The ENTIRE History Of Islam And Muhammad In 68 Minutes

Anyway, this is my book. Uh, I published it 20 years ago and it's a bestseller again on Islam.

Now, this is a map. The red is the Roman Empire and the white is Christianity. And see how it spreads all the way through the Middle East and over to Northern India and Persia and even to China with the Tang Dynasty up into Europe, Britain. And then it's going to jump over with Patrick into Ireland coming in the 400s and there we go. And then North Africa is all Christian. And look down there.

And then when we get up to around the year 622, something happens. Green. What is that? Whoa. Oh, conquering all of that. Well, that is Islam.

So, um, we see these headlines of Christians being killed and genocides and uh, we see churches burning in Europe and apologists say that if you're concerned about this, you're guilty of bigotry, spreading a Sharia hoax or conspiracy. They assume that uh, they assure us that terrorism does not represent true Islam. But the terrorists are often yelling Allahu Akbar and they claim they do represent true Islam.

Well, who can tell us what true Islam is? One person, Muhammad. He's the best Muslim that ever lived. His life is called the Sunna, the way or the example. And it went through three stages. And you cannot understand what is going on today unless you understand these three stages. He was a religious leader, then a political leader, then a military leader.

And so this is the world uh before Muhammad. You have the Byzantine Christian Roman Empire and see it goes all the way through the Middle East and and then you have the Persian Empire that is today Iran and it is Zoroastrian and they beat each other up for centuries and they leave a power vacuum and into that comes Islam.

So Muhammad's father dies before he's born, his mother dies when he's six, his grandfather and guardian dies when he's eight. He's orphaned, taken in by an uncle, Abu Talib, and he's a merchant who takes Muhammad on camel rides and he hears about different religions. And so one religion was Manichaeism. See the word Mani, M-A-N-I. And uh, this Mani person said that there's little bits of truth in every religion. And so Muhammad would have heard about this. And then there's the Persian Zoroastrian religion that believed paradise was filled of virgins that would fulfill all the guy's desires. Muhammad heard this and it got incorporated into his belief system. They also believed in jinn or genies, like a thousand and one Arabian nights. And and then the pagans in Arabia had a square building called a Kaaba that housed 360 different pagan gods and the most popular was Hubal, the moon god. And their calendar began with the first sight of the crescent moon over the desert and they had a rock they thought had fallen from the moon.

Now, even the book of Judges, it talks about Zeba and Zalmun, and they took away the crescent moon, half-moon ornaments that are around their necks. Most of the pagan cultures had a female deity and a male deity associated with the sun or the moon. And so, they had a rock they thought had fallen from the moon. It's a glass impact rock where a meteor hit the hot desert sand. And well, these pagans kissed this rock, walked around it, and Muhammad kissed this rock and it got incorporated into his belief system.

There were the Sabians down in Yemen and they were into uh ritual washings and so forth. And then Muhammad could not read. Uh, the word Quran means recitation. It's an oral thing. The Jews and Christians were called people of the book. So Muhammad never read the Old Testament, but he heard their oral stories called Talmud and Mishna. And some of those stories got incorporated into his belief system. He originally had his followers bowing toward Jerusalem for the first 17 months.

And then Encyclopedia Britannica says the gospel was known to Muhammad chiefly through apocryphal and heretical sources. So what's apocryphal? Well, the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, written several centuries after Jesus by someone who knew nothing of Jewish life. It's full of so many errors that no scholar takes it serious. Little Harry Potter type stories that Jesus made clay birds and clapped and they flew away. Raised a playmate from the dead. Spoke from the cradle. Uh, there's no place in ancient history that these stories appear other than this infancy gospel that nobody takes serious. Well, Muhammad heard these stories and they got incorporated into Islam. They take them now as fact. And um, Muhammad thought the Trinity was the Father, Mary, and Jesus. Nobody ever explained to him the Holy Spirit.

And then you have a movement started by St. Anthony of the Desert, of monasticism, where holy men would live in caves as hermits. And Muhammad heard about this and I'll tell you a little bit more. [snorts] Uh, one hermit was St. Benedict. He established the Rule of Benedict, which was praying at set times of the day. So Muhammad heard about this praying at set times of the day.

So uh, he's 25 years old in 595 AD and he marries a wealthy widow, Khadijah. She's 40 years old. And so now he doesn't have to work and he goes out to a cave and prays and a spirit appears to him and commands him to read. He said, "I cannot read." Spirit appears to him a second time, said, "Read." He said, "I cannot read." Happens a third time and then it squeezed him and he began to recite and that's how the Quran came to Muhammad. He'd get these verses, he would repeat them till he had it memorized. And you think, well, how can somebody that's illiterate memorize all these verses? Well, in Arabic, they had a little rhyme to them, a little beat, very similar to rap music. So maybe there's a student that can't read but they memorize rap songs. Carlyle wrote, "Arabs see more method in it than we. Much of it is rhythmic, a kind of wild chanting."

And so he goes back to his wife Khadijah and he tells her that he thinks he's demon-possessed. Um, in Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah, the first biography of Muhammad, "I thought, woe is me, poet or possessed." And um, so Khadijah, his wife, decides to test the spirit. And according to Ibn Ishaq's life of Muhammad, Khadijah said to the Apostle of Allah, "Are you able to tell me about the visitant when he comes to you?" So when Gabriel, the spirit, came, the Apostle said to Khadijah, "This is Gabriel who has just come to me." "Get up, oh son of my uncle," she said. "And sit on my left thigh." The Apostle did so. And she said, "Can you see him?" "Yes," he said. "Then turn around, sit on my right thigh." He said, "Can you see him?" And when he said he could, she asked him to sit in her lap. And she again asked if he could see him. And when he said yes, she disclosed her form and cast aside her veil while the Apostle was sitting in her lap. And she said, "Can you see him?" And he replied, "No." And she said, "Be of good heart, oh by Allah, he is an angel and not a Satan." That was the test that Muhammad used to decide if this spirit appearing to him was from God or not.

Now, the Bible has a test. 1 John 4: "Every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of antichrist." And Muhammad couldn't read the New Testament. He couldn't read 2 Corinthians 11:14, "Even Satan can disguise himself to look like an angel of light." Or Galatians 1:8, "Though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed." So Muhammad could never read the New Testament anyway.

Uh, so Khadijah, the wife, takes Muhammad to her cousin, Waraqah ibn Naufal, who's a follower of a heretical sect of Ebionites that said Jesus was less than God, a created being. And he said, "Maybe this is the spirit that appeared to Moses." And then the cousin dies and Muhammad's left with this spirit.

And in 610 AD, he goes into the city of Mecca. And he feels like there's something in his religion for everybody, right? The Manichaeism, there's something for the Jews, something for the Christians, something for the pagans, something for the Zoroastrians. And nobody likes it. And so he only makes 70 converts. Gets confrontational. And when his uncle protector Abu Talib dies and his wife dies, that's when the people of Mecca decide to chase Muhammad out of town. And he flees to At-Ta'if. They don't want him. They pelt him with rocks and stones.

