Revolution in Iran

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(Clubs vs. Spades.)



♠ Suit of Spades: The Regime Leadership ♠

  • Ace of Spades: Mojtaba Khamenei (Supreme Leader of Iran)



    • Status: Active.



    • The Power: Following the death of his father, Mojtaba was officially named the new Supreme Leader in March 2026. He holds the ultimate authority over all branches of the state and the armed forces.


  • King of Spades: Masoud Pezeshkian (President of Iran)



    • Status: Active.



    • The Power: He serves as the head of the executive branch, managing the regime's daily administrative functions and public-facing policy during the ongoing conflict.


  • Queen of Spades: Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei (Chief Justice)



    • Status: Active.



    • The Power: He oversees the judiciary and has recently asserted that while Tehran is open to talks with the U.S., it will not accept policy "imposition" or threats. He remains a key ideological hardliner in the inner circle.


  • Jack of Spades: Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (Speaker of the Parliament)



    • Status: Active.



    • The Power: A longtime hardline fixture and former IRGC commander, Ghalibaf leads the legislative branch and manages the regime's technocratic and political maneuvering.


  • 10 of Spades: Ahmad-Reza Radan (Chief of Police/FARAJA)



    • Status: Active.



    • The Power: As the commander of the Law Enforcement Force, he is the primary instrument of internal domestic control. He is responsible for the brutal suppression of dissent and the strict enforcement of the regime's social codes.

 
Believing Israel replaced unbelieving Israel
Another day, another cringeworthy replacement theology gaffe.

Do understand Paul's discourse packaged in Romans chapters 9 thru 11?

Rhetorical question. Of course you don't. Because if you did, you would drop replacement theology like a red hot horseshoe.

Luk 19:42 - Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

Luk 13:35 - Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall (SEE AND) say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Rom 11:25 - For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

Luk 21:24 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
 
Who could that nation be?
Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a head cornerstone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner, And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 1 Peter 2:6-9
Houston, we have a (replacement theology) problem.....🙃

And BTW, In all of Scripture, Gentiles are called Sons of Jacob......never.

Gal 2:14 - But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

Gal 2:15 - We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

+++++++++++++++++++++++

You mean to say that at the Council at Jerusalem, gentiles were NOT designated as ISRAELITES? Of course not. The question under debate was SALVATION. Not some ridiculous replacement theology rubbish.

Act 15:7 - And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.

Act 15:11 - But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.

Act 15:1 - And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

Act 15:19 - Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
 
Another day, another cringeworthy replacement theology gaffe.

Do understand Paul's discourse packaged in Romans chapters 9 thru 11?

Rhetorical question. Of course you don't. Because if you did, you would drop replacement theology like a red hot horseshoe.

Luk 19:42 - Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

Luk 13:35 - Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall (SEE AND) say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Rom 11:25 - For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

Luk 21:24 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

Until 2000+ years and counting and counting and counting :sleep: with actually no real signs, some manufactured signs yes, know why it was fulfilled in the time to whom it was written.
 
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Of course not. And yes, the one and only unique Church, the BETROTHED (not yet MARRIED) Bride enjoys all of those attributes.

Splicology, splitology epic fail.

Two groups is contrary to the very clear promise in Gen. 3:15.
The promise was that there would be a Savior.
The national people was only a means to that end, NOT an end in itself.

According to Paul in Ephesians 2:11-22, in Christ the dividing wall has been destroyed which cannot be rebuilt!

One tree rooted in Christ, One Covenant.

The two peoples (Jews and Gentiles) have been made one in Christ for all time, made clear over and over again.

The church has always been the Israel of God and the Israel of God has always been the church.
Orthodox (meaning right) covenant theology distinguishes the old and new covenants (2 Cor. 3; Heb. 7-10).

Scripture makes clear, that the body of believers (church) was temporarily administered through a typological, national people, but the body of believers has existed since Adam, Noah, and Abraham; and it existed under Moses and David; and it exists under Christ.

Amen, the real Praise Jesus!
 
