Today is September 10, 2010, 10:54 am. Day 252 of 365
Is the Mahdi the Antichrist?
Historic trends, clues given in Bible prophecy and a comparison of Biblical and Islamic eschatology will reveal that the the Antichrist will first appear as the Mahdi, the Islamic Messiah. This so-called Mahdi will appear to be a good Muslim but He is really an occultist He will eventually be revealed as Satan in the flesh. He will be followed by most of the world for a season but the righteous will resist him and embrace God's true Messiah.
This article should be taken neither as an indictment on
Islam,
nor condemnation of Muslims. The Critique of Islam is beyond the scope
of this article. What I seek to prove in this article is that the
coming world ruler, commonly called the Antichrist will represent
himself as al-Mahdi, Islam's Messiah, and use Islamic eschatology to
deceive the world into makng him a world dictator
Historic trends.
Islam is gaining ground in Europe and Russia as well as numerically
throughout the world. There are 1.4 billion Muslims throughout the
world. In Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe there are demands
upon the legal system to accomodate Islamic law or sharia law by
setting up religious courts. Islam is the best represented religion at
the United Nations.
In order to set up the Mahdi as the antichrist there must a widely
distributed foundation of support. While it is not
necessary for the Mahdi to be a true Muslim it is necessary for him to
be preceived as such. The growth of both Islamic populations and the
existence of a unified Islamic empire will provide the power base that
will enable the Mahdi to become the Antichrist.
Another trend is that a growing number of Muslims are being
radicalized. Currently only about 10% of the world's Muslims are of the
radical type or otherwise politically motivated to overthrow the earth.
Europe currently has a policy that weakens peaceful Muslims while
viewing radicals as a protected class. They are fiercely rushing to ban women from wearing viels (i.e.
the Netherlands) while prosecuting those who warn about the
Islamist threat for comitting hate speech against Islamist
radicals.
Gog is Mahdi and
the Antichrist.
The nations that set up the beast system are now predominately Islamic.
From them will emerge The
Coming Ten Horned Islamist Empire,.This empire
is a regional caliphate
ruling from Western Europe to Pakistan. This
Islamic empire is the ten horns
that install Gog as the antichrist. This regional Islamic Empire will
use
their votes and influence at the United Nations to install the Mahdi as
Secretary-General of the United Nations. As the antichrist, The Mahdi
will turn the United
Nations into the Final Beast, This will be a world
wide Islamist empire.
The Rise of the
Antichrist.
The Antichrist does not rise through overwhelming military power as
some believe. He uses a minimal of military power. He uses propaganda
to trick people into believing he is all powerful
Revelation 13:3-8 KJV And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. (4) And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? (5) And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. (6) And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. (7) And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. (8) And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
The text doesn't say that no one could " ... make war ... " against the beast, but that people would say that no one would be able to make war against the beast. The beast is given power to make war against the saints only after he fools people into believing he is all powerful, not before. The antichrist gains overwhelming military power by tricking the nations of the world into giving it to him. Daniel 8:8-25 describes how Satan is working in the world through the antichrist system or the little horn.Satan seek to put install a world leader through sinister schemes.
Daniel
8:8-10,23--25 KJV Therefore the he goat waxed
very great:
and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up
four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.
(9) And out of one of them came forth a little horn,
which
waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and
toward the pleasant land. (10)
And it waxed great,
even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of
the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them...
...(23)
And in the latter time of
their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of
fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand
up. (24)
And his power shall be mighty, but not by
his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall
prosper, and
practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. (25)
And through his policy also he shall cause craft to
prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by
peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against
the Prince of
princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
The New King James Version translates " dark
sentences" as "sinister schemes" The man of sin is not installed by his
own power but by scheming to manipulate the power of others He will
launch craft schemes. He will use "peace" as a weapon of war. (i.e. The
Antiwar movement) He will use tolerance as a means to punish those He
refuses to tolerate (i.e. speech codes ) This is confirmed in the New
Testament.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-12 KJV (3) Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; (4) Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. (5) Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? (6) And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. (7) For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. (8) And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: (9) Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, (10) And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. (11) And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: (12) That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The antichrist's schemes will be effective because most people do not love the truth. In their thinking truth is relative and subordinate to the situations, perspectives, and prejudices.without an anchor for their thoughts their minds can be manipulated by schemes,Because the do not have a foundation for rational thought the cannot spot counterfeit facts, counterfeit (or satanic) miracles, nor can the discern the logical fallacies inherent in schemes. When people see the Satanic miracles and hear Satan's propaganda they will be given over to be deceived. When the see the Mahdi-Antichrist or the counterfeit Jesus command fire to come down from heaven among other things, the will say of him"...Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? ..." .
