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Lesson 43 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course 7
p. 71]. It was while Mohammed
was in this trance-like state that
he received his divine revela-
tions. After the trance, he would
rise and proclaim what had been
handed down to him [ibid.]
(The Great Deception: Phili-
stine, p. 43).
Most Western and many Arab
biographies of Mohammed be-
lieve that he suffered from epilep-
sy -- but the above clearly indi-
cates that he was under the in-
Mohammed preaching to his earliest converts. fluence of demons. The revela-
tions he received led to the birth
BIBLICAL APOSTASY THROUGH MO- of Islam which, in Arabic, means submission
HAMMED, who claimed to be a descendant of -- submission to Allah or Satan!
Ishmael. This apostasy has not only continued to Mohammed died in A.D. 632. In his
this very day, but is PRESENTLY playing itself farewell address to his followers in March of that
out across the face of the globe into one of the year, he is reported to have said, I was ordered
MOST MAJOR END-TIME ANTI-GOD SCE- to fight all men until they say There is no god
NARIOS, a HERESY fulfilled prophetically in but Allah.
the person of THE RIDER ON THE PALE By the end of the seventh century his
HORSE until he, the rider, is finally destroyed at followers had spread out from the Arabian Pe-
the end of the age by the hand of YEHOVAH ninsula, conquering territories BY THE
God. SWORD and forcing people to convert to their
2. Notice Obadiah 1, 10, 15-16. new religion, right across North Africa and east
COMMENT: Mohammed claimed to and north into the Persian and Byzantine
receive visions beginning in A.D. 610. As a empires. Islam FED ON VIOLENCE AND DE-
young child, writes Ramon Bennett,
Mohammed was nursed by a Bedou- Mohammed rededicating the Black Stone of the Kaaba, the
in woman by the name of Halima. In pagan shrine in Mecca.
his third and fourth years, The child
had numerous FITS, which made Ha-
lima think he was DEMON POS-
SESSED [Shorrosh, Islam Revealed,
p. 48]. Early Moslem tradition records
that when Mohammed was about to
receive a revelation from Allah: ...he
would often FALL DOWN on the
ground, his body would begin to
JERK, his eyes would ROLL BACK-
WARD, and he would perspire
profusely. They would often cover
him with a blanket during such epi-
sodes [Morey, The Islamic Invasion,
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