Memory Text: “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye?” Matt.5:44-46

      Islam’s “Ramadan” [month of fasting] takes place in late summer. Question: Does Jesus Christ have any part of Islam? Is “Allah” synonymous with GOD as many purport including our president?

      Christians can best summarize the character of Islam with one single word: LOVE. The word LOVE is never mentioned in the Koran. But 306 times the Bible uses the word love. And mostly the word denotes love for righteousness.

      The purpose of Islam’s relationship with the world is summarized in one verse: Surah 9:5, “Fight and slay the pagans where ever you find them. Seize them. Beleaguer them. Lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war.” In fact, not once when the word fight is mentioned in the Koran does it refer to the inner struggle against sin in one’s life! GOD’S prophecy of the character of Ishmael and his offspring explains: “And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.” Gen.16:12.

       The heart of "Allah" is found in the following: "take not the Jews and the Christians for friends...whoso among you takes them for friends will become one of them. Verily, Allah does not guide the evildoers." Quran 5:51. GOD'S true test of obedience is found in one verse: "Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." Rev.14:12. Therefore, "Allah" is the god of this world, not the GOD of Heaven. Islam's purpose is to subjugate all men to "Allah," to the end that all who have denied Jesus Christ will be cast "into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels" (Matt.25:41). This is verified by the Saviour's words: "But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven." Matt.10:33.

      Islam's rule of Sharia law is an offense to the greatest gift next to life, which is freewill within the parameters of human decency & disinterested love for one another. Example: The extreme oppression of women simply because the men cannot stand against temptation tells greatly of the moral fiber of the men in all areas of their lives. While they give submission to Allah they demand all men to submit to them.

      When we examine other religions we see the same extremes in moral corruption. The oral law of the Orthodox Jews' called the Talmud is no better than the Koran. Sanhedrin 57a—"When a Jew murders a gentile [Englishman, German, Russian, etc.], there will be no death penalty. What a Jew steals from a gentile he may keep." Baba Kamma 37b—"The gentiles [Christians] are outside the protection of the law and God has 'exposed their money to Israel.'"

      And then there is the Jesuit Oath recorded in Congress in 1913 that states unequivocally that any means necessary will be employed to undo everything the liberty of Protestantism strives to accomplish. The words are so sickening they are not worth mentioning. And these men along with Talmudic Jews who are writing the legislation in Congress are deciding the course of American history. And no one stands in the gap!

      Is it not an act of folly to grant citizenship to any group of men who are sworn adversaries to American virtue and liberty?

      So, how does the Holy Bible answer what we are seeing today with the intense tyranny and religious fascism flooding the Earth? In the case of Islam the reality is this: The mighty slaughterer, Muhammed shall cry bitterly on the Last Day for the brutality of his sins:
"The great day of JEHOVAH is near, it is near, and hastens quickly, even the voice of the day of JEHOVAH: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly" Zeph.1:14.
"His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity." (Ps.10:7).
"For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak." Ps.59:12.
Remember what “the LORD” said to Moses at the Burning Bush:
"And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations." Ex.3:15.

      So, where is all of this spiritual mayhem leading us today? We need to review some history to gauge our future as Solomon and Paul admonished (Eccl.1:9; I Cor.10:11). In the 6th & 7th centuries 2 NEW RELIGIONS rose to power: Catholicism and Islam: the Pope and Muhammed; and the bloody competition began. Both united with civil magistrates to impose penalties of confiscation of property and death on all who stood in their way. Both assaulted the Judean Christian Churches (who wouldn’t force the will of anyone). And nothing has changed to this day concerning their mutual goal of world domination. And their outward show of piety and scholarship only cloaks the corruption within the hidden recesses of their doctrines promulgating sin to rule in the lives of their followers. This is what leads to Armageddon: the civil war between these two factions competing for the supremacy that festers until the world unites under the banner of one or the other. And Bible prophecy declares Rome will be the victor in this battle (Dan.ch.2;7). But this is not Armageddon! Armageddon is the last battle in the civil war of Christianity where the victorious Rome imposes her long traditions of sin against "they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus." This is when Christ returns after the 7 plagues of Revelation 16 to rescue His saints from those who have always employed tyranny outside of Christ's explicit command forbidding persecution from His disciples (Lu.22:25,26).

      In summation: Whenever religion abandons the Holy Spirit's urgings of love to lead souls to Jesus Christ, the spirit of tyranny is always employed. Islam tramples the 1st Commandment by which every other sin follows (Ja.2:10); while Rome tramples the 2nd and the 4th Commandments by which every other sin naturally follows. But we can rejoice: Christ has provided a third choice: “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.” II Cor.6:17.