Will The Antichrist Be A Muslim — Keith Malcomson

Praise God, I'd like you to turn to Daniel chapter two again, we're doing an appendix to our Daniel series we are finished. But I just want to add a few things on there were some notes I had for my messages I actually because of time, I missed out certain things I was going to say certain bits of information, and even here tonight I won't be full or comprehensive, but I do want to draw your attention to certain things tonight.

Next week, and the following week, unless something comes up here tonight. I want to deal with the Islamic Antichrist next week. I want to ask the question, will the Antichrist be the Pope. The week after that, I want to deal with why I do why I am not an a millennial list.

Now I'll explain those things as we go along, but I just want to bring you to this message here tonight. We've had 14 parts on the Daniel series, going through chapter by chapter. I didn't deal with every verse.

I didn't say all that I desire to say, but I just want to backtrack on this 15th part here tonight and deal with something I believe is essential for this hour and this time. My title tonight is, Will the Antichrist be a Muslim?

The Question of an Islamic Antichrist

Or will he be Islamic? Will the religion of the Antichrist be Islamic? Turning to Daniel chapter two, just want to read a couple of verses here as we go to our message. Reading from Daniel chapter two in verse 40.

And it says there, and the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron. For as much as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things, and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.

And whereas thou saw'st the feet and toes, part of potter's clay and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided. But there shall be in it of the strength of the iron. For as much as thou saw'st the iron mixed with mary clay, and as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken.

And whereas thou saw'st the iron mixed with mary clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men, but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

Let's pray tonight. And even as we pray, we're not here to mock other people's views or even to ridicule, though we will say some straight things. But you know what, Saints, maybe this message more than anything else, to give us a burden for those caught in the Islamic religion.

Can we even pray before even thinking of expounding or critiquing a certain teaching? Can we simply pray as a church that God would give us souls out of Islam, even in this city of Limerick? And wherever those are listening to us in this message, let's pray together.

Father, we do humble ourselves under your mighty hand tonight, and we ask for souls, O God. We realize the danger of Islam. We realize its size, its power, its militancy in our world. We have seen what it's done in our generation.

We have seen its rise, and we believe that it's coming to a climax, to a head. Father, I pray for revival amongst the Islamic nations. Lord God, we pray for your grace and your mercy, that you would send a visitation of your Holy Spirit, that in our generation, in our day, we are going to be blessed with seeing vast multitudes of Muslims turn to the Lord Jesus Christ.

My God, we don't want to deride them as a religion. We don't want to mock them. We don't want to ridicule them. We want to have mercy, O God. And Lord God, we don't want to in any way, Lord God, belittle any people, any group, or even those that teach the Islamic Antichrist.

But O God, we want to glorify Jesus Christ, and we want to simply find the truth of God tonight, in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Will the Antichrist be a Muslim? I'm not here tonight just to mock or critique that statement and that teaching, and you know I don't believe in it.

We have taught what we believe in this series, but I'm not here merely to critique it. But you know what? I want you to see what a large thing Islam and the Muslim religion is in this hour. At this present time, they claim to have 1 .8 billion members of Islam in the world.

That's about 24 of the entire world's population. That's almost one out of four people are going to, at least even in a secular sense, or a traditional or a cultural sense, belong to the Islamic religion.

That is massive. It is the second biggest religion in our world, and at least from the early 90s, I have warned very strongly about the danger and the rise of Islam. I was warning in the early 90s before many others realized its danger.

It was in the early 90s, I forget which year, that a missionary, an English missionary in the city of Birmingham, which is England's second city or Britain's second city. He said, I was there with him, he was a missionary behind the Iron Curtain when it was up in the communist nations, communist China, and then went as a missionary smuggling Bibles into Muslim nations.

When I visited, stayed in his home, he said, come, I'm going to show you Birmingham City, this great English city. I'm going to show you it. That day he drove me around that great city, second only to London.

As he did, he showed me where they had built Muslim mosques right next to the oldest Christian churches in the city, or the newest, biggest Christian churches in the city, all over the city. And he showed me how they literally ringed the city of Birmingham.

This was in the early 90s. He also told me at that time that gangs or groups of young Muslim thugs had literally beaten off the street preachers, off the streets of Birmingham. My father went there and preached in the bullring many, many decades ago.

