THE RISE OF ISLAM AND THE LAST DAYS
JOHN 14:1-7
INTRODUCTION:
I HOPE THAT YOU CAN SEE THAT A PICTURE IS UNFOLDING IN THIS SERIES OF MESSAGES. I BELIEVE THAT THE COMING OF THE LORD FOR HIS BRIDE, THE CHURCH, IS IMMINENT. EVENTS PROPHECIED IN SCRIPTURE, SUCH AS IN MATTHEW 24 HAVE COME TO PASS, AND I BELIEVE THAT EVENTS HAPPENING NOW IN OUR WORLD ARE LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS FOR
THINGS WHICH ARE TO HAPPEN AFTER THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH. SOME OF THESE MODERN DAY EVENTS ARE:
1. THE FORMATION OF THE NATION OR INDEPENDENT STATE OF ISRAEL.
2. THE PRESENT OIL CRISIS.
3. THE RISE OF THE RELIGION OF ISLAM, WHICH WE WILL LOOK AT TODAY
4. THE RISE OF THE NEW ROMAN EMPIRE AS PROPHECIED IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL.
THE SCRIPTURES SPEAK OF THE COUNTRIES SURROUNDING ISRAEL ATTAKING HER IN WHAT WE WOULD CALL A SNEAK ATTACK. LISTEN TO EZEKIEL 38:14-16.
EXEKIEL 38:14-16:
“Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: In that day, when my people Israel are living in safety, will you not take notice of it? 15 You will come from your place in the far north, you and many nations with you, all of them riding on horses, a great horde, a mighty army. 16 You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud that covers the land. In days to come, O Gog, I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I show myself holy through you before their eyes.
NOW WE’LL BE TALKING MORE ABOUT THIS INVASION IN A FUTURE SERMON, BUT RIGHT NOW SUFFICE IT TO SAY THAT THIS PROPHECY IS REALLY CLOSE TO BEING FULFILLED. IN FACT IN ORDER FOR IT TO BE FULFILLED ONLY A FEW THINGS HAD TO TAKE PLACE.
1. THERE HAD TO BE A NATION OF ISRAEL, WHICH CAME INTO EXISTENCE IN 1948.
2. THERE HAD TO BE A COALITION OF NATIONS TO BE INVOLVED IN THE ATTACK AGAINST ISRAEL WHICH INCLUDES THE GREAT NATION TO THE NORTH, WHICH IS RUSSIA.
IS THIS ALLIANCE CLOSE? YES. THE ALLIANCE IS SPOKEN OF IN EZEKIEL 38:4-5, AND CONSIDER HOW THESE COUNTRIES ARE CONNECTED: 1. BY OIL
2. BY THE ISLAM RELIGION
3. WE WILL SEE THEY ARE PART OF THE NEW ROMAN EMPIRE WHICH WILL ESSENTIALLY BE MUSLIM IN NATURE.
THESE COUNTRIES WILL INVADE ISRAEL DURING A TIME OF PEACE FOR ISRAEL, AND I BELIEVE THAT WHAT WE ARE SEEING IN THE WORLD NOW IS SETTING THE STAGES FOR THIS GREAT BATTLE.
NOW ONE OF THE INGREDIENTS FOR THIS BATTLE THAT I BELIEVE IS BEING ESTABLISHED NOW, IS THE EMERGENCE OF THE ISLAM RELIGION AS A WORLD- WIDE POWER. IN THIS MESSAGE I WANT TO SHARE A BIT OF THE HISTORY OF ISLAM, THE DANGER IT POSES TO THE WORLD, AND WHAT WE CAN DO IN THE FACE OF THIS THREAT.
POINT ONE: THE HISTORY OF ISLAM
MUHAMMAD IBN ABDALLAH WAS BORN TO A POOR FAMILY IN 570 A.D. IN MECCA. HE WAS RAISED BY HIS PATERNAL GRANDFATHER, GREW UP TO BE A CAMEL DRIVER AND THEN A MERCHANT.
AT THE AGE OF 26 HE MARRIED A WEALTHY CARAVAN OWNER NAMED KHADIJA. SHE WAS FORTY YEARS OLD AT THE TIME OF THEIR MARRIAGE AND IN SPITE OF HER AGE, SHE AND MOHAMMAD HAD SIX CHILDREN.
WHILE MEDITATING IN A CAVE ON MOUNT HIRA OUTSIDE OF MECCA ON THE 17TH DAY OF RAMADAN IN 610 A.D. MUHAMMAD WAS VISITED BY AN ANGEL THAT TWO YEARS LATER HE WOULD IDENTIFY AS GABRIEL, WHO WAS SENT FROM ALLAH. THIS REVELATION WAS THE FIRST OF SEVERAL THAT WOULD HAPPEN OVER THE NEXT 23 YEARS, AND WOULD BECOME THE TEXT OF THE “QURAN”.
THE RELIGION THAT WAS FORMED OUT OF THESE RECITATIONS WOULD BE KNOWN AS ISLAM. THE CLAIM OF THE RECITER, MUHAMMAD, WAS THAT IT WAS THE LAST OF THE DIVINE REVELATIONS BEFORE THE END OF THE WORLD. THE RECITER CLAIMED THAT THE RELIGUION WAS A “CORRECTION” OF THE PRIOR DIVINE REVELATIONS TO JEWS AND CHRISTIANS.
HERE ARE SOME ELEMENTS OF THE ISLAM RELIGION THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.
THE QUR’AN IS THE “HOLY” BOOK OF THE RELIGION OF ISLAM. THE QUR’AN ACCORDING TO MUHAMMAD, CAME TO HIM VERSE BY VERSE, LINE BY LINE, CHAPTER BY CHAPTER, AND HE RECITED IT OUT LOUD. THE WORD QUR’AN MEANS “THE RECITATION.”. AS OTHER REVELATIONS WERE RECITED BY MUHAMMAD, HIS COMPANIONS COMMITTED THEM TO MEMORY. THOSE WHO COULD WRITE, WROTE THEM DOWN ON PIECES OF PAPYRUS, FLAT STONES, PALM LEAVES, AND A NUMBER OF OTHER THINGS.
NOW THE INTERESTING THING ABOUT THIS IS THAT MUHAMMAD HAD TO RECITE THE REVELATIONS BECAUSE HE COULD NEITHER READ NOR WRITE. THE REVELATIONS CAME TO MUHAMMAD IN THE ARABIC LANGUAGE, THE LANGUAGE ACCLAIMED BY MUSLIM’S AS THE “LANGUAGE OF GOD” MUSLIMS BELIEVE THAT THE QUR’AN WAS, IN FACT, RECITED TO MUHAMMAD BY THE ANGEL GABRIEL IN ARABIC AS THE VERY WORDS OF ALLAH. THUS, THEY BELIEVE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO TRANSLATE THE QUR’AN IN ITS ‘REALITY’ INTO ANOTHER LANGUAGE.
MUSLIMS BELIEVE MUHAMMAD GAVE THE FINAL REVELATION OF THE QUR’AN A FEW MONTHS BEFORE HIS DEATH (6/8/632) WHEREIN THE FOLLOWING RECITATION WAS MADE “TODAY I HAVE PERFECTED YOUR RELIGION FOR YOU, AND I HAVE COMPLETED MY BLESSING UPON YOU, AND I HAVE APPROVED ISLAM FOR YOUR RELIGION.”
