Unusual Prophecies Being Fulfilled: The Pope, the Eagle and the Iron Sickle by Perry Stone

Author:Perry Stone
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Bible
ISBN: 9780978592028
Publisher: Voice of Evangelism
Published: 2006-02-14T22:00:00+00:00

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Merging the Crescent with the Broken Cross

Sitting atop mosques throughout the world is the universal emblem of the Islamic religion, the crescent moon. Perched high on church steeples around the globe is a cross, the universal emblem of Christ's death and His defeat of Satan through the crucifixion.

Islamists deny that Christ was ever crucified or died on the Cross. They teach that another person who looked like Jesus was crucified in His place. Therefore, the Cross is an offense to a Muslim, and the crescent is viewed as the dominant symbol of their control globally. At present, it seems foolish to project the idea that in the future certain groups of Muslims and an apostate form of Christianity could merge in the Middle East, especially in Jerusalem.

Most western Christians, however, are unaware of the link between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Israel. When you remove the fanatical Islamic element from the picture, many of the common, more secular Muslims are actually friendly to, and receptive of, Roman and Orthodox believers and priests.

For example, many of the Muslims in the Holy Land actually attended Catholic schools as children in areas such as Bethlehem and the West Bank. A Palestinian friend informed me that a Catholic priest would visit Muslims who were sick and pray for them in the hospital. Muslims would kiss the rosary (prayer beads) if the priest removed the cross.

They were not offended to kiss the image of Mary on the rosary, but they would never kiss the cross, which, as stated, is an offense to them.

The great mystery is how a future apostate Pope and a future Islamic leader will join together, when there is a great divide over the deity, death and resurrection of Christ? A Catholic is taught to believe that Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary and that he was the Son of God (Matthew 1:23; Matthew 16:16). They must believe Jesus died and was raised from the dead for the forgiveness of sins to be a Christian.

Muslims, however, accept Jesus as a prophet but deny completely that Christ is the Son of God. They teach that God has no son. The Roman church must change a major doctrine before these two groups can merge. That doctrine would be the belief of who Jesus is.

For a Muslim to completely accept a so-called "Christian" leader, that leader would need to deny that Jesus was God's son and deny that Jesus was ever crucified and raised from the dead. Some may say this will never happen; however, some church leaders in England, Europe and the Middle East are already saying, publicly, that Jesus was not the Son of God!

Both Muslims and Christians believe that Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary. In the Koran, Jesus is called "Isa bin Maryim," or "Jesus the son of Mary." The Qur'an, however, makes these negative statements about Jesus being the son of God:

O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: nor say of Allah aught but the truth.

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