I found that there is a prophesy in Islam that goes like this. It says that, in the last days, Jesus (as a human prophet and not the Son of God) will return to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, set it up as His capital to rule the world, Islam will be His religion, and He will give the Muslims an order to kill off all the remaining or remnant of the Christians and Jews which refuse to worship Allah. The prophesy says that the Muslims will ruthlessly hunt down and kill off all the remaining Christians and Jews establishing Islam as the only religion of the world. Jesus will rule the world with his one-world government and church.

Muslims are eagerly looking forward to this coming of their Jesus, Him giving them the order to kill off the remnant of the Christians and Jews, and them killing off the remnant of the Christians and Jews with greater zeal than the Christians are looking forward to the coming of the Biblical Jesus. As a matter of fact, they are working towards doing that now.

Interestingly, the Bible predicts the exact same event from the opposite perspective for the exact same time in history. The Bible says that a man will gain control of the one-world government with the aid of the one-world church, seize control of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, declare himself to be Jesus or the Messiah, and wage war against and attempt to kill the remnant of the Christians and Jews. The big difference is that the Bible doesn't call this man Jesus, it calls him the Antichrist.

This interesting prophesy and a number of other things I learned while studying the Koran and Islam have some interesting implications for end times prophesy. Keeping this in mind, there is a misconception I realized while reading the Koran which I must clear up.

In the Old Testament of the Bible there is a prophesy about the City of Babylon which says Babylon will be destroyed and never rebuilt. The scholars and experts of Biblical prophesy assumed that this prophesy was fulfilled with the past destruction of Babylon. But Saddam Hussein has rebuilt a large portion of the City of Babylon, is currently building more of it, regularly holds celebrations in it, and, today, people live, work, and play in the City of Babylon. Therefore, it is not possible that the fulfillment of this prophesy is in the past and it must be in the future.

This is very significant for understanding Bible prophesy because the assumption that the final destruction of Babylon had already occurred, has caused us to assume that the prophesy concerning the destruction of Babylon in the Book of Revelation during the end times was to be taken figuratively and not literally. Obviously, that assumption is wrong and we must now read these prophesies literally and as a thing of the future. You will see that this will be significant in understanding the fulfillment of future prophesies in relation to what I have learned about Islam.

For years, I have wondered what could possibly cause the war of the Second Horseman of The Apocalypse or the second Seal in the Book of Revelation. It describes a global war which will occur suddenly and massively. It is very unlikely this could be caused by social unrest, nations waging war, or any other possible event I could imagine because it would take a huge number of troops or people acting simultaneously for the same cause.

But, with a warrior religion, like Islam, with more than 1.6 billion people spread around the world, this would easily be possible. If only 25% of the Muslims in the world were to stand up at the same time as a global army, that would be an army of over 400 million soldiers. Their army would be almost twice the size of the Chinese Army of only 200 million (including all their reservists) and almost 200 times the size of the US military. In the US alone, there are over 16 million Muslims which would give them a military presence of at least 4 million soldiers with increasing numbers of them being armed with weapons purchased from their ally, China, with US drug money. We can thank the liberal dopers for that. Remember that this is a very conservative estimate based on only 25% of Muslims. In Israel, Muslim women are starting to participate in the fighting and, in Afghanistan, children of less than 10 years of age have fired weapons in anger. It should only be common sense that a warrior religion of this size could easily raise an army of one billion people. That would be one out of every six people in the world. Therefore, I believe the following events will occur.

First, it must be understood that the Battle of Ezekiel 38 & 39 will happen prior to the Rapture and the beginning of the Tribulation. This will permit Israel to expand its borders to the prophesied extremes of from the Euphrates River to the River of Egypt and east of the River Jordan. This will provide Israel with the protected borders necessary for the prophesies to be fulfilled.

The Battle of Ezekiel 38 & 39 will do several other important things for prophesy. First, it will create a huge power vacuum in Islam because all of their top leaders will be killed in Damascus by God. This will permit the less powerful people left at home to easily and quickly set up the Caliphate to prevent things at home from deteriorating into chaos. Second, either God or Israel must destroy and capture both Medina and Mecca for the Muslims to move their capital for both their religion and government to the new Babylon. The destruction of both Medina and Mecca would only make it logical for Islam to set up its seat of power in Babylon because Babylon is where the current war god, Allah, was first worshiped under a different name and it is the capital city for the first great empire in human history. The City of Babylon is very important to Muslims because it reminds them of a time when the world was ruled from the most famous city in the world in an Muslim country. It would only be natural for them to establish the already existing City of Babylon as their military, political, economic, and religious capital of the world which will fulfill the prophesies in the Book of Revelation concerning Babylon. It will be from here that Islam rebuilds itself into a super power while Israel will also build itself into a super power and the rest of the world including the US will decline because of their corruption.

