If it would be OK I would like to move this to one of the other forum sections. Maybe the Islam section. I add links for read-only participants, since you have seen many of them already.
As a former Muslim I feel for my family who all are Muslims, then there are billions of others of my former faith who are in invisible chains and 'under strong delusion.' They are not aware that they are a part of that 'great falling away' that occurred in the 7th Century when a world of Christianity was devastated in the middle east and forced either through violence or fear or through despair into the bondage of Islam.
Since it is framed as "that day" of the Lord shall not come except there come an apostasy first, I tend to put it a bit closer to the end and think it is the apostasy of the church over the last half century or so.
http://christianeschatology.com/falling_away_apostasy.htmAlso related to "that man of sin"......
http://www.beholdthebeast.com/man_of_sin.htm.......being revealed in the "temple of God" which is the ecclesia, or body of Christ, or "church".
http://www.beholdthebeast.com/temple_of_god.htmBut it is amazing what happened to the ecclesia in John's whole world over just 150 years:
http://falseprophetmuhammad.com/muhammad_islam_in_bible_prophecy.htm#johns_whole_world
Muslims thinking is territorial thinking, any place conquered by Islam is forever Islamic and from then if taken forcibly by another religion it would be mandatory for Muslims to reclaim it.
Let alone to conquer new lterritory until Islam rules the world.
http://falseprophetmuhammad.com/jihad_islamic_terrorism.htmMuslims are taught Islam is the best of faith, Muslims are the best of people or 'Ummah' in Arabic. This sort of racist ideology and a deep Satanic hatred for the Jews has made a billion Muslims insensitive to the word of God.
Sadly many in the institutional "church" are stuck with the same hatred, even though they wouldn't admit to it. Their antisemitism is the result of "supersessionism" or replacement theology.....
http://christianeschatology.com/supersessionism_replacement_theology.htm.....which is the result of partial preterism.
http://christianeschatology.com/partial_preterism.htmAny Muslim who wants to come to Jesus has to cross over this great hurdle, it took me decades to understand how much hatred and anti Jewishness was in my own heart! In Islamic countries Jews are demonized, they are made as the most evil, vicious and abominable of human beings.
The words of Jesus came as a shock to me 'Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.' Any Muslim that we have to convince for Christ must first be convinced of the innocence of the Jew. The Devil has been tremendously successful against a billion or so people by duping them into believing that Yahweh the God of the Jews is done with them. That the relationship and covenant has come to an end when they rejected Christ.
Look at the history of the Roman Church and words of popes and you won't see much difference:
http://christianeschatology.com/supersessionism_replacement_theology.htm#roman_catholic_supersessionismThis lie is so powerful, and so hurtful that Muslims will cry rivers of tears in front of their TVs watching The Passion of the Christ condemning the Jews and believing that God could not possibly forgive the Jews because of what they did to their most beloved prophet, yes Muslims do love Issa or Jesus as they call him but have been told the lie that He was only a man an apostle of Allah.
While they pay lip service to loving Him, they have to believe He was a false prophet, for having prophesied his own crucifixion, death and resurrection. Following the lie Muhammad's followers crucify Him all over again when they reject and deny Jesus and the blood he shed for us all.
http://islamandthetruth.com/the_lamb_slain.htmEven though it wasn't Jews or Romans that killed Jesus, but the sinful nature of mankind that killed Jesus. It was you and I that killed Jesus, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world:
Rev 13:8
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.Before convincing any Muslim to come to Jesus they have to find out that Jesus is a Jew, a brother of Jews who hurts for them, for whatever happens to them is the same is what He suffers, and sitting on his Judgment Seat one day He will call to the book every mistreatment every wrongdoing against everyone of His brothers and sisters to account.
Peace
Farhat
Thanks brother and the peace of the Lord be with you
