This is food for thought..and I need some of you to research this and post your findings....:Is The Islamic Caliphate Daniel’s Fourth Kingdom? I thought it might be something you would want to look at … It may take time to sink in, but the restoration of an Islamic Caliphate in the Middle East could be the most important fulfillment of biblical prophecy since the Israelis recaptured all of Jerusalem in 1967. In early June a new group of fundamentalist rebels sprouted into existence, taking over huge parts of Syria and Iraq. Western Media calls them I.S.I.S. and tells us it stands for “the Islamic State of (Greater) Syria and Iraq.” On June 29, they declared a new Islamic Caliphate, dropping the names of Syria and Iraq as states they no longer recognize, as national borders set by Britain and France a century ago will no longer matter as they conquer the world for Islam. They choose to be known simply as the Islamic State now. The Islamic religion requires all Muslims to swear an oath of loyalty (bay’ah) and submission to the Caliph – the supreme leader of Islam. The Caliph is somewhat like “the pope of Islam” but with much greater power over his subjects. As the Islamic State grows in power, and as the population of the Islamic world accepts their leadership, they could soon have the respect and support of over a billion Muslims. Especially if Israel happens to do anything that outrages the Muslim world and further unites them against a common enemy. The Bible talks about a false religion in the end times that will persecute Christians. We are told this false religion will be led by the Antichrist, and that he will take over Jerusalem and make it his capital. We are told that if Christians do not renounce their faith in Jesus and swear loyalty to the Antichrist they will be beheaded. We are told the followers of the false religion will think they are doing God service for killing Christians and Jews. The last 3.5 years of Daniel’s 70th week will be the worst, most brutal years in human history, and they will soon be upon us. As author Joel Richardson describes in Books like Mideast Beast and Islamic Antichrist, the Bible’s many descriptions of the final empire of the Antichrist is not a revived Roman Empire, but a revived Islamic Caliphate. Daniel’s fourth kingdom was described as destroying and encompassing the three empires before it (Babylonian, Persian, and Greek) – but the Romans were only in Babylon for a few months from 116-117 A.D., and Rome never conquered Persia. Daniel’s fourth kingdom cannot be the Roman Empire. Despite being less centrally important to European and American thinking than the Roman Empire – the historical Islamic Caliphate fits the Bible’s description by having completely incorporated the Babylonian, Persian, and Greek empires. The old Islamic Caliphate also contained the nations and peoples which the Bible constantly describes as Israel’s future end times enemies – Europe does not. Richardson proves with hundreds of scriptural references that we should look to the Middle East for the rebirth of Daniel’s fourth kingdom – in the form of a revived Islamic Caliphate – and that a future request by the Antichrist to submit to him and worship Allah fits with the Bible’s description of the abomination of desolation. Recent events match the conclusions of my research – that we will know the Antichrist and his empire by June 2016, and that everything in Bible prophecy will come to a head by December 2019. Your thoughts? Does Rome still play a part in this, and will the Vatican use ISIS as a way to meet the end of Jews and Christians?
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 02:53:27 +0000
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