White squalls - the greatest fear of ship captains! These sudden and violent ‘Sea storms’ don’t come with the usual warning signs, like dark clouds. White squalls are believed to be caused by cloud ‘micro-bursts’ - an intense column of ‘sinking air’ - powerful downdrafts that originate from the base of a cloud, stirring up the sea into white cap waves which can swallow up ships. This phenomenon was made famous in a 1996 film called ‘White Squall’ - starring Jeff Bridges.
Your Bible speaks of such great sea storms: “Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business on great waters, 24 They see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep. 25 For He commands and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up the waves of the sea. 26 They mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths; their soul melts because of trouble. 27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end. 28 Then they cry out to the Lord in their trouble, and He brings them out of their distresses. 29 He calms the storm, so that its waves are still.” (PSALM 107:23-29)
Storms of course can be literal or figurative. Winston Churchill wrote a book entitled: ‘The Gathering Storm,’ speaking metaphorically of events in Europe, after WW1, that gathered like a storm - resulting in the rise of Adolf Hitler and WW2.
Today, we see another ‘gathering storm’ that your Bible prophesied would come - a gathering storm of religious zealots - who will one day subdue all nations!
An Israeli writer, named Edy Cohen, recently wrote about this ‘gathering storm’: “Hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants, once settled in Western countries, demand many rights - such as building mosques and schools, halal food and more, and anyone who does not accede to these demands is labeled ‘Islamophobic’ or ‘Anti-Islam.’ More often than not, Western countries grant all these rights to Muslims - yet the latter’s ultimate loyalty is to their religious laws - rather than to the host state. Moreover, once those immigrants become full citizens, they rebel against the very countries that opened their doors to them.”
Most immigrants who have emigrated out of their parent countries, and into ours, want to melt into the pot of every day American life, culture, and values. In their quest for American citizenship, these folks gladly left such loyalties behind, pledging allegiance to their new host country. But Muslims, don’t bring with them national loyalties, but a religious loyalty to ‘Dar Al-Islam’ - the ‘House of Islam’ - a spiritual kingdom that goes beyond any national or ethnic loyalty.
YHVH warned ancient Israel that if they strayed away from the covenant they made with Him: “The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. 44 They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.” (DEUTERONOMY 28:43,44)
Today, we have 42 political office-holders in the United States, who are practicing, loyal, Muslims. We have communities in Minnesota, made up of Somali Muslims, who are rising higher and higher in political sway, making non-Muslim long time residents feel like they are becoming ‘the tail,’ with the new-comers becoming ‘the head.’
Isaiah was inspired to write about the tribe of Ephraim, which eventually became the British peoples (see our program on America & Great Britain in prophecy, on our Youtube channel called ‘Original Christianity’): Woe to that wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower, his glorious beauty, set on the head of a fertile valley—to that city, the pride of those laid low by wine! 2 See, the Lord has one who is powerful and strong. Like a hailstorm and a destructive wind, like a driving rain and a flooding downpour,
he will throw it forcefully to the ground. 3 That wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s drunkards, will be trampled underfoot. 4 That fading flower, his glorious beauty, set on the head of a fertile valley, will be like figs ripe before harvest—as soon as people see them and take them in hand, they swallow them.” (ISAIAH 28:1-4)
The once ‘Great’ Britain, a ‘fading flower’, is being ‘swallowed up’ by Muslim hordes - who have taken over sections of cities, and implemented Sharia Law.
Ezekiel 32, warned the world plainly, 2500 years in advance - that it would be Islamic nations who would sponsor terror - in the years leading up to the ‘Battle of Armageddon,’ their mass graves all around. Yet, even most Christians don’t have ‘eyes to see’ this incredibly detailed prophecy.
And what does the New Testament say about this ‘gathering storm’ of religious radicals? The apostle Paul wrote to the congregation in Galatia: “For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman (Ishmael) and the other by the free woman (Isaac). 23 His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise… 28 Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. 29 At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. IT IS THE SAME NOW.” (GALATIANS 4:22.23; 28,29)
The nation of Israel has been persecuted by its Arab neighbors for centuries, as prophesied way back in the book of Genesis: “18 His (Ishmael’s) descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt, as you go toward Ashur. And they lived in hostility toward all the tribes related to them (Including Israel).” (GENESIS 25: 18 NIV)
When the apostle Paul writes about the ‘Man of Sin’ (the Great false Prophet) that will arise in the ‘latter days’ - he’s speaking of a religious leader who will come on the world scene deceiving the masses: “The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.” (II THESSALONIANS 2:9-12)
What LIE does this ‘lawless one’ tell: “Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.” (I JOHN 2:22,23 NIV)
On the ‘Dome of the Rock’ are the words inscribed: ‘Allah is the only god, and he has no son.’ The Quran states over and over again that its god has no son, and that the historic Jesus was not the ‘Son of God’ - neither was He crucified. No other religion on earth is as adamantly opposed to the idea of God being a ‘father figure’ - as Islam - a concept equated to the Anti-Christ. The Quran incites violence against all such infidels: (Surah 2:191)
The book of Revelation makes it clear that this ‘gathering storm of radical Islam will eventually spread around the world: “It was granted to him (Beast) to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. 8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” (REVELATION 13:7,8 NIV)
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