Prelude to a Study of Islamic Controlled Counties

Many years ago, after I read the story of how Jesus Christ sent a legion of demons into a herd of swine, the swine ran down a slope into the sea and drowned, my question was, what happen to this legion of demons and why were the details of this story even recorded in the Bible? (Mark 5:11)

John in Revelations writes, "Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising out of the sea." (Rev. 13:1) My understanding has been that the sea symbolized people or nations but perhaps there is a spiritual connection to both verses. Traditionally the beast rising out of the sea had been interpreted as some western entity, Europe some say. Other Eastern Christians see the Islamic beast and the wounded head the defeat of the Ottoman Empire and with this others see the wound as the end of Islamic Caliph cerca 1913. The wounded head is healed and Islam resurges. Afterwards John sees a beast rise out of the earth. Out of the earth? What did that symbolize? Oil related? This next beast is like a lamb, symbolizing a peaceful religion, Islam ‘lite’, the new secular Islam, but it "speaks like a dragon". Islam’s resurgence is from oil wealth, "out of the earth". This lamb has two horns, sunni and shiite? Eastern Islam and Western Islam?


Read Revelation 13 regarding the two beasts, the image that is given life (the Koran?) and understand the Christian’s dilemma in muslim controlled countries. Egypt and Brunei come to mind immediately with their ID cards that states the holder’s religion. The mark of the beast is a subject for another day and blog but consider the Greek letters that symbolized six hundred sixty and six certainly to an Arabic reader do appear to be read "in the name of Allah", the bismillah followed by the Islamic symbol of crossed swords. This is detailed in Walid Shoebat’s book God’ Was on Terror. But I will go just a little further with that connection later. Shoebat points out that these symbols, the bismillah and crossed swords are worn on Islamic headbands and armbands. As I study further each individually muslim controlled country, I’ll mention the symbols on flags and other cultural icons. I do not use the term muslim countries, as Islam and its control is temporary. This tenet of faith is reinforced by continuing to follow the beast thread in Revelations. Read it yourself and see the future and end of Islam.