As I write a large table is being set at Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for an important gathering of world leaders Read about it here. The guests will include Iraq's neighbors -- including Iran, representatives of the five Permanent Members of the UN Security Council and the G-8 group of nations -- Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States. In other words, anybody that's anybody in the international community is invited. And, the event will be co-chaired by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and UN Secretary General Ban ki-moon. Friends, this isn't just an ordinary gathering. Something big may be in the works.

In the meantime, we have Al Gore meeting with Ban ki-moon Read about it here. If you recall, it wasn't that long ago Gore was meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Zapatero. And, Zapatero is the one who first proposed the UN's new global peace project known as the Alliance of Civilizations (AoC). Evidently, Gore and company may be wanting to include their earth-saving spirituality into the AoC's new one-world religion. 

And, Germany's Angela Merkel, whose country currently holds the EU's presidency, is in Washington for the annual EU/US summit. Besides confronting global warming, it looks like Henry Kissinger's call for the creation of a trans-Atlantic security and economic zone is well on it's way Read about it here. In fact, if you have seen my speaking presentation, you know that I suspect what we're now seeing at this summit may be what stated in 1995 -- when Javier Solana was appointed head of NATO -- coming full circle.

We also have the release of the latest intelligence report that says Iran may have their nuclear bomb before everyone thought -- by 2010. The report also says Israel and the US may now be preparing for military action Read about it here. Perhaps that explains why Solana is so eager to get the U.S and Iran to talk Read about it here.

So, what does all this mean? From my perspective, as one who has been reporting on world events since the early nineties, it looks like the world's leaders believe they're facing an unprecedented crisis. The trigger to this crisis could be the US withdrawal from Iraq. And, from my Bible perspective, I suspect what these leaders see approaching may be Armageddon.

This Thursday and Friday at Sharm el-Sheikh the world's leaders will be sitting around the same table in an attempt to stop what they fear from happening. Before the Bush Administration is gone from the White House and American troops are gone from Iraq, the international community want to implement a new security system over the entire Euro-Mediterranean region. And, if it works there, they wish to expand it globally.

We students of Bible prophecy, however, know the truth. What these important world leaders are planning at their gathering will soon spin apart -- perhaps in 2010.

However, we haven't been invited.