THE COLLECTIONS OF THE QUR’AN DID NOT TAKE PLACE UNTIL THE CALIPHATE OF ABU BAKR (632-634 A.D.)
NO ONE WOULD HAVE DREAMED THAT THIS POOR ILLITERATE CAMEL DRIVER WOULD CONVERT OVER HALF OF THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD, BUT HISTORY RECORDS THAT THIS IS INDEED THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON OF MEDEIEVAL HISTORY. ON JUNE 08, 632 A.D. AFTER RETURNING FROM A PILGRIMAGE FROM MEDINA TO MECCA, MUHAMMAD COMPLAINED OF A HEADACHE, AND LATER DIED OF APPARENTLY NATURAL CAUSES.
THE DEATH OF MUHAMMAD WAS SUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED THUS CREATING THE PROBLEM OF PICKING A SUCCESSOR. WITHOUT GETTING INTO A LONG DISCUSSION OVER SUCCESSION, SUFFICE IT TO SAY THAT THE ROOTS OF DIVIDING THE ISLAMIC COMMUNITY INTO TWO GROUPS RESTED WITH THE CHOICE OF THE FIRST SUCCESSOR, ABU BAKR. IT WAS ALSO AT THIS TIME THAT THE TWO PRIMARY SECTS OF ISLAM CAME TO BE.
THE SHIITE SECT OF ISLAM COMPRISES 10-15 % OF ISLAM. SHIITE SECT ARE FOLLOWERS OF ALI, THE COUSIN AND SON-IN-LAW OF ALI, THE HUSBAND OF FATIMA, THE DAUGHTER AND ONLY CHILD OF MUHAMMAD WHO SURVIVED TO ADULTHOOD TO BEAR CHILDREN.
THE SUNNI SECT IS THE LARGEST OF THE PRE-DOMINATE SECTS OF ISLAM COMPRISING OF APPROXIMATELY 80-85% OF ISLAM. SUNNI ARE FOLLOWERS OF SUNNAH OR CUSTOMS.
OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO US IS THE SHIITE SECT OF ISLAM. WHEN IT CAME TO A SUCCESSOR FOR MUHAMMAD, THE SHIITE SECT WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO GROUPS OF SPECIAL IMPORTANCE TO US. ONE GROUP WAS THE “SEVENERS” WHO DIDN’T BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS A LIGITIMATE “IMAM” OR LEADER AFTER THE SEVENTH “IMAM”.
THE SECOND GROUP “THE TWELVERS” BELIEVED THAT THE LINE OF IMAMS STOPPED AFTER THE “TWELTH IMAM.” THIS IS THE MOST PROMINENT GROUP OF SHIITES COMPRISING MORE THAN 90% OF THE SHIITE POPULATION. THEY BELIEVED THAT THE TWELTH IMAM WAS MUHAMMAD IBN HASAN BORN IN 872 A.D. THE SON OF THE ELEVENTH IMAM.
HERE’S THE THING. THE TWELTH IMAM IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE HIDDEN IMAM WHO LIVES IN PERPETUITY, IN HIDING, UNTIL ALLAH CALLS HIM TO REAPPEAR IN THE LAST DAYS AS AL-MAHDI. SHIITES BELIEVE THAT WHEN AL-MAHDI APPEARS, HE WILL FILL THE EARTH WITH EQUITY AND JUSTICE AND LEAD THE WORLD TO CONVERSION TO ISLAM. IN THE MEANTIME THE ULAMA (THE SCHOLARS AND MYSTICS OF SHIISM) EXERCISE SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY ON BEHALF OF THE HIDDEN IMAM IN ABSENTIA. THEY ALSO BELIEVE THAT THE HIDDEM IMAM WILL ONLY APPEAR AT A TIME OF GREAT CONFUSION IN THE WORLD. SO IF THEY CAN CREATE A GREAT DEAL OF CONFUSION IN THE WORLD THEY CAN HASTEN THE COMING OF THE IMAM AND THE LAST DAYS. CONFUSION SUCH AS TERRORISM.
THERE ARE FIVE ACTS OF WORSHIP WITHIN THE ISLAMIC SECT AND ARE OFTEN REFERRED TO AS THE FIVE PILLARS OF ISLAM:
1. TO RECITE THE SHAHADAH: THIS IS THE ISLAMIC CREED: “THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH, AND MUHAMMAD IS HIS MESSENGER”. EACH MUSLIM IS TO RECITE THIS SEVERAL TIMES DURING PRAYER EACH DAY. IT’S LIKE A MONTRA.
2. TO PRAY: MUSLIMS PRAY WHILD BOWING TOWARD MECCA FIVE TIMES A DAY.
3. TO FAST: MUSLIMS REFRAIN FROM FOOD DURING THE DAYLIGHT HOURS OF THE LUNAR MONTH OF RAMADAN. THIS MONTH IS GIVEN OVER TO REFLECTION AND MEDITATION, AS THERE FOUNDER MUHAMMAD DID IN 610 A.D. IT ENDS IN A JOYOUS CELEBRATION.
4. TO GIVE ALMS: MUSLIMS ARE REQUIRED TO GIVE ONE-FORTIETH OF THEIR INCOME TO THE POOR AND THOSE IN NEED. THIS COULD BE BECAUSE WHEN THE SECT WAS FIRST ESTABLISHED MANY OF THEIR CONVERTS WERE POOR AND IN NEED.
5. TO MAKE THE PILGRIMAGE: THOSE PHYSICALLY AND FINANCIALLY ABLE MUST VISIT MECCA AT LEAST ONCE IN THEIR LIFETIMES.
IT IS THE SIXTH, THE UNOFFICIAL PILLAR OF ISLAM THAT BREEDS FEAR EACH TIME IT IS HEARD. THAT PILLAR IS KNOWN AS JIHAD. JIHAD IS A “HOLY WAR”. IT IS TECHNICALLY A DIVINE INSTITUTION OF WARFARE TO EXTEND ISLAM INTO THE NON-ISLAMIC TERRITORIES, OR TO DEFEND ISLAM FROM DANGER. THE QUR’AN STATES:
SURAH 9:5-6: KILL THOSE WHO JOIN OTHER GODS WITH ALLAH WHEREVER YOU MAY FIND THEM.
SURAH 4:76: THOSE WHO BELIEVE FIGHT IN THE CAUSE OF ALLAH.
SURAH 8:12: I WILL INSTILL TERROR INTO THE HEARTS OF THE INFIDELS, STRIKE OFF THEIR HEADS THEN, AND STRIKE OFF FROM THEM EVERY FINGERTIP.
WHAT ABOUT THE ISLAMIC RELIGION TODAY?
