Author: Richard Neal
Pakistani Christians protest against the suicide bombing in All Saints church in the northwestern city of Peshawar in September Photo: A MAJEED/AFP
Exclusive: violence against Christian minorities is now a “global crisis” as worshippers are driven out of their ancient homelands by Islamic militants, a senior minister warns
I argue, in Kingdom of the Antichrist/Rise of the Beast , that we are on the very cusp of the beginning of the first of four eschatological time periods. i.e., The War of Gog and Magog (Eze 38, 39), Daniel’s 70th Week (Dan 9:27), The Great Tribulation Period (Matt 24:21) and The Day of the Lord’s Wrath (Rev 19:5), which will overlap in real time and lead the world to the battle of Armageddon and the return of Jesus Christ. But bible prophecy and reasoning make it clear that these eschatological time periods will not only overlap in real time, but they will grow in intensity. For example, Daniel’s 70th Week will, indeed, overlap The Great Tribulation Period in real time as bible prophecy tells us that Daniel’s 70th Week will last for a period of seven literal years and that The Great Tribulation Period will last for the second half – or the second three and one-half years of Daniel’s 70th Week.
Moreover, I show in Kingdom of the Antichrist/Rise of the Beast that The Great Tribulation Period is an eschatological time period where the infamous fourth (beast) kingdom of Daniel 7, which will become The Kingdom of the Antichrist, will persecute the Church of Jesus Christ almost to extinction. I also prove that Daniel’s infamous fourth “beast” or empire is none other than a reunited Islamic Empire for many various reasons Scripture provides.
Given that the Islamic Empire – howbeit a divided empire today – is preparing, in many various ways – some of which we announce weekly on this blog – to invade the Jewish state of Israel in fulfillment of The War of Gog and Magog (Eze 38, 39), it is also currently persecuting many Christians, their villages and Church throughout the world in fulfillment of The Great Tribulation Period (Matt 24:21). Some of these Christian populations in various Islamic nations are being persecuted almost to extinction, and the world, which is awash in what I call “The Spirit of Antichrist,” says nothing.
Nevertheless, Christianity is in danger of becoming extinct in many of its ancient homelands because of a rising tide of Islamic attacks, a senior minister from the United Kingdom warned on Friday. Violence against Christian worshippers and other religious minorities by fanatics has become a “global crisis” and is the gravest challenge facing the world this century, Baroness Warsi said. “A mass exodus is taking place, on a Biblical scale. In some places, there is a real danger that Christianity will become extinct,” she will said at a speech at Georgetown University in Washington.
In the new year, Lady Warsi, the Minister for Faith who sits in the Cabinet, will host an international summit to draw up a plan to end the violence against Christians – particularly in the countries where the faith was born.
Writing for Telegraph.co.uk, Lady Warsi highlights the bombing of All Saints Church in Pakistan, killing 85 congregants, in September and the gun attack on a Coptic wedding party in Egypt as the latest outrages by Islamic militants who have turned “religion upon religion, sect upon sect”. “There are parts of the world today where to be a Christian is to put your life in danger,” she writes. “From continent to continent, Christians are facing discrimination, ostracism, torture, even murder, simply for the faith they follow. “Christian populations are plummeting and the religion is being driven out of some of its historic heartlands. In Iraq, the Christian community has fallen from 1.2m in 1990 to 200,000 today. In Syria, the horrific bloodshed has masked the haemorrhaging of its Christian population,” she says.
Islamic Terrorists are subjecting Christians in the Middle East to “collective punishment” for American foreign policy. Worshippers are now regarded as newcomers and agents of the West, despite having lived there for centuries. The attacks come against a diverse background of political upheaval, local turf wars and social unrest – but they share the common trait of Christians becoming a “scapegoat” for Islamic extremists who are insecure in their own religious identity, she will say. It is the same mindset that motivated the Nazis to persecute the Jews and the Communists to suppress the Russian church, she says.
Lady Warsi is the first senior British politician to draw attention to the plight of Christians in the Islamic world, and will call on other Muslims to defend Christians, citing the example of Christians who defended praying Muslims in Tahrir Square during the Egyptian uprising. “A bomb going off in a Pakistani church shouldn’t just reverberate through Christian communities; it should stir the world,” she says.
