3. September 11, 2001

5. Terrorism or Something Else?

6.  are they mere political statements?  or they are expressions by devout followers of Islam/Muhammad/Allah who long for the fulfilment of Qur ’ anic mandates to see the world converted to Allah?  Political & Christian leaders romancing with Islamic politicians (UN) and clergy, e.g.: George Bush, Tony Blair, John Howard, the Pope, Archbishop Carey, 9/11 Prayer-meetings, Arabic clergy in the Middle East, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, most leaders of the EU; the UN; et al. 9/11 And Most Other Terror Attacks Around the World

7.  Most of these leaders, as well as many leaders of local churches, appear to be unaware of the spiritual implications in this rise of Islam.  Are they caught up in a spiritual deception due to their rejection of Israel – by ignoring the warning in the NT; see Rom.11:17-20

8. you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, 18 do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” 20 Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. Rom. 11:17-21 The Holy Bible, New King James Version, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, Inc.) 1982.

9. Did the prophet Daniel foresee the rise of Islam?  could there be an apocalyptic scenario foreshadowed for our time?  What do those mysterious numbers mean in the final chapters of Daniel?  Is there a way of unlocking their meaning?  What could be blocking our understanding? Did the prophet Daniel foresee the rise of Islam?

11.  The Old Testament, ie. the Torah is irrelevant  Pagan festivals have replaced Biblical Festivals; e.g. Easter  Sunday replaced the Sabbath  Has R.T. has blinded many Christian leaders to the true significance of Israel in the purposes of God and thereby to the true issues involved in this battle.  The church has replaced Israel as the true people of God

13.  Islamic Scholars are seeking to rewrite Israel ’ s history, which in turn changes Biblical Christian History. What are the consequences?  No Israel - No God of Israel – No People of God – No Book of God OT – No Fall - No sin – No need for salvation – No need for a Historical Jesus  Many Christian Theologians who subscribe to higher criticism are rewriting Biblical History

14.  a user friendly Christ of Faith – as long a people have faith - any faith will do.  Jesus has successfully been replaced. He can take His redundancy package and retire.  Outcome – if there is no need for Salvation, religious experiences can be centered around a generic god or saviour

15.  No separation of OT and NT - it is a complete package.  Torah - the divine instruction of God  History and Biblical history are all interconnected; one cannot wipe out one part of Biblical history without affecting the rest

17.  The Bible says of God that He changes not; Mal. 3:6  In contrast - in the Qur ’ an Allah calls himself the greatest of all deceivers; Sura 3:54 – “ And they (the disbelievers) schemed/deceived and Allah schemed (against them); for Allah is the best of deceivers. ” c/f Sura 8:30  In Islam, Allah has replaced the YHWH Elohim of the Bible

18.  The Qur ’ an has replaced the Bible.  The Qur ’ an has replaced Isaac with Ishmael as the Abrahamic sacrifice  The Torah is replaced with Shariah  The site of the Temple is occupied by a shrine and house of worship to Allah.  Muhammad has replaced Jesus as the final revelation of God.

19.  The Islamic Calendar begins in 622 AD, the flight of Muhammad to Medina  The birth of Jesus marking the Christian Calendar, as the start of a new era, is rendered insignificant with the Islamic Calendar.  Both – Sunday and Sabbath have been replaced with Friday prayers

20. The twin Islamic concept of peace:  Dhar al Islam (House of Peace) When ALL is Islamic  Dhar al Harb (House of War or Conflict) As long as Muslims are living under the rule of infidels; ie. Australia Is Islam a religion of Peace?

22. The Qur’an declares, “It befits not (the Majesty of) Allah that he should take unto himself a son.” Sura 19:35 “It befits not (the Majesty of) Allah that he should take unto himself a son.” Sura 19:35

23. c/f. Sura 5:57 “ The Messiah, son of Mary, was no other than a messenger, messengers (the like of whom) had passed away before him …. ” and again….

24.  The death of Jesus on the cross (a substitute was crucified):  “ And because of their saying: We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah ’ s messenger – they slew him not nor crucified Him, but it appeared so unto them; and Lo! Those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew Him not for certain; but Allah took Him up to himself … Sura 4;157-158 The Qur’an denies:

25.  consequence: No resurrection  consequence: No resurrection – NO hope for the Christian (1 Cor.15:14-19 text)  Without the Christian Gospel humanity is cast into a sea of despair

27. Middle-Eastern Islam espouses a culture of death

28. Desolation was decreed for those nations desiring to control God’s land,e.g. Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end, 6 “therefore, as I live,” says the Lord God, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you. 7 “Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns. 8 “And I will fill its mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those who are slain by the sword shall fall. 9 “I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the Lord. The Holy Bible, New King James Version, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, Inc.) 1982.

