Part 13:

Allah, Islam, Qur’an and 666

In the previous part of our study we read Revelation 13:18 concerning the number of the beast: “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”

There have been various interpretations of what the mark of the beast—the 666—is all about: it’s the Social Security Number, the microchip, a tattoo, it’s Gorbachev!, etc, but how many have thought of it as being the Islamic religion; their god, Allah; or the Qur’an? As different as
this idea might be for some people, let’s still entertain it for a moment.

The letters in many alphabets, such as Hebrew, Greek, and a few others, have numerical value. Gematria is a numerical coding system by which the letters of a particular alphabet are assigned numerical values. Gematria, the calculating of numerical values from names, is sometimes used in witchcraft.

When they translated the Bible, the translators thought the symbols were Greek, so they rendered them as 666 because they thought it was about gematria. But they weren’t Greek letter symbols, they were a different script than the Greek; What John saw were Arabic symbols that he wrote down, but later were interpreted to be Greek letters.

CHI, XI, STIGMA, AND 666
The first Greek letter, χ (“chi”), looks like two crossed swords, and resembles the symbol of Islamic conquest. The Greek “chi” has a numerical value of 600.

The second Greek letter, ξ (“xi” or “ksi”), is written vertically, but it is the exact name of Allah when written horizontally in Arabic. The Greek “xi” has a numerical value of 60.

The third Greek Letter, ζ (“stigma” or “sigma”), resembles the words, “in the name of,” in Arabic. The Greek “stigma” has a numerical value of 6, and it also has literal meaning of “scar,” “mark,” or “badge of service.”

χ ξ ζ then, has a numerical value of 600 + 60 + 6 = 666.

There are 6,666 verses in the Qur’an. There is at least one sect of Islam, the Submission sect (Bahattin Uzunkaya), that considers the number 666 to demonstrate the perfection of the Qur’an and the proof that Muhammad is the prophet of Allah.

BISMILLAH
Illustration (A), below, is a stylized word (above)for Allah in Arabic. To its right (B) is the same thing but turned diagonally on its side. Notice how similar the one turned diagonally resembles the Greek letter, ξ “xi” as shown above. Illustration (C) shows the three Greek letters together, and (D) illustrates the Arabic words that say “In the name of Allah.” It is easy to see how a translation error could occur when the one doing the translation is thinking that John was writing in Greek instead of writing down the symbols he was seeing in vision.

The Islamic mark also tells us that the heavenly vision that John was perhaps trying to capture and record was the middle symbol, known in Arabic as “Bismillah.” This symbol is a word which spells “Bismillah,” and it literally means “In the name of Allah,” as shown in illustration (A). In her work, The Real Mark of the Beast, by Kimberly Rogers, she says:

“I spent a lot of time investigating the Mark of the Beast prior to making the all-important realization that will be revealed here. Like most other Believers, I looked at tattoos, RFID chips and Nanotechnology. It seemed so obvious that any of these could fulfill the prophecies as marks that go in the forehead and the hands. This is the first criteria Believers look for when searching for the Mark of the Beast. We are correct in doing this.

“Do you remember the Mark of Cain? I used to ask every preacher I ran into about the nature of it. I wanted to know what it looked like. None could answer me. It wasn’t until I began studying the Bible from a Jewish and Jerusalem-centric viewpoint that I learned something critical about the Mark of Cain. Rabbinical literature teaches that it was the Hebrew letter ‘Tav’.

“The ‘Tav’ looks this: +. The Jews referred to it as the sign during the time before Yeshua was born. Those with ears to hear and eyes to see were able to discern that He was the Messiah because they were looking for the + —‘the sign’. That is one of the reasons so many Jews converted to the Jewish Sect called ‘The Way’ that is so called in the Book of Acts.

“The + is the symbol for sin. We see it in the beginning and the middle of Jerusalem-centric history, and now we will see that same Mark in the end. The sign + is what that the Rabbis believe marked Cain. It was the sign of his sin. It is also accepted in Christianity as the symbol for the cross where the Messiah took the sin of the world and died. Of course, the crucifixion cross and the cross that marked Cain would be the same (duh!)—they are both symbols of sin. One is a man marked with sin and the other is the Son of God removing sin. The cross stands for both. It is the visible symbol of the entry of sin into the world and the symbol of its removal. So, if the end of the world is like the beginning, we can expect to see this mark again and we do!

“John was told to write what he saw. I believe he did just that. I believe he wrote exactly what he ‘saw’. It is as literal, simple and direct as that. He said people would wear a ‘666' on their foreheads and right arms. But, what exactly, did John see? Did he see ‘666' as we do today? No. We use Arabic numerals. In the Greek text, ‘666' is represented by Greek letters that also have numerical values, specifically: Chi Xi Stigma, or ‘Six-hundred, three-score and six’.

“So what John saw was something that looked like ‘Chi Xi Stigma’ being worn on the foreheads and right arms of the multitude who belong to the Beast. What does ‘666' mean? Is it something we can look at today and say, ‘There it is!’. Is it something we can see? And the answer is, ‘yes you can’.” (End of Kimberly Rogers quote.)

CROSSED SWORDS
(Above right) can be seen a vertical symbol with the hook at the top, which is placed to the right of the Bismillah; this is representative of a sword. The two crossed swords is the symbol of Islamic conquest. (Below right) is a cover of a book displaying the crossed swords. As you can see, the title of the book is Crossed Swords (the book is an historical analysis of the nature of the Pakistan army in their turbulent relationship with the United States).

If we add crossed swords to the left of the middle character (‘xi”), and remember that the stigma (ξ) to the right has the meaning of “mark” or “badge,” then we get crossed swords, the name of Allah, and the word “mark” (χξζ). It’s not difficult to see the similarities between these crossed swords, the name of Allah (flipped) and the sigma, as compared with the original Greek manuscript, the Codex Vaticanus.

(At left) we see the Hamas symbol of war, the crossed swords. Two Palestinian flags form a circular frame around the Al Aksa Mosque in the center. On the flags, in Arabic, is the Islamic declaration of faith: the right flag translates as “There is no God but God” and the left translates as “Muhammad is His prophet.” Beneath the crossed swords is the word “Palestine.” The full name of the group appears on the white banner at the bottom. At the top, center, there is a map of Israel and the territories in white. The image evokes Hamas’s nationalist and religious aims, as do the Palestinian flags imprinted with Islam’s declaration of faith. The crossed swords evoke jihad (holy war) and represent Hamas’s dedication to violent struggle. (The Bismillah can be clearly seen. 3rd word from the right).

RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD
According to Revelation 13:16, the mark of the beast is supposed to be worn on the “right hand, or in their foreheads.” Islamic Jihadists typically wear this Bismillah on the forehead and on the right arm.

The mark is a badge of servitude to Allah, and literally made out of cloth or paper that is placed around the forehead, or placed as an armband. The mark, or badge, could contain the crescent moon; the words, “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger”; the crossed swords; the mark itself, the Bismillah; or whatever it takes to show allegiance to the antichrist. You can see one of the headband styles in this picture (above).

TESTIMONY OF A TERRORIST
Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist now Christian evangelist, said that when he saw the Greek symbol that is translated in the Bible as 666, he immediately read it as the Arabic character “Bismillah” (Bismilla) which means “in the name of Allah,” although it looks more like the character for “Allah.” At the following link can see and hear Walid on a seven minute YouTube video talking about the 666: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtquNNEO7Fw

If Shoebat’s account seems to stretch things a bit, even though Arabic was his first language and Islam the religion he was born into, consider how this Arabic character is stylized into many different artistic forms. Consider also how some look for this character in trees, clouds and virtually everywhere—even in a fish!

This 666 connection is, however, just one incidental component of Bible prophecy pointing to the Middle Eastern Islamic empire as being, geographically, the leopard-bear-lion beast of Revelation 13. The seat of Islam today occupies the same geographical region as Daniel’s successive lion, bear, and leopard kingdom “beasts,” as shown on the map found in Part 20 of this study.

ON RECEIVING THE MARK
There are some serious consequences for those who consciously voluntarily take the mark. In Revelation we read:

Revelation 14:9-11: “And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.”

Revelation 16:2: “And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image."

Zechariah 14:12: “And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.”

Revelation 19:20: “And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.”

There are grave consequences for those who take the mark, so the mark won’t be some everyday thing such as one’s Social Security Number that most everyone in this country is forced to have, or a microchip that might be implanted by some medical do-gooder. Would such people go to hell for it? I don’t think so. As stated earlier, God is a just God, and to condemn those who take the mark, those people will have to make a “conscious choice” as to whom they will serve— either the Lord Jesus Christ, or some other god, such as Allah. It is as simple as that.

Many today are saying, How can we win a war with these terrorists? I wonder, Have some of these people lost faith in the providence of God? Could this attitude reflect the prophecy in Revelation 13:4 that says, “Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?” Will such people make a conscious decision to take the “mark” of Allah to keep their own heads? We’ll see!

There is a positive side to the mark of Revelation 13:

Revelation 15:2: “And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.”

Revelation 20:4: “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.”

The beast appears to be Islam. The beast’s prophet (the false prophet) is Muhammad, and the mark of the beast is that infernal Arabic writing across their jihad heads and arm bands, which mark is the “Bismillah,” the name of Allah in Arabic.

Revelation 13:18: “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast [Islamic Empire]: for it is the number [multitude] of a man [the prophet Muhammad]; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six [“Bismillah”—Allah].

Part 14:
John’s Eighth Beast

To understand John’s Revelation in the context of the time during which he was writing, we need to look through his historic eyes of around 100 AD. The Lord said to him, “Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter.” (Rev. 1:19.) So when we read the following verses (and indeed consider his entire vision), we need to try and read it as he saw it if we are to understand what he experienced.

Revelation 17:10-11: “And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.”

What we have here are:
1) Five kings which have fallen [in the past before John].
2) One king is [now existing at the time of John writing].
3) One is yet to come [after John], but will remain for only a short time.
4) And then there will be an eighth beast which will be cast into hell.

All together there will be a total of eight kings, and we need to recognize these eight kings in terms of their successive empires since some kingdoms spanned periods longer than their individual leaders. But who, or what, are all of these kingly empires?

THE KINGDOM THAT “IS”
To understand who all the other kingdoms are, we first must establish the identity of the kingdom that “IS.” Remember, John is writing as he sees it—he is in the “now,” so to speak. Therefore, the kingly empire that “is” is the one that was in power at the time of John’s writing. That kingdom was the Roman Empire; so Rome was empire number six, the kingdom that “is.”

As stated earlier, all four of Daniels beasts included the Roman Empire, but John’s combinational beast, of Chapter 13, does not include Rome. So we’re dealing with the same thing here, even though Rome is included in this verse. Considering John’s revelation, then, we can see that the 6th king, or the one that “is” in power as John wrote, was the Roman Empire. To John, as he is writing, Rome IS in existence, so the 6th kingdom “is” the Roman Empire.

THE FIVE FALLEN KINGDOMS
The five fallen kingly empires were kingdoms that existed and dominated the Holy Land before John. They must have been of some note to be large enough to be included in this prophecy, and they need to have had a major influence in the area. We have learned that the leopard-bear-lion beast of Daniel is the combination beast of Revelation 13; that are part of the five kingdoms that have fallen. So we know the names of three kingdoms that have fallen, but what are the other two? The Bible is not clear as to what kingdoms they are, but for the purpose of this study we are going to assume they are Israel and Assyria. So our five fallen kingly empires are:

1st beast—Israel (Fallen)
2nd beast—Assyria (Fallen)
3rd beast—Babylon (Fallen)
4th beast—Medo-Persia (Fallen)
5th beast—Greece (Fallen)

The first of these five fallen kingly empires was the original Kingdom of Israel established by David. Although Egypt enjoyed a big influence over the region before the time of Israel, it still did not control and unite it as did the Kingdom of Israel. And from a simple reading of the Old Testament we should know what the second fallen kingdom was. It was Assyria, the dominating influence before Babylon that took the Northern Kingdom of Israel captive.

All five of these past kings, or empires, had fallen by the time John received his visions that he wrote in the Book of Revelation. These five beasts made up the geographic area of the Middle East before, during, and after the time of Daniel, but before John, and is the Islamic dominated area of the Middle East today.

THE KINGDOM THAT HAD NOT COME
Revelation 17:10 says that, “... the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.”

