ISLAM 101.

Public figures and pundits across the political spectrum, from George Bush to Barack Obama and Shawn Hannity to Alan Colmes, suggest that the global war “on terror” - which actually describes a tactic rather than an enemy - is against some rogue “radicals” that have “hijacked” an otherwise peaceful religion. Islamic groups in the U.S. even rent billboard space on the side of public buses to advertise that Islam is simply another Abrahamic faith suggesting kinship to Judaism and Christianity. With public displays of one pope kissing the Quran and the next bowing toward Mecca from inside a Mosque, it might give one pause to wonder.

Most Muslims in the U.S. seem peaceful enough, but why are so many in the middle east cradle of their religion, so violent? How is Islamic violence in Europe to be explained? What about Africa, India, and Indonesia? With some counts at two million killed in the Sudan alone, why does the peaceful Islamic, presumed majority, remain so stunningly silent in regard to Muslim perpetrated bloodshed throughout the world? Where is the public condemnation of the violence, particularly from their Imams, and other leaders?

Some Muslims suggest that they follow the “law” because they don't eat pork and skip lunch for a month, but they don't follow the 613 Mosaic laws, let alone that Muslims are almost universally born Gentile, not Jew. Others suggest that the Quran must be read in Arabic to understand Islam, but a Christian only needs to know A SINGLE VERSE from their book, in any language, to recognize that Islam is the PERFECT OPPOSITE of that revealed through the new covenant:

Surah 4.157 That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah";- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not:-

While blindness to the Gospel that God gave some Jews is discussed in the book of Romans, everything a Christian needs to know about Mohammed's religion is revealed through this single verse that rejects ALL of the prophets, apostles, and the WHOLE SUBJECT of the new covenant, that brought salvation unto Gentiles.

Even as ALL Muslims must deny Jesus' blood, many believe that the first drop of blood shed by a Muslim so-called “martyr”, may provide propitiation for the sins of seventy of his nearest and dearest friends and relatives. But Mohammed prevents them from believing that a loving God could manifest Himself in the flesh of a man, to do the very same, for all who have faith in His shed blood.

It is easy to understand why Muslims go to desperate measures, to imagine Mohammed as a prophesied prophet, but to no avail. Thus they are left with a stand-alone 6th century religion, recited by a single individual, who received “revelations” from a spirit while alone in a cave. Even Mohammed came away believing it was a demon because he felt like it tried to squeeze the life out of him three times. Christians well understand the encounter:

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Surah 9.30 The Jews call 'Uzair a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth!

If "Allah" were the same as the Christian's and Jew's God "Yahweh" He would seem both schizophrenic and bi-polar! Islam is so perfectly opposite to Christianity it should give even a devout atheist pause to wonder.

Western Muslim apologists for Islamic violence either know very little about their own religion or are engaging in Islamic subterfuge - known as taqiyyah - or lying in the way of Allah. They should know that if they lived in the cradle of their religion and protested Islam’s fourteen hundred year lust for conquest of all the kingdoms of the world, they could be killed as an apostate.

Sura 8:12 I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them.

We find this verse manifest, for example, in Indonesia where 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."

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."

If a Saudi Arabian doesn't show up for prayers in the morning the religious authorities may show up at his home to find out why. The same enforcement authority that killed 15 girls by sending them back into a burning school, because the girls emerged without head coverings, in their panic to escape the flames.

At least 18% of the world’s Muslim population hold views that the vast majority of non-Muslims would consider radical. No small number with a global Muslim population of about 1.5 billion suggesting that minority is close to 300 million.

A practical view is that the non-apostate 18% of the Muslim community is doing the heavy lifting of Islamic conquest, while 82% are satisfied to go along for the ride. This would explain their silence in regard to the violence perpetrated by their brethren. While generally subdued in their cheers for Islamic victory when around non-Muslims - except perhaps on U.S. college campuses - we witnessed jubilant celebration throughout the Islamic world, in the wake of the murder of innocents in the World Trade Center destruction.

Is it reasonable to suggest that Muslims that preach peace will prevail, or the ones that would cut the heads off of those who preach peace, for apostasy? Even now Sunnis and Shiites murder each others innocent men, women, and children, believing each other to be apostate. Fathers behead their own daughters and wives as a means of preserving their “honor”.

