Islam is a sister religion to Christianity. In fact, God said in Genesis that He would bless Ishmael. It is not to say that Islam is true, as I believe Islam is false. But Muslims are often more humble, kind, and honest than in some Christian nations. It is not to say that Islam is true.
Islam in prophecy in end times is clearly revealed. We will find out an introduction about what does Bible prophecy say about Islam. Is Islam really in Bible prophecy? Yes. The chapter 9 of the book of Revelation is one of the most stunning prophecies about Islam in the Bible. Let us find out five places we find Islam in prophecy.
First of all I counsel you to read these three books, they are incredible:
- Amazing Facts Bible Studies
- Ellen G. White — The Great Controversy
- Uriah Smith — Daniel and the Revelation
- Ellen G. White Prophecies
1. Islam in Bible Prophecy — Islam a Sister Religion
Abraham has two sons. The Bible says that Abraham has Isaac, the father of the Jews, then Ishmael, the father of the Muslims. Does it mean that Islam is also true? No. We see that when north Israel, called Samaria, went into Assyria in deportation for worshipping false gods, Islam in Bible prophecy is revealed. When they came back, the Jews did not see them as real worshippers of God. Their religion was a mix of paganism and the truth.
When Jesus talked to a Samaritan woman, people were amazed that a Jew would talk to a Samaritan. It is interesting that many prophets came from Samaria. And before the deportation, still in Solomon’s time, Samaria, north Israel, and Judah, south Israel, was one nation. But their worship became polluted with idols and they were not seen as the people of God anymore.
The same goes with Islam. After Ishmael went to another country they started to mix and believe the religion of the people of the land. And slowly they broke away totally from Abraham’s true religion. How can I say that? Because when we study Bible prophecy we understand that Revelation chapter 9 — Islam in prophecy — is very stunning.
Because of many Bible prophecies like the 1260 days, the 2300 days, the loud cry, the angry horse, the 2 witnesses, the mark of the beast, the image of Daniel 2, and so many very exact and precise prophecies, we know that the Bible is from God.
The Quran does not have such precise prophecies and most of them could have been made up. The prophecy about Islam in Revelation 9 tells 2000 years in advance to the exact day when the Ottoman Empire fell. How incredible. How could a man know that? Islam in prophecy in end times is quite incredible.
2. Islam in Bible Prophecy — Islam the Defenders of God’s True People
Many Muslims do not know that, as when I talk to Muslims often they think that Christianity is like Islam. In Islam all people are about the same as they have one book. In Christianity it is not the same. Islam in prophecy is there, as also the Catholic Church is in the Bible. We have one book, the Bible, and in the Bible Jesus and the Father God say that there is a false religion. It wears pagan outfits, it worships Christmas, it has its head in a city with seven hills — that is Rome. It persecuted true Christians for 1260 years. It changed the Sabbath for the pagan Sunday. Sometimes Muslims give me quotes from the Catholic Church. But the Bible calls the Catholic Church Antichrist, the man of sin, Babylon. Islam in Bible prophecy can be understood as the papacy is also referred to in the Holy Bible.
Catholic people are often nice people. But the Bible rebukes the evil system of the Catholic Church, which the Bible calls evil and influenced by Satan. It is not because someone wears a police uniform that they belong to the police. It is not because someone wears a doctor’s outfit that they are a doctor. The same with the Catholic Church — even their outfit has nothing of Christianity. It is pagan in origin. Catholic priests wear the same outfits as the priests of Babylon.
To understand who the beast is in the next verse, the Antichrist, refer to my next post on the papacy and Bible prophecy.
DA 7:25 — And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Here it says that the papacy or the Antichrist will persecute the true Christians. The Catholic Church will last for 1260 days, or time, times, and half a time. This is 3 years and a half, which is 42 months, which is 1260 days. In the Jewish calendar all months have 30 days. It says that the Catholic Church will kill millions of people. When did it do this?
