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Mahdi to return by 2016, followed by Jesus? (According to Muslim Prophecy)
WND ^ | March 30, 2015 | Leo Hohmann

Posted on 03/30/2015 9:31:52 PM PDT by Perseverando

Mainstream Muslim website makes official announcement

It’s not only evangelical Christians who are sensing that something has changed in the world, and that we may be entering the very last days.

Muslims are also eagerly awaiting their messiah.

In the latest evidence of this messianic fervor, a mainstream Sunni Muslim website has decreed that the Islamic messiah, called the Mahdi, will appear this year or in 2016 and that the Muslim Jesus will return in 2022 to conquer the world for Islam.

DiscoveringIslam.org and the End Times Research Center have calculated that the “first phase” of the end of time will begin soon and lead to the “Day of Judgment” in seven years.

The estimates were derived from “the latest research” into numerical analysis of the Quran, Hadith, Arabic words and historical events,” according to DiscoveringIslam.org.

“The Messenger of Allah [sallallahu 'alayhi wa-sallam] informed the Companions of everything that would occur until the Day of Resurrection,” the website reports.

“Based on our numerical analysis of the Quran and Hadith, the official beginning of the End of Time and the coming of the Imam Mahdi will most likely be in 2015 (or 2016) and Jesus Christ (p) will come down from Heaven to Earth in 2022, in-sha Allah (if Allah is willing),” the website reported.

The Quran and the Bible put forth end-times narratives that are similar but opposite. The Bible’s antichrist, for instance, resembles Islam’s messiah while Muslims view the Jesus of the Bible as their antichrist or “Dajjal.” The Quran teaches that Jesus returns to earth but for a very different purpose – to “break the cross” and convert the world’s Christians to Islam.

Bible teacher Joel Richardson underscores the inverted end-time views of the two faiths in

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TOPICS: Evangelical Christian; History; Islam; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: dabiq; dajjal; dayofjudgment; endtimes; eschatology; hadith; isis; jesuschrist; lastdays; mahdi; mahdidate; messiah; prophecy; quran; tribulation
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For your consideration. Good night, Freepers.

Pray hard. Life is short!

1 posted on 03/30/2015 9:31:52 PM PDT by Perseverando
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To: Perseverando

Islam is an heresy on Christianity.


2 posted on 03/30/2015 9:33:53 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Perseverando; sagar

Okay, but what do the Zoroastrians say?


3 posted on 03/30/2015 9:35:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://www.tedcruz.org/donate/)
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To: Perseverando

Obama just makes it feel like the end of times. They should do the survey again in a few years when the dust settles from the destruction.


4 posted on 03/30/2015 9:38:55 PM PDT by Citizen Zed ("Freedom costs a buck o five" - Gary Johnston, TAWP)
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To: Perseverando

But what about Matreiya? BTW, I have no idea who/what he’s supposed to be. Something new age?


5 posted on 03/30/2015 9:40:17 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you read Islamic end times sources, their Mahdi is Christianity’s antichrist, and their Jesus is the false prophet.


6 posted on 03/30/2015 9:42:08 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: Citizen Zed

“Obama just makes it feel like the end of times.”

I think it was during the Carter years that my old man got caught up in all of the “End Times” stuff. I’m glad he lived long enough to see Reagan be president!


7 posted on 03/30/2015 9:49:32 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Perseverando

I have to wonder, when Christ does come again, and the Muslims that supported real Islam have their arms outstretched to receive Him, what will go through their mind when they realize the truth?


8 posted on 03/30/2015 9:50:25 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: sockmonkey
Maitreya (Sanskrit), Metteyya (Pali), Maithree (Sinhala), Jampa (Tibetan) or Di-Lặc (Vietnamese), is regarded as a future Buddha of this world in Buddhist eschatology. In some Buddhist literature, such as the Amitabha Sutra and the Lotus Sutra, he is referred to as Ajita.
9 posted on 03/30/2015 9:57:31 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: sockmonkey

Matreiya is New Age. He’s supposed to be a great teacher or great master or something.


10 posted on 03/30/2015 10:00:05 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: 21twelve

yes but bad as carter was, he was nowhere near as bad as current


11 posted on 03/30/2015 10:00:41 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: LukeL

Islam is a made-up religion, a scam, invented by a con man, just like Mormonism and Scientology.


12 posted on 03/30/2015 10:00:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://www.tedcruz.org/donate/)
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To: Perseverando

Remember, Jesus told us we would “know the times and the seasons”, but no one but the FATHER knows when Jesus will be allowed to return.

If you go and study out the Jewish Wedding proceedings, you’ll see that it is the Groom’s father who sends out the Groom to get his Bride.

I believe that is pretty much a confirmation of what Jesus said.


13 posted on 03/30/2015 10:05:51 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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To: Jonty30

“what will go through their mind when they realize the truth?”

A bolt of lightning?


14 posted on 03/30/2015 10:08:50 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Him leaving office will seem like something biblical, like exiting the desert or such...