Click on the links in the "more info" section for a playlist for Christians, a website text version of this video embellished with supporting links, and a link to a forum for in depth and meaningful discussion.

In part 1 we discussed the perfectly opposite nature of Mohammed's stand-alone 6th century religion, to Christianity, as revealed through scripture, and began discussion of the violence of Islam.

Over it’s first 13 years, Mohammed’s was a reasonably peaceful religion, but he was barely able to win a hundred converts, and was frequently ridiculed. Then he picked up the sword and began “conversion” through an Islamic reign of terror that included the murder of poets asleep in their beds, who had critiqued his "revelations", as well as caravan pillage and plunder and slaughter of an entire village of Jews who didn't buy into his new religion but preferred their own, 2,000 year old religion.

From the conquest of nearly the whole known world of the Islamic First Jihad, to Ahmadinejad, the 1400 year goal has remained the same: “... Islam will conquer mountaintops of the entire world.”. The dar el salaam, or house of peace, conquest of the dar el harb, or house of war. If you are a non-Muslim you may not be at war against Islam, but Islam has been at war against you for fourteen hundred years.

No surprise that they lust after the kingdoms of this world, since these kingdoms belong to Satan. In perfect contrast, Christians are specifically called out of these earthly kingdoms, and into the kingdom of God. Many Muslims put on a facade of being peaceful Mecca style Muslims when around non-Muslims, but become militant Mohammed-Medina style Muslims, when in the company of their own, or in countries controlled by Islam.

It is painfully obvious that violent Muslims will remain in control of Islam primarily because they are the ones that most closely follow Mohammed’s example as detailed through the Quran and Hadith.

Sura 9:123 O ye who believe! fight the unbelievers who gird you about, and let them find firmness in you: and know that Allah is with those who fear Him.

U.S. mosques become radicalized within a few week visit by clerics from their Saudi Wahabi financier/founders. Some U.S. mosques receive direct Saudi funds for each American “convert” which they verify using the mosque’s video surveillance system. Fortunately, in the U.S. about 3/4 of so-called converts, leave Islam within three years. In some Islamic countries, under sharia law, the risk for leaving Islam is death, though that can be the punishment even in Western countries like Canada.

If Islam were a peaceful religion, how can the rape, pillage, plunder and sexual enslavement of the Islamic First Jihad, imperialistic conquest all the way up into France, be explained? Or the over 12,000 deadly Islamic terror attacks around the world, just since 9-11, as logged by the folks at thereligionofpeace.com?

Whether the Islamic First Jihad, the Islamic Mufti of Jerusalem shoulder to shoulder with Hitler in genocide of Jews, the beheading of teenage girls on their way to Christian school in Indonesia, hotel murders in India, train bombings in Spain, the two million slain in the Sudan, or those murdered in Nigeria and throughout most of the rest of Africa, it is obviously utterly absurd to suggest that this 1400 year reign of terror has anything whatsoever to do with Israel or Zionism.

Jews will hide behind the rock and tree, and the rock and tree will say: "oh servant of Allah, oh Muslim, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!"

1 John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the son. 23 Whosoever denieth the son, the same hath not the father: [(but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also].

Not surprisingly the most important fundamental in Islam is “shirk”, manifest specifically in denial that God has a Son. Thus Mohammed and those that follow him are perfectly antichrist as the single most important tenant of their religion.

2John 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

Of even more importance, of course, is Mohammed’s specific denial that Jesus died on the Cross, thereby rejecting ALL of the New Testament prophets and apostles, and the whole subject of the new covenant, that brought salvation through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

1John 5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

They reject the record God gave us in direct contradiction to even their own book. Over 5300 partial or complete manuscripts of God’s Word were penned prior to 300AD, in virtually every known language. Even hundreds of years after that Mohammed wrote:

Sura 4:136 - O ye who believe! Believe in Allah and His messenger and the Scripture which He hath revealed unto His messenger, and the Scripture which He revealed aforetime. Whoso disbelieveth in Allah and His angels and His scriptures and His messengers and the Last Day, he verily hath wandered far astray.

