02/10/2025 – “Jonathan Cahn: Israel-Iran Prophecy & END TIMES Persecution In The Bible | Eric Metaxas on TBN – “The Dragon’s Prophecy”
As I have noted, it is never about the messenger, but the message. I go way back to 9-11 with Jonathan Cahn. Cahn’s presentation of his new book: “The Dragon’s Prophecy” connects to Joel Richardson’s book: “The Mid-East Beast: The Scriptural Case for an Islamic Antichrist.”. Coincidentily, I summarize Joel’s key points on Daniel’s prophecies in my post of Saturday’s reading on Daniel.
Here is the link to Jonathan Cahn’s 20+ minute interview with Eric Metaxas:
Just a brief commentary that both Jonathan and Joel emphasize, this is just a short excerpt from Joel’s preface:
“‘Islamic Antichrist‘ (insert: Joel’s 2006 book: “The Islamic Antichrist”) set the basic Biblical end-time narrative side by side with the Islamic vision of the end-times. The resultant picture brings to light the shocking reality that as a religious system, Islam is anti-Christ to its very core. Islam’s basic doctrines represent a frontal attack against Christianity, declaring many of these doctrines represent a direct frontal attack against Christianity, declaring many of those doctrines that the Bible sets forth as holy, foundational and essential to be the greatest abominations and blasphemies imaginable. Whereas the Christian faith is founded upon the belief that God Himself became me a man in Jesus the Messiah, Islam describes in it’s Qur’an that anyone who believes in the incarnation commits the worst form of blasphemy imaginable, is cursed by Allah, and will suffer ‘a grievous penalty’ in this life and in the next. Beyond this, Islam’s end-times narrative in so many ways is simply the Biblical end-time story flipped on its head. While the whole book cannot be summarized here, just a couple of brief examples should paint a sufficient picture.
First, the Biblical descriptions regarding the coming of Jesus the Jewish Messiah bear many striking resemblances to the coming Antichrist of Islam, whom Muslims refer to as the Dajjal al Maseeh (the counterfeit Messiah). Second, the Antichrist of the Bible bears numerous striking commonalities with the primary messiah figure of Islam, who Muslims call the Mahdi. In other words, our Messiah is their Antichrist and our Antichrist is their Messiah. Even more shocking to many readers was the revelation that Islam teaches that when Jesus returns, he will come back as a Muslim prophet whose primary mission will be to abolish Christianity. It’s difficult for any Bible believer to read of these things without becoming acutely aware of the satanic origins of the Islamic religion.
In 2008, I also had the opportunity to co-author another book on the same subject with Walid Shoebat, former operative for the Palestinian Liberation Organization. This book, entitled God’s War on Terror, is an almost encyclopedic discussion of the role of Islam in the last days, as well as the chronicle of Walid’s journey from a young Palestinian Muslim with a deep hatred for the Jews, to a Christian man who spends his life standing with the Jewish people and proclaiming the truth concerning the dangers of radical Islam.”
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“I want to state at the outset that the purpose of this book is not to debate what many might feel is irrelevant or even morbid end-time trivia. .. If in fact Islam is the religion of the Antichrist, the implications of this are earth shattering… As we strive to love Muslims, must we also love Islam? Or is it possible to passionately care for Muslims, while hating Islam? Is Islam a faith system that can create a genuine relationship with God, or is it a purely a soul destroying ideology? Can one be both a Muslim and a follower of Jesus as many evangelical missiologists claim? Are the Allah of the Qur’an and the God of the Bible one and the same? And what about Israel and the Jewish people? As a fierce anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism spreads from the Muslim world into the Christian church, what do the Prophets say about these things? Where is a disciple of Jesus seeking to love both Muslims and Jews to stand on these matters?…. These are not questions that the Church can afford to get wrong… As the Church seeks to plot its way forward into the ever changing world, it is essential for the Church to grasp the truths brought forward in this study.”
Soli Deo Gloria!
p.s. – To state the obvious (duh!) once again:
“We can’t lose, because God can’t lose!”