So in 622 AD, he goes north to a Jewish city called Medina. And there are three Jewish tribes or clans. They call them Banu, is the word for clan. Um, that are there. So these are Jewish clans that do not like each other. They have intertribal warfare. Banu Qurayza, Banu Nadir, Banu Qaynuqa. But they, but they let Muhammad in as the first ever Muslim immigrant. And Muhammad uh goes into the minority neighborhoods and he begins to organize a following and an ummah, a community. And when his following is big enough, he gets involved in politics and he pressures the Jews to a treaty. And so now Muhammad is a political leader in addition to being a religious leader.

And then his followers get confrontational. They get chased out of Mecca. And now there's lots of Muslim immigrants coming into Medina. And Muhammad allows them to rob the caravans headed to Mecca in retaliation for the Meccans chasing them out of town. And so where Jesus said, "If they take your coat, give them your shirt." His attitude was victimhood. "We're the victims of Mecca's intolerance, therefore we are justified in attacking the caravans that are going back to Mecca." So where Jesus said, "If they take your coat, give them your shirt." Muhammad is, "If they take your house, you retaliate, take their caravan." And so victimhood went into the DNA of Islam and it's where the victim is at fault for uh, the attracting hostility. And so Sigmund Freud called it um psychological projection, where they accuse you of what they're guilty of. And um, so claiming victimhood and being offended gave them an excuse to attack the caravans headed to Mecca.

And so in the Hadith Sahih al-Bukhari, Muhammad said, "The person who participates in holy battles in Allah's cause will be recompensed by Allah either by a reward or booty if he survives or will be admitted to paradise if he is killed." And uh, then Surah 33:50, "Prophet, we have made lawful to you the slave girls who Allah has given you as booty." So you can attack a caravan and come away with extra women.

Um, when uh, the Messenger of Allah sent out a raiding party, he would say, "Make your raids in the name of Allah. Fight. Whoever denies Allah, do not steal from the booty." Why? Because Surah 8:41, "Whatever you take as spoils of war, lo, a fifth thereof is for Allah and for the Messenger." So Muhammad got a fifth of the booty from robbing caravans. And so he told his jihad fighters that they get four wives plus as many extra women as they take in battle. "As many as your right hand possesses," slave wives, concubines, and so forth.

So 624 AD, the Meccans send a thousand soldiers to protect their caravan and Muhammad with 300 defeats a thousand at the Battle of Badr in 624 AD. So this amazing victory, outnumbered 3 to 1, convinces Muhammad to be a military leader and he fights in 66 battles and raids, killing an estimated 3,000 people in the next 8 years before he dies. And so uh, he goes from being a religious leader to a political leader to a military leader.

So there's freedom for all religions in America. But Islam is not just a religion because Muhammad was not just a religious leader. He was also a political leader and a military leader. So a mosque is a religious building, a political building, and a military building. Bowing to Mecca is a religious bowing and a political military pledging of allegiance to another capital. It's a whole different system. It's like if a, if a gang comes in and uh, like an MS-13, and they decide they want to take over a neighborhood. They have their laws and their rules.

So 624, there's some more raids and more battles. 625, more raids and battles. And 626. Um, and then 627 is the Battle of the Trench and the Meccans send 10,000 soldiers to Medina and Muhammad digs trenches all around the city, which renders the cavalry of the Meccans useless. You can't charge your horse to cross a field full of potholes and trenches. They'll break their legs. So Muhammad goes to some of the Meccans at night, bribes them, they slip away. Some of the other Meccans at night, threatens them, they slip away. Sort of the bribe or the bullet. And then it gets freezing cold for a week and the rest of the Meccans lose heart and retreat. And Muhammad considers this a victory that his enemies were cowards and unable to subdue him. And uh, then he has some more battles, Khaybar and attacks and so forth.

And um, but what happened to those three Jewish clans that let Muhammad in? Well uh, the Banu Qaynuqa, Muhammad accused them of violating the treaty, declared it void, and expelled them. The other two clans stood back because they didn't like that. They had Trump Derangement Syndrome. They're like, "I hate that clan. They were bo- I, they had it coming to them, right?" And so now there's only two Jewish clans. And so then Muhammad breaks, accuses the second one of violating their treaty and voids and expels them. And um, the, the big Jewish clan stands back. Ah, they were always competition for me. I just hate them. And now there's only one Jewish clan. And by the way, it went into the DNA of Islam. It's called Hudna, and weak make treaties until you get strong enough to disregard them. We're seeing that we're trying to make a treaty with Iran right now and it's really hard to pin them down. That's because of this.

Um, the last Jewish tribe, the Banu Qurayza, uh, the Sahih al-Bukhari, "When all his apostle returned on the day of battle of the trench, he put down his arms and took a bath. Then Gabriel, that spirit whose head was covered with dust, came to him, saying, 'You have put down your arms? By Allah, I have not put down my arms yet.' Allah's Apostle said, 'Where to go now?' Then Gabriel said, 'This way,' pointing toward the tribe, the Banu Qurayza, the last Jewish tribe." And so uh, the Bukhari says, "I judge that their warriors should be killed and the children and women should be taken as captives." The Prophet said, "You have given a judgment similar to olives." So uh, they surround him for 25 days. When the last Jewish tribe surrenders, he brings them into the market and uh, removes their heads. My wife's always telling me, "Don't get into the gross stuff." Anyway, um, so within 5 years of Muhammad coming as an immigrant into the Jewish city of Medina, there's not a Jew left in the city of Medina. They were chased out, killed, or enslaved.

So when Mandami a few months ago said, "Islam is a religion built on a narrative of migration." The story of the Hijra, that right? That's the um, the Hijra, that's the Muhammad's trip to Medina. Uh, the story of the Hijra reminds us that the Prophet Muhammad was a stranger too, who fled Mecca and was welcomed in Medina. >> And five years later, there was not a Jew left in Medina. They were chased out, killed, or enslaved. So it's a three-step process. Uh, like Caesar's three steps: Veni, vidi, vici. I came, I saw, I conquered. It's immigrate, increase, eliminate. Immigrate into a host country as a religious refugee. Increase the number of your followers amongst the minority neighborhoods. And then you have random outbreaks of violence, knifings, acid attacks, and so forth. And the previous inhabitants of the neighborhood no longer feel safe and they move out and they take over the neighborhood. Right? Immigrate, increase, eliminate. I was doing an interview with Ryan Hilenbine of Liberty University and he reworded it: immigrate, populate, dominate.

So they can come in and have four wives and put them in apartments and tell them to go down to the welfare office and say the husband's not around and they get welfare checks and the guy visits the wives and the more children they have, the larger the welfare checks get. And um, so but it's interesting how he took advantage of the political division between these three Jewish clans. And again, that went into the DNA. They'll always see that uh, the different, and we'll help your party against the other party, not realizing they will use any party as long as it advances their agenda.

Now, there's two sets of verses in the Quran. The ones he gets in Mecca are a little more moderate. They're called weak verses. And the ones he gets in Medina are more political and military. They're called strong verses. By way of comparison, in the Bible, we have two sets of verses. We have the Old Testament with some violence. Moses and Joshua wiping out tribes. New Testament, Jesus and the apostles never killed anybody. And so what do we say? The later example is the one one we're going to try to imitate. It's the same way in Islam, only in reverse. Their peaceful verses came first when Muhammad was a religious leader in Mecca. And they're superseded by the later verses that are political and military.