The response must be a co-ordinated international effort similar to the campaign against Apartheid and for Civil Rights in the United States, Lady Warsi will argue. Islamic extremists must be prevented from “twisting history” by claiming co-existence is not possible. She will hold up the example of her daughter, a Muslim who attends a convent school.
Her intervention comes as church leaders become increasingly alarmed at the rising numbers of Islamic attacks on churches throughout Islamic world.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has described the victims of bombings in Pakistan as “martyrs”. “They have been attacked because they were testifying to their faith in Jesus Christ by going to church,” he said. Lord Sacks, the former chief rabbi, has described the continuous wave of attacks on Iraqi Christians by Al-Qaeda as “the religious equivalent of ethnic cleansing”.
Around a third of Syria’s Christian population are believed to have fled during the civil war, after being lumped together as “pro-Assad” by Islamist rebels. Earlier this month 45 Christian civilians were reported to have been killed and their churches desecrated in a massacre in Sadad, near Damascus, one of the oldest Christian communities in the world.
In Egypt, the Coptic Orthodox Church, which is the oldest in the world and was founded in 50 AD, has come under attack from suicide bombers and arsonists since the Arab Spring.
In Kenya, President Barack Obama’s homeland, the Al Shebaab gunmen who attacked a shopping mall in September, killing 61 civilians, asked Muslim hostages to leave before shooting their Christian victims.
Make no mistake about it; the Great Tribulation Period has already began as Christian communities around the world are being persecuted by Islamists bent on following the commands and examples of Muhammad. Not only are they persecuting Christians more and more every day, but political move after political move is currently being played on the the chessboard that is the Middle East where Islamic nation after Islamic nation are positioning themselves for the upcoming War of Gog and Magog where, as a coalition force led by “Gog,” they will soon invade the modern Jewish state of Israel in an attempt at annihilating the tiny Jewish state in fulfillment of bible prophecy (Eze 38, 39).
- See more at: http://kingdomoftheantichrist.com/#sthash.w8F5FEjJ.dpuf
Pakistani Christians protest against the suicide bombing in All Saints church in the northwestern city of Peshawar in September Photo: A MAJEED/AFP
Exclusive: violence against Christian minorities is now a “global crisis” as worshippers are driven out of their ancient homelands by Islamic militants, a senior minister warns
I argue, in Kingdom of the Antichrist/Rise of the Beast , that we are on the very cusp of the beginning of the first of four eschatological time periods. i.e., The War of Gog and Magog (Eze 38, 39), Daniel’s 70th Week (Dan 9:27), The Great Tribulation Period (Matt 24:21) and The Day of the Lord’s Wrath (Rev 19:5), which will overlap in real time and lead the world to the battle of Armageddon and the return of Jesus Christ. But bible prophecy and reasoning make it clear that these eschatological time periods will not only overlap in real time, but they will grow in intensity. For example, Daniel’s 70th Week will, indeed, overlap The Great Tribulation Period in real time as bible prophecy tells us that Daniel’s 70th Week will last for a period of seven literal years and that The Great Tribulation Period will last for the second half – or the second three and one-half years of Daniel’s 70th Week.
Moreover, I show in Kingdom of the Antichrist/Rise of the Beast that The Great Tribulation Period is an eschatological time period where the infamous fourth (beast) kingdom of Daniel 7, which will become The Kingdom of the Antichrist, will persecute the Church of Jesus Christ almost to extinction. I also prove that Daniel’s infamous fourth “beast” or empire is none other than a reunited Islamic Empire for many various reasons Scripture provides.
Given that the Islamic Empire – howbeit a divided empire today – is preparing, in many various ways – some of which we announce weekly on this blog – to invade the Jewish state of Israel in fulfillment of The War of Gog and Magog (Eze 38, 39), it is also currently persecuting many Christians, their villages and Church throughout the world in fulfillment of The Great Tribulation Period (Matt 24:21). Some of these Christian populations in various Islamic nations are being persecuted almost to extinction, and the world, which is awash in what I call “The Spirit of Antichrist,” says nothing.
