Quran and Bible debate666 chi xi stigma from RevelationA few sites I ran across doing research. As with everything take these with a grain of salt. I haven't fully investigated these places but they offer some insight nonetheless.
Revelation 13:12 "And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed."
Now we see the people worshipping the first beast. Is there evidence of people worshipping a city? Yes. The faithful turn toward Mecca at prayer time. They bow down on their faces in worship.
There have been many throughout history that have given allegiance to a particular city like Rome, Babylon, Sparta, Jerusalem, Memphis, Thebes, Thessalonica, Ephesus, and on and on the list could go. Allegiance is akin to worship. It is not a great step to take to worship the political system of antichrist.
http://www.bibleword.org/revelation12.htm
Again, during the second half of the Tribulation--the forty-two months when the composite first beast of Revelation 13 is allowed to exercise authority received from the dragon (Rev 13:5)--all of humanity will have received the Holy Spirit. All will be spiritual Israelites. There will only be one faith: Christianity. And the saints will be divided between those who have accepted the mark of the beast (Chi xi stigma, or the tattoo of the Cross) and worship the beast, and those who refuse the tattoo and refuse to worship the beast. Those who refuse to worship the image of the beast will, likely, be slain (v. 15), especially if they are not inside the walls of spiritual Jerusalem, which has theological rather than geographical coordinates.
The prophecy pundits find in Islam the endtime boogie-man, but Islam today accepts Christ as a prophet. It will not be a far step for Muslims to accept the man of perdition as a genuine prophet, and for the entire faith to convert to Arian Christianity.
Islam presently has a recognizable flaw: there is no criteria by which a person can be certain of going to heaven other than dying in Jihad. A person can never be certain that he or she is good enough to go to heaven. As a result, the culture doesn’t admit blame. It can’t and still have any chance of being with Allah. So the Islamic belief paradigm needs the means of suspending the death penalty for sin for long enough that a person can mend his or her ways. The paradigm needs grace. And the man of perdition will, with charisma, explain to Islamic clerics why they must accept Arian Christianity to stop their young people from blowing themselves up--only the man of perdition can stop Islamic terrorism. And while wearing out Sabbath-keeping saints, this man of perdition will permanently put an end to terrorism. Remember, the whole world follows the beast, and worships the dragon and the beast and even the image of the beast. The world won’t worship the beast, or anyone else without cause. Hitler seemed like a German savior because he put an unemployed nation to work. The man of perdition will seem like a Christian savior for he will finally win the Crusades by bringing Christ to the 10-40 window.
http://homerkizer.org/Daniel7.html
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