And um, so Muhammad dies. And um, the life of Muhammad says, "The Messenger of Allah called Zainab, 'Did you poison the lamb shoulder?' She said, 'You killed my father, my uncle, my husband. You took from my people what you took. I said to myself, if he is a prophet, he will be informed.'" And so, Sahih al-Bukhari, "The Prophet in his ailment in which he died used to say, 'Oh Aisha, I still feel the pain caused by the food I ate at Khaybar. And this time, I feel that my aorta is being cut out from that poison.'" And so, within 5 years of Muhammad's death, every pre-existing culture in Arabia is conquered. And um, then it has again a tribal gang aspect to it where you're free to join, you just can't leave, right? Um, that um, you can have uh, young brides, you get part of the booty, and uh, Muhammad is promised booty in the next life. So the goal is a one-world government called the Caliphate, led by one Muslim leader called the Caliph, political, religious, military.

So there's two ways of advancing Islam. The fast way and the slow way. The fast way is through the sword, jihad. The slow way is through immigration called dawah. They actually have a word for it, d-a-w-a-h, dawah. [snorts] And so Henry Ford did not like unions. And so he had an idea of bringing over Arabs, Yemenis, Syrians from Lebanon because they would not join unions. And so they started coming over and they would work hard and they would uh, be nice and they wouldn't join unions. Um, and so you uh, see actually have videos on him specifically bringing Arabs from Yemen over to work in the car factories there in Detroit for $5 a day. Um, and so uh, they came over, they worked hard and they were nice. People said that uh, they work hard, they don't join unions, they're nice. Let more in. More come in and they work hard and they're nice and more come in and then finally they get an Imam. And so in 1921, the very first Imams came to America. The Sunni Imam Hussein Karub and the Shia Imam Sheikh Khalib Bazi. And they built the first purpose-built mosque in America near the Ford factory, Highland Park, Detroit. And uh, there's pictures of it and um, they expand it and I've seen it. I've been there. And um, so now 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood is formed. Now this is after World War I. There's a whole history that I talk about in my book, but um, World War I, you have leaders in the Middle East wanting to be westernized. Uh, you have Atatürk in Turkey and he's dressing in business suits. And Abdullah was king of Jordan. He's nice to the Jews and Faisal. And and the Arab Muslim world is becoming more westernized, but the Muslim Brotherhood doesn't like it. And so they formed and they have a two-step plan based on the two cities Muhammad lived in. The Muslim Brotherhood would say, first you immigrate into a country as a religious refugee like Muhammad came in from Mecca, and then you transition and become a political militant Muslim and you assassinate. And so that's what happened in these different countries. The Meccan face immigrate as a religious refugee, take advantage of the host country's welfare and tolerance, and then you switch, gain political power, implement Sharia, and then have random violence to drive out previous inhabitants. And they would do this in all these different countries. And as they assassinated Abdullah in Jordan, they tried assassinating Atatürk, they assassinated Anwar Sadat in Egypt. And then here's a Fox News article, "Members of the First US Muslim Majority City Council." Today we show the Polish. So they came into Detroit, the Hamtramck area, and then they increased and they drove out the previous inhabitants. And now they have calls to prayer five times a day in Hamtramck. And so they guilt-trip Christians into being tolerant of them, yet when they come in, they don't extend the same tolerance to the infidels.

And culturally, you study enough history, you see trends. Europe goes from a Judeo-Christian Europe with a thousand years of Catholic cathedrals, Protestant Reformation, and Jewish neighborhoods, to a secular Europe with the French Revolution, free sex, anything goes, LGBT, you got to tolerate this, tolerate that, tolerate everything. And then finally into Europe comes these Sharia Muslims. And they say, "Well, you got to tolerate us, too." And they end up overpopulating, right? And so the number one name for newborns in Europe is, guess what? Muhammad. And so there's a 1400-year track record of seeing this expansion. And um, it's broken into several phases. First is an Arab, then Persian, Egyptian phase, then a Turkish, and India's Mughals in northern India. Uh, Indonesia has the Nusantara. They mixed in a little Buddhist traditions and so they became a little more moderate. And then the Dutch took over Indonesia. And whenever an Imam would speak out violence against the Dutch, the Dutch would arrest the Imam. Another one would speak out and they would arrest that Imam and arrest that Imam until pretty soon the Imams said, "Let's not talk violence." And it went into their culture. And so in Indonesia, they have a more tolerant version of Islam than the rest of the world.

And um, now back to Muhammad. They would not have conquered so fast had it not been for the timing of some military advancements called the stirrup. Greeks and Romans would sort of balance on a horse, but the stirrup was invented in Northern India and in Mongolia where they'd have a little short horse and tie a rope around it. Would leave, leave two loops hanging for their big toes because they would ride barefoot. And that made its way to Persia, who made the stirrups out of metal with leather straps. Have you ever ridden a horse? You put your feet in the. This gave you control in the saddle. At the same time, the scimitar sword is invented. It's made of Damascus steel where the Europeans had heavy metal swords. The scimitar sword was they'd hammer it down on itself, stick it back in the forge in the fire, heat it up, bend it on top, and then hammer it down and bend it. And they would do that dozens and dozens and it kept getting thinner and thinner and stronger and stronger, like a razor blade. And so they could hold the reins of the horse in one hand, scimitar sword in the other, and at a full gallop, they literally could slice them one in half.

Um, this is the US Supreme Court chamber in Washington D.C. has freeze carvings around the the ceiling and it has Moses. There he is with his Ten Commandments. And it has Muhammad there in our US with his sword. And this is Muhammad's sword. It still exists in Istanbul, Turkey, in the Topkapi Palace. I've been there.

And so, um, you see that they began to conquer Yemen, down at the bottom, used to be a Jewish kingdom. And then they conquered Syria. Did you know Syria was the first country that was completely Christian? >> Evangelized by the Apostle Paul. The name Christian was first used in Syria until Caliph Omar conquers it. And then Jerusalem was Christian. And uh, when the Muslims attacked, the bishop, the patriarch, uh, negotiated a deal. Instead of two choices, convert or die, you get a third choice. You can be a dhimmi, a second-class citizen that pays taxes to your new Muslim overlords. And so that's where you get this attitude that they could come into maybe Minneapolis and they have no problem living off the welfare of the country that they're in the process of subduing. And then they conquered into Armenia, into parts of Persia, and then Egypt. Did you know Egypt was completely Christian for six centuries? That's longer than America's been around. Evangelized by Mark that wrote the gospel, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And the um, and then they conquered North Africa. There used to be 250 Catholic dioceses along North Africa. St. Augustine of Hippo was from Carthage. And but um, by the way, uh, the Christians had taught themselves not to be involved. Remember the movement of going into a cave and praying? Well, the spiritual people in North Africa said, "Okay, if you're really spiritual, you'll withdraw and you'll enjoy your own personal relationship and you won't defend." And so the Umayyad Muslims just conquered North Africa really quick. It's interesting when they conquered Egypt, the um, Byzantine Christians of Constantinople were persecuting the Coptic Christians in Egypt. So Coptic is the Egyptian word for Egyptian. And so um, the Muslims, Amir ibn al-As comes to the borders of Egypt and says, "We will help you Coptic Christians drive out the Byzantine Christians." And we're like, "Really? You're so nice?" "Yeah, come on in." Well, they come in, they take over, and then they cut out the tongues of anybody caught speaking Coptic, and they eradicated an entire language. That was the mad Caliph al-Hakim.

