Bible News Prophecy with Dr Bob Thiel Islamic NATO, the Mecca Defence Agreement, and the Rise of the Bible's King of the South with Dr. Bob Thiel Dr. Bob Thiel joins host Steve Dupuis to examine the new Mecca Joint Defence Agreement among Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, tracing how the emerging "Islamic NATO" fits the Bible's ancient prophecy of a coming King of the South. Islamic NATO Alliance Announced Steve Dupuis opens the Bible News Prophecy program by asking Dr. Bob Thiel about an off-air remark on an emerging Islamic NATO and its possible link to the biblical King of the South. Thiel says many analysts are asking whether such an alliance has begun forming, but news outlets rarely connect it to prophecy. He reads a headline reporting that Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey have signed a Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, combining nearly 1.4 million active military personnel, more than 3,400 aircraft, and over 6,000 tanks. The pact, he explains, includes a NATO-style Article 5 clause treating an attack on one signatory as an attack on all three. Commentators have already nicknamed it NATO in the Middle East, and Thiel notes the alliance is widely seen as a deterrent against two regional powers in particular, Iran and Israel, though officials insist it targets no single country. Roots Of The Islamic NATO Idea Dupuis asks whether the Mecca agreement caught the world by surprise, since Islamic NATO has suddenly become a buzzword. Thiel says the idea itself is not new, noting that he has warned of a coming Arab-Islamic NATO since at least 2018, when his ministry even produced a video titled Arab NATO and the Coming King of the South. Asked how the new pact relates to the actual North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Thiel explains it has no formal tie to NATO, but earned the nickname after a Turkish official described its workings using NATO's own language. He reads a second article predicting the alliance, if it holds, could form a long-term regional defense structure whose effects ripple outward to India, China, the United States, and eventually Europe. Thiel adds that Europe, too, will eventually be affected according to biblical prophecy, then notes that the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has already hailed the agreement as historic and strategically significant for the wider Muslim world. Analysts Weigh The New Alliance Thiel continues reading the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's response, in which Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha praises the Mecca pact as a fundamental pillar for regional security and a mark of Islamic solidarity. Dupuis interjects to ask whether the United States is not already guaranteeing peace in that region, and Thiel answers only to a degree, since the Iran war and Israeli actions are shifting attitudes. He reads further analysis describing the agreement as a potential turning point, with the Atlantic Council calling it an inflection point in an emerging multipolar order as Turkey extends its protective umbrella beyond allies like Qatar, Syria, and Libya. Abdulaziz Sager of the Gulf Research Center is quoted calling the symbolism of three influential Muslim states meeting in Islam's holiest city significant in itself, and predicting that, if institutionalized, the framework could build a more regional-driven security architecture less dependent on outside powers such as the United States. Could Other Nations Provide Security Dupuis asks whether the three signatory governments could ever provide the same security guarantee as the United States. Thiel says not really, but stresses that more Sunni Muslim countries are expected to join the framework, pointing to a newly released video in which Pakistan's defense minister calls on other Islamic nations to sign onto the Mecca agreement. He notes that eleven other nations aligned with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan the day before in a separate naval agreement and may eventually join the broader alliance as well. Thiel then reads a Russian report from RT quoting Murad Sagdazev, president of a Middle East studies center in Moscow, who says the pact's members face the task of deterring both Israel and Iran without overt American involvement. Thiel takes this as evidence that the alliance is forming largely in response to tensions surrounding Iran and Israel, even though no single leader has yet emerged to head the growing bloc. Daniel's King Of The South Asked how the Mecca alliance ties to biblical prophecy, Thiel turns to Daniel 11:25, where the King of the South is stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army, and argues that a growing Mecca bloc, already fielding nearly 1.4 million troops, could become that prophesied force. He notes Turkey has said it expects Egypt to eventually join the alliance, which matters because the old Radio Church of God taught that Egypt could supply the final King of the South, though only after a long process. Thiel reads a 1963 Plain Truth article by the late Garner Ted Armstrong identifying the King of the North as a coming United States of Europe, a resurrected Roman Empire built around a rearmed Germany, and the King of the South as a future Egypt, not the Egypt of that era, expanding to draw North African Muslim nations into an Afro-Arabian power bloc. Whether or not an Egyptian personally leads it, Thiel says scripture is clear that Egypt joins the King of the South's confederation. Watching For Prophecy's Fulfillment Dupuis asks what other nations might join the new bloc, and Thiel lists Libya, Algeria, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Yemen, along with parts of Sudan, home to the darker-skinned Cushite peoples named in prophecy. He recalls a late-2025 sermon in which he listed steps toward the formation of the King of the South among his items to watch in 2026, then reads Daniel 11:40-43, describing the King of the South attacking, the King of the North sweeping through with chariots and ships, Edom, Moab, and Ammon escaping, and Egypt's treasures, along with the Libyans and Cushites, falling under his hand. Thiel says the Abraham Accords have drawn some Islamic nations closer but are not this prophesied bloc, and that the King of the South was long expected to rise once Iran was militarily weakened. Quoting Paul's warning not to despise prophecies, he says the Continuing Church of God is watching and reporting as Ezekiel's watchman was told to do, and Dupuis closes by directing listeners to biblenewsprophecy.net.