At the time of John, this 7th beastly kingdom had not yet come on the scene. So as John saw the vision, this kingdom “is not yet come,” so the beast “is not.” This kingdom that did not exist at the time of John, but would come in the future, was to be the Islamic Empire.

In the beginning, the Islamic First Jihad had ruled, or “continued,” for the “short space” of 152 years. But during the First Jihad, at the Battle of Tours, Islam was wounded by the sword and lost its power, yet it still lived and maintained its presence in the area. (Rev. 13:14.)

Since Revelation 17 speaks primarily of the Gentile nations that dominated the Holy Land throughout time, the 7th king has to be Islam which controlled Jerusalem from 688 to 1967.

THE EIGHTH BEAST
The 8th kingdom is the Second Jihad of the Islamic Empire yet to come: “And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven.”

Consider the geographic area of the Middle East as John was seeing it. This 8th beast is part of both the “beast that was,” meaning it existed before John, and it is the beast that “is not yet come,” meaning it was not existing at the time of John’s writing, but would come in the future.

The 8th beast is not about the Roman Empire. However, the 8th beast is “of the seven,” or part of the seven previous beasts because Rome had major control and influence in that same geographic region. Considering the identity of our leopard-bear-lion beast, the Islamic Empire today, we find it is seated in Syria, Iran and Iraq, and it fits as having been “was,” and also as having been “of the seven.”

The 8th beast, the Second Jihad,
is the one we need to be concerned about today.

Part 15:
The Beast With Two Horns

As John was telling us about the beast, which was the composite Leopard-Bear-Lion beast, he mentions another beast with “two horns like a lamb,” yet this new beast spoke “as a dragon.” The fact that this other beast has “two horns like a lamb” should say something to us. Lambs don’t have horns, so something must be wrong with this other beast. We know from scripture that the Christ is represented as a lamb, and that the dragon is Satan. So this other beast must pretend to be like a lamb, which represents Christianity, but speaks deceptively as Satan.

Revelation 13:11: “And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.”

Since the Islamic Empire control of Jerusalem for 42 months, from 688 to 1967, this new beast must be about another empire that will emerge within that same time frame—an empire that has two sides to it, one Christian-like and the other Satanic in nature.

As we know from Daniel, a beast is an empire, and both Daniel and John are prophesying about Jerusalem, then this two-horned beast must appear to be Christian, but display devilish attributes, that will control and dominate the Holy Land—TWICE.

Revelation 13:12: “And he [two-horned beast] exerciseth all the power of the first [Jihad] beast before him [i.e., in the sight of], and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.”

According to Strong’s Concordance, “before him,” in this verse, actually means “in the face of,” or “in the presence (sight) of.” So this two-horned fake Christian beast will rule “in the sight of,” or “in the presence of,” the Leopard-Bear-Lion beast. This two-horned beast will co-exist with the first beast, which is the Islamic Empire, sometime between 688 and 1967. And since this other beast is to dominate Jerusalem twice during this period of time, two questions naturally arise: Which two times will this deceptive Christian-like beast with two horns control Jerusalem, and exactly who or what is this two-horned beast? Fortunately, both of those question can be answered at the same time by taking a look at the history of the Holy Land.

THE FIRST HORN
After Islam received its deadly wound, it still lived in Jerusalem and dominated the entire area for quite a number of years. But in the 11th Century, Pope Urban II called for a Crusade to free the Holy Land from Islam. Christian knights from all over Europe captured Jerusalem and ruled in the Holy Land for about 200 years. But by the end of the 12th Century, the Crusaders were driven out of the Holy Land and the Islamic Empire ruled Jerusalem once again.

This was the first horn of the two-horned beast. It pretended to be Christian, but it exercised the power of the first beast, Islam, in that it was just as ruthless and barbaric as the first beast. The Crusaders pillaged, raped and murdered the people living in the Holy Land. They claimed to be Christians but they indeed “spake as the dragon.”

The Crusaders didn’t destroy the Dome of the Rock nor drive out the Moslems, they coexisted with them. So the Christian Crusaders were the first of the two horns “in the presence” of the 7th kingdom beast, the Islamic Empire.

THE SECOND HORN
Many years later, during World War I, another group of so-called “Christian” nations entered the Holy Land and fought in the Islamic world. Lawrence of Arabia and General Allenby (with the blessing of the League of Nations) took control of what became known as the British Mandate. The western nations, appearing “like a lamb,” then ruled in Jerusalem from 1917 to 1948. They didn’t destroy the Dome of the Rock nor drive out the Moslems, either. So the British Mandate, of the Christian world, was the second of the two horns “in the presence” of the beast. The British dominated and controlled Jerusalem until 1948, when the new nation of Israel was established.

Twice during that 42 month period, “Christian nations” did rule in the presence of Islam, the Leopard-Bear-Lion Empire. So twice the western Christian nations ruled in the Holy Land; they spoke as a dragon; and in the presence of the first beast, did exercise (in like manner) all the powers of the first beast before them.

HEALING THE WOUNDED BEAST
But that’s not all of the prophecy, the prophetic picture of the two-horned beast continues on for a while.

Revelation 13:12: “And he [two-horned beast] exerciseth all the power of the first [Jihad] beast before him [i.e., in the sight of], and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.”

After World War II, the Beast with Two Horns (the western Christian world) experienced accelerated growth in science, technology, industry, and economy. Not being satisfied, the greedy two-horned beast of the so-called Christian world inspired an agreement with the Moslem Oil Sheiks. They agreed to lower western oil production and buy Arab oil if the Arabs agreed to deposit that western money in western banks. This would bolster the greedy western world by having the oil and keeping the money for their own use; this is like having your cake and eating it too. So the Islamic Arabs agreed. They became wealthier, and so did the gluttonous two-horned beastly world.

However, the Arab nations have used their wealth to revitalize Islam—the healing process. They buy modern weaponry to use against their western Christian enemy. The beast with two horns “healed” the beast that had “the wound by a sword,” and the Leopard-Bear-Lion, 7th kingdom, came back to life as the 8th beast.

GREAT WONDERS
The two-horned beast does indeed perform “great signs” in the “sight of men.” About the two-horned beast John wrote: “And he [ the two-horned beast] doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by [the means of] those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the [first] beast;...” (Rev. 13:13-14.)

