AntiChrist to Lawlessness to End Times

Decoding the Antichrist and the End TimesWhat the Bible Says and What the Future Holds

Author: Mark Biltz

Publisher: Frontline, Charisma Media/House Book Group, Lake Mary, Florida, 2019

Author Pastor Mark Biltz, founder of El Shaddai Ministries in Washington State is a well-known and popular commentator on the Feasts of the Lord and has produced a series of DVDs on the Feasts that have gone around the world. He knows his subject and does not claim to be anything he is not.

Biltz’s contention is that there is no extra bonus prize for being first to identify the real “Antichrist” or when exactly the “end times” will arrive. If fact, if you focus on that you may well miss the Antichrist. Instead, he contends we need to learn to recognize spiritual patterns within history and look for the reoccurrence of events in those patterns, perhaps updated to account for our ‘progress’.  If we know the patterns, we’ll know what to look for and we won’t be fooled into either missing the Antichrist or being taken in by his message.

His book is broken down into two main parts. The first explores theories, myths, and misconceptions. It provides us with a historical perspective of the title’s two topics. This is where he introduces us to various Hebrew word mistranslations – some very intentional at the time, and this has sent us down the wrong path. One good example is where the translators translated the same Hebrew word as ‘church’ in some cases and ‘assembly’ in other places.  There was method to their madness – and not for good. Then Part One goes on to give us, using very thorough descriptions, the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian views of the End Times. While covering the Jewish view, Biltz provides a perspective on, among other things, who exactly will rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. While describing the Islamic view, he provides an account of the Muslim perspective on Gog and Magog, and much more.

He introduces us to, and explains well, the history, rationale, danger, and consequences of Replacement Theology (the idea that God has given up on the Jews as His chosen people and replaced them with Christians). And he certainly does not let the Greek Philosophers get away scot free with respect to their influences on these views.  This part of the book is then rounded out with a review of various Antichrist theories.  What is amazing is the similarity as well as the differences between the views, and Biltz does a good job of explaining what gives rise to both. Students of scriptural documents and ideologies will find this most interesting.

In the second part of his book, entitled ‘Scriptural Keys to the Truth’, Biltz introduces us to Solomon – the king we recognize mainly as the wisest person that ever lived. But the author uncovers Solomon’s dark side presenting him (and with good reason given the evidence he offers) as a ‘type’ of the Lawless One. This section was most enlightening, even to a long-time reader of Scripture like me.  Did you know, for example, that Solomon was acting as an arms dealer to Israel’s enemies?

From there, he goes on to cover Israel’s Glory Days, focusing on what those times teach us. With that we transition into the importance of the Judaic calendar vs. the Roman one. He describes the various feasts that God wanted us to celebrate and when they were to be celebrated. Biltz also has a sense of humor and points out in one place in the book that our failure to observe the right calendar and allowing certain variations in the dates from year to year, causes us to celebrate Christ’s death before His birth.

He zooms in on two very special celebrations – Hanukkah and Purim. Biltz explains the two historically and then relates Hanukkah to the Messiah (using Matthew 24) and Purim to the End Times. A broader perspective of the Feasts is then presented, using the Book of Revelation as the source. He discovers, as will his readers, that the Feasts of the Lord are directly tied to the last book of the Bible and thus to the unfolding of end times events.

The whole point being we would do well to look for the pattern in the timing of the Feasts and how they would apply in the End Times.

One learns much from the book and many questions are raised which challenge the reader. For example, is it possible that the Antichrist may be AI (Artificial Intelligence)? Could there be two Messiahs as the Jews believe? Will two different Jesus figures arrive at the end times – the real Jesus and the fake Jesus, as the Muslims believe? Do the Jews believe the Messiah they are awaiting will be divine?

Biltz maintains we need to be studying the modus operandi of the Antichrist more than we need to figure out who it is or will be? He warns us that the deception of the Antichrist will be very appealing because of the amount of truth he will embed in the lies.