It is stunning to note that for 1400 years, and in the world today 1.5 billion people - 1/4 of mankind - follow a single 6th century, pillaging, plundering, murdering, sex slave capturing, false prophet, that was, and taught, the exact opposite of Jesus Christ - antichrist. A false prophet whose 23 year record of recitations is the direct opposite of the record of the 1600 year record of God through His Word.

Stunningly, the two eschatological doctrines popular in the 20th century church, both necessarily preclude, that Mohammed could be the false prophet prophesied by John. Yet each of these two views of the book of Revelation, recognize the other as being virtually 100% in error, as there is a 1900 year gulf that divides them.

However, when we apply the traditional continuous-historic context, through which Christians and Jews universally understand the book of Daniel, and his lion, bear and leopard "beast" kingdoms, to the book of Revelation, Islam comes sharply into focus as the end-time foe of God's people, and Mohammed as the prophesied false prophet.

Have you ever considered the book of Revelation through this traditional continuous-historic context? Is defense of doctrine of greatest importance, even when we see absolute conflict, regarding popular interpretations of these areas of the figurative language of dreams and visions in prophecy? Jesus warned the Pharisees of such:

Mark 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

It would seem that, in part because of unsound eschatology, the church as left 1.5 billion Muslims hanging out to dry. Tragically, when they witness the pope kissing the Quran, or the ecumenical movement of an increasingly apostate church (2Thess 2:3), Muslims are encouraged to remain suffering under the delusion of their false prophet. The Pope missed a truly historic opportunity to give a Ronald Reagan style “evil empire” speech and instead capitulated to the Mohammedans demands, it would seem, to avoid persecution. At least it's hard to imagine that the Pope could be that ignorant to the content of the Quran.

A completely different context must be considered entirely on it's own merit, rather than trying to wring snippets of it through a partial-preterist or futurist doctrine that we may presently hold. For those bold enough in Jesus Christ to consider a fresh look at bible prophecy, through the traditional context, please enjoy the "playlist for Christians" by clicking the first link in the upper right "more info" section of this video. For the text version of this video embellished with links, please visit the "Islam 101" page at IsraelinBibleProhecy.com at the second link in the upper right of this video.

To consider a brick by brick empirical argument please read "The False Prophet", available absolutely free at beholdthebeast.com by clicking the third link in the "more info" section. For almost thirty years, the author Ellis Skolfield, has written about the central role of Islam, as the end-time foe of God’s people in bible prophecy, through hermeneutically sound exegesis of the books of Daniel and Revelation.

All are invited to join us in the Ecclesia Forum for discussion at brotherpete.com by clicking the fourth link in the upper right.


