Hi Daryl,

SA>Again, Jesus Christ will return at the time of God's choosing, to cut
SA>short the destruction of life and to rule the nations with a rod of
SA>iron. Nothing mankind can do will frustrate or prevent Christ's return.

 DS>   That is so assuring that God has always been, and always will be
 DS> in control of things...no matter what goes on. He either directs or
 DS> allows things to happen...even with heads of state (i.e. who is in
 DS> power)...and there is nothing mankind can do to change that.

Yes, He will permit the Beast to wage war upon the saints, and to prevail;
they will know, however, that the Beast is ultimately subject to God's will,
and like the dog on the rope in the cartoon will find his limits. Even the
kings will be permitted to rule with the Beast, until their time is up.

SA>Moqtada al-Sadr is claiming that the Americans are collecting a dossier
SA>on the "Mahdi" to prevent his return, and this was a motive
for the US-led
SA>invasion of Iraq. al-Sadr's "Mahdi" is apparently quite
"puny", compared
SA>to Jesus Christ, if the Americans can "hijack the Mahdi's return".

 DS>   As the psalmist said "I can not imagine why you (the Lord) would
 DS> want to deal with 'puny man'". It's interesting to ponder how all
 DS> these "religious" people will react when they see
"their religious
 DS> founder/prophet", etc. kneel before Jesus Christ...just what Satan
 DS> himself and his demons will do one day. And that includes all these
 DS> "self proclaimed Christs" (i.e. Jim Jones, David Koresh, etc.).
 DS> According to a tract on the Chick Publications website, the Muslim
 DS> god Allah is nothing more than a pagan deity from long ago.

"Allah" is certainly a false god, and Mohammad is a false prophet, and
from what I see, Islam's time to attempt global domination has come, but 
it cannot come to pass, for God will destroy most of it, if not all, when
it seeks to invade and destroy Israel.

Cheers, Steve..

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