J. Grant Swank, Jr weighs in with a little of both from his Truth In Conviction Blog.
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CHRIST LIGHT SHINES IN AFGHANISTAN
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
The Holy Spirit has perfect timing. The devil meant it for our harm, God turned it for our good, so the Bible says.
The devil means to cut off the Christian’s head in Afghanistan. Christ intends to use the whole confrontation as a light shine for the gospel.
It is quite interesting to note the timing and content of this crisis. One Christian pitted against the Muslim lie. It takes place as Muslim murderers global destroy Iraq by continually attacking one another. Therefore, $21 billion has been pulled back from US funds for good heart programming in Iraq. No need to build schools and have them bombed in a couple of weeks after construction.
The timing: US government is coming to realize that it is an endless blood river wherever Muslims are. Therefore, multinational troops will never leave Iraq since the blood river flows on and on. But this can’t be for the US. However, it is so because what we envisioned by liberating millions from Hussein is not what we got. We had hoped for a democracy plant upon a monolithic culture. Instead, we opened up the devil’s lid to discover Muslims who constantly thirst for blood, even when it’s their own.
More and more those “bound by a philosophy of death and destruction” are ruling the Muslim world, just as President Bush stated in his recent news conference. Therefore, Mr. Bush provided us a simple definition of Islam. He’s finally getting clued in after living for years with the naïve definition of Islam as a “peace religion,” “ a noble faith,” a religion among world religions. He sees Islam now as those “bound by a philosophy of death and destruction.” Perfect, thank you Mr. Bush.
“Death and destruction” will continue till the Islamic messiah returns, which is never. America can’t remain in Iraq until then, playing referee over gang fights and seeing our new schools, community centers, clinics and neighborhoods bombed as soon as we construct them.
Now that’s the timing, that is, matters are coming finally to a realistic head on the world’s clock.
The content: The substance of the present crisis is spiritual—one Christian’s head versus Muslims’ sharpened knives ready for the slice. Yet all along it’s been a spiritual war—God versus Satan. God is the source of peace, civility, reason and compassion. Allah is everything but that. Allah is the source of war, barbarism, insanity and hate.
Guess who then is the identity of Allah? It is Satan.
When Mohammed lived, he was not a prophet of the true God. He was in line with the Old Testament’s false prophets who were filled with the devil while masquerading as from the holy One. Mohammed molested girls, raped whomever he desired, robbed whatever he wanted, and slew whoever was in his way. Then he, “inspired” by demons, came up with the Koran—his “religious” manual from hell.
What the Christian world now is faced with is what it has been faced with all along—God verses Satan. The secular world did not get it for the secular world is secular, that is, it does not reason in spiritual, biblical terms. But biblical Christians see everything finally in the light of the Word.
Consequently, right now we have a classic: the Afghan Christian, once a demon-aligned Muslim now letting his “little light shine” for Jesus. He is one of the saints of our times. He is derided, scorned and threatened. He’s labeled an “apostate.” Muslim so-called spiritual leaders inform him they will separate his head from his shoulders. After all, is not that what a cleric is divinely called to do?
The timing: we are closing down in Iraq because we are finally realizing that it is not what we had hoped for. We have opened up the devil’s lid to come upon hell’s corridors billowing forth fire and brimstone.
The content: it has come about in crisis package by a lone Christian standing up against the whole Muslim cleric cadre worldwide: David versus Goliath, Jesus versus the Temple Guard plus Roman soldiers.
In other words, the whole scene from years back till now is pure spiritual, rife with the ongoing conflict of right versus wrong, God versus Satan, heaven versus hell. In it all is the over arching final say of the Holy Spirit working through the surrendered life of an Afghan Christian.
FOOTNOTE: Allah, a figment of Mohammed’s demonic imagination, stated the following against Christians in The Koran:
2: The Cow
Don’t bother to warn the disbelievers. Allah has blinded them. Theirs will be an awful doom. 2:6
Allah has sickened their hearts. A painful doom is theirs because they lie. 2:10
Allah has blinded the disbelievers. 2:17-18
A fire has been prepared for the disbelievers, whose fuel is men and stones. 2:24
Allah stamped wretchedness upon the Jews because they killed the prophets and disbelieved Allah’s revelations. 2:61
Allah turned Sabbath breakers into apes. 2:65-66
Allah has cursed them for their unbelief. 2:88
The curse of Allah is on disbelievers. 2:89
Disbelievers will be burned with fire. 2:39, 2:90
Jews are the greediest of all humankind. 2:96
Allah is an enemy to the disbelievers. 2:98
Only evil people are disbelievers. 2:99
For disbelievers is a painful doom. 2:104
For unbelievers: ignominy in this world, an awful doom in the next. 2:114
Disbelievers are losers. 2:121
Allah will leave the disbelievers alone for a while, but then he will compel them to the doom of Fire. 2:126
“Who forsaketh the religion of Abraham save him who befooleth himself?”
Cited in the Hamas Charter (Article 27) to condemn the idea of a secular state. 2:130
Those who reject the proofs, are accursed of Allah. 2:159
Those who die disbelievers, are cursed by Allah, angels, and men. 2:161
The doom of the disbelievers will not be lightened. 2:162
They will not emerge from the Fire. 2:167
Disbelievers will be deaf, dumb, and blind. 2:171
Those who hide the Scripture will have their bellies eaten with fire. Theirs will be a painful doom. 2:174
How constant are they in their strife to reach the Fire! 2:175
Believers must retaliate. Those who transgress will have a painful doom. 2:178
Kill disbelievers wherever you find them. If they attack you, then kil them. Such is the reward of disbelievers. (But if they desist in their unbelief, then don’t kill them.) 2:191-2
Fight them until “religion is for Allah.” 2:193
War is ordained by Allah, and all Muslims must be willing to fight, whether they like it or not. 2:216
Those who die in their disbelief will burn forever in the Fire. 2:217
Intermarriage is forbidden. 2:221
The disbelievers, they are the wrong-doers. 2:254
Disbelievers worship false gods. The will burn forever in the Fire. 2:257
Allah does not guide disbelievers. 2:264
“Give us victory over the disbelieving folk.” 2:286
Copyright © 2006 by J. Grant Swank, Jr. Web: http://www.truthinconviction.us/weblog.php Email: joseph_swank@yahoo.com
ALLAH: “Fight and slay the Unbelievers wherever ye find them. Seize them,beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war.” Qur’an, Sura 9:5
CHRIST: For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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1 comment:
Ouch, I'd rather hold onto the head rather than it be lopped off for disagreement.
As for the endearing disagreement, I am not so sure I agree with you. Certainly Mr. Swank may have stretched the literal meaning, however the intent is aggresively anti-Christian. That is the point.
Please may I keep my head Izrafil? I kind of like it.
:-)
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