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We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Sunday, June 8, 2014

8 June 632 AD. Muhammed Died--Perhaps the Greatest Eternal Reprobate in History


8 June 632 AD.  Muhammed died and went where reprobates go.
Dr. Rusten tells the story. 
Rusten, E. Michael and Rusten, Sharon. The One Year Christian History. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2003. Available at: http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Christian-History-Books/dp/0842355073/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393302630&sr=8-1&keywords=rusten+church+history
Muhammed was born between 570-580.  His father died before he was born; his mother died when he was 6; he came under a grandfather and, later, an uncle’s care.  He lived in relative poverty.
Assuming 580 as the birth date, at age 25, or 605, he entered the service of a wealthy widow.  She was 15 years his senior.  He had instant wealth.  He lived a life of luxury, but also of increasing religious inquiry and contemplation.
At age 40, or 620, he was having visions like some Pentecostal Hillbilly.  He began stressing monotheism, alms, prayer and surrender to Allah. He fled from Mecca to Medina
At age 43, or 623, he had 12 converts.
15 July 622 is given as the beginning of the Muslim calendar
In 630, he and his co-conquerors took Mecca.
By the day of his death and descent to hell, 8 June 632, age 52, all of Arabia had embraced this anti-Christ religion.
By 732, the Islamo-hordes had spread like wildfire.
Jihad = holy war = war against non-Muslims.
Islam spread to Spain, North Africa, India, Iraq, Palestine and other places. Using, as is often done, the canon of numbers to establish and validate doctrines [think American evangelicals and evangelists], Islam was successful. But, they also advanced by the sword.
Western Europe was threatened by this mindset of “convert or die.”  Charles Martel defeated the Islamo-fascist advance at the Battle of Tours, 732, exactly 100 years after the reprobate’s death.
1/5 of the world population is Muslim.  In 1900, 12% of the world population was Muslim.  In 2000, it was 21%. 1.3 billion Muslims exist. It is the fasting growing anti-Christ in the world.
There are more Muslims in the USA than Episcopalians. 

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