ZAWAHIRI TO POPE: NO TRINITY, NO CRUCIFIXION

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Al Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri went to the core of the Christian faith when he attacked Pope Benedict XVI.

The Islamic zealot warned the world that Christians would be exterminated as Muslims would rule the globe, per a video released by the Washington-based SITE Institute via AP.

Stating that the pope attacked Islam, Zawahiri struck back by claiming that “’we will call upon him, and all of the Christians, to become Muslims who do not recognize the Trinity or the crucifixion.’”

That is exactly the plot of Satan. Satan, in wanting to usurp God’s throne, His place in eternity, and His almighty nature, would desire most to obliterate any faith in the triune godhead as well as the miracle of the resurrection of Christ.
The resurrection of Christ is the apex of all human events in planetary history. That is reason for Satan to want to erase it from all consciousness.

Further, for there to be a godhead consisting of a loving Father, sacrificing Son, and interceding Holy Spirit is abhorrent to Satan and his cohort fallen angels.
Therefore, for Satan to erase the awareness of the God of the Bible as well as the hope of life after death, Satan would have full sway to establish Islam World Rule with its creedal base of hate and kill, “death and destruction,” to use President Bush’s phrasing.

In his threat to undermine the Christian fundamentals, Zawahiri has wedded to the pope’s own backsliding in recent days. By the pope informing Muslims that he prays with them, believes they give allegiance to the same deity as do Christians, and wishes them divine blessings during Ramadan, Rome has become team member to the Islamic mouthpiece.

By committing sacrilege, the pope has succumbed to the Al Qaeda deputy, falling right into his hands, yielding to his grasp for world power. Instead of holding his biblical convictions ground for eternal truth, the pope exposed himself as being indeed far from infallible. But more — he showed himself to be utterly cowardly.
Would the first three centuries’ Christian martyrs have recanted as has the pope? No.

They were fed to lions, scalded in caldrons of hot oil, and cut in half in order to defend the Trinity and crucifixion miracle. So with the biblical martyrs of the Middle Ages. So with the present-tense martyrs in captive nations where persecution against believers is rampant.

All the while, the pope in his papal palace splendor, ensconced with servants and applause within the Vatican, kneels at Allah’s feet, kisses the Koran by regarding it as holy writ, and marries himself to a cult as a spiritual companion to Islam.

What the pope did is abominable, heretical, and shameful to every Christian everywhere. He has so disgraced his station that henceforth he can never redeem his status. His cowardice will be remembered till he dies.
Some wonder if he has already shown signs of being the False Prophet of Revelation 13:11-18, the devil-possessed religious leader who appears lamb-like but speaks of dragon’s doctrine. It could very well be that this latest move from the pope has provided knowledgeable Christians with the first signal that the End Times’ False Prophet has surfaced.

As the pope continues to address Muslims in audiences that he himself has requested, it will be predictable that he will continue to crucify Christ afresh. In doing so, there will be no doubt in biblical believers’ minds that he has surrendered his soul to the powers of darkness.

How interesting that Zawahiri the Muslim could in fact be the impetus by which to draw out the present pope as the renegade of the times.


Copyright © 2006 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.
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ALLAH: “Fight, slay 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