Revelation 13:13a, “One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed …”

Theodore Shoebat: “…[T]here’s a gradual shift in the culture taking place right now [in the Middle East] and it is turning back to original Islam. You have to understand, in World War 1, after the Ottoman Empire was finally crushed by the British, Islamic fundamentalism went to sleep for awhile. Now with these revolutions taking place and these dictators being ousted, Islamic fundamentalism is finally awakening, so right now we’re seeing the awakening stage. A dictator such as Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Mubarak and also Hafez al-Assad and his son who is in power right now, Bashar al-Assad, all of these dictators, they were suppressing Islamic fundamentalism in a very extreme and strict manner. And it was absolutely necessary and if you don’t understand the Middle…