15 posted on 03/30/2015 10:08:58 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
According to Zoroastrian scripture, the end of the world will come about when a comet, called Gochihr, strikes the earth. Its "fire and halo" will melt all metals and minerals and will burn up the world in a general conflagration. The resulting boiling flood of metal will flow over the earth like a river. The righteous, as well as the wicked souls (released from hell) will pass through it. The wicked will be purified of their sins, but the pious will feel like they're passing through warm milk. The most detailed description of this is found in the 30th chapter of the Bundahishn

CHAPTER 30. On the resurrection and future existence

1. On the nature of the resurrection and future existence it says in revelation, that, whereas Mashye and Mashyane, who grew up from the earth, first fed upon water, then plants, then milk, and then meat, men also, when their time of death has come, first desist from eating meat, then milk, then from bread, till when they shall die they always feed upon water.

2. So, likewise, in the millennium of Ushedarmah, the strength of appetite (az) will thus diminish, when men will remain three days and nights in superabundance (sirih) through one taste of consecrated food.

3. Then they will desist from meat food, and eat vegetables and milk; afterwards, they abstain from milk food and abstain from vegetable food, and are feeding on water; and for ten years before Soshyant comes they remain without food, and do not die.

4. After Soshyant comes they prepare the raising of the dead, as it says, that Zartosht asked of Ohrmazd thus: 'Whence does a body form again, which the wind has carried and the water conveyed (vazhid)? and how does the resurrection occur?'

5. Ohrmazd answered thus: 'When through me the sky arose from the substance of the ruby, without columns, on the spiritual support of far-compassed light; when through me the earth arose, which bore the material life, and there is no maintainer of the worldly creation but it; when by me the sun and moon and stars are conducted in the firmament (andarvai) of luminous bodies; when by me corn was created so that, scattered about in the earth, it grew again and returned with increase; when by me color of various kinds was created in plants; when by me fire was created in plants and other things without combustion; when by me a son was created and fashioned in the womb of a mother, and the structure (pishak) severally of the skin, nails, blood, feet, eyes, ears, and other things was produced; when by me legs were created for the water, so that it flows away, and the cloud was created which carries the water of the world and rains there where it has a purpose; when by me the air was created which conveys in one's eyesight, through the strength of the wind, the lowermost upwards according to its will, and one is not able to grasp it with the hand out-stretched; each one of them, when created by me, was herein more difficult than causing the resurrection, for it is an assistance to me in the resurrection that they exist, but when they were formed it was not forming the future out of the past.

6. Observe that when that which was not was then produced, why is it not possible to produce again that which was? for at that time one will demand the bone from the spirit of earth, the blood from the water, the hair from the plants, and the life from fire, since they were delivered to them in the original creation.'

7. First, the bones of Gayomard are roused up, then those of Mashye and Mashyane, then those of the rest of mankind; in the fifty-seven years of Soshyant they prepare all the dead, and all men stand up; whoever is righteous and whoever is wicked, every human creature, they rouse up from the spot where its life departs.

8. Afterwards, when all material living beings assume again their bodies and forms, then they assign (bara yehabund) them a single class.

9. Of the light accompanying (levatman) the sun, one half will be for Gayomard, and one half will give enlightenment among the rest of men, so that the soul and body will know that this is my father, and this is my mother, and this is my brother, and this is my wife, and these are some other of my nearest relations.

10. Then is the assembly of the Sadvastaran, where all mankind will stand at this time; in that assembly every one sees his own good deeds and his own evil deeds; and then, in that assembly, a wicked man becomes as conspicuous as a white sheep among those which are black.

11. In that assembly whatever righteous man was friend of a wicked one in the world, and the wicked man complains of him who is righteous, thus: 'Why did he not make me acquainted, when in the world, with the good deeds which he practiced himself?' if he who is righteous did not inform him, then it is necessary for him to suffer shame accordingly in that assembly.

12. Afterwards, they set the righteous man apart from the wicked; and then the righteous is for heaven (garothman), and they cast the wicked back to hell.

13. Three days and nights they inflict punishment bodily in hell, and then he beholds bodily those three days' happiness in heaven.

14. As it says that, on the day when the righteous man is parted from the wicked, the tears of every one, thereupon, run down unto his legs.

15. When, after they set apart a father from his consort (hambaz), a brother from his brother, and a friend from his friend, they suffer, every one for his own deeds, and weep, the righteous for the wicked, and the wicked about himself; for there may be a father who is righteous and a son wicked, and there may be one brother who is righteous and one wicked.

16. Those for whose peculiar deeds it is appointed, such as Dahak [Zohak] and Frasiyav of Tur, and others of this sort, as those deserving death (marg-arjanan), undergo a punishment no other men undergo; they call it 'the punishment of the three nights.'

17. Among his producers of the renovation of the universe, those righteous men of whom it is written that they are living, fifteen men and fifteen damsels, will come to the assistance of Soshyant.

