The Fate of Islam in Light of Bible Prophecy
.......While our last two prophecy experts saw the fate of Islam being at the bloody hands of the coming one-world ruler, the Antichrist, our next few panelists look to Islam’s potential defeat in the coming war of Gog and Magog, followed by Islam’s remnants being absorbed into the Babylonian one-world religion that will dominate the first half of the Tribulation.
Pete Garcia: This is my opinion on how I read Ezekiel 38–39 concerning the Gog-Magog War. I see God pulling Muslims, both Sunni and Shia, from all directions, to come against Israel. Islam is going to take advantage of a crisis led by Gog. I think it’s going to happen because of the Rapture, as that would cause a global crisis that will destabilize the U.S., or at least take us out of the picture for a while. We won’t be there to support Israel militarily or politically, economically, or in any other way. The Islamic world is going to take advantage of that crisis to march against Israel. It’ll be like the Crusades, but in reverse. The Islamic coalition, though, will be wiped out by God supernaturally. By the end of that supernatural defeat, Islam is going to have lost a lot of its militant power and forces. Muslims will then roll into whatever the final iteration of the final world religion will be.
Lee Brainard: Bible prophecy teachers are somewhat divided on whether Psalm 83 and Ezekiel 38–39 are two distinct events. I tend to put them as one big event, but with two different motives coming together. A confederation of the Russian-led juggernaut and the Arab nations will join to come against Israel. When the fire descends from the heavens to bring judgment on the Gog and Magog juggernaut, that is not only going to destroy that gathered army, but the Scriptures are very clear that the fire is also going to fall on those nations that dwell in Magog and live carelessly in the isles.
The result of this war is the decimation of the two most powerful forces in the Middle East outside of America and her Western allies, which would be Russia and its allies, fundamentalist Islam. This war is going to leave a vacuum in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as in Europe, which the revived Roman Empire will step into. So Islam’s militant force is going to be largely erased by the Gog-Magog War. Islam is going to be largely smashed by the fire that falls from the heavens.
As a result, a lot of Muslims are going to be awakened to the falsity of Islam and instead embrace the God of Israel, because the God of Israel had defended the Jewish people. But then whoever is not killed or converted is going to be molded into the one-world whore religion. Muslims will face the same choice that everybody else in the Tribulation will face. You can either lose your head, or you’re going to worship the Antichrist. Every religion on Earth is going to come down that road.
Mondo Gonzales: I’ve encountered a lot of different perspectives, including everything from an Islamic Antichrist to Ezekiel 38, where God judges the invading hordes and fire from heaven incinerates the coastlines to subdue the Islamic religion.
When you think about the Harlot from the book of Revelation, it is a religious system. Islam is kind of this enigmatic topic, for where does it end up in the last days? It’s hard to believe that even if Islam was humbled by God before the start of the Tribulation, should Ezekiel 38 happen then, that Islam would still not become a part of the Harlot system during at least the first three and a half years, because the Harlot is going to become a worldwide religious system. But, by the midpoint of the Tribulation, as we know, the Harlot religion is going to be burned with fire so that there’s no room for any competition with the Antichrist’s desire to be worshipped alone.
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