In 2022, there was only one. In 2010, not a single Turkish province reported a TFR below 1.5.

By 2022, 43 provinces showed a TFR below 1.5. These are the most urbanized parts of Turkey with the highest economic growth. The Kurdish-majority southeast of the country includes all the provinces with TFRs above 2.0.

The most modern and economically buoyant provinces of Turkey, that is, show extremely low fertility rates.

Without a drastic increase in productivity, Turkey, Iran and other countries will face catastrophic retirement crises. Assuming constant fertility, Turkey and Iran will have 70 retirees for every 100 workers in 2100, compared with just 14 today.

Both countries have the potential to raise productivity, at least in principle: Iran’s labor force participation rate is estimated at just 46% by the World Bank, and Turkey’s at 56%. The female labor force participation rate in Iran is just 14% and just 36% in Turkey. The corresponding data point for the United States is 58%.

In Israel, 60% of women are in the labor force, including 80% of Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) women. Haredi women on average have six children, and nonetheless find employment (the labor force participation rate for Haredi men is 55% because a large proportion of ultra-Orthodox men devote themselves to religious studies).

Computer programming is a favorite occupation; it draws on skills in language and logic that are cultivated by religious education.

Israel is unique in adjusting traditional life to the modern economy. It is the only industrial country with a fertility rate above replacement, and it has succeeded – albeit partially and with considerable friction – in integrating most of its growing ultra-Orthodox population into skilled occupations. The trade-off between female education and fertility doesn’t exist.

Among the world’s major religions, Judaism has a special affinity for science. Not by accident Jews have earned a fifth of all Nobel Prizes in physics and an even higher proportion of Fields Medals in mathematics. I summarized the religious issue here.

Regarding the two most powerful Muslim countries of the Middle East, we can only say that they are far from resolving a deep social dichotomy between pre-modern and post-modern life. Turkey and Iran may succeed, but present trends point instead toward stagnation.

It is entirely possible that Israel may emerge as the largest economy in the region, which would have been seen as an improbable outcome for a small country that began with a Jewish population of just 600,000 in 1947.

Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia will form a prosporus King of the South with Israel’s economy benefitting all.   This is not surprising to Bible Students as we fully expect to see this development based on Bible Prophecy that has foretold the alignment of Nations in the “latter days”.  The Bible describes a King of the North and a King of the South Geo-political Alignment of Nations in the last days prior to the last battle of mankind and the intervention of Christ to established God’s Kingdom on Earth Forever.  We read of this in Daniel Chapter 11:

“And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”

You can read more about this in this article: Alignment of Nations in the Latter Days

How ancient hatreds are reshaping the Middle East and forging unlikely alliances.

The rise of Iran – and its chilling proximity to a nuclear weapon – has driven old foes closer, explains STEPHEN POLLARD

By STEPHEN POLLARD

PUBLISHED: 10:51 AEST, 17 April 2024 | UPDATED: 21:47 AEST, 17 April 2024

The competition is strong, but for my money the most important geopolitical statement so far this year came on Monday from an obscure Israeli news site.

A member of the Saudi Arabian royal family had reportedly told the broadcaster Kan that, in his view, Iran had started the Gaza war by instructing its proxy group Hamas to massacre Israelis on October 7.

Tehran’s intention, according to this nameless royal, was to thwart the imminent normalisation of diplomatic relations between Israel and the Saudis.

Why is that so important? Because it symbolises the extraordinary transformation under way in the politics of the Middle East. For a Saudi royal to express such a view – that a Muslim country instigated the conflict for the purpose of spreading discord – would have been unimaginable only a few years ago. But that’s not the only way in which the winds of change are resettling alliances in this volatile region.

Iranians gather in Tehran to demonstrate in support of their government’s attack on Israel

On Saturday night, the ayatollahs of Iran inflicted their first direct attack on Israel since they came to power in the 1979 revolution.

For 45 years, the Islamic Republic has plotted the destruction of what its Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei calls ‘the evil Zionist regime’. But it has left the actual attacks to its proxies, such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

This fresh assault did almost no damage, thanks to the defensive coalition that shot down almost all the weapons directed against Israel.