18. As Gochihr falls in the celestial sphere from a moon-beam on to the earth, the distress of the earth becomes such-like as that of a sheep when a wolf falls upon it.

19. Afterwards, the fire and halo melt the metal of Shahrewar, in the hills and mountains, and it remains on this earth like a river.

20. Then all men will pass into that melted metal and will become pure; when one is righteous, then it seems to him just as though he walks continually in warm milk; but when wicked, then it seems to him in such manner as though, in the world, he walks continually in melted metal.

21. Afterwards, with the greatest affection, all men come together, father and son and brother and friend ask one another thus: 'Where has it been these many years, and what was the judgment upon thy soul? hast thou been righteous or wicked?'

22. The first soul the body sees, it inquires of it with those words (guft).

23. All men become of one voice and administer loud praise to Ohrmazd and the archangels.

24. Ohrmazd completes his work at that time, and the creatures become so that it is not necessary to make any effort about them; and among those by whom the dead are prepared, it is not necessary that any effort be made.

25. Soshyant, with his assistants, performs a Yazishn ceremony in preparing the dead, and they slaughter the ox Hadhayosh in that Yazishn; from the fat of that ox and the white Haoma they prepare Hush, and give it to all men, and all men become immortal for ever and everlasting.

26. This, too, it says, that whoever has been the size of a man, they restore him then with an age of forty years; they who have been little when not dead, they restore then with an age of fifteen years; and they give every one his wife, and show him his children with the wife; so they act as now in the world, but there is no begetting of children.

27. Afterwards, Soshyant and his assistants, by order of the creator Ohrmazd, give every man the reward and recompense suitable to his deeds; this is even the righteous existence (ait) where it is said that they convey him to paradise (Wahisht), and the heaven (garothman) of Ohrmazd takes up the body (kerp) as itself requires; with that assistance he continually advances for ever and everlasting.

28. This, too, it says, that whoever has performed no worship (yasht), and has ordered no getig-kharid, and has bestowed no clothes as a righteous gift, is naked there; and he performs the worship (yasht) of Ohrmazd, and the heavenly angels provide him the use of his clothing.

29. Afterwards, Ohrmazd seizes on the evil spirit! Vohuman on Akoman, Ardwahisht on Andar, Shahrewar on Savar, Spandarmad on Taromat who is Naunghas, Hordad and Amurdad on Tairev and Zairich, true-speaking on what is evil-speaking, Srosh on Eshm.

30. Then two fiends remain at large, Ahriman and Az; Ohrmazd comes to the world, himself the Zota and Srosh the Raspi, and holds the Kusti in his hand; defeated by the Kusti formula the resources of the evil spirit and Az act most impotently, and by the passage through which he rushed into the sky he runs back to gloom and darkness.

31. Gochihr burns the serpent (mar) in the melted metal, and the stench and pollution which were in hell are burned in that metal, and it (hell) becomes quite pure.

32. He (Ohrmazd) sets the vault into which the evil spirit fled, in that metal; he brings the land of hell back for the enlargement of the world; the renovation arises in the universe by his will, and the world is immortal for ever and everlasting.

33. This, too, it says, that this earth becomes an iceless, slopeless plain; even the mountain, whose summit is the support of the Chinwad bridge, they keep down, and it will not exist.

Makes sense to me!!!

16 posted on 03/30/2015 10:10:19 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Perseverando

Never made sense to me that Obama is doing what he is doing because he is a muslim. Obama is Sunni and yet he is giving more power to Iran which Shiite, Obama is rearranging the deck chairs of power in the M.E. at Sunni expense.

However if Obama is doing what he doing because he satan’s pawn, it makes sense. The antichrist must come and Mahdi fits the bill pretty good. Will Obama get a place in the temple of satan’s worship?


17 posted on 03/30/2015 10:11:56 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: Perseverando

The muslim mahdi is THE Antichrist.


18 posted on 03/30/2015 10:13:24 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: free_life; All
"Never made sense to me that Obama is doing what he is doing because he is a muslim. Obama is Sunni and yet he is giving more power to Iran which Shiite, Obama is rearranging the deck chairs of power in the M.E. at Sunni expense.".

He is actually trying to unite them. And with some success; The "Iraqi Army", (supposedly Sunni and Baathist) is now half Iranian Shia.

The Saudis, Pakistanis, Jordanians and Egypt just haven't gotten the memo yet.

The 12th Imam won't come until all the various islamist sects come together to destroy the Christians and Jews. And he is working to see that they are a nuclear power.

And that is one of the reasons he has wanted to get rid of Assad: The Alawaites are also a 12ther sect, but the Assads are their hereditary leaders. He hopes that if he can get rid of them, they will turn to Khamenei.

19 posted on 03/30/2015 10:56:44 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Islam is a made-up religion, a scam, invented by a con man, just like Mormonism and Scientology.”

And Socialism too!


20 posted on 03/31/2015 12:02:05 AM PDT by NoncompliantOne
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