The City of Babylon is very important to Muslim Arabs because it reminds them of a time when the world was ruled from the most famous city in the world in an Arab country. It would only be natural for them to establish the already existing City of Babylon as their military, political, economic, and religious capital of the world which will fulfill the prophesies in the Book of Revelation concerning Babylon.

Next, following the Rapture and at the very beginning of the Tribulation, the Muslims will realize that most of the Christians and the Messianic Jews have disappeared. After signing a 7 year treaty with Israel to keep her out of the fight, Islam will make a unified and concerted global (Rev 6:2) effort which will result in them killing off almost everyone who is not a Muslim and will not convert to Islam and begin a global effort to exterminate the remaining Christians and Jews outside of Israel(Rev 7:9). In their western campaign, they will conquer everything from the Euphrates River west to the Pacific Ocean excluding Israel.

The Bible says this war(Rev 6:2), the resulting famine(Rev 6:5), and the resulting epidemics (Rev 6:7) will kill one fourth of the people in the world(Rev 6:8). If you assume that there will be six billion people in the world following the Rapture, this means that the war and its after math will kill off 1.5 billion people globally. This will only leave 4.5 billion people. Each Muslim soldier would only need to kill a little more than one person to achieve this. Islam will bring to the world what it brought to Afghanistan.

The Bible also states that a meteor will kill all of the life from one third of the earth's surface (Rev 8:10) shortly after this war begins and before the Muslims begin their eastern military campaign. For the remaining prophesies to occur, this would have to be North, Central, and South America. This would limit the Islamic empire to Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, an area slightly larger than the old Roman Empire. The Muslims will be the clay mingled with the iron in the toes of the figure for Nebuchadnezzar's vision in the second chapter of the Book of Daniel.

This death toll would constitute slightly less than one billion people and bring the standing global population to about 3.5 to 4 billion people if this happened today.

Shortly after this military action begins, Islam will move militarily from the Euphrates, with a 200 million man army, to wipe out the people in Asian countries from the Pacific Ocean west to the Euphrates River and will kill one third of the remaining global population (Rev 9:13)which will be a little over one billion people. This will leave almost two to three billion people in the world, a little more than two billion Muslims and converts and a few million people in Israel.

Islam has used its great oil wealth to purchase the controlling interest in many of the largest businesses in Europe, the US, and the rest of the world including much of the media. They already have the largest and fastest growing religion in the world. This global Islamic war will give Islam control over the world government and its 200 million man military stationed east of the Euphrates, it will be the world religion, and it will control the global economy.

The Bible says they will and that, shortly before the middle of the Tribulation, God will destroy the City of Babylon (Rev 18). Then the Bible says that a man (Rev 13) will gain power of the global government with the aid of his Muslim prophet, break his treaty with Israel half way through the treaty, capture Jerusalem and establish it as his global capital, establish the Temple on the Temple Mount as the center for the world religion, declare himself to be Jesus or the Messiah, and begin waging war on the remnant of the Jews and Christians along with the two witnesses (Rev 11:3)of the Bible. It is at this point that the Bible and Koran agree and this man will be the Jesus of Islam.

After this point, the Bible takes a different course from Islam and says that the remnant of God's people will flee into the wilderness where the Jesus of Islam will wage war against them for the last half of the Tribulation.

According to the Bible, some time during this period, the Jesus of Islam will capture God's two witnesses (Rev 11:7), put them to death on the streets of Jerusalem, they will be raised from the dead 3.5 days later, a great earth quake will kill 7,000 Jewish males in Jerusalem an hour later, the remaining Jews will realize that Jesus is the Messiah, revolt, and chase the Jesus of Islam out of Israel.

Of course this will infuriate the Jesus of Islam and all of Islam. The Bible says the Jesus of Islam will gather his armies from around the world into the valley of Megiddo (Rev 14:14)to wage a final war against Israel. They will line up from west to east in the valley with the intentions of marching through Israel and murdering every one they can find to make sure they don't miss any one.

At this point, the Bible says the Jesus of the Bible will return (Rev 19), capture the Jesus of Islam and his Muslim prophet, cast them into the Lake of Fire, destroy 100% of the Muslim army, and set up His kingdom where He will rule the world peacefully from Jerusalem for 1,000 years.

After everything I have learned from reading the Bible, the Koran, and studying Islam, I believe that Islam is the one world church, they will rule the world as they have been trying to do for 1,300 years, and the Jesus of Islam will rule from Jerusalem and wage war against the remnant of God's people.

But...Rev 19:11 - "And I saw heaven opened and, behold, a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war."