It says in this verse that it will speak great words. Great words in the Bible are arrogant words. The pope says he is God and he can forgive sins. This is called a blasphemy. To say “I am God” and to say “I forgive sins” is offensive — who says he can forgive sins? The pope. This verse says that he will think to change time and laws. So we see that when Muslims see the Catholic Church and think this is Christianity, this is false. True Christians see this organisation as from Satan and the work of Satan to give a bad image of God. This is very important to understand if you want to see Islam in prophecy in end times and understand what God says in the Bible.
3. Islam in Bible Prophecy — Revelation 9 Is the Chapter About Islam in the Bible
In Revelation 9 it gives a time — one year, one month, one day, one hour. Knowing from Bible prophecy that one day is one year, you can search that online. One day in Bible prophecy is one year. Thus we can calculate this time frame as ending in August 1840. Islam in prophecy is incredibly accurate. The book of Revelation was written in AD 90 — we are talking about an event that happened 2000 years later to the very day. Islam in prophecy written 2000 years in advance shows the Bible is inspired of God.
In 1838 God’s messenger Josiah Litch said: If my calculations are correct about Islam in Revelation 9, then the angry horse of Revelation 9 will fall on August 11, 1840. This is exactly what happened. Islam in prophecy in end times proves that the Bible is true. Quoting from the book The Great Controversy by Ellen G. White, the last prophet:
In the year 1840 another remarkable fulfilment of prophecy excited widespread interest. Two years before, Josiah Litch, one of the leading ministers preaching the second advent, published an exposition of Revelation 9, predicting the fall of the Ottoman Empire. According to his calculations, this power was to be overthrown in AD 1840, sometime in the month of August; and only a few days previous to its accomplishment he wrote: “Allowing the first period, 150 years, to have been exactly fulfilled before Deacozes ascended the throne by permission of the Turks, and that the 391 years, fifteen days, commenced at the close of the first period, it will end on the 11th of August, 1840, when the Ottoman power in Constantinople may be expected to be broken. And this, I believe, will be found to be the case.” — Josiah Litch, in Signs of the Times, and Expositor of Prophecy, Aug. 1, 1840.
At the very time specified, Turkey, through her ambassadors, accepted the protection of the allied powers of Europe, and thus placed herself under the control of Christian nations. The event exactly fulfilled the prediction. When it became known, multitudes were convinced of the correctness of the principles of prophetic interpretation adopted by Miller and his associates, and a wonderful impetus was given to the advent movement. Men of learning and position united with Miller, both in preaching and in publishing his views, and from 1840 to 1844 the work rapidly extended.
William Miller possessed strong mental powers, disciplined by thought and study; and he added to these the wisdom of heaven by connecting himself with the Source of wisdom. He was a man of sterling worth, who could not but command respect and esteem wherever integrity of character and moral excellence were valued. Uniting true kindness of heart with Christian humility and the power of self-control, he was attentive and affable to all, ready to listen to the opinions of others and to weigh their arguments.
Without passion or excitement he tested all theories and doctrines by the word of God, and his sound reasoning and thorough knowledge of the Scriptures enabled him to refute error and expose falsehood.
Yet he did not prosecute his work without bitter opposition. As with earlier Reformers, the truths which he presented were not received with favour by popular religious teachers. As these could not maintain their position by the Scriptures, they were driven to resort to the sayings and doctrines of men, to the traditions of the Fathers. But the word of God was the only testimony accepted by the preachers of the advent truth. “The Bible, and the Bible only,” was their watchword.
The lack of Scripture argument on the part of their opponents was supplied by ridicule and scoffing. Time, means, and talents were employed in maligning those whose only offence was that they looked with joy for the return of their Lord and were striving to live holy lives and to exhort others to prepare for His appearing.
Earnest were the efforts put forth to draw away the minds of the people from the subject of the second advent. It was made to appear a sin, something of which men should be ashamed, to study the prophecies which relate to the coming of Christ and the end of the world. Thus the popular ministry undermined faith in the word of God. Their teaching made men infidels, and many took licence to walk after their own ungodly lusts. Then the authors of the evil charged it all upon Adventists.
