The "Rapture" in Islam!
Though Islamic extremism is definitely a negative force to be recon with, with proper understanding of God's providence of salvation, it can be seen as a window of hope and liberation for the Muslim world to come out of the dark rigid doctrine of Islam. Extremist's radical views on God and Islam, coupled with their violent actions of terrorism and the killing of innocent people in cold blood, such as 9/11, New York's Twin Towers, London's underground Tube Station, Rail Road Trains in Spain, had awakened Muslims every where! Extremists twisted interpretation of the Holy Koran and their demand for shariah law, based on their extremist views, coupled with repressive, power-hungry, regimes, has ignited people's anger that led to uprising that so recently blazed across the Middle East and Africa.(see the Dreams/Prophecies)
In the Western world, people are freely engaging in theological discussions about God, studying the Old and New Testaments of Bible and trying to understand and learn for themselves lessons from the Bible's stories of the creation, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden Etc. Protestant Reformation, led through blood bath, spanned over the past four hundred years, had cracked open the old rigid Christian dogma. The Bible itself has been the subject to many translations and interpretations. Courageous, prepared special people such as the great man of God and martyr William Tyndale, his remarkable story noted in the preface of the Bible Revised Standard. Mr. Tyndale was burned at the stake as a heretic for translating the Bible into English from original Hebrew and Greek;once, only the privileged few and high level priests could read and interpret the Bible.
Though the Bible had gone through many different interpretations and translations, the differences are very minute. Despite all the changes brought about by the reformation, Christianity continued to strive. Today, more then 3 billion people around the world are freely reading God's words on their own, without any form of control or dictates by any religious Moullahs, unlike we find in Islam.
Trust In God
Today, the Muslim world needs to have not only faith, but "TRUST" in God! Having trust and SINCERE heart is the most precious thing God looks in human beings. This is the way God answered my prayers. After attending a 40-day Divine Principle and Bible Study workshop, I went into the deep forest to pray, asking God to help me with my decisions. I closed my eyes and started muttering like a little boy, I said,
" Heavenly Father, I am sorry to call you Father. My religion (Islam) forbids me to call you Father. But I would love to be your son. I would love to call you Father. I love this group ( Rev. Moon's Unification Church). I learned so much about you in their teaching, but there is so much controversy about them."
Suddenly, from the sky, a message came down to me as fast as the speed of light. The words were written on my forehead and spoken simultaneously, and the words said,
" Son! Why are you so troubled? If you are sincerely doing it for me, wouldn't I be with you? Wouldn't I save you even if you are in the most dangerous group?"
(Full story in Honor Thy God< www.honorthygod.com>)
Muslim people need not fear God in searching for truth, in fact the Koran instructed all Muslims to seek knowledge on God, the angel Gabriel's first words to Prophet Mohammed Were "Read!" "Read In the Name Of God, the one who taught men with pen...Taught men knowledge he had not known before"
Surely, we are living in a special, unprecedented period in human history that can only be portrayed in religious terms as the "Last Days!" Reformation should take place in Islam! Muslim brothers and sisters should be extremely careful of extremist's twisted views on how we should live our Muslim faith, how to think and what to ware. Be careful of "HATE"! God is LOVE, He does not hate.
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