The Last Act

➡ This text discusses the growth of Islam in America, highlighting the increase in mosques and Muslim population over the years. It mentions the transformation of cities like Brooklyn into Islamic hubs, with changes in lifestyle and culture. The text also discusses the positive and negative views of this transformation, with some crediting Muslims for improving social conditions, while others express concern over the lack of assimilation. The text ends by noting the adherence of many Muslims to their traditional practices and customs.
➡ The article discusses the changes in Brooklyn due to the influx of Muslim immigrants, highlighting cultural shifts, religious practices, and concerns about radicalism. It also delves into the history of Islam, suggesting that the Vatican created the Islamic faith and the term Muslim. The article further explores the role of Islam in end times prophecies, with some claiming that the Muslim understanding of Jesus could provide common ground for religious dialogue. Lastly, it suggests that the United Nations, the Vatican, and world elites aim to make over 50% of the world’s population Muslim by 2050.
➡ In Islamic belief, Jesus is a prophet who didn’t die or rise, but will return to correct Christians’ misconceptions about him. The Mahdi, another significant figure, will come to establish Islam globally, killing those who resist. This description matches the biblical Antichrist. The Islamic Jesus will support the Mahdi, leading Christians to reject their beliefs and accept Islam. This mirrors the biblical false prophet who supports the Antichrist.
➡ The text discusses the Islamic and Christian perspectives on the end times, focusing on figures like the Mahdi and the Antichrist. It highlights the differing views on Jesus Christ in both religions and warns of deception. The text also discusses the history of wars and natural disasters, suggesting they are signs of the end times. Finally, it warns believers of future persecution, urging them to be on guard.
➡ The text discusses the persecution faced by those who follow Christ, as predicted in the Bible. It explains that both Jews and Gentiles will persecute believers, and even family members may turn against each other because of their faith. However, despite this hardship, the Gospel will spread across the globe and those who endure these trials, demonstrating their true faith, will be saved. The Holy Spirit will provide strength and grace to endure these challenges, proving the authenticity of their faith.
➡ This text talks about how faith, even when tested, can bring strength and hope. It also discusses a theory that elites used immigration to change the religious foundation of the United States from Christianity to Islam, aiming to move the world closer to a one-world government. This theory suggests that the Islam religion was created by the Roman Catholic Church to challenge the Jewish and Christian faith. The text is from a podcast called Bridge of Truth by Jim Pugh, who believes in these ideas.

The following teaching is by Jim Pugh through the Ministry of God as Government. If you have never listened to one of our Bridge of Truth podcasts and wish to see all the topics taught through this Bridge of Truth ministry, please go to ww.godisgovernment.com to find the inventory of Bridge of Truth podcasts. Now. Welcome Jim Pugh as he presents another historical study of truth from history, Bible, Scripture or current events. The Last act the Muslim Takeover Shamim Siddiqui in 2005 wrote an article titled Islam the Future of America where he stated in in the context of modern world and considering the various crises which Muslim world is encountered with due to highly publicized crusade against Islam in the name of war against terrorism, it appears that America is the most suitable place where Islam can shower its infinite blessings on its people in due course, where American leadership is very much scared of Islam’s inherent magnetic power that is attracting people who are in search of truth and a system of life that can resolve the problems of both worlds.

This causes of this hopeful situation, the reasons for this upbeat approach and the possibilities of its occurrence are various and very convincing. It is the nature of Islam that the more it is tried to be crushed through opposition, suppression and oppression, the more it rebounds and resurrects with great thud. The history of revival of Islam in modern Russia after the collapse of Communism and that of recent Turkey are the glaring examples of this reality. Thus, America, due to its predominant anti Islam policies both at home and abroad, has become the most natural place for its revival as a geopolitical entity.

In fact, Allah has perhaps selected this land out of his infinite mercy to be the future home of Islam. By 2017, Islam had permeated nearly every aspect of American life, but the full extent of the permeation remained the X factor. But this much came to light in 1990. Less than 600 mosques existed in the United States. By 2012, that number climbed to 2,106. Nearly 8.5% of America’s 330,000 houses of worship were now mosques. A 2008 study by Cornell University projected that the number of Muslims in America had climbed from 1.6 million in 1995 to 2 million.

A US News and World Report survey, which was conducted at the same time, placed the figure at 5 million. The real number remained anyone’s guess, since the U.S. census Bureau neglects to collect data on religious identification. In 2016, the Pew Research center projected the Islamic population of the United states to be 3.3 million. But Pew researchers admit that their survey was not thorough since it neglected to take into account immigrant and poor Black Muslims. What more? Researchers only contacted Americans with telephone landlines. They failed to take into account the fact that nearly 50% of U.S. residents, people ages 18 to 35 and nearly 100% of illegal immigrants communicate exclusively by cell phones.

