IRAN VS. CHRIST

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Christ created this planet. He will one day rule on it. Christ will then give the planet to the Father at the close of Christ’s millennial reign. At that time, the planet will be dissolved with the saved entrancing heaven and the damned doomed to hell.

In the meantime, Christ maintains the planet spinning on its axis for Christ owns this globe.

Iran threatens Christ’s property with nuclear fire which, according to Muslims, will bring back their messiah to reign in universal peace. That’s the devil’s hoax to the Muslims. Iran holds the world hostage with this cultic tenet. But Iran cannot hold Christ hostage.

Therefore, biblical Christians live in daily peace to know that their Savior has the last word as to what occurs with His property.

There is much devilment going on on His property due to our first parents disobeying God in Eden. When Adam and Eve sinned, devilment set loose and has been set loose to this hour. It will continue until Christ returns.

Nevertheless, for those who trust in Christ, their consecrated daily doings and finality is governed by Christ’s overarching grace, including the believers’ eternal safety and glory in heaven.

Long before Iran’s nuclear threat, the planet was held hostage by other nuclear powers intent on global destruction if they didn’t get their way. This includes, for instance, the atheistic government of North Korea.

Therefore, with this on-going nuclear cloud hanging over Christ’s turf, the devil has taunted Christ’s throne with the threat of the planet’s extinction. Why? Because the Bible informs that the planet is the footstool of God. If the devil can obliterate the footstool, he will then have access to heaven’s throne, per his demonic plot.

However, the devil has been defeated from history’s start and so will never enjoy his scheme. God is God, though the devil hankers to be God. Therefore, knowing that his defeat is certain, the devil prances as the ultimate power, just as he is doing through the Islamic cult via Iran.

Biblical prophecy sets forth that the conflict between God and the devil will escalate until the return of Christ. We witness that daily. The devil’s fury increases through Iran’s egocentric, eccentric, hellish braggadocio.

Biblical prophecy also sets forth that in the fray between God and the devil, calamities will come upon the planet’s surface: a third of the world’s surface burnt with fire, famine increasing, pestilence, increase of wickedness, earthquakes and so forth. All this is part of the tussle between good and evil.

Biblical prophecy, focusing on Christians, states that persecution against their testimony will increase. We witness that daily. As the devil squeezes the Christian witness, the testimony glows brighter.

It will continue its holy glow until the Light of the World, Christ, returns to extinguish Armageddon (Revelation 19), confining the devil in the Bottomless Pit (Revelation 19-20) and judging the unbelieving goats to eternal damnation (Matthew 25:31-46).


Copyright © 2006 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.

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ALLAH: "Fight, slay the Unbelievers wherever ye find them. Seize them, beleaguer them, lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war." Qur'an, Sura 9:5

CHRIST: For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16