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These peoples of Ezekiel 38:5 are
generally found today in the region
of India and Pakistan.
Cush was a son of Ham (Gen.
10:6). C ush is often translated
"Ethiopia" in the Bible. But not all
Cushites live in Ethiopia!
The descendants of Cush split
into two major groups, the Eastern
and Western Cushites. The West–
ern Cushites are found in major
areas of Black Africa today, includ–
ing modero Ethiopia, now under
Soviet influence.
The Eastern Cushites, on the
other hand, are the brown peoples
of central and southern Ind ia and
part of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). They
are represented by such groups as
the Dravidians, Tamils and Telu–
gus. Herodotus calls these Eastern
Cushites " Asiatic Ethiopians."
During their migrations, inciden–
tally, these Asiatic Cushites gave
their name to the Hindu
Kush
mountain range of Central Asia.
I nterest ingly, the names of
Cush's sons Seba and Raama h
(Gen. 10:7) have been perpetuated
in the Hindu god
Siva
or
Shiva
(the destroyer) and the hero
Rama
(an avatar of the god Vishnu) .
Phut was also a son of Ham.
Phut is often translated " Libya" in
the Bible, referring to the land of
Libya in North Africa. As with
C ush, the re is also an Asiatic
branch of the family of Phut or
Put.
It
is that Asiatic branch that
will eventually become associated
with the U.S.S.R.
Along with elements of Shem,
descendants of Phut (or Put) were
among the Indo-Aryans who set–
tled northern India and drove the
Cushitic Dravidians into the south
of Ind ia in the second millennium
a.c .
The war r ior-caste
R ajput s
were rulers over the historie region
of Rajputana, a former group of
princely states comprising what is
now Rajasthan state of northwest–
ern India.
Elements of Phut are also found
today in other states of northern
and central India and in the neigh–
boring countries of Pakistan and
Bangladesh. The clear impl ication,
therefore, is that these nations will
ultimately become politically asso–
ciated with the U.S.S.R.
India, along with China, wi ll un–
doubtedly contribute heavily to the
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200 million-man army of Revela–
tion 9: 16. After one-thousand-mil–
lion-strong communist China, In–
dia has the largest population of
any country in the world (more
than 750 million!) . India today is
militarily the most powerful coun–
try in the South Asia region.
The nation of India is officially a
neutralist state aspi ring to a non–
aligned stand between the super–
powers. But in light of India's long
and often tension-ridden borders
with China and Pakistan, the So–
viet Union has become necessary
insurance for New Delhi . India
leans on Soviet protection to coun–
terbalance the alliance of China
and Pakistan.
India is heavily dependent on the
Kremlin for key military suppl ies.
New Delhi has a friendship treaty
with Moscow, signed in 1971. And
the Soviet Union has become In–
dia's major trading partner.
The government of Pakistan–
lying to the east and south of So–
viet-occupied Afg han is tan- is
growing more nervous by the day.
Pakistan now stands as the only
obstacle between the Soviet troops
in Afghanistan and Moscow's goal
of a warm-water Arabian Sea port.
By virtue of the Soviet military
presence in Afghanistan , the
Kremlin is now in a prime posi tion
to exert polit ical and military pres–
sure on Pakistan.
The Musl im nation of Pakistan
consists of four provinces, two on
each side of the lndus River. The
two provinces on the eastern side–
Punjab
and
Sind- are
firmly in
the control of President Zia ui–
Haq's government in Islamabad .
The two provinces west of the
Indus- North-West Frontier
and
Baluchistan- are
in a s tate of un–
rest. These provinces s ha re a
1,200-mile border with Soviet-oc–
cupied Afghanis tan. The Pakistani
government fears that the Soviets
may now use Afghanistan as a base
to exploit the separat ionist senti–
ments among the ethnic g roups in
these two provi nces. Trouble
among these ethnic minorities is
already straining Pakistan's unity.
Of primary concern is the long–
simmering independe nce move–
ment among the Baluchi t ribesmen
of western Pakistan. The Baluchis
have long sought to unite with fel-
low tribesmen in so uthern
Afghanistan and eastern Iran to
forro a n independent state of
Baluchis tan.
There is strong evidence of deep
Soviet involvement in this effort to
carve out a separate Baluchi state.
A pro- Russ ia n vassal state in
Baluchis tan would effectively ex–
tend Soviet influence all the way
south to the Arabian S ea. The
Kremlin would at Iast have the
warm-water ports that it has
sought since the days of the czars.
As an added bonus, the Soviets
would be in a position to control
the major oil supply lines leading
from the Persian Gulfl
Pushtu -speaking tri besmen in
northwestern Pakistan and eastern
Afgh a ni s t an have a lso lo ng
dreamed of their own independent
state of Pushtunistan. These peo–
ples, like the Balucbis, provide po–
tentially fert ile soi l for Soviet revo–
lutionary propaganda.
The predominant ly Muslim na–
tion of Bangladesh--once known as
East Pakistan- broke away from
Pakistan in a bloody civil war in
1971 . Though Bangladesh offi –
cially adheres to the principie of
nonalignment, its relations with the
Soviet Union have grown steadily
closer.
Also all ied with Gog will be
"Gomer, Togarmah and all thei r
bands" (Ezek. 38:6).
Gomer was the eldest son of
J apheth. Contrary to the assertions
of many st udents of Bibl e
prophecy, Gomer in this prophecy
is not West Germany.
Who, then, is Gomer? Among
the Ori ental descenda n ts of
Gomer's three sons are found ele–
ments of the Turkic and Tatar
(Turko-Mongol) peoples of the
Asían steppes and deserts.
Many of these peoples-inhabit–
ing the five socialist republics of
Soviet Central Asia- have al ready
b een in co rporated into th e
U.S.S .R. The nation of Mongolia,
wedged between the Soviet Union
and China in the region j ust south
of Siberia, is a vi rtual Soviet satel–
lite. The Turkic Uighurs of Xinki–
ang (western China) and the Mon–
gols of Inner Mongolia are under
Communist Chinese control.
Gomer's third son, Togarmah, is
specifically mentioned in Ezekiel
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