Muslim organizations such as the Council on American Islamic Relations supported the Cornell university projection of 7 million based on mosque attendance. The White House and the US State Department uphold this figure. The Islamic boom was evidenced by reports of the new mosques and halal restaurants that had sprouted up within every major American city by 2010. According to one report, Washington, D.C. boasted seven mosques and 134 halal restaurants San Francisco, 24 mosques and 176 halal restaurants Houston, 15 and 50, respectively Chicago, 27 and 61, respectively Knoxville, 32 and 6, respectively St. Louis, 21 and 8, respectively Lansing, 27 and 6, respectively Dallas, 21 and 13, respectively Grand Rapids, 19 and 7, respectively New Orleans, 6 and 3, respectively Detroit, 3 and 89, respectively Atlanta, 9 and 22, respectively Peoria, 5 and 1, respectively Lincoln, 25 and 2, respectively and Shreveport, Louisiana, 21 and 1, respectively.

There are 14 new mosques in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and 25 in Anchorage, Alaska. Many of the Islamic homes of worship were massive structures which attracted thousands of believers to Friday afternoon prayer service. These large mosques included the Islamic center of America in Dearborn, Michigan the Islamic center of Washington, D.C. the Adams center in Sterling, Virginia the Al Farouk Masjid in Atlanta, the Islamic Society of New York, Dar Al Hijra in Falls Church, Virginia the Tucson Islamic center, and the King Fahd Mosque in Los Angeles. Even the smallest mosques, including the Mother Mosque of America in Cedar Falls, Iowa, could easily contain several hundred members and visitors for a single service.

Much of the funding for the new mosques came from wealthy Saudi princes who sought to further the Islamic transformation of America. By 2010, the median mosque in America drew a crowd of 300 worshipers to its Friday service, while the average Christian church mustered a meager Sunday gathering of 75. To come to terms with the social, political, economic and religious impact of Islam on the US Landscape, you need only pay a visit to Brooklyn, a borough of New York City once known as the All American Neighborhood. Such a visit will make you aware not only of the Islamic transformation of US Cities, but also of the woeful inadequacies of religious statistics, especially those that pertain to mosques and number of Muslims now residing within major metropolitan areas throughout the country.

Brooklyn conjures up magical images in the American imagination. Brooklyn Bridge, Coney Island, Fulton’s Ferry, brownstone townhouses and the Dodgers. It was home to William Boss Tweed, Currier and Ives, Margaret Sanger, Louis Tiffany, Al Capone, Gil Hodges, Pee Wee Reese, Leonard Bernstein, Barbara Streisand and Ralph and Alice Cramden of the Honeymooners. Brooklyn gave birth to hot dogs, roller coasters, soda pop and more breweries than any other city in the country. One out of every seven Americans can trace their family roots to the streets of the borough. Yet Brooklyn is no longer quintessentially American. The breweries are closed, Ebbets Field remains a memory, and the hot dog stands have disappeared.

Gone, too, are the Navy Yard that built such legendary warships as the Monitor, the Arizona and the New Mexico, and the Daily Eagle, where Walt Whitman once toiled as an editor. They have vanished, along with the Jewish delis, the Irish bars and the nightclubs that had been famous by John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. Brooklyn is a city that is changing into a place that is antithetical to American sensibilities. It has become a thriving haven of Islam. Returning to Brooklyn after a hiatus of 20 years, Sarah Hanigo s the Jerusalem Post was shocked by the changes that had occurred in her old neighborhood.

She stated, when I climbed up the grimy station stairs and surveyed the street, I suspected that some supernatural time and space warp had transported me to Islamabad. This couldn’t be Brooklyn. Women strode attired in hijabs, and male passersby sported all manner of Muslim headgear and long flowing tunics. Pakistani and Bangladeshi groceries lined the main shopping drag, and everywhere stickers boldly beckoned discover Jesus in the Koran. Throughout Brooklyn, one can now hear the call of the muezzin five times a day from rooftop speakers. Allah Akbar. Ashadu an la ilaha illaliya. Cab drivers pull their hacks to the side of the road and perform ritual ablutions.

Shopkeepers roll out their prayer rugs toward the holy city. And life within the borough, which was once known as the City of Churches, comes to a standstill. The massive migration of Muslims to this borough of New York, coupled with the widespread conversion of African Americans throughout Redford, Stuyvesant and other Brooklyn neighborhoods to Islam, has been hailed as a salubrious development by many Brooklynites. The Muslim newcomers have been credited by Brooklyn mayor Markowitz with closing crack houses and driving drug dealers from the crime infested streets. I see more and more Muslims taking part in social life. The future is looking good, markowitz says.

Eric Bullen recalls that his store Al’s Men’s Shop at 1140 Fulton, was one of the few functioning businesses on what had become a block of vacant storefronts. It used to be so bad at times that people didn’t want to even be seen out here too late. You could guarantee that had they come through once it started to get dark, they were going to get mugged, he recalls. The Muslims, he says, were instrumental in changing things. Community affairs officer Stephen Rotvin says that the Iamas of Brooklyn mosques, including Masjid Al Taqwa, have established unprecedented community cooperations with the police by creating civil patrols to police many of the borough’s trouble spots.