IN EUROPE, THE POPULATION OF MUSLIMS IN GREAT BRITAIN IS NOW OVER 2.4 MILLION PEOPLE, WHILE DURING THE SAME TIME PERIOD THE NUMBER OF “CHRISTIANS” IN THE COUNTRY FELL BY MORE THAN 2 MILLION. INTERESTING IN BRITAIN IS THAT THE BIGGEST POPULATION OF CHRISTIANS IS IN THE OVER-70S BRACKET, WHILE THE BIGGEST NUMBER OF MUSLIMS IS IN THE UNDER-4 BRACKET. WHO IS GOING TO SET UP SOCIETY IN THE FUTURE IN ENGLAND?
IN FRANCE BY THE YEAR 2040 IT IS EXPECTED THAT 80% OF HER POPULATION WILL BE MUSLIM.
SHEIKH IBRAHIM MDAIRES MADE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IN A SPEECH ON THE GAZASTRIP ON THE 13TH OF MAY 2005:
“LOOK AT MODERN HISTORY. WHERE HAS GREAT BRITAIN GONE? WHERE HAS CZARIST RUSSIA GONE? WHERE HAS FRANCE GONE – FRANCE, WHICH ALMOST RULED THE ENTIRE WORLD? WHERE IS NAZI GERMANY, WHICH MASSACRED MILLIONS AND RULED THE WORLD? WHERE DID ALL THESE SUPERPOWERS GO? HE WHO MADE THEM DISAPPEAR WILL MAKE AMERICA DISAPPEAR TOO, GOD WILLING. HE WHO MADE RUSSIA DISAPPEAR OVERNIGHT IS CAPABLE OF MAKING AMERICA DISAPPEAR AND FALL, ALLAH WILLING.
WE HAVE RULED THE WORLD BEFORE, AND BY ALLAH, THE DAY WILL COME WHEN WE WILL RULE THE ENTIRE WORLD AGAIN. THE DAY WILL COME WHEN WE WILL RULE AMERICA. THE DAY WILL COME WHEN WE WILL RULE BRITAIN AND THE ENTIRE WORLD – EXCEPT FOR THE JEWS. THE JEWS WILL NOT ENJOY A LIFE OF TRANQUILITY UNDER OUR RULE, BECAUSE THEY ARE TREACHEROUS BY NATURE, AS THEY HAVE BEEN THROUGHOUT HISTORY. THE DAY WILL COME WHEN EVERYTHING WILL BE RELIVED OF THE JEWS – EVEN THE STONES AND TREES WHICH WERE HARMED BY THEM.
LISTEN TO THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD, WHO TELLS YOU ABOUT THE EVIL END THAT AWAITS JEWS. THE STONES AND TREES WILL WANT THE MUSLIMS TO FINISH OFF EVERY JEW.
THIS WORLD-WIDE VICTORY WILL COME ACCORDING TO THE MUSLIMS BY WAY OF JIHAD, OR “HOLY WAR”. THIS JIHAD WILL ACTUALLY BE FOUGHT IN MANY WAYS. WE HAVE THE VIOLENT JIHAD, OF WHICH TERRORISM PLAYS A MAJOR PART.
IN SHORT THE NATION OF ISLAM HAS BEEN ON A “JIHAD” FOR SEVERAL YEARS, AND IN MY VIEW IS WINNING GREAT VICTORIES ON A NUMBER OF LEVELS.
ONE WRITER STATES:
AS FOR RELIGIOUS MINORITIES, THE RELATIONS OF MUSLIMS AND NON-MUSLIMS ARE SET IN THE CONTEXT OF A WAR: JIHAD. THE TOTALITARIAN NATURE OF ISLAM IS NOWHERE MORE APPARENT THAN IN THE CONCEPT OF JIHAD, THE HOLY WAR, WHOSE ULTIMATE AIM IS TO CONQUER THE ENTIRE WORLD AND SUBMIT IT TO THE ONE TRUE FAITH, TO THE LAW OF ALLAH. TO ISLAM ALONE HAS BEEN GRANTED THE TRUTH – THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF SALVATION OUTSIDE IT. IT IS THE SACRED DUTY – AN INCUMBENT RELIGIOUS DUTY ESTABLISHED IN THE QUR’AN AND THE TRADITIONS – OF ALL MUSLIMS TO BRING IT TO ALL HUMANITY. JIHAD IS A DIVINE ISNTITUTION, ENJOINED SPECIALLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADVANCING ISLAM. MUSLIMS MUST STRIVE, FIGHT, AND KILL IN THE NAME OF GOD.
ON THE POLITICAL FRONT THE RISE OF IRAN, THE ONLY COUNRTY TO BE GOVERNED BY SHIITE MUSLIMS, IS THE FOREFRONT FOR TERROR AND VIOLENCE IN THE WORLD TODAY.
IRAN’S PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD HAS STATED OPENLY THAT HIS COUNTRY IS FINANCING AND TRAINING TERRORIST GROUPS, HAS HIDDEN SUCH PEOPLE AS AOUSA BIN LADEN, AND OTHERS, AND THE HATRED FOR ISRAEL IS LEGENDARY. WHEN YOU COMBINE THIS WITH INCREASING REVENUES FROM THE SALE OF OIL, AND MOST RECENTLY THE ACQUISION OF NEUCLEAR WEAPONRY, IRAN BECOMES A LOOSE CANNON WITH THE NATION OF ISRAEL AS ONE OF ITS MAIN TARGETS, ALONG WITH THE UNITED STATES, OR AS THEY SAY “LITTLE SATAN AND BID SATAN”.
UNDERSTAND THAT ITS MAIN TARGET IS CHRISTIANITY. ANY BELIEF THAT OPPOSES ALLAH AND THE BELIEFS OF ISLAM IS AN ENEMY. DAVID JEREMIAH TELLS US THAT EPERTS SAY 15 TO 20 PER CENT OF MUSLIMS ARE RADICAL ENOUGH TO STRAP A BOMB TO THEIR BODIES IN ORDER TO KILL CHRISTIANS AND JEWS. ACCORDING TO PRESENT FIGURES THIS MEANS THAT OVER THREE HUNDRED MILLION MUSLIMS ARE WILLING TO DIE FOR THEIR BELIEFS.
THIS IS INDOCTRINEATED INTO MANY MUSLIMS FROM A VERY EARLY AGE. IN HIS BOOK SECRETS OF THE KORAN DON RICHARDSON STATES:
“THE WORLD NEEDS TO BE WARNED. AT LEAST 40 MILLION MUSLIM YOUTH IN THE MUSLIM’S WORLD’S RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS, CALLED MADRASAS, ARE AVIDLY MEMORIZING THE ENTIRE KORAN PLUS A GENERALLY EXTREMIST BODY OF RELATED TRADITIONS – THE HADITHS…THESE SCHOOLS ARE BREEDING GROUNDS FOR POTENTIAL TERRORISTS…HATRED FOR JEWS AND CHRISTIANS 9LARGELY SYNONOMOUS WITH AMERICA AND ISRAEL) AND GENERAL DISTAIN FOR ALL NON-MUSLIMS…ARE DEEPLY INSTILLED… SIMPLY PUT 40 MILLION TRAINEES IN MUSLIM MADRASAS ARE A SOCIETAL NEUCLEAR BOMB.”