Based on his belief that the answer to when the End Times will occur, Biltz identifies a series of events that we need to look out for and that is worth the price of the book itself. Early in his introduction he does give us an indication that he believes we are likely living in the last third of this present age.  I’ll let you discover how he arrives at that for yourselves – and it is most interesting and convincing, at least to me.

However, he makes it clear throughout the book, that his views are merely his beliefs based on his research and study. We can make up our own minds.

This is a book that I very highly recommend. It is informative no matter what your faith is or isn’t.  It makes you think.  And then you start to look for the signs of the pattern of events that will bring it all to fruition.

Ken B. Godevenos, President, Accord Resolutions Services Inc., Toronto, Ontario, February 2, 2019, www.accordconsulting.com

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Can We Talk? Otherwise We’re Not Solving The Problem

Answering Jihad: A Better Way Forward

Nabeel Qureshi, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 2016

 

I had read this author’s former bestseller Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus and was overwhelmed with the personal price he had to pay with respect to his own family when he left the ‘faith of his fathers’ and embraced new faith. When this book came out and he was coming to my city to speak about it I made sure I was there. I also bought this book and read it.

Nabeel Qureshi’s speaking engagement in Toronto had to be moved from its original venue at the University of Toronto (at one of their religious colleges, Anglican in fact) because the faculty had been warned by administration that there could be trouble as this converted, well-educated, medical doctor would likely annoy many Muslim students.  Fortunately, a nearby church welcomed the event. Qureshi was up to dealing with all comers in his usual soft-spoken, respectful, manner, affirming each member of the audience, regardless of their religious stripes – after all it was not too long ago that he would have died for Islam.

In this book, this former Muslim attempts to clarify “both the reality of violent jihad in Islam” and the response that we should have to that. He bravely calls for a “compassionate approach to our Muslim neighbors”. That alone was enough to make me think twice about writing a review recommending Answering Jihad even though, whether we like it or not, Islam has, and continues, to change our world. But as I read, I found that Qureshi succeeded in his hopes for the book, and in the process, radically changed my own mind on the subject.

He remembers hearing a slogan at his mosque that he shared with many: “The terrorists who hijacked the planes on September 11 also hijacked Islam.” And he proceeds to show us how that happened. But while he speaks highly of the millions of peaceful Muslims who have been deceived about what is or is not the true origin and circumstances of their faith, he extends no such excuses for Islam itself.  Much of the book is spent on exposing the recorded and known behavior of the religion’s founder, Muhammad.  He does so with excellent references, almost all Islamic in origin.

His conclusion is that “as long as Islam is practiced in a way that calls Muslims to return to its foundation, violence will follow.” To counteract that, he believes that “the Christian teaching of loving one’s enemies, even in the face of death, might perhaps be the most powerful answer to jihad at our disposal today.” And then he gives his reasons.

If I were to quote here every part of the book that I underlined as a key or unique thought, no publisher would allow me to share my review of Qureshi’s book.  Suffice it to say, that he deals with the origins of jihad and jihad today in a most interesting and complete fashion. In the third part of the book, he answers some very pressing questions many of us have wanted to ask, such as: Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God? How Does Jihad Compare with Old Testament Warfare and the Crusades? What Does Jesus Teach About Violence? What Does Jesus Have to Do with Jihad?

He concludes with a chapter entitled “Answering Jihad” and then follows all this up with some very valuable appendices on: Timeline of Jihad in Islam; Muhammad’s Words on Jihad; What is the Caliphate?; and more, as well as an excellent glossary of terms.

You owe it to yourself to hear from a former passionate lover of Islam to learn how best to address the challenge it presents to the world today.

Answering Jihad is dedicated to the author’s sister whom he misses very much and yearns for the day that they can worship the God of Truth together.

--  By Ken B. Godevenos, President, Accord Resolutions Services Inc., Toronto, Ontario, May 11, 2016. www.accordconsulting.com

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A Book You Really Can't Judge By It's Cover

Beyond The Comfort Zone: The War That Never Ends

Frank Wilkins, Xlibris, USA, 2015

What attracted me to the opportunity to review this book was a promise that, as the symbol on the front shows, it wasn’t about “questions”, but rather “answers”.  And in particular, answers to global wars that never seem to end – the cultural war concerning the very existence of God and the religious war as to which supreme spiritual entity of our affections is indeed the “one and only true” God.