What did the innocent in Baghdad wonder during “Desert Storm” of 1991, or the “War on Terror” of 2003? With bombs, rockets, guided missiles, smart-bombs, pyrotechnic displays, and other “fire come down from heaven” produced by the two-horned beast, would they not consider such things to be “great wonders”?

And these are not all the wonders of the western world when we consider harnessing the atom, probing beyond the stars, exploring the bottomless depths of the sea, great medical advancements, the World Wide Web, etc. Such wonders deceive many men, causing them to turn to themselves for enlightenment, instead of to God.

Indeed, the Crusaders and the British Mandate, along with the western Christian world are the beast with two horns; they pretend to be as a “lamb,” but speak by their actions as a “dragon.”

Part 16:
The Scarlet Beast

We find that the beast of Revelation Chapter 13, the Islamic First Jihad, was given its seat of power and authority by the dragon.

Revelation 13:2: “And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.”

Apparently, from Chapter 17 verse 3, this beast has a color. John said, “... and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.” (Rev. 17:3.)

Hear we read of a “scarlet coloured beast.” The color of scarlet is red, and that happens to be the color of the great dragon mentioned in Chapter 12 of Revelation. “And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.” (Rev. 12:3.) It should be obvious that this verse is related to Revelation 17:3 because both verses mention the “seven heads and ten horns.” Most everyone understand that the “dragon” is Satan, so Satan’s beast is represented by the color red.

In Biblical prophecy we know that a beast represents a kingly empire, and a woman represents a religion. It was the dragon, that old devil, Satan, who gave the Islamic beast his power, seat and authority. The Scarlet Beast, then, just might be Satan’s spiritual kingdom in the form of Islam, and the beastly kingdom being the Islamic Empire.

By their teachings, all Muslims should be Jihadists and steeped in the spirit of the Qur’an, but there are some Muslim sects that aren’t so militant, and some individuals Muslims who are quite peaceful. Their prophet, Muhammad, was their model for jihad violence that is practiced around the world today. Clearly, the Arabic speaking people of the Middle East best understand and follow the Islamic religion. Those in the West, generally speaking, do not have a clue, as to the aims of Islam and the violent steps they will take to achieve their objective—to convert the entire globe to Allah and his prophet, Muhammad.

Empowered by the dragon, Islam is at the power center of even our global economy. Being “of the seven,” the eighth beast is the Islamic Second Jihad, in the image of the First Jihad. This eighth beast, the “scarlet” beast, is now being healed by Western powers as they finance and arm Islam, healing and empowering this final end-time foe of God’s people. The vital oil power that lubricates the global economy is in the hands of Jihadists.

Satan was given dominion over all the kingdoms of the earth, and the 8th beast is the scarlet beast, Islam—Satan’s final kingdom manifested in Islamic Jihad.

Since we understand that the dragon( Satan) gave “his seat, and great authority” to Islam, this 8th beast is then Satan’s final power play exercising his earthly might over his kingdoms, the same kingdoms that he offered Jesus.

Part 17:

The Vatican-Mecca Connection

Since the Islamic religion has Allah as their god, which has been mentioned frequently in this study, let’s consider exactly who he is, along with his prophet, Muhammad.

Mecca, in what is now Saudi Arabia, Islam alleges that Abraham and Ishmael built what they call the “House of God” beside the well of “Zamazm.” This is the well which was supposed to have saved Ishmael and his mother, Hagar, when they were sent away by Abraham (Genesis 21). The original “House of God” was a small structure compared to the newer 50 ft. cube-like stone structure of today known as the “Ka’aba.”

Before the time of Muhammad, visitors to the Ka’aba brought gifts of idols; and not wanting to offend these visitors, the graven images were placed inside the sanctuary of the Ka’aba. Along with other pagan deities, icons of the virgin Mary and baby Jesus were placed there.

In Algeria, North Africa (354 AD), a devout Roman Catholic mother gave birth to a son named Augustine. St. Augustine, a title by which he is known to us today, exercised himself as a writer and became busy winning Arabs to Roman Catholicism. Those rejecting Catholicism, however, still remained pagan with hopes of a future leader who would come and unite all Arabs. Their hopes were not in vain.

Just before Muhammad was born, his father was killed, and his mother, Aminah, claims she heard a voice say that her son was to be named “Muhammad.” The child was born at Mecca around 570 AD. Being the birth place of Muhammad, the founder of the great Islamic religion, he became known as the “Messenger,” or “Prophet of God.” So Muslims look to Mecca as their Holy City.

There in the court of the great mosque at Mecca stands the Ka’aba. This idol containing structure holds a fabled black stone supposedly given to Abraham by the angel Gabriel. Accordingly, after Muhammad was born, his grandfather, Abd Al-Muttalib, carried the little child to the Ka’aba to offer up thanksgiving to Allah.

WHO IS ALLAH?
Going back before the time of Muhammad and Islam, the Sabeans in Arabia worshiped a Moon-god whose name was Allah, being only one of the more than 360 idols retained in the Ka’aba in Mecca. Pre-Islamic Arabia was grossly paganistic, and each clan had their own particular idols to worship, Allah being one of them.

Some say that the word Allah was derived from the Syriac Alaha, but the name Allah was in existence long before Islam. That is evidenced from the name of Muhammad’s father, Abdullah, which means servant of Allah; and his grandfather, Abdul Muttalib, was the leader of Mecca and a custodian of Ka’aba’s 360 idols.

The crescent moon became a symble of Islam, and even their holy day, Ramadan, a period of fasting during the ninth month of the Moslem year, begins and ends with the crescent moon. In the1940's-50's, at Hazor, in Palestine, a major temple to the Moon-god was excavated by archaeologists who uncovered four idols. The first one was known to the Babylonians as “Sin,” but the Arabs called him “Allah.” Allah was a pre-Islamic pagan deity. The three other Idols were known as the daughters of Allah. They were Al-Lat (Mother goddess like Semiramis of Babylon), Al-Uzzah (Venus or morning star), and Manat (Good fortune or fate).

THE VATICAN AGENDA
When Muhammad was six years of age, his mother died, so he was cared for by his grandfather. But two years later his grandfather died also. As Muhammad grew up under the protection of his Catholic uncle he became a Mary worshiper and embraced many Romanish teachings, and because of purported dreams or visions he became quite popular among his people.

