The doors of hell were opened

[LaSpino3]

In the not too distant past we have read of the Roman Catholic church, represented in Nebuchadnezzar's image of a man as the feet of iron and (potter's) clay going forth, and hell would follow after her, she having the power to kill all who challenged her authority. She was lead by the most cunning and brutal ruler's mankind had ever given life to.

Many fiery persecutions have blazed around the Christian community, both from within and from without.  But by the grace of God, God's people have survived these many woes. But what followed this Catholic Empire came from the darkest and deepest part of the earth. A man who was given power to spread religion across the continents, a religion born of deception, terror, blood and death.

The ancient Arabs had a form of knowledge concerning the power of the gospel of Christ as did this one man, Mahomet. Mahomet was a wicked imposter who opening the doors of the bottomless pit, establishing for himself and his followers a false religion; a religion that spread as would cancer through a body. Mahomet was originally a trade's men. About the year 608 B.C. he formed the bold scheme of setting up a new religion, and would soon become the head of an empire.

He declared, there was one God and his name is Allah, and that he, Mahomet was his prophet. He captivated many Jews and Christians when he allowed both Moses and Christ to be true prophets in his religion; and also represented himself as superior to both in spiritual light and power. He falsely claimed to be sent by God in order to reform the system Moses and Jesus had established. His books were compiled from oriental tales and fables; from the legendary trash of Rabbi's, and from the Jewish and Christian Scriptures. He then commenced to write, he composing a strange concoction of blasphemy and lies. And his ideas of providence were those of the fatalist.

Mohomet's his own morals were spread among his men giving to them free indulgence for their passions; and the promise of a carnal heaven, where they should spend an eternity in the grossest of sensualities.  When he first announced himself as the prophet of God, a storm arose against him in 622 A.D. so he fled to Mecca and Medina, this is called by Islam, the Hegira.
His followers grew as did his fighting men. He would soon wage a war of extermination against his own people who refused to receive him: his proselytes were made by fire and the sword. Soon the time would come when no force or power could withstand his armies, not even the power of the Roman Catholic church. Before his death he became complete master of all Arabia.
But his death did not end this march of death because he had opened the doors of hell, and from them came a darkness within a darkness. Syria, Persia, Egypt, and many others fell under Islam's dominion. The once flourishing Christian churches became graves. Jerusalem, where David ruled; where Isaiah prophesied; where our Lord was crucified, and where the Holy Spirit was given, all falling before the Muslim onslaught in the year 637. Great slavery and wars followed from Africa to Spain, advancing into France, Islam intending to overrun Europe and blot out the name of Christian. But an opposing power met them in 734 A.D. under Charles Martel who defeated them killing some 370,000 in one day. But they would soon push into Italy and spread their terror to the very walls of Rome.

Over time they pushed into India, and throughout their conquest immense numbers were induced to embrace the religion of Islam. Soon the light of Christianity would be nearly extinguished had it not been for the hand of God.

But now in the 13th century, a new and terrible power appeared in Asia, called the Ottomans, who would soon be persuaded to embrace the religion of Mahomet. And the war between light and darkness continued to grow over the centuries. In the year 1453, Mahomet the Great took Constantinople and with it all Greece, where Christianity had for centuries triumphant.
Eventually two principal sects of Mahometan's appeared: the Shiites, who are chiefly Persians, and the Sunnites who inhabited East Persia, Arabia, Turkey and what was once independent Tartary, a name used from the Middle Ages until the twentieth century to designate the great tract of northern and central Asia stretching from the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, inhabited mostly by Turkic peoples after the Mongol invasion.

Today there are about 1 ½ billion followers of Islam. This religion and its followers are an awful mystery in the providence of God, and as it has been asked over and over again, "why is this being permitted by our LORD?"

But, from the prophesies spoken of in Daniel, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Matthew, Revelation etc. these who have bowed and continue to bow to this evil will soon bow at the feet of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. His time is approaching, His judgments are near when He will be taking vengeance against every false religion, and every political and military power known to this world.

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