Prophecy: 2002 - Fulfilled 2006

The world has been riddled with wars and rumors of wars since the fall of humankind. Some were unexpected, others were predictable, none are forgettable. Theology, history, science and religion all agree there is a space and time for everything that happens. Then there is the mystical, the divine, the flip side of the coin the invites an ageless yet undeniable fact. The power of prophecy is real. But what good it is really? If you know the future, but do it anyway, did it really help that you were told what was going to happen? Does it really change anything if you are warned not to do something and do it anyway? The only true power in prophecy is to attempt to change the outcome. Now this ancient argument drums up debate favorites such as, fate vs. free will, coincidence vs. happenstance, and one of the really juicy ones, random evolution vs. controlled chaos. Either way you look at it, no matter what side you take or opinion you have, we as a being continue to repeat the same behavior over and over making us extremely predictable to the outside perspective.

These any many other points of view were taken into deep consideration by the historical prophets. But did not sway their drive to share their visions with anyone who would listen.

It was a sad and cold day in American history when yet another prophecy was fulfilled. The prophecy of Michel De Nostradame.

The Purple Cloak has fluttered in the wind creating a breeze of destruction o'er the nest of the Eagle. Thus the waking hour of the sleeping giant has come. This day of our Lord, the eleventh day of the month of September, in the year two-thousand and one, Anno Domini.

Now this is where it gets interesting. I had a prophecy of my own that came to pass. No, I'm no Nostradame, but I did have the opportunity to experience what it feels like to see deductive reasoning in the realm of absolute certainty. This was my prophecy revealed to me in a dream in early 2002.

Remember the words of the Prophet: 

 1. "the bear and the eagle will rise to defeat the purple cloak." 

(This is translated as "The United Kingdom will join military forces with the United States of America to defeat the Arab Nation.) 

 2. "The Purple Cloak has begun to wave terror on the Bear." 

(This speaks to the terrorist attacks in England.)

:MY PROPHECY:

In the year 2006, the silence will fall upon the land and mass destruction will be the result of the rebirth of hate. How, my God, does man inhabit the earth for over 12,000 years and still knows not the evil that dwells within? What will it take to make us stop killing ourselves? Please God, have mercy: forgive us. Amen.

:FULFILLED:

In March 2003 March, a coalition of countries led by the US and UK invaded Iraq to depose Saddam, controversially citing Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and terror links. Saddam's Baath party was disbanded and the nation transitioned to a democratic system. Captured on 13 December 2003, Saddam was brought to trial under the Iraqi interim government. On 5 November 2006, he was convicted of charges related to the 1982 killing of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites and was sentenced to death by hanging. 

Saddam was executed on 30 December 2006.

-DeMaster Thomas