[humblegunner]

Methadone use should always be monitored.

[Peter ODonnell]

I see this same general pattern of prophetic fulfillment.

One could add these words from II Thes 2:

7. “For the mystery of iniquity doth already work, only he who now letteth (let = restrain) will let, until he is taken out of the way.

8. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and destroy with the brightness of his coming.”

This passage goes on to state that many will be deceived by this coming of one who (going back to verse 4) presents himself as an earthly god.

In this passage, you can find strong resemblance to the news of today — he who restrains being Mubarak, and once again, the role of Obama is either directly that of the antichrist figure, or of one of his chief facilitators.

[Huck]

[tflabo]

David Horowitz book, “Unholy Alliance” is based on the same theme. The Left and radical Islam in bed—a marriage made in hell.

[DuncanWaring]

Glenn Beck’s been making this point recently also; Marxism and radical Islam both are enemies of Western Civilization, and “The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend”.

[exnavy]

Those who have eyes will see, those who have ears will hear.

There was an E-mail that made the rounds about four years ago from Kaye Arther (SP), or maybe another woman attending a womens retreat in Atlanta I think, as Kaye began to speak, she was visibly afflicted and delayed in the program, and recieved a prophetic vision.

The message recieved, paraphrased was to grow our strength in body and spirit, and to stand in our faith.

Our Lord is mighty, and just and good.

[FightThePower!]

Oh I’m soooooo scared......

[RaceBannon]

umm, no

remember: the ISLAMIC nations that are clearly identified as the nations of the uttermost north, former soviet nations that all end in STAN, they will attack Israel to OVERTHROW the AntiChrist in the mid tribulation

If the Antichrist is MUSLIM, why would muslims invade to overthrow him?

I waswondering myelf for a while if Islam was the real Whorre of Babylon, but I no longer can see it as defensible in any way

[RJR_fan]

If you are a dispensationalist, nothing God does is ever good enough

Dispensationalists can't hope to see the nations submit to the King of kings in this age because:

• The gospel isn't "good enough" to persuade them.
• The power of God isn't "good enough" to get the job done. Somehow, the "all power in heaven and on earth" that Jesus has just isn't up to the task.
• The wisdom of God isn't "good enough" to outperform and outlast the notions of the heathen.
• The purposes of God aren't "good enough" to bring the vast majority of humanity under the umbrella of His grace. Even though Jesus speaks of a few tares in a wheat field at the end of history, we know better. What Jesus REALLY meant to say was that history would end with a few lonely stalks of wheat in a tare field.
• God's Word isn't "good enough" to interpret itself. Instead, to be truly wise, we need to interpret it in terms of the latest lamestream media headlines.
• The non-American parts of the world aren't "good enough" to offset current trends in the USA. 100 million Chinese now pledge allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ -- but, since they aren't white Americans, we can ignore their testimony.
• The gospel isn't "good enough" to raise our own children in. It's perfectly acceptable for most of them to be raised by the priests of Caesar in the faith of secular humanism.
• The reformation underway in the USA isn't "good enough" to reverse the adverse trends we see.
• The optimistic Calebs and Joshuas among us today aren't "good enough" to take seriously. After all, since We All Know that the giants in the land are invincible, people who proclaim the adequacy of God must be either deluded, or evil!

The fall of soviet communism can be attributed to many factors. For example, The Gulag Archipelago stunned the nomenclatura by demonstrating that they were the thugs and villains of history, not the heroic "vanguard of the proletariat." The increasing velocity of business practices made it impossible for a command economy to stay afloat in the computer age. Today, Russia is enjoyed significant economic growth, with a flat tax. Russian kids study the Bible and the Christian faith in their public schools. We no longer live under the fear of nuclear annihilation. The Christians in the former Soviet sphere have liberty to proclaim their faith, and the former atheists were devastated by the collapse of their prior faith.

Islam can only exist behind a firewall. Again, communications breakthroughs are breaking through that firewall. The average Iranian loves America and hates his ruling mullahs, for example. He's also more open to the gospel than at any other time during the last 1,000 years.

We now have a wealth of information at our fingertips, the resources we need to become ever more effective and astute witnesses to our Lord. These are great times to be alive, and our opportunities are expanding, year by year.

OK, so while the doomsayers gripe and moan about the giants who make them feel like grasshoppers, impotent and faithless and fearful, God does have His Calebs and Joshuas who confess -- "these foes are bread for us." "Give me that mountain!" "O for a thousand Turks to sing my great Redeemer's praise!"

[wbarmy]

The problem I have had with so many other people predicting what the Anti-Christ will be is the predominant use of the Catholic Church as the Church of the Anti-Christ. The Bible clearly states that the Anti-Christ is against Christ. The only world religion in existence right now, which specifically displaces Christ from being God is Islam. Islam is the fount of the Beast and will be the predominant system warring against the believers, both before and during the Tribulation. I could never believe massive witch hunts against believers under a Catholic or Protestant one world religion, but an Islamic Caliphate. Easiest thing in the world.

[HKMk23]

You’re close.

The final fusion will be Islam with a resurgent soviet-style communism (recovering from a fatal wound) housed within a Turkic-Islamic Union that seeks to unify the entire Muslim world under a new caliphate with an aggressive, global, expansionist mission.

The Beast who will head this union, will be the one called Hazrat Mahdi; the 12th Imam of Muhammad’s lineage (supposedly), and the hand-in-glove personification of the Biblical Antichrist; The Man of Sin.

Of course, since you have studied this thoroughly, you know that Hazrat Mahdi does not come alone, for alongside him comes “The Prophet Jesus” who, by astonishing lack of coincidence, is a hand-in-glove personification of the Biblical False Prophet.

Who’d ‘a’ thunk it??

So, as the kid’s rhyme goes:

Tick-tock, hear the clock, now it’s time to pray...

..for, indeed, something wicked this way comes.

[Isolt]

All this will come to pass, it’s on the threshold, that’s why there is this intensity of anger, hatred and utter frustration in the hearts of the nations that don’t know the peace with God.
The enemy knows he has but a short time.
Revelation 12:12, “woe to the earth and the sea, because he devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time.”
The anger of the enemy is nothing but a laughingstock to the Lord. Psalm 2:4 “ He who sits in the heavens laughs. The Lord scoffs at them.”
We may have comfort and refuge with the Almighty, who is our stronghold. Psalm 91:1-2: “He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord: my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”