Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
What is Islam? What relationship, if any, does it sustain to “the faith of Jesus”?
Answers are in Revelation which pronounces a “blessing” on the one “who reads” and even “hears the words of this prophecy” (1:3).
We know “God so loved the world that He gave” His Son; but the world hated Him, murdered Him, expelled Him; Heaven had to “receive” Him back. The Holy Spirit empowered those who believed in Him to fan out around the world with the gospel of His grace.
But the Enemy in the “great controversy between Christ and Satan” insidiously penetrated the church and corrupted it with renascent paganism, as the prophecy of Daniel 8 says. The church virtually became paganism baptized (evidences of this are legion in popular “Christianity”); the love of self became glorified in the church. Corruption flourished.
Then Islam arose as a scourge of apostate “Christianity.” Revelation 9 tells the story: it’s “a star fall[en] from heaven” that “opens the bottomless pit” and lets loose “the smoke of a great furnace” that darkens even the sun (verses 1, 2). If the world had not rejected and exiled their Son of God, this sad history could not have happened; Islam rushed in to fill a vacuum. The apostate “little horn” persona of Daniel 8 is the foundation on which the book of Revelation is structured.
Some great angel was commissioned to “signify” its message, to put it into cartoon form so that simple, ordinary people can get it (1:1). Read the naked Revelation 9, on your knees; note that it is followed by chapter 10 which describes the great Second Advent Movement of the early 19th century. Don’t despise scholars who have gone before you, but drink of water of life at its pristine source. The Holy Spirit will “show” you profound truth.
Then “let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 2:5-8); He does not call us to a fanatical suicide mission, but He does call us to take up our cross on which the love of self is crucified “with Him.” We can honor Him in this intense “jihad” “great controversy” of the last days.
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