September 11, 2001
Terrorism or
Something
Else?
9/11 And Most Other Terror Attacks
Around the World
 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.
 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
• 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, 18do not boast against
the branches. But if you do boast, remember that
you do not support the root, but the root supports
you. 19You will say then, “Branches were broken off
that I might be grafted in.” 20Well said. Because of
unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by
faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. 21For 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.
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?
The church has replaced Israel as the true
people of God
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.
 Many
Christian
Theologians
who
subscribe to higher criticism are rewriting
Biblical History
 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
 Outcome – if there is no need for
Salvation, religious experiences can be
centered around a generic god or saviour
 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.
 History and Biblical history are all
interconnected; one cannot wipe out one
part of Biblical history without affecting
the rest
 No separation of OT and NT - it is a
complete package.
 Torah - the divine instruction of God
 In Islam, Allah has replaced the YHWH
Elohim of the Bible
 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
 Muhammad has replaced Jesus as the
final revelation of God.
 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.
 Both – Sunday and Sabbath have been
replaced with Friday prayers
 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.
Is Islam a religion of Peace?
The twin Islamic concept of
peace:
Dhar al Islam
Peace)
(House of
When ALL is Islamic
Dhar al Harb (House of War
or Conflict)
The Qur’an declares,
“It befits not (the
Majesty of) Allah that
he should take unto
himself a son.”
Sura 19:35
and again….
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….”
The Qur’an denies:
 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
 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
Middle-Eastern Islam
espouses a culture of
death
• 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.
Mecca
A world of desolation, poverty and oppression
The Bible says:
“For God so loved the
world that He gave His
only begotten Son…”
John 3:16-17
“This is my
beloved Son,
hear Him…”
Luke 9:35
He is antichrist who
denies the Father and
the Son.
The Holy Bible, New King James Version, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, Inc.) 1982
Writing on the Dome
proclaims: “Allah has
no son…!”
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feature in Jerusalem
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feature in Jerusalem
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feature in Jerusalem
Al Aqsa
The most dominant
feature in Jerusalem
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
rd
rd
Model of 3 Temple
Temple Mount Faithful
Attempting to carry model of 3rd Temple onto Temple Mount
 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)
who denies the Father and the Son.
1
 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
Can the book of Daniel be trusted?
Was it written in the 6th century?
Endorsed by Jesus:
Matt.24;15; Mark 13:14
Common Views:
The Time of the Gentiles began with the
destruction of the 2nd Temple
The Time of the Gentiles commenced
when Paul turned his back on the
Synagogue; Acts 28:28
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
‘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. 6Then he came to the ram that had
two horns, which I had seen standing beside the river, and
ran at him with furious power. 7And 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. 8Therefore 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.
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.
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
Daniel’s Time Line
If Daniel was written in the 6th 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
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.
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.
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
Semite vs. Greek Mind
For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek
after wisdom; 23but 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.
It is the Qur’an itself, which gives us
the clue:
“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.
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
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
…if
…if the
the thoughts
thoughts expressed
expressed here
here
are
are correct?
correct?
“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!