Islamic Antichrist Caliph waiting in the Wings to Unite Islam
Arab World Revolts will eventually lead to an Islamic Caliphate
Islamic Mahdi will rise in the Middle East to lead inflamed Masses
Likely in “Greater Syria” at some point in time prior to the year 2015
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April 22, 2011
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Begin Excerpt from MEMRI
Middle East Media Research Institute No. 3770
April 18, 2011
Palestinian Legislative Council Deputy Speaker and Hamas Senior Official: The Revolutions in the Arab World – A Prelude to an Islamic Caliphate
In an interview with the Qatari daily Al-Raya, Ahmad Bahr, deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and a senior official in Hamas, said that the 2008-2009 war in Gaza had been one of the causes of the revolutions in the Arab world. He added that these revolutions, against dictatorships that the West had installed in the Arab countries in order to plunder their resources, heralded the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate. He also said that the opening of the Rafah border crossing and the lifting of the siege on Gaza in the wake of the Egyptian revolution would strengthen the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, and stressed that Hamas hopes to achieve a reconciliation agreement with Fatah that will be “far removed from” the Oslo Accords and the security coordination with Israel.
Following are excerpts of the interview:
An End to Palestinian Schism – A Religious, Moral and National Imperative
Q: “How does [the PLC] view the youth activity aimed at [promoting] intra-Palestinian reconciliation, which has recently surfaced?”
A: “I think that Gaza – which, during the Al-Furqan War [Hamas’s name for the Gaza War], stood bare-chested [in the path of] the Israeli tanks, out of belief in the need to achieve victory and honor – was present in Al-Tahrir Square,
in Tunisia, in Libya, in Yemen, and in every uprising against oppression.
Our battle with the Jews is what changed the balance [of power] on the ground and boosted the self-confidence of the Arab and Muslim youth. Therefore, we are first and foremost proud of our restraint and perseverance. We succeeded in overcoming that criminal force and in realizing the words of Allah: ‘How often has a small party vanquished a numerous host by Allah’s leave, and Allah is with the steadfast [Koran 2:249].’
“As to ending the schism and [achieving intra-Palestinian] reconciliation, it is a religious, moral and national imperative. I appreciate the efforts of the youth who are striving for a [united] Palestine, but because the Egyptian document met with obstacles, we must lay down rules for the reconciliation: We want a leadership that feels the ‘pulse’ of the street, and we want reconciliation [based on] the unwavering Palestinian principles, far removed from the Oslo [Accords], the security coordination [with Israel], the American veto, and the Zionist intervention, and in accordance with the principle of which Allah spoke: ‘Allah loveth them who battle for His cause in ranks, as if they were a solid structure.'” [Koran 61:4]
The Peace Agreement with Israel – One of the Causes of the Egyptian Revolution
Q: “How does the PLC view the wave of youth revolutions sweeping the Arab street?”
A: “There is no doubt that the [practices of the Arab dictatorships] – the violation of people’s dignity, the denial of their rights, the denial of justice and liberty, the spread of oppression and of moral and financial corruption, the holding of elections as a [mere] formality, followed by the announcement of [the ruling party’s] victory by imaginary margins, and the usurpation of power by force – are what aroused the rage of the Arab peoples and caused them to rise up in order to restore their liberty and rights. In Egypt, considered the most important country in the Arab and Islamic world, there are the Camp David Accords, which have kept the Egyptian people in fetters, and there is [the issue of the natural] gas, which is sold to the Zionist citizen at a cheaper price than to the Egyptian citizen. An analogy can made to what happened in Tunisia and Libya… As a legislative council, we support the peoples who rebelled against the corrupt regimes, and the restoration of liberty and justice.
“I would like to say that these [revolutions] are [merely] a prelude to the Islamic Caliphate… [whose establishment] the Prophet [Muhammad] foretold in the hadith: ‘You will have the prophecy, according to Allah’s will. Then will He put an end to it, according to His will. And then there will be a Caliphate by way of prophecy, according to the will of Allah… And there will be a biting kingdom [i.e., an oppressive rule], according to the will of Allah… [and then] a kingdom of coercion, according to the will of Allah… Then there will be a Caliphate by way of prophecy,’ etc. The [term] ‘kingdom of coercion,’ as the hadith [commentators] explained, refers to the dictatorships that oppressed, cheated, killed, and destroyed. These were [created by] Western and American industry, which paved the way for the plundering of all the [Muslim] ummah’s resources – its oil and its agriculture.
I hope that this awakening heralds the establishment of a Caliphate by way of prophecy, according to the will of Allah…”
Q: “Will the change on the Arab street have a positive effect on the Palestinian cause?”
A: “I believe that it will… When the regime in Egypt fell, Israel shook with fear for [its fate and for the fate] of its agreements [with the Arab countries, because] it believed that the Egyptian regime was the greatest supporter of the Zionist presence in Palestine. The opening of the Rafah border crossing and the lifting of the siege on the [Gaza] Strip are a step on the path that leads to support for the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, and to the strengthening of its role and its voice…”
The Negotiations With Israel Have Failed
Q: “How surprised were you by the documents that were leaked by Al-Jazeera [TV]?”
A: “We were not surprised at all… I think that the resignation of Saeb ‘Erekat, the most veteran of the Palestinian negotiators, is decisive proof that the negotiations program has failed. This matter [i.e., the document leak] also exposed before the entire world that the Palestinian negotiator has not achieved a thing over the course of 20 years; in fact, he has given the Zionist entity a green light to continue [its building of] settlements, its Judaization of Jerusalem, and its kidnappings, arrests, and deportations – and the settlements did [indeed] expand.