He would go there and evangelize. Well, this old missionary told me he only knew of one street preacher left at that particular time. He also had files there, and in those files, he had maps, diagrams, information about the Siberian concentration camps that he had access to when he was a missionary into Soviet Russia.

Now, he had another drawer, metal drawer there, and he had all this information on the rise of Islam. He actually took out one of their prophecy books, and he showed me there how they were predicting, this is the Muslims, were predicting that they were going to experience two last great world wars before the end, before the end time.

This was their prophecy teaching. The second to last great war they were going to have was with Israel, when they would annihilate every single Jew off the face of the earth, beginning with the little nation of Israel.

It said in that book that after annihilating the nation of Israel, they would go on to worldwide jihad, where they would annihilate the entire Christian religion off the face of the earth. I very quickly in the early 90s began to realize the danger of Islam.

It spread into Great Britain, how they targeted main cities. Several years later, I went to Cardiff, would preach on the streets of that capital of the country of Wales, and I'd go and evangelize there.

There would be gangs of young Muslims. When they see me preach about Jesus, you would see the anger of 15-year-old boys. They got angry at me preaching that God had a son, that he was incarnate in human flesh.

I prayed at that time, oh, that we would have young men in our churches at 15 years old that would get angry at heresy and false teachings. Well, on the streets of Cardiff, I took a friend out preaching once, and these Muslims, young men, 15 years old, came along, and this is what they said to him.

They asked him to come around the corner, and he said, why? They said, we will show you what we think of your religion. They actually said to him, if we could, we would kill you for what you're preaching this day.

You know what? I admired their zeal. I admired their sacrificial spirit. You see, they believe what they preach. So many Christians do not believe, do not practice what they say they believe. Now, at this present time, the city of Berlin, the capital of Germany, is over 50 Islamic.

Paris is over 10 Islamic. The city of Glasgow, the capital of Scotland, who would believe it, is more than 5 Muslim today. In fact, all of Europe is over 5 Muslim, all of Europe, and it's rising fast.

In Ireland and in England, Muhammad is one of the most popular birth names in this hour, at this time. I'm telling you, there is a real problem. So, as we look at this question, will the Antichrist be a Muslim?

It's not a stupid question. It's not a foolish question. I'm not mocking those who believe it. Many of those who teach this and believe it, they have a great burden for Islam. They're reaching out and evangelizing Muslims.

They want to stir up prayer. And do you know what? I say amen to all of that. I commend them highly in the Lord for their burden, their observance, their awareness of the danger of Islam. They're not laughing at Islam, but they're taking it serious.

Since the year 2000, there has been the rise of militant Islam. There was the second Gulf War in Iraq. There was the attack on the Twin Towers in New York. There has been mass Islamic immigration into the West in Europe and in America as well.

And the recent extreme threat of ISIS in the Middle East and the West. All of these things have worked together to make the new teaching, and it is a new teaching, the new teaching of an Islamic Antichrist seem very contemporary and very likely.

So let's not mock it. In fact, let's study it. Let's see what they have to say. Let's diagnose it with scripture. You see, there's a history to this theory of the Islamic Antichrist, and this is what we're looking at tonight.

And I've got many of their books here tonight that they have written on the either Islamic or Arabic Antichrist. So I want to really, it's in the light of their teachings and their opinions that I'm speaking here tonight, and I'll refer to them.

All that I say, refer to some of these men who have taught this theory and idea. Starting in the year 1993, a Bible teacher called Philip Goodman wrote a book called The Assyrian Connection. Much good stuff in there that I would actually agree with.

The Assyrian Connection. Then in that same year, 1993, there was a man called Perry Stone. That's his book written a few years later. Perry Stone in 1993 started to share about the Antichrist potentially being a Muslim, and that the last religion that would sweep the world and enforce the Mark of the Beast would be the Islamic religion.

Well, Perry Stone in the year 2009 released this book called Unleashing the Beast, in which he released this teaching about the Islamic Antichrist, although he said, as all these men always do, that he had shared this since 1993.

In his book, he said the seventh head of the fourth beast was actually linked to the EU. So initially at the end, he actually taught that you'd begin to see this rise of globalism in the West, and the EU would be a part of it, but it would only be here for a short time.

He said that was the seventh head. He then said the eighth head would actually be a 10-nation Islamic confederation that would suddenly take over. That's what he taught. Then another man called Joel Richardson, and I'm going to concentrate on him here tonight.