As a Christian, the topic as well as the background of the author, Frank Wilkins, intrigued me.  Frank graduated from high school, enlisted in the U.S. Navy, served as a radioman, and afterwards earned his Bachelor of Science degree. It was that normal of a life. That’s the very point he strives to make – the regular man and woman of this world – us simple common folks can indeed find answers and the truth to the very issues that cause global warfare.  God is there to be sought and found for those willing to remove their blinders.  By definition the truth exists and we can ascertain it.

Wilkins makes no bones about being an agnostic for the early part of his life and then a Roman Catholic.  It makes sense therefore that some of his evidence for the existence of God comes from his own experiences and that part of the Christian faith that he found a home in.  However, a good portion of it also comes from universal history and facts attested to by both believers and non-believers.

He has this amazing ability to dig through the questions and objections of atheists and others with respect to the denial of God’s existence, assuring them that if they really want to get out from behind blinders and take a hard look at facts, they can find the truth. He identifies realities of life that must be contended with.  One example is the reality that one’s life will definitely end. He helps true seekers struggling about whether or not a God, if He existed, would accept them by suggesting they should not be hard on themselves – “Do you think He let those Roman soldiers nail His Son to a wooden cross just so you could sit there and damn yourself for the rest of your life?”

Wilkins also takes on historians who have time and again distorted history to hide the inconvenient truth and the entertainment industry that pushes adults and worse still, young children, into promises of lies for the sake of the almighty dollar. He gives several well-known examples of historic battles where the outcome was decided because God decided to show up on the battlefield. That alone makes for fascinating reading.

Wilkins has an interesting perspective on Islam, Muslims, and the end of the world as well, but allows all of us to make up our own minds, always reminding us not to knock the ideas of others.  He is not too happy about all the distinctions and fights in Christianity, but again explains their existence as another reality.  Also of interest are his views of predestination as it relates to modern science, of evolution and Darwin’s usefulness, and of the actual age of the world.

This is a great book to help anyone get a grip on the answer to the question, “Is there a God?” For one who has been a life-long believer belonging to the Protestant arm of the faith, it helped me to understand the thinking of those who are not growing up in the Church, as well as to gain a clearer perspective on some very famous “miracles” the Roman Catholic Church holds dear to, and how these very miracles help explain their view of the Virgin Mary and the mother of Jesus.

Bottom line for Wilkins is this: “No amount of denial can prevent anyone from ultimately meeting their Maker face to face. You might as well try to deny the existence of the IRS in order to avoid paying taxes.”

He strongly recommends that when you get to “a point where we catch ourselves putting our faith in anything besides God”, that’s the very point we need to realize that for us, it would be foolish to deny His existence.

    -- Ken B. Godevenos, Accord Resolution Services Inc., Toronto, Ontario. 15/10/24

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Perversion of the Lord’s Name Today; Allah Is Not God

Exodus 20:7: “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain” as it relates to the use of “Allah”.

These comments form the conclusion to our look at Exodus 20:7 and the various ways we may be taking the Lord’s name in vain.  Earlier we covered the meaning of “taking something in vain”.  That led us to “abusing, misusing, and perverting” something.  All three aspects were covered with respect to the Lord’s name.  One area of discussion under the category of “perverting God’s name” was left for now.

On June 28, 2014, newspapers all over the world reported on a major decision made by the Malaysian government.  I read my account of it as found in the National Post column written by Robert Fulford.  Robert Marshall Blount Fulford, OC is a Canadian journalist, magazine editor, and essayist. He lives in Toronto.  This particular piece was entitled, The Lord’s name, in vain.

