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Cephyr13 -> RE: The Anti-Christ is From The Middle East (12/20/2006 8:28:54 AM)
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It's an interesting theory, and not a new one. Many have considered this. However, there are things to consider. Satan did not understand prophecy prior to Christ or John writing about it. Obviously, after prophecy was put into scripture, Satan is going to interpret it as best as he can (and he is definitely smarter than we are, with thousands of years experience and knowledge gathering behind him). He read and understood God's prophecies. Then, he copied them. If there's one thing that's prevalent in the Bible, it's that Satan ALWAYS wants to be God, and therefore he keeps trying to copy God, because he knows that God's way is always the smartest way. BUT, he always changes something so that people are diverted from God. You can see the fingerprints of Satan all over Islam, because it even teaches about Jesus as the greatest prophet of their religion. Yet, even so, Muhommad is preached as the one prophet to really learn from. Islam teaches that even Jesus will return at the end. Not to save, but rather to convert the world to Islam. Again, Satan copying God. We see an antichrist in our Bible and a seven year period. The antichrist comes to power at the middle of this seven year period. He would come to power earlier, but he claims to be God at the mid-point. In Islamic prophecy, their 12th Emom will return and rule for seven years. Gee, what a coincidence. Again, Satan copying God. Satan wants to trip up the entire world. This is why every religion on the planet has SOME teachings that are similar to Christianity in one way or another. But NONE of them (except Christianity) teach that their God, Jesus, came down to save them from sin. ALL of them require you to earn your salvation. This is the contingent difference between Christianity and everyone else. It's Satan's classic method of mixing a little or a lot of truth with lies. It's like rat poison. Rat poison is 99.995% good, healthy rat food. .005% of it is poison. That .005% is all it takes to kill the rat. That .005% for the world religions is the removal of Christ's sacrifice and gift of salvation from the religion. Bait and switch, basically. Show some truth, give lies instead, and eventually damn the soul of the convert. Your assumption of a Muslim antichrist is interesting, but not accurate. The antichrist won't be Muslim, actually. He will be an interfaithist that accepts all religion. We know this because Revelation talks about the combining of all religion into one. This man will simply have to fulfill their prophecies about a ruler who comes to power and believes in Islam and rules the world, more or less (of course, their prophecies are more complicated, but that's the gist of it). So, in Matthew 24 we see the "great tribulation" (last 3 1/2 years) where Jesus tells the people in Judea, "When you see this antichrist walk into the temple and claim to be God, run for your life. Don't go get your coat in the house, don't take anything, just run." Now, Jesus is talking to the 144,000 Jews in Judea area, which is the West Bank. It just so happens that that area is being traded to the Palestinian right now. However, the 144,000 Jews there are hardliner orthodox Jews (I think that's the right term). They have said that they refuse to leave and the Muslims will have to come and live amongst them. Israel is going to allow this pretty soon, and these people are going to live with each other for however many years till the antichrist shows up. In those preceding years, the people are going to fight and have problems...all kinds of things. The Muslims are taught horrible things about the Jews. Things like, "The Jews are one evolutionary step above monkeys" and "Jews have fangs and want to suck your blood and kill you." I kid you not. I have heard it from their own lips (lips of the people that converted to Christianity from Islam and were raised in places like Lebannon." Anyway, so when the antichrist shows up and claims to be God, the Muslims will think this is there Messiah...their 12th Emom returning. Their Bible tells them that when he returns, that prompts them to cleanse the world of the Infadels, starting with the Jews and Christians. So the 144,000 in the West Bank area are going to HAVE to run IMMEDIATELY for safety outside of the West Bank area or they will be killed by Muslims. And it would take something as simple as just going back to your house to grab food or a jacket to get yourself killed, just like Jesus says. What looks like the ushering in of the 12th Emom right now is what's going to usher in the 6th trumpet war that kills 1/3rd of man. Then, there will be a peace agreement with Israel after such a horrible event happens. The Muslims like President Ahmedinajad will lay low for a few years, and then, when the antichrist shows up, he'll be right back on board with Muslim extremism. Then armageddon will come at the end of the 7 years. You must also consider that Gog (the ruler of the land of Magog) is not from the East. Gog is the antichrist according to Ezekiel. The land of Magog houses Mesheck, Tubal and (I forget the last city's name). Mesheck, if you translate it to Russian, is Moscovi. If you translate it to English, it's Moscow. According to the Bible, that army from the North that comes down to Israel for the battle of Armageddon is coming from Moscow, which is the land of Magog...which is where the Antichrist is from. But that supposedly. That could still be a misinterpretation of that prophecy. The land of Magog could mean more than just Moscow. I need to find out where Tubal is, along with that other city mentioned. That would give a better indication of where the antichrist will come from. - Brian
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