veteran said:
Some are preaching that some coming flesh-born Islamic caliphate is going to be the final Antichrist of The Bible.
That idea is just as much baloney as those who mis-assign the final Antichrist as being the pope, or some U.S. President, or any other flesh born man of today.
All those ideas are by 'design'. They're designed to mislead you away from the prophetic parameters God's Word gives about the final Antichrist that's coming to Jerusalem on earth, which Orthodox Judaism will accept as Messiah.
Orthodox Jews, are not... going to accept an Islamic caliphate as The Messiah of God's Word. It's a crazy idea, since Islamic nations are involved in attacking Israel at the end of this world per Ezek.38 & 39. One of the MAJOR prophetic parameters required to fulfill the prophecy about the final Antichrist is Judah accepting him as a Jewish priest-king to sit in their future temple in Jerusalem, not an Islamic king, for they would easily recognize the difference.
So WHY are those doctrines of men about an Islamic caliphate making the rounds today? It's because of what's getting ready to occur in Jerusalem with the coming Antichrist-false messiah which is being specifically prepared for unbelieving Jews, and all the deceived world.
Actually, as I have found out today, according to the top 10 English websites of Islam, the Muslim's believe that 'Jesus, son of Mary', will return from heaven, where they believe he is hanging out, waiting for the day of his return. I would read a few more, but there are over half a million of Islamic sites about 'Jesus, son of Mary'.
The Muslim's believe that a gnostic 'Jesus', one who never died on the Cross, was an ascetic Jewish Prophet, caught up by 'God' into heaven, and they are expecting him returning as a human 'Messiah'. Everybody's 'Messiah'.
They also believe that the Mahdi is a kind of forerunner (John the Baptist, anyone?) to 'Jesus, son of Mary' returning, and that the false Prophet is an evil third personage, to make things more complicated, that 'Jesus, son of Mary' will dispose of in battle.
This is why many so called 'Christian's' are gravitating to Islam...these nominal believers, which are Protestants worldwide, Catholic's, Coptic's, Eastern Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox. They think that this 'Jesus, son of Mary' is Yah'shua ben Notsri!
This is the 'Jesus' Paul warned of, the 'another Jesus' that was already working in his own new congregations, the Gnostics, and even the Ebionites.
There will be an alliance of some sort among those of Islam...for the Ezekial 38 war against Israel that ushers in the coming of the AntiChrist. Whether it will be a caliphate at that time, or later, is immaterial.
That the Islamic people are teaching a JEWISH 'Jesus, son of Mary', in terms that the Orthodox Jews can accept (no divinity of this 'Jesus', just a 'Prophet') scares the living daylights out of me, when combined with what is actually going on in the middle east just now.
It doesn't matter if there is a Caliphate, or anything else, the UN, or a supposed reincarnation of a 'Roman Empire'. The 'Jesus' they preach is not Yah'shua (yup, changed my spelling and pronunciation to Hebrew...Yeshua is Aramaic), but he'll make an AntiChrist everyone can believe in..., which is why this 'Jesus, son of Mary' will make it as a theocratic wonder...Jewish, a Prophet, accepted by Islam, Catholics, and many varieties of Protestants, and semi-protestants?
An ascetic Jew, preaching a type of 'communitarism' under Sharia law (the Essene's were a communal group - a tribal replacement for all those who were kicked out of their own family at the time, while the First Nazarene group in Jerusalem was also a communal group, again a replacment for the family that everyone lost by taking up with Yah'shua.), which is not all that different from Rabbinical Orthodox Traditions?
It's a lovely setup...
google 'Jesus, son of Mary, Last Hour' , and you too can see the Parousia getting even closer.
But I agree, there is no need of a Caliphate to pull this one off...just cooperation amoungst 'believer's' worldwide. But it is interesting that the 10 areas mentioned in Ezekial as part of the Gog Magog coalition are all being run, or taken over, by the Muslim Brotherhood. And they seem to want a caliphate.
What if someone want's you to bow down to 'Jesus, son of Mary'? The Islamic peoples are evidently quite willing to do so. And on their English website's, they freely speak of 'God' being Allah, and 'Jesus, son of Mary', being the Messiah.
Well, as for me, I follow Yah'shua ben Notsri haMashiach, the son of YHVH, not 'Jesus' (Issa), son of 'Mary' (Miryam), the Prophet of Allah.
Q