He released his book in 2006 called The Antichrist, Islam's Awaited Messiah, or he later released it as The Islamic Antichrist. The reason I'm concentrating on him is he has become the most popular and the main spreader of this teaching on the Islamic Antichrist.

When he first published this book, I bought it. When I began to read it, in fact, it struck me. It marked me. I was caught a bit by it. I was fascinated to think of beheading in the book of Revelation.

Here's Islam beheading their enemies. There are many similarities, and it's a very striking book, though some very basic mistakes made in it. But there's something I'm going to come back to here. There was also a man called Joe Van Covering in 2007 released his book called Unveiling the Man of Sin.

In fact, in that book, he went further. He was a friend of Perry Stone's. He went further in that book, and he gave the country and the name of the Antichrist, who he thought the Islamic Antichrist was going to be.

In that book in 2007, he actually said that the Antichrist would arise from the small country of Jordan because Daniel says that the Antichrist or the little horn would not invade Jordan. He gave a name to Antichrist.

He called him the Crown Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan. Well, that man is now 74 years old. Most of you have never heard about him, never mind anything else. But this is the rise of the history of this theory.

Finally, each man began sharing, speaking, preaching, doing conventions, until finally Joel Richardson actually become very popular with it. But listen, in 2008, a book was written by two men, Joel Richardson and Walid Shoubat.

And this was its title, God's War on Terror, Islam, Prophecy, and the Bible. Walid Shoubat was supposedly a convert from the PLO. He shared his testimony many times how he got converted from radical Islamic terrorism to be an evangelical fundamentalist Christian.

And now he was warning the West of the rise of Islam. These two men, Joel Richardson and Walid Shoubat, began spreading this idea of the Islamic Antichrist hand in hand. They wrote two books together.

But this book, God's War on Terror, as well as Joel Richardson's book, Here in My Hand, The Antichrist, Islam's Awaited Messiah, they called these two books the cornerstone of this teaching on the Islamic Antichrist.

In fact, Joel Richardson said that these two books have, in fact, he said about Walid Shoubat, that he had greatly contributed to my understanding of this issue. In this book, he said this PLO convert was one of the main influences on him, on him writing this.

Now, who are these men? Let me say, I'm just laying some background because we're not mocking, but I want you to see clearly and understand that until 1990, nobody talked about an Islamic Antichrist. It began in the 90s, become very popular since the year 2000.

It's a new teaching, utterly new, and these are the men who promoted it and made it more popular, and especially through YouTube in this hour and generation. So let me say again, who is this man, Walid Shoubat?

Who is Shoubat? This man who's written all these books, he's a very interesting character. In fact, Walid isn't his name. He says on his website that that is an assumed name. It's not his real name. He actually, people don't know his real name, he put that up.

But the Jerusalem Post in the year 2008, when he was coming out public with all of this, the Jerusalem Post wrote an article, and you can read it online, highlighting inconsistencies in the testimony of Walid Shoubat.

They began looking at his claims to being a terrorist. They went to Bethlehem and interviewed his uncle, his cousins, other family members, and in fact, the family members shook their head and said, all of this is wrong.

They didn't know what he was talking about. Walid actually says that he was arrested by the Israeli government. There's no record of him being in an Israeli jail. He claims bombing a certain bank. There's no record of that bank actually being attacked at any single point.

So all these questions were raised. CEN in 2011 also raised other questions, but here's a more interesting point. Remember, Walid Shoubat has affected Richardson in this idea. That was the main influence.

This Walid Shoubat is very, very important in this, although he wasn't the first man teaching it. He certainly wasn't the first man teaching it. Two years before, he released his book with Richardson.

He also co-authored another book in the year 2006 with an old Jewish rabbi who used to be married to more than one woman. In fact, there was a group of these rabbis who all taught the Islamic Antichrist.

Well, Walid Shoubat co-authored a book with him. In fact, he was the lesser partner called Islam, Peace, or the Beast. That was in 2006. Two years later, he releases a book, almost identical. He stole all his ideas from these old rabbis.

He put them into his book, and he brought Joel Richardson in with him with this book as his co-author. It got released out across the world, even affecting someone like me. It took time for me to study through it and to see where its errors were wrong.

That old rabbi has come back, and he accuses Shoubat of plagiarism, of stealing all of his ideas directly from these old rabbis. Who is Joel Richardson, who wrote this book? Actually, that's not his name either.