And then um, this is the Umayyad Empire. It's the fifth largest empire in world history, from Spain to India. And it all happened with just within about 20 years. Why? Because of the scimitar sword and the stirrups and promising the soldiers that they could uh, get uh, booty and uh, if they die, they get more.

And so then they cross into Spain and Spain was a bunch of Visigothic Christian kingdoms that did not get along. And so the Muslims come in. Tariq was the general and he landed at a mountain and the word for mountain is Jabal. So they called it Jabal Tariq. Jabal Tariq, Gibraltar, the Rock of Gibraltar. That's Gibraltar. That's where Tariq lands with tens of thousands of Muslims on their scimitar swords and their stirrups and their Arabian horses. And they would pick on one Spanish kingdom and the other ones would stand back. "I never liked that one. They were competition for me." And then they pick on another one. "I never liked that one." Right? They had that Trump derangement in them. They had it coming to them. I'm glad they're going. And in 10 years, they conquered all of Spain. And then they crossed the Pyrenees Mountains and they conquer southern France. And they're outside of Paris at the Battle of Tours in 732 AD, just 100 years after the death of Muhammad in 632 AD. So Charles Martel is the general. He puts his men on top of a hill in a square and the horses don't like charging uphill and they don't like charging into the square. And then Charles Martel sent some of his men into the Muslim camp to free the booty, the the spoils of war, let the women go, and the Muslim warriors would leave the fight to reclaim their stuff. And uh, they get distracted and the commander, Abdul Rahman, tries to rally his men back and he gets distracted and killed. And they can't decide who their next commander is going to be. So they pick up and go back to Spain. That was the Battle of Tours in 732 AD, just 100 years after the death of Muhammad in 632 AD.

And so the first century of Islam is a military campaign. And they look to that as the example of how a pure uh follower of Muhammad is supposed to act. The same way we look to the first century of Christianity. All right, the early church. How did they do it? They had it right. Right. So, we want to follow that. And so, then they come around the other side of the Mediterranean and they attack Constantinople, which was the largest Christian city in the world. But they were turned back because the Greeks had Greek fire. It's like sawdust and and oil out of these hot oil cannons or like napalm. And so, it turned them back.

Now, when they conquered all that so fast, it cut off trade across the Mediterranean. One thing traded was paper from papyrus reeds in the Nile Delta. So there's a paper shortage in Europe. They write fewer books and it's called the Dark Ages. So Islam is largely responsible for Europe entering the Dark Ages. And they destroy the largest library in the world in Alexandria. And they ask Caliph Umar what to do with the books. And he says, "Every book that does not agree with the Quran, destroy. And every book that does agree with the Quran is redundant because we have the Quran." To destroy them all. Took six months to burn them all.

846 AD, 11,000 Muslim pirates went up the Tiber River and they sacked Rome. And they trashed the Basilica of St. Peter's and they trashed the grave of St. Peter and St. Paul. So Pope Leo IV built a 39-foot wall around the Vatican and it's still there. I, I went to school in Rome in college and I've been at that bus stop many times. And u and then they conquer Persia. Uh, the Caliph, um, this Khalid ibn al-Walid is nicknamed the Drawn Sword of Allah. He's undefeated in a hundred battles. And so Persia uh had been weakened from that 7th-century war with the Byzantine Romans, right? And so um, so the Muslims conquered Persia. Now Persia was civilized where Arabs were illiterate desert raiders. The Persians, you got Cyrus, you got Daniel, you got Esther, Per. And so now you see a moderating effect on Islam. And it's called the Islamic Golden Age. And you have the Sunni Caliph al-Rashid in Baghdad and he's moderate and he has Buddhists in his court and Christians in his court. Even lets women talk in his court. So this is called the Islamic Golden Age. It's a moderate version. He has this big city of Baghdad. And um, and he even receives ambassadors from Charlemagne, the grandson of Charles Martel. And he sends back presents like a clock and a thousand and one Arabian nights. And and they have this huge library and he has scholars. One is Al-Farabi, and he's trying to study science and philosophy. Avicenna is trying to study medicine and math. And Averroes is studying geography and medicine. And if you were to take a snapshot, you would have thought that Islam's about to experience the Renaissance. But it gets slapped down by this guy, Al-Ghazali. And he's a Mujahideen, a renewer of the faith. The second most important Muslim after Muhammad. And he said, "Stop reading Greek stuff because you can't even do geometry because you'll get pulled into Greek philosophy and pulled away from Islam." "One should restrain anyone who would immerse himself in these mathematical sciences. For even though they do not pertain to the domain of religion, yet since they are among the foundations of the philosopher sciences, the student will be infected by the evil and corruption of the philosophers." And so uh, there's no more study and just study the Quran. And so where Europe has St. Thomas Aquinas, it's okay to read Greek stuff. Even a pagan gets it right every now and then. Uh, in Islam, they said no.

And finally, the Mongols come. Now uh, Genghis Khan kills 30 million people from Korea to Hungary. The Persians uh in Baghdad hire Turks as mercenaries to defend against the Mongols. Well, the Mongols come in and they sack Baghdad. They destroy that big library and uh, basically from this point on, Persia is diminished and the Turks become the rising Islamic power.

