Ahmadinejad’s speeches at Columbia University and the U.N. were historic Islam. God has devoted an entire chapter in His Book of Revelation to the rise and impact of Islam on the Judeo-Christian world—the one in which we live.
Its role in history has been as a scourge on professed Christianity which has fallen away from the pure teachings of Christ (“apostasy”).
Revelation 9 is there for all the world to see; it makes sense. Just read it, the naked text. The Holy Spirit will begin to impress you with truth that we need to know.
Islam is “a star fallen from heaven” which has “opened the bottomless pit” whence has emanated “the smoke of a great furnace “ darkening “the sun and the air” (vss. 1, 2).
Only in the light shining from the books of Daniel and Revelation can Islam be understood. Apostate Christianity is symbolized in Daniel as the “little horn” of chapter 8 which exalts itself up and up “even to the Prince of the host,” absorbing and lifting up within itself the paganism that was the religion of the Roman Empire; the result: the most massive deception ever to afflict planet earth.
The book of Revelation puts a name on the whole monstrous confusion: “Babylon.” It exposes before the world its fraudulent claims to the inspiration of God. Revelation cries out that “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen,” and pleads with every honest-hearted soul in the world to “come out of her, My people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues” (18:4). It’s the most solemn message heard in the world today.
The nature of Islam’s work as a scourge on the early apostate Christianity in the Roman Empire was exhibited in the tongue-lashing the West had to endure from the Iranian president yesterday. The world was listening.
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