Yet others view the Islamic transformation of the borough as something threatening and sinister. Many Jews and Christians throughout Brooklyn now display American flags and an assortment of patriotic, jingoistic banners in their front yards. These displays, for the most part, are acts of defiance. We’re besieged, one resident told the Jerusalem Post. Making a statement is all we can do. They aren’t delighted to see the flag wave. This is enemy territory. Even Markowitz and others supportive of the newcomers reluctantly note that the vast majority of Muslim newcomers display an unwillingness to assimilate. They continue to wear Islamic attire, maintain hedal diets and rigidly comply with Sharia law.

Most equate Americanism with hedonism. They shun fast food restaurants, any food containing alcohol, including chocolate and American cars. Few Muslim women walk the streets without a head covering. Some wear full burkas that conceal their bodies and niqabs that conceal their faces, leaving only mesh covered slits for their eyes. The assimilation process in Brooklyn appears to be working to reverse, since the new male converts to Islam, almost all of whom are African American, now wear skull caps and long white tunics while their wives walk several feet behind them in black burkas or baya gowns. They dye their beards with henna, refrain from eating pork and drinking alcoholic beverages and greet each other in Arabic.

Polygamy among the newcomers and converts is commonplace, and khat, the favorite narcotic of North African Muslims, is now cut up and sold on street corners, halal grocery shops and places like the Blue Province Restaurant. In crowded flats and makeshift clinics along Atlantic Avenue, young Muslim girls, some as young as two, are subjected to the practice of female genital mutilation. Dubbed fellow female circumcision. This practice consists of the removal of the clitoris without the benefit of anesthesia or surgical instruments. Broken bottles or tin can lids occasionally serve as scalpels. Recent statistics show that 41,000 Somali and other North African Muslims in Brooklyn and the other boroughs of New York City have been subjugated to this ordeal.

While the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Brooklyn remain purportedly moderate in belief, at least 7% are extremely radical and support violent attacks against all non believers, including the attacks of September 11th. By 1989, the first North American cell of Al Kifa, an organization that would eventually morph into Al Qaeda, was implanted by Abdullah Azzam within Brooklyn’s Masjid al Farouk at 554 Atlanta Avenue, a six story converted factory trimmed in orange and gold. Members of this mosque came to play key roles in the assignation of Rabbi meir Kahani, the 1993 bombing of the World Trade center and the planning of September 11.

By 2002, they managed to raise over $20 million for bin Laden and millions more for other terrorist groups. The mosque served as an arsenal stocked with rifles, shotguns, 9 millimeter and three.57 caliber handguns and AK47 assault weapons. Yet the mosque remains off limits to law enforcement officials since it is registered as a house of worship. Brooklyn also gave birth to Dar Ul Islam, the nation’s most notorious Islamic street gang, Jamaat ul Fuqra, a Muslim group that had been responsible for 30 terror attacks on American soil and the Albanian mafia, which became the country’s leading crime outfit.

What has taken place in Brooklyn has occurred in major cities throughout the country, most notably Detroit, Washing, D.C. cedar Rapids, Philadelphia and Atlanta. And even quaint towns and villages such as Lodi, California, Lewiston, Maine, Hancock, New York, Commerce, Georgia and Hamtramck, Michigan. We looked in last week podcast about the mass migration program into the United States sponsored by the United nations and the elites control of the United States. What we find in this podcast is the types of immigrants the program focused on. You may ask why. To properly answer this, we need to look at the history of Islam and what scripture says about this group of people and their impact on civilization.

If we were to ask you how did Islam as a religion was started, what would you say? Most of us have been educated that it is from the line of Esau and the descendants of Ishmael. While this is partially correct, it is not the truth about Islam. The tribes of Ishmael did join the Islamic groups when created, but Ishmael descendants did not start the religious faith of Islam. It might become a shock to you, but it was the Vatican that created the Islamic State of Islam and the term Muslim that signifies the group of Islamists. To understand this was a created group and religion, let us review the biblical texts regarding the term Muslim or Islam the term Muslim does not appear in the King James Version of the Bible.

The KJV was completed in 1611 and the religion of Islam arose in the 7th century. Therefore, there is no mention of Muslims or Islam in the text of the kjv. The King James Version. KJV of the Bible does not mention Islam or Muhammad as Islam emerged centuries after the Bible was compiled. The KJV focuses on the history, prophecies and teachings of the Jewish people and the early Christian church. While the Bible does not directly address Islam, it does contain prophecies and narratives that some interpret as relevant to the broader context of Abraham’s lineage and the relationship between different faiths.

It was through the Khazarian bloodline of Leo the Khazar who would introduce through the centuries a system called the Caliphate. It wasn’t Arabians, it was the bloodline of Leo the Khazar that betrayed God between the books of Malachi and Matthew, who plunged to Jerusalem and took away Judaism, took away the Torah, and in thousands of years, throughout the centuries, the bloodline of Leo the Khazar through the Vatican created Islam. In 1680, the Vatican wrote the Quran and then created after the devil Muhammad, a succession called Qalathi, where the term Caliph is a bloodline succession of Islamic rulers representing the political and religious state of not just Islam, but an extinction of Islam going back to its father, the Vatican.

