Pastor Carl Gallups: We May Be Much Closer To The Revealing Of Antichrist Than Many People Have Previously Thought

On the heels of the article I posted last week regarding the Iranian President’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly comes the video below today by Pastor Carl Gallups. More and more are connecting the dots …

Pastor Carl Gallups: “By calling Mahdi the Ultimate Savior, of course, the Divinity, Deity and Saving Grace of Jesus Christ is denied and that title is transferred to the Islamic Mahdi. In other words, the Islamic Mahdi is the Antichrist, the one who sets himself up as the Christ and blasphemes all that is holy. One bit of truth that Ahmadinejad may have spoken: the world may very well be on the edge of the appearance of the Biblical Antichrist. We may be much closer to that Biblical fulfilment of prophecy than many people have previously thought.”

Related: Ahmadinejad’s End-Times Speech At The UN Calls The Mahdi ‘The Ultimate Savior’ Who Is Coming ‘Soon’ To Rule The World

‘Forest Jihad’: Al-Qaeda Blamed For Recent Series Of Forest Fires Across Europe

AFP – “Al-Qaeda has been blamed for a recent series of forest fires across Europe, as the head of Russia’s Federal Security Service claimed they were set by arsonists as part of the group’s low-cost attack strategy.

‘One should note that setting fires to forests in the countries of the European Union is a new tendency in al-Qaeda’s strategy of a ‘thousand cuts’,’ Alexander Bortnikov said, according to state news agency RIA Novosti, at a meeting of heads of security agencies.

‘This method allows (al-Qaeda) to inflict significant economic and moral damage without serious preliminary preparations, technical equipment or significant expenses.’

In linking al-Qaeda to the deadly wildfires, Mr Bortnikov pointed to calls to launch a ‘forest jihad’ by various extremist websites which he said also publish detailed instructions about how and where to best carry out arson.

He said it was very difficult for special services to find and prosecute such arsonists.

Deadly fires have swept through forest land in EU countries such as Portugal and Spain over the past few months, killing scores of people and forcing thousands to evacuate.

In its continuing campaign against the West, al-Qaeda has vowed to ‘bleed the enemy to death’ by resorting to inexpensive, low-scale attacks it refers to as a ‘strategy of a thousand cuts’.” Source – The Telegraph.

Flashback: Israel: Massive Fires Engulf Jerusalem Following 200 Arson Attacks In Past 2 Weeks – “Who does this kind of thing? I just don’t get it. Setting fires on purpose… In the past, arson has been used as a form of nationalist struggle by Palestinians, a form of terror ‘lite,’ in as much as it usually results in property damage but not death (the Carmel Forest fire that has been at the center of the latest Comptroller’s lambasting of the Interior and Finance ministers was apparently started by accident, not arson).” Read more.

Flashback: Islamists Prepare for ‘Paradigm Shift’, Declare Jihad Inside America by Setting Forest Fires in Nevada Followed by Possible Attacks ‘Elsewhere’ – “Allah have granted a group of our brothers from the lions of Masadat Al-Mujahidin … to set fire in the forests of Nevada in the Reno region. And we by this great event and paradigm shift declare the following: 1. we declare our full responsibility of setting fire in the Nevada forests in America. 2. we declare widening the area of war and transferring it currently to inside America and soon to elsewhere… ” Read more.

Four Die After Outbreak Of Rare Form Of Meningitis Sickens 26 People In 5 States

Associated Press – “NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An outbreak of a rare and deadly form of meningitis has now sickened 26 people in five states who received steroid injections, health officials said Wednesday. Four people have died.

Eighteen of the cases are in Tennessee where a Nashville clinic received the largest shipment of the steroid suspected in the outbreak. The drug was made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts that has since issued a recall.

Three cases have been reported in Virginia, two in Maryland, two in Florida and one in North Carolina. Two of the deaths were in Tennessee; Virginia and Maryland had one each, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

More new cases are almost certain to appear in the coming days, said Tennessee Department of Health Commissioner John Dreyzehner. Cases in that state began in July and five new cases were confirmed over the past 24 hours, he said Wednesday.

Investigators have been looking into at least three different products used for the back injections that could have been tainted by the fungus that appears to be behind the illnesses. None of the products have been ruled out. However, the primary suspicion is on steroid medication, which is commonly used for back pain.

The Food and Drug Administration identified the maker of the steroid as the New England Compounding Center, a specialty pharmacy in Framingham, Mass. Last week, the company issued a recall of three lots of the steroid. Company officials could not be immediately reached Wednesday afternoon by telephone; the company’s website was unavailable.” Source – Yahoo News.

Update: Islamists Slaughter Dozens Of Christian Students At Nigerian College, ‘Nigeria Is Becoming A Killing Field’

Here’s an update on this story. Apparently Boko Haram Islamists were asking each student their names prior to deciding which ones to kill for a reason: to identify and slaughter all who were Christian …

By Katherine Weber – “Multiple sources have confirmed that about 25 to 30 Christian college students were massacred at a university in northeastern Nigeria late Monday night, causing Christians to pray for a ‘change of heart’ among the extremist Islamist group Boko Haram to put a stop to the continued violence.

While there is speculation as to the motive of the massacre, sources close to the human rights watchdog Open Doors USA confirm that the massacre was performed by Boko Haram.

Emily Fuentes, the communications and public relations coordinator for Open Doors who recently visited Nigeria and spoke to Christian leaders about Boko Haram, told The Christian Post that believers around the world can agree that prayer is the ‘only thing that will change the people of Boko Haram.’

‘There are people who are turning to Christ who used to be in the Boko Haram, and God is changing their hearts,’ Fuentes told CP.

‘A lot of Christians believe that God will change these peoples’ hearts,’ she added.

The killings reportedly occurred in the late night hours on Oct. 1, when masked gunmen went door-to-door in the off-campus housing section of Federal Polytechnic College in Mubi, a city in the remote Adamawa State in northeastern Nigeria.

Open Doors USA sources confirmed that the gunmen separated the Christian students from the Muslim students, addressed each victim by name, questioned them, and then proceeded to shoot them or slit their throat.

‘Open Doors is calling on Christians in the West to bear this horrific burden with our brothers and sisters in Mubi and Adamawa state,’ Open Doors USA spokesman Jerry Dykstra said in a press release emailed to The Christian Post.

‘Nigeria is becoming a killing field,’ he added.” Read more.

Flashback: Boko Haram: Our Goal is to Eliminate Followers of Christ – “Terrorist organisation Boko Haram has issued a statement making clear that its goal is to eliminate followers of Christ from Nigeria and establish an Islamic state. ‘The Nigerian state and Christians are our enemies and we will be launching attacks on the Nigerian state and its security apparatus as well as churches until we achieve our goal of establishing an Islamic state in place of the secular state … We are responsible for the suicide attack on a church in Jos and also another attack on another church in Biu,’ a spokesman for the group, Abul Qaqa, is said to have told reporters in the northeastern city of Maiduguri over the phone.” Read more.