	ISRAEL IN BIBLE PROPHECY \| home INDEX \| DANIEL'S BEASTS \| DANIEL'S "TIMES" PROPHECIES \| LBL \| ANTICHRIST \| JOHN'S EIGHT BEASTS \| JOHN'S 1260 "DAYS" \| BEAST 42 "MONTHS" \| 666 \| THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION \| GENTILE 42 "MONTHS" \| 69 WEEKS \| DANIEL'S 1290 "DAYS" \| DANIEL'S 1335 "DAYS" \| FIG TREE \| SOME JEWS BLINDNESS TO THE GOSPEL \| TWO WITNESSES \| THAT MAN OF SIN \| CHRISTIAN POLYTHEISM \| ISLAM, DECEPTION, AHMED DEEDAT, AND TAQIYYAH \| NOT THE SAME GOD \| LAMB SLAIN \| THE STRONG DELUSION \| DEEDAT, ISLAM, HITLER AND HATE \| APOLOGY TO MUSLIMS \| ISLAMIC HATRED OF JEWS \| ISLAM AND FRIENDSHIP \| ISLAMIC JIHAD \| THE TEMPLE OF GOD \| THE BEAST OF REVELATION 13 \| TEXTUAL INTEGRITY - BIBLE VS QURAN \| NEW COVENANT \| ISLAM: THE PERFECT OPPOSITE \| MOHAMMED'S HEAVEN \| ISLAM AND SCRIPTURE \| ISLAM 101. \| CHURCH TRADITION \| QURAN & ABROGATION \| THE NAME ALLAH \| GAZA \| QURAN INSPIRATION \| YHWH MANIFEST \| BANU QURAYZA MASSACRE \| JIHAD \| JESUS' CRUCIFIXION IN PROPHECY \| THE SCRIPTURES WERE CORRUPTED \| THE PALE HORSE \| YAHWEH YAHSHUA \| OLD TESTAMENT VIOLENCE \| ZIONISM \| Anti-Zionism & Anti-Zionists ISLAM 101. An introduction to Islam. Public figures and pundits across the political spectrum, from George Bush to Barack Obama and Shawn Hannity to Alan Colmes, suggest that the global war “on terror” - which actually describes a tactic rather than an enemy - is against some rogue “radicals” that have “hijacked” an otherwise peaceful religion. Islamic groups in the U.S. even rent billboard space on the side of public buses to advertise that Islam is simply another Abrahamic faith suggesting kinship to Judaism and Christianity. With public displays of one pope kissing the Quran and the next bowing toward Mecca from inside a Mosque, it might give one pause to wonder. Most Muslims in the U.S. seem peaceful enough, but why are so many in the middle east cradle of their religion, so violent? How is Islamic violence in Europe to be explained? What about Africa, India, and Indonesia? With some counts at two million killed in the Sudan alone, why does the peaceful Islamic, presumed majority, remain so stunningly silent in regard to Muslim perpetrated bloodshed throughout the world? Where is the public condemnation of the violence, particularly from their Imams, and other leaders? Some Muslims suggest that they follow the “law” because they don't eat pork and skip lunch for a month, but they don't follow the 613 Mosaic laws, let alone that Muslims are almost universally born Gentile, not Jew. Others suggest that the Quran must be read in Arabic to understand Islam, but a Christian only needs to know A SINGLE VERSE from their book, in any language, to recognize that Islam is the PERFECT OPPOSITE of that revealed through the new covenant: Surah 4.157 That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah";- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not:- While blindness to the Gospel that God gave some Jews is discussed in the book of Romans, everything a Christian needs to know about Mohammed's religion is revealed through this single verse that rejects ALL of the prophets, apostles, and the WHOLE SUBJECT of the new covenant, that brought salvation unto Gentiles. Even as ALL Muslims must deny Jesus' blood, many believe that the first drop of blood shed by a Muslim so-called “martyr”, may provide propitiation for the sins of seventy of his nearest and dearest friends and relatives. But Mohammed prevents them from believing that a loving God could manifest Himself in the flesh of a man, to do the very same, for all who have faith in His shed blood. Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. It is easy to understand why Muslims go to desperate measures, to imagine Mohammed as a prophesied prophet, but to no avail. Thus they are left with a stand-alone 6th century religion, recited by a single individual, who received “revelations” from a spirit while alone in a cave. Even Mohammed came away believing it was a demon because he felt like it tried to squeeze the life out of him three times. Christians well understand the encounter: 2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Christians readily recognize where Mohammed can be found in the bible: Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. But Mohammed even came as a ravening wolf. One of the most blessed verses in all of Christianity is: John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. No surprise then that Mohammed's answer is: Sura 19:88 They say: "(Allah) Most Gracious has begotten a son!" 89 Indeed ye have put forth a thing most monstrous! Mohammed's "Allah" even curses: Surah 9.30 The Jews call 'Uzair a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth! If "Allah" were the same as the Christian's and Jew's God "Yahweh" He would seem both schizophrenic and bi-polar! Islam is so perfectly opposite to Christianity it should give even a devout atheist pause to wonder. Western Muslim apologists for Islamic violence either know very little about their own religion or are engaging in Islamic subterfuge - known as taqiyyah - or lying in the way of Allah. They should know that if they lived in the cradle of their religion and protested Islam’s fourteen hundred year lust for conquest of all the kingdoms of the world, they could be killed as an apostate. Practicing taqiyyah some partially quote a verse near the beginning of