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Waiting for Islam's Messiah
CBN News ^ | July 17th, 2008 | George Thomas

Posted on 07/21/2008 1:57:40 PM PDT by Raineygoodyear

QOM, Iran -- Iran's president believes Allah has chosen him to prepare the world for the coming of an Islamic 'savior' called the Mahdi.

But before the Mahdi's return, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad believes there must be global chaos - even if he has to create it himself.

Whether it's his belief that Israel should be wiped off the map, denials of the Holocaust, obsession with going nuclear, or support for radical Islamic terrorist groups, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a man on a divine mission.

To understand him, and that mission, you have travel to the small dusty village of Jamkaran tucked in a corner of Iran's holy city of Qom.

On a recent Tuesday afternoon, CBN News made that journey heading south out of Iran's capital, Tehran. Some 95 miles, and a couple of wrong turns later, we arrived at the Jamkaran mosque on the outskirts of Qom.

Behind the Jamkaran mosque there is a well. According to many Shiite Muslims, out of this well will emerge one day their version of an Islamic 'savior.'

They call him the Mahdi or the 12th Imam.

Ron Cantrell has written a book about the Mahdi. He explained, "The Mahdi is a personage that is expected to come on the scene, by Islam, as a messiah figure. He is slotted to come in the end of time, according to their writings, very much like how we think of the return of Jesus."

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TOPICS: Current Events; Ecumenism; General Discusssion; Islam
KEYWORDS: 12thimam; ahmadinejad; blueturban; cbn; geopolitics; iran; mahdi; mohammedanism; obama; twelfthimam

1 posted on 07/21/2008 1:57:40 PM PDT by Raineygoodyear
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Cantrell further explained, “The Mahdi will take Jesus to Mecca, they will circum-ambulate the Kabah together. The Mahdi will teach Jesus to pray; at which time Jesus will then replace the Gospel with the Koran, and then all of us Christians, wherever you are on the face of the earth, will convert to Islam because Islam will be deemed the one lasting pure religion.”

As the West drifts closer to a potential showdown over Iran’s nuclear program, followers of the Mahdi are getting ready for judgment day.

And many of them are convinced that President Ahmadinjead will fulfill his divine mission to prepare the world for the coming of the Islamic ‘savior.’


2 posted on 07/21/2008 1:59:58 PM PDT by Raineygoodyear (AKA Crimmy)
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What's that you say, Lassie? The mahdi's fallen down the well?
3 posted on 07/21/2008 2:02:04 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Vigilantism will arise where the justice system is viewed as overly lenient and/or ineffective.)
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RUFF, RUFF!! A thermonuclear device ought to bring him out.


4 posted on 07/21/2008 2:18:44 PM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: Raineygoodyear
Cantrell further explained, “The Mahdi will take Jesus to Mecca, they will circum-ambulate the Kabah together. The Mahdi will teach Jesus to pray; at which time Jesus will then replace the Gospel with the Koran, and then all of us Christians, wherever you are on the face of the earth, will convert to Islam because Islam will be deemed the one lasting pure religion.” As the West drifts closer to a potential showdown over Iran’s nuclear program, followers of the Mahdi are getting ready for judgment day. And many of them are convinced that President Ahmadinjead will fulfill his divine mission to prepare the world for the coming of the Islamic ‘savior.’

I got news for 'em.

Their depraved cult of death is based on nothing but the lies of Satan himself, their so-called prophet Muhammed was a demon possessed pedophile who is now burning in Hell, and when the Day arrives that
King Jesus, King of kings and Lord of lords, Whose Name is above every other name, and the ONLY Name worthy of Praise, when He returns to this Earth exactly as He promised, each and every one of those Islamofools are going to be crapping their pants as they realize too late that they "chose wrong".

The demon calling itself the 'Mahdi' isn't going to take Jesus ANYWHERE, if the Mahdi-Maddy/13th Imammy even dares to show up at that point in time, King Jesus will destroy the little sonuvabitch in less than a nanosecond with nothing but the two-edged Sword that proceedeth out of His Mouth (referring to the Word of God).

That my FRiends, is the Truth.
5 posted on 07/21/2008 2:32:05 PM PDT by mkjessup
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AMEN BRUTHA!


6 posted on 07/21/2008 2:37:43 PM PDT by Bommer (A Third Party can win when Republicans and Democraps stand for the same thing!)
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Well wait until this Mahdi has a son who becomes a worm-like almost immortal tyrant emperor that destroys all spice and space travel. They will be surprised then.


7 posted on 07/21/2008 2:41:16 PM PDT by aft_lizard (One animal actually its eats its own brains to conserve energy, we call them liberals.)
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well it seems i am not the only one that has noticed the similarities between Dune and “Lawrence of Arabia”

Spice=Oil - we use it to fold space. It’s intoxicating. You can get addicted to it.

Herbert was a visionary.


8 posted on 07/21/2008 3:28:47 PM PDT by BereanBrain
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I remember reading in Revelation about the last days, and how for the sake of their testimony that believers would have their heads chopped off.

I wondered (in the 70s) how that could ever happen in the 21st century.

Now I know - a resurgent Islam + Global government = state religion forced down your throat, or else the government will slit it.


9 posted on 07/21/2008 3:32:29 PM PDT by BereanBrain
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Second that Amen!


10 posted on 07/21/2008 4:14:26 PM PDT by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation, with 4 cats in my life as proof. =^..^==^..^=)
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To: Bommer; BereanBrain; Biggirl

I sometimes catch a little flack for saying it, but I say it anyway: I personally believe without doubt that I will live long enough to see the literal Second Coming of Christ.

And I daresay that many of us will also, I pray that you are all among that number.

May the Lord be with you.

Best,

MKJ


11 posted on 07/21/2008 8:50:47 PM PDT by mkjessup (Jesus said it, I believe it, and that settles it.)
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