The Abomination of Desolation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church

178 IS ANTICHRIST ALREADY IN THE WORLD?
On the Palestinian-Israeli situation, he says:
There can't be true peace in the world until 'the Middle East' question
is settled. ... So deep are the feelings aroused in both sides, so
entrenched are the positions which each adopt, that I believe Maitreya
alone has the spiritual authority to point to the solution and achieve its
implementation.
I have always been of the opinion that whoever solves the Arab-Israeli
conflict will be Antichrist!
On the war with Iraq, he says:
The first priority is true knowledge of the facts. This, however, is hard
to find. So many voices chant or scream their various conflicting
information, so many opinions are elevated to the status of facts, that
few can be believed or listened to with respect. Under such conditions
caution and restraint are wisely counselled.
Comprehensive actions are under way and planned, and few can see
whereto they lead. Our view is that they will be both positive and
negative in effect: the destruction of a bleak and punitive tyranny at the
cost of many innocent lives, and the further destabilization of an area
already in crisis.
There are voices in America and elsewhere which call for caution but,
it would seem, they are not strong enough to stem the passion of the
group of zealots around the President. They are lost in the glamour of
power and will take much to bring to reason. The oil-rich sands of Iraq
are too tempting a target for their unconstrained greed and urge to
dominate.
This indifference to world opinion can be maintained for a time only.
World events, events of a different nature, are moving now so fast that
they will outstrip these men of the past, locked in the outworn methods
of the past, and consign them, silently, to that vanishing yesterday.
Maitreya, the Great Lord, is emerging and will show the way. Be not
discouraged for all will be well.
What wisdom! And what a balanced approach! The last paragraph
actually gives me shivers. A war with Iraq that goes wrong can be the
opportunity Satan is waiting for (or working hard to achieve) in order
to bring about his “Great Lord” that will fix everything.