Nevertheless, Christianity is in danger of becoming extinct in many of its ancient homelands because of a rising tide of Islamic attacks, a senior minister from the United Kingdom warned on Friday. Violence against Christian worshippers and other religious minorities by fanatics has become a “global crisis” and is the gravest challenge facing the world this century, Baroness Warsi said. “A mass exodus is taking place, on a Biblical scale. In some places, there is a real danger that Christianity will become extinct,” she will said at a speech at Georgetown University in Washington.
In the new year, Lady Warsi, the Minister for Faith who sits in the Cabinet, will host an international summit to draw up a plan to end the violence against Christians – particularly in the countries where the faith was born.
Writing for Telegraph.co.uk, Lady Warsi highlights the bombing of All Saints Church in Pakistan, killing 85 congregants, in September and the gun attack on a Coptic wedding party in Egypt as the latest outrages by Islamic militants who have turned “religion upon religion, sect upon sect”. “There are parts of the world today where to be a Christian is to put your life in danger,” she writes. “From continent to continent, Christians are facing discrimination, ostracism, torture, even murder, simply for the faith they follow. “Christian populations are plummeting and the religion is being driven out of some of its historic heartlands. In Iraq, the Christian community has fallen from 1.2m in 1990 to 200,000 today. In Syria, the horrific bloodshed has masked the haemorrhaging of its Christian population,” she says.
Islamic Terrorists are subjecting Christians in the Middle East to “collective punishment” for American foreign policy. Worshippers are now regarded as newcomers and agents of the West, despite having lived there for centuries. The attacks come against a diverse background of political upheaval, local turf wars and social unrest – but they share the common trait of Christians becoming a “scapegoat” for Islamic extremists who are insecure in their own religious identity, she will say. It is the same mindset that motivated the Nazis to persecute the Jews and the Communists to suppress the Russian church, she says.
Lady Warsi is the first senior British politician to draw attention to the plight of Christians in the Islamic world, and will call on other Muslims to defend Christians, citing the example of Christians who defended praying Muslims in Tahrir Square during the Egyptian uprising. “A bomb going off in a Pakistani church shouldn’t just reverberate through Christian communities; it should stir the world,” she says.
The response must be a co-ordinated international effort similar to the campaign against Apartheid and for Civil Rights in the United States, Lady Warsi will argue. Islamic extremists must be prevented from “twisting history” by claiming co-existence is not possible. She will hold up the example of her daughter, a Muslim who attends a convent school.
Her intervention comes as church leaders become increasingly alarmed at the rising numbers of Islamic attacks on churches throughout Islamic world.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has described the victims of bombings in Pakistan as “martyrs”. “They have been attacked because they were testifying to their faith in Jesus Christ by going to church,” he said. Lord Sacks, the former chief rabbi, has described the continuous wave of attacks on Iraqi Christians by Al-Qaeda as “the religious equivalent of ethnic cleansing”.
Around a third of Syria’s Christian population are believed to have fled during the civil war, after being lumped together as “pro-Assad” by Islamist rebels. Earlier this month 45 Christian civilians were reported to have been killed and their churches desecrated in a massacre in Sadad, near Damascus, one of the oldest Christian communities in the world.
In Egypt, the Coptic Orthodox Church, which is the oldest in the world and was founded in 50 AD, has come under attack from suicide bombers and arsonists since the Arab Spring.
In Kenya, President Barack Obama’s homeland, the Al Shebaab gunmen who attacked a shopping mall in September, killing 61 civilians, asked Muslim hostages to leave before shooting their Christian victims.
Make no mistake about it; the Great Tribulation Period has already began as Christian communities around the world are being persecuted by Islamists bent on following the commands and examples of Muhammad. Not only are they persecuting Christians more and more every day, but political move after political move is currently being played on the the chessboard that is the Middle East where Islamic nation after Islamic nation are positioning themselves for the upcoming War of Gog and Magog where, as a coalition force led by “Gog,” they will soon invade the modern Jewish state of Israel in an attempt at annihilating the tiny Jewish state in fulfillment of bible prophecy (Eze 38, 39).
- See more at: http://kingdomoftheantichrist.com/#sthash.w8F5FEjJ.dpuf
