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JUDGMENT DAY! ISLAM, ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS DAVE HUNT Bend • Oregon JUDGMENT DAY! ISLAM, ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS Published by The Berean Call Copyright © 2005 International Standard Book Number: 1-928660-32-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2005927651 Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, King James Version (kjv) Printed in the United States of America ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Except for brief excerpts for review purposes, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means—digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without prior written permission. The Berean Call PO Box 7019 Bend, Oregon, 97708-7019 CONTENTS 1 —THE STAGE IS SET.................................................................................................................................. 5 2 —HATRED’S “FINAL SOLUTION”..........................................................................................................23 3 —WHO INHERITS THE PROMISED LAND?......................................................................................49 4 —THE TRUTH ABOUT “PALESTINE” .................................................................................................. 69 5 —THE TRUTH ABOUT “REFUGEES”..................................................................................................... 87 6 —TERRORISM’S PAGAN ISLAMIC FOUNDATION........................................................................ 113 7 —HATRED’S PEACE................................................................................................................................ 137 8 —FACING HARD FACTS........................................................................................................................167 9 —APPEACEMENT IN OUR DAY ...........................................................................................................197 10 —DELUSIONS AND DESTINY..............................................................................................................213 11 —REBELLION AND JUDGMENT...........................................................................................................231 12 —SOME IMPORTANT DISTINCTIONS.............................................................................................251 13 —GOD OFFERS SALVATION.................................................................................................................275 14 —THE WORLD NEEDS A MESSIAH...................................................................................................293 15 —DESTRUCTION FROM THE ALMIGHTY.......................................................................................309 APPENDIX A: PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST......................................................................................331 APPENDIX B: HAMAS AND HIZZONER...............................................................................................341 GLOSSARY.................................................................................................................................................347 BIBLIOGRAPHY.......................................................................................................................................353 SUBJECT INDEX ...................................................................................................................................... 361 DEDICATED TO ALL LOVERS OF TRUTH AND FREEDOM UNDER GOD IN THE HOPE THAT THE WORLD (MUSLIM AND NON-MUSLIM) WILL ESCAPE THE TYRANNY OF ISLAM 1—THE STAGE IS SET The God of the Bible states: “I am God…there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done…before it came to pass I showed it thee…new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.”1 Only the Bible foretells centuries and even thousands of years in advance major events of world history. These numerous prophecies identify beyond question the one true God and the Bible as His unique revelation to mankind. Some of these prophecies, to which we will turn, are specifically for our day. They set the stage for severe judgment from God, for which planet earth is rapidly ripening. Indisputably, Israel is the major topic of biblical prophecy, just as it is of the daily news. The word “Israel” is found 2,565 times in 2,293 verses in the King James translation of the Bible, while “Jerusalem” is found 811 times in 764 verses. In contrast, the word “Jerusalem” is not found even once in the Qur’an. Yet Muslims insist that Jerusalem is their third holiest city. That this is a false claim we will document beyond dispute, as well as the fact that those who call themselves “Palestinians” and who make the claim that Israel is occupying their land are imposters (see chapter four). 5 JUDGMENT DAY! THE STAGE IS SET Prophecies concerning Israel and Jerusalem are precise and beyond misinterpretation. We will confine ourselves to several that are clearly being fulfilled in our times. Some of them specifically warn of God’s judgment upon those who attempt to bring a “peace” to the Middle East that defies what God has decreed for His people Israel. The methods that the West has adopted in recent decades are denounced in Scripture, including the current “road map to peace.” Remarkably, the prophecies we will focus upon in the following pages could apply only to the present day. Unrecognized by world leaders, who ignore the warnings in the Bible, God is at work behind the scenes, bringing about events that He has foretold in His Word. In the following pages, we will present specific fulfilled prophecies for our day, examples of what God says He is presently doing on this earth—and the punishment He is about to pour out upon the nations for their mistreatment of His people, the Jews, and Israel. Hundreds of prophecies fulfilled in the past are the guarantee that biblical warn- ings are not empty threats. A CUP OF TREMBLING, A BURDENSOME STONE Two thousand five hundred years ago, the God of the Bible, through His prophet Zechariah, declared, “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.”2 This is an amaz- ing declaration—not only that Jerusalem, which was then in complete ruins, would be the focus of world attention one day but also that all of Israel’s neighbors would be united against her. Throughout its history, Israel has had many enemies (Egyptians, Philistines, Syrians, Assyrians, Babylonians, etc.). Never, however, did “all the people round about” (i.e., her neighbors) join together in common cause to destroy her. This is true today, exactly as the Bible foretold, for the first time in Israel’s history! Moreover, it marks the beginning of the end of anti-Semitism, as we shall see. God goes on to say, “And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people….” The language is very precise: 6 7 JUDGMENT DAY! THE STAGE IS SET a “burdensome stone” for “all people,” but a “cup of trembling” for Israel’s neighbors around her. What is the difference? For more than fifty years, Israel’s neighbors have attacked her repeat- edly and she has proved too strong militarily for them, even though they outnumber her fifty to one and have tried to catch her by surprise. Soundly defeated every time, her neighbors tremble and feign a desire for peace with the aim, of course, ultimately to deceive and annihilate her—a strategy established for Muslims by Muhammad himself, the founder and prophet of Islam. The God of the Bible has promised to protect Israel, while Allah of the Qur’an and Islam has sworn to put an end to her. The real battle is not between Arabs and Jews but between Allah and Yahweh. There is no question of the outcome, but it will be costly for both sides: Israel will be severely disciplined and her enemies will be destroyed. Precisely as foretold, Jerusalem is a burdensome stone to all people of the world. How much of a burden is she? The United Nations has spent one-third of its time either deliberating and argu- ing about or denouncing Israel because of its hold upon Jerusalem. A tiny nation that has one one-thousandth of the world’s population has occupied one-third of the United Nations’ time! More than sixty thousand individual votes have been cast in the UN against Israel. That is a burden indeed, exactly as the Bible foretold! Is this merely a coincidence? We will pile prophecy upon prophecy being fulfilled in our day until “coincidence” is revealed as utter foolishness. Skeptics have accused evangelicals of trying to fit prophecy to current events, claiming that no one recognized such prophecies in the past but only since Israel was formed in 1948. On the con- trary, for centuries before it happened, most evangelical Christians believed and preached from the Bible the return of the Jews to their own land. Even leading Calvinist, John Owen, wrote in the seven- teenth century: “The Jews shall be gathered from all parts of the earth...and brought home into their homeland.”3 Martin Luther recognized some of the prophecies concerning Israel, and because they had not been fulfilled in his day, he wrote off the Jews as God’s chosen people: “If the Jews are Abraham’s 6 7 JUDGMENT DAY! THE STAGE IS SET descendants then we would expect to see them back in their own land [with] a state of their own. But what do we see? We see them living scattered and despised.”4