Christian eschatology best left to interpretations of Christian scriptures.

Submitted by The Grand Infidel of Kaffiristan (Australia), Jul 15, 2008 at 22:59

STS wote:

"What the scholars believe is that the Jewish state will be destroyed by Jesus Christ and his fellow Muslims by around the year 2024 and then he will rule in Palestine for 40 years at the end of this period he and all muslims will die a normal death ("a fine breeze will take the soul of every Muslim leaving none") and the earth will be ruled by the wicked until God destroys earth (time unknown)."

Now, I think you're getting a little out of your depth here - by quoting Muslim 'scholars' on Christian eschatology. You are free to pick up a Bible (aren't you)?) and read for yourself the last chapter - the Revelation of St. John the Divine which is devoted solely to events occuring at 'the End of Days'. Note this chapter was written several hundred years before Mohammed's birth - the ideas and imagery in it would have been floating around the noosphere in Mohammed's time - giving every chance for early Islamists to plagiarise and modify it. There are plenty of books, old and modern written by real experts on this subject. But read the chapter for yourself to give yourslef a better background.

Unfortunately for you it offers no prediction of a series of events anything like what you have outlined as being anticipated by the 'scholars'. No mention of Mohammed is made in it either, strange that, isn't it? The focus of that chapter is on the return of Christ, not the return of Christ and then the return of a Mohammed or any other figure. Not even the slightest hint of it. And please don't suggest that the early Christians foresaw Mohammed's arrival, then wrote him out of the script or something as inane as that. No mention is made either of a rule of Palestine for 40 years - in fact if anything, it's a 1,000 year reign of peace.

Most Christians will agree on some points though - a worldwide 'tribulation' where humanity suffers greatly from natural and man-made disasters is ruled (or attempts are made to rule) by a system brought in by a totally evil anti-Christ (Dajjal?) - which is a person or group of people seeking worldwide control of the financial and political systems. Obviousl whoever this character is - is going to appear very seductive initially.

Christ himself says that no one will know the time when he himself returns. There have been many periods in the past when people have predicted the 'end of the world' and all of them have proved wrong (obviously). But with so many crises in so many areas (not the least being the environmental disaster that seems to be unfolding) - the period we are in is a better fit than any before.

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