A Caliph is a successor representing the spiritual, political and religious authority of the state, being subservient to the Vatican, which created Islam in 16 AD through the wife of Muhammad Khadija, who taught her husband concerning Vatican theology. The plan of the United nations, the Vatican and the world elites was by the year 2050, more than 50% of the world population would be Muslim. This was the goal of Pope Boniface IV going back to the year 610 A.D. when he recruited Muhammad through Khadijah or former nun of the Vatican. The purposes were to give the Vatican a group that could go against the Jewish people at that time and through Islam, outgrow the Roman Catholic Church.

It is from that system that we get the black nobility. We know today as one of the major elite groups of control in the world. Understanding the reason of Islam’s creation by the Vatican Church, we need to look at the Bible to see the biblical reasoning as well. Mark 13:22 states for false Christs and false prophets shall rise and shall show signs and wonders to seduce if it were possible, even the elect. They can’t lead the elect astray, but they will lead those who are not True believers to follow them. I want to just talk about that for a moment in a way that perhaps will be interesting to you.

There are always are false prophets, always false teachers. We know that always. People who claim to be Jesus claim to be Jesus Christ, some more notable than others. But as you get to the end of human history and you get into the period of time called the Tribulation, there is a specific fulfillment of this prophecy that I want you to understand. And it has to do with Islam. Most people think of Islam as an utterly distinct religion from Christianity with no connection to Christianity. We would think that if someone is a Muslim, they, they have absolutely no connection to Christianity.

And there are many religions that have no connection to Christianity. Hinduism has no connection to Christianity. Buddhism has no connection to Christianity. Many others have no connection. And it’s amazing how many do connect because Satan wants to counterfeit and deceive and get as close to the truth as he can. There are actually confessed evangelical people who think that Muslims not only believe in God because they are monotheist believing in one God, but who think that Muslims are okay because they actually believe in Jesus. Brian McLaren, an emerging church heretic writer, in his book the Secret Message of Jesus says, and I quote, all Muslims regard Jesus as a great prophet.

A shared reappraisal of Jesus message could provide a common ground for urgently needed religious dialogue. This reappraisal of Jesus may be our only way of saving a number of religions, including Christianity, end quote. So if we want to save Christianity and save other religions, we need to all get together and that should be easy for us to do because we can start with the Muslims because they already believe in Jesus. Popular speaker and author Tony Kolo says, quote, when we listen to the Muslim mystics as they talk about Jesus and their love for Jesus, I must say it’s a lot closer to New Testament Christianity than a lot of Christians.

Really. So you think that the Muslim Jesus is the same Jesus? I can help you with that. Because they describe Jesus, The Muslim Jesus plays a crucial role in Islamic eschatology. Now you do know that the Muslims have an eschatology. In other words, they have a theology of the end. They know where they’re going according to their writings. They know where they’re going. Let me describe the Muslim Jesus to you. This is out of their own writings, the Quran and the Sunnah. The Quran is supposedly the word of Allah. Actually it is the word of Satan, but they think it’s the word of Allah.

The Sunnah are the words of and the works of Muhammad, which was written before Muhammad became the leader of Islam by the Roman Catholic Church. The Quran then constitutes their holy scripture. And the Sunnah, sometimes called the Hadith, constitutes their holy tradition. Their theology comes out of the Quran and the Sunnah, just as Roman Catholic theology comes out of the Bible tradition or Judaism comes out of the Old Testament and Raban tradition. The Muslims have two sources of authoritative truth in their system. They have Jesus, who was just a man. He was not God. He did not die.

He went to heaven like Elijah. He did not die, therefore he did not rise. He did not die, therefore he did not provide an atonement for anyone because no one can provide an atonement for anyone else. He is a man, he is a prophet. He is nothing more heavy. He went to heaven like Elijah and he’s in heaven right now, standing alongside Allah, waiting for Allah to send him back in their system. This man, this prophet Jesus, who is now in heaven, never having died, plays a key role in the end times because he will return from heaven without dying.

He will come back when Allah sends him back. Now the question to ask is, why would Allah want to send Jesus back? Allah has a lot of prophets to pick from. Why does he send Jesus back? Answer so that when he shows up, he can correct all the Christians who have misunderstood who he is. The sources for this again, the Quran and the Sunnah. The great event of the coming of Christ, of coming of Jesus is so that this prophet, this man who comes back, can straighten out the misdirected, misguided, misconceiving Christians who think he was God who died and rose again and provided atonement.

He’ll come back and straighten it out. And by the way, after he gets here, he’ll get married, have children and die and be buried next to Muhammad. That’s the Muslim Jesus. In Islamic eschatology, there are three great signs of the end of history. Three great signs. There are some lesser signs or some minor signs and some major signs in their eschatology. Again, quoting their sources exclusively. There are three great signs of the end of history and each of them is a man. Let me tell you about those three men. First of all, the first man that will come in the end of history is the Muhammad al Mahdi.

Sometimes he’s called the 12th Imam. Every time Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over in Iran gives a speech, he says, glory to the Muhammad Al Mahdi. Glory to the 12th Imam. Every time he’s waiting for the coming of the Mahdi. What is he coming to do. Listen carefully. He’s coming to slaughter all who will not worship Allah or convert to Islam. They are identified in their writings as pigs and dogs. He is coming to establish the everlasting, world dominating kingdom of Islam. That’s what he will do. The mahdi, or the 12th Imam. That means the guided one and is the long awaited Savior.

