* Originally written June 10, 2010 and revised May 6, 2018.
Many American Christians, seeking to “keep things peaceful” or “dialogue” with Muslims, gloss over the truth about Islam because they would offend Muslims (who get offended at the truth) and/or such “Christians” are effectively “antichrist” themselves by denying the Bible's truth. This information goes a long way to explain how and why the Antichrist will gain such widespread global acceptance. God will empower the Antichrist to be able to deceive; he will be a judgment on humanity. II Thessalonians 2:9-12 notes, “The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives that who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.”
Iranian leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been loudly heralding the Islamic Mahdi (Note that Iran is a predominately Shia Muslim nation). The Mahdi could very well be the “Messiah” for those who hate truth, i.e. the Antichrist. This could include not just Muslims but Hindus, Buddhists, secular humanist liberals, members of “Christian” cults, and lukewarm, apostate or appeasing Christians. The book of Daniel confirms that the reign of the Antichrist will be a reign of deceit. Daniel 8:8:12b, referring to the horn symbolizing the Antichrist, notes “It prospered in everything it did, and truth was thrown to the ground.” Daniel 8:25 adds, “He will cause deceit to prosper.”
The following other evidence and facts point to an Islamic-Antichrist connection:
● Revelation 18:2, set in the End Times and during the reign of the Antichrist, refers to “Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!...” Babylon, is sometimes thought to be a figurative reference in this passage to the United States but a literal interpretation would be the literal city of Babylon, which is in Iraq, a Muslim country.
● Accompanying the prior point, is the fact that it appears that the Antichrist will hail from Syria (which included Iraq and Iran in ancient times) per Daniel 7:6 and 8:5-12, among other passages. Syria is part of Alexander the Great's Greek Empire of old. Again, Syria or a greater Syria, including Iran and Iraq, are predominately Islamic areas.
● Islam is the only global religion that practices beheading (see.raptureready.com, “Understanding the Antichrist – Part II” article by Jerry Robinson). Revelation 20:4 refers to Christian martyrs who were beheaded because “…they had not worshipped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands…” This type of Islamic extremism happens today when Muslims behead hostages.
● As noted previously, the fundamental antichrist nature of Islam is noted in I John 2:22 but I John 4:1-3 also is enlightening. That verse notes, “…but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.”
● Islam has a strange affinity with secular liberals per I John 4:4-6. Both seem to despise Christianity. This seems apparent with the Obama Administration. Mr. Obama bowed to the Saudi king but barely acknowledged the National Day of Prayer in 2010. Obama has also argued strongly that the USA is not a Christian nation when this nation was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and even today a strong majority of Americans profess to be Christians. If Obama visited a nation with a similar percentage of professing Muslims as the USA has Christians, I am confident he wouldn’t hesitate to term that nation a “Muslim nation.”
● Back to Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he refers to the current year 2010, in terms of 1300 and something, most likely marking times in terms of Mohammed instead of Jesus Christ. I would note that this again is consistent with a policy which will be pursued by the Antichrist (possibly Ahmadinejad’s hero) according to Daniel 7:25 NIV, “He will speak against the Most High and oppress the saints and try to change the set times and the laws.”
● Deceit is honored in Islam, even encouraged if done against an infidel. The Bible says in Daniel 8:25 that the Antichrist will “cause deceit to prosper.” Barack Obama deceitfully hid his Islamic roots but his conduct as President shows where his true loyalties lie.
● Some Muslim leaders claim Islam is a monotheistic religion, deceitfully trying to show it is aligned with Judaism and Christianity. However, it violently hates both religions and their adherents. This can be witnessed by the exclusion of Christians and Jews (infidels according to Muslims) from the allegedly “holy” city of Mecca. Even, Swissair’s planes are banned from the air space over Mecca because they display a cross. Allah is not the true God, he is the moon god. Allah is strikingly similar to Baal, the Philistine’s false god of biblical times. Muslims claim that the true biblical prophets were prophets of Allah which is a blasphemous lie. They claim that their “liberation” of peoples early on in the life of Islam liberated them from the corrupt Persian and Byzantine Empires (a Christian Empire). Nonsense!
● Islam says the greatest sin is to associate anyone with “Allah”, i.e. like a Trinity. They claim that Islam is a courageous ‘faith” because Islam supplanted a rampant paganism. Actually, they supplanted polytheistic paganism with monotheistic paganism. This “greatest sin” against Islam is a feeble attempt to supplant the truth of Christianity with a different form of false truth.
● The woman sitting on the scarlet beast mentioned in Revelation 17:3 could represent Islam or an Islamized Christianity, such as an apostate Roman Catholic Church. Revelation 17:6 notes, “I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus.”’
● In short, Islam is a deceitful and evil religion. Those that are likewise deceitful and wicked, such as secular liberals in America and Europe today are spiritual cousins of Muslims. Both are children of their father, Satan.
See www.whenthepiecesfit.org for another perspective on the Antichrist-Islam link.
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