Ahmadinejad: He acts like
a Koran version of John the Baptist!
June 6, 2007
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I am not saying Iranian President Ahmadinejad is the False Prophet, or that he is John the Baptist.
All that I am saying is that he is assuredly trying to prepare the way for the traditional Shiite version of an Islamic Messiah, the Mahdi.
There is no question that Mohammad’s Koran, and traditional sayings, were written hundreds of years after the completion of both the Old and New Testaments.
Having read the Koran, I can state with certainty that most of the Koran and traditional sayings were based on the Bible, but grotesquely distorted
and theologically twisted to suit the mind of the Prophet Mohammad. Such is the case with
the coming of the Islamic version of the Messiah, the Mahdi.
Most prophetic teachers believe the Antichrist will precede the second coming of Jesus Christ,
and attempt to duplicate, counterfeit, what the Scriptures say the Messiah will do, and the events surrounding his coming. I believe the Islamic Mahdi will be the Antichrist, having taught for 33 years Antichrist would come out of the Arab Middle East before the Second Advent of the true Messiah, Jesus Christ.
Christians have long been taught that their coming Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, was to be proceeded by a Prophet with the characteristics of Elijah, and that he would prepare the way before him.
Christians, in general, believe that John the Baptist was
that Prophet. John the Baptist was the Messenger, and Jesus was the Messenger who fulfilled the Covenant of Genesis 3:15 by the blood of innocent animals pictured in Genesis 3:21. It is the same blood covenant he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the same covenant he fulfilled w hen
he was cut-off (crucified) as prophesied in Daniel 9:27, and as actually occurred in John 19:30. The Temple sacrifices and oblations were not accepted by God after Messiah withdrew the covenant from Israel, when they cut him off in the midst of the last seven years of Daniel’s 70th week of years.
Genesis 3:15 – And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Genesis 3:21 – Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Malachi 3:1 – Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
John the Baptist was the messenger sent by God to prepare the way for Jesus Christ, who was the Lord Messiah, the Messenger of the O.T. Covenant.
Daniel 9:27 – And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. (See “The 70 Weeks of Daniel’s Prophecy, Parts 1 through 9, in Prophecy Archive Updates 230B, 231, 231A, 231B, 232, 232A, 232B, 232C, and 233)
John 19:30 –When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Malachi 3:1,2 – Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. [2] But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth
? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ sope: (See Archive Prophecy Update Number 299)
Malachi 4:5 – Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: [6] And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Excerpt from CNN News, October 27, 2005 follows:
IRANIAN LEADER: WIPE OUT ISRAEL
NEW IRANIAN PRESIDENT REMARKS CONCERNING ISRAEL
October 27, 2005
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Iran’s new president has repeated a remark from a former ayatollah that Israel should be “wiped out from the map,” insisting that a new series of attacks will destroy the Jewish state, and lashing out at Muslim countries and leaders that acknowledge Israel.
The remarks by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — reported by Islamic Republic News Agency — coincide with a month-long protest against Israel called “World without Zionism” and with the approach of Jerusalem Day.
World without Zionism is a nationwide event the planners intend to hold annually, and Ahmadinejad made the remarks during a meeting with protesting students at the Interior Ministry.
Ahmadinejad quoted a remark from Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of Iran’s Islamic revolution, who said that Israel “must be wiped out from the map of the world.”
The president then said: “And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism,” according to a quote published by IRNA.
Excerpt from Ynet News
November, 2006
Yaakov Lappin (Ynet News)
Speaking to Ynet News, Professor Raymond Tanter, one of the authors of the forthcoming book What Makes Iran Tick, which explores the Shiite Islamist ideology of Iran, said there was no questioning the belief of Iran’s leaders in the coming of the Mahdi.
Tanter, President of the Washington-based Iran Policy Committee, said: “The Iranian leadership, particularly Ahmadinejad, welcome the apocalyptic vision of the return of the hidden Imam….After a period of great destruction, once the forces of evil are defeated, the so-called twelfth Imam is supposed to reign over a period of great prosperity.”
“When Ahmadinejad was mayor of Tehran, he set up an urban renewal program that would make it easier to facilitate the Mahdi’s return. He created passageways and roadways that would allow the Mahdi to return triumphantly.”
“Ahmadinejad was called the man of a thousand bullets.
Because he would give the last bullet for someone who has been tortured, and primarily executed by firing squad. Ahmadinejad’s role was to put the last bullet in, in case the person was still squirming,” Tanter said.
“No conceivable positive or negative incentives will influence the leadership of the clerics and the Revolutionary Guards from acquiring nuclear weapons. They need nuclear weapons in order to facilitate the ideological precepts of the return of the Mahdi.”
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