AT A MEETING IN APRIL 2006 IN SUPPORT OF THE PALESTINIANS, THE IRANIAN PRESIDENT MADE SOME INCREDIBLE COMMENTS THAT POINT TO THE FULFILLMENT OF EZEKIEL 38-39. HE SAID THAT PALESTINE WOULD SOON BE FREED. HE CALLED ISRAEL A “CONSTANT THREAT” AND “PERMANENT THREAT TO THE MIDDLE EAST.”, AND HE SAID THAT THE MIDDLE EAST WILL “SOON BE LIBERTED”… HE SAID “ THE ZIONIST REGIME IS A ROTTEN, DRIED TREE THAT WILL BE ELIMINATED BY ONE STORM.” NOTE PARTICULARLY THE USE OF THE WORD “SOON” IN THOSE STATEMENTS.
ON MAY 8, 2008, WHILE ADDRESSING THE IRANIAN PARLIAMENT, AHMEDINEJAD LAMBASTED THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CREATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. HE CALLED ISRAEL A “STINKING CORPSE” AND SAID THAT “THOSE WHO THINK THEY CAN REVIVE THE CORPSE OF THIS FABRICATED AND USURPER REGIME ARE MISTAKEN.” HE WENT ON TO SAY THAT “IF ANY REGIONAL COUNTRIES ASSIST THE ZIONIST REGIME, THEY WILL BURN IN FIRE ARISING FROM NATIONS’ HATRED.” REPORTEDLY, HE ADDED, “TODAY, THE REASON FOR ZIONIST REGIME’S EXISTENCE IS QUESTIONED, AND THIS REGIME IS ON ITS WAY TO ANNIHILATION.
SHIITE MUSLIMS ONLY REPRESENT 10-15 PER CENT OF THE ENTIRE MUSLIM POPULATION, AND IRAN IS THE ONLY COUNTRY WITH A SHIITE MUSLIM GOVERNMENT. FOR A MUSLIM TO DIE FOR THE CAUSE OF SPREADING ISLAM IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST HONORS YOU CAN BESTOW ON THE PERSON WHO DIES AND THEIR FAMILY. RADICAL MUSLIM’S BELIEVE TO DIE IN SUCH A WAY IS NOT A SIN, BUT RATHER A VICTORY. TO DIE IN SUCH A WAY GRANTS YOU IMMEDIATE PASSAGE TO PARADISE, AND THE FAMILY WOULD BE SEEN AS BLESSED AND HONORED IN THIS WORLD. THE MAJORITY OF THESE PEOPLE WILL BE TRAINED AND EQUIPPED BY IRAN.
IN THE JANUARY 30, 2006 ISSUE OF U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT, MORTIMER B. ZUCKERMAN PULLED NO PUNCHES WHEN HE DESCRIBED THE STATE OF IRAN:
IRAN TODAY IS THE MOTHER OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM. TEHRAN OPENLY PROVIDES FUNDING, TRAINING, AND WEAPONS TO THE WORLD’S WORST TERRORISTS, INCLUDING HEZBOLLAH, HAMAS, THE PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD, AND THE POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE, AND HAS A COZY RELATIONSHIP WITH AL QUEDA. IT HAS GIVEN SANCTUARY TO MAJOR AL QAEDA TERRORISTS, INCLUDING SENIOR MILITARY COMMANDER SAIF AL-ADEL AND THREE OF OSAMA BIN LADEN’S SONS. IT SUPPORTS MANY OF THE BARBARIC TERRORISTS IN IRAQ WHO ARE MURDERING INNOCENT CIVILIANS IN ORDER TO DESTROY IRAQ’S FRAGILE HOLD ON DEMOCRACY. THROUGH ITS 900 MILE BORDER WITH IRAQ, IRAN IS FLOODING ITS NEIGHBOR WITH MONEY AND FIGHTERS. IT IS INFILTRATING TROUBLEMAKERS INTO AFGHANISTAN, SUPPORTING TERRORISM AGAINST TURKEY SUSTAINING SYRIA, AND HAD A HAND IN THE KHOBAR TOWERS BOMBING IN SAUDI ARABIA.”
IRAN TODAY IS AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLDWIDE TERROR NETWORK. THE TEHERAN CONFERENCE IN IRAN IN 1991, WAS ATTENDED BY RADICAL ISLAMIC MOVEMENTS AND TERRORIST GROUPS FROM AT LEAST FORTY COUNTRIES. AT THIS CONFERENCE THE ATTENDEES DECLARED THEMSELVES TO BE AGAINST ANY KIND OF PEACE WITH ISRAEL.
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT THIS CONFERENCE WOULD BE ONE OF THE EASIEST CONFERENCES TO PROVIDE SECURITY FOR. ALL OF THE MAJOR TERRORISTS GROUPS WERE INVITED TO ATTEND IT, WHO WOULD YOU HAVE TO LOOK OUT FOR?
IRAN HAS DONE ANYTHING IN ITS POWER TO DERAIL ANY PEACE TALKS OR AGREEMENT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS, INCLUDING A 50 MILLION DOLLAR “GIFT” TO THE TERROR GROUP HAMAS, WHICH NOW RUNS THE PALESTINIAN GOVERNMENT.
IN A REPORT TITLED “PATTERNS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM 2001, THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT IRAN IS “THE MOST ACTIVE STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM.” PART OF IRAN’S CURRENT THREAT AGAINST THE U.S. AND OTHER WESTERN NATIONS IS THAT IT HAS A WORLDWIDE SUPPORT NETWORK OF TERRORISTS WHO ARE READY AND WILLING TO LAUNCH ATTACKS AGAINST U.S. INTERESTS.
THE RISE OF MILITANT ISLAM IS SETTING THE STAGE FOR THE END TIMES IN AT LEAST TWO KEY WAYS.
1. IT’S CONTRIBUTING TO WORLDWIDE INSTABILITY AND PUSHING THE WORLD TOWARD GLOBALISM EVEN FASTER THAN ITS ALREADY ACCELERATING PACE. NATIONS MUST COME TOGETHER IN COOPERATIVE MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE EFFORTS TO COMBAT THIS TERRIBLE MENACE. GLOBALISM IS NECESSARY FOR THE WORLDWIDE RULE OF THE ANTICHRIST PREDICTED IN REVELATION 13.
2. THE METEORIC RISE OF MILITANT ISLAM IS ALSO SETTING THE STAGE FOR THE MASSIVE END-TIMES INVASION OF ISRAEL PREDICTED BY THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHET EZEKIEL 2,600 YEARS AGO.
THE GROWTH OF SUNNI ISLAM:
TODAY ISLAM RANKS AS THE LARGEST GROWING SECT IN THE WORLD. THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 1.6 BILLION MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD TODAY.,
THE RISE OF MILITANT ISLAM IS IMPORTANT FOR ANOTHER REASON. REMEMBER THAT MILITANT ISLAM CONSTITUTES ONLY ABOUT 15 % OF THE TOTAL MUSLIM POPULATION. THIS MEANS THAT AT LEAST 1.2 BILLION MUSLIMS DO NOT AGREE WITH THE VIOLENT APPROACH AND ARE PEACELOVING PEOPLE. THEY STILL BELIEVE IN WORLD DOMINATION BUT ARE SEEKING IT THROUGH PEACEFUL MEANS.