He is the establisher of the final caliphate. The world must follow him as he takes over. Or. Or he will destroy all enemies of Islam. He will come and he will carry on holy war. And either you convert or you’re killed by the Mahdi. He will have an army. His army will be a massive army. And his army will go from nation to nation to punish the unbelievers of the holy writings of Islam. This army will carry black flags. And on those black flags there will be one word. And that one word will be the word punishment.

By the way, the Iranian army today carries black flags. They want to be ready for the coming of the Mahdi. He will lead the army of black flags first to Israel, slaughter all the Jews and then he will establish his rule in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount. This is exactly what their literature says. Slaughter the Jews, establish his rule on the Temple Mount. According to their holy writings. The Mahdi will bring rain and wind and crops and wealth and happiness so that all will love him and no one will speak of anyone but him. Then their writings say the Mahdi will come and make at first a peace agreement with the Jews in the west for seven years.

The reign of Mahdi lasts seven years in which he establishes Islam on the earth. Their holy writings say this. The Mahdi will come riding on a white horse. And it even says in their writings, as it says in Revelation 6:1 and 2, Saddam Hussein, by the way, painted murals of this Mahdi on white horse all over Baghdad. And he comes carrying a sword to kill the infidels. When the Mahdi arrives, he will discover hidden scriptures. He will discover them, interestingly enough, somewhere near the Sea of Galilee. And there will be their hidden scriptures, hidden gospels and a hidden Torah.

They will be the true scriptures which will be used by the Mahdi to show the Jews and the Christians they were wrong, that their scriptures were the false scriptures. Let me summarize. The Mahdi will be a messianic figure. He will be a descendant of Muhammad. He will be an unparalleled to unequal leader. He will come out of a crisis of turmoil. He will take control of the world. He will establish a new world order. He will destroy all who resist Him. He will invade many nations. He will make a seven year peace treaty with the Jews.

He will conquer Israel and massacre the Jews. He will establish Islamic world headquarters at Jerusalem. He will rule for seven years establishing Islam as the only religion. He will come on a white horse with supernatural power. He will be loved by all people on earth. Now if that sounds familiar, that is a precise description of the biblical Antichrist. Absolutely. Step by step by step by step. The Bible’s Antichrist is their Mahdi. We know that the rider on the white horse in Revelation 6 is the Antichrist. They use that verse to describe their Mahdi. Now you may ask, why am I giving you all this? Because the description of the Mahdi is exactly the description of the biblical Antichrist, the beast of Revelation 13.

And you go into any kind of a study of that and you will find that all the details match up perfectly. The Bible’s Antichrist is Islam’s savior and world conqueror who establishes a universal Islamic kingdom. And there’s a second sign, the second person. It is Jesus. The Mahdi is not Jesus. The Mahdi is greater than Jesus. And that’s important to their system because if you have somebody greater than Jesus, then the Christians were wrong. So Jesus will return. Yes, Muslims believe that Jesus will come again. They believe in the return of Jesus. Not the true Jesus, but the Jesus of Islam, not God.

Because the Islam Jesus didn’t die, didn’t rise and didn’t provide a sacrifice for sin. But he does return. He’s a prophet and he comes back. And he has one purpose when he comes back and that is to assist and aid the Mahdi. He returns. Listen to this. As a radical Muslim. He comes back as a radical Muslim. He will arrive by the way at a minet near Damascus and he will come back holding the wings of two angels who flew him down to meet the gathering army of the Mahdi in the east. The army of the black flags.

Jesus, when he comes back, will pray to the Mahdi who is greater than he. He will acknowledge the Mahdi as his Lord. He will make a pilgrimage to Mecca. He will worship Allah and thus he will lead all Christians who will follow him to reject their notion of Jesus and accept the real Jesus who is nothing but a prophet and a man. He will establish worldwide Sharia law. He will become the greatest Muslim evangelist and he will be the final witness on the day of Judgment against non Muslims. Christians everywhere will affirm that they were wrong, that the Gospel is wrong and the New Testament is wrong.

He didn’t die. He didn’t rise. He isn’t God. He isn’t the Son of God. He himself will come back and point out how wrong we’ve been. He will correct all misinterpretations and all misrepresentations. Let me quote what their literature which says he will shatter crosses. That’s metaphoric for the destruction of the church. The symbol of Christianity being placed in the church. He will kill pigs. He will abolish the tax on non Muslims because there won’t be any living non Muslims can’t tax dead people. And then he will do one more thing. He will kill the Islamic Antichrist.

He will kill the Islamic Antichrist. Then he will die and be buried by Muhammad. But not until he has destroyed Christianity by revealing who he really is. If you compare what he does to the false prophet in the Book of Revelation, chapter 13, verse 16 and 19, verse 20, you will find that the beast coming out of the earth, a false prophet who aids and abets the Antichrist. He is as the Mahdi is the exact replica of the Antichrist. The Jesus prophet in Islam is the exact parallel to the false prophet who aids and abets the Antichrist.