Considering its religious significance, the Pope desperately wanted to rule the world from Jerusalem, but there was a problem; the city was controlled by Orthodox Jews. At the same time, true Christians in North Africa had missionaries preaching the Holy Bible. Of course, this was not acceptable to the Vatican and such could not be tolerated. Something had to be done to eliminate both the Jews and the true Bible believing Christians.

The Pope realized that the multitude of Arabs in North Africa were a great source of power for the dirty work required for the realization of his aspirations. Some of the Arabs who became Catholics could be used as spies, reporting those who rejected Roman Catholicism, and the Augustine monasteries would serve as bases for seeking and destroying Bible manuscripts held by true Christians.

To aid the Pope in his conquest, he pretended to fulfill the dreams of many Arabs of having their own messiah. The Pope wanted a man with charisma who could become a great leader, one whom Rome could train to unite all non-Catholic Arabs, a leader who could organize a mighty army and that could capture Jerusalem for the Papacy.

THE CALLING OF MUHAMMAD
There was a wealthy Arabian widow named Khadijah who was very faithful to the Pope. She had given her wealth to “Mother Church” and retired to a convent. While there, she was given a strange assignment: she was to find such a man the Pope was looking for and marry him for future grooming as the Pope’s dupe. Because Muhammad was already popular with his people, it didn’t take long for her to discover just the right man. Muhammad married this wealthy Catholic 40 year old widow, who was 15 years his senior.

Khadijah had a cousin named Waraquah ibn Naufal who, like herself, was very faithful to the Vatican. He was a charismatic type and had a tremendous influence on Muhammad. While under Waraquah’s tutelage, Muhammad absorbed the writings of “Saint” Augustine and became a great admirer of his works. Consequently, as the Pope wished, Waraquah became the chief teacher and advisor to the future Prophet of Islam, preparing him for his prophetic calling.

Muhammad wanted to unite all the Arab people under a theocratic, one-god, religion, but there were too many gods (360 of them) from which to choose. So he picked one, which naturally was Allah. Muhammad could have picked Manaf, Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, or any of the other false gods, but he chose the one for which his father was named—Allah.

During the training of Muhammad, under his secret tutor, Waraquah, he was taught that the Roman Catholics were the only true Christians, and that the others, calling themselves Christians, were actually wicked infidel imposters and children of the devil who should be destroyed, and that the Jews were enemies of Allah.

On the outskirts of Mecca is Mt. Hira, and there, within a cave, Muhammad began having “divine” revelations. Waraquah began interpreting his visions and pronounced him to be Allah’s prophet to the people. Eventually, Muhammad’s “holy” book of Islam, the Qur’an, came forth.

MUHAMMAD RUNS-A-MUCK
When Khadijah died, in about 622, Muhammad left Mecca and went to Medina, some 200 miles north of Mecca. While there, Allah and his angel Gabriel apparently changed Muhammad into a religious dictator where he raided caravans from Mecca— robbing, killing, and showing no mercy, for the Qur’an orders the death of unbelievers called “infidels.” Those in Medina who opposed him were assassinated. During his raids, Muhammad kidnaped beautiful women, held them for ransom, and amassed a fortune. Using hate, fear, and unforgiveness, the acts of murder, plunder and the rape of unbelievers became lawful. And through these efforts, Satan create the Islamic Empire by way of the Papacy.

Muhammad, wanting the support of all his people, took 10,000 men, conquered Mecca and cleared the Ka’aba of Idols, except for the Moon-god, Allah, which they all worshiped, and declared himself to be Allah’s prophet. This is much like what Emperor Constantine did to consolidate his power over the Roman Empire in his day. He used warring campaigns, and then by legalizing Christianity he produced a Christian facade over an already existing pagan religion.

THE SEED OF JEWISH HATRED
Islam, according to their Qur’an, considers Jesus to be merely a prophet, and since the Pope claims to represent Jesus on the earth, the Moslems consider him to also be a “holy man.” In 622, about the time that Khadijah died, the Pope instigated a crusade against the Persians and Jews in which the Catholics were defeated while trying to obtain Jerusalem. As the Arabs were also restless, the Pope moved quickly in granting the Arab generals permission to invade and conquer the nations of North Africa; in doing this, the Roman Pontiff had a plan.

The Vatican promised it would finance and help build Islam a large massive army in exchange for three special favors: 1) conquer Jerusalem for “His Holiness” the Pope; 2) eliminate both the Jews and the true Bible believing Christians, the infidels; and 3) protect the Augustinian monks, monasteries, and Roman Catholics.

Before this time, the Arabs and Jews existed peacefully together. It was the Papacy who engineered a crusade of hatred between the Arabs and their Jewish cousins. While the Vatican was busy training Muhammad, he was convinced by Waraquah and other advisors that the Jews were his enemies. It was while Muhammad was in Medina that he began to show animosity toward the Jews by raiding Jewish settlements.

The domain of Islam quickly became vast. As agreed, both Jew and Bible believing Christians were slaughtered, Jerusalem fell to the Muslims, and neither Roman Catholics nor their shrines were attacked during this time. And to this day, the Islamic people exhibit hatred toward both the Jews and Christians.

So we discover that Muhammad was a stooge selected and seduced by a female agent of the Vatican to create a new religion for the Arab world. This new religion, with advisors from Rome, was to be under doctrinal guidance of the Papacy for the purpose of conquering Jerusalem for the Pope.

TOUGH LUCK FOR THE PAPACY
However, for the Papacy the plan failed, for by the time the Muslims did conquer Jerusalem, they had grown to such a great number that they felt themselves invincible. The Arab generals had much success everywhere they went and felt that nothing could stop them. Nonetheless, it was now time to turn Jerusalem over to the Pope, but there was a problem. The Pope’s carefully laid plans for their possession of Jerusalem backfired, and the Papacy soon realized that the monster it had created was out of control.

In the Qur’an, Muhammad had written what has become known as the “great lie”—the lie being that it was not Isaac that Abraham attempted to sacrifice upon the alter, but Ishmael. Muhammad had removed Isaac’s name and replaced it with that of Ishmael’s.

In honor of this false Ishmael idea, and the belief that Muhammad was taken up to heaven from this spot, the faithful Muslims built a great mosque (the Dome of the Rock) upon the very spot where that altar stood, the very spot where they believed Solomon had built his temple, the very spot where the Jewish temple stood that was destroyed in 70 AD by Rome, and the very spot where the Vatican wanted to build a temple from which the Pope could rule the world in the end times. As a result, Jerusalem became the second most holy place in all Islam. To give it up to the Papacy would cause a revolt like no other. Not only that, now “His Holiness” a non-Muslim, was being called an infidel.

