I don't think that Mr. Reagan really read the books he reviewed...
| Posted On: 02/07/09 07:57:01 PM |
Age 36, CANADA |
Per David Reagan, Joel Richardson & Walid Shoebat are misleading regarding what the Sunni believe with respect to Islam. However, the FACT is that it is David Reagan who is misleading by claiming that the Sunni do not believe in al Mahdi. Here is the PROOF that the Sunni do and it is in fact MANDATORY by all Sunni Muslims:
http://www.al-islam.org/encyclopedia/chapter2/2.html
Quote: "Al-Sayid Sabiq, the Mufti for the 'Muslim Brotherhood,' in his book, 'al- 'Aqa'id al-Islamiyyah,; that: 'The idea about the Mahdi is indeed valid, and is one of the Islamic tenets that one must believe in.' Mr. Sabiq also narrated a variety of traditions relating to the appearance of al-Mahdi (AS) in the above book.
The recent Fatwa in this issue was given in Mecca by 'The Muslim World League' (Rabitatul 'Alamil Islami) on Oct. 11, 1976 (23 Shawwal 1396). This Fatwa states that more than twenty companions narrated traditions concerning al-Mahdi, and gives a list of those scholars of Hadith who have transmitted these narrations, and those who have written books on al-Mahdi. The Fatwa states:
"The memorizers (Huffadh) and scholars of Hadith have verified that there are authentic (Sahih) and acceptable (Hasan) reports among the traditions related to al-Mahdi. The majority of these traditions are related through numerous authorities (Mutawatir). There is no doubt that the status of those reports are Sahih and Mutawatir. (They have also verified) that the belief in Mahdi is obligatory, and that it is one of the beliefs of Ahlussunnah wal Jama'a. Only those ignorant of the Sunnah and innovators in doctrine deny it."
Here is another Sunni reference. In their book, "Al Mahdi and the End of Time" (1997), Muhammad Ibn Izzat and Muhammad Arif, two well-known Egyptian authors, identify the Mahdi from the Book of Revelation, quoting Hadith transmitter Ka'ab al-Ahbar.
In one place, they write:
"I find the Mahdi recorded in the books of the Prophets… For instance, the Book of Revelation says: 'And I saw and behold a white horse. He that sat on him…went forth conquering and to conquer.'"
Izzat and Arif then go on to say:
"It is clear that this man is the Mahdi who will ride the white horse and judge by the Qur’an (with justice) and with whom will be men with marks of prostration (zabiba) on their foreheads.... The Mahdi will offer the religion of Islam to the Jews and Christians; if they accept it they will be spared, otherwise they will be killed." (page 16).
http://store.islamicplace.com/bok634.html
Another Sunni source:
http://www.lutonmuslims.co.uk/Signs.htm
Quote 1: "... the Mahdi will appear at the end of time ..."
Quote 2: "The Prophet said, 'The Mahdi will be one of my descendants; he will have a high forehead and a hooked nose. He will fill the earth with justice and fairness just as it was filled with injustice and oppression, and he will rule for seven years.'"
Mr. Reagan, shame shame shame sir for not doing your research. It would have taken only a few minutes to find the information above easily available online.