One of their writings says he espouses the cause of the Mahdi. He is the Mahdi’s executioner. He is Mahdi’s enforcer. He is the Mahdi’s prophet. And it is he who kills the Antichrist that leads me to the third person. The Antichrist. The Antichrist will show up. The Muslims call him Al Dajjal. He is the great Deceiver. He comes to earth on a mule and he’s blind in one eye. He is an infidel. He is a false miracle worker. This Antichrist. This Islamic Antichrist. But you know who he claims to be? He claims to be Jesus, the Son of God.

He claims to be deity. He will attempt to stop the Mahdi and the true Jesus. But the true Jesus will slaughter him. This is their view of the true Christ. Our Jesus is their Antichrist. Our Antichrist is their Redeemer. It is a satanic counterfeit that is in complete reverse. The army. This is a quote. The army of Satan will be led by a person who will claim to be Jesus Christ. There will be a great battle. The Muslim Jesus will fight the false Jesus and kill him and establish Islam forever. The truth is the true Jesus will destroy the Antichrist and the false prophet and establish his kingdom forever.

This is Satan’s complete counterfeit. Muslim world domination. Now somebody might say, well, you know, you think about the future and what’s going to happen in the world? Don’t we have a revived Roman Empire? Doesn’t that mean the West? You remember that the image in Daniel two of the final world Empire had two legs and the Roman Empire had the west and the East. You know, of course, if you know history, that the western part of the Roman Empire basically dissolved and the east survived for a thousand years or more. So that at the time of the New Testament, 60% of the Roman Empire was land that is now under Muslim control.

At least 60%, the vast majority of the Roman Empire in New Testament times is today under Muslim control. And Islam is moving across the west rapidly in Europe, isn’t it? When you have a Picture In Ezekiel 38, you have a picture of the Antichrist Gog and you have the listing of eight nations that will be a coalition for the Antichrist. All eight of those are Muslim nations. All eight of them. And they ring the Mediterranean all the way to Libya. In Revelation 17:11, it says there were six kingdoms and then a seventh and finally an eighth.

What is the seventh? Well, there’s been discussion about that it will could be the Ottoman Turk empire which lasted 500 years and didn’t really fall till the modern era. Turkish Empire. It was the last caliphate which ended in 1923. And they’re waiting for the restoration when the Mahdi comes. So right at the very end, somebody’s going to say I’m Jesus. Somebody else going to say I’m Jesus. Who are you going to believe? That’s just one form of this deception that will show up at the end. And even now it’s deceiving people. There are a whole world of Muslims who think Jesus is someone he is not and consequently reject the true Jesus.

Do not be deceived. There’s a world of Muslims deceived about the person of Jesus Christ. You cannot accommodate that by saying, isn’t it wonderful? They love Jesus. They don’t any other Jesus. And the true Jesus is not Jesus. And if you worship any other than the true Jesus, you are cursed. So destruction and deception. We should spend maybe just a few minutes on disaster. Verses 7 and 8. This is so obvious, the third aspect of looking at the future. When you hear wars and rumors of wars, do not be frightened. Those things must take place. But that is not yet the end.

For nation will rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom. This is human history. Wars, hot and cold wars between nations and kingdoms have been a reality through every year of history. And we’re not getting any better. We’re not really evolving too well, are we? Our Lord accurately foresaw the world would never know peace. Never improve morally, never improve socially, never improve spiritually. That it would rather devolve and devolve and devolve into worse and worse condition. By the way, as many as 95% of societies throughout history have engaged in war. It’s ubiquitous. And as technology increases, so does killing power.

And it’s amazing to read the theories of why people make war. I won’t explain them, I’ll just list a few of them that I found. There’s the Marxist theory which has to do with economic inequality. There’s the evolutionary theory which has to do with the survival of the fittest. There’s behavioral theory that there are some people who have an inherent violent bend. There’s the demographic theory, the Malthusian theory, it’s called of expanding population that leads to conflict. There’s the rationalistic theory having to do with information asymmetry. Some people just don’t have enough information. Then there’s the political science theory, a quest for security and on and on and on and on.

We know that James says you war because you lust and because you hate. Since 1985, up until recently, almost a half a million people have died every year in war. In World War I, 72 million people died. In 755. Let’s go back to 755 to 763. A period of time of the Great war in China, 36 million people died in the Mongol conquest. In the 13th century, 30 to 60 million died. And 20 million more died in World War I. So it goes. And that is human history and it’s not changing. It will escalate to the point we will arrive at.

Get to Revelation 6, 9, 16 and you see the wars at the end. Massive death will take place. Massive death. And not only war. In this category of disasters, there will be earthquakes in various places. There will also be famines. Luke’s counts as great earthquakes. Seismo megalo mega quakes like the nine point quake 80 miles off the shore of Japan. Through history, millions and millions, countless millions have died in earthquakes. I read this week that there are 1/2 million earthquakes a year every year. You are on a shaky place. 100,000 of them are felt. About half a million register on the Richter scales.