IT IS THE PLAN OF ISLAM TO RULE BOTH RELIGIOUSLY AND POLITICALLY THE ENTIRE WORLD. TO QUOTE GEORGE SADA AN AIR FORCE GENERAL UNDER SADDAM HUSSEIN:
“THEY WON’T BE STOPPED BY APPEASEMENT. THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN POLITICAL SOLUTIONS. THEY DON’T WANT WARFARE – THEIR ANIMOSITY IS NOT CAUSED BY HUNGER OR POVERTY OR ANYTHING OF THAT SORT. THEY UNDERSTAND ONLY ONE THING: TOTAL AND COMPLETE CONQUEST OF THE WEST AND OF ANYONE WHO DOES NOT BOW TO THEM AND THEIR DANGEROUS AND OUT-OF-DATE IDEOLOGY OF HATE AND REVENGE.
DAVID JEREMIAH SUGGESTS THAT WE ARE FACING “BIOLOGICAL” AND “DEMOGRAPHIC” JIHADS AS WELL AS THE VIOLENT JIHAD. SIMPLY PUT HE STATES:
“BIOLOGICAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC” JIHAD, DESCRIBES THE NON-VIOLENT STRATEGY OF MUSLIMS MOVING INTO EUROPE AND THE WEST (CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES) AND HAVING MORE BABIES THAN THEIR HOSTS. WITHIN SEVERAL GENERATIONS THEY HOPE TO REPOPULATE TRADITIONAL CHRISTIAN CULTURES WITH THEIR OWN PEOPLE, AND THEY ARE CERTAINLY ON TRACK TO REACH THAT GOAL. ACCORDING TO A VATICAN REPORT ISSUED RECENTLY, THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH UNDERSTANDS THIS: “FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY, WE ARE NO LONGER AT THE TOP: MUSLIMS HAVE OVERTAKEN US.”
THIS NEW THREAT IS WHAT THE MUSLIMS CALL FATAH. FATAH IS THE PEACEFUL INFULTRATION OF THE ISLAM RELIGION INTO ALREADY EXISTING SOCIETIES. DAVID JEREMIAH EXPLAINS:
“FATAH IS INFILTRATION, MOVING INTO A COUNTRY IN NUMBERS LARGE ENOUGH TO EFFECT THE CULTURE. IT MEANS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF TOLERANT LAWS AND ACCOMMODATIVE POLICIES TO INSERT THE INFLUENCE OF ISLAM. IN PLACES WHERE A MILITARY INVASION WILL NOT SUCCEED, THE SLOW, SYSTEMATIC, AND UNRELENTING METHODS OF FATAH ARE CONQUERING WHOLE NATIONS.
HOW IT WORKS IS THIS. A NATION IS FLOODED WITH MUSLIM IMMAGRANTS. THEY START TO HAVE LARGE FAMILIES. ECONOMICALLY THESE FAMILIES BUILD HOMES, GET INVOLVED IN ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE, THEY TEACH IN OUR SCHOOLS, RUN BUSINESSES, PORTECT US BY SERVING IN OUR POLICE FORCES AND SOME WILL EVEN GET INVOLVED POLITICALLY RUNNING FOR PUBLIC OFFICE.
THE IDEA IS THIS. AS POPULATIONS OF THE PRESENT CHRISTIAN CULTURE AGE AND LESSEN DUE TO DEATH, THE POPULATION OF THE MUSLIM CULTURE WILL INCREASE. AS IT INCREASES MORE ATTENTION WILL BE PAID TO IT UNTIL IT OUTWEIGHS THE PRESENT CHRISTIAN CULTURE AND THUS TAKES OVER THE COUNTRY FROM WITHIN, WITHOUT A SHOT EVER BEING FIRED.
IT’S LIKE THE STORY OF HOW YOU COOK A FROG. IF YOU THROW THE FROG INTO A POT OF BOILING WATER, IT WILL JUMP OUT, BECAUSE THE WATER IS TOO HOT. BUT IF YOU PLACE THE FROG IN COLD WATER IT WILL SWIM IN THE WATER UNTIL IT HEATS UP AND IS COOKED. WHY? BECAUSE HE DOESN’T NOTICE THE CHANGE IN THE WATER. IT HAPPENS SO GRADUALLY. HE DOESN’T REALIZE THAT AS THE WATER HEATS UP ONE DEGREE IT ALSO TAKES AWAY ONE DEGREE OF THE COLD WATER AND THE CHANGE IS DOUBLED.
NOW LETS PUT THIS THEORY TO THE TEST. CONSIDER THE EXAMPLES OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, THE UNITED STATES, AND OUR HOME COUNTRY CANADA.
1. FRANCE: WHAT WE’RE SEEING IN MANY PLACES IS A “DEMOGRAPHIC REVOLUTION.”
SOME EXPERTS ARE PROJECTING THAT BY THE YEAR 2040 80% OF THE POPULATION OF FRANCE WILL BE MUSLIM. AT THAT POINT THE MUSLIM MAJORITY WILL CONTROL COMMERCE, INDUSTRY, EDUCATION, AND RELIGION IN THE COUNTRY. THEY WILL ALSO, OF COURSE, CONTROL THE GOVERNMENT, AS WELL, AND OCCUPY ALL THE KEY POSITIONS IN THE FRENCH PARLIAMENT. AND A MUSLIM WILL BE PRESIDENT.
2. ENGLAND: THE MUSLIM POPULATION IS THE FASTEST GROWING CULTURE IN GREAT BRITAIN. RECENT STUDIES INDICATE THAT THE MUSLIM POPULATION HAS MULTIPLIED 10 TIMES FASTER THAN THE REST OF SOCIETY. IN JUST FOUR YEARS (2004-2008) THE MUSLIM POPULATION IN GREAT BRITAIN HAS GROWN FROM 500,000 TO 2.4 MILLION PEOPLE. EXPERTS SAID THAT THE INCREASE WAS ATTRIBUTABLE TO IMMIGRATION, A HIGHER BIRTHRATE, AND CONVERSIONS TO ISLAM DURING THE PERIOD 2004-2008.
COMBINE THAT FACT WITH THIS. DURING THE SAME PERIOD OF TIME 2004-2008, THE NUMBER OF CHRISTIANS FELL BY MORE THAN 2 MILLION. THIS MEANS THAT THE TOTAL CHANGE IN SOCIETY IS NOT JUST A 1.9 MILLION INCREASE IN THE MUSLIM POPULATION, BUT WHEN YOU SUBTRACT THE OVER 2 MILLION THAT THE NUMBER OF CHRISTIANS FELL BY, YOU’RE LOOKING AT A MASSIVE 3.9 MILLION THAT SOCIETY HAS CHANGED TO FAVOR ISLAM.
ADD TO THAT THIS INTERESTING STATISTIC. IN NUMBERS OBTAINED BY THE OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS, THE BIGGEST CHRISTIAN POPULATION AGE-WISE IS AMONG THE OVER-70S BRACKET, WHILE FOR MUSLIMS IT IS THE UNDER-4S.
