CALLED TO MARTYRDOM

In my last post I identified the true nature of Islam, and its true enemy(Christianity). In this post I want to discuss strategies and remedies for the cancer of Islam. In general, the modern Christian world has been asleep, ignored and underestimated the threat of Islam. Islam has spread like an undetected cancer, infesting most of the western world. Today Islam worldwide holds over a billion and a half souls in its python grip. Western Europe has fallen under its influence and polititians offer policies of appeasement and political correctness. In the US Muslims number over six million, with over twelve hundred mosques. With its rapid population growth Islam has become the fastest growing religion in the world. At that rate you can plan on loosing your head or bowing down to Allah in the not too distant future. So what can we do to face this threat? I have always said, "What you fail to face today, will face you tomorrow." Historically Christians have confronted Islam militarily. The goal of the Crusades was focused more on the liberation of the Holy Land than on stopping Islam. Today, George W. Bush has resurrected the mantle of the crusades and like the crusaders of old has achieved some military success, but has failed in winning the hearts and minds of the Muslim people. Military planners fail to see the beast they are fighting. Islam is like an octopus with her tentacles spread around the world. You cut off one tentacle and there is another one to take its place. At the rate we are cutting tentacles we will exhaust our resources and energy before we win the war. I believe God has allowed the rise of Islam to provoke the Body of Christ into arising into her destiny. In the book of Revelations 19:10, "the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophesy;" I have paraphrased this verse, "The martyrdom of Jesus is the judicial decree of heaven that is shaping the destiny of the nations." God has a plan to bring the entire universe under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and has chosen the church of Jesus as His instrument to accomplish this purpose. In many ways the church has failed miserably in her mission of evangelizing the world. As a Native American I have many bones to pick with Western Christianity on the way they evangelized my people, or should I say subjugated the Indians. Much of the energy and resources of missionary organizations has focused on East Asia and Africa, but very little in the direction of the Muslim world. While our attention has been diverted elsewhere, Islam has crept in the back door. Fear is one of the reasons Native Americans were not evangelized, and I believe fear is the main reasons we have not evangelized the Muslims. The image of heads being cut off, and Christians being jailed and killed is enough to strike fear into our hearts. In the book of Acts 1:8 Jesus said, "I have given you power to be my witnesses." A correct interpretation of that scripture should be, "I have given you the grace to be martyrs for me." I believe the church will not come into the glory and power of God until we have surrendered our lives to this cause. Islamists have perverted the doctrine of martyrdom for their evil purposes while we Christians sit in our air conditioned auditoriums listening to prosperity preaching. As I said in my last post that the true nature of Islam is spiritual and therefore we can only achieve ultimate victory through spiritual warfare. Yes, God has given our nation authority to use the sword to combat threats, and I believe we must use that sword to survive as a people, but the ultimate victory can only be won when the church of Jesus rises up into her destiny and wins the battle on the spiritual playing field. In my next post I will define spiritual warfare, and strategies for winning the victory.

WAKE UP OR LOOSE YOUR HEAD

The Christian world has buried its head in the sand, and is not facing the war that is being waged against it through radical Islam. God has allowed Islam to raise its ugly murderous head to shake up a Christian world that has been sleeping. While Christianity plays with her sermonettes and indulges in her delicacies, Islamic mullahs are fueling the flames of hatred and murder in her constituencies. There are several points I would like to make to wake us up to the Islamic threat. I watched a large powerful man get taken out by a smaller weaker opponent. Ultimate Fighting is a sport where participants are allowed to use any style of combat, including boxing, wrestling, karate, jujitsu, etc. There was a huge man, six foot eleven, weighing two hundred and eighty pounds fighting a smaller man two hundred and ten pounds. The large man was very powerful and intimidating. He pounded the smaller man around the ring and appeared to have the advantage due to his strength, coordination and power. From the first round the smaller man, being weaker absorbed much of the punishment, but every chance he would get he kicked the large man in the knee. At first it didn't seem to do any damage, but the smaller man was persistent kicking the larger man time after time. The large man didn't seem to defend against this attack because he was punishing his opponent around the ring and seemed to have the advantage. By the end of the second round the large man had a slight limp as he returned to his corner. As the fight progressed the knee became very painful and the large man would bend over to guard his sore knee, each time he bent over, smack, the smaller man would hit or kick him in the head. The large man began to drag his sore leg behind in order to protect it. Finally, smack, the small man with one powerful kick, buckled the large man into a pile of pain. He had worked on this one soft spot until he finally knocked his more powerful opponent into submission. Islamic militants know that militarily they are weaker, as a result, they have resorted to the strategy of terror. By striking vulnerable innocents they instill fear and paralyze the hearts and minds of ignorant westerners. If we don't wake up to what is going on, one day this whole western civilization is going to crumble. Who is the real target of Islam, and what is the true identity of Islam? Jihad, Holy War, of Islam is in reality a spiritual warfare, and their true target is Christianity. Islam at its root is antiChrist! The only reason they have single the United States out is not because of Hollywood or American foreign policy, but because this country is the heart and soul of Christianity and world wide revival. The Koran spells out and identifies Jews and Christians as infidels that must be killed. The true goal of Islam is world control and domination, and they will use any means to accomplish their ultimate plan. The smoke screen that has gone up that Islam is a peaceful religion is a lie, because the mullahs and mosques are the incubators that spawn radical Islam. Deep down Muslim clerics are giving permission to the propagation and spread of Islam through terror, war and any other means. In reality Islam is not a religion. The true identity of Islam is a death cult! The demon of Islam can only by pacified by the shedding of innocent blood, especially Christian blood. Using the definition of a cult more closely identifies Islam than by using the definition of religion. However, Islam is much more subtle and deceptive than most cults, posing as a peaceful religion. Some cultic characteristics of Islam are; spirit of control, isolation, rule by fear, intimidation, brainwashing, radical and controlling leaders, suicide pacts. Islam fears and suppresses individual libery, individual identity and free thinking. The worldview of the Islamic world has been shaped and warped by the inhuman, antiChrist spirit that controls their ideology. Christians wake up, Islamists are out to kill you, your lifestyle, and your children. In my next post I will reveal the only way to defeat Islamic terror.