Wanting to conquer the world for Allah, Islamic ambassadors went to the Vatican and asked the Pope for permission to invade the European countries. This outraged the Papacy, feeling that world conquest was its prerogative alone. Feeling invincible, the Muslims invaded Europe anyway but was stopped and received its mortal wound at the Battle of Tours. This offense to the Vatican was the spark that eventually instigated the holy wars known as the crusades—military campaigns to capture Jerusalem for the pontiff once and for all.

However, the crusades did little good as Jerusalem slipped out of reach for the Vatican and remained in the hands of Islam. Not only did Rome lose Jerusalem, but Turkey, Spain and Portugal fell as well to invading Islamic forces. And a small mountain village in Portugal, “Fatima,” was named after one of Muhammad’s daughters.

As Islamic forces started to invade Sardinia and Corsica, a step toward Italy itself, they agreed to peace talks in which Francis of Assisi was one of the negotiators. These negotiations resulted in the signing of a “concordat,”—a religio-political treaty. Part of the agreement was that the Muslims were allowed to occupy Christian Turkey and build mosques in Catholic countries without interference, while Roman Catholics were allowed to occupy the Arab county of Lebanon and have Catholicism flourish in Arab countries. Both Muslims and Catholics agreed to destroy any efforts of the true Christian believers. Thus, through this and other Roman Catholic concordats with the Islamic nations, Satan used the Vatican to close the door for centuries against Christianity reaching the Arab people.

Part 18:

The Tribulation—Not Just for Jews

There have been periods in history so terrible they are too shocking and ghastly they are impossible to fully describe. But guess what, things could get worse. When Jesus was telling His disciples about the fate of the Jews and of Jerusalem, He added: “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” (Matt. 24:21.) From biblical prophecy, and the observance of history, this “tribulation” seems to be an ongoing process which will culminate in events which the world has never known. But what part does the Islamic religion have to play in this? Let’s take a brief look.

ISLAMIC INTENTIONS
The entire purpose of Satan is to destroy and nullify the work of Christ, and the death and devastation of mankind is of no consequence to him in the process. The purpose of the Islamic religion is no different. Although that old devil is trying to accomplish his nefarious deeds through other entities upon this earth at the same time, the actual goal of Islam is not to just worship a god of their choice, but to annihilate the belief in Jesus Christ through spiritual slavery, or by savage bloodshed, if necessary. Here are just four of many quotes from the Qur’an concerning their true intentions (The Qur’an has 114 chapters, called suras. Quotations from the Quar’an will have the citation of “sura” followed by chapter and verse):

“But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them and lie in wait [ambush] for them in every stratagem (of war)” (Sura 9:5).

“Fight those who believe not in God [Allah] and his apostle [Muhammad], nor acknowledge the religion of truth [even if they are] of the people of the book [i.e. Jews and Christians], until they pay jizya [humiliating tax] with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued [enslaved]” (Sura 9:29).

“O ye who believe! fight the unbelievers” (Sura 9:123).

“Therefore when ye meet the unbelievers [in fight] smite at their necks; at length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly [on them]” (Sura 47:4).

Where the Holy Bible speaks of love, forgiveness, and peace, the Qur’an inflames the believer to violence and bloodshed of those who choose not to believe in a false god. For further illustration of the mind set the leaders of Islam, here are a few quotes from Ayatollah Khomeini:

Ayatollah Khomeini taught a five point agenda:
Stage 1: Iran must become a theocratic, fundamentalist Islamic State.
Stage 2: Iraq must become a theocratic, fundamentalist Islamic State.
Stage 3: Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, have to become fundamentalist, theocratic Islamic States.
Stage 4: Jerusalem must be retaken and the Jewish people destroyed.
Stage 5: Conquest of the nations.

In 1984, Ayatollah Khomeini declared to the entire world:
“In order to achieve the victory of Islam in the world, we need to provoke repeated crises, restored value to the idea of death and martyrdom. If Iran has to vanish, that is not important.
The important thing is to engulf the world in crises.”

IT’S NOT ABOUT ONLY JEWS
This evil obviously is not about Islamic hatred for the Jews or Zionism, but rather the 1400 year long war of Islam is against the non-Islamic world. Following are a few news flashes from around the world:

From Moriel Ministries:
www.moriel.org/articles/discernment/islam,
Moslems Firebomb English Church During Islam Awareness Week

“In the recent UK observances of Islamic Awareness Week, the church burnings that are normal Moslem behaviour in Nigeria, Pakistan, Indonesia and elsewhere, came home to Great Britain. Islamic gangs hurled anti-white racist insults at an Anglican vicar in a parish church in Bradford, setting alight an automobile parked in front of it, and then attacked the church with the aim of burning it down.

“We have warned for years that Islam is not a tolerant religion, and would do the very things in Britain and elsewhere in the West, to Christians and Jews, that they do in Islamic countries. The fact is, that the British and American Governments, wilfully ignore the fact that the rights of Christians are guaranteed nowhere in the Islamic world, and their basic human rights consistently violated. In no place does Islam accord to Christians and Jews the same rights they themselves demand in Judeo-Christian democracies.

“The British Government, of course, has not been honest with the country in confronting the militant Islamic threat or the reality of it. This came after the violent assault by Moslem youth on a 70 year old veteran of the Normandy invasions—in Oldham, beating him within reach of his life for the crime of being a “white Christian” on “their territory”. The media and the Government and stupidly, so much of the church, refuses to recognize the reality of jihad and what it really means. The bombardment of the Australian cricket team on the field, with projectiles, by raging Islamic supporters of the Pakistan team is, to the militant Moslem mind, part of jihad. It is not mere sport. So too, the devotion of British Islamic youth to the now defeated boxer Prince Nazim, who was humiliated in the ring when he was finally obligated to fight a viable contender—was not mere sports— but a battle between Islam and the West.”

In other news:
From Indonesia: Three teenage girls were beheaded on their way to their Christian school and one of their heads left on the steps of a Church. The note left behind reads: “We will murder 100 more Christian teenagers and their heads will be presented as presents.”