Allies such as the US and UK played a role in this. But they were joined by two other countries for whom defending the Jewish state would have been fanciful until recently: Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

For most of the time Israel has existed, Saudi, as one of the world’s leading Muslim nations and home to the holy city of Mecca, has been its implacable foe. But now it is on the verge not just of tolerating Israel but becoming an ally.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini served as Iran’s supreme leader from 1979, following the Islamic Revolution, until he died ten years later

Supporters of Khomeini march in Tehran in 1979, when the mullahs had seized power

Similarly, back in 1967, Jordan actually invaded Israel – a disastrous move which lost it the territories of East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Yet now Jordan, too, has stood alongside Israel to protect it from Iranian bombs. This newfound co-operative spirit continues: just yesterday it emerged that both the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates had passed helpful intelligence to America to use in Israel’s defence, with Jordan further agreeing to let the US and ‘other countries’ warplanes’ use its airspace, as well as sending up its own jets.

One thing is clear. The rise of Iran – and its chilling proximity to a nuclear weapon – has driven old foes closer.

Iran now dominates a vast region from its borders with Iraq, through Syria and Lebanon, to the Mediterranean. Through its Yemeni proxies, the Houthis, and its own navy, it is causing chaos in the Red Sea, one of the world’s key maritime trade routes.

And it has turned the Palestinian cause into a strategic vehicle for its own ambitions through two other proxies, Hamas (Gaza) and Hezbollah (Lebanon). This chaotic and meddlesome statecraft has appalled other Muslim countries.

The story of the Middle East used to be ‘Israel versus everyone else’. As a result of Iran’s behaviour, however, that is no longer true. And this means the long-term prospects for peace are, though you may be surprised to hear it, bright.

To understand how all this has come about, you need to go back to the very roots of Islam – and the schism within it. In 610AD, Mohammed unveiled a new faith. By the time he died in 632AD, he and Islam were all-powerful in Arabia, and within a century it had subjugated an empire stretching from Central Asia to Spain.

For most of the time Israel has existed, Saudi, as one of the world’s leading Muslim nations and home to the holy city of Mecca, has been its implacable foe, writes Stephen Pollard

But Islam was split over who should succeed the Prophet.

One faction argued the leadership should be passed through his bloodline. They became known as Shias, from shi’atu Ali, Arabic for ‘partisans of Ali’, who was Mohammed’s cousin and son-in-law.

The others, the Sunnis (followers of the ‘sunna’, or ‘way’ in Arabic) said leadership should be determined on merit.

Ali was elected as ‘caliph’ (spiritual leader) in 656AD but within five years was assassinated, enshrining an enduring split. Fast forward to 2024, and about 85 per cent of the world’s 1.6billion Muslims are Sunni, while 15 per cent are Shia.

Two countries now compete for the leadership of Islam: Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran. Since the mullahs seized power in Tehran 45 years ago, the sects’ mutual hatred has only grown.

As a minority within Islam, the Shiites have historically been treated as subordinate in Sunni-dominated countries. But there has been a significant growth of the Shiite population in Gulf nations, to the extent that in some they are almost a majority. This has increased anxiety among Sunni rulers over the growing power of Shia Iran. In Gulf states such as the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and especially Saudi Arabia, the Shia threat – in other words the threat from Iran – is seen as existential.

Egypt, too, which has had a peace treaty with Israel since 1979, is also an enemy of the mullahs. In Israel’s 2006 Lebanon war with Hezbollah, Sunni countries were, behind the scenes, willing Israel to triumph, just as it is said now that Jordan, Egypt and especially Saudi Arabia want Israel to destroy Hamas in Gaza.

The growing rapprochement of some Sunni countries was embodied in the 2020 Abraham Accords which normalised relations between the UAE, Bahrain and Israel, and later Morocco and Sudan.

There is a logic, then, to the gradually deepening alliances between Sunni states and Israel. The Arab nations understand that while Israel has no ambitions to dominate its neighbours, Iran seeks to control all of the Middle East.

It needs to be stressed that the vast majority of Sunnis and Shias would rather just get on with their lives than embroil themselves in these disputes. But it’s also true that if you don’t understand this split, you can’t understand the Middle East at all.

This has been an ongoing development since the efforts of former President Donald Trump to bring about Peace in the Middle East.  This is not surprising to Bible Students as we fully expect to see this development based on Bible Prophecy that has foretold the alignment of Nations in the “latter days”.  The Bible describes a King of the North and a King of the South Geo-political Alignment of Nations in the last days prior to the last battle of mankind and the intervention of Christ to established God’s Kingdom on Earth Forever.  We read of this in Daniel Chapter 11:

“And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”

You can read more about this in this article: Alignment of Nations in the Latter Days