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tral Asia. The bulk of the population(60 percent) is Pushtun orPathan, the main tribes being theDurrani and the Ghilzai. Othergroups represented are the Tajiksor Tadhziks (30 percent), Uzbeks(5 percent), Hazaras, Turkomansand Kirghiz.The unifying factor amid all thisethnic diversity is religion. Afganistanis almost wholly Islamic,mostly Sunni. Moslem armies hadgained control of Afganistan asearly as A.D. 652.The biblical origins of theAfghan peoples are widely varied.Some are traced to the sons ofJapheth. (The Turkomans, for example,claim descent from Tiras, ason of Japheth.) Others descendfrom branches of the families ofJoktan, of Gomer, of Uz and ofEsau. Some Afghan chronicleseven claim that elements of thePathans are descended by intermarriagefrom King Saul of ancientIsrael through his grandsonAfghana.Also predicted to cluster aroundthe banner of Gog in the latterdays are Cush and Phut (or Put).These peoples of Ezekiel 38:5 aregenerally found today in the regionof India and Pakistan.Cush was a son of Ham (Gen.10:6). Cush is often translated"Ethiopia" in the Bible. But not allCushites live in Ethiopia!The descendants of Cush splitinto two major groups, the Easternand Western Cushites. The WesternCushites are found in majorareas of Black Africa today, includingmodern Ethiopia, now underSoviet influence.The Eastern Cushites, on theother hand, are the brown peoplesof central and southern India andpart of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Theyare represented by such groups asthe Dravidians, Tamils and Tehtgus.Herodotus calls these EasternCushites "Asiatic Ethiopians."During their migrations, incidentally,these Asiatic Cushites gavetheir name to the Hindu Kushmountain range of Central Asia.Interestingly, the names ofCush's sons Seba and Raamah(Gen. 10:7) have been perpetuatedin the Hindu god Siva or Shiva(the destroyer) and the hero Rama(an avatar of the god Vishnu).12Phut was also a son of Ham.Phut is often translated "Libya" inthe Bible, referring to the land ofLibya in North Africa. As withCush, there is also an Asiaticbranch of the family of Phut orPut. It is that Asiatic branch thatwill eventually become associatedwith the U.S.S.R.Along with elements of Shem,descendants of Phut (or Put) wereamong the Indo-Aryans who settlednorthern India and drove theCushitic Dravidians into the southof India in the second millenniumB.C. The warrior-caste Rajputswere rulers over the historic regionof Rajputana, a former group ofprincely states comprising what isnow Rajasthan state of northwesternIndia.Elements of Phut are also foundtoday in other states of northernand central India and in the neighboringcountries of Pakistan andBangladesh. The clear implication,therefore, is that these nations willultimately become politically associatedwith the U.S.S.R.India, along with China, will undoubtedlycontribute heavily to the200 million-man army of Revelation9: 16. After one-thousand-million-strongcommunist China, Indiahas the largest population ofany country in the world (morethan 750 million!). India today ismilitarily the most powerful countryin the South Asia region.The nation of India is officially aneutralist state aspiring .to a nonalignedstand between the superpowers.But in light of India's longand often tension-ridden borderswith China and Pakistan, the SovietUnion has become necessaryinsurance for New Delhi. Indialeans on Soviet protection to counterbalancethe alliance of Chinaand Pakistan.India is heavily dependent on theKremlin for key military supplies.New Delhi has a friendship treatywith Moscow, signed in 1971. Andthe Soviet Union has become India'smajor trading partner.The government of Pakistanlyingto the east and south of Soviet-occupiedAfghanistan isgrowing more nervous by the day.Pakistan now stands as the onlyobstacle between the Soviet troopsin Afghanistan and Moscow's goalof a warm-water Arabian Sea port.By virtue of the Soviet militarypresence in Afghanistan, theKremlin is now in a prime positionto exert political and military pressureon Pakistan.The Muslim nation of Pakistanconsists of four provinces, two oneach side of the Indus River. Thetwo provinces on the eastern sidePunjab and Sind are firmly inthe control of President Zia ulHaq's government in Islamabad.The two provinces west of theIndus North-West Frontier andBaluchistan are in a state of unrest.These provinces share a1,200-mile border with Soviet-occupiedAfghanistan. The Pakistanigovernment fears that the Sovietsmay now use Afghanistan as a baseto exploit the separationist sentimentsamong the ethnic groups inthese two provinces. Troubleamong these ethnic minorities isalready straining Pakistan's unity.Of primary concern is the longsimmeringindependence movementamong the Baluchi tribesmenof western Pakistan. The Baluchishave long sought to unite with fellowtribesmen in southernAfghanistan and eastern Iran toform an independent state ofBaluchistan.There is strong evidence of deepSoviet involvement in this effort tocarve out a separate Baluchi state.A pro-Russian vassal state inBaluchistan would effectively extendSoviet influence all the waysouth to the Arabian Sea. TheKremlin would at last have thewarm-water ports that it hassought since the days of the czars.As an added bonus, the Sovietswould be in a position to controlthe major oil supply lines leadingfrom the Persian Gulf!Pushtu-speaking tribesmen innorthwestern Pakistan and easternAfghanistan have also longdreamed of their own independentstate of Pushtunistan. These peoples,like the Baluchis, provide potentiallyfertile soil for Soviet revolutionarypropaganda.The predominantly Muslim nationof Bangladesh once known asEast Pakistan broke away fromPakistan in a bloody civil war in1971. Though Bangladesh officiallyadheres to the principle of
