2 Thessalonians 2:7-12 (NASB) 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. 8 Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming; 9 that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, 10 and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. 11 For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, 12 in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.
The link to the article below is not for the faint of heart. It tells what happened in the days that the Westgate Mall was rampaged by al-Shabaab. (Read more). If there ever was an example of lawlessness taking “pleasure in wickedness,” this is it.
Jihadist Ritual Murder and Mutilation at the Mall :: Middle East Forum.
Jesus come quickly.
Jack
The article you linked to was excellent. The author’s clear identification of the Muslim drive for a perverted sense of honor while having an irrational fear of shame is significant. A book I finished recently (Islam Dismantled: The Mental Illness of Prophet Muhamad, by Sugit Das) shows this same distinction. Through psychological analysis, it is seen that this type of rage manifestation appears to be “malignant narcissist rage”. The removal of shame thus makes the Muslim completely lawless (by God’s standard of morality) and making perversion and unjust violence appear (to the Muslim) to be “honorable”. An aspect the author of the article you posted didn’t cover is that “pride” can be used interchangeable with “honor”.
One of the 99 names for “allah” in Islam is “The Prideful One” (al-mutakabbiru), hardly the same god as the God of the Bible, who hates pride. And pride is directly linked to violence in
(Psa 73:6) Therefore pride is their necklace; The garment of violence covers them.
The potential for this is startling, if one considers two things.
1. All Muslims are narcissist resources for Muhammad even to this day. They protect Muhammad’s narcissist projected self (allah), therefore the entire Muslim community (ummah) suffers from a form of collective narcissism. All genuine Muslims have the capacity for removal of proper shame-based thought and replacing it with shame-avoiding, “honor-based” Muslim thought.
2. (Rev 6:8) I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over A FOURTH OF THE EARTH, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.
By population alone, right now, approximately one fourth of the earth’s population is Muslim (around 1.5 to 1.7 billion people). If only one half of one percent of all Muslims are not “peaceful” or “bad apples”, that means there are 7.5 million Muslims in the world who want you dead right now, just for being a Christian, Jew or otherwise un-submitted to Islam. Think that’s bad? Consider that by the Biblical account, the green horse and it’s rider (Islam and death with damnation following) will have authority over one fourth of the world’s population…and every one of them could be honor-based killers who are driven to protect Muhammad’s allah, with an aversion of shame to propel them in the way of their destruction.
This suggests to me that during this future horrific time period, anyone who calls themselves a Muslim, could become a vigilante jihadist. At least 1.5 to 1.7 billion killers worldwide; and even more when others either willingly or through coercion, convert to Islam. We cannot comprehend the suffering and death that will result from such bloody carnage, but we can know who will be conducting it. The anti-christ/false prophet who comes out of Islam and those who have the identifying mark of allegiance to Islam. They are easily identified as those who love death more than we love life, by being lawless and exceedingly violent.
(Pro 8:36) “But he who sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love death
Mike – thanks for your comment. Excellent!