In it, Fulford informs us of the following:

·      Malaysian courts have made it illegal for Christian to refer to God as ‘Allah’ verbally or in writing

·      Many Muslims celebrated the news indicating they would defend the word Allah as theirs to the last drop of blood

·      Much of the world sees the two as synonymous and Allah as an Arabic term for God

·      In recent years Muslims have come to regard the word Allah itself as sacred, untouchable by non-believers in Islam

·      On this occasion, as on many occasions in recent times, the conservative, hyper-sensitive version of Islam won a considerable victory

·      Authorities claimed that the word “Allah” in a Christian context might confuse Muslims, causing them to become Christians

·      Malaysian politicians spend their days worrying about problems of racial and religious differences and their evenings congratulating themselves on how well they’ve solved them

·      Abdullah Zaik, the head of a passionate Muslim-Malay rights organization, has said the Christians should, in the name of national unity, set aside their stubbornness. Mohd Sani Badron, a leading Islamic scholar, has said that the use of “Allah” for “God” must stop because it “erroneously represents the two religions as equal” and may cause Islamic anger. Another leading Muslim said that Christians who go against the ruling are deliberately “trying to cause chaos,” raising the possibility of disharmony

·      This bizarre form of Bible censorship is another way of reminding Christians and Buddhists that they are not to consider themselves legitimate citizens of Malaysia

·      If a government in the West dared to intrude into an editorial decision on the publishing of the Koran, and if the courts supported that position, Muslims would be furious, and with good reasons.  But in many Muslim majority states a similarly outrageous decision is considered entirely within the rights of government.

So now you have the story and how at least Robert Fulford feels about it.  But here’s my take.  The only thing I can say is, “Amen!”  Why did it take the Malaysian government to force Christians to stop doing something that they should not have done on their own account?  And here’s where I lose some of you as promised . . . I believe substituting the word Allah for our one and only true God is indeed perverting the name of the Lord.  If you’re still with me, let me explain why I believe that.

When one takes on the use of a word that comes from a religion which is a) anti-Christian, b) anti-Judaic, and c) further wants to eliminate those who do not want to become Muslims, then there is no way we are talking about the same God, and the use of Allah should therefore not be used by us.

Secondly, if as I believe many Christians who do use Allah, as a substitute for God, do so for the purpose of aligning themselves with Muslims in order to reach them, then they are compromising on who God is.  He does not need a pseudonym for His impact to affect people – even Muslims.  Many are turning to Him without the need for His witnesses to refer to Him by the word Allah.  As Christians, we are so good at compromising our tenets and our ways and watering down our beliefs in order to attract more to our faith.  We could well take a lesson from Muslims in that regard.

Now let’s look at some of the things that Fulford informs us about:

• Of course, as Christians it would be wrong for us to make it illegal for our own people to refer to God as ‘Allah’.  We are not that kind of religion.  And we are not a political force.  But that should have happened out of our own collective free will.  It did not, because too many were interested in taking a pluralistic approach to God.  That was a mistake.
• We could learn from the celebrating Muslims and be ready to state that we would defend the name of the Living God, our Lord to our last drop of blood.
• We need to stop seeing ‘God’ and ‘Allah’ as synonymous. Others do not and in that we should agree.
• God’s name to us must be sacred and we should object to those using it in vain much more than we do.
• Not only are Muslims possibly confused when Christians use the word ‘Allah’ but I believe we are slowly confusing our current and future generations of Christians when we say it is okay for us to use the word ‘Allah’ for our God.
• Perhaps we would all live in greater peace if we kept to our God and let the Muslims stick to their ‘Allah’ and thus allay the fear of many Islamic politicians who worry about problems of racial and religious differences causing trouble.
• I am not sure we should do it in the name of national unity as Abdullah Zaik calls for, but Christians should set aside the use of the name of Allah as God because it should be us that does not want to erroneously represent the two religions as equal, not them.  They are anything but.
• As Christians we should not be trying to cause the chaos they accuse us of by stealing their nomenclature for their deity.
• And Christians do indeed need to be reminded that not only may they not be legitimate citizens of Malaysia, but we need to realize that ultimately our citizenship is in heaven, not on earth.
• Finally, let us be thankful that most of us live in countries where such an “editorial decision” on the publishing of the Koran would never take place.  I pray that this remains the case.

For all of the above, I would say thank you to the Malaysian government for the action they took recently on this topic.  We, as Christian believers should have been there long ago.

