Chapter 21: More End Time Signs
Question, “Does the Lady of Fatima, and Mohamad’s daughter Fatima have any future role in Vatican-Muslim dialogue in these end days?
The Muslims hold Mary in high regard and have a great deal of respect for her, yet it stops short of the Catholic churches devotion to her. So, the question, why did the mother of our Lord in this 20th Century choose to reveal herself in the insignificant little village of Fatima, to three young children, and in all future generations be called “Our Lady of Fatima?” The proper name Fatima and the place Fatima Portugal have this strange connection between the Muslims and Catholic faiths?
Consider the following; the daughter of Mohammed was called Fatima Zahra. She was born in 615 and died in 632 A.D. Not so very long ago, the Moslem’s occupied Portugal but were eventually driven out. The last Moslem chief had a beautiful daughter called by the same name as Mohammed’s daughter Fatima. In the very same town lived a young Catholic man who would fall in love with Fatima, and because of him she stayed behind when the Moslems left. Now because of her love for the man, she would come to embrace the Catholic faith, and her husband because of his love for her would change the name of the town where he lived to Fatima.
Thus, the very place where Mary is said to have appeared in 1917 appears to hold an historical connection to Fatima, the daughter of Mohammed and the daughter of a Muslim chieftain. So, the question, was it the Lord who in 1917 sent this image to the children in Portugal, or was this designed by fallen spirits to deceive?
Christians are warned in 1 John 4:1, “Believe not every spirit, but try (test) the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”
Mary is for the Moslems the true Sayyida, or Lady. The only serious rival to her in their creed would be Fatima, the daughter of Mohammed himself. But after the death of Fatima, Mohammed wrote: Thou shalt be the most blessed of women in Paradise, after Mary. In a variant of the text Fatima is made to say; I surpass all the women, except Mary.”
So, can this be the one thing that will one day unite the Catholic religion with the Muslim religion? Can, or will some form of dialog be established because of their agreement concerning Mary and Mohammed’s daughter Fatima in Fatima Portugal?
The apparitions at Fatima ended in October of 1917, and in November of the same year 1917, the Balfour Declaration was issued. This set into motion a series of events which enabled the Jews to reconstitute their political society and legitimately bear arms. The image of Mary is claimed to have returned to a Sister Lucia in July 1929 to ask for the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart. Soon after in October of 1929 the stock market crashed affecting America, Europe and other parts of the world, and this was to be followed by mass unemployment, an event that brought the Nazi Party out of the sewer from which it grew, taking to itself enough electoral gains in Germany to get Adolf Hitler elected as Chancellor in 1933.
So, one can ask, were these events connected in any way, and will these events trigger future events plunging the world into its darkest hours ever?
Doors of Hell were opened:
In the not too distant past we have read of the Roman Catholic church, represented in Nebuchadnezzar’s image of a man as the feet of iron and (potter’s) clay going forth, and hell would follow after her, she having the power to kill all who challenged her authority. She was lead by the most cunning and brutal ruler’s mankind had ever given life to.
Many fiery persecutions have blazed around the Christian community, both from within and from without. But by the grace of God, God’s people have survived these many woes. But what followed this Catholic Empire came from the darkest and deepest part of the earth. A man who was given power to spread religion across the continents, a religion born of deception, terror, blood and death.
The ancient Arabs had a form of knowledge concerning the power of the gospel of Christ as did this one man, Mahomet. Mahomet was a wicked imposter who opening the doors of the bottomless pit, establishing for himself and his followers a false religion; a religion that spread as would cancer through a body. Mahomet was originally a trade’s men. About the year 608 B.C. he formed the bold scheme of setting up a new religion, and would soon become the head of an empire.
He declared, there was one God and his name is Allah, and that he, Mahomet was his prophet. He captivated many Jews and Christians when he allowed both Moses and Christ to be true prophets in his religion; and also represented himself as superior to both in spiritual light and power. He falsely claimed to be sent by God in order to reform the system Moses and Jesus had established. His books were compiled from oriental tales and fables; from the legendary trash of Rabbi’s, and from the Jewish and Christian Scriptures. He then commenced to write, he composing a strange concoction of blasphemy and lies. And his ideas of providence were those of the fatalist.
Mohomet’s his own morals were spread among his men giving to them free indulgence for their passions; and the promise of a carnal heaven, where they should spend an eternity in the grossest of sensualities. When he first announced himself as the prophet of God, a storm arose against him in 622 A.D. so he fled to Mecca and Medina, this is called by Islam, the Hegira.
His followers grew as did his fighting men. He would soon wage a war of extermination against his own people who refused to receive him: his proselytes were made by fire and the sword. Soon the time would come when no force or power could withstand his armies, not even the power of the Roman Catholic church.
Before his death he became complete master of all Arabia. But his death did not end this march of death because he had opened the doors of hell, and from them came a darkness within a darkness. Syria, Persia, Egypt, and many others fell under Islam’s dominion. The once flourishing Christian churches became graves. Jerusalem, where David ruled; where Isaiah prophesied; where our Lord was crucified, and where the Holy Spirit was given, all falling before the Muslim onslaught in the year 637. Great slavery and wars followed from Africa to Spain, advancing into France, Islam intending to overrun Europe and blot out the name of Christian. But an opposing power met them in 734 A.D. under Charles Martel who defeated them killing some 370,000 in one day. But they would soon push into Italy and spread their terror to the very walls of Rome.
Over time, they pushed into India, and throughout their conquest immense numbers were induced to embrace the religion of Islam. Soon the light of Christianity would be nearly extinguished had it not been for the hand of God.
But, now in the 13th century, a new and terrible power appeared in Asia, called the Ottomans, who would soon be persuaded to embrace the religion of Mahomet. And the war between light and darkness continued to grow over the centuries. In the year 1453, Mahomet the Great took Constantinople and with it all Greece, where Christianity had for centuries triumphant.
Eventually two principal sects of Mahometan’s appeared: the Shiites, who are chiefly Persians, and the Sunnites who inhabited East Persia, Arabia, Turkey and what was once independent Tartary, a name used from the Middle Ages until the twentieth century to designate the great tract of northern and central Asia stretching from the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, inhabited mostly by Turkic peoples after the Mongol invasion.
Today, there are about 1 ½ billion followers of Islam. This religion and its followers are an awful mystery in the providence of God, and as it has been asked over and over again, “why is this being permitted by our LORD?”
But, from the prophesies spoken of in Daniel, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Matthew, Revelation etc. these who have bowed and continue to bow to this evil will soon bow at the feet of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. His time is approaching, His judgments are near when He will be taking vengeance against every false religion, and every political and military power known to this world.
Phillip LaSpino www.seekfirstwisdom.com