Islam – Waiting for the 12th Imam to Arise to Lead its Inflamed Masses!
Supplement to Archive Special Prophecy Update Number 165B
February 6, 2006
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Having gone to military schools, lived among, worked with, and trained those of the Islamic faith as a much younger man, plus being familiar with prophecy since my youth, I have not only been waiting for many years for the true Messiah, Jesus Christ, but I have also been waiting for the arrival of the 12th Imam on the scene prior to the arrival of Jesus. I have long believed the 12th Imam Mahdi will be the 11th little horn of Daniel, and the beast of John’s Revelation.
I have long identified him as the leader of the 10 toes of Daniel’s great latter day empire of the descendants of the descendants of the twelve sons of Ishmael and the six sons of Keturah, all of them being the sons of Abraham. In all my books, the first written in the seventies, I have never swerved from identifying the ten toes as being Islamic nations.
(Please read Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 125B, 121C, 78, 74B, and 54 at: http://www.tribulationperiod.com/ under the heading of “Prophecy Updates” for a complete exposition
of the 10 toes).
As I have written in many Archive Prophecy Updates and Blogs, in Genesis Ishmael is called a “wild” man as Abraham’s descendant. The Hebrew word translated “wild” is donkey, a wild ass, which has long been manifested by the inability of Islamic nations to get along with each other or any other nation for very long. So, one of the things I did not know, when I wrote my first book, was how in heavens name you could ever get clay and iron to come together, and hold long enough to form a temporary latter day empire. It would be as difficult as trying to keep a herd of wild asses together in a wilderness with no fences.
Daniel 2:41-43 – And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: for asmuch
as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
[41] And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of
the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
[42] And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
I knew that God would put it into their hearts to come together, but I did not understand the instrument he would use to being their hearts together into the unholy union of Jewish and infidel destruction.
Revelation 17:12,13 – And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power
and strength unto the beast.
[17] For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
It finally all came together for me with the rise of Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, where he was successful in driving out the Soviet army by Islamic Jihad guerilla warfare. The 9/11 attack left no doubt that the world’s future was headed for the rise of Islamic fanaticism, which is the instrument that is uniting the 10 toes, the 10 horns, in a common united cause, namely, the destruction of Israel, and other infidel nations that do not honor their Prophet Muhammad and Allah.
There is no question in my mind that Islamic Jihad is the spirit of the antichrist. All that Islam masses need is for a man to show up who they will accept as the 12th Imam, and they will unite as surrendered souls to follow him to the death.
We have gotten a taste of the fever
of Islamic Jihad fanaticism in the French Riots, and now the devoted religious extremism over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad is causing riots, burnings, and deaths across Europe and the Middle East in many of the countries and states. It is this religious Islamic fever that will unite all Arabs under the banner of the 12th Imam when he arises. If you think that what seems to the West to be isolated extremism from the lips and actions of the current Iranian leader is just a microscopic cult belief, you are quite wrong. The Shiites are the most zealous of the Muslims in their devotion to the 12th Imam, but the Sunni also have their own version of him, as do virtually all of the branches of the Muslim faith. I know this by my association with Islamic believers from many countries.
I hope you will have time to look back in our Archive Prophecy Updates at Number 165B, “The Coming Messiah of Islamic Tradition,” April 1, 2004, for more information on the 12th Imam.
I am including the Blog, which follows, from our Blog Archives, issued December 13, 2005.
Islamic Jihad is the Spirit of Antichrist!
December 13, 2005
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While many continue to await the rise of the antichrist in the European Union, the spirit
of antichrist is making a path for his appearance in the Islamic world. Islam considers us to be the “big devil” and Israel the “little devil.” How ironic that Satan himself is the “big devil” they worship as Allah, and his son, the antichrist, will be the “little devil,” who leads 10 Arab nations against Israel in a united spirit of Jihad.
Five Islamic terrorist groups, including al-Qaida in Iraq, denounced Thursday’s elections in Iraq as a great “satanic project.” They vowed to continue their Jihad to establish an Islamic regime. They claim the election of free choice by individual ballets is a violation of the law of Allah.
However, it would seem that the brutal homicide bombings, which have now taken thousands of innocent Iraqi lives, meet with Allah’s approval.
I applaud President Bush’s noble effort to attempt to establish a democratic government in Iraq elected by the people of Iraq. And I thank God for our American service men and women who are valiantly putting their lives on the line every day to help the Iraqis establish a democratic government. I stand behind the President’s decisions as I have from the beginning. But I would be less than honest if I changed what I have believed from the beginning – It is impossible to establish a “lasting” democratic government in Iraq no matter how sincere we are in making the attempt. Whatever our president decides is the appropriate time to being our troops back to the U.S., I support, and I pray for him and our men and women in harm’s way daily, and I will support him and our troops through thick and thin, but I have never believed it is possible to establish a lasting democratic government in Iraq. If I had not lived among, worked with, and gone to school which those who worship Allah as their God, and had not studied the Koran, I might have a different opinion. If I had never studied biblical end time prophecies, I might have a different opinion. If I had not fought in Vietnam, I might have a different opinion, but I really have no choice but to believe there will not be a “lasting” democratic government in Iraq.
Once our troops are withdrawn, with Iran to the east and Syria to the northwest, it will not take long for the democratically elected government to fall and a civil war to begin for supremacy between the Sunni, Kurds, and Shiite. It is out of this conflict I expect antichrist to arise, most likely in Syria.
I have always believed he would come out of the ancient Assyrian Empire.
That is why I say “most likely” from Syria. But he could come out of northern Iraq, extreme southern Turkey, or even Lebanon.
You will find my specific reasons for this prophetic belief in our Archive Prophecy Updates on our Web Site at http://www.tribulationperiod.com/ under the Menu Heading “Prophecy Updates,” listed as Numbers 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, and 69.