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Think
| Posted On: 01/20/09 10:32:39 AM |
Age 53, CA |
To the few that have bias towards Reagan--Do you think your mentor is immune from error? Was he wrong when he stated that only Shia believe in Mahdi? Was he wrong when he stated that Muslims do not worship a man? Can you honestly state that Muslims do not worship Muhammad? Go ahead, answer these two questions, and like Dirty Harry said "make my day"
This comment was found on lamblion by Mary Habeck
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Think
| Posted On: 01/20/09 10:27:24 AM |
Age 53, CA |
Based on an interresting comments made by someone on LambLion, let me ask--is Reagan immune from error? Was he wrong when he stated that only Shia believe in Mahdi? Was he wrong when he stated that Muslims do not worship a man? Can you honestly state that Muslims do not worship Muhammad? Go ahead, answer these two questions, and like Dirty Harry said "go ahead, make my day"
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Shot Himself
| Posted On: 01/20/09 10:21:46 AM |
Age 53, CA |
On Reagan's blog I read a response that was interresting. A reader commented on bias by Nathan, Reagan's employee:
"Could it be that your bias towards Reagan is a result of your working relationship with him? Do you think your mentor is immune from error? Was he wrong when he stated that only Shia believe in Mahdi? Was he wrong when he stated that Muslims do not worship a man? Can you honestly state that Muslims do not worship Muhammad? Go ahead, answer these two questions, and like Dirty Harry said 'go ahead, make my day'"
This says it all, we have some that are die-hard supporters of Reagan that would rather ignore error and look up to a man-mentor instead of God. Reagan was wrong to state that Muslims do not worship a man. Yet he acts like he is immune from error. This is pride and pride comes before the fall. Why is it that PROPHEZINE posts both views and both artciles, yet the pro Reagan camp only excercizes censorship? Can't we examine both views? Worldview were given Shoebat's rebuttal by many, yet Worldview, like any typical one sided view censors. This is a shame, lets see if they censor my comments
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look deeper
| Posted On: 01/16/09 12:28:16 AM |
Age 42, CA |
i heard him speak on a 66/40 chuck missler program titled Strategic Perspectives, and i found it far more than interesting, my only wonder is his stance on the rapture
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THREE KINDS OF BABYLONS
| Posted On: 01/15/09 10:56:17 AM |
Age 65, OH |
There are three Babylons written about in the scriptures. There are the physical, soulish or political, and the spiritual Babylon. The 1st was the actual city of Babylon which destroyed Jerusalem during Jeremiah and god has plainly said will NEVER RISE AGAIN. The second Babylon is the current power that the world looks to. This Babylon has changed from Babylon to Persia to Greece to Rome to Europe to Britain to The USA. The 3rd Babylon is Babylon the Great. there were many Alexanders but only one Alexander the Great. There were many Babylons, but only one Babylon the Great. Alexander the Great was the greatest Alexander according to mere men. But Babylon the Great is the "greatest" Babylon according to God. Look in The Book and see that Babylon the Great is different than Babylon.
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- BABYLON THE GREAT
| Posted On: 01/16/09 12:21:22 PM | | Age 65, OH |
Rev 14:8 "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great, which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries." - It says that Babylon the Great was guilty of adultery. Adultery is the sin of being unfaithful to the one who you have promised to be faithful in marriage. Babylon the Great is NOT a whore as the world is, but an adulteress. That means that she promised to be faithful to The Lord Jesus Christ but instead gives herself to another. Babylon the Great is the church system that follows men instead of the Lord Jesus. Look it also says that she makes ALL the nations drink of her adulteries, which is that of following men. So Babylon the Great is not of the world, so to speak, but tries to appear as a church of the Lord Jesus. This church system is going to fall as God has said. We should be able to see that it is happening as we speak. The 144,000 are also spoke of in Rev 14: 4These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. - These follow the Lamb and do not follow the church. For the church is the woman who is spoke of here. Of course there are two women in the Bible. One woman is the one who He loved and the other is the jealous one who hates the one that He loves. there is the true Body of The Lord Jesus Christ and there is the church who claims to follow Christ but instead follows men. Lou Newton
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THREE KINDS OF BABYLONS
| Posted On: 01/15/09 10:56:16 AM |
Age 65, OH |
There are three Babylons written about in the scriptures. There are the physical, soulish or political, and the spiritual Babylon. The 1st was the actual city of Babylon which destroyed Jerusalem during Jeremiah and god has plainly said will NEVER RISE AGAIN. The second Babylon is the current power that the world looks to. This Babylon has changed from Babylon to Persia to Greece to Rome to Europe to Britain to The USA. The 3rd Babylon is Babylon the Great. there were many Alexanders but only one Alexander the Great. There were many Babylons, but only one Babylon the Great. Alexander the Great was the greatest Alexander according to mere men. But Babylon the Great is the "greatest" Babylon according to God. Look in The Book and see that Babylon the Great is different than Babylon.
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Think for yourselves
| Posted On: 01/14/09 11:33:31 AM |
Age 38, WA |
I have read this book and I found both the book and the author to be incredibly interesting. If you want to know what's really going on read the Bible for yourself, read Walid Shoebat's book for yourself and learn! The Bible is actually very specific about the end-times countries that will be involved; it doesn't take much more than a map to see that Walid is right. But by all means, think and decide for yourselves!
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i certainly hope
| Posted On: 01/13/09 02:21:42 PM |
Age 56, SD |
i certainly hope Jesus comes back before the muslim nations build a aircraft carrier like the George W. H. Bush. He does say in his Bible he will shake all the universe some day.
