by Jimmy DeYoung

Egypt’s Islamists aim to install a global Islamic caliphate, a Muslim kingdom, that will rule the entire world from the Middle East and it will be known as the United States of the Arabs according to Safwat Higazi who recently addressed thousands of Muslim worshipers in Cairo’s largest soccer stadium.

This radical Islamic cleric told the enthusiastic crowd made up of mostly members of the Muslim Brotherhood that they can now see how their dream of a worldwide Muslim kingdom will be set in place in the very near future.

Higazi told the Muslim worshipers that the capital of this caliphate, this kingdom, will not be Cairo and it will not be Mecca or Medina but the capital of the United States of the Arabs will be the city of Jerusalem.

by Dave Hunt                                   &                               T.A. McMahon 

What is so special about Jerusalem that the world would focus so much attention on it? It certainly doesn’t have the strategic location, the size, the wealth, natural resources, industrial manufacturing capabilities, nor the climate. You’ve been there many times; I’ve been there once. So, it doesn’t look like much. I’ve been to some spectacular cities. I was born in Brooklyn, I know New York City, I’ve been to other spectacular cities, and from a spiritual standpoint, yes, it’s a wonderful place, and it was stunning to me, but compared to other cities, what’s the purpose? What’s the value of it?

Dave: Well, Tom, first of all, the whole world will have to acknowledge that it is a special city, it’s in the news every day. Furthermore, it’s in the news in a particular way—that is, it is a cup of trembling. It is a burdensome stone around the necks of the nations. This is the number one problem that the nations face. And the United Nations, for example, has spent about one-third of its time debating, deliberating, pronouncing, cursing, really, condemning, either Jerusalem or Israel, this little nation that has 1/1000th of the earth’s population. So, first of all, we know that there is something about this city, and that is, in itself, a remarkable fulfillment of Bible prophecy because when Zechariah, the prophet, in chapter 12, when he made this prophecy, that was 2,500 years ago. Jerusalem lay in ruins, surrounded by wilderness and so forth.