MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

Episode 3 can now be watched:

http://www.shoebat.com/videos/ett3.php

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Episode 5 can now be watched:

http://www.shoebat.com/videos/ett5.php

Walid explains how Muslim scholars open the Bible, read about the Antichrist and see him as their ‘savior’, and also compares the Antichrist as described in the Bible with the Islamic ‘Messiah’.

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Episode 7 can now be watched:

http://www.shoebat.com/videos/ett7.php

Walid shares one possible understanding of the ‘image of the Beast’ and discusses the history and origins of what is modern day Islam.

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It was very good. I do disagree with his view however regarding the image of the Beast and associating it with the rock that fell from the sky in Acts 19:35. Although this could very well be the Kaaba (which is an idol of Islamic worship — cf. Rev. 9:20-21; Isa 2:11-18 — despite Islamic claims to the contrary), the Greek text does not call the stone of Acts 19:35 an ‘image’ at all, though some English translations include the word ‘image’ such as the KJV and NIV, but in brackets or italicized to demonstrate that the word is not in the Greek. The ESV and RSV merely call it a ‘sacred stone’, while Young’s Literal Translation doesn’t call it even that:

ESV Acts 19:35, “And when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, who is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Artemis, and of the sacred stone that fell from the sky?”

RSV Acts 19:35, “And when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Ar’temis, and of the sacred stone that fell from the sky?”

YLT Acts 19:35, “And the public clerk having quieted the multitude, saith, `Men, Ephesians, why, who is the man that doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is a devotee of the great goddess Artemis, and of that which fell down from Zeus?”

In my opinion, I believe that the image of the Beast refers to everything revered in Islam (the Qur’an, Hadiths, Mohammed, Allah, Kaaba, Mecca, Jihad, etc) including the Ummah itself (the false “church” of Islam) which instructs the world to submit to Islam, to mirror its example in submission to Allah/the prophet/Islam as it is written in the Qur’an. Also consider that the Papacy is to Catholicism what the Caliphate is to Islam, for example. Just as an image unto the Papacy would mean being conformed to the likeness of Catholicism, an image unto the Caliphate/Mohammed means to therefore being conformed to the likeness of Islam. Just as Jesus is the visible image (eikōn) of the invisible God (Col 1:15) and as believers we are conformed to the image (eikōn) of Christ (Rom 8:29) who is the Word of God, so too is the Ummah made unto the image (eikōn) of the Beast in accordance to the Qur’an — a reflection of what the Qur’an says per their prophet Mohammed. But of course I could be wrong. We won’t know with absolutely certainty until all is revealed in full. This one just makes the most sense to me.

I thoroughly enjoyed some of the parallels he drew from the Old Testament narratives involving the crescent moon and found them to be very insightful.

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Episode 9 can now be watched:

http://www.shoebat.com/videos/ett9.htm

Walid expounds upon the ‘harlot‘ of Revelation 17 and why John was taken to the ‘desert’ …

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Walid hasn’t posted episodes 11, 12 and 13 yet on his website, but they can be viewed on Youtube:

Episide 11: Symbolism and Allegory – Part 2, Vision of the Four Beasts

Episode 12: Gog and Magog, The Invasion

Episode 13: The Reality, Vision of the Four Beasts

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