While drawing crowded houses of intelligent and attentive hearers, Miller’s name was seldom mentioned by the religious press except by way of ridicule or denunciation. The careless and ungodly, emboldened by the position of religious teachers, resorted to opprobrious epithets, to base and blasphemous witticisms, in their efforts to heap contempt upon him and his work. The grey-headed man who had left a comfortable home to travel at his own expense from city to city, from town to town, toiling unceasingly to bear to the world the solemn warning of the judgment near, was sneeringly denounced as a fanatic, a liar, a speculating knave.
The ridicule, falsehood, and abuse heaped upon him called forth indignant remonstrance, even from the secular press. “To treat a subject of such overwhelming majesty and fearful consequences,” with lightness and ribaldry was declared by worldly men to be “not merely to sport with the feelings of its propagators and advocates,” but “to make a jest of the day of judgment, to scoff at the Deity Himself, and contemn the terrors of His judgment bar.” — Bliss, page 183.
The instigator of all evil sought not only to counteract the effect of the advent message, but to destroy the messenger himself. Miller made a practical application of Scripture truth to the hearts of his hearers, reproving their sins and disturbing their self-satisfaction, and his plain and cutting words aroused their enmity. The opposition manifested by church members toward his message emboldened the baser classes to go to greater lengths; and enemies plotted to take his life as he should leave the place of meeting.
But holy angels were in the throng, and one of these, in the form of a man, took the arm of this servant of the Lord and led him in safety from the angry mob. His work was not yet done, and Satan and his emissaries were disappointed in their purpose.
Despite all opposition, the interest in the advent movement had continued to increase. From scores and hundreds, the congregations had grown to as many thousands. Large accessions had been made to the various churches, but after a time the spirit of opposition was manifested even against these converts, and the churches began to take disciplinary steps with those who had embraced Miller’s views. This action called forth a response from his pen, in an address to Christians of all denominations, urging that if his doctrines were false, he should be shown his error from the Scriptures.
“What have we believed,” he said, “that we have not been commanded to believe by the word of God, which you yourselves allow is the rule, and only rule, of our faith and practice? What have we done that should call down such virulent denunciations against us from pulpit and press, and give you just cause to exclude us from your churches and fellowship? If we are wrong, pray show us wherein consists our wrong. Show us from the word of God that we are in error; we have had ridicule enough; that can never convince us that we are in the wrong; the word of God alone can change our views. Our conclusions have been formed deliberately and prayerfully, as we have seen the evidence in the Scriptures.” — Ibid., pages 250, 252.
From age to age the warnings which God has sent to the world by His servants have been received with like incredulity and unbelief. When the iniquity of the antediluvians moved Him to bring a flood of waters upon the earth, He first made known to them His purpose, that they might have opportunity to turn from their evil ways. For a hundred and twenty years was sounded in their ears the warning to repent, lest the wrath of God be manifested in their destruction. But the message seemed to them an idle tale, and they believed it not.
Emboldened in their wickedness they mocked the messenger of God, made light of his entreaties, and even accused him of presumption. How dare one man stand up against all the great men of the earth? If Noah’s message were true, why did not all the world see it and believe it? One man’s assertion against the wisdom of thousands! They would not credit the warning, nor would they seek shelter in the ark.
Scoffers pointed to the things of nature — to the unvarying succession of the seasons, to the blue skies that had never poured out rain, to the green fields refreshed by the soft dews of night — and they cried out: “Doth he not speak parables?” In contempt they declared the preacher of righteousness to be a wild enthusiast; and they went on, more eager in their pursuit of pleasure, more intent upon their evil ways, than before. But their unbelief did not hinder the predicted event. God bore long with their wickedness, giving them ample opportunity for repentance; but at the appointed time His judgments were visited upon the rejecters of His mercy.
Christ declares that there will exist similar unbelief concerning His second coming. As the people of Noah’s day “knew not until the Flood came, and took them all away; so,” in the words of our Saviour, “shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” Matthew 24:39.
When the professed people of God are uniting with the world, living as they live, and joining with them in forbidden pleasures; when the luxury of the world becomes the luxury of the church; when the marriage bells are chiming, and all are looking forward to many years of worldly prosperity — then, suddenly as the lightning flashes from the heavens, will come the end of their bright visions and delusive hopes.
