Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi was killed by rebel forces on Thursday. French warplanes reportedly bombed his convoy as he attempted to flee the city of Sirte. Qadhafi was later found hiding in a sewer drain by rebels. One video shows a wounded and bleeding Qadhafi being beaten, and then paraded through the city on the hood of a truck. Qadhafi is said to have later died in an ambulance on his way to a hospital from bullet wounds to the head and chest.

“You can’t imagine my happiness today. I can’t describe my happiness,” Abdel-Jalil Abdel-Aziz, the doctor who accompanied Qadhafi in the ambulance, told the Associated Press. “The tyranny is gone. Now the Libyan people can rest.”

But the euphoria in parts of Libya is sure to be short-lived.

Now the reality of rebuilding will set in. Despite the evils of Qadhafi, he did maintain order, and preside over rising standards of living. And he did, of late, cooperate with the West in combating radical Islamic terrorism.

In contrast, the rebel leadership is fragmented and often at odds with each other—and comprised of many al Qaeda allies.

Most dangerous of all, Iran is now playing a much stronger role in the new Libya.

“This is one variation on a theme that has been playing out in various forms throughout the region over the past year,” wrote Trumpet columnist Joel Hilliker earlier this month:

As unrest builds, as instability rises, as governments fall and disorder follows, the Islamic Republic of Iran sees opportunity. Amid the muddle, it dispatches its agents and resources, and finds ways to secure its interests, and often ends up with an impressive stash. It is reading from the same playbook it has successfully used in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last decade: Watch a government fall, step in to fill the hole.

The West’s interference in Libya has set the stage for an Iranian coup. Libya is set to go radical—despite the aid Europe and America gave the rebels in overthrowing Qadhafi.

On February 6, in a Key of David program, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry spoke about a prophecy recorded in the book of Daniel concerning Libya. He said that Egypt and Libya “are going to also ally themselves closely with Iran, if not be controlled by [Iran]” as part of a “strategy by radical Islam to get control of that whole trade route going through the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, where goods flow all the time and a lot of oil.”

At the time Gerald Flurry made those comments, Egypt was undergoing revolution, but Qadhafi’s regime was considered one of the most stable in the region. Shortly after that program, the rebels in Libya staged a surprise revolution that shocked Western analysts.

“[W]hy does the Bible mention Libya and Ethiopia, and Egypt, for that matter, and not many other nations in the Middle East?” Mr. Flurry asked. “It’s because they are significant to Bible prophecy, and that they do relate to what’s happening in the Middle East right now!”

For years, the Qadhafi regime held Libya’s Islamic extremists at bay. Now Libya’s new leadership is set to align the nation with Islamic extremist nations like Iran and pave the way for the Daniel 11 prophecy to be fulfilled. There will soon be a new king in Libya.

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