Neither of them use their real names, and they give so-called kosher reasons for that. Joel Richardson isn't called Joel Richardson. It's a pen name, and he acknowledges that at the beginning. He also acknowledges at the beginning, my Catholic brother from the Middle East, who was a help to him writing this book.

In fact, it's interesting, the connection with Catholicism with Joel Richardson. We don't know his name. He takes all the teachings of the Muslims, puts it together, presents it in his book, and says, look, what the Muslims are teaching that the Antichrist is going to be, when you look at the Bible, it is a duplicate.

What he doesn't tell you is he only draws from the teaching of about 14 of the Muslims, called the Shiite Muslims. He doesn't tell you that, but he promotes it as the normal Islamic view, as if all of this teaching was the normal standard view, and it's not.

It's not. He actually has written, Islam is the single greatest challenge that the church will face before the return of Jesus. I certainly believe it's a prominent threat now, and over the next couple of years, but I do not believe it will be the greatest threat between now and Jesus returning.

Well, Richardson claims to have about 200 books. He often mentions it, about 200 commentaries on the book of Daniel. To have studied all these books, to be an expert on the book of Daniel, he talks a lot about his humility, and we need to be humble and not dogmatic.

But I find his teachings very straight. He criticizes the views that I hold very clearly, and makes a lot of accusations, but he's always talking about humility and not being dogmatic. So let's go here.

The Fourth Kingdom in Daniel

I've given you a bit of a background, but I want to deal with four clear points. I'm not going to deal with everything. I'm just giving you a taste here tonight, and we'll cut off a certain point. I won't keep you for two hours, but let me just give you four points here that they actually teach, and this is my first point.

Who is the fourth Iron Kingdom that we find in Daniel chapter two? We have taught in this series that the fourth Iron Kingdom is the Roman Empire, and it came after the Grecian Empire. We taught that.

We taught it several times during our series. We taught about the four kingdoms, Babylonia, Medo-Persia, the Grecian Empire, and then the Roman Empire. That's what we taught. But these men who teach the Islamic Antichrist utterly reject that.

They do not believe that the fourth empire in Daniel chapter two is Rome, or that it is Rome in Daniel chapter seven. They reject that the fourth beast, or the fourth kingdom in Daniel seven, is also Rome.

So they contradict what we teach, and this is why I'm addressing it here, and just going back and pinpointing this. They say that the fourth empire in Daniel, in chapter two, or in chapter seven, that it never names Rome.

It mentions Babylonia. The book mentions Medo-Persia. It even mentions the rise of the Grecian Empire. But they say that in the book of Daniel, Rome is never mentioned by name, and they're absolutely right.

They're correct. They're accurate. Rome is not mentioned by name. But listen for a second. In Daniel chapter nine, who would argue in the prophecy we dealt with in Daniel's 70 weeks, that in Daniel nine we read about a very specific timeframe of 490 years, and about Messiah being cut off and Jerusalem destroyed?

Now who would argue? There's a prophecy very clear about Messiah being cut off. Who crucified the Messiah in Jerusalem? We all know it was Roman soldiers. And who destroyed the city of Jerusalem? We know it was the Roman Empire, the Roman general, the authorities, or the Roman armies.

We know that it was the Roman Empire. But they want to pull out that Rome isn't mentioned in Daniel. Just because the name Rome or Roman isn't mentioned in Daniel does not mean that it's not there very, very clearly.

So they make much of that, and it can sound impressive. Be very careful when someone argues against truth. It can sound very wise. You may not have an answer, but be very careful of listening to people who want to debate over arguments.

Give time to it. Be patient. Be very slow about changing your opinions. Spend much time in Bible study. But what we do notice that in the Bible we have that fourth empire in the New Testament, and it is named.

We know that Rome defeated the Grecian Empire. All four regions. It was Rome, nobody else. All four regions of the Grecian Empire. Who defeated it? It was the Roman Empire that defeated it by the year 30 BC.

We also read when we come to the New Testament and the Gospels at the right place at the right time, we read the name of the first Roman Emperor. His name was Augustus Caesar. And he began to reign from the year 27 BC, just after the defeat of the Grecian Empire.

We find him in Luke chapter two, verse one, and it says there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. So that prominent leader, the first emperor of the fourth beast is mentioned in the Bible.