nonalignment, its relations with theSoviet Union have grown steadilycloser.Also allied with Gog will be"Gomer, Togarmah and all theirbands" (Ezek. 38:6).Gomer was the eldest son ofJapheth. Contrary to the assertionsof many students of Bibleprophecy, Gomer in this prophecyis not West Germany.Who, then, is Gomer? Amongthe Oriental descendants ofGomer's three sons are found elementsof the Turkic and Tatar(Turko-Mongol) peoples of theAsian steppes and deserts.Many of these peoplesinhabitingthe five socialist republics ofSoviet Central Asiahave alreadybeen incorporated into theU.S.S.R. The nation of Mongolia,wedged between the Soviet Unionand China in the region just southof Siberia, is a virtual Soviet satellite.The Turkic Uighurs of Xinkiang(western China) and the Mongolsof Inner Mongolia are underCommunist Chinese control.Gomer's third son, Togarmah, isspecifically mentioned in Ezekiel38. Togarmah, in part, settled ancientArmenia. Descendants ofTogarmah also migrated eastwardinto Mongolia, where they are todayfound mixed with elements ofMagog. Togarmah's modern-daydescendants are also found inChina's Xinkiang province and inRussian Siberia or Tartary.Ezekiel, however, speaks specificallyof Togarmah "in the uttermostparts of the north" (38:6,Amplified). This is a clear referenceto the Siberian branch ofTogarmah.But what of Southeast Asia?region are of the southern Mongoloidracial group. These nationsare primarily Japhetic in descent,of the line of Gomer and, farthereast, of Javan. Here communismhas already deeply penetrated.Vietnam is already a communistnation in the Soviet fold. Aftersome two decades of fighting, theAmerican-backed government ofSouth Vietnam surrendered to Soviet-supportedNorth Vietnameseforces in the spring of 1975.Within days the communist conquestof South Vietnam was effectivelycompleted. Vietnam was officiallyreunited as a communiststate in July 1976.The government of neighboringLaos is an ally of Vietnam and theSoviet Union. Nearby Cambodia(Kampuchea) has been dominatedby Vietnam since 1979.Continuing Vietnamese militaryactivity within Cambodia poses apotential threat to the security ofThailand to the north and west.Malaysia also sees a potential militarymenace from expansionistVietnam. Adding to the uncertainty,small bands of communistguerrillas continue to roam theThai-Malaysia border area.In Burma, militarily active communistguerrillas are challengingthe government in Rangoon. 1 nsurgentuprisings among the country'sethnic minorities add to the instabilityin that nation. In Indonesiaand the Philippines too, communistinsurgency occasionally assails theauthority of the central governments.Most of Southeast Asia will undoubtedlyfind it difficult to withstandincessant communist pressure.Ultimately, prophecy reveals,the region will be forced into coop"I Am Against You!"As we have seen, the comingEurasian confederacy will devastatemuch of Western Europe. AfterChrist decimates the armies of allnations gathered at Armageddon,Gog will assemble a large army fromamong his s urviving Eurasianforces. That army will attempt toimpose its ideology on a restored Israel.But it will not succeed!"Behold, I am against you, 0Gog!" God declares (Ezek. 38:3).The fate of hi s armies is vividly portrayed:"You shall fallon the mountainsof Israel, you and all yourtroops, and the peoples who are withyou; I shall give you as food to everykind of predatory bird and beast ofthe field" (Ezek. 39:4, Amplified).The people of Israel will labor sevenmonths burying the millions ofGog's dead (39: 12). The survivorswill know that God rules.The demise of Gog and his allieswill furnish a powerful witness to thenations of the world. "And I shall setMy glory among the nations; and allthe nations will see My judgmentwhich 1 have executed," God declares(39:21, Amplified).The people of Israel will utterlydestroy the weapons carried byGog's army (39:9-10). With thepower of Gog irretrievably broken,the nations of the world will at lastsubmit to the government of God.After 6,000 years of war and internationalstrife, worldwide peacewill finally become reality. "Andthey shall beat their swords intoplowshares, and their spears intopruninghooks: nation shall not liftup sword against nation, neithershall they learn war any more"(Mic. 4:3; Isa. 2:4).The modern-day nations of thiserating with the Soviet Union andSouth Asiaand the worldher allies.will at last know true peace! 013
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