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Given Russia's recent dispatch in annexing Crimea, please forgive the tardiness of publishing this word, received October 31, 2013:

Beware of the bear.

Beware of a false peace with Russia and Syria.

Questions:

1. Does Russia have designs on the Mideast like Antiochus IV Epiphanes of old (Seleucid King of Syria 175-164 B.C. who wanted one law, one culture, one religion)?

Consider the historical paralell: Daniel 11,23 "Through his alliances he will act treacherously and, despite the smallness of his following, grow even stronger." (New Jerusalem)

2. Is this Russian Bear connected in any way to the end-time "beast" (a nation-state amalgamation) of Revelation 13,2?

Revelation 13,2: "I saw that the beast was like a leopard [at Daniel 7,6- Persia], with paws like a bear [at Daniel 7,5- the kingdom of the Medes that succeeded Babylon] and a mouth like a lion [Babylon]; the dragon had handed over to it his own power and his throne and his immense authority."