And now, are you still with me? >> So uh, it takes 700 years to drive the Muslims out of Spain. It's called the Reconquista. 700 years. Very courageous battles. And um, and uh, Charlton H. I met him when I ran for Congress years ago. He was the head of the NRA and I got my picture with him. But anyway, in this movie um, he's El Cid, who's this commander and he's wounded and he knows just one more charge and they'll win, but he knows he's going to die. So he tells him to tie him to the horse with a board up his back and they open the castle gates and they slap the horse and he goes off riding and the men say, "There he goes." And they ride off and they win the battle. And afterwards, they're like, "Where's El Cid?" And he's like, drooped over in his saddle. It's one of those romantic chick flicks. Hey honey, let's go watch El Cid tonight. Um, and then the Vikings become Christian and they're called Norsemen. And so uh, they take Normandy. William uh William the Norman in 1066, you know, goes and invades England. But Richard the Norman drives the Muslims out of Sicily and the toe of Italy. And so uh, I've actually been to Constantinople and the the Muslims, excuse me, the the Vikings, the Christian Vikings had come through Constantinople and sacked it for a while. And in the Hagia Sophia, that big church, it has a second floor with a marble railing. And um, and you can see these square carvings. It's Viking graffiti in the marble. And it's like, "Olaf was here," you know. Anyway, um, so what about the Crusades? And so now this is the Turkish wave. And so you can see this, the Turks first, the Seljuk Turks, and they're invading into Turkey. And then you got the Fatimids down in Cairo, Egypt. And so the mad Caliph in Cairo is Hakim. He forbade Christians from praying publicly. Why is he important? Because it's because of him that the Crusades happened. He forbade Christians from praying publicly. Made them wear heavy crosses. Made Jews wear bells. Forbade women from leaving their homes. Banned women's shoes. Uh, killed all the dogs in Egypt. Ordered everyone to sleep during the day and only come out at night. But in 1099, he destroys the holiest site in Christianity, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. This is the church where Jesus rose from the dead, right? Or at least where they thought he was. And so this is the cry that begins to go back to Europe. And he's also the one that cut out the tongues of all the people speaking Coptic, but I don't want to get into that. Anyway, so the Seljuk Turks, all seven churches mentioned in the book of Revelation were wiped out by the Seljuk Turks. Church. It's Ephesus and Thyatira and Sardis and Laodicea. And the most popular Greek saint was St. Nicholas. He lived during Roman times, gave to the poor. Remember that movement where you'd give away your money and live in a cave? So he wanted to give away his money, but he didn't want to do it and get the credit. So he would throw the money in the window of poor people at nighttime. It was a Greek tradition. But when the Muslims invaded Greece, they were going to trash his grave. So the Christians moved the grave of St. Nicholas to Italy. And the Pope that receives Nicholas's remains is Pope Urban II. And he goes to the Council of Clermont in 1095 and he begs these European kings to send help to the Greek Christians. They do. It's called the First Crusade. And uh, then there's nine major Crusades over two centuries. Richard the Lionheart led the Third Crusade. Remember he left his brother King John in charge of England? Remember the Robin Hood story, right? That's the Third Crusade. And St. Louis. I'm from St. Louis, Missouri originally. And he led the Seventh and Eighth Crusades against the Muslims. The Crusades end and the Muslims pick up where they left off and they invade into um Eastern Europe and Serbia and Wallachia, Moldova, and Hungary and different countries. And meanwhile, a Genghis Khan descendant that converted to Islam is Timur. He kills 17 million across Central Asia. Wipes out every Christian church in Central Asia. Tells his men to come back with a head in every hand. When he conquered Delhi, India. And um, so now the Byzantine Empire, remember that first slide that showed how big it was? The little purple is what's left. And the same thing happens. You have the last emperor is Constantine XI. He has a brother, Demetrius. And Demetrius felt like he should have been chosen as the last emperor. So Demetrius goes across the Bosphorus, gathers the Muslim hordes and brings them to the walls of Constantinople to try to force his brother to recognize his claim to royalty. Again, he's got this TDS. He's like, "I hate my brother and my party against his and all that. They're going to help me." And the Muslim hordes, the Turks said, "Well, we can wage war against Constantinople without Demetrius." Anyway, Sultan Mehmed II attacks. Um, you even had, see that big cannon over there? You had European arms merchants giving military weapons to the the Turks. Um, and um, it conquers in 1453. Now, why is this significant? Well, because they take the largest Christian church in the world, turn it into a mosque. Trade routes to India and China. Remember Marco Polo? Marco Polo, the game the kids play around the pool in the. He went from Venice, Italy to China in 1271. He brings back to Europe spaghetti noodles. Did you know they came from China? Gunpowder, thread from worms, paper currency, silk. And um, but when the Muslims conquered Constantinople, that's when Columbus set sail looking for a sea route to get to India and China in 1492. Columbus would have never set sail over here had it not been for jihad over there. Columbus thought he made it to India. So he names the people he met Indians. We never would have called Native Americans Indians had it not been for Islamic jihad. And so as they're conquering into Greece, how many of you knew that? And um, so as they're conquering into Greece, the Greek scholars are fleeing west to Florence, Italy with their Greek New Testaments and their Greek art and literature. And this is called the Renaissance. So Islam is responsible for the Dark Ages. When they conquer Egypt, hold back the ships of papyrus. And then when they conquer Greece, all the Greek scholars are fleeing west with their Greek literature. And this is the Renaissance. And one scholar, Erasmus, translates the Bible from Greek into Latin. And they see differences of meanings of words. Like in the Greek, there's a word that means repentance. But when it was translated into Latin, it was translated penance. And it's a pretty significant difference because doing penance is works, where repentance is a change of heart. And so it was now that that Erasmus, because of the Greek scholars fleeing west and they could translate the Greek. Erasmus is is translating and one of the people that's his friend is Martin Luther and he starts the Reformation. We may not have had a Reformation had not before the Muslims invading Greece and the Greek scholars fleeing west. Anyway, like the domino effect.

1529, 100,000 Muslim Turks surround Vienna. And uh, the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. And um, the king of France makes a treaty with the Sultan against Spain. And France says, "Okay, I hate Spain and the Turks hate Spain." So for three centuries, France was always giving military weapons to the Turks. Um, anyway, so Spain has Charles V. He's taken the gold from the New World to fit out his navy to stop the Muslims from taking over Europe. And so um, Martin Luther says, "The Turk is the rod of the wrath of the Lord our God. The fight against the Turks must begin with repentance. We must reform our lives or we shall fight in vain. Our sins and ingratitude have earned God's wrath. So he justly gives us into the hands of the devil and the Turk." What's he talking about? Deuteronomy 28, blessings and cursings. If you hearken to the voice of the Lord, you'll be the head, not the tail, above and not beneath. If you don't hearken to the voice of the Lord, the stranger will come in amongst you, and they'll get up high above you, and they will be the head, and you'll be the tail. So, how did God judge ancient Israel when they sinned? He let the stranger come in. The Amalekite, the Hittite, the Moabite, the Midianite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, all the -ites, right? And so, they would come in and they would rise up and oppress the Israelites until they repented. And then when they repented, God raised up a deliverer. And it's sort of like dead and dying things attract devourers. A dead dog's going to attract buzzards. A dead bird's going to attract ants. And a spiritually dead and dying nation is going to attract devourers. Well, what do you do when you're under judgment? You repent really fast. And in Jeremiah 18, it says, "If I pronounce judgment on a nation and they repent, I'll change it. I won't judge them." It's like a magnet attracting judgment. And when you repent, it flips it and it repels the judgment and it attracts God's blessings. And all repentance is individual. It starts with me. Each of us returning to our first love. Uh, John Calvin, "I hear the sad condition of your Germany. The Turk again prepares to wage war with a larger force. Who will stand up to oppose his marching throughout the land at his mere will and pleasure?" John Wesley, "Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, espousers of it have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws." Thomas Aquinas, "Muhammad seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure. Those who believed in him were brutal men, desert wanderers. Muhammad forced others to become his followers by the violence of his arms."

And so this is the huge area that they controlled and had influence. And the Europeans began to push back. So have you ever heard of San Juan Capistrano? If you know who he is. Well, when 50,000 Turks are invading Belgrade, Serbia, the Pope, Callixtus, sends this 70-year-old priest, San Juan Capistrano, to go and encourage the defenders. And when the Muslims are breaking through, he grabs a cross and he runs toward where the Muslims are coming in. And his soldiers see him and they say, "Well, let's join him." And they they fight and they surprise the Turks. The Turks didn't expect this. And they defeat him. And so he's called the Soldier Saint. And so they have a city in California named after Santa Monica. You will never think of that city again. When you drive by, hey, in 1456, that's when they stopped the Turks. And um, and then the Turks were defeated. The Battle of Malta in 1565, 40,000 Turks on ships are cleaning cannonballs. And the 70-year-old uh headed to the Knights of Malta. Um, uh Jean de Valette gathers the young men and they push back and and then the Turks are defeated at the Battle of Lepanto, October 7th, 1571. 230 of the Turkish ships powered by 15,000 Christian slaves under the deck. And um, the Holy League by Don John of Austria, the son of Charles V of Spain. Remember Charles V of Spain? And so he has the, the wind is against the Holy League. He gets all the men on deck. They pray. While they're praying, the wind changes 180 degrees and the Holy League sail fills up and the Muslim sails, see on the right, they all get limp and he charges together and they capture or sink 200 of the 230 Muslim ships. And and then when you have 200,000 Muslims around Vienna on September 11th, 1683, the Polish king Jan Sobieski has his huge cavalry charge and they defeat the Turks. And so he's considered the savior of Western Europe.