29. Mecca A world of desolation, poverty and oppression

31. The Bible says: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son…” John 3:16-17

32. “This is my beloved Son, hear Him…” Luke 9:35

33. He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. The Holy Bible, New King James Version, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, Inc.) 1982

34. Writing on the Dome proclaims: “Allah has no son…!”

35. The most dominant feature in Jerusalem

42. Al Aqsa

43. The most dominant feature in Jerusalem

44.  There is an awakening among Biblical minded Israelis that the Dome of the Rock is affront, an ‘Abomination’ to the God of their fathers.  The Temple MUST BE REBUILT in our day

45. Model of 3 rd Temple

46. Temple Mount Faithful Attempting to carry model of 3 rd Temple onto Temple Mount

47.  The site of the Temple occupied by a shrine and house of worship to a false god – replacing YHWH (consider the anger of YHWH in Ezekiel Chs.8-10)  Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist ( antixristoj ) 1 who denies the Father and the Son.  Antichrist: its primary meaning is 'replacement or instead of' (Mt.2:22; Lk.11:11) 'false or in opposition ‘ is inconsistent with the rest of the NT. 1 Aland, Kurt, Black, Matthew, Martini, Carlo M., Metzger, Bruce M., and Wikgren, Allen, The Greek New Testament, (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft Stuttgart) 1983

49. Can the book of Daniel be trusted? Was it written in the 6 th century? Endorsed by Jesus: Matt.24;15; Mark 13:14

52. Common Views:  The Time of the Gentiles began with the destruction of the 2 nd Temple  The Time of the Gentiles commenced when Paul turned his back on the Synagogue; Acts 28:28

53. The Bible says: The time of the Gentiles may have already began with the arrival Alexander The Great; ca. 321 B.C.E.; Daniel 8:5-8 In ancient mythology, Satan is often depicted as resembling a goat’s head inside a five-pointed star

54. ‘And as I was considering, suddenly a male goat came from the west, across the surface of the whole earth, without touching the ground; and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. 6 Then he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing beside the river, and ran at him with furious power. 7 And I saw him confronting the ram; he was moved with rage against him, attacked the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to withstand him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled him; and there was no one that could deliver the ram from his hand. 8 Therefore the male goat grew very great; but when he became strong, the large horn was broken, and in place of it four notable ones came up toward the four winds of heaven.’ The Holy Bible, New King James Version, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, Inc.) 1982.

55. Evidence from History Hellenism is considered by the Jewish People to be the greatest disasters to visit them apart from the exiles or dispersions in 586 BCE and 70 CE The writings of the Maccabees (Apocrypha), extra-biblical Jewish writings and the development of the Septuagint in Alexandria clearly testify to the dominating influence of Hellenism over Hebrew culture and life.

56. Evidence from History Jewish history & the New Covenant writings show that the Holy Land and Jerusalem were already under continued Gentile domination well before Jesus; e.g. Greeks, Syrians, Egyptians & Romans The book of Acts (6:1; 9:29) indicates a strong conflict between Hellenists and Hebraists

57. Daniel’s Time Line If Daniel was written in the 6 th Century:  God gave Daniel a telescopic view of the future until the end of time.  Daniel accurately foretold the birth of Jesus  Daniel’s vision of the He-Goat (8:5,8) is of greater significance than a record of a historical fact

58. Daniel’s Time Line  If the prediction of the Messiah’s birth is correct, then the other numbers of Daniel must also have meaning  Daniel’s visions from Ch.8 – 12 appear to be in chronological order.

59. Daniel’s Time Line  2300 mornings & evenings (or day) appear to represent prophetic years  The Hebrew and Islamic year is reckoned @ 360 days  2300 Biblical years from the time of Alexander the Great point to the year 1948 - the year Israel was reborn as a nation; the dominance by Gentiles over Jewish lives was over.

60. Daniel’s Time Line  1967: 1290 Biblical years after the construction of the Al Aqsa/ Dome of the Rock complex on the Temple Mount – Jerusalem returned again to Jewish hands as the capital of Israel  1335 days – or Prophetic years – appear to be an extension of the 1290 years, a time of grace extended or of endurance needed

63. Semite vs. Greek Mind  For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness… 1 Cor.1:22  The Muslim, like the Jew, needs to see that our righteousness is greater than theirs; that we have love for one another… Matt.5:20; John 13:35  The Holy Bible, New King James Version, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, Inc.) 1982.

64. “Say: O People of the Scripture! Ye have naught (of guidance) till ye observe the Torah and the Gospel and that which was revealed unto you from your Lord... follow not the vain desires of folk who erred...” Sura 5:68, 77; c/f vv.65-66. It is the Qur ’ an itself, which gives us the clue:

65. Summary  Allah IS NOT the God of the Bible – he is a substitute; c/f. Isaiah Ch.14  Ps 122:6-9 commands us to pray for the Peace of Jerusalem ‘for the sake of the House of God’  Christianity & the World are faced with the most serious attack since the Fall  Christians need to come to terms with the fact that Biblical TRUTH is ABSOLUTE – not relative, as many modernists would like to have it  Christians MUST own the central truth that Jesus IS the Son of God, that He died on the cross and was raised from the dead for our Salvation

66. Summary  A change of some magnitude is coming toward to human race  We are rapidly creating a world  where only the rich & powerful will be able to survive  That is contrary to the Beatitudes

67. …if the thoughts expressed here are correct?

68. “Seeing that we have a great High Priest, Who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, Let us hold fast of our confession!” Hebrews 4:14 And let us, therefore, surrender in true submission to the true God of the Universe And His Messiah, Jesus!