12/19/05

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Enormity of Muslim threat unrecognized

by Hal Lindsey

Since the 9-11 Muslim terrorists attacks against the United States, I have been seeking to warn Americans in general, and Christians in particular, of the enormous threat posed to our country by radical Islam.

Some Christian leaders have not understood this God-directed emphasis to my prophetic ministry. They have told me that my emphasis "puts Arabs in a bad light," "is too anti-Muslim" and "hinders evangelism to Muslims."

Their motives are pure in this and I don't criticize them. I do, however, question their awareness of the seriousness of the threat and the almost impenetrable blindness caused by Islam over those born into it.

In a letter criticizing my ministry on my TV program "IIB" ("International Intelligence Briefing"), the statement was made, "Nowhere in the Scriptures does Christ speak negatively of those who persecuted Him or his people. Certainly we can agree that the Romans in Christ's day were just as violent, savage, evil and in need of the truth of the Gospel as many terrorists are in the world today."

It is true that Christ did not come out against the political regime of the Romans. But it is not true that Jesus Christ and his disciples minced words in their condemnation of the false religious leaders of Judaism known as Pharisees and Sadducees.

John the Baptist, as he prepared the way for the Messiah Jesus to appear, said to the religious leaders, the Pharisees and Sadducees, when they came out to be baptized by him:

You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not think you can say to yourselves, "We have Abraham as our father." I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. (Matthew 3:7-10)

Jesus the Messiah certainly did not compromise or water down His warnings to the religious leaders in hopes they would receive the Gospel. He proclaimed:

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are ... Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness ... You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? (Matthew 23:15, 27-29, 33)

The problem seems to be that many Christian leaders do not recognize that Islam is an aggressive, intolerant false religion, not a political organization. It is far, far more blasphemous and dangerous than the Pharisees and Sadducees to whom Jesus and His disciples proclaimed their most powerful warnings and condemnations.

The Jerusalem Post just announced this alarming statement written by an expert on terrorism in America – Yehudit Barsky:

The power of the extremist Wahhabi form of Islam in the United States was created with generous Saudi financing of American Muslim communities over the past few decades. Over 80 percent of the mosques in the United States have been radicalized by Saudi money and influence. ... The people now in control of teaching religion to American Muslims are extremists.

Though there are "moderate Muslims" within the communities here in the United States, they are easily frightened into silence by the radical Muslims who dominate the teaching and direction of most of the mosques. And they are required by the doctrines of Islam to contribute money that is then cleverly funneled by the radicals into support of terrorist regimes worldwide.

Stephen Schwartz, author of "The Two Faces of Islam," was quoted by CBN News as saying:

We should not be alarmed by the growth of Islam in the United States, but by who controls it. I would say billions of dollars have been spent in the United States to advance Wahhabism ... The Wahhabi sect, backed by Saudi Arabia, controls 70 to 80 percent of the mosques in the United States.

That means they control the teaching, the preaching, the literature that's distributed, and they control the training of the imams. They control all the imams in the federal and state prisons, and they control the imams in the U.S. military. That is, they instruct, they indoctrinate and they certify the chaplains in the federal and state prison systems and in the military.

If you think that this is not dangerous to our country, remember this: "Just as the Communist Party recruited spies and traitors, the Wahhabi imams recruit terrorists – Jose Padilla was recruited in prison. Jose Padilla came back to the United States looking for the recipe for a dirty bomb. This is a reality," Schwartz said.

I believe that those called to a prophetic type ministry, as I am, are bound to warn against religious movements that preach intolerance and doctrines that deny every basic tenet of Christianity – not to mention the fact that they are determined to destroy this country.

My e-mails bear witness to the fact that in so doing, my message has brought thousands to Christ who ordinarily would not darken the door of a Church. So I will not compromise the clear calling that God has given me. I will preach at the "gates of hell" as long as they don't tell me what to say.

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