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Thanks for answering. I am concerned this might be off-topic (so I won't continue in this thread unless others prompt), but I think those points have answers.

1) Revelation 20 says the devil is thrown into the bottomless pit after the 1000 years of Christ's reign (and after Satan deceives the nations). So if the first resurrection occurred and Christ already reigned with His saints 1000 years, this doesn't mean the devil is in the bottomless pit (yet). Satan does seem to be doing some serious deception as of my lifetime.

Revelation 20:7 - 10
7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

2) Paul was writing to Christians ~2000 years ago, if conventional history is to be believed. The expectation was that the things prophesied would occur in Jesus' generation. So for someone to claim the first resurrection occurred (before it did) in the first century is different from someone claiming it must happened already some 2000 years later, based on scripture (imho).

3) A (first) resurrection of the saints to rule with Christ doesn't deny a bodily resurrection. The claim would be a real bodily resurrection and a real thousand year reign of Christ. It sure would make more sense of some of those strange paintings of saints with halos and similar.

Yes agree and also this is apocalyptic language and the "Lake of Fire" has also been viewed as Jerusalem as it was on fire and destroyed.
 
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Yes agree and also this is apocalyptic language and the "Lake of Fire" has also been viewed as Jerusalem as it was on fire and destroyed.
I'm looking into Tartaria at present, hidden history, world fairs and orphan trains. Lots of strange things have gone on in the past. If the great deceiver has made up simple lies about science and geography that fool people today despite only being made recently, it wouldn't surprise me much for him to try to cover up the fulfilled prophecies of the past.
 
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Splicology, splitology epic fail.

Two groups is contrary to the very clear promise in Gen. 3:15.
The promise was that there would be a Savior.
The national people was only a means to that end, NOT an end in itself.

According to Paul in Ephesians 2:11-22, in Christ the dividing wall has been destroyed which cannot be rebuilt!

One tree rooted in Christ, One Covenant.

The two peoples (Jews and Gentiles) have been made one in Christ for all time, made clear over and over again.

The church has always been the Israel of God and the Israel of God has always been the church.
Orthodox (meaning right) covenant theology distinguishes the old and new covenants (2 Cor. 3; Heb. 7-10).

Scripture makes clear, that the body of believers (church) was temporarily administered through a typological, national people, but the body of believers has existed since Adam, Noah, and Abraham; and it existed under Moses and David; and it exists under Christ.

Amen, the real Praise Jesus!
The (formerly mystery now revealed) Church AGE has a dramatic and distinct BEGINNING.
And will likewise have a dramatic and distinct ENDING.....the harpazo.

Then, after THAT sequence of the Jewish betrothal pattern (Passover pattern and Moedim pattern)
have been completed, THEN comes the 70th week of Daniel aka DOTL (the beginning of the millennial AGE)
and the last and final 12th step of the Jewish betrothal pattern.......the MARRIAGE SUPPER.

Rev 19:7
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

Rev 19:8
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

Rev 19:9
And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.

All of this you reject. All of this quashes your "theories".
They are not really theories, more like a religious sounding pseudo-philosophical
pseudo-authoritative word salad without Biblical precedent.
 
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I'm looking into Tartaria at present, hidden history, world fairs and orphan trains. Lots of strange things have gone on in the past. If the great deceiver has made up simple lies about science and geography that fool people today despite only being made recently, it wouldn't surprise me much for him to try to cover up the fulfilled prophecies of the past.

Indeed.
It all serves to keep the world in perpetual turmoil because it denies the reality of what Christ accomplished and His victory.
I would be very concerned if I was against the Gospel of Christ Jesus and the disunity some promote.
 
