On July 20, 2026, Israel World News reported that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently said that “Turkey is larger than Turkey.” This statement reflects the long-time desire of President Erdogan to reestablish the old Ottoman Turkish Empire that ruled over the Middle East, including the Holy Land, from 1516 to 1917.

Erdogan states that Jerusalem belongs to Turkey. He said, “Turkey will not give even a single pebble belonging to Jerusalem to Israel.” He went on to say, “Jerusalem is our city, a city from us.” Erdogan said that Jerusalem is a “sacred trust for all humanity.”
These statements reflect the battle for Jerusalem in the last days. The Bible predicts that the enemy nations of Israel will attempt to take Jerusalem from the Jewish people. God said those who attempt to do this will be destroyed by Him. In Zechariah 12:1-4, 9, He said, “The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness. … And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.”
Are these words by Erdogan a prelude to the invasion of Russia, Iran, and Turkey in the prophetic invasion of Gog and Magog in Ezekiel 38? This battle will be the first attempt by the enemy nations of Israel to militarily invade Israel as predicted by the Scriptures. About seven years later, they will attack Israel again in the Armageddon Campaign. The words of Zechariah above were given by God with a prophetic reference to the Armageddon war on Israel at the end of the Tribulation.
All this simply signals that the Rapture is getting closer by the day. Get ready for the shout that will take us out!