The Mahdi will rise to power through propaganda and schemes as the
antichrist does. Modern day Islamists learned both their propaganda
techniques and much of it's content from
the Nazis. They are currently infiltrating forums of various Leftist groups
posing as good liberals and putting out anti-war, antigovernment
propaganda.It is the Islamists who framed 911 as a government
conspiracy in spite of the fact that Osama bin Laden has the technical skills and connections
to perform everything the government conspiracy theories allege.
The slickest piece of propaganda that the Mahdi and his counterfeit
Jesus will use is Islamic eshatology. Islamic eschatology antiparalells
Bible prophecy. As Bible endtime prophecies are literally fulfilled
concerning the Antichrist and the False Prophet are literally fulfilled
the so-called Mahdi will pass these off as fulfillments of Islamic
prophecy concerning the Mahdi and the Islamic Jesus. Islamic
eschatology will be used to trick the world to supporting and
ultimately worship the Antichrist.
Comparative Eschatology Reveals the Mahdi is the antichrist.
A comparison of Christian and Islamic eschatology shows that the Mahdi
is the antichrist The good guys of Islamic eschatology are the
bad guys in Christian eschatology.Islamic eschatology covers a endtimes
story similar to that of
Judeo-Christian prophecy but from the opposing perspective. The
Antichrist and flalse prophet, portrayed in the Bible as the human
archenemy of God, is portrayed as a hero and man of God in Islam.
This is best understood by taking the three main characters in Islamic
end times prophecy in context. The Mahdi is Islam's messiah
figure. He is assisted by the Muslim Jesus. The Muslims will claim that
He is Jesus Christ but this false Jesus will repudiate Christianity and
wage war against Jews and Christians. This Muslim Jesus will
look "...
like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon...
' The Islamic Jesus is the false prophet. As the false prophet does
miracles, points to the Antichrist, glorifies the antichrist
and
causes the world to worship and pledge allegiance to the Antichrist by
taking the mark of the beast- so the Islamic Jesus will do satanic
miracles, glorify the Mahdi and cause the world to worship and pledge
allegiance to the Mahdi by taking a mark of prostration.
The villain of Islamic eschatology is called the Dajjal. Islamic
prophecy gives a very fanciful, and not realistic description of the
Dajjal. Muslims believe that he will be blind in one eye, with a
fingernail protruding out of the blind eye.There are however two
characteristics of the Dajjal that are significant here. He will claim
to be Allah (God) and that he is the Jewish Messiah. This identifies
the Dajjal with the real Jesus Christ that Jews and Christians know.
Conclusion.
The antichrist will come to power by claiming to be al-Mahdi. While he
may not be a "true Muslim" he will use Islamic eschatology to deceive
he world into pledging their allegiance to him. He will eventuall claim
God and demand worship.(Christian and Islamic objection
notwithstanding)He will then, in the name of Islam, launch the most
evil reign or terror the world has ever seen. The wickedness and
atrocities are so bad the Jesus Christ the Jewish-Christian Messiah and
deliverer of Israel will return to stop the madness. He will destroy
the Caliphate and send the Mahdi-Antichrist and the false Islamic Jesus
alive into the Lake of Fire.
.Qiyamah -
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Islamic
eschatology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Islamic
view of Jesus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USC-MSA
Compendium of Muslim Texts
Islamic
Eschatology: Implications for Christian Witness(HTML)
Eschatology_in_Islam_and_Implications_for_the_Gospel.pdf
Amazon.com: Antichrist: Islam's Awaited Messiah (Joel Richardson)
Will
Islam Be Our Future? A Study of Biblical and Islamic
Eschatology
The following links are from Muslim perspectives on Islamic eschatology.
Table
of Contents-Daijal
Table
of Contents-The False Jesus and the Mahdi
Imam Mahdi
Jesus A.S. in Islam
Dajjal - Anti-Christ
Dajjal
- The Dark Messiah ( Anti-Christ)
