September 11, 2001

Terrorism or

Something Else?

Terrorism or

Something Else?

are they mere political statements?

or they are expressions by devout followers of Islam/Muhammad/Allah who long for the fulfilment of Qur’anic mandates to see the world converted to Allah?

Political & Christian leaders romancing with Islamic politicians (UN) and clergy, e.g.: George Bush, Tony Blair, John Howard, the Pope, Archbishop Carey, 9/11 Prayer-meetings, Arabic clergy in the Middle East, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, most leaders of the EU; the UN; et al.

9/11 And Most Other Terror Attacks Around the World

Most of these leaders, as well as many leaders of local churches, appear to be unaware of the spiritual implications in this rise of Islam.

Are they caught up in a spiritual deception due to their rejection of Israel – by ignoring the warning in the NT; see Rom.11:17-20

• you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, 18do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” 20Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. 21For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. Rom. 11:17-21

• The Holy Bible, New King James Version, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, Inc.) 1982.

Did the prophet Daniel foresee the rise of Islam?

could there be an apocalyptic scenario foreshadowed for our time?

What do those mysterious numbers mean in the final chapters of Daniel?

Is there a way of unlocking their meaning?

What could be blocking our understanding?

Did the prophet Daniel foresee the rise of Islam?

The Old Testament, ie. the Torah is irrelevant

Pagan festivals have replaced Biblical Festivals; e.g. Easter

Sunday replaced the Sabbath

Has R.T. has blinded many Christian leaders to the true significance of Israel in the purposes of God and thereby to the true issues involved in this battle.

The church has replaced Israel as the true people of God

 Islamic Scholars are seeking to rewrite Israel’s history, which in turn changes Biblical Christian History. What are the consequences?

No Israel - No God of Israel – No People of God – No Book of God OT – No Fall - No sin – No need for salvation – No need for a Historical Jesus

Many Christian Theologians who subscribe to higher criticism are rewriting Biblical History

a user friendly Christ of Faith – as long a people have faith - any faith will do.

Jesus has successfully been replaced. He can take His redundancy package and retire.

   

Outcome – if there is no need for Salvation, religious experiences can be centered around a generic god or saviour

  No separation of OT and NT - it is a complete package.

Torah - the divine instruction of God

History and Biblical history are all interconnected; one cannot wipe out one part of Biblical history without affecting the rest

 The Bible says of God that He changes not; Mal. 3:6

In contrast - in the Qur’an Allah calls himself the greatest of all deceivers; Sura 3:54 – “And they (the disbelievers) schemed/deceived and Allah schemed (against them); for Allah is the best of deceivers.” c/f Sura 8:30

In Islam, Allah has replaced the YHWH Elohim of the Bible

The Qur’an has replaced the Bible.

  The Qur’an has replaced Isaac with Ishmael as the Abrahamic sacrifice

   The Torah is replaced with Shariah

 The site of the Temple is occupied by a shrine and house of worship to Allah.

Muhammad has replaced Jesus as the final revelation of God.

The Islamic Calendar begins in 622 AD, the flight of Muhammad to Medina

The birth of Jesus marking the Christian Calendar, as the start of a new era, is rendered insignificant with the Islamic Calendar.

Both – Sunday and Sabbath have been replaced with Friday prayers

The twin Islamic concept of peace:

Dhar al Islam (House of Peace)

When ALL is Islamic

Dhar al Harb (House of War or Conflict)

As long as Muslims are living under the rule of infidels; ie. Australia

Is Islam a religion of Peace?

The Qur’an declares,

“It befits not (the Majesty of) Allah that he should take unto himself a son.”

Sura 19:35

“It befits not (the Majesty of) Allah that he should take unto himself a son.”

Sura 19:35

c/f. Sura 5:57 “The Messiah, son of Mary, was no other than a messenger, messengers (the like of whom) had passed away before him….”

and again….

The death of Jesus on the cross (a substitute was crucified):

“And because of their saying: We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah’s messenger – they slew him not nor crucified Him, but it appeared so unto them; and Lo! Those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew Him not for certain; but Allah took Him up to himself… Sura 4;157-158

The Qur’an denies:

consequence: No resurrection

consequence: No resurrection – NO hope for the Christian (1 Cor.15:14-19 text)

Without the Christian Gospel humanity is cast into a sea of despair

Middle-Eastern Islam espouses a culture of

death

• Desolation was decreed for those nations desiring to control God’s land,e.g.

• Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end, 6“therefore, as I live,” says the Lord God, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you. 7“Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns. 8“And I will fill its mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those who are slain by the sword shall fall. 9“I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the Lord.

• The Holy Bible, New King James Version, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, Inc.) 1982.

Mecca

A world of desolation, poverty and oppressionA world of desolation, poverty and oppression

The Bible says:

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son…”

John 3:16-17

“This is my beloved Son, hear Him…”

“This is my beloved Son, hear Him…”

Luke 9:35

He is antichrist who denies the Father and

the Son.The Holy Bible, New King James Version, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, Inc.) 1982

Writing on the Dome proclaims: “Allah has

no son…!”

Writing on the Dome proclaims: “Allah has

no son…!”

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Al Aqsa

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There is an awakening among Biblical minded Israelis that the Dome of the Rock is affront, an ‘Abomination’ to the God of their fathers.

