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Different Versions of Apocalyptic War
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| Maybe some of you have seen the Jordanian pilot being burned alive. | |
| I watched the video. | |
| I had to. | |
| It's my job in a way. | |
| But what the personal side of that was, I'm sitting at my computer horrified, and then I look over my bookshelf and here is this book cover of a woman wreathed in flames. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Take a deep breath, Bill. | |
| My fiancé designed the cover. | |
| That's her. | |
| That's a silhouette of her. | |
| I called her up on the spot. | |
| I lost it. | |
| It was just that personal connection of this person who I love with all my heart. | |
| And she designed this cover back in August. | |
| And then to see the Jordanian pilot as he's dying striking that same pose as he's collapsing in flames. | |
| And in answer to your question, Pastor, as to what does ISIS want, I can put it into three or four words. | |
| All of us dead. | |
| All of us dead. | |
| Dead. | |
| That's it. | |
| So that's all I need to say maybe for the next hour. | |
| All of us dead. | |
| What we are looking at both with ISIS, and we've got to remember, these are two different wings of Islam. | |
| ISIS comes out of a form of Sunni, which is, I hope I get the pronunciation correct, Salafism. | |
| Salafism means to go back to the original teachings, as they see it, of what they call the Salif al-Saleen, which is the pious forefathers. | |
| So they believe they're returning Islam to its purest form as it was practiced at the time that Muhammad was alive, which included everything they're doing now. | |
| Apostates, meaning supposed Muslims who are not following their version, face horrific death, mutilation. | |
| Christians and Jews, kill them all. | |
| If you read the article that's in Atlantic Monthly, and which is interesting, is this is by no means coming from a, shall we say, a right-wing publication. | |
| I've always viewed it as a bit to the left, but for a mainstream magazine like this to publish this article was startling. | |
| You can get it online. | |
| You don't even have to buy the magazine directly. | |
| And in there, it states that they wish to create an apocalyptic war. | |
| In their version of the apocalypse, there will be an ultimate final conflict until only 5,000 ⁇ this is weird. | |
| They want to fight a war that they're going to essentially lose in the end until only 5,000 of their fighters are left, at which point they believe that then triggers the end times. | |
| And here's the weird part. | |
| They believe that Christ will come to fight on their side. | |
| Now is that strange to us or is that strange? | |
| So that is their version. | |
| I wouldn't believe you if I hadn't had many theologians say the same thing the last couple weeks. | |
| So they want to see this apocalyptic war that slaughters us by the millions, by the hundreds of millions, until only 5,000 of them are left. | |
| Then they have their end time. | |
| So here we have, that's the Sunni version. | |
| Out of Iran, we have a different version of creating an apocalyptic war, at which point their hidden Amman, a leader who they believe is actually hiding in the bottom of a well in what they call the holy city of Quom, this hidden Imman will emerge and then lead them to victory. | |
| So we have these. | |
| So they want destruction. | |
| They, yes. | |
| They want a powerful. | |
| We have to rethink the nature of warfare. | |
| The Western concept in warfare is to strive towards a particular victory. | |
| The Union's cause during the American Civil War, reunification. | |
| The South's cause of victory that creates a separate nation. | |
| Germany's version of victory is usually about winning a war. | |
| We are now facing an enemy who wants to see total destruction. | |
| The comment I like to make on this is that when we look at the Cold War, thank heavens, the communists were allegedly atheist because they wanted to inherit a material world that was still functioning. | |
| Therefore, we have what was called MAAD, mutual assured destruction. | |
| Meaning, you nuke us, we nuke you, nobody wins. | |
| So for the communist leadership of Russia, it became a no-win proposition. | |
| We're now facing an enemy that goes, great, let's do it. | |
| Let's destroy the world. | |
| Because then that fulfills our prophecy, and all of you will go to hell, and we will get our reward in paradise. | |
| As we say, we have the story of the Revelation. | |
| This is the flip side of it. | |
| That's right. | |
| Exactly. | |
| That's exactly it. | |
| And you're waiting, and you're saying, oh, those things haven't come to pass. | |
| The Antichrist system, the whole world system is already in place. | |
| It's later than you think. | |
| Exactly. | |
| Exactly. | |
| We have refused to study the book of Revelation. | |