Islam isn't mentioned in the Bible, even in the New Testament or the Old Testament. It's not even connected and had no connection with the Grecian Empire. Be very careful who you listen to and what arguments that you listen to.

So we see that the fourth beast is in the Bible, but it's in the New Testament. It's named in the New Testament. It's identified. Its first great leader is also identified. Then look again. He refers in his book here to Daniel two, verse 40.

And this is one of the biggest and main arguments that he makes of why it can't be the Roman Empire. Verse 40. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, for as much as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things, and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.

And then again in chapter seven, it says the same thing about the fourth beast, that it's actually going to be diverse from all the other beasts, but it will devour the whole earth, tread it down and break in pieces.

So Mr. Richardson, in his view of the Islamic Antichrist, primarily because of verse 40, chapter two, verse 40, because of this verse, because of the subduing and the breaking and the bruising, he says it cannot be the Roman Empire.

You know why? He says the Roman Empire did not subdue and did not conquer the land of the previous three empires. Now listen to what he says very carefully. He says this fourth beast has to conquer the land.

It's not the beast itself. He says that this fourth beast has to conquer the four nations, or the land, or the geography of the previous three beasts. Rome only conquered one third of the area of the previous three empires.

He also says it only conquered one fifth of the Medo-Persian Empire. No, let me correct that, of the land the Medo-Persian Empire covered. So he says it's ridiculous. You cannot believe the fourth beast is Rome.

Why? Because Rome did not rise up in its power and conquer all of the land of the three previous beasts. You see what he's done? He's taken the word subdue, break, bruise, crush, taken these words, and he's identified that the word crushing means of culture, language, religion, but primarily geography.

That's the first. He said it's got to crush the geography of the land. Now the Bible doesn't say that. That was Mr. Richardson created that to move it away from Rome and to move it towards an Islamic Antichrist.

Everything hinges on this one verse, and in fact on one single word that he interprets as crushing. He says because of that one word, Rome didn't crush, Rome didn't subdue and break all of these other empires, and so it's disqualified.

But Islam did that. That's what he actually says. He goes further and says this crushing has to take place of the culture, the language, and the religion. Wherever you get Islam, you get an utter crushing of culture, language, religion.

That's what he says. So the crushing is the iron. It is stronger than the other three metals. He says it's going to crush all these others. But how can it crush an empire that doesn't exist anymore? Now look at it.

Listen very carefully. He's saying that that beast, to be the fourth in line, has to conquer all of the land to be the next fourth beast. I don't believe that. You see, I believe each beast did conquer Babylon.

They conquered Jerusalem. They conquered in around the Mediterranean. Their empire reached the Mediterranean and started to move in around the Mediterranean. But he is creating a term here. How can it crush an empire that has long gone 100 years ago or 200 years ago?

You cannot crush that beast. You cannot crush the culture of that beast. That beast has gone in history 200 years ago. The Bible doesn't say that this fourth beast had to crush the Babylonian Empire and the Medo-Persian Empire.

It doesn't say that. It had to rise up and replace the Grecian Empire. Who replaced the Grecian Empire? It was the Roman Empire. It's got nothing to do about ground. Nowhere in the text does it mention language or religion.

This is something that a man has created so that he can bring in a teaching on the Islamic Antichrist. Let me give you an example of this. Today, if I was to conquer Berlin and the country of Germany, with its capital Berlin, could it be said of me that I have crushed the old Kaiser Empire that went out of existence 100 years ago?

If I went in one Germany, in Berlin, would you begin to say I have crushed that old Germanic Empire that no longer exists? No, you would not. Yet, this is what these men are trying to say. They're trying to say that a kingdom has to arise that's got to possess all these lands.

That fourth Iron Kingdom is going to crush. It's going to annihilate. It's going to utterly destroy. So, Rome is disqualified because it was such a nice empire. In fact, he actually says this. He said the Romans were rebuilders.

They didn't annihilate. They didn't crush. This is what he says. Does this man even read history? Do you know, if you go back to the history books, you read about them destroying the Celts in Europe, annihilating entire peoples, burning down cities.

In AD 70, they destroyed Jerusalem. They scattered the Jews out across the world that weren't gathered until 1948 again. What an extreme teaching. Now, what does he say replaces it? If it's not Rome, what does he say it is?