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What Does God’s Reference To The “Egyptians” Say To Us Today? -- Exodus 19:4

“‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to Myself.’”
 

God wants Moses to remind the people again of what He had done for them – what He did to their enemies, the Egyptians, and how He “bore them (the children of Israel) on eagles’ wings” and brought them to Himself.

I find it interesting that God keeps referring to what He did to the ‘Egyptians’ rather than to ‘Pharaoh’.  Why the people?  Why not the leader?  I wondered about that.  And it made me think of the push in our society today to distinguish between Islamic terrorists and Muslims.

The word “Egyptians” in the plural is used 98 times in 87 verses in the KJV of the Bible.  Of these less than 5% speak of the Egyptians in a positive way – when they mourned at the time of Joseph’s death and when the Israelites found favor in their sight (Exodus 11:3).  The remainder of the references deals with the Egyptians as enemies of God and of His people.  This is an interesting contrast to how Scripture dealt with other enemies of God – in many cases, the reference is to their leader, usually “the king of . . .” and in there you can put the various kings that attacked Israel over the years.

Using a feature of www.blueletterbible.org, I was able to read all the verses containing the word “Egyptians” in order from start to finish.  The last thing I want to do is to draw conclusions between Egypt and present day Islamic states where God may well have intended no such relationship.  A few thoughts that did come to my mind, however, were these:

1.     The Egyptians were clearly the people that God most focused on as His enemies in the early parts of the Old Testament.  [Other candidates throughout the Bible are Babylonia or Jezebel, and then of course, Satan himself.]

2.     The Islamic religion had not yet originated at the time of Scripture.  Although God knew about its arrival much later in history, it would make no sense that it be referred to in the Pentateuch or elsewhere in the text, by that name, at that time.

3.     As I went through the verses, I wondered what it would look like if one replaced the word “Egyptians” with “Islamists” or “Muslims” in those instances that clearly were “after the Exodus”.  Would the result be a reflection of what was going on in the world today?  Could what happened to Egypt and the Egyptians shed any light on what may happen to the Islamic world?

So I did just that.  Here is some of what came to mind:

a.     In Ezra 9:1 we read of the Israelites not separating themselves from the peoples of other lands, including the Egyptians.  [Have we separated ourselves sufficiently from other false religions today, including Islam?]

b.     Throughout Isaiah 19, the text speaks of the destruction of the Egyptians from within, one fighting another.  [Will Islam so wane?  There clearly is a great divide between the majority of Muslims today and those that are creating havoc around the world.]

c.      In Isaiah 19:4, they are submitted to the authority of a “cruel leader”.  [Will the Twelfth Iman they are expecting turn out to be the one that ultimately leads them to their own destruction?]

d.     In Isaiah 19:16, it was prophesized that the Egyptians would “tremble like women” because the Lord of Hosts waved His hand over them.  [Will we see that with the Muslim world?]

e.     In Isaiah 19:21, we read of the Egyptians coming to know the Lord and to worship and serve Him.  [Do we not anticipate this for many of today’s Muslims?]

f.      In Isaiah 31:3, we see the end of the Egyptians and what they represented, as we know of them.  [One day we will see the end of all that Islam stands for.]

The bottom line for me is that God delivers His people from their enemies.  He did it for the Israelites in the days of Moses, He kept on doing it throughout history, He does it for individuals and groups of people today, and He will do it again.  And what amazes me even more is how He does it.

God tells Moses to remind the people that He “carried them on eagles’ wings”.  Eagles differ from other birds, as they do not carry their young in their claws.  Instead, a young eaglet attaches itself to his mother’s back and is protected while being carried.  David Guzik says, “Any arrow from a hunter must pass through the mother eagle before it could touch the young eagle on her back.”  What a beautiful image that is of God’s love and care of His children.

The verse goes on to say, “and brought you to Myself.”  The Israelites were delivered from their enemy so that they may have fellowship with God Himself.  He did not free them to -- as one commentator wisely points out -- do their own thing, but rather so that they would be His People.  Sometimes we like the Israelites of old and perhaps of today, easily forget the purpose of our salvation.  It is not dear friends so that we can call the shots. 

