The Coming War of Islam against Judaism and Christianity!
January 12, 2006
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I have listened with great interest to foreign and American leaders and commentators constantly refer to moderate Islam as representing true Islam. One rarely hears, if ever, of such a thing as liberal Islam, and for good reason, it simply does not exist. Islam is a highly emotional, flesh-
driven religion based on disdain for all who do not accept it. I have seen parades in the Middle East of men marching and beating the flesh on their backs with whips to show repentance for their sins.
I have viewed on television their actions of the flesh in slashing off heads of innocent victims.
But I am constantly assured that does not represent the main body of Islam, that is, the normal Islamic-man-in-the-street. However, if all those of the Islamic faith scattered across the earth were to be free to practice such actions in the countries where they currently abide, the majority would favor emotionally charged religious fanaticism based on purging their sins by their own actions as an appeasement to their God Allah.
The coming Holy Jihad war in the Middle East is going to be a religious war – A war characterized by Islamic armies charging into battle truly believing they will assure themselves entrance into Allah’s heaven by their actions, and martyrdom in the flesh will clinch their entrance. In the coming horrific war in the Middle East there will be no moderate Muslims.
Even those we classify now as moderate will be inflamed with the spirit of Jihad, which is the spirit of antichrist.
While most prophetic teachers of the Bible today keep pointing toward Europe for the rise of antichrist, who they say will lead 10 European nations in an attack against Israel, those 10 nations are already in place where the southern half of the old Roman Empire once stretched from Morocco eastward to Iran.
I have tried to warn those who would listen for more than 30 years that the 10 toes and 10 horns in Daniel, and the 10 horns in Revelation are not European horns, but Islamic horns, and the antichrist will not come out of Europe, but out of where the old Assyrian Empire had extended when Micah and Isaiah wrote in the general time frame of 700 B.C. (See Archive whole numbered Prophecy Updates 62 to 69).
The United States and Israel are not dealing with believers in the true God, but with fanatical believers whose rituals of beating themselves for their sins, beheading their enemies, and throwing literal stones at their version of the devil, marks their inability to deal rationally and honestly with any sort of a true peace arrangement with non-believers.
This year the annual celebration of Haj or Hajj drew some two million followers of Allah to Mecca.
The fleshly devotion and dedication to the God of Islam by his followers cannot be questioned, and is the major reason their coming attack against Israel will initially be successful.
We are not facing an enemy that lacks in purpose driven motivation, and it is the most dangerous and zealous motivation – it is a motivation based on religious fanaticism of the flesh.
One of the rituals at Haj is practiced at al-Jamarat, which consists of three pillars that represent the devil (Incidentally, the U.S. is known as the “big devil” and Israel is referred to as the “little devil”). Millions of Muslims file past the three pillars and cast stones at them, believing it will purge them from their sins.
Stampedes have broken out several times in the past during the ritual.
One such stampede killed 1,426 in 1990, and another killed 244 in 2004.
Yesterday, during the ritual, another stampede occurred, and a number of people died in it, some estimates as high as 50 were given.
The United States, Israel, and the Western world is not facing a highly regimented, well structured, reasoning enemy like we faced in World War II. We are facing a highly religious faith of great dedication which takes no prisoners and will give no quarter or mercy.
We are facing an enemy whose eventual leader will speak great blasphemy against the God of Christianity and Judaism, wear Israel out by driving it into the Negev wilderness, try to change the times and laws of the Bible to those of the Koran, and keep Israel confined in the Negev for three and one half prophetic years (a time and times and the dividing of times or 1260 days).
Daniel 7:25 – And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they sh
all be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Zechariah 13:8,9 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
[9] And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.