Libyan chaos is now the ideal setting for Iran to bring that nation into its deadly terrorist web. It would be one thing for a discerning commentator to make a statement like that today—the day after a gang of Islamist militants attacked the U.S. consulate compound in Benghazi with machine gun fire and rocket propelled grenades, murdered the U.S. ambassador and then celebrated his death by dragging the corpse through the streets.

But this is a statement my father made one year ago, even before the death of Muammar Qadhafi. Notice what he wrote in the Trumpet’s October 2011 feature story:

Now America and the West have paved the way for another Iranian victory in Libya. We are rejoicing about the overthrow of Libya’s Muammar Qadhafi, while we should be mourning. Libyan chaos is now the ideal setting for Iran to bring that nation into its deadly terrorist web. The government that replaces Qadhafi will be a thousand times worse.

Over the past 24 hours, the Iranian-dominated, post-Qadhafi Libya formally introduced itself to the rest of the world. Make sure you read Joel Hilliker’s important column about how these chilling events were all prophesied in your Bible. This, of course, is how my father knew the post-Qadhafi era in Libya would be much worse.

Western leaders, on the other hand, celebrated the fall of Qadhafi as a tremendous victory for democracy.

“We came, we saw, he died,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joked with a cbs reporter.

President Obama said Qadhafi’s death marked the end of a long and painful chapter in Libya. He said the people in the “new and democratic Libya” now had a chance to determine their own destiny. This is what the leaders of the United States of America were saying about the new Libya in October 2011—the same month my father’s warning was printed in the Trumpet magazine.

Watch the entire speech President Obama gave in response to Muammar Qadhafi’s death 11 months ago. Then go back and read “Egypt and Libya to Join Iran’s Terror Network.”

It makes for a stunning contrast.