Now when the Muslims left so fast, they left their tents in place. By here's a Teddy Roosevelt quote, "From the hammer of Charles Martel to the sword of Sobieski, Christianity owed its safety in Europe to the fact that it could fight as well as the Muhammadan aggressor." So when they won the Battle of Vienna, September 11, 1683, and the Turks fled, they left their tents in place. And Jan Sobieski's men go into the tents and they find these bags of beans, coffee beans, and they realize this was the new Turkish Muslim drink that allowed him to fight day and night. And um, but they weren't sure if they should drink it because um, by the way, the the coffee bean came from Ethiopia in Africa, which was the one African country to stay Christian. The Christians in Ethiopia. And so since the Muslims called the Christians in Ethiopia "Kafirs," which means infidel, and the bean came from Ethiopia, they called it the Kafir bean or the infidel bean. So have you had your cup of infidel today? [laughter] But they weren't sure if they should drink it. So they

Took a cup of it to Pope Clement and he tasted it and said, "This is too good to leave for the the Muslims. Let's baptize it." And then coffee spread across Europe.

Now, as the Turks were invading Vienna, they would tunnel under the walls, lay explosives, and then blow it up, and the portion of the wall would crumble. Well, the baker was up early in Vienna, and he heard the noise under the ground. And so, the soldiers put out buckets of water, and they could see where the ripples were, and they they dug and they intercepted the tunnel and they saved Vienna. So, afterwards, they were going to reward the baker for warning him. He says, "I don't need a reward. Just give me the sole permission to cook a pastry in the shape of the Muslim crescent." and it was called a croissant. So the next time you have coffee and croissants, you can celebrate the victory of the battle of Vienna, September 11th, 1683. [applause]

Now some definitions, the word Islam means submission to the will of Allah. A Muslim is one who has submitted to the will of Allah and they think there'll be world peace when the whole world submits to the will of Allah. So it is a religion of peace. It's just their definition of world peace is world Islam. So this Lincoln said, "We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word, we do not all mean the same thing, right? We all want peace, but when we say the word, it's different than when they say it."

Um, the world's divided into the house of Islam or submission and the house of war. It's supposed to be at war. Now, what about moderate Muslims? Most Muslims are moderate. Moderate Muslims believe the world will submit to Allah later. maybe in the distant future, maybe at the end of the world, maybe it's even in figurative. And since it's so far off, they really don't think about it and they just want to live their lives and they're wonderful people and they want to have you as a neighbor and family and friends. And um uh the fundamental Muslim is just as happy to kill a moderate Muslim as they are to kill an infidel because they view the moderate Muslims as having departed from the way of Allah, not being the political and religious and military. And so people say, why don't they stand up more? Well, if the the terrorists do a terrorist attack and the non-Muslim world comes down really hard, the moderate Muslim is happy to be under the Western umbrella and enjoy the freedoms and so forth. But if the terrorists do an attack and the non-Muslim world does not come down hard, worse, gives them weapons like $85 billion worth left in Afghanistan or gives them money, the moderate Muslims like, "Well, if you're not going to defend us and they're threatening to kill us, I guess we have to lean in this direction, right?" And so that's the the dilemma that we face.

Um psychologist Nikolai's Muslims instinctively instinctively see our lack of reaction as fear. It's an invitation to attack. So it's wrong to kill the innocent, but those who depart from the way of Allah are not innocent. Allah loveth not those who reject the faith, be ruthless to the infidel, make war on the infidels, fight those who believe not in Allah, kill the disbeliever wherever we find them. And so where most of them are modern, you do have people like Jim Chudari, Islam for UK, who said, "We've had enough of democracy and man-made law. We call for a complete upheaval of the British ruling system and demand full implementation of Sharia in Britain."

And so what's Sharia? It's trying to be like Muhammad. Uh, Christians want to be like Jesus. And Muslims want to be like Muhammad. Pretty simple. Except Christians do not believe they go to heaven by being like Jesus. They go to heaven because they believe Jesus died on the cross to pay for their sins. >> And they want to live like Jesus to show the rest of the world how much God loves them. Not so in Islam. They think their chances of going to paradise are how closely they can follow Muhammad's example. And even Muhammad did not know what was going to happen to him. Though I'm the messenger of Allah, I do not know what will be done with me. And so what Muhammad permitted is permitted. It is called halal. What Muhammad did not permit is not permitted. It is called haram. So Muhammad liked cats. Cats are halal. They are permitted. Muhammad did not like dogs. Dogs are haram. They are not permitted. So Islam is a long list of halal and harams. A long list of dos and don'ts. And the local imam keeps the list. And they say, "Is this permitted?" Yes. Yes, that's halal. Is this per? No. No. No. That's haram. But but why is it haram? I'm sorry. You cannot ask why, but I really want to know why is that haram. If you ask again, I'll kill you because if you're asking too many questions, you're doubting Islam. And if you doubt, you're an infidel and you get killed. So most Muslims do not even know what I taught you today, right? They just have the rules that they're supposed to follow.

Now, Sharia law comes from the Quran, which has those two different cities, those two different verses, the more moderate ones in Mecca and then the more violent ones in Medina. Um, and uh, it's compiled in 652 by Khalif Usman per Islamic tradition. It's interesting because that first generation of Islam, they're all illiterate. So, it's all oral. So, there is room for um, people saying, well, maybe he really didn't exist. Maybe it's a compilation because we don't know because Khalif Uman said um, sent a message to Hapsa, send us the manuscripts of the Quran so we may compile the Quranic materials. Um ordered that all the other Quranic materials whether written in fragmentaryary manuscripts or copies be burned. So the Quran is the most undocumented book on purpose because they destroy the star. And then you have scholars and Jay Smith is an expert at this. um that uh Seemetic and Arabic languages and the research indicates that a whole lot of the Quran is is seems to be copied from Syriak and Aramaic Christian hymns of the fifth century and and then it's now Persia becomes Islamic and uh they have a translations and an evolution of Islam and the Persian speaking world and then the Turks control these documents for 700 years and there's evidence that they made uh alterations to fit in with their theology and anyway that's the Quran.

Now, the Hadith is 9,000 stories remembered about Muhammad from his wives and warriors. They're all hearsay. I heard somebody say that they heard somebody say that they heard somebody say Muhammad said. And and then there's the surat, the biography of Muhammad, um written a century or so after his death. And then there's the reliance of the traveler, which is the jurist prudence taught at Egypt's Alazar University. And uh and then there's 1400 years of rulings called fatwas. Um four Sunni schools and one Shia. It's complicated.

