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It is my understanding that THEY believe MoHAMed and Jesus will be on the temple mount as friends to fight evil. LOL
1,199 posted on 06/13/2005 3:01:32 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (Character exalts Liberty and Freedom, Righteous exalts a Nation.)
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1,213 posted on 06/13/2005 5:56:19 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: DAVEY CROCKETT
It is my understanding that THEY believe MoHAMed and Jesus will be on the temple mount as friends to fight evil. LOL

No. There is a widespread belief in Islam that the Mahdi and Jesus will win over the world for Islam. The Mahdi is not Mohammad, but a ruler who will conquer first the Islamic states and later the rest of the world, conquering Dajeel the author of evil in the process and ushering in a golden age. (This story is not mentioned explicitly in the Koran, but in the Hadith which are considered to have much less authority. Consequently many Muslims reject the belief outright).

If all of this sounds familiar, it should. It is lifted directly from the Christian book of the Revelation of John, except that in some respects the Mahdi appears to correspond to John's Antichrist and "Issa" (the "Islamic Jesus") to the False Prophet. Apparently whoever orginated the Islamic legend (presumably Mohammad or one of his close associates) knew the rough outline of John's narrative but didn't have the book in hand and got the story garbled. In the process, the Jesus figure from John's Revelation gets conflated with his False Prophet, and perhaps also with John's Two Witnesses.

Clearly the two stories draw from the same pool of apocalyptic literature that was common in the Middle East in ancient times.

Bruce

1,219 posted on 06/13/2005 6:11:52 PM PDT by brucecw
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