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I just finished reading a book by Joel Richardson who has been Christian evangelist to Muslims since 1994 and his book is entitled The Islamic Antichrist: The Shocking Truth about the Real Nature of the Beast.
As you may already know, according to the Christian Bible there are three big players during end time events--The Antichrist, The False Prophet and Jesus Christ.
Oddly enough, according to Islamic teachings there are also three big players during end time events--The Mahdi, Jesus (called in Islam “Isa”) who returns to the Earth to serve as the Mahdi’s prophet and the Islamic Antichrist (called the “Dajjal”).
Mr. Richardson draws numerous parallels between the Christian version of end-time events and the Islamic version of end-time events particularly among the three big time players. In fact, the Islamic Mahdi would fit the description of the Christian Antichrist, Isa (the Islamic Jesus) fits the description of the Christian False Prophet and the Islamic Antichrist fits the description of the returning Jesus Christ of the Bible.
Or to put it another way:
Jesus Christ (Bible) = Islamic Antichrist,
The False Prophet (Bible) = Isa (the Islamic Jesus),
The Antichrist (Bible) = Mahdi (Islam’s Messiah)
Here are the parallels taken from the book (chapter 18, pages 171-175):
· “Bible: The Antichrist is an unparalleled political, military, and religious leader that will emerge in the last days.
· Islam: The Mahdi is an unparalleled political, military, and religious leader that will emerge in the last days.
· Bible: The False Prophet is a secondary prominent figure that will emerge in the last days who will support the Antichrist.
· Islam: The Muslim Jesus is a secondary prominent figure that will emerge in the last days who will support the Mahdi.
· Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet together will have a powerful army that will do great damage to the earth in an effort to subdue every nation and dominate the world.
· Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus will have a powerful army that will do great damage to the earth in an effort to subdue every nation and dominate the world.
· Bible: The False Prophet is described essentially as a dragon in lamb’s clothing.
· Islam: The Muslim Jesus comes bearing the name of the one that the world knows as “the Lamb of God,” Jesus Christ. Yet the Muslim Jesus come to murder all those who do not submit to Islam.
· Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet establish a new world order.
· Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus establish a new world order.
· Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet institute new laws for the whole earth.
· Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus institute Islamic law all over the earth.
· Bible: The Antichrist is said to “change the times”.
· Islam: It is quite certain that if the Mahdi established Islam all over the earth, he would discontinue the use of Saturday and Sunday as the weekend or days of rest, changing to Friday, the holy day of Islam. Also, he would most certainly eliminate the Gregorian calendar and replace it with the Islamic calendar currently used in every Islamic country.
· Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet will both be powerful religious leaders who will attempt to institute a universal world religion.
· Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus will institute Islam as the only religion on the earth.
· Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet will execute anyone who does not submit to Islam.
· Islam: Likewise, the Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus will execute anyone who does not submit to Islam
· Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet will specifically use beheading as the primary means of execution for nonconformists.
· Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus will use the Islamic practice of beheading for executions.
· Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet will have a specific agenda to kill as many Jews as possible.
· Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus will kill as many Jews as possible, until only a few are left hiding behind rocks and trees.
· Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet will attack to conquer and seize Jerusalem.
· Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus will attack to reconquer and seize Jerusalem for Islam.
· Bible: The Antichrist will set himself up in the Jewish Temple as his seat of authority.
· Islam: The Mahdi will establish the Islamic caliphate from Jerusalem.
· Bible: The False Prophet is said to do many miracles to deceive as many as possible into supporting the Antichrist.
· Islam: The Mahdi himself is said to control the weather and the crops. His face is said to glow. We can also assume that since Jesus is viewed as having been empowered by Allah to work miracles when he was here on earth the first time, he will most likely be expected to continue to do so when he returns.
· Bible: The Antichrist is described as riding on a white horse in the Book of Revelation.
· Islam: The Mahdi is described as riding on a white horse.