the Quran: Surah 2:256 “Let there be no compulsion in religion:...” But that verse is abrogated by a many later verses that suggest violence against non-Muslims such as: Sura 8:12 I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them. We find this verse manifest, for example, in Indonesia where 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." Regarding no compulsion in religion, we find a practical example of what happens, once Islam is in control: 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." If a Saudi Arabian doesn't show up for prayers in the morning the religious authorities may show up at his home to find out why. The same enforcement authority that killed 15 girls by sending them back into a burning school, because the girls emerged without head coverings, in their panic to escape the flames. At least 18% of the world’s Muslim population hold views that the vast majority of non-Muslims would consider radical. No small number with a global Muslim population of about 1.5 billion suggesting that minority is close to 300 million. A practical view is that the non-apostate 18% of the Muslim community is doing the heavy lifting of Islamic conquest, while 82% are satisfied to go along for the ride. This would explain their silence in regard to the violence perpetrated by their brethren. While generally subdued in their cheers for Islamic victory when around non-Muslims - except perhaps on U.S. college campuses - we witnessed jubilant celebration throughout the Islamic world, in the wake of the murder of innocents in the World Trade Center destruction. Is it reasonable to suggest that Muslims that preach peace will prevail, or the ones that would cut the heads off of those who preach peace, for apostasy? Even now Sunnis and Shiites murder each others innocent men, women, and children, believing each other to be apostate. Fathers behead their own daughters and wives as a means of preserving their “honor”. Click on the icon in the "video response" section to view part 2. Click on the links in the "more info" section for a playlist for Christians, a website text version of this video embellished with supporting links, and a link to a forum for in depth and meaningful discussion. ISLAM 101 - part 2 In part 1 we discussed the perfectly opposite nature of Mohammed's stand-alone 6th century religion, to Christianity, as revealed through scripture, and began discussion of the violence of Islam. Over it’s first 13 years, Mohammed’s was a reasonably peaceful religion, but he was barely able to win a hundred converts, and was frequently ridiculed. Then he picked up the sword and began “conversion” through an Islamic reign of terror that included the murder of poets asleep in their beds, who had critiqued his "revelations", as well as caravan pillage and plunder and slaughter of an entire village of Jews who didn't buy into his new religion but preferred their own, 2,000 year old religion. From the conquest of nearly the whole known world of the Islamic First Jihad, to Ahmadinejad, the 1400 year goal has remained the same: “... Islam will conquer mountaintops of the entire world.”. The dar el salaam, or house of peace, conquest of the dar el harb, or house of war. If you are a non-Muslim you may not be at war against Islam, but Islam has been at war against you for fourteen hundred years. No surprise that they lust after the kingdoms of this world, since these kingdoms belong to Satan. In perfect contrast, Christians are specifically called out of these earthly kingdoms, and into the kingdom of God. Many Muslims put on a facade of being peaceful Mecca style Muslims when around non-Muslims, but become militant Mohammed-Medina style Muslims, when in the company of their own, or in countries controlled by Islam. It is painfully obvious that violent Muslims will remain in control of Islam primarily because they are the ones that most closely follow Mohammed’s example as detailed through the Quran and Hadith. Sura 9:123 O ye who believe! fight the unbelievers who gird you about, and let them find firmness in you: and know that Allah is with those who fear Him. U.S. mosques become radicalized within a few week visit by clerics from their Saudi Wahabi financier/founders. Some U.S. mosques receive direct Saudi funds for each American “convert” which they verify using the mosque’s video surveillance system. Fortunately, in the U.S. about 3/4 of so-called converts, leave Islam within three years. In some Islamic countries, under sharia law, the risk for leaving Islam is death, though that can be the punishment even in Western countries like Canada. If Islam were a peaceful religion, how can the rape, pillage, plunder and sexual enslavement of the Islamic First Jihad, imperialistic conquest all the way up into France, be explained? Or the over 12,000 deadly Islamic terror attacks around the world, just since 9-11, as logged by the folks at thereligionofpeace.com? Matthew 7:17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. Whether the Islamic First Jihad, the Islamic Mufti of Jerusalem shoulder to shoulder with Hitler in genocide of Jews, the beheading of teenage girls on their way to Christian school in Indonesia, hotel murders in India, train bombings in Spain, the two million slain in the Sudan, or those murdered in Nigeria and throughout most of the rest of Africa, it is obviously utterly absurd to suggest that this 1400 year reign of terror has anything