Luke 21 also adds there will be plagues, terrors and great signs from heaven. You want plagues? How about the Black death in the 1300s in Europe, carried by rats, killing 60% of the population of Europe in excess of a hundred million people. How about 40 million-plus in the great influenza of the early 20th century? Great signs from heaven, terrors, fires, diseases, heat, cold, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes and drought. It’s dangerous place, and the worst is yet to come. Revelation 6 Re ration 8. Our Lord says those things in verse 7 must take place. But that’s not yet the end.

It’s the nature of living in a cursed planet. It’s not yet the end. In fact, if you will look at the end of verse eight, it says they’re merely the beginning of birth pangs. That’s an analogy to a woman’s contractions. They are separated, they are mild, and they intensify and intensify and intensify to a great degree just before birth. What we’re seeing in human history is just the beginning, is just the mild contractions. Wait till you see what’s going to happen just before the very end. 2000 years of these milder contractions will explode in the end in the time of tribulation described starting in verse 14 and more in detail in Revelation 6.

Nine amazing predictions by our Lord. Destruction, deception and disaster. A fourth, distress. From conditions that affect the whole world, our Lord turns to conditions that affect believers. This I’m sure the disciples didn’t want to hear. Verse 9. Be on your guard, for they will deliver you to the courts. You will be fogged. And so it goes. Be on your guard. A shock to their senses. It’s not going to get better, it’s going to get worse. This isn’t what they expected with the arrival of Messiah. It’s not what they wanted. Persecution. Distress to the believers. Well, that’s not new.

He told them this was going to happen back in chapter 10. He said, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be shrewd, as serpent in as does, but beware of men. They will hand you over to the court, scourge you in the synagogues. That was way back at the beginning of their time as disciples. But I think they probably thought, oh, we’ve already suffered that. Yeah, we’ve already faced the hostility of the Jews. We’ve already seen their hatred and animosity, even though there is no record in the ministry of Jesus that they were ever hauled into court and scourged and fogged.

Maybe they thought that was metaphoric talk and that was all past. Not so. The next night, Thursday night, when they gather in the upper room, our Lord is going to tell them for sure. In case they were wondering that this is definitely still future, if the world hates you, John 15:18, you know it hated me before you. A slave is not greater in his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. And then he says in chapter 16, verse 2, this is in. On Thursday evening, in the upper room, they’ll make outcasts from the synagogues of you.

They will kill you thinking they are offering service to God. You haven’t yet experienced this. You will experience it. And as 2 Timothy 3:12 says, all who live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. It’ll be worse and worse. It’ll escalate. Specifically, they will deliver you to the courts and you’ll be flogged in the synagogue. That’s Jewish persecution. The courts of Israel were in synagogues, courts were held in synagogues, cases were tried in synagogues by local appointed judges, and scourgings were decreed in synagogues. And they were carried out and executed there. And never more than 40 lashes.

That was the maximum. 40 lashes. And they always gave 39 because they didn’t want to miscount and go over the limit. That’s why Paul says, Five times. I received 39 lashes from the Jews. He was hauled into synagogues. He was accused of blasphemy, and he was beaten. But persecution will not only come from the Jews. And by the way, the Book of Acts will give you the story of these Acts. In Acts chapters 4, 5, 8, 12, 13, 21, 22, 25, 26, you’ll have in all those chapters in the Book of Acts the record of Jewish persecution.

But it won’t only be Jewish persecution. He tells them, go back to Mark. It’ll be Gentile persecution. The middle of verse nine, you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, as a testimony to them. Acts records that as well Gentile persecution in chapters 16, 17, 18, 21, 24, 25 and 26 as well. So it’ll come at you from the Jews, it’ll come at you from the Gentiles. By the way, when you get to Revelation 6, 7, 13 and 17:18, you see the worst persecution. Just before the Lord comes the big picture. It’s the false religion that has massacred Christians.

And it’s doing it right now as we speak in this modern world. Why do they do this? They. They do this because they hate Christ. That’s why they do it. They resent Christ. They do it for my sake. Verse 9. For my sake. Because of me. As Paul said, I bear in my body the marks of Christ. Or as he said to the Colossians. I fill up in my flesh the sufferings of Christ. It’s a serious thing. They’re thinking the kingdom, and he’s telling them, it’s not what you think, it’s not what you think. But in the midst of all of it, this is so wonderful.

In the midst of all of it, you will give a testimony to them. Because all that persecution will not break your faith. All that suffering will not cause you deny to deny your Christ. In the midst of all that suffering, grace will abound to you. And where there is this kind of persecution and where there is this kind of suffering, grace abounds. Second Corinthians 12 tells us that the Lord gives us whatever grace we need, doesn’t allow us to be tempted above what we are able to handle. He gives us a way of escape. And what will happen is you will, in the midst of that suffering, give a testimony.

We have the record of that, don’t we? Fox’s Book of Martyrs. I have three original volumes, and they’re this big. The record of all the people who gave testimony to the honor of Christ in the midst of facing death. And with that warning comes a promise. The Gospel must first be preached to all the nations. In spite of the hatred. The gospel is going to go to the ends of the world. They will not stamp it out. In fact, we always say, the blood of the martyrs becomes a seed of the church. In Acts 1:8, it said, Go into all the world, preach the gospel.

