Is Islam the World Religion of the End Time?
27 Jun 2006
It seems like everywhere I go these days I’m asked, “Is Islam the end time world religion and will the antichrist be a Muslim?” Although Islam may help set the stage for the end time scenario, by uniting the world against Muslim militancy, it is not a candidate for the coming one world religion. Furthermore, it is highly unlikely that a Muslim will prove to be the antichrist.
The notion that militant Islam is destined to capture the world is being propagated today by so-called prophecy experts like Perry Stone and Hal Lindsey. While sensationalizing Bible prophecy with the latest headlines has always been good for book sales and the coffers of televangelists, it is seldom compatible with sound Biblical exegesis. For instance, this newest notion of today’s prophecy wonks may prove spellbinding for a short time, just like a multitude of other notions have in the past until ultimately proven speculative and mistaken, but this still doesn’t change the fact that this newest notion, like so many before it, is Scripturally unsound.
According to the Bible, the antichrist will be a diplomat who wins the world by intrigue, not a jihadist who conquers it with the sword. Moreover, the end time world religion will be an apostate Christianity—a harlot church in bed with all other religions—not a militant Islam. Speaking of Gnosticism, the ancient forerunner of modern New Age-type religions that are both infiltrating and apostatizing today’s church, the Apostle John wrote, “…this is the spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.” (1 John 4:3). Rather than looking for the rising “spirit of antichrist” in the Islamic world, as the Perry Stones and Hal Lindseys suggest, we ought to be looking for it in the ominous rising of an apostate church, as the Apostle John warned.
The world’s rising pagan friendly, all-inclusive, politically correct, do-it-yourself, apostate church is the real incubator that will hatch the one world religion of the end time. It is on the crest of this wave that the antichrist will ride into the world. Nothing, Islam included, will be able to stand before it. It will devour the earth and unleash a reign of terror such as the world has never known. Such a thing may seem inconceivable to you in light of the seemingly innocuous, tolerance championing, politically correct church of our day. Yet, let me assure you that just below the surface of all of this tolerance gibberish lies a seething hatred of God and of all things Christian that far exceeds anything ever recorded before in the annals of human history.
Recently, we were given a little glimpse of Islam’s inability to stand before the rising “spirit of antichrist” when the Muslim religion met its match in San Franciscan political correctness. Believe it or not, it was Islam that flinched.
According to the Hadith, the multiple wives of Mohammed occupied rooms attached to the mosque of the Prophet’s Medina dwelling. A tent-like curtain separated the rooms of the Prophet’s wives from his assembled followers. Every time Mohammed’s followers assembled, some male worshippers would purposely come late to the mosque in order to ogle the female worshippers from behind. As a result, Mohammed ordered all of the men to pray in the front of the mosque and all of the women to pray in the back; after all, ogling or being ogled can be quite distracting during one’s prayer time.
At the beginning of the 18th century, the Wahhabi Muslims of Saudi Arabia went a step further in segregating male and female worshippers at the mosque. They began erecting walls in their mosques to separate the men from the women; much like Mohammed separated his wives from attendees at his mosque by a curtain. These walls of separation are seen in the vast majority of Muslim mosques in the world today. Since most of the money to construct mosque in America comes from Saudi Arabia, the majority of American mosques are partitioned, dividing the men from the women and children.
Up until recently San Francisco’s largest mosque boasted of a wall separating male and female worshippers. However, when female worshippers at Darussalam mosque complained about the wall segregating them from the mosque’s imam and male worshippers, the wall was demolished. Granted, the wall has since been replaced by signs that read “Sisters Prayer Area Only Behind This Sign,” but its demolition is still seen as a first step in reforming traditional Islam into a more acceptable left-coast religion.
Bolstered by the wall’s demolition, Souleiman Ghali, a founding member of the Islamic Society of San Francisco, boldly asserted, “I am positive there will be an American Islamic identity that is separate from what you see in the Middle East and the rest of the Islamic world.” Ghali went on to add that American Muslims are free to consider things that are taboo in other Islamic countries, as well as to challenge and even change traditional Islam itself.
Along with Mr. Ghali, other leaders of San Francisco’s Darussalam mosque say that they believe America provides fertile ground for Muslims to incorporate the best of all cultural traditions into their religion. Although one would expect to find multiculturalism and New Age-type religion in San Francisco, it does come as quite a surprise when it is being advocated in a mosque. Consequently, a considerable exodus from the mosque has occurred.
In what I believe to be a foreboding omen of things to come, those exiting San Francisco’s largest mosque complain that Darussalam has been taken over by a group of intolerant “ayatollahs” who forbid dissent. While Muslim terrorists in Iraq refuse to flinch in the face of American military might, isn’t it telling that Muslims in San Francisco—the world’s gay Mecca—are cutting and running from politically correct “ayatollahs.” Make no mistake about it; the coming “ayatollahs” of the politically correct, worldwide religion of the end time will be as frightening as anything this world has ever seen, so frightening that they’ll make the Ayatollah Khomeini look like a cub scout and cause even the most fanatical Muslims to flinch.
Don Walton
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