As God sent His servant to warn the world of the coming Flood, so He sent chosen messengers to make known the nearness of the final judgment. And as Noah’s contemporaries laughed to scorn the predictions of the preacher of righteousness, so in Miller’s day many, even of the professed people of God, scoffed at the words of warning. And why were the doctrine and preaching of Christ’s second coming so unwelcome to the churches? While to the wicked the advent of the Lord brings woe and desolation, to the righteous it is fraught with joy and hope.
This great truth had been the consolation of God’s faithful ones through all the ages; why had it become, like its Author, “a stone of stumbling” and “a rock of offence” to His professed people? It was our Lord Himself who promised His disciples: “If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself.” John 14:3. It was the compassionate Saviour, who, anticipating the loneliness and sorrow of His followers, commissioned angels to comfort them with the assurance that He would come again in person, even as He went into heaven.
As the disciples stood gazing intently upward to catch the last glimpse of Him whom they loved, their attention was arrested by the words: “Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven.” Acts 1:11. Hope was kindled afresh by the angels’ message. The disciples “returned to Jerusalem with great joy: and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God.” Luke 24:52, 53.
They were not rejoicing because Jesus had been separated from them and they were left to struggle with the trials and temptations of the world, but because of the angels’ assurance that He would come again.
The proclamation of Christ’s coming should now be, as when made by the angels to the shepherds of Bethlehem, good tidings of great joy. Those who really love the Saviour cannot but hail with gladness the announcement founded upon the word of God that He in whom their hopes of eternal life are centred is coming again, not to be insulted, despised, and rejected, as at His first advent, but in power and glory, to redeem His people. It is those who do not love the Saviour that desire Him to remain away, and there can be no more conclusive evidence that the churches have departed from God than the irritation and animosity excited by this Heaven-sent message.
Those who accepted the advent doctrine were roused to the necessity of repentance and humiliation before God. Many had long been halting between Christ and the world; now they felt that it was time to take a stand. “The things of eternity assumed to them an unwonted reality. Heaven was brought near, and they felt themselves guilty before God.” — Bliss, page 146. Christians were quickened to new spiritual life.
They were made to feel that time was short, that what they had to do for their fellow men must be done quickly. Earth receded, eternity seemed to open before them, and the soul, with all that pertained to its immortal weal or woe, was felt to eclipse every temporal object. The Spirit of God rested upon them and gave power to their earnest appeals to their brethren, as well as to sinners, to prepare for the day of God.
The silent testimony of their daily life was a constant rebuke to formal and unconsecrated church members. These did not wish to be disturbed in their pursuit of pleasure, their devotion to money-making, and their ambition for worldly honour. Hence the enmity and opposition excited against the advent faith and those who proclaimed it.
As the arguments from the prophetic periods were found to be impregnable, opposers endeavoured to discourage investigation of the subject by teaching that the prophecies were sealed. Thus Protestants followed in the steps of Romanists.
While the papal church withholds the Bible from the people, Protestant churches claimed that an important part of the Sacred Word — and that the part which brings to view truths specially applicable to our time — could not be understood. Ministers and people declared that the prophecies of Daniel and the Revelation were incomprehensible mysteries.
But Christ directed His disciples to the words of the prophet Daniel concerning events to take place in their time, and said: “Whoso readeth, let him understand.” Matthew 24:15. And the assertion that the Revelation is a mystery, not to be understood, is contradicted by the very title of the book:
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him, to show unto His servants things which must shortly come to pass. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.” Revelation 1:1-3.
Says the prophet: “Blessed is he that readeth” — there are those who will not read; the blessing is not for them. “And they that hear” — there are some, also, who refuse to hear anything concerning the prophecies; the blessing is not for this class. “And keep those things which are written therein” — many refuse to heed the warnings and instructions contained in the Revelation; none of these can claim the blessing promised.
