brotchador said:Gladius, where does this prophecy thing put asia in general? with or against the west? as you know we face the same situation here in the Philippines against muslims, and it has already taken hundreds of thousands of lives.
The prophecy stuff doesn't mention Asia too much, but my guess for the most part, probably with the West,. But they probably won't join right away. China may even use the situation to seize Taiwan.
As far as the Phillipines goes they will probably side with the West since they are more closer to the West than the Islamic nations, however an oil embargo by those nations may make it difficult.
As far as the battle against the Muslims in the Mindanao island in the southern Phillipines goes (which as been going on for more than 30 years if I'm not mistaken). With the coming of the Mahdi, I'm guesing the will be an all out offensive by the Muslims to finally take the Island, not to mention increased terrorist attack in the main Island. Right now just a few of them are fighting, with the Mahdi on the scene, they all may fight. Not to mention if there is an oil embargo it may be difficult to combat them.
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On another note---
As far as the prophecies go, you may believe it or, or you may take it with a grain of salt...
However both the Biblical and Notradamous' prophecies have come true before, rather acurately. I myself don't discount this lightly.
...As far as this goes, both the Bible and Notradamous state that a gigantic comet will hit the earth at the time or right before the coming of the Mahdi.
Revelation 8:8
The second angel sounded, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea; and a third of the sea became blood,
Century 1, Quatrain 69
The great mountain round of seven stadia
Afterwards peace, war, famine, flood,
It will roll away sinking great countries
Even antiquities and great foundation.
This comet is predicted to hit somewhere in the ocean most likely the Atlantic.
If it does, it will probably wipe out the entire Eastern seaboard of the US and Western shores of Europe as well. Not to mention other effects such as nuclear winter, ect.
If it does happen this way, then this is what will possibly give the Mahdi the edge he needs to have a successful invasion of Europe.
But like I said before I was looking at this scenario from a practical standpoint. Comet or no comet, I still think the attempted Islamic invasion of europe will still take place. But the coming of a comet will make possible for them to penetrate deep into European territory.