whatsoever to do with Israel or Zionism. The hadith, however, does a good job of explaining the long tradition of Islamic hatred specifically of Jews: Jews will hide behind the rock and tree, and the rock and tree will say: "oh servant of Allah, oh Muslim, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!" Sahih Bukhari Hadith Volume 4, Book 52, Number 176 - Sunna: Sahih Muslim Book 041, Number 6985 Earlier we learned that Mohammed's "Allah" curses Christians for recognizing the Son of God. 1 John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the son. 23 Whosoever denieth the son, the same hath not the father: [(but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also]. Not surprisingly the most important fundamental in Islam is “shirk”, manifest specifically in denial that God has a Son. Thus Mohammed and those that follow him are perfectly antichrist as the single most important tenant of their religion. Many claim they follow Jesus but: 2John 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. Of even more importance, of course, is Mohammed’s specific denial that Jesus died on the Cross, thereby rejecting ALL of the New Testament prophets and apostles, and the whole subject of the new covenant, that brought salvation through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Modern day Mohammedans reject God's record: 1John 5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. They reject the record God gave us in direct contradiction to even their own book. Over 5300 partial or complete manuscripts of God’s Word were penned prior to 300AD, in virtually every known language. Even hundreds of years after that Mohammed wrote: Sura 4:136 - O ye who believe! Believe in Allah and His messenger and the Scripture which He hath revealed unto His messenger, and the Scripture which He revealed aforetime. Whoso disbelieveth in Allah and His angels and His scriptures and His messengers and the Last Day, he verily hath wandered far astray. It is stunning to note that for 1400 years, and in the world today 1.5 billion people - 1/4 of mankind - follow a single 6th century, pillaging, plundering, murdering, sex slave capturing, false prophet, that was, and taught, the exact opposite of Jesus Christ - antichrist. A false prophet whose 23 year record of recitations is the direct opposite of the record of the 1600 year record of God through His Word. The only anti-another-religion, religion, by design. Stunningly, the two eschatological doctrines popular in the 20th century church, both necessarily preclude, that Mohammed could be the false prophet prophesied by John. Yet each of these two views of the book of Revelation, recognize the other as being virtually 100% in error, as there is a 1900 year gulf that divides them. However, when we apply the traditional continuous-historic context, through which Christians and Jews universally understand the book of Daniel, and his lion, bear and leopard "beast" kingdoms, to the book of Revelation, Islam comes sharply into focus as the end-time foe of God's people, and Mohammed as the prophesied false prophet. Have you ever considered the book of Revelation through this traditional continuous-historic context? Is defense of doctrine of greatest importance, even when we see absolute conflict, regarding popular interpretations of these areas of the figurative language of dreams and visions in prophecy? Jesus warned the Pharisees of such: Mark 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. It would seem that, in part because of unsound eschatology, the church as left 1.5 billion Muslims hanging out to dry. Tragically, when they witness the pope kissing the Quran, or the ecumenical movement of an increasingly apostate church (2Thess 2:3), Muslims are encouraged to remain suffering under the delusion of their false prophet. The Pope missed a truly historic opportunity to give a Ronald Reagan style “evil empire” speech and instead capitulated to the Mohammedans demands, it would seem, to avoid persecution. At least it's hard to imagine that the Pope could be that ignorant to the content of the Quran. A completely different context must be considered entirely on it's own merit, rather than trying to wring snippets of it through a partial-preterist or futurist doctrine that we may presently hold. For those bold enough in Jesus Christ to consider a fresh look at bible prophecy, through the traditional context, please enjoy the "playlist for Christians" by clicking the first link in the upper right "more info" section of this video. For the text version of this video embellished with links, please visit the "Islam 101" page at IsraelinBibleProhecy.com at the second link in the upper right of this video. To consider a brick by brick empirical argument please read "The False Prophet", available absolutely free at beholdthebeast.com by clicking the third link in the "more info" section. For almost thirty years, the author Ellis Skolfield, has written about the central role of Islam, as the end-time foe of God’s people in bible prophecy, through hermeneutically sound exegesis of the books of Daniel and Revelation. All are invited to join us in the Ecclesia Forum for discussion at brotherpete.com by clicking the fourth link in the upper right. Click the "video response" of this video to view part 1. May God bless you and lead us all, in all truth. Jesus IS truth. John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.