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Joseph The Potential Judge, Responds - Genesis 50:18-21

Then his brothers also came and fell down before him and said, “Behold, we are your servants.”  But Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in God’s place?  And as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive.  So therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones.”  So he confronted them and spoke kindly to them.

You will remember in the passage before this one, the Bible says the brothers “sent a message” to Joseph concerning their newly resurfaced fear.  We do not know whether that was through a chosen brother to represent them all, or through someone else.  But here it is clear that all the brothers came to see Joseph, either at his request, or on their own, at some point after he had received the original message.

And when they went, they went humbly.  They bowed down before Joseph and simply acknowledged that they were in his hands and were there as his servants to do as he wished.  I see a picture here that somehow resembles our relationship to God and His Son.  Man has sinned against God and fears for his own wellbeing.  He recognizes his errant ways and realizes his need for a Savior.  He approaches the Almighty with all humility and agrees to serve Him.  And like Joseph, God accepts us as members of His family.  The parallelism is striking.

This short passage of Scripture also contains one of the most quoted lines of the Old Testament – “You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.”  Put another way, God used sinful man (the brothers) to pursue evil ends (the elimination of Joseph) to achieve His desired ends (Joseph ending up leader in Egypt) for the purpose of saving the lives of many (the Israelites in Egypt).  Something that struck me odd here is the use of the phrase “God meant it”.  In my current thinking I would have found it much more conducive to my theological exposure if the text had said “but God allowed it”.  Some of us have always found it hard to accept the idea that God orchestrates “bad things to happen to good people”.  But perhaps this verse is suggesting otherwise.  If so, I am okay with this.  After all, God is God and He can do whatever He wants to.  I believe that is the most crucial admission that any man or woman or child can make whether one is a Christian or not.   The non-Christian may not like it.  The Christian will soon find that it is the only way he or she can accept what is going on in the world today.

Joseph is telling his brothers that because it was God that not only was involved in, but also was the One Who was in control of, the situation, they should not be afraid.  His job is to forgive them and to provide for them and their families like a loving older brother or father.  And the Bible says the brothers were faced with those facts and were spoken to kindly.

As I thought about this at the time of writing, I wondered how I could apply the lesson of this passage to my own life.  What was I particularly concerned about, even to the point of fear?  Well, to be totally honest with you – it is the march of radical non-tolerant Islam across the face of earth.  I see it coming like a twister tornado at full speed and I am distraught, to say the least, as to why not only our western politicians but also our own Christian leaders are doing nothing about it.  And if not that, why nothing significant is being done about the treatment of Christians in countries where Muslims already make up 51% or more of the population?

If I take my own advice, I have to realize that God is indeed involved.  In fact, He is in control.  Maybe I think this world movement is meant for my evil but maybe God intends it to be for not only my good, but as a means to bring out about the salvation of many, both Muslims and others.  What I have to do is “therefore, not be afraid” and know that God will provide for “me and my little ones”.  I must admit that is a very hard place to get to, at least for me.

You probably have your own fear or two.  Together we must find within us the means by which we get to that place.  For the Christian, that means is the indwelling of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Secondly, we must realize His presence within us provides us the means by which we can remain there.

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New York Times ad proof anti-Catholic attacks are fair game.

I only have one question:  Would the NY Times allow a similar advertisement questioning the activities of Muslims with respect to Islam?   Yes or No.   Now is the time for some very rich Christians to help us find out by trying.

New York Times ad proof anti-Catholic attacks are fair game: Charles Lewis | Holy Post | National Post

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What's So Special About Jerusalem to Islam? Maybe Not That Much Unless . . .

Okay I know this is from an Israeli newspaper.   And I know this is based on the thinking of a Jewish panel.   But it lays the topic on the table.  It takes a position using the Koran / Qur'an and it begs the Muslims to argue with it.  I'll be waiting.  In the meantime, compare the importance of Jerusalem to the Jews, and even the Christians, with its importance to the Muslims.  Take a look. 

Panel: J'lem of incidental importance in... JPost - National News

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