The Islamic NATO Concept: A Step Towards the King of the South?

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Cathrin Schaer of Deutsche Welle just posted the following concerning a future Islamic “NATO” ──

Is the Middle East about to get an ‘Islamic NATO’?

25 September 2025 

There was very little the Gulf state of Qatar could have done against the ballistic missiles Israel fired at it around two weeks ago. … 

“The Israeli strike … shakes Gulf assumptions about their ties to the US and will bring them closer together,” Kristin Diwan, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, wrote shortly after the attack. “These oil monarchies are too much alike … such a direct strike on their sovereignty and perceived safety is anathema to them all.”

As a result, “Gulf rulers are pressing ahead with the pursuit of greater strategic autonomy and are increasingly determined to hedge against the risks of depending on the US,” Sanam Vakil, director of Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa program, confirmed in an op-ed in UK newspaper, The Guardian, this month. 

All of this is why, over the past week or so, there’s been growing talk of the formation of an “Islamic NATO,” a defense alliance of Islamic and Arab states that could work similarly to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO. 

 At an emergency summit organized by the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation last week, Egyptian officials suggested a NATO-style, joint task force for Arab nations. In a speech at the summit, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani also called for a collective approach to regional security. And the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, or GCC — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates — said they would activate a provision in a joint defense agreement, first signed in 2000, that said an attack on one member state was an attack on all.

The phrasing is similar to that used in Article 5 of the NATO pact. …

Saudi Arabia announced it was entering into a “strategic mutual defense agreement” with Pakistan. The two countries declared, “any aggression against either country shall be considered an aggression against both.” …

What the world may see instead of an “Islamic NATO” is the so-called “6+2 format,” explains Cinzia Bianco, an expert on the Gulf states at the European Council on Foreign Relations, or ECFR. The phrase “6+2” refers to the six GCC states and Turkey and Egypt.

(https://www.dw.com/en/is-the-middle-east-about-to-get-an-islamic-nato/a74111424).

The idea of an Islamic military alliance is nothing new. In the past, both the Democratic and Republican administrations have supported such an idea. And, yes, according to God’s living word ── the Holy Bible ── an Islamic military alliance, which will include Egypt, will occur. See: Daniel 11:40-43; Ezekiel 30:2-8. The leader of this final alliance is called the ‘king of the South’ in God’s living word. 

We do believe that it will involve some type of Arab/Islamic confederation, that is consistent with Ezekiel 30:2-8, a two-fold prophecy ──

“’ Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Wail, ‘Woe to the day!’ 3) For the day is near, Even the day of the LORD is near; It will be a day of clouds, the time of the Gentiles.

4) The sword shall come upon Egypt, And great anguish shall be in Ethiopia, When the slain fall in Egypt, And they take away her wealth, And her foundations are broken down. 

5) ‘Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, all the mingled people, Chub, and the men of the lands who are allied, shall fall with them by the sword.’ 6) ‘Thus says the LORD: ‘Those who uphold Egypt shall fall, And the pride of her power shall come down. From Migdol to Syene Those within her shall fall by the sword,’ Says the Lord GOD. 

7) ‘They shall be desolate in the midst of the desolate countries, And her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are laid waste. 8) Then they will know that I am the LORD, When I have set a fire in Egypt And all he helpers are destroyed.’” 

Now, the prophesied political deal that occurs in Psalm 83:3-8 occurs while the final ‘king of the North’ is still on good speaking terms with the prophesied final ‘king of the South,’ although they both take crafty counsel against each other ── 

“Both these kings’ hearts shall be bent on evil, and they speak lies at the same table; but it shall not prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.” – Daniel 11:27. 

Now, this two-fold political deal occurs before the fall of the United States of America, which is prophesied to occur in Daniel 11:39, in which the final Catholic led European civic and military leader acts against “the strongest fortresses with a foreign god.” It seemingly occurs after the United States loses her sovereignty that the final ‘king of the South’ is so emboldened to “attack him” ── meaning the final Catholic-led European leader, which is spoken of in Daniel 11:40.

And, while there will be an alliance according to Psalm chapter 83, notice what our Lord’s word says regarding its purpose ── 

“They have said, ‘Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.’

5) For they have consulted together with one consent; They form a confederacy against You:

6) The tents of Edom [the progenitor of the Turkish people] and the Ishmaelites [Saudi Arabia]; Moab [think Jordan] and the Hagrites [they anciently dwelt in the land known as Syria today]; 7) Gebal [Lebanon], Ammon [modern Jordan], and Amalek [Turks]; Philistia [modern Palestinians] with the inhabitants of Tyre [Lebanon] 8) Assyria [whose descendants migrated to Germany] also has joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot [Moab and Ammon in modern Jordan]” – Psalm 83:4-8.

This passage is suggesting that the descendants of Israel (which not only includes the modern state of Israel, but also much of the Western nations of today; the United States of America, the United Kingdom and her Commonwealth Nations that includes Australia, and New Zealand) will be eventually attacked by a “confederation of Islamic” nations from the Middle East, who will also align for a short time with a final Catholic-led European power.

Certainly, this political deal spoken of in Psalm chapter 83 will involve war and terrorism—that will be against the modern Western nations, as well as JUDAH, the modern nation of Israel. And while this biblical prophecy in Psalm chapter 83 has not yet been fulfilled, we are now witnessing calls from Moslems that appear to prelude this, as well as the rising of the final ‘king of the South’! □