“Nor will Obama achieve anything, since he is weak in the face of the Zionist lobby, which is threatening his reelection for a second term in office.”[1]
Endnote:
[1] Al-Raya (Qatar), April 9, 2011.
Begin 2004 Archive Prophecy Update Number 165B
SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 165B
April 1, 2004
The Coming Messiah of Islamic Tradition!
Our computer was down for some time recently, and I have been flooded with requests since we got our new system functioning. I hope to eventually get around to answering all of them, but there were a couple I thought I would answer in the form of Prophecy Updates, since they pertain to the Middle East scenario. One involved a request for information about a person that I have long believed would arise out of Islam. During my 20 plus years in military service, from time to time I went to school with the followers of Islam, and trained one in meteorological severe weather prediction at the Federal Office building in Kansas City, Missouri. The request involved a traditional teaching involving the arrival of an Islamic Imam Mahdi (al-Imam al-Mahdi) at the end of this last age before the resurrection. The word Imam means “to walk before,” and carries the title of Caliph, and the word “Mahdi” means “a leader, and a spiritual guide and director.” The Muslims expect this leader and prophet to appear on the earth before the world ends, and he is expected to be the Moslem Messiah. The belief is based on thousands of traditions that claim to go all the way back to the Koran, but I have never been able to find a legitimate reference in the Koran without twisting its context. Of course, I do not believe Islamic tradition or the Koran, but what I believe is beside the point. The point is that most Muslims do believe it. So when a man does arise among them they can label as an Imam Mahdi, then I believe he will be the antichrist of which the Bible teaches, which I do believe, and it will make it much easier for some 700 million Muslims, which live in the Middle East, to follow him in a great and united Jihad against Israel.
Even though it cannot be found in the Koran, there are a large number of learned Muslims who claim the belief in Mahdi was widespread during Muhammad’s lifetime among them.
Many say on more than one occasion he had announced the future coming of the Mahdi, and that at times he would inform the people about Mahdi’s wonderful government, plus the signs preceding his rise among the people.
Ancient Islamic documents do quote the Prophet as saying: “The world will not come to an end until a man from my family line, who will be called al-Mahdi, emerges to rule my community.” A couple of other quotes from Islamic documents are also valuable in understand Muslim beliefs on this subject; one makes a statement that is quoted as having been uttered by the Prophet three times: “Listen to the good news about the Mahdi! He will rise at the time when the people will be faced with severe conflict and the earth will be hit by a violent quake. He will fill the earth with justice and equality as it is filled with injustice and tyranny. He will fill the hearts of his followers with devotion and will spread justice everywhere (Mihal, Vol. 1, p .256: Firaq, p. 62).” And, in Milal, Vol. 1, pp. 273, 278 and Firaq, pp. 67, 80, 83, the Prophet has declared: “The day of Resurrection will not take place until the True Qa’im rises. This will happen when God permits him to do so. Anyone who follows him will be saved, and anyone who opposes him will perish. O servants of God, keep God in your mind and go towards him even if it happens to be on the ice, for indeed he is the Caliph of God, the Exalted and Glorified, and my successor.”
Shiites revere 12 Imams historically, the last of whom is believed to be currently in hiding, but will make himself known to Islam as the al-Mahdi in the last days of this age. There is also a traditional teaching that he will rise from the dead before the end of time.
The subject of Imams is what led to the great split in the Islamic ranks between the Sunni, the largest party, and the Shiite, the second largest party. But the Kurds and other splinter groups also have their religious Imams, which is one of the major reasons there can never be a democracy in Iraq, because of the bitter enmity between the Islamic divisions. However, if a strong leader, with great religious charisma, should arise out of hiding to unite them all in the belief he was the Imam Mahdi of Islamic tradition with the power of Allah, the fanaticism of the Muslims would create much more than just an occasional suicide bomber – It would generate a massive flood of millions charging across the northern border of Israel unafraid of death. Of course, I do not believe the Koran or the traditional teachings of Islam. I decided long ago, from Micah 5:1-9, that the antichrist would be of Assyrian lineage, and would come out of the area that included Lebanon, extreme southern Turkey, Syria, northern Iraq, or the extreme tip of northwestern Iran (See Prophecy Updates 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, and 69 in our Prophecy Archives). And I am confident he will be of the Islamic faith (See Prophecy Updates 160B and 161C in our Prophecy Archives). If you really want your eyes opened to what was taught prophetically before 1740, then check out the following Prophecy Updates in our archives: 73D, 74A, 78, 82A, 114A, 117B, 56, 57, 58, 123B and 123D. It may be you will discover that what is going on now in the Middle East fits what pre-1740 prophetic teachings indicated would be happening, in the last days, more accurately than the twentieth century popular teachings of end time events. As I stated earlier, I do not believe the Koran or Islamic traditional teaching, but it is ironic that they are primed to receive the one we call the antichrist from their own writings, which identify him as their Messiah. Before too much longer I expect a man from within the area I previously identified, probably Syria, to be manifested as someone behind which all Muslims can unite to meet their goal of driving Israel out of the land from Dan to Beersheba, and with a view toward overcoming all the infidels in the name of Allah. Whoever wins the 2008 U.S. Presidency may still be in office when the Mahdi of Islam manifests himself in the Middle East.
February 6, 2006 Blog Supplement to Archive Prophecy Update 165B
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.tribulationperiuod.com/ under the heading of “Prophecy Updates.”)
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: forasmuch 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 the devoted religious extremism over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad has triggered 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 what seems to the West to be isolated extremism, from the lips and actions of the current Iranian President, 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 th
is 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.
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