All who ridicule the subjects of the prophecy and mock at the symbols here solemnly given, all who refuse to reform their lives and to prepare for the coming of the Son of man, will be unblessed. In view of the testimony of Inspiration, how dare men teach that the Revelation is a mystery beyond the reach of human understanding? It is a mystery revealed, a book opened. The study of the Revelation directs the mind to the prophecies of Daniel, and both present most important instruction, given of God to men, concerning events to take place at the close of this world’s history.
To John were opened scenes of deep and thrilling interest in the experience of the church. He saw the position, dangers, conflicts, and final deliverance of the people of God. He records the closing messages which are to ripen the harvest of the earth, either as sheaves for the heavenly garner or as fagots for the fires of destruction.
Subjects of vast importance were revealed to him, especially for the last church, that those who should turn from error to truth might be instructed concerning the perils and conflicts before them. None need be in darkness in regard to what is coming upon the earth.
Why, then, this widespread ignorance concerning an important part of Holy Writ? Why this general reluctance to investigate its teachings? It is the result of a studied effort of the prince of darkness to conceal from men that which reveals his deceptions. For this reason, Christ the Revelator, foreseeing the warfare that would be waged against the study of the Revelation, pronounced a blessing upon all who should read, hear, and observe the words of the prophecy.
4. Islam in Bible Prophecy — The Three Woes in Revelation Is Islam
In the Bible there are three woes — we have just seen the first two. The first one is in the times of Mohammed, the second woe is the Ottoman Empire. There is a third woe to happen. God has always used Islam to rebuke and punish false people. Islam in Bible prophecy is true.
False Christians in the Middle Ages was the Catholic Church. When Muslims arrived in Europe, the Muslim leader said: those who keep the Sabbath, leave them alone. But the Catholics who are in monasteries, destroy them. Islam seems to have always protected the Sabbath-keeping people of God and not opposed them. The Bible says that when the third woe happens, then the nations will be angry. The Bible says that there will be a striking of Islam again. Islam in prophecy in end times.
Then this will be so terrible that the Bible says:
RE 11:18 — And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Prophet Ellen White says about Islam in prophecy that when the third woe strikes, then as Europe and the USA will be angry with Islam there will sadly be a third world war. Islam in prophecy in end times will be one of the things that will bring the end of the world.
The state of society — people becoming more evil, selfish, proud, unloving, unkind, people not caring about God — and God sending plagues and disasters to wake them up. Then Islam will be one of those disasters that God will use to wake people up. Who will listen? Who will heed the warning? Who will see in this God telling them that they are in great danger of losing their eternal life? Islam in Bible prophecy is stunning.
5. Islam in Bible Prophecy — Angel Gabriel and the 2300 Day Prophecy
In Daniel 9 it says Angel Gabriel comes to prophecy to Daniel and gives him what is called the 2300 days prophecy. It is not Islam in prophecy but it proves the Bible to be right. In this prophecy given 650 BC, Angel Gabriel says: from Jerusalem rebuilt.
Jerusalem was rebuilt in 457 BC. To Messiah or Jesus anointed there will be 69 weeks. By 7 days it is 483 years. 457 + 483 = AD 27. The exact year Jesus was baptised. How could the Bible know 650 years in advance that Jesus would be baptised in AD 27?
After that Angel Gabriel says Messiah or Jesus will die three and a half years after. Then three and a half years after that the Jews will be rejected by God. Jesus died in AD 31, exactly as Gabriel explained. Then in AD 34 the Jews had the veil of the temple torn in two, and in AD 70 God sent terrible judgments by sending Titus the Roman emperor who destroyed the city. Islam in prophecy is very accurate.
DANIEL 9:24-27 — Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
We see that the Bible is true. We can trust God. We can trust that Jesus is God, as this prophecy was given in 650 BC before Jesus was born. In Revelation 21 it says if anyone adds to the Bible then God will add to him the plagues and punishments written in the Bible. If anyone takes away from the Bible then God will take away his name and he will not enter heaven. Do you want to take away or add to the Bible and receive the punishments? No.
Repeat after me: Father God, forgive my sins, help me to see that Jesus is God and that Jesus died for my sins. Help me to understand the Bible and read it every day. Give me the righteousness of Jesus and take me to heaven at the right time, in the name of Jesus, amen.
