Mubarak Falls! -- A De Facto Bloodless Military Coup!   
      
   The unexpected has just happened, and not a day too soon! Pressured by   
   widespread popular discontent with his thirty-year plus iron-fisted   
   dictatorship, and a powerful Egyptian military which refused to come to his   
   aid, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt has just been ousted from power, and has fled to   
   his distant palace at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. From the first   
   news reports, it appears that even his newly-appointed vice president, Omar   
   Suleiman, has likewise not been accepted by the Egyptian military, which is   
   headed by the Armed Forces Supreme Council under the leadership of Defense   
   Minister Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi.   
      
   While most of us are merely spectators to these developments that have just   
   occurred in a faraway land, even we should be amazed that they would occur   
   at all. Much like Saddam Hussein, the former American-approved dictator of   
   Iraq, for thirty-two years, Hosni Mubarak employed ruthless and unscrupulous   
   means -- including the imprisonment and torture of countless thousands, and   
   the suppression of his political opponents -- in order to rule over his   
   people through fear and intimidation. His thugs, the police, were hated by   
   the Egyptian populace; and with good reason they fled from Cairo as the   
   popular uprising continued to grow throughout the city over the past few   
   weeks.   
      
   In reality, Hosni Mubarak hasn't done anything different than what most   
   other Middle Eastern rulers have done, in order to maintain their hold on   
   power; and, I might add, while the American government has looked the other   
   way.   
      
   As I have mentioned to my readers many times before, it is my firm belief   
   that the U.S. Government really doesn't care what kinds of governments are   
   in control in foreign lands, just as long as they do America's bidding.   
   Hosni Mubarak was doing exactly that, by maintaining stiff control over a   
   seemingly "stable" Egypt, while at the same time, upholding the   
   thirty-year-old peace agreement with Israel. Of course, Mubarak was richly   
   rewarded for his loyalty to America, with over one billion US. dollars   
   coming into the Egyptian economy every single year for the past thirty   
   years.   
      
   This fact alone should irritate all Americans, and should make them realize   
   that while their country has hypocritically preached freedom and democracy   
   to the rest of the world, for over thirty years, it did absolutely nothing   
   to try to bring down Hosni Mubarak, or to sow the seeds of true democracy in   
   Egypt. It merely looked the other way, with an occasional reminder regarding   
   human rights, while Mubarak oppressed his own people.   
      
   In fact, you need to realize that if it were not for the brave, younger   
   generation of Egyptians, who finally had the guts to stand up, and for the   
   most part peacefully demand their rights, Hosni Mubarak would still be in   
   power today. They are the ones who have brought about this amazing change.   
   The U.S. Government had absolutely nothing to do with it.   
      
   That this weak band of educated Egyptians were able to organize themselves   
   online via such mediums as Facebook, and bring down such a powerful,   
   oppressive government in so short a time, is simply amazing. As I pointed   
   out in a previous post, the U.S. Government and military has been waging   
   violent and bloody war in Iraq and Afghanistan for years now, and they STILL   
   have been unable to achieve their objectives. In contrast, the students,   
   workers, educated class, and even old people, have brought down a tyrant   
   through largely peaceful means. That speaks volumes about America's violence   
   and war efforts!   
      
   While I have referred to these events as a de facto bloodless military coup,   
   please understand that this does not mean that no violence has occurred over   
   the past weeks. It simply means that the Egyptian military has for the most   
   part kept its hands clean of violence, and has honored and respected the   
   rights of the protestors to demand a better and brighter future for all   
   Egyptians. It was in fact the Egyptian police, and other pro-Mubarak forces,   
   who were behind most of the violence, which resulted in the deaths of   
   hundreds of people in several key Egyptian cities over the past several   
   weeks.   
      
   Exactly what will happen next in Egypt is anyone's guess It seems that   
   everyone -- meaning all world governments, including the USA -- was caught   
   totally off-guard by the events of the past few weeks. No one foresaw that   
   such an amazing thing could occur, particularly in so short a time.   
      
   As the mass media has been reporting over the past several weeks, the events   
   in Tunisia, and now in Egypt -- even more so in Egypt -- have sent a   
   shockwave across the lands of the Middle East. The oppressive monarchies,   
   dynasties and rulers of the Arab and Muslim nations are now shaking in their   
   boots, as they most certainly should be; because if a powerful ruler like   
   Hosni Mubarak can be brought down by a popular rebellion such as we have   
   just witnessed, anyone can be brought down.   
      
   While the compromising, politically-correct mass media may refer to these   
   leaders as "authoritarian" or "autocratic" rulers, let's not mince words.   
   They are in fact all dictators, most of whom rule by unscrupulous, violent   
   and dishonest means. They are the garbage that needs to be taken out,   
   because it has stunk up the house!   
      
   So watch out tyrants! It seems that God is presently moving, and you may   
   just be in His way! Whether the people of the world realize it or not, God   
   is in control, and He is working behind the scenes. His Word makes it very   
   clear that He brings down one ruler, and raises another. Consider the   
   following verses:   
      
   "Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. For promotion   
   cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God   
   is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another."   
   Psalms 75:5-7, KJV   
      
   "Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for   
   wisdom and might are his: And he changeth the times and the seasons: he   
   removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and   
   knowledge to them that know understanding:"   
   Daniel 2:20-21, KJV   
      
   "This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of   
   the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High   
   ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and   
   setteth up over it the basest of men."   
   Daniel 4:17, KJV   
      
   "The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he   
   turneth it whithersoever he will."   
   Proverbs 21:1, KJV   
      
   "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity   
   and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also   
   rejected thee from being king. And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for   
   I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I   
   feared the people, and obeyed their voice. Now therefore, I pray thee,   
   pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD. And   
   Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected   
   the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over   
   Israel."   
   1 Samuel 15:23-26, KJV   
      
   So keep your eyes on the Middle East, folks; because for the last six   
   thousand years, it has been at the very center of Biblical events and   
   prophecy, and will continue to be so. Let's all wait and see what comes next   
   on God's amazing timetable.   
      
      
      
   Jeff Snyder, SysOp - Armageddon BBS  Visit us at endtimeprophecy.org port 23   
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