Jerusalem, then Judea, then Samaria, and the ends of the earth being my witnesses. We are 2,000 years after that. And the Gospel has, for all intents and purposes, covered the world, hasn’t it? It’s covered the world. 2000 years later. It has spread to the ends of the globe. Just what Jesus said. You can’t kill it. Just imagine this. He’s sitting there with these 12 men, one of whom was going to betray him in a few hours. That little group of nudies. And Jesus says, from you, the gospel will cover the globe. What a prophecy that has come to pass.

Matthew 24:14, then adds, Then shall the end come. Persecution. Yes, but in spite of that persecution, the promise that the gospel will cover the globe. And then a personal promise in verse 11. And when they arrest you and when they hand you over, don’t worry beforehand about what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but is the Holy Spirit. Isn’t that a wonderful promise? Sometimes you read about the martyrs singing hymns giving testimony to Christ. I’ve spent years and years and years reading those testimonies.

And the power of the Holy Spirit would come upon them, and they would utter things that in the human moment were just way beyond human strength and power. This is comfort. So they get a promise and a comfort. None of your opponents, Luke 21:15 says, none of your opponents will be able to refute it. Your testimony will be so powerful. That’s what happened. Virtually all of the apostles were martyred. The last of them, John, ended up as an exile, a kind of permanent martyrdom. They were killed in a myriad of different ways, beheaded and crucified. That didn’t stop the spread.

And in the moment of their death, as with all true believers through history, in the midst of persecution, the Spirit of God was there to lift them above human strength, to say things that were basically generated out of their hearts by the work of the Holy spirit. In verse 12, Jesus says, Not only will you be persecuted by the Jews and persecuted by the Gentiles, you’ll be persecuted in your own family. Brother will betray brother to death, and a father, his child, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death. I just can’t imagine how hard it was for them to hear this.

They had so much hope. Well, there are. People will say, well, Jesus came, made a good effort, miserable failure. He predicted exactly the way history would go, exactly the way it would go. There would be animosity in a family. Go back to Matthew 10. It’s all in Matthew 10 and it’s in Matthew 14. How many times did you remember Jesus saying, you have to hate your father, hate your mother, your sister, your brother, even your own life to be my disciple. This is reality. And again I say reality corresponds to Scripture. Jesus was correct about the destruction of the temple.

He was correct about endless deception escalating at the end. So you have Jesus here and Jesus there there. He was correct about disasters of all proportions escalating. He was correct about the distress of persecution and martyrdom and about the spread of the Gospel to the ends of the earth. He must be God. Only God knows that. And then one final statement, verse 13. You’ll be hated by all because of my name. It’ll be because of me. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. The one who endures to the end will be saved.

What do you mean, save? And taken to glory, taken to heaven. What do you mean, the one who endures to the end? How can we survive? How can we handle this? How can we handle Jewish persecution and Gentile persecution, family hatred, family persecution and family execution. How can we handle it? Well, the truth is, the one who endures to the end, he will be saved. And what are we learning from that is that false Christians will not be able to handle it. By your endurance, Luke 21:19 you will gain your lives. You don’t earn salvation by endurance.

You prove you have the real thing by endurance. Superficial faith will collapse under persecution. They went out from us because they were not of us. 1 John 2:19 this is basic gospel truth. Authentic God given faith will endure because the Holy Spirit will provide strength. God will provide grace. Trouble, deception, persecution and suffering will burn up the chaff. It’ll reveal the shallow, weedy, rocky ground of false profession. And under these kinds of pressures, superficial interest in Christ will have no endurance. So I say again, we don’t earn our salvation by enduring. We don’t keep our salvation by gritting our teeth and enduring.

We demonstrate our salvation by enduring. We have a salvation that’s a gift of grace. It’s authentic. In the midst of suffering, James counted all joy My brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing the testing of your faith produces endurance. True faith is strengthened to endure. 1 Peter 1 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his great mercy, caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to obtain an inheritance. Imperishable, undefiled, will not fade away. Reserved in heaven for you who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Than this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, so that the proof of your faith being more precious than gold, which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. The testing of your faith produces endurance. The testing of your faith proves to you that it’s the real thing. So our Lord gives warning, promise, comfort and even heavenly hope in the face of the way history inevitably must go to bring this to a close.

We now know that the elites opened the door to immigration. We know that they triggered this immigration using the facade of many countries, purposely knowing that they would seek the Muslims within those countries. We now have an understanding that the goal of all this was to move this world closer to the time of Satan’s return, using the Islam religion as the basis. We also now understand that the Islam religion and Muslim is not contained within the Holy Scriptures, but was man made by the Roman Catholic Church for the purpose to use this new religion to combat the Jewish and Gentile Christian faith.

Therefore, the takeover via immigration by the Muslim group of people was to set up the United States to move from a Christian foundation to the Muslim fundamentals of life and use Islam as the guidebook of how that was to occur. This was the basis to further take down the United States, moving it to a one world government. You have been listening to Bridge of Truth, brought to you by biblical teacher and author Jim Pugh with God Is Government. For free access to all of Jim Pugh’s Bridge of Truth podcast, please go to ww.godisgovernment.com Distribution of the Bridge of Truth and all other teachings are available for worldwide distribution.

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