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Ahmadinejad, Ayatollahs, and the Apocalypse
I have a concern: The West is not taking Iran's Ahmadinejad seriously enough. The West, including Washington, does not know that Islam is as excited--if not more excited--about the return of their "messiah" as some Christians are about ours. Iran is apocalypticaly apoplectic. Official Iranian radio has completed broadcasting a lengthy series on the imminent appearance of their messianic figure who will defeat Islam's enemies and impose Islamic Shiite rule over the entire world.
"Be joyous my heart, miracles of the Messiah will soon be here," reads a poem used to conclude the first broadcast. "The scent of breaths of the One we know comes near. Grieve not or sorrow . . . a savior will come, it is clear."
After the coming of the 12th imam, or Mahdi, "liberal democratic civilization" will be found only in history museums, stated the program. So much for the Islamic world wanting the democracy we keep offering them.
At times the statements seem to jump out of the book of Revelation. One TV program stated, "In short, when he reappears, peace, justice, and security will overcome oppression and deceit and one global government, the most perfect ever, will be established." The Mahdi will appear suddenly in Mecca. The Shiites are told that no one can know the day or hour of the Islamic messiah's return. Sound familiar?
It gets more intense. In a greeting to the world's Christians for this new year, Iranian President Ahmadinejad said he expects both Jesus and the Mahdi to return and "wipe away repression."
While some of this sounds bizarre, see it for its seriousness. Ahmadinejad's mystical preoccupation with the coming of the Mahdi is raising concerns that a nuclear-armed Republic of Iran could easily trigger the kind of global conflagration he envisions. The Iranian President sees his main mission to "pave the path for the glorious reappearance of Imam Mahdi."
All Iran is buzzing about the Mahdi, the 12th Imam and the role Iran and Ahmadinejad are playing in his anticipated return. There's a new messiah hotline. There are news agencies especially devoted to the latest developments.
So whether the man is psychotic or delusional, he cannot be ignored. He is whipping the country into a frenzy and a part of that frenzy is to launch nukes if it will hasten the Mahdi's return. Outdated cold war concepts such as mutually assured destruction are irrelevant when it comes to Iran, because the Iranian president and his circle see such a scenario "as an incentive, not a deterrent."
The threat of many Iranians perishing in a war does not deter the Iranian leadership, which believes "it would be doing them a favor by giving them a free pass to heaven."
The scenario spins out of control when we realize that the Islamic world believes there is something they can do to hasten their messiah. They believe passionately in the return of their messiah as do many Christians. But ours returns to bring peace to the earth. The Mahdi could destroy half the earth indirectly as his devotees do what they can to hasten his return.
The restrainers in this scenario may be the Ayatollahs who are not all that eager to wage a world war.
Pray the world gets very serious about this scenario. The West is asleep and sanctions and negotiations will no more stop the intensity of the longing for the Mahdi messiah than they would for Christians and the true Messiah, Jesus Christ.
View a serious two-minute clip here making the same point: http://www.aish.com/iran/
To better understand this I also recommend my newest DVD, "Facing the Fury: The West's War Against Jihad and the new Fascism" with an exclusive interview with Avi Lipkin (Victor Mordecai). There are also clips by Caryl Matrisciana, Dave Hunt, and Steve Emerson. See "Our Products" http://www.olivetreeviews.org/catalog.shtml This DVD will be shown on Sky Angel Two March 23, 2007 and again in May and September. We also offer the helpful book by Dr. Mark Hitchcock, "Iran: The Coming Crisis--Radical Islam, Oil, and the Nuclear Threat." It is also found at "Our Products."
Awaiting His return,
Jan Markell
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