Some thoughts on Islam and it's malignant effects, from one of our commenters:
The core of this issue is spiritual, and it challenges secular westerners. Either there is a God, that is the God of the Bible or there isn't. And either Satan exists or he doesn't. And either there is a spiritual war being waged by proxy through human agents here on earth or there isn't.
What percent of readers of this article even care about God let alone understand what God wants in their lives? I would imagine only a minority. Yet, clearly we are entering a time when, as was said about Stalin, you may not be interested in Islam , but Islam is interested in you.
Islam intends to impose upon all people in the west its Three Demands: convert, submit or die.
The deity of Islam is not the God who is revealed in the Bible. This "allah" is from Satan. Even if you deny that there is a God, this demonic "allah" through Islam intents on forcing you to convert to Islam, to submit to Islam, or to die while resisting Islam. Islam intends upon visiting upon the west the utmost of horrors in order to "strike fear into the hearts of the unbeliever", in order to make you so fearful of Islam that you cannot and will not resist it. It is the sacred duty of all Muslims to make this happen.
The only way to understand this is to understand that this is in fact a spiritual proxy war through human agents. If Halal is in fact "sacrificing to idols", then it cannot matter unless there really is a God and it really matters what humanity worships. And make no mistake, even an overtly secular person has spiritual values and worships spirits, even though they appear to be Progressive values, like Gia worship of the planet's environment. People who advocate "global warming" act with religious fervor for a reason. People who seek "social justice" act with religious fervor for a reason. People who advocate abortion, infanticide and feminism act with religious fervor for a reason. People who seek "the socialist revolution" act with religious fervor for a reason.
The time to choose is coming upon us all. The Bible is clear: when people worship idols, they are really worshipping the demonic spirit that projects the ideals that people have about that idol. The Book of Daniel tells us in chapter 12 that the only nation on earth that is protected by an angel are the descendants of the nations of Israel. The rest of the nations on earth are overseen by a "prince", meaning a demonic power.
The only way out of this is for a person to come to know God. He is the only protection from demonic powers. That is why Islam is "hell bent" upon conquering the west. That is exactly why secular progressives in the west find common cause with Islam to suppress every aspect of even the legacy of the founding Judaeo-Christian culture.
Again, all this is utter foolishness if there is no God and if there is no Satan. But then what the hell are we seeing being played out before our very eyes?
Daniel 10:13 refers to the "prince of the Kingdom of Persia" who opposed the angel who appeared to Daniel from acting for 21 days. This opposition was overcome with the help of the angel Michael.
Notice the next verse. This is a direct mention of spirit powers influencing human leaders of nations for good or for evil.
When you see otherwise rational leaders making, defending and sticking with clearly irrational policy decisions that take their societies in a totally destructive direction, and colluding with other leaders who seem "hell-bent" on doing the same thing, how else can you explain this given verses like Daniel 10:13?
How else can we explain the otherwise irrational immigration policy of people like Merkel, where a injecting a million Muslim "refugees" is not still not enough? I think that even IBA has carried this story.
Now of course, not all moonbattery is spiritual influence. To think so itself is irrational. But we do have events that have an "other-worldly" appearance. For example, how do you rationally explain the totally irrational MSM fixation on Russia, Russia, Russia, so much so that I call this the "current madness"? And when you see a long chain of totally improbable events all working towards an even greater improbable success, maybe in serious fact you are in deed seeing something "other-worldly".
We could go back in history to ask, what collective madness took over the German people when they fawned over Adolph Hitler? Or that would also cause over 95% of Austrians to vote for Hitler when they had the chance? Or that the 9/11/2001 attackers wers so wildly successful at reaching their important targets?
For me the weight of the evidence is that we are seeing spiritual warfare via human proxies. One of those proxies is Islam. Another is post-modernist Progressivism.
The Bible is clear: for the time being, Satan is the deity of this world. When people worship any other thing except the True God, they are worshipping Satan. The only people who are not subject to his influence are people for whom God offers protection. Even people who consider themselves to be nominal Christian can be influenced. Recall the sobering words of Jesus who spoke directly face to face with one of his disciples (Luke 22:31) "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired you, that he may sift you as wheat. "
But it gets even more serious. Notice what he said to the Pharisees: (John 8:44):
"You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it. "
There is nothing new under the sun. The very words of Jesus tells us that some people on earth, today, as I write this, are also the willing proxy agents of the devil. They are of the Devil, who is their (spiritual) father. And they will do the things that the devil lusts to have done in the affairs of men. If you believe that Jesus was the Son of God, then you must believe his words. He didn't say a single thing that was frivolous. He didn't cause anything to be written for His future followers that was vacuous or a fairy story. He was deadly serious and we are approaching a deadly serious time in human history. It is a time to give the events in the news very close and rational examination.
Revelation 14:22 Here is the patience of the saints. Here are the ones who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
Mat 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil (the evil one): For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Mat 13:19 When anyone hears the Word of the kingdom and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown by the wayside.
-- theBuckWheat
