The scriptures tell us that the Lord will do nothing unless He reveals it to His prophets.
Amos 3:7- "Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.KJV".
Gods precious Word has told us everything that will happen in these last days. The Lord spoke and declared that he would bring judgement against all those who go against His beloved Israel. In fact the scriptures predict a final war in which the Sons of Ishmael would play a very important part and pay a very heavy price.
As I hear the radical Muslims rail against Israel and the United States, I am reminded of Goliath when he called out for a soldier to do battle with him. God provided that soldier in a little boy named David who simply believed that God would do what He said He would. You can read about that famous battle in:
1 Samuel 17
"And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them."
We are witnessing the setting up of the final series of events that will usher in the Rapture, the Seven Year Tribulation and the Millenial Reign of Christ. The only question is how long it will be before the Lord gets enough and His patience runs out!
Hal Lindsey has written an excellent expose on Biblical Truths regarding the judgement of the Sons of Ishmael and the last days. Take a look and Think About It.
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Oracle Commentaries 11/21/2002
Edom, Islam and The Last Days
The War on Terror and Armageddon
The most powerful sphere of political power of the end time is the revived Roman Empire in Europe. It is destined to rule the West and then the world.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, I predicted in my book, Planet Earth, 2000 AD, that the world of Islam would become the most dangerous threat to world peace.
I wrote then, “Islamic Fundamentalism represents the greatest threat to world peace since World War 2.”
Islam has become even more dangerous than anyone imagined. However, it fits perfectly into the predicted scenario of last days events.
Islamic Fundamentalism has targeted two nations as their most hated enemy, Israel and the United States. They see the United States as the leader of Judeo-Christian culture, which in their view is the greatest threat to Islam.
Since the West of the last days must be ruled and led by the revived Roman culture of Europe, the United States must fade from power. It is on this basis that I see the Islamic world as the main force that will cause the demise of the US as the leader of the Western sphere of world power.
Islamic terrorists now have the ability to destroy our economy and moral and social infrastructures – and in the process take tens of thousands of lives.
Bible prophets predict a momentous role for the Arab sphere of world power. Though they are the least powerful of the four spheres of world power, they are the most strategic. It is this power that will be the driving force toward the world’s last great war called Armageddon.
The four thousand year old hatred that has existed in the descendants of Ishmael and Esau toward the descendants of Isaac and Jacob is the flame that will light the fuse of Armageddon.
God predicts the case against them through the prophet Ezekiel;
“Because you have had EVERLASTING ENMITY and have delivered the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of the punishment of the end, therefore, as I live,” ‘declares the Lord God,’ “I will give you over to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you.” (Ezekiel 35:5-6 NASB)
Ezekiel speaks of “the everlasting enmity” the Arabs have had toward Israel. He notes the continual attacks against them. Then he predicts the judgment that God will bring upon them at the time of “the punishment of the end.” I wrote all about this in my new book, “The Everlasting Hatred, the Roots of Jihad.”
Jeremiah also predicts the judgment against them at the end time. The time of this prophecy’s fulfillment is precisely set:
“Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘You shall surely drink! For behold, I am beginning to work calamity in this city which is called by My name, and shall you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment; for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth," declares the Lord of hosts.’” (Jeremiah 25:29 NASB) It is at the end of the Tribulation, just before the return of the Messiah Jesus, when God sends war upon the whole earth.
The names of all of the special recipients of this judgment are given, “EDOM”[a general name for Arab descendants of Esau], “all the kings of Arabia” [the descendants of Ishmael], “all the foreign people who dwell in the desert” [converts to Islam], “the kings of the north – near and far” [Russia and allies] … (Jeremiah 25:21-26 NASB)
God warns that the Arabs would be the special targets of His wrath. The reason given is because they took the land He gave to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their descendants and wouldn’t give it back.
God predicts they would arrogantly appropriate His land that He gave to Israel, “Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against ALL EDOM, who appropriated My land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with scorn of soul, to drive it out for a prey.”
