In a story ripped from today’s headlines, Iran has launched a nuclear attack on Israel and the Great Satan, the United States. The president of Iran has little idea that his grand plan would initiate a series of events that fulfills prophecies in both Islamic and Christian holy writings. The return of the Islamic Messiah, the one the Bible calls the Antichrist, is imminent. The missiles go astray and destroy the Dome of the Rock. While the Israeli attack fails, Iranian agents succeed in destroying the nation’s capital as well as several American cities. At the same time, Christians are removed from the earth in a mass exodus. The 12th Imam, the long awaited Islamic Messiah, returns from the Jamkaran well, from a slumber of nearly 1,200 years.
James Parker has taken the well-established Bible doctrine of the rapture and presented it with a fresh look by tying it to Islamic end-time prophesies. He has shown there is a clear Islamic connection to Christian end-time prophesies regarding the Antichrist. The book is not your normal work of Christian end-times fiction. Its doomsday premise is based not just on real-world events, but actual threat assessments from national security experts and think tanks regarding scenarios that can plunge America back to the dark ages.
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The following morning Ali woke up and quietly got out of bed. Because of the excitement of the vacation, he had been waking up early. He took pains not to wake his parents. He knew that while they were excited about this vacation as much as he was, they were also using the time to sleep in, something they rarely could do in Baghdad.
Ali exited their room and made his way down to the lobby. He was curious and wanted to know more about the protests. As he entered the lobby, he heard loud voices shouting outside louder than those he had heard yesterday. The shouting was so loud that Ali feared the rioting would spill over into the hotel lobby. He knew that such crowds were known to destroy things and people without realizing what they were doing in moments of intense passion. They would be angry, frustrated, and took it all out on the first thing or person that they saw. However, upon listening carefully, he noticed the sounds being made were not of anger but cheers of rejoicing.
He went out into the street and heard the crowds cheering and praising Allah for destroying the Great Satan. Unsure of what this all meant, he ran upstairs and burst into their hotel room.
As he slammed the door, Ali began to shout. "Father, mother, something amazing has happened!"
His parents stirred from their bed, still groggy from being woken up in such a manner.
"What’s the matter,” Abdul asked.
“Father, the crowds are still there, but they are no longer angry,” Ali said.
“What are you talking about? Of course, they are angry. Those treacherous Jews destroyed our holy site in Jerusalem.”
“I don’t know, but the crowds are shouting something about Allah destroying the Great Satan. Father, what does it all mean?”
Abdul and his mother heard the roaring throngs of the crowd outside. This piqued their interest, and the family quickly got dressed and went outside. As they made their way outside, it was evident that something had happened during the evening.
Abdul noticed a man on some makeshift platform, and the crowd was giving him their rapt attention.
“Allah has avenged us for the sinister and cowardly attack by the Jews and their willing allies in America. While Jewish pigs are still alive, Allah has brought death and destruction to America, the Great Satan. Their great cities have been destroyed in fervent heat. The country that used nuclear weapons against innocent people now has the same weapons turned on them. The seats of power in Washington DC and other great American cities are now a desolate wasteland.”
At this, the crowd erupted in rancorous cries of “Allahu Akbar” and “Death to America, death to Israel.”
The man, who appeared to be a cleric, continued to speak.
“Allah has decreed that death to their cities was not enough. America and the other great western powers have been struck with another judgment of Allah. He has removed all traces of the existence of millions of their people from the earth. Their great gods of technology are no more. Their planes have fallen from the sky, they no longer have electricity, and their power grid is in shambles. They are now a third world power.”
The crowds continued rejoicing for most of the day and into the evening. As more information came in, it became evident that whatever event had caused millions in America and other western countries to vanish had mostly spared the Islamic countries. Across the Middle East, things continued as before. While there were isolated rumors of people disappearing, there were no reports of planes crashing or driverless automobiles crashing on the roadways. There were no power outages or disruptions of any of the public services. It was as if nothing had happened at all.