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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Sincere Christian people who love the Bible, whose hearts are moved by the love of Christ demonstrated at His cross, wonder at Islam. What is it? What is the secret of its immense appeal to over a billion people? It’s the second religion in the world, Hinduism lagging behind with only 881 million (statistics from Islam for Dummies by Malcolm Clark). Is it a God-ordained religion gone awry?

 

There is a Judeo-Christian Bible translated into Arabic in which the ordinary word for “God” is “Allah.” But is the Muslim “Allah” the same heavenly Father to whom Jesus directs us to pray? His Son tells us, “Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven” (Matt. 5:44, 45). Humble our hearts before Him as we may want to do, we find it difficult to see that spirit actuating those bloodthirsty mobs who riot in their streets chanting jihad and “death to Denmark” or America—because of those silly cartoons. Why does God permit Islam to be such a thorn in the flesh of the so-called Christian West?

 

As the second religion in the world statistically, does it merit mention in the Bible? Reverent-minded Bible scholars for centuries have said yes. Islam is the “star fallen from heaven to the earth” and the “smoke.... out of the [bottomless] pit like the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit” in Revelation 9:1-21. “Fallen from heaven”!

 

The Revelation context is important: the “seven trumpets” have sounded the proclamations of truth that professed Christianity has also “fallen” so that God must declare at last, “Babylon the great is fallen” (Rev. 18:2). The simple, clear Biblical truths that once “turned the world upside down” (Acts 17:6) have been perverted by the impregnation of paganism into Christian teaching. God permitted Islam to arise in its beginning as a protest against this spiritual “fall of Babylon”—Christians venerating images, for example. The phenomenon of “post-Christian” culture today has afforded Islam another “jihad” fodder to fuel the original zeal that lured the Middle East and North Africa from Christianity to Islam. Even Billy Graham said that God must apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah for the immorality that so-called “Christian” “democracy” tolerates. The jihad enthusiasts shout, “We don’t want what you have!”

 

The God who is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is not asleep. Now let’s stay awake in these tough times and “follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth”(Rev. 14:4, KJV).

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