He says it's going to be the Islamic Caliphate. In other words, the Islamic government or a forming of Islamic nations. He actually teaches that Islam in its form of this empire would absolutely and completely conquer all of the lands that it gained possession of.

There's only one problem. You need to jump from the Grecian Empire several hundred years, ignoring the Roman Empire and all the history of the first century church. You need to jump all the way through to the seventh century to the rise of Islam.

So he's saying an empire, really the true empire, came several hundred years later. It was the Islamic Empire, but it had no connection with triumphing over the Grecian Empire. Do you know what? All it had to do was go in later and take over the land of the Grecian Empire, Medo-Persia, the Babylonians, and there you have the fourth beast.

But he inserts something here, which he calls the Parthian Empire. And he actually says it come up out of the Medo-Persian Empire. It existed a hundred years before Rome. And so he connects the Grecian Empire to Islam with the Parthian Empire that existed 250 years before Christ and 250 years after Christ.

And he begins to say the Parthians led all the way through to the rise of the Islamic Empire. The only problem is the Parthians never conquered Greece. It only arose in one of the four regions of the Grecian Empire.

It never conquered the other three. Neither did it crush the Greek culture within its own new empire, the Parthian Empire. It didn't crush Greek culture or language or religion. In fact, it took it on board itself and forbade the second of the Seleucia, the city of Seleucia.

And it certainly was not legs of iron. So if you believe this teaching, you've got a gap between the waist and the thighs and those legs of iron. There's going to be a big long gap. This man is going to be cut in two with no connecting factor apart from trying to put this Parthian Empire in between.

Richardson actually says that the Parthian Empire came to control much of the Middle East for 500 years. That's not true. That's not true. They only came to conquer a small portion of it. They never ruled over Jerusalem.

They managed to besiege it once and barely take it. And then they were thrown out by the Roman Empire again. But he believes you can just jump several hundred years through and you get this. What does he say the feet or the toes of iron and clay are?

Well, he says it's the Shiite Muslim and the Sunni Muslims. One are 14 of Muslims. The other is 86%. And he said this is the clay and iron mixing together. Do you know what? You've got to stretch a lot when on one verse you reject Rome because of verse 40.

You say Rome didn't crush and you jump several hundred years trying to insert other cultures that have no identification with Islam. And you jump all the way through. That's my first point. My second point.

The Ram and the Goat in Daniel 8

Who is the ram and the goat of Daniel chapter 8? Daniel chapter 8. I could say an awful lot more here, but I'm just giving you a taste of why I don't believe in the Islamic Antichrist. So go with me to Daniel chapter 8.

Who is the ram and the goat? You know what we taught. We taught the ram was the Middle Persian Empire. And that the goat was the Grecian Empire. This was the end of the Middle Persian Empire, the rise of the Grecian Empire.

And this was their clash when Alexander the Great brought his army. Remember that message that we taught on Daniel chapter 8? What an exciting message about the clash of kingdoms. That's what we taught.

Okay, so what does he teach? What does Richardson teach and Islamic Antichrist teach? In Daniel chapter 8 verse 17, we read of Gabriel the angel going to Daniel and speaking to him. Listen to what he says.

Understand, O son of man, for at the time of the end shall be the vision. So notice that Richardson says, look at this. Who is the ram and goat? You heard what I said it was. I said it was all those generations ago when the Middle Persian Empire came into a conflict with Grecian Empire and Alexander the Great arose.

That was my interpretation. And I believe it's very clear in Daniel chapter 8. I don't know how anyone couldn't believe that. But in order to force the Islamic Antichrist on you, they've got to change this.

They do change it. They have changed it. Although as you're going to see, I'm not sure if they've changed it or not, but I'll explain that in a moment. So he says in chapter 8 here in verse 17, that Daniel is told that this vision he's being shown of the ram and the goat, it will come to pass at the time of the end shall be the vision.

So he says this term means the time of the end. It means the last days. Not Alexander's days. Not the Middle Persian Grecian Empire change of empire season. No, he says actually Daniel 8 has nothing to do with that.

Nothing to do with Alexander the Great. Nothing to do with his four generals arising. He actually says Daniel 8 has to do with the last days because of this verse. In chapter 8 verse 17, because it says, at the time of the end shall be the vision.

Again, the next verse, verse 19, it also says, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation. For at the time appointed, the end shall be. So the word end is used three times in two verses here in Daniel 8.