Lamb & Lion Ministries is located just north of Dallas, Texas, a city at the center of the national debate over Islamic expansionism in America. The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is home to 62 Sunni and 5 Shia mosques, for a total of 67 officially recognized Islamic houses of worship. The region features one of the largest and fastest-growing Muslim communities in the United States, second only to Houston.
Recent debate has raged over the development of the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), now rebranded as The Meadow, a 402-acre residential development with plans to build an Islamic K-12 school, another mosque, various retail shops, and Muslim-only housing units. Its stated purpose is to prioritize attracting Muslim residents and enforcing Islamic sharia law, which would violate state law. It is championed by CAIR, a designated foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organization with ties to Hamas.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has worked hard to strip CAIR of its ability to operate in Texas. Yet he has failed to slow the growth of Islamic developments, as our nation’s pluralistic laws and religious freedoms are being used to overcome the Governor’s hurdles, and construction continues.
This past month, even after hundreds of people showed up at a McKinney council meeting to protest the McKinney Islamic Association’s plan to build a new mega-mosque, the liberal council, likely fearing being labeled Islamophobic, voted unanimously (7-0) to allow construction.
Among the protesters was an Iranian who once lived under Sharia law. He explained that for centuries, Islamic strategy has been to build a mosque first to get a foothold in a community. Once established as a base of operations, the Muslim population then grows rapidly, inevitably forcing out native residents and increasingly demanding more benefits and rights beyond local law.
A growingly common sight at our local community parks is Muslims kneeling on prayer rugs, praying over the area and asking Allah to claim it. You only have to look no farther than Dearborn, Michigan, where an estimated 45,000 people gathered for what organizers say was the largest Arbaeen march ever held in the United States, to see the future of Texas, if not the entire nation.
Raised to Conquer
Islam, for all intents and purposes, appears poised to conquer, not just Texas, but the entire world.
Islam’s growth rate has risen 500% over the last 50 years as their birth rate dwarfs the birth rates of all other religions. Today’s 1.5 billion Muslims make up 22% of the world’s population and control 65 nations. Between the twin strategies of holy war (jihad) and immigration, Muslims are expected to exceed 50% of the world’s population and surpass Christianity as the largest religion by the end of the 21st Century.
By all indications and by every statistic, Islam will indeed conquer the world. Churches will eventually become mosques. Your children will eventually become Muslims, or die for refusing. That is the direction the world is plunging towards right now.
Or, is it?
I would argue, no. Praise the Lord! Islam has an end according to the Bible. The Bible foretells of three prophetic wars that are coming soon, which I believe will absolutely end Islam as a viable religion in the end times.
1) The Psalm 83 War
The first end-time war, the Psalm 83 War, strikes at the geographical heart of Islam. It’s a war in which Israel will subdue its hostile neighboring countries: Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and Jordan. Since Israel was reborn on May 14, 1948, it has repeatedly fought wars and skirmishes with these nations to protect the Jewish people’s right to exist. According to Psalm 83, when this prophecy is fulfilled in full, Israel will control those bordering nations, either militarily or through peace agreements such as the Abraham Accords, and so gain a brief period of peace.
2) The Gog-Magog War (Ezekiel 38–39)
The second war which follows is found in Ezekiel 38–39. The Gog-Magog War is one of the best described prophetic wars in all the Bible, covering two whole chapters. This exciting war will be a major world-changer.
The Gog-Magog War foretells how Russia, Iran, Turkey, Libya, all those ‘Stan nations, and the other countries that form an outer ring of Islamic nations will war against Israel. Israel appears undefeatable after the Psalm 83 War, and so all of those nations combine into a coalition in order to make an attempt to plunder and destroy Israel.
What happens? These hordes, these uncountable armies; well, Israel has no chance of standing up against them. Israel appears doomed!
However, the Bible reveals that God will make His appearance back on the earth, not physically, but He Himself personally annihilates the invading hordes, so that there’s no denying God is behind this divine rescue. God intervenes using biblical types of judgments such as fire and brimstone, making the armies turn on each other, and being decimated by earthquakes. God even rains fire down on the homelands of these invading nations. The entire coalition of Islamic armies, along with Russia, is almost utterly destroyed.
For a religion that’s based on having to destroy one’s enemies for Allah’s honor, and then Allah loses every single last days war big time, I believe these end-time wars are going to stagger Islam before the Tribulation begins.
3) The Conventional War of the Tribulation (Revelation 6)
The third prophetic end-time war should finally hammer the nail in the coffin of Islam.
Despite Islam’s might in the world today, there’s no mention of Islam during the Tribulation. Rather, we glean from the Bible that during the Tribulation four religions will exist:
- One, there will be Christianity made up of those Tribulation Saints who accepted Christ after the Rapture.
- Two, there’s Judaism. The Antichrist spends much of his time persecuting Tribulation Saints and Jews.
- Three, there’s the early Tribulation Harlot religion, made up of a conglomeration of world religions. At first she seems in charge, but the Antichrist is really just using her for his own ends.
- And four, halfway through the Tribulation, the Antichrist stomps out all competing religions and sets himself up as the sole object of worship.
Now, if you can’t have another religion competing with you, especially a militaristic religion like Islam, which demands there are no other religions besides itself, what do you do with it? You have to annihilate it. And, the biggest populations of Muslims in the world, most don’t realize, live in Indonesia and Bangladesh and other eastern nations outside of the Middle East. So, more than likely, the Antichrist is going to spend the beginning of his reign annihilating Islam so that there’s no competitor to setting himself up as the true global ruler.
How tragic that 2 billion people will die from the Antichrist’s conventional war. But after that war, the Islamic map should be wiped clean.
In Conclusion
Looking at these three biblical end-time wars, I can only conclude that Islam doesn’t have much of a future left to it. A Psalm 83 War could be fulfilled at any minute, inevitably with the destruction of Damascus (see Isaiah 17 and Jeremiah 49). The Gog-Magog alliance of nations already exists. Europe is so fragile that they are ready for a strong leader to take over. Everything has lined up and is in place. These world-shaking events could literally occur at any moment.
And so, according to the Bible, Islam has very little time left to it.