This is the third leg of the four in determining how close we are to the possible return of our Lord for his church. The first was the tread “2300 days.” The second is, 1290 days, and the third is this one. The fourth will follow, it’s the one that will tie the 4 together (I hope). If not, I have personally learned quite a bit in all the research done.
Mohammed or Mahomet, the founder of Islamism, born at the end of the 6th century A.D., claimed to have replanted the only true and ancient one professed by Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and all the prophets by destroying the gross idolatry into which the his countrymen had fallen, and that he had weeded out the corruption and superstitions which the latter Jews and Christians had introduced into their religions. He claimed to have reduced his new religion to its original parity, which consisted chiefly in the worship of one God. He first converted his own household, and then revealed the secret of his mission to his wife; telling her that the angel Gabriel had appeared to him, and told him that he was appointed the apostle of God.
In the 12th year of his mission Mohammed claimed that he had made his night journey form Mecca to Jerusalem; and from there into heaven. This may have been expressed by him in order to pretend he had conversed with God; this in order to establish the authority he desired. He left behind an oral tradition, and made his sayings serve the same purpose as the oral laws of the Jews. Mohammed began to think of propagating his religion beyond the borders of Arabia, and so he sent messenger’s to the neighboring princes, with letters to invite them to Mohammedanism. Mohammed soon entered into war against Grecian forces, this in order to revenge the death of one of his ambassadors. The Greeks being superior in number, including the number of auxiliary Arabs, they totaled 100,000. He was at first repulsed, but eventually overthrew the Greeks and brought back with him the spoils of war.
Let’s jump forward to the year 685 A.D. This was the year the building of the Dome of the Rock began. The Dome is a Muslim shrine in Jerusalem that is the oldest existing Islamic monument. It was built over a rock that had been sacred to the Jews for many hundreds of years; it’s where Abraham made ready to sacrifice his son Isaac unto God. Too the Muslims it represents the place where the Prophet Mohammed claimed to have ascended into heaven. The building of this structure began in 685 A.D. and concluded in 691 by the caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. It was built not for public worship but as a shrine for pilgrims.
Since the destruction of the temple the Jews have not offered any sacrifices, and several of their religious rites that had been directed by God upon their ancestors, could no longer be observed by the nation and people; this because certain holy days had been confined to the Promised Land, and were to be attended to by the Levites and offered in the Holy of Holies. The great transgression of the Jews after the captivity in Babylon was nothing but contempt for the holy things of God, they thumbing their nose at the sacred services. Animal sacrifices without blemish were replaced with sick and lame offerings.
Mal.1:7-8, “Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say , wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, the table of the LORD is contemptible. And if you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? Offer it now unto thy governor, will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? Saith the Lord of hosts.”
The building of the Dome of the Rock may play an important part in directing us in our quest to determine, not the day or the hour, but possibly the year of the Lord’s return for his Church.
I am having some difficulty with the Hebrew words used in Dan.8:6-11. I will take it as far as I can, than you can decide.
Phil LaSpino
Mohammed or Mahomet, the founder of Islamism, born at the end of the 6th century A.D., claimed to have replanted the only true and ancient one professed by Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and all the prophets by destroying the gross idolatry into which the his countrymen had fallen, and that he had weeded out the corruption and superstitions which the latter Jews and Christians had introduced into their religions. He claimed to have reduced his new religion to its original parity, which consisted chiefly in the worship of one God. He first converted his own household, and then revealed the secret of his mission to his wife; telling her that the angel Gabriel had appeared to him, and told him that he was appointed the apostle of God.
In the 12th year of his mission Mohammed claimed that he had made his night journey form Mecca to Jerusalem; and from there into heaven. This may have been expressed by him in order to pretend he had conversed with God; this in order to establish the authority he desired. He left behind an oral tradition, and made his sayings serve the same purpose as the oral laws of the Jews. Mohammed began to think of propagating his religion beyond the borders of Arabia, and so he sent messenger’s to the neighboring princes, with letters to invite them to Mohammedanism. Mohammed soon entered into war against Grecian forces, this in order to revenge the death of one of his ambassadors. The Greeks being superior in number, including the number of auxiliary Arabs, they totaled 100,000. He was at first repulsed, but eventually overthrew the Greeks and brought back with him the spoils of war.
Let’s jump forward to the year 685 A.D. This was the year the building of the Dome of the Rock began. The Dome is a Muslim shrine in Jerusalem that is the oldest existing Islamic monument. It was built over a rock that had been sacred to the Jews for many hundreds of years; it’s where Abraham made ready to sacrifice his son Isaac unto God. Too the Muslims it represents the place where the Prophet Mohammed claimed to have ascended into heaven. The building of this structure began in 685 A.D. and concluded in 691 by the caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. It was built not for public worship but as a shrine for pilgrims.
Since the destruction of the temple the Jews have not offered any sacrifices, and several of their religious rites that had been directed by God upon their ancestors, could no longer be observed by the nation and people; this because certain holy days had been confined to the Promised Land, and were to be attended to by the Levites and offered in the Holy of Holies. The great transgression of the Jews after the captivity in Babylon was nothing but contempt for the holy things of God, they thumbing their nose at the sacred services. Animal sacrifices without blemish were replaced with sick and lame offerings.
Mal.1:7-8, “Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say , wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, the table of the LORD is contemptible. And if you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? Offer it now unto thy governor, will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? Saith the Lord of hosts.”
The building of the Dome of the Rock may play an important part in directing us in our quest to determine, not the day or the hour, but possibly the year of the Lord’s return for his Church.
I am having some difficulty with the Hebrew words used in Dan.8:6-11. I will take it as far as I can, than you can decide.
Phil LaSpino