Um, we have an eth amendment. No cruel and unusual punishment. Sharia says cut off the hand of thieves. Uh, we say that you punish the the person that perpetrates the crime in Islam, they punish the victim. So a woman who's been violated is punished a hundred times for allowing herself to be used as a tool of Satan to tempt the man. So the women have to wear the burka to look unattractive on purpose, right? Um polygamy, we have laws. Uh, it's one man, one woman. But it's uh in Sharia it says if you were to marry them, marry other women of your choice, two, three or four. And um we have equality. But in Sharia, it takes two women's testimony to equal one man's testimony because a woman's mind is deficient. Muhammad said that. And then age of consent laws. Um, Muhammad had a a dream two nights in a row of him marrying a six-year-old. And um, uh, this is the hadith. Aisha, Allah's messenger said to me, you were shown to me twice in my dream.

Anyway, um, Muhammad was a white Arab and uh, who among you is Muhammad? We replied, the white man reclining on his arm. Another hadith. I was riding behind, my knee was touching the thigh of the prophet, and I saw the whiteness of the prophet's eye. Muhammad is was a white Arab who owned black slaves like Bill. And here's a hadith. Muhammad had many male and female slaves. He once sold one black slave for two, which is sort of interesting that you could have in certain communities they say, "Oh, Christianity is the white man's religion and Islam is a black man's religion." It's like Muhammad was a white man. And um and then they not only raided caravans, they would raid the coasts of Europe. And so they enslaved over a million Europeans. And there were whole Catholic orders through the Middle Ages called the Trinitarians who would raise money and collect arms to ransom Christians out of slavery. They even stole an entire village of Baltimore, Ireland um in the 1600s and they enslaved tens of millions of Africans and um went on for centuries. Um even uh David then they would sell them to those terrible slave traders that would bring them to the new world. Um, and in Europe they would uh capture a Christian town and make the Christians give a bevy of young boys every year to the Muslims to be raised as janisary soldiers to attack the next Christian city. They'd use the children of the Christians to attack the Christians. And if the boys were pretty, they went into their pedarasti. I won't get into that. Um, but he continued with David Livingston, the missionary to the Congo. and he would stumble across hundreds of Africans shackled together being forced to march hundreds of miles to the coast to be sold into Muslim slavery. And it still goes on today. And Sudan and Maritania, Eric Mataxis is a good friend. He works with Christian Solidarity International that raises money to rescue Christians out of slavery in Sudan. There's another Exodus 51. There are four million Christians in Pakistan who are slaves making mud bricks their entire lives. And for $430, you can rescue a Christian out of slavery in Pakistan.

And so, Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson wrote, "The law of the Middle East is the antithesis of Western law." That's why people are saying, "Hey, we don't want Sharia in America."

And um now another site, Muhammad had a daughter, Fatima, married to Ali, and their followers are Shiat Ali or Shiite. And 15% of Muslims are Shiite, mostly in Iran. Muhammad had a general Abu Bakr. You know him because it was his daughter was the six-year-old that Muhammad married. Um Abu Bakr fought alongside of Muhammad in all his battles and he knew the way. And so the word for the way is Sunni. And so about 85% of Muslims are Sunni. And um now Hussein is the son of Ali and he was killed by the Sunni at the battle of Carbala in 680. This started a blood feud between the Sunni and the Shia that has gone on ever since. And when Iran became Shia Islam, they adopted this 12ver where Muhammad and then Ali and there's 12 blood descendants of Muhammad called Sharifs. And the 12th one was Muhammad Iben Muhammad Al- Mali. And he is a little boy and he disappears from history. and in 874 AD. Well, the Shiite Muslims think he has been hiding in a cave for 1,200 years. And if they can create a world war, then he'll come out of the cave and he will help bring back their version of Christ, which is our version of the Antichrist. And together this hidden body and this antichrist will kill all the Jews and kill all the Christians and set up a global government called the caliphate. So where communists have nuclear weapons but they're not in a hurry to use them. The Shiite 12ver Muslims in Iran want to create a world war so that they can usher in their end times esquetology. And um and so there's their 12 descendants of Muhammad.

And now um Muhammad uh the Christianity is the largest religion in the world about a third. Islam is the second largest religion in the world. And um so let's compare. Jesus never killed anybody. Muhammad killed an estimated 3,000 people. Jesus never led armies. Muhammad led armies. Jesus never owned slaves. Muhammad owned slaves. Jesus never married. Muhammad had anywhere from 11 to 22 wives. Jesus never tortured anybody. Muhammad stretched the chief of Kaibar out on the ground and and kindled a fire on his chest because he wouldn't tell where the treasure was hidden. Jesus didn't lie. Muhammad permitted lying to infidels to help advance Islam. Uh Jesus forgave insults. Father forgive him. Muhammad avenged insults.

Um and in in Christianity, Jesus said something difficult and many disciples walked with him no more. He didn't run after him and say, "Oh, come back." No, he said to the 12, "You want to go too? There's the door. Jesus never forced anybody to follow him. Muhammad said, "Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him." So, it's like Hotel California. You're free to come in. You just can't leave. And um and so Jesus and the apostles didn't permit abusing women. Muhammad did. And none of the apostles were governors or generals. Every one of the khalif was, you know, it's interesting. You read the Christian history and it's like the Muslims came in and they killed and they took our women. If you read the Islamic history, it's like we had this battle and afterwards there there was a bunch of women and there was nobody to take care of them. So we divided them up amongst ourselves to take care of them. It's like, oh that's very thoughtful of you, you know.

Um and so the military conquest, first three centuries of Christianity, there are 10 major persecutions. Christians never led an armed resistance against the Roman Empire. First three centuries of Islam, they conquered from Arabia to Paris. Jesus taught God was our father. In Islam, it's blasphemy to call Allah your father. Jesus taught we're children of God. In Islam, it's blasphemy to call yourself a child of Allah because Allah took no wife and has no son. Jesus taught made in the image of God. In Islam, Allah has no image. Jesus taught to love your enemies. Muhammad taught to subdue your enemies. Jesus taught to have a personal relationship with God. In Islam, it's blasphemy to even want to have a personal relationship with Allah. He's transcendent and unknowable. Even in the next life, you'll never meet him.

Um, women in worship. We have the most beautiful worship led by women and and and men. But I mean the the angelic voice of women singing in Islam, if a dog, a donkey, or a woman passes between you and Mecca when you're praying, your prayers are invalidated. >> Um Jesus said, "Go to a town. If they don't receive you, shake the dust and leave." Islam, go to a town. If they don't receive you, wage war on the town.

Um anyway, Islam is a religion of Antichrist. And they have a sin. It's an unforgivable sin called sherk. And if you believe that Jesus is the son of God, you've committed the unforgivable sin. You cannot be any more antichrist than that. And so those who say surah 572, Allah is the Messiah, the son of Mary has certainly fallen into disbelief will surely be forbidden in paradise. Their home is the fire. Right? Another verse Christians say the Messiah is the son of Allah. Such as our baseless assertions only paring the words of earlier believers. May Allah condemn them. Again, you cannot be any more antichrist than by saying if you believe in Christ, you go to hell. So if there ever was a religion of antichrist, it fits the bill. Um, on the Alaska mosque in Jerusalem it says praise to Allah who has not taken a son right Buddhism and Hinduism started before Christianity. So they couldn't specifically mention Christ. Islam specifically mentions Christ and says if you believe in him you go to hell. Jesus John 17:3 and this is eternal life that they may know you the only true God in Jesus Christ whom you have sent. And um Revelation I saw the souls of them beheaded. What group beheads? Right. Um another is John 16. The time is coming. Whoever kills you will think his offer is God's service. Communists kill mill millions of people but they don't believe in a god. What religion kills in thinking they're doing god a service?