WHEN IT COMES TO THE IMPLICATIONS OF THESE FACTS DAVID CLOEMAN PROFESSOR OF DEMOGRAPHY AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY HAD THIS TO SAY:
“THE IMPLICATIONS ARE VERY SUBSTANTIAL. SOME OF THE MUSLIM POPULATION, BY NO MEANS ALL OF THEM, ARE THE LEAST SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY INTEGRATED OF ANY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM…AND THE ONE MOST ASSOCIATED WITH POLITICAL DISSATISFACTION. YOU CAN’T ASSUME THAT JUST BECAUSE THE NUMBERS ARE INCREASING THAT ALL WILL INCREASE (MEANING POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC DISSATISFACTION), BUT IT WILL BE ONE OF SEVERAL REASONABLE SUPPOSITIONS THAT MIGHT ARISE.”
HE SAID:
“IN THE GROWTH OF ANY POPULATION…IT’S VOICE IS REGARDED AS BEING STRONGER IN TERMS OF FORMULATING POLICY, NOT LEAST BECAUSE WE LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY WHERE MOST PEOPLE IN MOST RELIGIOUS GROUPS AND MOST RADICAL GROUPS HAVE VOTES. THIS MEANS THEIR OPINIONS HAVE TO BE TAKEN AND ATTENTION TO BE PAID TO THEM.”
SO YOU SEE WHERE HE’S GOING. AS THE MUSLIM POPULATION IN GREAT BRITAIN INCREASES AND THE CHRISTIAN POPULATION DECREASES, WHAT WILL INCREASE IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MUSLIMS IN BRITISH SOCIETY. THEIR INFLUENCE WILL INCREASE POLITICALLY, NOT ONLY BY THE VOTE BUT ALSO BY RUNNING MUSLIMS INTO POLITICAL OFFICE AND CONTROLLING GOVERNMENT. ECONOMICALLY THEIR SIGNIFICANCE WILL INCREASE. THERE WILL BE MORE SCHOOLS MADE TO ACCOMMODATE MUSLIM BELIEFS, ALL ESTABLISHING IN BRITISH SOCIETY A FIRM MUSLIM BASE THAT WILL EVENTUALLY DROWN OUT THE CHRISTIAN VOICE.
CERI PEACH, PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY AT MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY SAID THIS:
“THE NUMBER OF MUSLIMS UNDER THE AGE OF 4 – 301,000 AS OF SEPTEMBER LAST YEAR – WOULD BENEFIT BRITAIN’S FUTURE LABOUR MARKET THROUGH TAXES THAT WOULD SUBSEQUENTLY CONTRIBUTE TO SUSTAINING THE COUNTRY’S AGING POPULATION. HE ADDED, THOUGH, THAT IT WOULD ALSO PUT PRESSURE ON HOUSING AND CREATE A GROWING DEMAND FOR SCHOOLS.”
YOU SEE THE BEST WAY TO TAKE OVER A COUNTRY IS NOT TO INVADE IT MILITARILY. IT IS TO CHANGE THE MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY TO YOUR BELIEFS, BY HAVING THEM GROW UP IN THAT COUNTRY, AND THEN HAVE THEM JUST GIVE IT TO YOU. IT’S A DEMOGRAPHIC JIHAD AND IT’S WORKING.
CONSIDER THIS EXAMPLE NOTED IN DAVID JEREMIAH’S BOOK “WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON?”
“ISLAMIFICATION IS ALSO HAPPENING IN ENGLAND, BUT THE MUSLIMS THERE ARE NOT WAITING FOR FURTHER POPULATION GROWTH TO INSTITUTE “FATAH.” THEY ARE ADVANCING THEIR GOAL OF DOMINANCE BY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE BRITISH POLICY OF PLURALISTIC TOLERANCE. AN EXAMPLE OCCURRED IN SEPTEMBER 2006 WHEN THE BRITISH HOME SECRETARY, JOHN REID, GAVE A SPEECH TO MUSLIM PARENTS IN EAST LONDON, ENCOURAGEING THEM TO PROTECT THEIR CHILDREN FROM PRESSURE TO BECOME SUICIDE BOMBERS. A ROBED AND TURBANED FUNDAMENTALIST MUSLIM LEADER WHO HAD LAVISHLY PRAISED THE SUICIDE BOMBERS OF THE HORRIFIC ATTACK ON LONDON’S TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM WAS IN THE AUDIENCE. HE GOT UP AND SHOUTED THE SPEAKER DOWN. HE RANTED AT THE HOME SECRETARY FOR FIVE MINUTES, SHOUTING, “HOW DARE YOU COME TO A MUSLIM AREA?… I AM FURIOUS, I AM ABSOLUTELY FURIOUS – JOHN REID SHOULD NOT COME TO A MUSLIM AREA. MUSLIMS ARE NOT ONLY IMMIGRATING MASSIVELY TO WESTERN COUNTRIES BUT ALSO CLAIMING ENTITLEMENT TO KEEP THEIR SETTLEMENTS OFF-LIMITS TO NATIVE CITIZENS. THE “GHETTOIZATION” OF LONDON INTO “NON-MUSLIM NO-GO ZONES IS AN ONGOING CONTROVERSY IN THE BRITISH PRESS.”
IN EARLY 2008 ENGLANDS ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, ROWAN WILLIAMS, GAVE THE WORLD A STUNNING EXAMPLE CONCERNING ISLAMIC INTENTIONS OF “DEMOGRAPHIC JIHAD”. WILLIAMS TOLD A BBC CORRESPONDANT THAT THE GROWING ISLAMIC POPULATION IN BRITAIN MADE IT “EXPEDIENT” TO BE ACCOMMODATIVE. HE SAID “ THE UK HAD TO FACE UP TO THE FACT” THAT IT “SEEMS UNAVOIDABLE” THAT ISLAM’S LEGAL SYSTEM, ‘SHARIA LAW’ WILL BE “INCORPORATED INTO BRITISH LAW.’ HIS TERM FOR BLENDING THE LAWS WAS “CONSTRUCTIVE ACCOMMODATION.” SOME FEAR THAT THIS WILL BE A FATAL BLOW TO THE HISTORIC CHRISTIANITY OF ENGLAND.
3. THE UNITED STATES: IN THE UNITED STATES THERE ARE OVER 4 MILLION MUSLIMS, MAKING IT THE LARGEST GROWING SOCIETY IN AMERICA. IN THIS SAME UNITED STATES THAT IS STIFLING THE FREEDOM OF RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION OF CHRISTIANS ON AN EVER INCREASING BASIS, IT IS ALSO APPLAUDING THE FREEDOM OF RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION AND FINANCING THE EXPRESSION OF ISLAM. SCHOOLS NOW ARE BEING BUILT TO ACCOMMODATE MUSLIM PRAYERS AND CAFETERIAS BEING EQUIPPED TO ACCOMMODATE MUSLIM DIET.
AMERICA WHERE STUDENTS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO MAKE VALEDICTORY ADDRESSES BECAUSE IN THE ADDRESS THEY GIVE CREDIT FOR THEIR SUCCESS TO THEIR FAITH IN GOD, BUT PRAISE ISLAMIC EXPRESSION OF FAITH. AMERICA, WHERE THE LORD’S PRAYER IS TAKEN OUT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS BY AN ORDER OF THE COURTS, AND WHERE TO STAND UP AS A CHRISTIAN MAKES YOU A BIGOT, WHEREAS TO STAND UP AS A MUSLIM IS APPLAUDED.
