The Sykes–Picot Agreement, officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was a secret agreement between the governments of the United Kingdom and France, with the assent of Russia, defining their proposed spheres of influence and control in the Middle East should the Triple Entente succeed in defeating the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The negotiation of the treaty occurred between November 1915 and March 1916. The agreement was concluded on 16 May 1916. The agreement effectively divided the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire outside the Arabian peninsula into areas of future British and French control or influence. Source: Wikipedia
If you have already read our book entitled The Coming Bible Prophecy Reformation, you know by now that we quoted lots of history and Bible prophecy to show that the beast empire of the Antichrist will be a revived Islamic Caliphate in the Middle East. History tell us that the Islamic Caliphate was dismantled during World War I after ruling the entire Middle East for many centuries. The Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioned the Middle East and created the modern borders that we know today. Islam wants to undo that agreement and bring the entire Middle East under the rule of a revived Islamic Caliphate once again. One of the goals of ISIS is to undo the Sykes-Picot borders of the Islamic world as seen on the image below. (Read the text on the map)
The Assyrian Antichrist will remove the borders of the people In Isaiah 10 we read: “Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his highlooks.For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: (Isaiah 10:12-13)
In this passage we learn that God will punish the king of Assyria who will remove the bounds of the people and that only happens after the “LORD has performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and Jerusalem” which is the future and final restoration of Israel and Jerusalem under Jesus Christ, Yahshuah the Messiah. The Hebrew word translated “bounds” is the word “gebuwlah” and it refers to borders between nations. The Assyrian antichrist will be a radical Muslim leader to rise in the region of Syria and Iraq who will seek to reestablish the Islamic caliphate and erase the borders of the Middle East. Read my recent article on Isaiah 10 and Islam by clicking the following link:
As Islam tries to revive the Islamic Caliphate and erase the Sykes-Picot borders created by European powers, Caliphate minded Muslims will make sure European powers do not intervene with their dream of a Grand Caliphate ruling over the entire Islamic world with a borderless empire. One of the most effective ways to accomplish such a feat would be to neutralize Europe with a massive migration of Muslims. As the Caliphate grows in the Middle East, Muslims will create chaos in Europe to make sure European armies take care of the many domestic problems and are not deployed to keep Islam from erasing the Sykes-Picot borders of the Middle East and creating a new Islamic empire. The devil is a smart dude.
Meanwhile, those of you who study prophecy can expect prophecy sensationalists to try and combine the current Islamic invasion of Europe with their insistence in teaching the idea of a “revived Roman Empire” in Europe. Some will wake up to the reality of Islam and will create a new theory they might call “the revived Islamic Roman Empire.” They will finally acknowledge that Islam will produce the Antichrist but will insist in trying to fit Europe into Daniel 2 & 7 and Revelation 13 & 17. Sensetionalizing prophecy is the best way to feed the human desire for excitement regarding the end times and to make sure one sales a lot of books, so expect new sensational prophecy books in the days ahead by those who care more about popularity than about biblical truth. But before this scenario, here is another scenario they will come up with: The current mass migration of Muslims to Europe appears to be politically and religiously working against the European antichrist theory but I think the proponents of this theory will, as always, formulate a new excuse after all this. They will say this will be used as an excuse for a strong man to rise in Europe and revive the Roman Empire to face the threat of Islam. Then after destroying Islam, Europe will turn against Israel. After this theory fails to materialize, they will probably go for the other one but as we already know, both will fail.