“Those who Can Not Remember the Prophetic Past are Condemned to Repeat It”

American Vision ^ | April 11, 2011 | Gary DeMar

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Joel Richardson believes the Bible teaches “that the biblical Antichrist is one and the same as the Quran’s Muslim Mahdi.”[1] As I mentioned in a previous article, there’s nothing new about making Islam the end-time bad guy when it comes to prophetic speculation. It has a long history, something Mr. Richardson seems not to be aware of or, if he does know about it, he’s not telling his readers. Francis X. Gumerlock makes this historical observation about Islam and end-time conjecture:

In A.D. 637, the Moslems captured Jerusalem, and soon afterward built a mosque on the Temple Mount. One chronicler said that Sophronius [560–638], the Patriarch of Jerusalem at the time, believed that this act of building a mosque on the Temple Mount was the fulfillment of the Abomination of Desolation in Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11 and Matthew 24:15.[2]

Islam has been an end-time player since its appearance on the historical scene. Protestant Reformer Martin Luther (1483–1546) believed “the papacy was the antichrist alluded to in the eleventh chapter of Daniel, and the Turk[3] [Muslims] was the small horn that replaced three horns of the beast in the seventh chapter.”[4] He also identified the Turk as Gog, as Richardson does,[5] and the papacy as Magog. Luther had a great deal to say about the Turks. He published his On War Against the Turks in 1529. Everything we are seeing happening with Islam today, Luther saw in his day:

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"Joel Richardson’s book is another example of “newspaper exegesis” that falls into the trap of prophetic inevitability. The non-Muslim world is wringing its hands over the advance of Islam. It’s time that we develop a strategy to stop it. It’s a dead-end religion. Like Communism, it survives only because it has the Christian West to feed on. Let’s stop empowering Islam by claiming that it’s an inevitable force for evil in the world energized by Satan himself. It can be stopped if we have the will to do it. Islam feeds on weakness and capitulation."

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Let’s stop empowering Islam by claiming that it’s an inevitable force for evil in the world energized by Satan himself.

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As I mentioned in a previous article, there’s nothing new about making Islam the end-time bad guy when it comes to prophetic speculation. It has a long history, something Mr. Richardson seems not to be aware of or, if he does know about it, he’s not telling his readers. Francis X. Gumerlock makes this historical observation about Islam and end-time conjecture:

There's good money to be made in serving as a volunteer cheerleader for the other team. The Enemy of God and man sees to it that those who paean his power, and go orgasmic over bizarre fantasies of his global triumph, are very well compensated.

And, if you're really on the good side of the Lowerarchy, you can even have multiple wives, like a certain famous graduate of DTS did! (I note that old Hal appears to have restricted himself to the four wives permitted by Islamic tradition!) Well, no need to get greedy. Just deny the need for Jesus Christ in the work of salvation -- if you belong to the right race -- and two wives should do.

Well, Satan sees to it that his dupes, simps, shills, and pimps are well paid. I tremble to think of what God has in store for those who have made lucrative careers out of unmanning and demoralizing God's people.

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I’ll leave it to Richardson and Rosenberg to sort out their differences. I believe they’re both wrong, as I pointed out to Richardson during an on-air debate I had with him on “The Paul Edwards Program.” People have been trying to identify a particular antichrist for centuries. Christopher Hill’s book on the subject dealt only with Antichrist in Seventeenth-Century England. The candidates included Protestants, the Pope, radical sects, bishops, the Crown, the “‘Establishment’ generally,” the universities, and “the Turk,” an early designation for Muslims:

Richard Montagu proposed the Turk rather than the Pope as Antichrist. This thesis may have been given fresh currency by a Balliol [College] man, Christopher Angelos, a Greek who had suffered at the hands of the Turks and had it revealed to him in a vision that Mahomet was Antichrist.[1]

As history and the Bible attest, they were all wrong in their identifications. Bernard McGinn[2] and Francis X. Gumerlock[3] cover 2000 years of the topic, so Richardson’s foray into the debate isn’t anything new. Like in ages past, today’s antichrist candidates are manufactured from current events rather than Scripture.

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Keep your eyes on the Chrislam movement.

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Keep your eyes on the Chrislam movement.

In Africa today there are about 1,500 people who practice Chrislam, and the number is growing every day.[3] – Wikipedia

1500?? We'll be long dead before this even qualifies as a genuine “movement.”