Islamic Aggression: Repeat
of History or Prophetic Destiny?
In 632, at the time of
Mohammed's death, orthodox Christianity was the
overwhelming majority religion in Egypt,
Palestine, Syria,
Asia
Minor, North
Africa, Corsica, Sicily, Sardinia,
Italy,
France
and Spain.
Historian Paul Crawford writes in the next
100 years, Islam had conquered all these countries except
Italy, the islands and Northern France. He writes, "The
Christian communities of Arabia were entirely destroyed in
or shortly after 633, when Jews and Christians alike were
expelled from the peninsula. Two-thirds of the formerly
Roman Christian world was now ruled by Muslims." Is the
current 12 year Western Crusade aiding a repeat of history
and what does it mean prophetically?
In the Spring 2011 edition
of the Intercollegiate Review, Crawford tackles the "Four
Myths about the Crusades." He says that the Crusades were
not unprovoked, as is taught by history revisionists.
Crawford documents that the surviving central secular
authority in the Christian world, the Byzantine Empire,
along with the popes counter attacked Islam to regain
their land and to protect "victimized Christians." These
battles, according to Crawford, continued from 633 through
1095 when the First Crusade began under Pope Urban II and
Byzantine leaders. The Crusades, Crawford concludes, were
the result of Islamic aggression that forced out
Christianity and threatened nations and governments.
Fast forward to present
day. Aside from the days following the establishment of Israel
as a nation in May 1948, the Six Day war in
1967, and the 1972 Yom Kippur War, Islamic aggression
experienced an accelerated rebirth with Yassir Arafat and
the Islamic/Arab/Russian support of the Palestinian
Liberation Organization, a terrorist organization
dedicated to the destruction of Israel. It has fully
blossomed into an all out assault on Western nations and
Israel through Muslim Brotherhood supported terrorism--al
Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and more. At the
same time, terrorist leaders, dressed as diplomats, have
played the "peace, peace, Islam is a religion of peace"
card.
US forays into Kosovo,
Afghanistan,
Iraq,
Gaza,
and now Egypt and Libya have done little to
defeat terrorism, but rather established Islamist reign
through the credibility of democracy. Christians that
study Biblical eschatology know the example of Ezekiel
38:2-6, where every nation mentioned coming against Israel
in the end time battle is currently Islamic. 2 John 7
says, "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who
confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This
is a deceiver and an antichrist." Islamic aggression is
prophecy on the march. American leadership is accelerating
the cadence. Unless We the People act to halt America's
involvement, the outcome for our particular nation is
bleak.
Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!