THE DEMOGRAPHIC JIHAD IS ADVANCING FROM THE TOP DOWN IN THE POLITICAL WORLD. PRESIDENT OBAMA MADE THESE STATEMENTS IN A RECENT SPEECH IN CAIRO.
“LET THERE BBE NO DOUBT: ISLAM IS PART OF AMERICA. AND I BELIEVE THAT AMERICA HOLDS WITHIN HER THE TRUTH THAT REGARDLESS OF RACE, RELIGION, OR STATION IN LIFE, ALL OF US SHARE COMMON ASPIRATIONS – TO LIVE IN PEACE AND SECURITY; TO GET AN EDUCATION AND TO WORK WITH DIGNITY; TO LOVE OUR FAMILIES, OUR COMMUNITIES, AND OUR GOD. THESE THINGS WE SHARE. THIS IS THE HOPE OF HUMANITY.”
HE ALSO SAID:
“TOO MANY TEARS HAVE BEEN SHED. TOO MUCH BLOOD HAS BEEN SHED. ALL OF US HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO WORK FOR THE DAY WHEN THE MOTHERS OF ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS CAN SEE THEIR CHILDREN GROW UP WITHOUT FEAR; WHEN THE HOLY LAND OF THE THREE GREAT FAITHS IS THE PLACE OF PEACE THAT GOD INTENDED IT TO BE; WHEN JERUSALEM IS A SECURE AND LASTING HOME FOR JEWS AND CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS, AND A PLACE FOR ALL OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM TO MINGLE PEACEFULLY TOGETHER AS IN THE STORY OF ISRA, WHEN MOSES, JESUS, AND MUHAMMAD, PEACE BE UPON THEM, JOINED IN PRAYER.
OBAMA DOESN’T STOP THERE. IN THIS SAME SPEECH HE GOES ON TO EQUATE THE KORAN, TALMUD, AND THE BIBLE. IN ALL OF THIS SPEECH, WHEN HE REFERRED TO THE QUR’AN, HE ALWAYS REFERRED TO IT AS THE HOLY QUR’AN. HE ALSO MADE THIS STATEMENT:
WE HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE THE WORLD WE SEEK, BUT ONLY IF WE HAVE THE COURAGE TO MAKE A NEW BEGINNING, KEEPING IN MIND WHAT IS WRITTEN.
THE HOLY QUR’AN TELLS US: “ O MANKIND! WE HAVE CREATED YOU MALE AND FEMALE; AND WE HAVE MADE YOU INTO NATIONS AND TRIBES SO THAT YOU MAY KNOW ONE ANOTHER.”
THE TALMUD TELLS US: “ THE WHOLE OF THE TORAH IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROMOTING PEACE.”
THE HOLY BIBLE TELLS US: “BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS, FOR THEY SHALL BE CALLED SONS OF GOD.”
WHAT OBAMA NEEDS TO RECOGNIZE IS THAT JUST BECAUSE ALL THREE MAKE SIMILAR STATEMENTS ABOUT PEACE DOES NOT MEAN THAT THEY ARE THE SAME.
IN A SPEECH MADE RECENTLY IN EGYPT PRESIDENT AUBAMA SAID THIS:
“ I ALSO KNOW THAT ISLAM HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PART OF AMERICA’S STORY. THE FIRST NATION TO RECOGNIZE MY COUNTRY WAS MOROCCO. IN SIGNING THE TREATY OF TRIPOLI IN 1796, OUR SECOND PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS WROTE “ THE UNITED STATES HAS IN ITSELF NO CHARACTER OF ENMITY AGAINST THE LAWS, RELIGION, AND TRANQUILITY OF THE MUSLIMS.” AND SINCE OUR FOUNDING, AMERICAN MUSLIMS HAVE ENRICHED THE UNITED STATES. THEY HAVE FOUGHT IN OUR WARS, THEY HAVE SERVED IN OUR GOVERNMENT, THEY HAVE STOOD FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, THEY HAVE STARTED BUSINESSES, THEY HAVE TAUGHT IN OUR UNIVERSITIES, THEY’VE EXCELLED IN OUR SPORTS ARENAS, THEY’VE WON NOBEL PRIZES, BUILT OUR TALLEST BUILDING AND LIT THE OLYMPIC TORCH. AND WHEN THE FIRST MUSLIM AMERICAN WAS RECENTLY ELECTED TO CONGRESS, HE TOOK THE OATH TO DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION USING THE SAME HOLY QUR’AN THAT ONE OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS – THOMAS JEFFERSON – KEPT IN HIS PERSONAL STUDY.”
I HAVE A COPY OF THE BOOK OF MORMON IN MY STUDY. BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN I’M MORMON. THERE IS AN OLD SAYING THAT IS TRUE “KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE, BUT YOUR ENEMIES CLOSER.”
THE UNITED STATES CURRANCY STILL BOASTS THESE WORDS ON THEIR BILLS “IN GOD WE TRUST” NOT “IN ALLAH WE TRUST.”
ON JUNE 14, 1954 PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER ADDED THE FOLLOWING TWO WORDS TO THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. “UNDER GOD”. THIS WAS THE LAST CHANGE MADE TO THE PLEDGE. IN MAKING THE CHANGE EISENHOWER STATED:
“IN THIS WAY WE ARE REAFFIRMING THE TRANSCENDANCE OF RELIGIOUS FAITH IN AMERICA’S HERITAGE AND FUTURE: IN THIS WAY WE SHALL CONSTANTLY STRENGTHEN THOSE SPIRITUAL WEAPONS WHICH FOREVER WILL BE OUR COUNTRY’S MOST POWERFUL RESOURSE IN PEACE AND WAR.”
“ I PLEGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS: ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVIDIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.”
THE SCARY THING IS THIS. IN A RECENT FOX NEWS SPECIAL CALLED “RADICAL ISLAM: TERROR IN ITS OWN WORDS” FOX NEWS SHOWED FOOTAGE FROM A RADICAL ISLAMIC RALLY WHERE THE AUDIENCE WAS TOLD, “ONE DAY YOU WILL SEE THE FLAG OF ISLAM OVER THE WHITE HOUSE.” THAT PARTICULAR RALLY WAS FROM CALIFORNIA.
FATAH HAS BECOME THE MUSLIM’S NON-VIOLENT JIHAD. IT ALLOWS THEM TO OVER-POPULATE AN AREA AND THEN EXERT THE ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS DOMINATION IT WANTS, TO THE GLORY OF ALLAH.
4. CANADA: AND IN CANADA THE NUMBER IS EXPECTED TO SURPASS THE 1 MILLION MARK BY 2010. THIS MAY NOT SEEM SIGNIFICANT, BUT WHEN YOU COMBINE IT WITH THE FACT THAT IN 2007 THE MUSLIM POPULATION WAS ABOUT 750,000 IT MEANS THAT IN THE SAPCE OF THREE YEARS THE MUSLIM POPULATION IS GOING TO GROW BY APPROXIMATELY 250,000. NOW MULTIPLY THAT GROWTH BY 10 YEARS. ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT WHILE THIS POPULATION IS GROWING, THE CHRISTIAN POPULATION IS SHRINKING AND AGING.