“Once again, women are the targets. In mid-March, rebels assaulted three women gathering firewood and cut off their ears, lips, and breasts.”

“Starting in 2003, Janjaweed Arabs, a Sudan-backed militia, have driven 2 million villagers from their homes in ethnic-cleansing attacks designed to suppress local rebels.”

“Eyewitness accounts detailing the militia attacks are horrifying. ‘They killed my 3-year-old son right in front of my eyes,’ one father from West Darfur said. Since last fall, women have reported more than 500 rapes. Three women said five militiamen beat and raped them last August. The women said, ‘After they abused us, they told us that now we would have Arab babies. And, if they would find any [more] women, they would rape them again to change the color of their children.’”

Also, a Christian evangelist disappeared into the Palestinian territory for a couple of weeks and was butchered and cut into 4 parts and sent back home to his family in a box.

Moslems are victims of their own religion:
AP - December 06, 2006 MOGADISHU, Somalia—“Residents of a southern Somalia town who do not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an Islamic courts official said Wednesday, adding the edict will be implemented in three days.”

In Mogadishu, Somalia, there is a beheading edict for not showing up for prayer 5 times a day.

Two million killed in the Sudan alone. Do these Sudanese (pictured at right) ever question where the tribulation is? And Nigeria is not far behind.

In Saudia Arabia 15 girls were killed because Islamic religious police sent them back into a burning school for trying to emerge from the burning building without head coverings. “The English-language Saudi Gazette, in a front-page report yesterday quoted witnesses as saying that members of the religious police stopped men who tried to help the girls escape from the building, saying: ‘It is sinful to approach them.’”

Today, in “civilized” Saudi Arabia, if an Arab lets it be known that they converted to Christianity they are beheaded. Death is the punishment for apostasy required by the Qur’an for turning away from Islam. In world news man saw the same resolve displayed by the Afghans. The Afghani government had to pretend the Christian was mentally retarded to avoid the required beheading, which would have subsequently exposed their evil before the world community.

“Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, was killed by her father after falling in love with a British soldier.” Though she had no sexual relations with the man, she told a girlfriend she was in love with him. When her father found out he threw her down, stood on her neck and started to stab her to death. Her brothers came running to help, but when their father told them what he found out, they helped him kill her.

And in the U.S., “Mo Hassan, founder of Bridges TV, a station whose mission was “fostering understanding between cultures and diverse populations,” cut off the head of his wife, Aasiya Hassan, 37, who had recently filed for divorce.” NBC originally reporting on it now remains considerably silent about it.

THE TRIBULATION IS NOT OVER
A likeness of the First Jihad is springing up all over the world. The fastest growing religion in Europe is Islam and as of this writing, the largest mosque in the western world is in Rome. The largest place of worship in Toronto is a Moslem mosque, and there are more people attending mosques in England than there are going to the Church of England. In fact, Islamic Mullahs in England claim they will soon control that whole country. In Holland, state-owned Christian churches are being turned over to Moslems; and in the United States, 14% of the immigrants are Islamic.

Worldwide, there are about 1.5 billion people in Islam today. Best estimates are that 10-15 percent of all Moslems are violently anti-Israel and anti-Christian. In other words, 150 to 200 million people are ardent supporters of the world’s most violent religion. Since there are an estimated five to six million Moslems here in the United States, if that 10-15% statistic holds true for us, we could reasonably conclude that between 500,000 and 900,000 American Moslems support a jihad against their adopted country; and a major portion of funding for Hamas comes from Moslems in the United States.

To illustrate, a Washington DC Muslim cleric recently (2009) created the symbol (at right) for the upcoming war in America that most people do not believe is coming. Notice that it is on the “right hand” and bears the stylized Bismillah.

Are we are being taken for fools? While claiming to be our friends, Islamic militias are killing thousands of Christians in Nigeria, over a million Christians in the Sudan, many by crucifixion, thousands in Indonesia, the Philippines and anywhere else in the world where there are large Islamic populations. So what are the differences between the United States and Nigeria, the Sudan, and Indonesia? Many! But there is one glaring difference between us—there are a lot more Moslems in those countries than there are here. Can you guess what it would be like in America if the Muslem population increased proportionately as in those countries?

Who in America is willing to call us to awaken? Despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, the pseudo-President of the United States publically claims that Islam is love and peace, and that America is no longer a Christian nation. There are peaceful Moslems, but the Qur’an has always called for war. Maybe a few verses from Revelation 16 might come to life with our new perspective.

Revelation 16:12-14: “And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates [which flows between Iraq and Iran]; and the water thereof was dried up [the “waters” that separated them were figuratively dried up by Muhammad because through Islam they have become one people in spirit], that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared [The major Islamic countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia are East of Israel]. And I saw three unclean spirits [the Leopard-Bear-Lion is a three-part empire] like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon [Satan], and out of the mouth of the [Islamic] beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet [now historically, who might that be?]. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world [for the first time in history, Islam is now spreading into the Western world], to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.”

Note the location of this prophecy: the River Euphrates that runs between Iran and Iraq and into Syria. So Revelation again points to Islam—the lair of the beast formed by Daniel’s leopard, bear, and lion. Notice how many evil spirits like frogs there are: THREE! And John’s beast of Revelation 13 is a composite of the leopard, bear, and lion. It is the release of these three demons into the world that is triggering the war we’re fighting right now. To our own destruction, the two-horned beast is helping John’s three-part beast regain its strength.

Christian martyrdom still happens in countries controlled by Islam, but all of that is far away and could never be a danger to America, right? Well, by the time of Bush’s War on Terror, Islam was already a major force among Afro-American youth, and many prison populations are now controlled by Black Muslims as has been reported time again on Fox and CNN news.

Such incidents as considered above, and worse, will soon be happening here in America if we are not careful. But let’s avoid “ethnic profiling” because someone’s feelings might get hurt, allowing our enemies to use our unbelievable gullibility against us. We suffer from a deadly new psychosis known as “political correctness,” a malady that will eventually kill us!

And don’t expect to see Christian persecution reported on ABC, CBS, NBC or CNN.

