The “Beast” and Islam
There is growing speculation that the beast spoken of in Revelation is actually exclusively Islam and not the Roman Catholic Church, but can we find Scriptural evidence that this is true?
One email that I have received on this topic said it this way. “While you have some sound ideas, the bottom line is the Pope can't be the Antichrist (nor the Catholic Church the beast) because he/they are NOT "anti-Christ." Granted, they are into idols, etc. but so is the rest of the world. Furthermore, the Catholic Church doesn't behead, as we are clearly told in Rev. 20:4. But MUSLIMS do! Their goal is to get people to "covert or die"...Islam is the biggest threat in this world, not the Pope.” Yet, this reasoning really ignores the greater context Scriptures provide on this topic.
There is even a recently published book titled “The Islamic AntiChrist” that argues that the “antiChrist” is actually Islamic. The author, however, wrote the book under a pseudonym and remains anonymous. To me, when I hear about authors writing under pseudonyms, I immediately suspect Jesuits. Regardless, if a person is so cowardly as to write under a false name, he certainly has no faith that Yah will be with him and thus no credibility, in my view.
My research indicates however, that Islam is an invention of the beast, the Roman Catholic Church. As a result, Islam could rightly be categorized as an outgrowth or a “horn” of the beast.
Why would the Roman Catholic Church invent Islam? To answer this question, let us take a brief look into the history of the life of Muhammad.
Brief History of Islam Muhammad’s rise from poverty to wealthy merchant to leader of a religious movement appears, to this casual observer, to be pre-planned and deliberately orchestrated. He seems to have been selected to fulfill a role rather than acheived his rise to prominence on his own merits.
The pertinent historical details begin with the life of Islam’s founder Muhammad from when he was 25 years old. The year was A.D. 595.
Muhammad’s home city of Mecca was being attacked by Ethiopian invaders. Muhammad’s influential uncle gathered a group of men that repelled the attack, but when he saw the horrors of the battle, then Muhammad turned and ran away in fear. This cowardice earned him contempt and ostracism. He was relegated to the lowliest of trades.
Then Muhammad then took a job as an assistant to a traveling cloth merchant, which took him to the town of Hayacha where he met a very wealthy widow named Khadijah.
Muhammad then entered into Khadijah’s employ as a camel driver. He performed his duties with great care and was especially grateful to Khadijah for allowing him to put his destitution behind him.
Khadijah, who was 15 years his senior, noticed Muhammad’s handsome appearance and decided that he would be her husband. Muhammad’s marriage to Khadijah made him an extremely wealthy man. Kahdijah exercised tremendous influence over Muhammad.
History records that Khadijah was an adherent to the Hanif religion, which was monotheistic and claimed its roots back to Abraham via Ishmael, the son of Hagar.
However, Khadijah was also closely related to family members who were Roman Catholic, most notably Khadijah’s cousin Waraqah b. Naufal.
In A.D. 610, when Muhammad was 40 years old and while wandering the desert caves around mount Hira in solitude, he received a visit from a “majestic being.” Muhammad later identified this being as “Gabriel.” This “majestic being” gave instructions that Muhammad was “the Messenger of Allah.” Muhammad immediately feared that he was suffering from demonic possession. Khadija and Waraqah however influenced Muhammad otherwise. Despite their assurances, however, Muhammad suffered from extreme anxiety and depression. He was gripped by a sense of abandonment and worthlessness.
Muhammad’s initial attempts at evangelism in his home town of Mecca were met with very limited success. The polytheistic social establishment of Mecca simply would not tolerate Muhammad’s monotheistic message especially given that Muhammad was poor man who married into money – hardly a real man at all, in their view.
It was not until A.D. 622 in the largely Roman Catholic city of Yathrib that Muhammad’s luck changed when a group of 75 people from Yathrib pledged their loyalty to Muhammad and Islam.
From this point, Muhammad’s religious and political influence was propelled to new heights of popularity and new lows of depravity. Although Muhammad claimed that his religious beliefs were based on those of the prophets of Scriptures, Muhammad began a career of rape and murder that was certainly becoming of the exploits of contemporary Jesuits.
Scriptures give us the ethics and instructions from our Creator, but what ethical guidance does Islam give? Muhammad helped his followers to understand to "proper" way to rape women just moments after making them watch the slaughter of their husbands, fathers and brothers. In their attack against the tribe of Banu-'l-Mustaliq in AD 626,
Muhammad's followers argued that the captive women would fetch a higher
ransom if they were returned to their husbands not pregnant. Their
solution was not to refrain from rape but to practice coitus
interruptus. Muhammad, an inspirational leader of sinners indeed,
replied: no coitus interruptus needed. This is according to Sahih Muslim
Book 8 Number 3371. Far from giving us the ethics of our Creator, Islam is a religion of murderous, looting rapists. Book 4 of the Koran is titled, "The Women" verse 24 states that a Muslim man is forbidden to have sexual relations with a married woman unless the woman has become his captive (4:24) ( http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/koran/koran-idx?type=DIV0&byte=114839 ). Certainly, Muhammad was giving a message from his own heart or by the inspiration of demons; he was not relaying the words of Yah, which do not allow such behavior.
Interestingly, Muhammad, despite having waged massacres against communities of various religions, offered his protection to Roman Catholic St. Catherine’s monastery in A.D. 628. The monastery survives to this day despite being located within a country of Islamic dominance.
Similarities between Roman Catholicism and Islam The similarities between Roman Catholicism and Islam are also striking.
Despite the fact that Rome adores obelisks, images of jealousy condemned by Scriptures, yet Islam despises them (and rightly so), there are many other symbols that are remarkably similar. Both utilize rosary beads for prayer. Both extol the virtues of pilgrimages.
Most importantly it is necessary to point out that both worship the hosts of the heavens, the sun and the moon, which is forbidden according to Scriptures. Roman Catholicism, with its obelisks, crosses of Tammuz, communion wafers that resemble cakes for the queen of heaven and ubiquitous images of the sun, is a continuation of ancient Babylon’s sun-worship. Islam, with its crescent moon, is a continuation of ancient Babylon’s moon-worship. Both religions therefore are derivatives of the religious systems of ancient Babylon. The Scriptures refer to Babylon as the first beast of the earth, a religious system condemned by Scriptures.
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