IT PAINTS A VERY DISTURBING PICTURE DOESN’T IT. I HAVE RELATIVES FROM THE TORONTO AREA WHO BELIEVE THAT THE FACE OF MAJOR CANADIAN CITIES WILL CHANGE DRAMATICALLY WITHIN THE NEXT 10 YEARS WITH THE RISING MUSLIM POPULATION. WE ARE FOLLOWING THE PATTERN OF THE UNITED STATES NOW, AND WE WILL ALSO SEE MUCH OF THE PATTERN OF GREAT BRITAIN, ECONOMICALLY AND POLITICALLY.
WE NEED TO REMEMBER THAT IT WAS NOT ALLAH THAT WAS QUOTED WHEN QUEEN VICTORIA NAMED CANADA, BUT THE BIBLE
PSALM 72:8: He will rule from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the
EARTH.
WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT.
THE FIRST THING THAT WE MUST DO IS OPEN OUR EYES ABOUT ISLAM AND THE CLAIMS IT MAKES.
1. DO NOT EQUATE ALLAH WITH GOD. ALLAH OF THE MUSLIMS IS NOT THE GOD OF THE BIBLE. THERE ARE THOSE WHO WILL SAY THAT RELIGION IS ALL THE SAME, GETS US TO THE SAME DESTINATION, JUST IN DIFFERENT WAYS. THIS IS NOT TRUE. SCRIPTURE PLAINLY DECLARES “YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.” THE GOD OF THE BIBLE IS THE CREATER OF ALL. IT IS ONLY THROUGH HIM THAT SALVATION CAN BE FOUND.
WHAT ABOUT ALLAH. MUHAMMAD REALIZED WHEN HE STARTED HIS BELIEFS THAT HE WOULD NEED A GOD FOR HIS PEOPLE TO FOLLOW. SO HE CHOSE ONE. OUT OF A CULTURE THAT HAD MORE THAN 360 GODS. ONE FOR EVERY DAY OF THE LUNAR YEAR. ALLAH WAS NOTHING MORE THAN THE GOD OF THE MOON, BUT IT WAS MUHAMMAD’S FAVORITE GOD AND SO HE CHOSE IT TO FOLLOW.
ALLAH IS NOT GOD AND WE MUST AVOID ANY GROUP WHO BELIEVES AS SUCH. WE MUST RESIST THE EVER INCREASING TREND THAT AS LONG AS YOU BELIEVE IN SOMETHING THAT IT IS ALL RIGHT.
THE ISLAMIC RELIGION SPEAKS OF PEACE, YET IN ALL OF THE 50 COUNTRIES WHERE ISLAM IS PRE-DOMINANT, IN NOT ONE OF THESE COUNTRIES ARE CHRISTIANS NOT PERSECUTED. IN MANY OF THESE COUNTRIES IT IS A CAPTIAL OFFENCE FOR A NATIVE OF THAT COUNTRY TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN.
THE AMAZING THING IS THAT MANY ARE AND WITHOUT THE BENEFITS OF CHURCH AND BIBLE THAT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED.
OUR SCRIPTURE TODAY PLAINLY TEACHES:
JOHN 14:6-7:
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
2. DO NOT EQUATE THE BIBLE WITH THE QUR’AN. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. THE BIBLE WAS WRITTEN BY OVER 48 MEN OVER A TIME SPAN OF 1400 YEARS, AND COMES TOGETHER WITH A COHESION THAT ONLY GOD COULD ADMINISTER.
THE QUR’AN IS A COLLECTION OF RECITATIONS PASSED DOWN VERBALLY FROM ONE MAN OVER A TWENTY-THREE YEAR SPAN, TO PEOPLE WHO REMEMBERED THEM AS BEST THEY CAN.
3. AS DAVID JEREMIAH STATES “DO NOT PAINT ALL MUSLIMS WITH THE SAME BRUSH” MOST MUSLIMS ARE PEACE LOVING FINE PEOPLE.
4. PRAY FOR MUSLIMS. THEY ARE PART OF THE WORLD THAT CHRIST CAME TO SAVE.
5. BE PASSINATE ABOUT YOUR FAITH. IN ORDER TO WIN MUSLIMS OVER TO CHRIST, YOU AND I NEED TO BE JUST AS PASSIONATE ABOUT OUR FAITH AS THEY ARE ABOUT THEIRS. HOW DO WE INTEND TO WIN A PERSON TO CHRIST, WHO IS READY TO DIE FOR THEIR FAITH, IF WE ARE NOT READY TO LIVE FOR OURS?
6. UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS NO NEGOTIATING WITH RADICAL MUSLIMS. WE HAVE NOTHING THEY WANT EXCEPT OUR LIVES. REMEMBER THEY BELIEVE THAT THE TWELTH AMAM WILL RETURN AT A TIME OF GREAT KAOS IN THE WORLD. THEY INTEND TO CREATE AS MUCH KAOS AS THEY CAN TO HASTEN HIS RETURN. TERRORISM IS FOR THEM A RELIGIOUS EXERCISE, AS WELL AS A POLITICAL THREAT, DESIGNED FOR WORLD RULE.
7. LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF HISTORY. IT WAS NOT AN ISLAMIC SYMBOL THAT WAS THE RALLYING CRY OF 9-11. IT WAS THE CROSS.
IT WAS TO BILLY GRAHAM AND THE LOVE OF GOD THAT PEOPLE FOUNG COMFORT IN AS THEY DEALT WITH THE LOSS OF LIFE IN 9-11.
CONCLUSION:
THE RISE OF ISLAM AS A DOMINANT BELIEF BRINGS US ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE COMING OF THE LORD. WITH THE RISE OF ISLAM WE SEE COUNTRIES THAT WERE ONCE FRIENDLY TO THE NATION OF ISRAEL, BEING PLACED IN THE POSITION OF TURNING THEIR BACKS ON HER.
THE ARAB COUNTRIES AROUND ISRAEL AND RUSSIA ARE GOING TO BE UNITED AS ALLIES OF FAITH AND OIL, AND EVENTUALLY ATTACK ISRAEL WITH GREAT FURY, AN ATTACK THAT ISRAEL WILL HAVE NO WAY TO DEFEND AGFAINST BY HER OWN DEFENCES. THROUGH THE USE OF ECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC JIHAD EACH ADDITIONAL ALLY FOR ISLAMIC COUNTRIES STRENGTHENS THEM AND AT THE SAME TIME TAKES AWAY AN ALLY FOR ISRAEL.
ONLY AN ACT OF GOD WILL SAVE THEM. THIS IS THE EXACT PROPHECY OF EZEKIEL 38-39 COMING TO PASS.
FOLKS THESE CHANGES IN OUR WORLD OVER THESE PAST YEARS SHOW US BEYOND ALL DOUBT THAT THE LORD’S COMING FOR HIS CHURCH IS NEAR. WE NEED TO BE READY FOR IT. ARE YOU?