· Bible: The Antichrist is said to make a peace treaty with Israel for seven years.
· Islam: The Mahdi is said to make a peace treaty through a Jew (specifically a Levite) for exactly seven years.
· Bible: Jesus the Jewish Messiah will return to defend the Jews in Israel from a military attack from a vast coalition of nations led by the Antichrist and the False Prophet.
· Islam: The Dajjal, the Islamic Antichrist, will gain a great Jewish following and claim to be Jesus Christ; He will fight against the Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus.
· Bible: The spirit of antichrist specifically denies the most unique and central doctrines of Christianity, namely the Trinity, the incarnation, and the substitutionary death of Jesus on the Cross.
· Islam: Islam doctrinally and spiritually specifically denies the most unique and central doctrines of Christianity, namely the Trinity, the incarnation, and the substitutionary death of Jesus on the Cross.
· Bible: The primary warning of Jesus and the Apostle Paul was to warn Christians of the abundance of deceit and deception in the last days.
· Islam: Islam is perhaps the only religion on the earth that practices deceit as one of its tools to assist its own ascendency. It actually has a specific doctrine that allows and even calls for deception to be used to achieve its desired goal.
· Bible: The specific nations pictured in the Bible as part of the final empire of the Antichrist are all Islamic nations.
· Islam: All Muslims are commanded to give their allegiance to the Mahdi as the final caliph and imam (leader) of Islam.
· Bible: From the Bible and history we learn that the final Antichrist empire will be a revived version of the empire that succeeds the Roman empire.
· Islam: The empire that succeeded the Roman / Byzantine empire was the Islamic Ottoman empire.
· Bible: When the Antichrist emerges, a system will already exist that is poised to receive him as a savior and to give allegiance to him.
· Islam: Islam is already the second-largest religion and will at present growth rates become the largest religion within a few decades. Islam awaits the coming of the Mahdi with universal anticipation.”
As you can see the parallels are numerous and unsettling. But what are your thoughts on the matter. Do you believe that Islam will prop-up and support the Antichrist and False Prophet?
As you may already know, according to the Christian Bible there are three big players during end time events--The Antichrist, The False Prophet and Jesus Christ.
Oddly enough, according to Islamic teachings there are also three big players during end time events--The Mahdi, Jesus (called in Islam “Isa”) who returns to the Earth to serve as the Mahdi’s prophet and the Islamic Antichrist (called the “Dajjal”).
Mr. Richardson draws numerous parallels between the Christian version of end-time events and the Islamic version of end-time events particularly among the three big time players. In fact, the Islamic Mahdi would fit the description of the Christian Antichrist, Isa (the Islamic Jesus) fits the description of the Christian False Prophet and the Islamic Antichrist fits the description of the returning Jesus Christ of the Bible.
Or to put it another way:
Jesus Christ (Bible) = Islamic Antichrist,
The False Prophet (Bible) = Isa (the Islamic Jesus),
The Antichrist (Bible) = Mahdi (Islam’s Messiah)
Here are the parallels taken from the book (chapter 18, pages 171-175):
· “Bible: The Antichrist is an unparalleled political, military, and religious leader that will emerge in the last days.
· Islam: The Mahdi is an unparalleled political, military, and religious leader that will emerge in the last days.
· Bible: The False Prophet is a secondary prominent figure that will emerge in the last days who will support the Antichrist.
· Islam: The Muslim Jesus is a secondary prominent figure that will emerge in the last days who will support the Mahdi.
· Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet together will have a powerful army that will do great damage to the earth in an effort to subdue every nation and dominate the world.
· Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus will have a powerful army that will do great damage to the earth in an effort to subdue every nation and dominate the world.
· Bible: The False Prophet is described essentially as a dragon in lamb’s clothing.
· Islam: The Muslim Jesus comes bearing the name of the one that the world knows as “the Lamb of God,” Jesus Christ. Yet the Muslim Jesus come to murder all those who do not submit to Islam.
· Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet establish a new world order.
· Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus establish a new world order.
· Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet institute new laws for the whole earth.
· Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus institute Islamic law all over the earth.
· Bible: The Antichrist is said to “change the times”.
· Islam: It is quite certain that if the Mahdi established Islam all over the earth, he would discontinue the use of Saturday and Sunday as the weekend or days of rest, changing to Friday, the holy day of Islam. Also, he would most certainly eliminate the Gregorian calendar and replace it with the Islamic calendar currently used in every Islamic country.
· Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet will both be powerful religious leaders who will attempt to institute a universal world religion.
· Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus will institute Islam as the only religion on the earth.
· Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet will execute anyone who does not submit to Islam.
· Islam: Likewise, the Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus will execute anyone who does not submit to Islam
· Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet will specifically use beheading as the primary means of execution for nonconformists.
· Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus will use the Islamic practice of beheading for executions.
· Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet will have a specific agenda to kill as many Jews as possible.
· Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus will kill as many Jews as possible, until only a few are left hiding behind rocks and trees.
· Bible: The Antichrist and the False Prophet will attack to conquer and seize Jerusalem.
· Islam: The Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus will attack to reconquer and seize Jerusalem for Islam.
· Bible: The Antichrist will set himself up in the Jewish Temple as his seat of authority.
· Islam: The Mahdi will establish the Islamic caliphate from Jerusalem.
· Bible: The False Prophet is said to do many miracles to deceive as many as possible into supporting the Antichrist.
· Islam: The Mahdi himself is said to control the weather and the crops. His face is said to glow. We can also assume that since Jesus is viewed as having been empowered by Allah to work miracles when he was here on earth the first time, he will most likely be expected to continue to do so when he returns.
· Bible: The Antichrist is described as riding on a white horse in the Book of Revelation.
· Islam: The Mahdi is described as riding on a white horse.
· Bible: The Antichrist is said to make a peace treaty with Israel for seven years.
· Islam: The Mahdi is said to make a peace treaty through a Jew (specifically a Levite) for exactly seven years.
· Bible: Jesus the Jewish Messiah will return to defend the Jews in Israel from a military attack from a vast coalition of nations led by the Antichrist and the False Prophet.
· Islam: The Dajjal, the Islamic Antichrist, will gain a great Jewish following and claim to be Jesus Christ; He will fight against the Mahdi and the Muslim Jesus.
· Bible: The spirit of antichrist specifically denies the most unique and central doctrines of Christianity, namely the Trinity, the incarnation, and the substitutionary death of Jesus on the Cross.
· Islam: Islam doctrinally and spiritually specifically denies the most unique and central doctrines of Christianity, namely the Trinity, the incarnation, and the substitutionary death of Jesus on the Cross.
· Bible: The primary warning of Jesus and the Apostle Paul was to warn Christians of the abundance of deceit and deception in the last days.
· Islam: Islam is perhaps the only religion on the earth that practices deceit as one of its tools to assist its own ascendency. It actually has a specific doctrine that allows and even calls for deception to be used to achieve its desired goal.
· Bible: The specific nations pictured in the Bible as part of the final empire of the Antichrist are all Islamic nations.
· Islam: All Muslims are commanded to give their allegiance to the Mahdi as the final caliph and imam (leader) of Islam.
· Bible: From the Bible and history we learn that the final Antichrist empire will be a revived version of the empire that succeeds the Roman empire.
· Islam: The empire that succeeded the Roman / Byzantine empire was the Islamic Ottoman empire.
· Bible: When the Antichrist emerges, a system will already exist that is poised to receive him as a savior and to give allegiance to him.
· Islam: Islam is already the second-largest religion and will at present growth rates become the largest religion within a few decades. Islam awaits the coming of the Mahdi with universal anticipation.”
As you can see the parallels are numerous and unsettling. But what are your thoughts on the matter. Do you believe that Islam will prop-up and support the Antichrist and False Prophet?