The United States, Turkey, Iran and The Ezekiel 38 Alliance

The US, Russia, Turkey, and Iran are clashing in Syria in a high stakes geopolitical game for control of the Middle East-a game that has end time prophetic significance. Competing interests are Turkey and Iran. Syria is Iran’s vassal state. Turkey is allowing the Islamic State to do its dirty work. Russia is helping Syria. The US is playing both sides, ostensibly assisting the balance of power against Iran, but also helping Iran with its nuclear development and economic recovery. It appears on the surface that Turkey and Iran are enemies, but there is more to the picture. In July of 2012, Turkey was actively selling gold in noticeable amounts-to Iran, in exchange for oil–in defiance of US and European sanctions.

Bullion Vault, an online gold market research company reported that Turkey had exported $4.02 billion worth of gold between January and May that year. Iran bought 75% of Turkey’s gold sales during the period. Turkey then bought millions of tons of oil from Iran despite a commitment at the time to uphold US and European Union oil sanctions against Iran. There was an EU ban on trading gold, oil, and diamonds with Iran. Notwithstanding, Iran used the gold to buy food supplies. This demonstrated that a ban on buying foodstuffs is inconsequential when using gold as the currency. It also revealed how these public enemies work as private allies.

It is obvious to many analysts that Turkey, while playing the West as a secular democratic ally, is in actuality using its Islamic political influence and economic capital to bring Iran and other Islamic states into its orbit. Turkey is considered a power broker in the Middle East that has gravitated from an ostensible secular democracy toward Islam in recent years. Another twist is that while the US “president” publicly promoted sanctions against Iran, in 2012 he granted Turkey a temporary waiver exempting it from US sanctions, as reported by Reuters, indicating the US exempted all 20 of Iran’s top oil buyers from the sanctions because they slightly reduced oil imports.

In reality, Turkey sidestepped US and European sanctions on Iran by paying for oil with gold with the US “president’s” help. Not many years ago analysts would have scoffed at the idea that Turkey, the gemstone of secular democracy in an Islamic dominated region, would go rogue and begin siding with fundamental Islamist regimes. Recall to memory, however, that less than 100 years have passed since Turkey dissolved the Islamic Caliphate that ruled the entire region. Now it appears to be in a revival with the help of the US, and Turkey plays a major role both politically and prophetically. Remember Ezekiel 38:3 where God says, “Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.” Magog, Meshech and Tubal are located in modern day Turkey.