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Until 2000+ years and counting and counting and counting :sleep: with actually no real signs, some manufactured signs yes, know why it was fulfilled in the time to whom it was written.
No, with actual real signs. Israel returning to the land of Israel is a real sign. The atomic bomb, the computer age, satellite communication, the increase in the spread of the gospel, the printing press, radio, tv, and the internet as well as AI, the Psalm 83 war we just witnessed, the Jeremiah 49 prophecy about breaking the bow of Elam we just witnessed, it is very hard to even keep track of all the actual signs we have been given. 1917 Balfour declaration, 50 years later Israel gets control of Jerusalem in 1967 and 50 years later the US and two other nations declare that Jerusalem belongs to Israel. These are all signs that those years were the year of jubilee when you are to declare that Jerusalem belongs to God and His people. Then of course you have the world wars, and the rise of the CIA and intelligence agencies which Jesus warned about in Matthew 24 with deception growing worse and worse. Now with deep fakes no one knows what to believe, which is what was also prophesied, the great deception. This is only a sampling, there are many more prophecies that can be included. For example the Plandemic which is clearly prophesied in Joel as a sign of what takes place immediately before the tribulation period begins.
 
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Indeed.
It all serves to keep the world in perpetual turmoil because it denies the reality of what Christ accomplished and His victory.
I would be very concerned if I was against the Gospel of Christ Jesus and the disunity some promote.
Yes. Like the Pharisees. Some like Nicodemus (I presume), honestly sought to understand why their expectations of prophesy and scripture did not seem to match up to Jesus who obviously was from God. Others doubled down on their heretical theology and were ultimately condemned. It's got to the point where Christian Zionists have to support not only outright murder, but outright pedophilia and sex slavery to "bless the state of Israel". Their own consciences would be searing them. Hopefully, it will lead to some of the modern-day Pharisees repenting their heresies.
 
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Yes. Like the Pharisees. Some like Nicodemus (I presume), honestly sought to understand why their expectations of prophesy and scripture did not seem to match up to Jesus who obviously was from God.
Jesus presented Himself as King to ISRAEL at a time stamp of precisely 173,880 days from Daniel 9:25.
Yet you say that "Scripture did not seem to match up"? An ignorant and preposterous assertion.

Luk 19:44
And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

Dan 9:25
Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

Dan 9:26
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
 
Indeed.
It all serves to keep the world in perpetual turmoil because it denies the reality of what Christ accomplished and His victory.
I would be very concerned if I was against the Gospel of Christ Jesus and the disunity some promote.

The whole purpose is to generate noise and distractions to keep Christians from focusing on Christ.
 
No, with actual real signs. Israel returning to the land of Israel is a real sign. The atomic bomb, the computer age, satellite communication, the increase in the spread of the gospel, the printing press, radio, tv, and the internet as well as AI, the Psalm 83 war we just witnessed, the Jeremiah 49 prophecy about breaking the bow of Elam we just witnessed, it is very hard to even keep track of all the actual signs we have been given. 1917 Balfour declaration, 50 years later Israel gets control of Jerusalem in 1967 and 50 years later the US and two other nations declare that Jerusalem belongs to Israel. These are all signs that those years were the year of jubilee when you are to declare that Jerusalem belongs to God and His people. Then of course you have the world wars, and the rise of the CIA and intelligence agencies which Jesus warned about in Matthew 24 with deception growing worse and worse. Now with deep fakes no one knows what to believe, which is what was also prophesied, the great deception. This is only a sampling, there are many more prophecies that can be included. For example the Plandemic which is clearly prophesied in Joel as a sign of what takes place immediately before the tribulation period begins.
I think that you are on to something there.....;)

But of course, these crucial and pertinent geopolitical developments are apparent ONLY to those who CHOOSE to follow the COMMAND to be mindful, and in good conscience WATCH.
 
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I'm looking into Tartaria at present, hidden history, world fairs and orphan trains. Lots of strange things have gone on in the past. If the great deceiver has made up simple lies about science and geography that fool people today despite only being made recently, it wouldn't surprise me much for him to try to cover up the fulfilled prophecies of the past.
Oh so the mud flood Tartaria conspiracy rubbish is a foundational aspect of your "Christian" "theories" I see.

To each his own I guess.....:LOL:
 
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