Part 19:
The Fall of the Islamic Beast

Some may argue that the Islamic countries in the Middle East do not constitute a real kingly empire because they are not united under one central government. But the God of the Bible is far more concerned with the spiritual realities in the Holy Land than He is with how many earthly governments it may have. The reality is this: All Middle Eastern Arabic nations are united and directed under one religion, which religion has laws just as sure as any political nation. Islam, and all Moslems have one central goal: world conquest for their religion. But they will fall as biblical prophecy predicts.

One of the prophecies to be fulfilled is the Battle of Armageddon in the Holy Land (Rev. 16). As this author sees, it appears that it will be the Moslem Arab states, marshaled together, with other allies, that will instigate this great battle. World-wide, Islam has more than 1.5 billion adherents in the world today, and close to one billion of those live in the vicinity of the Middle East and North Africa. So the Islamic leaders should have little trouble assembling a 2 million-man army for the Battle of Armageddon, which is only 13% of the total Moslem population. Regarding that final battle, the Prophet Zechariah, speaking for the Lord, said:

2. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3. Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which [is] before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
5. And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
9. And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one. (Zech. 14:2-5, 9.)

Although those days will be the worst this earth has ever known, still the saints are to have patience, for the Lord will fight our battles and destroy the wicked in His own due time. So this is the great event to which the God was referring when He said, “Here is the patience and the faith of the saints,” for “he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword.” (Rev. 13:10.) At that time, the prophecies of Islam’s demise will take place as the Lord appears.

The following are just a few more verses that relate to the extinction of the Islamic Empire as predicted by divine prophecy:

Zechariah 14:12: “And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.”

Revelation 13:10: “He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.”

Revelation 14:9-11: “And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.”

Revelation 16:2: “And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

Revelation 19:20: “And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.”

Part 20:
Closing Thoughts

The popular view that a great tribulation will come during the “time of the end” began with studies in the Book of Daniel by a 16th Century (1591) Jesuit priest by the name of Ribera. He based his conclusion on the prophecies in Daniel 9 and 12 that contain time frames of weeks and days. This is the same Jesuit priest who also fabricated the “Rapture” theory. The works of this Jesuit has shamefully swayed many influential Protestant clergy, the results of which have been spurious doctrines passed down for many generations to unsuspecting churchgoers. (For more on the involvement of the Catholic Church and the Jesuit order see this author’s work, The Whore and Beast of End Time Prophecy, and The Vatican-Mecca Connection, both found on the web @ http://whoreandbeastofendtimeprophecy.blogspot.com/

Many of those who have studied the end-time scenario have injected the Illuminati, Zionists, International Bankers, European Union, Roman Catholic Church, Black Pope, Jesuit Order, and others as the main movers-and-shakers in fulfilling the biblical prophecies we have considered in this study. Although some or all of these entities will most likely have some part to play in the earth’s winding up scene, and prophecy may touch upon them here or there in some way, it is still the Islamic religion, grouped together as an “Empire,” that fulfill the prophecies at hand. And that Empire encompasses the landmass of the Middle East as illustrated on the (map above).

So it appears that, like those waiting for the pre-trib rapture, many are waiting and expecting a 7 year tribulation period divided up into two 3 ½ year periods. Instead of taking biblical prophecy in natural, historical, lineal perspective, they have taken the prophetic 1260, 1290, 1335 days; 42 weeks; time, times, and half a time; abomination of desolation, etc., and projected those events forward by leaping over history and placing them at the end times just before our Savior’s glorious coming. But as we have studied, such prophecies have already been fulfilled, which means that many are waiting, like the rapturists, for something that apparently isn’t going to occur.

However, the Lord has given us warning and signs of the coming seasons of the end times which He wants us to be aware of. Jesus said, “... O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?” (Matt. 16:3.) If we knew when things were going to happen, we wouldn’t need faith, but would most likely delay our repentance and preparation until it was too late.

Even though much prophecy has already been fulfilled, there are still many events to occur and much to be accomplished, before the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

SOME CURRENT NEWS FROM ALAN CARUBA
(Alan Caruba has a daily blog called Warning Signs, and is featured in various newspapers around the world. He can be reached at acaruba@aol.com.)

In an article entitled, “All Wars Must End Sometime,” by Alan Caruba, taken from the Canadian Free Press dated Tuesday, August 31, 2010, we have this excerpt:

“Special access granted to The Islamic Society of North America
“Unknown to Americans was another White House event earlier on Tuesday, August 31st. The Islamic Society of North America had announced it in its August 27 newsletter. Long associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the ISNA was an un-indicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism finance trial.

“The Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations organized leaders of twenty national Muslim groups to attend ‘a special workshop’ presented by the White House and U.S. government agencies (Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, etc) in order to provide these groups ‘special access’ that would ‘cut through red tape’ to facilitate federal funding.

“Muslim Brotherhood: ‘Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leaders. Koran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.’

“Founded in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood is a global Islamist political movement dedicated to imposing Sharia law on all nations and institutions. Their credo is ‘Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leaders. Koran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.’

“So, while the President marked the end of the combat mission in Iraq, it is folly to think that the Islamists have anything else in mind than total victory over the West.

“After 9/11 George W. Bush did not send troops to Afghanistan and later to Iraq in order to ensure that Muslim groups in America could receive special attention to secure federal funds, but the White House of Barack Obama was tending to this while the President was putting the finishing touches on his speech announcing the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq that evening.
“It makes you wonder what Obama’s priorities really are. It makes you wonder if you can trust anything he says.” (End Quote)

1948-1967
Islam begins its New Jihad!
This so-called “holy war” is and “un-holy” war,
and it is being waged at this very moment against all who are not of Islam.
It is NOT a war of bullets and bombs,
but a spiritual war with Lucifer at its head.
It is time for all to rub the sleepiness from their eyes and start waking up.
Start doing something about it and get involved.
Desiring “not to offend,” and only be “politically correct,”
is no excuse for losing your head.
The so-called War on Terror is NOT the answer!
But a broken-hearted return to Christ IS.

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http://www.beholdthebeast.com/index.htm

NOTE: It is noted that prophecies relating to the last days, end time events, could have many interpretations — all of which appear to be correct. The Lord has a way of layering His prophecies, meaning that their could be many levels of correct interpretation to the same prophecy. So any timeline implication in the work just presented could be taken as a possible true interpretation, but should not to be taken as being conclusive. Other plausible interpretations can be found on the web and in some of my works, such as, The Whore and Beast of End Time Prophecy and Daniel’s Timeline.