2. Western
misconceptions and prophecy
All of the countries Christ fights in on the day of the Lord are Muslim. No where in the bible, does it say anything about European nations on the Day of the Lord.
We have been taught in the west that there will be full domination of the world. We are given passages like Zechariah 12 ,Zechariah 14, and Joel as a defense to say all the world. They also use Revelation 13:7; however,
the word used for “earth” in Zechariah is Eretz which is most often translated
as land. Many verses use this language, but speak not of the whole globe but a
specific area.
Daniel 5:18-19
O thou king, the most high God gave
Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: And
for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled
and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive;
and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.
-Did every nation fear Nebuchadnezzar’s father or dread him? No, the use of ALL is an emphatic expression. There are numerous examples of this.
Zechariah 12:2-3
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of
trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both
against Judah [and] against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a
burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be
cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against
it.
-This is the surrounding countries not
the entire world.
Joel 3:2 “I will also gather all nations, and
will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them
there for my people and [for] my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered
among the nations, and parted my land.”
, 3:4 “Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O
Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a
recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily will I return your
recompence upon your own head;”
3: 9-12 “Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles;
Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them
come up: Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears:
let the weak say, I [am] strong. Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen,
and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to
come down, O LORD. Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of
Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.”
Ezekiel 36:3-4
Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear
the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the
hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the
desolate wastes, and to the cities that
are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen
that [are] round about; Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the
heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their
possession with the joy of all [their] heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it
out for a prey.
-Specification of countries that will attack Israel, they
are the ones around Israel. Edom/idumea used as general term as enemies east of
Israel most specific today Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
The reason we know the idea that whole world falls to Anti-Christ is false, is
nations rise against and some attack him. Many nations will fall, but Edom Moab
and Ammon will be delivered from his hand.
Micah 5:5 “And this [man] shall be the peace, when
the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces,
then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.” So 7 shepherds and eight principal men will be raised to go against him. This will be the same as World War 2. We will have the Axis and Allies.
Daniel 11:30
"For the ships of Chittim (often
translated “out of the west” shall come against him (Antichrist): therefore he
shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant:
so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that
forsake the holy covenant."
Josephus identifies Chittim as Cyprus.
Chittim appears in Dead Sea scrolls and is translated as the Romans in the Septuagint.
Used of islands and coastlands in the Mediterranean and the races of people that
lived there. None of these are Muslim.
Are Europeans talked about? Yes,
Chittim. This could be talking about a European attack against the forces of Antichrist
Turkey's Army supersedes the combined forces
of Great Britain, Italy, and France, yet is no match for Rome’s Fleet. Turkey’s ambassador to the
US, “Our fleet cannot, perhaps, compare with the fleet of Italy, but our army
is mighty,” Zia Pasha
No European country is talked about
receiving judgment of wrath. Ezekiel 28 confirms most powerful countries will
attack Antichrist.
Ezekiel 28:7
"Behold, therefore I will bring
strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their
swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness."
-The term terrible means powerful in
battle. God will raise up several nations to attack Antichrist, meaning not all
the nations will fall. There is no one world government, because God separated them in Genesis. The Devil can NEVER combine them. We have been interpreting the Bible, through a western
mindset.
The Bible thoroughly Middle Eastern.
Islam
and the Bible: Comparing the two systems
Jesus Antichrist
Truth Father
of lies (John 8:44)
Holy One Lawless One (2 Thessalonians 2:8)
Son of God Son of perdition (2 Thessalonians 2:3)
Mystery of Godliness Mystery of iniquity
(Revelation 17:5)
The Antichrist will claim enough
Messiah-like attributes to deceive the world! The attributes of the Mahdi/12th Imam perfectly match
what the Bible warns of.
Islam and Antichrist both deny trinity
and divinity of Christ.
1 John 2:22-23
"Who is a liar but he that denieth that
Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [(but) he that
acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also]."
Antichrist will never say I am the Son
of God, he will mock this. The foundational belief of Islam is the denial of Christ as the Son
of God. Islam has created a twisted version of Jesus. It teaches Jesus will return as a
Muslim and convert many Christians.
-S 4:159And there is none of the people
of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) but must believe in him ['Îsa (Jesus),
son of Maryam (Mary), as only a Messenger of Allah and a human being] before
his ['Îsa (Jesus) عليه السلام) or a Jew's or a
Christian's] death (at the time of the appearance of the angel of death). And
on the Day of Resurrection, he ['Îsa (Jesus)] will be a witness against them.
Jesus will testify against people in
the Day of Judgment according to Islam. Sheikh Kabbani, “Like all prophets, Prophet
Jesus came with the divine message of surrender to God Almighty, which is
Islam.”
At 2nd coming he will
testify to Mohammed according to Islam.
Ayatollah Baqir al-Sadr and Ayatollah
Murtada Mutahhari, authors of the awaited savior, “Jesus will descend from
heaven and espouse the cause of the Mahdi. The Christians and the Jews will see
him and recognize his true status. The Christians will abandon their faith in
his godhead.”
Again, the canonized doctrines of Islam
fulfill John’s description of Antichrist.
We are to told to “try/test the spirits
whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the
world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that
Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth
not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that
[spirit] of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now
already is it in the world.” 1 John 4:1-3
The litmus test to know whether a
spirit is from God or the Devil, is acknowledgement that Christ is Son of God.
The Apostle John gives us this.
“For many deceivers are entered into
the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a
deceiver and an antichrist.” 2 John 1:7
Antichrist is a spirit that is a liar and
deceiver that denies Jesus as savior, God, and trinity. Mohamed and Mahdi deny
this. What is most holy to Christians is blasphemy to Islam. Islam makes one of
highest priorities to deny all essential doctrines of Christianity, especially the relationship
with the Father.
Muslim objections to Christians
-Jesus no the Son of God
-Jesus is not God
-God is not our Father
-Jesus did not die on the cross
A trick Muslims use is they teach Jesus
IS the messiah as a TITLE, BUT the
definition in Islam is actually quite hollow. In Islam Jesus is just another
prophet NOT a deliverer, a savior, or King of the Jews.
In Islam Jesus returns to lead Israel’s
enemies to battle against her and convert or kill Christians and Jews to Islam.
This is equivalent to calling Hitler rather than Jesus Israel’s deliverer. The Spirit of Antichrist is fulfilled
in Islam. Islam when it came about actually absorbed every Christian heresy of
earlier time.
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