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Babylon...
| Posted On: 01/13/09 11:23:21 AM |
Age 45, NC |
You're only come back Mr. Reagan with all due to respect to your tremendous love and faithful service to God was "Babylon."
Babylon is now and has always been the geographic location today we know as Iraq. Iraq is not a 'secular' government, it is a Muslim one and it will likely be more radicalized once Hillary and Husssein remove our troops.
I can understand your defensiveness since you have always held a Roman/European view and some sort of Catholic influence in the scripture, but when you let the Scripture speak for itself it never says Europe or Pope.
Happy Researching!
a sister in Christ who doesn't agree with everything you had to say in this piece.
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- Examine the evidence
| Posted On: 01/14/09 03:15:27 PM | | Age 47, OR |
You might be shocked to know that the highest-caliber commentators of old believed that Islam plays a major role in the coming Antichrist threat. John Wesley interpreted the Iron in Daniel 2 as Islam (Works, 1841). Hilaire Belloc foresaw Islam‘s rise. Gregory Palamus of Thessalonica interpreted the martyrdom of Christians during the Great Tribulation to come from Islam. Josiah Litch interpreted Revelation as the ushering in of Islam. He even described the magnitude of Islam’s role as Antichrist to the extent of calling it the “general agreement among Christians, especially protestant commentators.” Cyril of Jerusalem (315-368 A.D) in his Divine Institutesbelieved that Antichrist will proceed forth from the region of ancient Syria 2, which today extends from Syria well into portions of Asia Minor (Turkey). Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem (560-638) and Maximus the Confessor (580-662) identified Islam with Antichrist and lived through Islam’s invasion of Jerusalem. Maximus was also an important theologian and scholar of the early Church who helped defeat the Monothelite heresy referred to the Muslim invasions as “announcing the advent of the Antichrist.” John of Damascus (676-749) Was another very important figure in the early church. In his famous book, Against Heresies associated Islam as forerunner of Antichrist. Eulogius, Paul Alvarus and the Martyrs of Cordova (9th century)Believed Muhammad to be a false prophet and the precursor to the Antichrist.3 Many are aware that Martin Luther, father of the Protestant Reformation, believed that the Turks were the Kingdom of Antichrist. John Calvin interpreted Daniel 2 eastern leg as the Eastern-Roman Islamic Empire and Daniel 11:37 applied to the Muslims. 5 Even Jonathan Edwards who was the great American congregational preacher, revivalist, and president of Princeton University and like Luther and Calvin, saw Islam as one of the premiere elements of the Antichrist Kingdom. Calvin even interpreted Islam shall fall at the sound of the great trumpet Islam falling at the sound of the great trumpet definitely carries Islam into the Great Tribulation and not as many of our modern prophecy analysts who allege Islam is removed prior to Christ coming. Sir Robert Anderson was perhaps one of the best prophecy experts who unlocked the seventy weeks of Daniel in his remarkable book The Coming Prince insists to focus on the Levant (Eastern) parts rather than the Adriatic (West.)
Countless Bible commentators identified Islam, such as Selnecker, Nigrinus, Chytraeus, Bullinger, Foxe, Napier, Pareus, John Cotton, Thomas Parker, Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, and George Stanley Faber. Even Arnold Fruchtenbaum discounts Reagan's argument over Psalm 83 which he agrees with Shoebat does happen during The Great Tribulation.
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- The majority report - Interpretaton over the years
| Posted On: 01/19/09 03:44:32 PM | | Age 55, SC |
The argument with the author of this book is based more on a settled view - dispensational, pre-tribulational, and pre-millennial. The fact that the man uses Scripture to interpret scripture, and follows the lead of numerous commentators up to the twentieth century, does not seem to matter. I have come through the pre-mil phase to a position that is a-mil. I see the whole of the Bible, not just the New Testament, as the canvas upon which God painted the picture of history. The only place that paints in full a history not fulfilled by now is the book of Revelation. And there, believers and unbelievers are there up until the bowls of wrath are poured out (baptism of fire, as John the baptist called it). The Last Trumpet, the Seventh, will blow at the beginning of the "seventh" month (1 Tishri, Rosh Hashannah). We don't know when that will be, but each month of the ceremonial year, which starts in the spring and ends in the fall, begins with a trumpet blast, seven in all. The "last trump" will be then. That is when we are to expect the "rapture," or catching up of the saints. And that is "pre-wrath." Let Scripture interpret scripture.
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