Re-Post: Nearing Midnight for February 14th (Part 2)

Ahmadinejad's Apocalypse

The perfect human being is on the way to manifesting his presence in a chaotic world, over which he will exert absolute control, according to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Israel-hating leader believes the twelfth Imam will assume his prophesied place upon the world stage, at a time of cosmic upheaval, earthly war, bloodshed, and destruction on a global scale. “The Mahdi,” as the miracle man is also called, will, Ahmadinejad proclaims, bring universal peace– Utopia.
One news item reports: “The man in charge of hoodwinking the Western powers about Iran's now 18-year-old secret nuclear program believes the apocalypse will happen in his own lifetime. He'll be 50 in October. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Shi'ite creed has convinced him lesser mortals cannot only influence but hasten the awaited return of the 12th Imam…” (Arnaud de Borchgrave, "Later than we think," Washington Times, February 6, 2006).
And within that brief excerpt, we find the frightening difference between just another Mid-East dictator’s ludicrous rantings and an ominous reality that is smoldering within the satanically-inspired thoughts of an endtime tyrant.
Ahmadinejad doesn’t just plan to sit around while his religious prophetic belief of apocalypse comes to pass. The Iranian leader intends to be an active participant in its coming to pass. The bellicose Iranian president believes that the twelfth Imam is the heir to all prophets (all will be fulfilled in him). According to his reported statements, Ahmadinejad believes the coming of the final prophet is only two years away. The news item further enlightens us on Ahmadinejad’s portentous view of the immediate future.
“Mr. Ahmadinejad is close to the messianic Hojjatieh Society, which is governed by the conviction the twelfth Imam's return will be hastened by ‘the creation of chaos on Earth.’ He has fired Iran's most experienced diplomats and scores of other officials, presumably those who don't share his belief in apocalyptic conflagration” (Borchgrave).
It is more than just interesting to understand that the one leader who is moving with all diligence and speed to develop nuclear weaponry has such an apocalyptic grand design in view. The Iranian could have his finger on the nuclear trigger at any time in the near future, with the thought toward drawing Israel’s IDF into a conflagration. Such a war, he openly surmises, could well be that which will fulfill the prophecy he perceives as the consummation of international rule by a western industrial-military complex, and the predestined installation of Allah on Planet Earth.
I believe with all that is within me that such an all-out war scenario as Ahmadinejad envisions cannot occur while the Church of Jesus Christ is still in the world. That level of holocaust is reserved for the time of God’s wrath. However, there could certainly be some troublesome confrontations and lesser conflicts than all-out war in the Middle East before the era of horror described in Revelation from chapter 6 through chapter 19, when Jesus Christ returns in great power and glory.
It could be just such angst over these building prospective nuclear confrontations, in the near term, that will be the catalyst for galvanizing agreement to consider peace. Likelihood of atomic war might be the future reason for the covenant of Daniel 9: 27, which Antichrist will confirm –promising to bring in supposed peace and prosperity.
Another aspect of all of this is the treatment of those of us who believe in the coming Apocalypse, as given in the Book of Revelation and Old Testament books, as opposed to how Ahmadinejad is treated for his apocalyptic view.
We are seen as Christian fundamentalist warmongers who want to bring Christ’s rule to earth by convincing our leaders to start war in the Middle East, thus bringing in Armageddon. This, despite the truth that we simply look at the world situation under the microscope of God’s prophetic light and try to determine and report where this generation stands on God’s prophetic timeline. We go out of our way to put forward the Prince of Peace. Ahmadinejad clearly says “bring it on” so Allah can pick up the pieces of a totally trashed planet, and the news media, overall, ignores that he craves Armageddon. We want to do all we can to prevent people from having to endure such a war. The Iranian dictator-master wants to start such war.
Ahmadinejad –and no other diabolist—can bring on man’s final war, thankfully, until Christ’s born-again believers are called to be with the Lord Jesus. That stupendously thrilling coming moment gets nearer by the second!

--Terry