Ezekiel predicts a great war would start when the Israelites miraculously return to the land and become a state again. He predicts the enemies of Israel by name. The confederacy of nations named is all the modern nations of the Muslim Middle East.
He predicts they will be armed and led by a great power from the extreme north of Israel, which could only be Russia:
“Be prepared, and prepare yourself, you and all your companies that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them. After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but its people were brought out from the nations, and they are living securely, all of them. And you will go up, you will come like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your troops, and many peoples with you.”
The Psalmist predicts the forming of this confederacy against Israel in the end time:
“For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head. They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. They have said, "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more. For they have consulted together with one consent; They form a confederacy against You: The tents of EDOM AND THE ISHMAELITES; Moab and the Hagrites; Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; Assyria [Syria] also has joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot.” (Psa.83:2-8 NKJV)
These nations all make up the Muslim Middle East.
The prophet Amos also prophesies about the Arabs in the end time, “This is what the LORD says: ‘For three sins of EDOM, even for four, I will not turn back my wrath. Because he pursued his brother with a sword, stifling all compassion, because his anger raged continually and his fury flamed unchecked, I will send fire upon Teman that will consume the fortresses of Bozrah.’” (Amos 1:11 NIV)
Once again, Edom is the general name for the Arabs of the last days.
The central thesis of the Koran is that the Jews distorted and falsified the original revelation God gave them. Mohammad was sent as the final Seal of the Prophets.
Here are some of the things said in the Hadith and the Koran, the two holy books of Islam.
“The Resurrection of the dead will not come until the Muslims will war with the Jews and the Muslims will kill them. The trees and rocks will say, ‘O Muslim, here is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.” (Mohammad in the Hadith)
“Muslims, take neither the Jews nor the Christians for your friends. They are friends with one another. Whoever of you seeks their friendship shall become one of their number. Allah does not guide the wrongdoers.” (Surah 5:51)
“Those who make war against Allah and His apostle Mohammad and spread disorder in the land shall be slain or crucified or have their hands and feet cut off on alternate sides, or banished from the land.” (Surah 5:33-34)
“Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate.” (Surah 9:73)
“When the sacred months are over, slay the idolators wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them.” (Surah 9:5)
Christians are considered “polytheists and idolators” because we believe that Jesus is the Son of God.
“NEVER DID ALLAH TAKE TO HIMSELF A SON, and never was there with him any (other) god – in that case would each god have certainly taken away what he created, and some of them would certainly have overpowered others; glory be to Allah above what they describe!” (Surah 23:91)
Verses like these from the Koran and Mohammad have continued to produce a great hate in much of Islam against Jews and Christians.
One of the founders of Saudi Arabia, al Riyadh Saud, said, “The power struggle between Israel and the Arabs is a long-term historical trial. Victory for defeat are for us questions of existence or annihilation – the outcome of an irreconcilable hatred.”
The founder of the terrorist organization Hamas proclaimed, “The war is open until Israel ceases to exist and until the last Jew in the world is eliminated.”
It should be noted that these statements are not the misconceptions of a few Muslim extremists. They are the logical outcome of the very tenets of the Muslim religion itself.
The history of the Arab people, the rise of Islam, the hostility they have maintained toward the Jews, the present contention over the land of Israel and the city of Jerusalem, all prove that the Bible is true and that we are in the very last days of the end time. It was all predicted.
In closing, I want to make it clear that God loves the Muslim people. He has always loved the Arabs. Jesus Christ died for every one of them.
He died for every one of them so that they can have a gift of forgiveness and be brought into God’s forever family. But they must recognize that their religion has no provision for making them holy and acceptable to a holy God.
They must throw themselves upon the mercy of God and receive the gift of pardon that Jesus, the Messiah died to purchase for each one of them.
This is also true for any one who is reading this and not sure of where your stand with God. If you want to know Him, and have a personal relationship with Him, receive the gift of pardon Jesus died to purchase for you.
By: Hal Lindsey
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