The Temple MUST BE REBUILT in our day

Model of 3rd TempleModel of 3rd Temple

Temple Mount FaithfulAttempting to carry model of 3rd Temple onto Temple Mount

The site of the Temple occupied by a shrine and house of worship to a false god – replacing YHWH (consider the anger of YHWH in Ezekiel Chs.8-10) Who is a liar but he who denies that

Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist (antixristoj)1 who denies the Father and the Son.

Antichrist: its primary meaning is 'replacement or instead of' (Mt.2:22; Lk.11:11) 'false or in opposition‘ is inconsistent with the rest of the NT.

1 Aland, Kurt, Black, Matthew, Martini, Carlo M., Metzger, Bruce M., and Wikgren, Allen, The Greek New Testament, (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft Stuttgart) 1983

Can the book of Daniel be trusted?

Was it written in the 6th century?

Endorsed by Jesus:Matt.24;15; Mark 13:14

Common Views:

The Time of the Gentiles began with the destruction of the 2nd Temple

The Time of the Gentiles commenced when Paul turned his back on the Synagogue; Acts 28:28

The Bible says:

The time of the Gentiles may have already began with the arrival Alexander The Great; ca. 321 B.C.E.; Daniel 8:5-8

In ancient mythology, Satan is often depicted as resembling a goat’s head inside a five-pointed star

‘And as I was considering, suddenly a male goat came from the west, across the surface of the whole earth, without touching the ground; and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. 6Then he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing beside the river, and ran at him with furious power. 7And I saw him confronting the ram; he was moved with rage against him, attacked the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to withstand him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled him; and there was no one that could deliver the ram from his hand. 8Therefore the male goat grew very great; but when he became strong, the large horn was broken, and in place of it four notable ones came up toward the four winds of heaven.’

The Holy Bible, New King James Version, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, Inc.) 1982.

Evidence from History• Hellenism is considered by the Jewish

People to be the greatest disasters to visit them apart from the exiles or dispersions in 586 BCE and 70 CE

• The writings of the Maccabees (Apocrypha), extra-biblical Jewish writings and the development of the Septuagint in Alexandria clearly testify to the dominating influence of Hellenism over Hebrew culture and life.

Evidence from History• Jewish history & the New Covenant

writings show that the Holy Land and Jerusalem were already under continued Gentile domination well before Jesus; e.g. Greeks, Syrians, Egyptians & Romans

• The book of Acts (6:1; 9:29) indicates a strong conflict between Hellenists and Hebraists

Daniel’s Time Line

If Daniel was written in the 6th Century: God gave Daniel a telescopic view of the

future until the end of time. Daniel accurately foretold the birth of

Jesus Daniel’s vision of the He-Goat (8:5,8) is

of greater significance than a record of a historical fact

Daniel’s Time Line

If the prediction of the Messiah’s birth is correct, then the other numbers of Daniel must also have meaning

Daniel’s visions from Ch.8 – 12 appear to be in chronological order.

Daniel’s Time Line

2300 mornings & evenings (or day) appear to represent prophetic years

The Hebrew and Islamic year is reckoned @ 360 days

2300 Biblical years from the time of Alexander the Great point to the year 1948 - the year Israel was reborn as a nation; the dominance by Gentiles over Jewish lives was over.

Daniel’s Time Line1967: 1290 Biblical years after the construction

of the Al Aqsa/ Dome of the Rock complex on the Temple Mount – Jerusalem returned again to Jewish hands as the capital of Israel

1335 days – or Prophetic years – appear to be an extension of the 1290 years, a time of grace extended or of endurance needed

Semite vs. Greek MindFor Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek

after wisdom; 23but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness… 1 Cor.1:22

The Muslim, like the Jew, needs to see that our righteousness is greater than theirs; that we have love for one another… Matt.5:20; John 13:35

The Holy Bible, New King James Version, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, Inc.) 1982.

“Say: O People of the Scripture! Ye have naught (of guidance) till ye observe the Torah and the Gospel and that which was revealed unto you from your Lord ... follow not the vain desires of folk who erred ...” Sura 5:68, 77; c/f vv.65-66.

It is the Qur’an itself, which gives us the clue:

Summary Allah IS NOT the God of the Bible – he is a substitute;

c/f. Isaiah Ch.14 Ps 122:6-9 commands us to pray for the Peace of

Jerusalem ‘for the sake of the House of God’ Christianity & the World are faced with the most

serious attack since the Fall Christians need to come to terms with the fact that

Biblical TRUTH is ABSOLUTE – not relative, as many modernists would like to have it

Christians MUST own the central truth that Jesus IS the Son of God, that He died on the cross and was raised from the dead for our Salvation

Summary A change of some magnitude is coming

toward to human raceWe are rapidly creating a world

where only the rich & powerful will be able to survive

That is contrary to the Beatitudes

…if the thoughts expressed here are correct?

…if the thoughts expressed here are correct?

“Seeing that we have a great High Priest, Who has passed through the heavens,

Jesus, the Son of God,

Let us hold fast of our confession!”Hebrews 4:14

And let us, therefore, surrender in true submission to the true God of the

Universe

And His Messiah, Jesus!