We love the Muslim person. We just don't love the Sharia teaching. Right? It is um it's not a hardware problem. It's a software problem. Right? We love the person. We just don't like this software running on their brain. Right? And um and so a friend of mine has a ministry to Muslims. He says this is one verse they cannot argue about. Isaiah 61 that Jesus quoted. The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted. There's no concept in all of Islam that Allah wants to heal your broken heart. Right? Allah demands submission. I've prayed with Muslims before. One time I was with M Grand Lotz and we were with a a friend uh Tafi and um uh she said, "Can I pray for you?" And he said, "Yes." And she's praying for him. He closes his eyes and he's he's just going back and forth for like five minutes and he and he finally opens his eyes and and he's like, "What did I just experience?" He felt the present. He felt the love of God for the first time in his life. God loves the the Muslim person, right? They just need to experience his presence.

Islam is the religion of Cain. Cain wanted to worship God, but he did it through works. And we know it's works because God told Adam, "The ground is cursed for your sake, and you'll bring forth fruit by the sweat of your sweat is work." Cain's trying to work his way to heaven. If you do works, you can be proud of your works because you're doing more than your brother. And pride is the sin of Satan. They call it honor, but it's pride. And when Cain's works were rejected, his countenance fell. His pride was hurt. He was embarrassed in front of his Uma community, which was his mom, dad, and brother. And he decides to do the first honor killing to kill his brother that embarrassed him in front of his community. Abel trusted in the lamb. And you know, the lamb is so important. You know, Satan sinned and uh God is just and so he had to judge Satan, cast him out of heaven. And so Satan goes into the garden and says, "Okay, God is just. If I can get Adam and Eve to sin against God one time, he'll have to judge him." He gets him to sin. That was pretty easy. And then God sends this fireball of judgment and insteps the lamb and takes the hit, right? So God is just and that he judges every sin, but he's loving that he provided the lamb to take the judgment of the sin. So Adam and Eve sinned and hid from God. Have you ever sinned against anybody? You sort of don't want to be around the person you've sinned against. Let's say you're talking about somebody behind their back and you're making fun of them and you look up and there's that very person walking toward you. Are you drawn to want to go over to that person and like, "Oh man, I'm embarrassed. I think I'm going to slip out the back." Your own conscience does not want you to be around the person you've sinned against. So, when Adam and Eve sinned against God, they're the ones that wanted to get away and hide. It's like two magnets that are stuck together and one of them turns. The first one wants to touch, but the second one wants to get away. So, it's not so much that God sends people to hell. It's once people sin against God. It's their own conscience that makes them want to stay away from God for a day, a week, a month, a lifetime. And so, Adam and Eve said, "We blew it. We have to do something to make ourselves acceptable to God again. Let's put on fig leaves." That was the beginning of false religions. Man coming up with man's idea how to make man acceptable to God. Did the fig leaves make Adam and Eve acceptable? No. And then it says, "God made Adam and Eve coats of skins." Question, how do you make a coat of skin? Kill an animal. You think God went to the other side of the garden and killed an animal? Or do you think maybe he killed it right in front of them and they witnessed the first death ever, right? And Adam and Eve were watching this innocent animal, right? Creation just happened, so this would have been the first thing ever to die. And they're watching this innocent animal go through the pains of dying. And they're thinking to themselves, we're the ones that sin, but this innocent animal is the one that's dying. And God wanted to make it really clear the animal was dying in their place. That right in front of him, he strips the skin off the animal and he puts it on their naked bodies. Maybe it still had a little blood on it. They were covered in the blood like the song. So for the rest of their lives, Adam and Eve are walking around wearing the skin of the animal that they watched die in their place. And whenever God sees Adam and Eve, he sees them clothed with the skin of the animal, the lamb slain from the foundations of the world. So Adam and Eve tell Cain and Abel, Cain does an offshoot of the church of the fig leaves and he starts the church of the fruits and the nuts, right? Because he gets the stuff out of the ground. And then uh Noah gets off the ark and he sacrifices lambs because he had seven pair of every clean animal. And the rainbow appears. And then Abraham and Isaac are going to the top of Mount Mariah. And Isaac says, "Father, we have the wood for the sacrifice. We have the coals for the sacrifice, but where's the sacrifice? And Abraham says, "Son, God will provide himself a lamb." >> And it's a double meaning. Trust in God will have the ram up in the bush, but there's God will provide himself as the lamb. And that's what happened. Jesus, the second person of the trinity, the only begotten son of God, became the lamb and took the wrath of a just God upon himself in our place. And then uh the children of Israel coming into the promised land and uh every one of them had to kill a lamb and put the blood over the doorpost of the house. So the angel of judgment, the angel's coming and the blood says, "Look, this house has already been judged. Here's proof. Here's the blood that the lamb took the judgment in our place." And so the angel passes over and then the the ark of the covenant is in the the tabernacle in the wilderness. And the ark is a gold box. Inside are the ten commandments. And then there's a lid with two golden angels. And the presence of the Lord appears between the angels. And the high priest comes in representing the people. And he sprinkles the blood of the sacrifice on the mercy seat, the lid between the presence of the Lord above and the law below. So God sees him. Yeah, you broke the law, but please accept this blood as having this lamb have having taken the judgment in our place. If the high priest had approached without the blood, he would have been approaching the judgment seat. The blood changed it from a judgment seat into a mercy seat. And then David sacrifices. And then Solomon has a thousand lambs killed when he dedicates the temple. Finally, John the Baptist points to Jesus and says, "Behold the lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world." God bless you. Thank you so much. [applause] >> [applause] >> Please bow your heads with me. Heavenly Father, we come before you. You created the universe. You created us. We love you. Just say this prayer with me. Heavenly Father, >> Father, >> I love you. >> I love you. >> Thank you for making me. >> Thank you for making me. >> But I have sinned against you. >> I have sinned against you. >> I deserve judgment. >> I deserve judment. >> Thank you for sending your son Jesus. >> Thank you for sending Jesus. >> To take the judgment I deserve upon himself. >> I deserve. >> Jesus, I confess you as my Lord. >> Jesus, I confess you as my Lord. >> I believe you died. died. >> You were buried. >> And you rose from the dead. >> You rose from the dead. >> And I am risen with you. >> And I am risen with you. >> Fill me with the Holy Spirit. >> Fill me with the Holy Spirit. >> Holy Spirit. >> Holy Spirit. >> Third person of the Trinity. >> Third person. >> I invite you to live in me. >> I invite you to live in >> for the rest of my life. >> For the rest of >> For the rest of eternity. >> And use me. >> To love people >> to love people. to bring them to Jesus. >> to bring them to Jesus >> and to the Father. >> And to the Father. >> Amen. >> Amen.