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Satan has spent many centuries gaining de facto title to the world via his servants. This is what happened before Noah’s flood and satan has been building his title portfolio again ever since, by the continued selling of his illicit wares. Once he holds property or title of any sort, he won’t let it go if at all possible. If it stays off the market, then a property remains unsold. Think of it a different way. If a person holds a title for some sporting ability, then in many cases he holds it until he accepts a challenge. Until he accepts that challenge, he theoretically cannot lose that title. For example, it takes a fight to take the title off a boxing champion, so if he won’t accept the fight, then he may well retain his title; fighting a match may put his title at risk. In a way this is what happened with Egypt’s pharaoh; it took Moses to challenge him in a conflict that pharaoh was unable to back off from later on until he lost the title (the title to ownership of Israel in this case). Fights are often necessary to win something.
Today satan holds a lot of title in our world. But since the Ottoman empire (Turkey) was defeated in WW1, and the Balfour Declaration of 1917 allocated Palestine to Israel, satan has been defending his title portfolio. He would have wanted to keep Palestine because this would keep Israel out. The Balfour Declaration was not good for satan. Then when Israel took a small part of Palestine in 1948, satan’s portfolio took another hit. The original land of Israel especially with Jerusalem and particularly the Temple Mount was under satan’s control for a long time, but now the fight was on to keep his title to this property. The thing is that once it became a battleground, it could be lost; “no battle” was better if he wanted to keep his title to this property.
In fact, this is what it’s all about. Satan can hold his property better if he doesn’t have to fight for it; fighting introduces a real risk of losing it. It is clear from prophecy, however, that if God is to take back title for His people Israel and for His created world in general, He will choose to win it through conflict, just as He won title for His people Israel via the conflict which pharaoh lost against God’s servant Moses.
Today God has set things up in the world that will cause satan to have to defend his title through conflict. We can see how politics have become divisive issues lately, with strong feelings for and against leaders and such. Satan will be desperate to retain Palestine, Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, necessary for the control of God’s people Israel. Therefore this is where the conflict will be centred. Satan’s servants are being pressured to fight for control of Israel especially Jerusalem. The 2017 hamas charter demands control of Israel’s land and for Jerusalem as their capital. And Temple Mount will become the hottest property in the world soon.
But the conflict isn’t only over Israel. God is going to take back title for the whole world, leaving not one place at all for satan and his servants. Armageddon will complete God’s battles for the takeover of the whole world in readiness for the 1000-year reign of peace over the whole world by Christ the Messiah.
There will be a coming 7-year period culminating with Armageddon, with the world in such conflict that destruction on a massive occurs. Wars, famines, earthquakes, ultra-mass-fatalities, extreme natural disasters; this 7-year period will have it all, more destructive than all the disaster movies put together! And God wins all title!
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It must be noted carefully that the God of the Bible (and of His Church, and of His people Israel) is not the God of any other religion that claims his name as their God. In particular, the God of Islam is not the God of the Bible. Regardless of what people claim, the god Allah is not the God of the Bible. They are 2 separate and distinct beings. If we look at the words and writings of both Islam and Christianity/Judaism, it is clear that the Gods of each religion have teachings that oppose each other. Christianity’s God is a God of love, one who died in the place of sinful man so that man could escape the righteous judgement for his sin. There is no similar record of such teachings in Islam. Instead, Islam is a religion of works, where one must work to obtain the pleasure of his God. Those muslims who die allegedly for their faith are proclaimed martyrs which appears to be the ultimate work to please their God. While the Christian is required to love his enemies and do good to those who persecute him, the muslim is rather to defend his beliefs by physically opposing those who would dare to oppose them. And the Christian cannot attain to heaven by works; it is by faith in God who has died for them in their place. On the other hand, for muslims, there does not appear to be any salvation through belief in the substitutionary death of their God in their place; there is no Christ/God figure who paid for their sins in full.
The ultimate definition of any God can be seen by looking at those who serve him. Christians are to be ambassadors for Christ who is God (2 Corinthians 5:20); they must show to the world the attributes of the one whom they serve. Thus they must show love, justice, care to those around them, and it should not make any difference if those around them hate them – they are commanded to show love by doing good to even those who hate them! Any Christian who does not demonstrate Christ-like attributes to others is not a good Christian, or may not even be a genuine Christian! Fightings among Christians is declared the sinful consequences of our sinful nature.
James 4:1 – From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
However, Islam does appear to strongly encourage defending of their faith via physical violence, rather than meekly accept hurt from others without returning the violence. The best definition of a person’s God is to see how that person behaves. A good servant of any God will try to behave as much like their God as possible, to imitate their God. There’s a saying “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”; imitating your God is definitely a form of worship.
1 John 2:6 – He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. That is, if we claim to be the servant of God, we should live our lives as our God (Christ) lived His. Effectively this must be true. And likewise true for servants of Gods of other religions. Your behaviour demonstrates the type of God you serve.
that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. (1 Timothy 1:16)
Thus, if two people who claim to serve a God walk completely different lives from each other, then it is reasonable to assume that they serve two different Gods. Clearly muslims worship a different God to the God of the Bible.