The Last Days and Theological Challenges Abrahamic Religions Must Face

Last Days and Second Coming of Christ: The End of Abrahamic Religions and the Budding of a New Religion.

The world is alarmed by the fast growing of Islamic militant extremist movements. ISIS, had taken the world by surprise. Their radical distorted THEOLOGICAL views on God and Islam and their application of the Sharia law empowered them to do gruesome sadistic murders the world has ever seen. Since the rise ISIS, hundreds of thousands of innocent people are fleeing from their once safe homes and communities to nowhere. Thousands young and old, Muslims and none Muslims alike being savagely mutilated by ISIS in the name of Islam and Allah. This of course had shook the world.

However, as bad as it looks, this rise of Islamic extremism is bound to happen in the Last Days. Looking at it from religious point of view of the Last Days and what is to come, as Unificationists, we should not be surprised by this world changing phenomena. Just as Judaic faith has been challenger by the new teachings of Jesus/Christianity, and the challenges Christianity had gone through in the past 400 plus years of the reformation period, Islam is no difference, Islam has been facing its own reformation since Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt in 1798, which turned Egypt and the Middle East into the “modern” world. (See Juan Cole, Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East.) As the new revelation in the Divine principle explained, Christianity took off in the wrong footing in theology; Jesus didn’t come solely to die a gruesome death on the cross to save mankind, He was supposed to live a longer cherished life, have a wife and children and start a new heavenly family for God and create a true family value standard for

humanity to copy. Also, their views on John the Baptist and the return of Elijah are not correct either, and of course Christians’ views on Last Days and Second Coming of Christ on a literal cloud are also misinterpreted.

Looking at Islam as a faith, since its beginning 1400 years ago, Islam have never been clearly understood theologically accept from a very few elite group called (ulama), the learnt ones. if I am not mistaken, 90% of Muslim population have no clues on Islamic theology, for the simple, but unreasonable demand, Muslims were encouraged by their spiritual leaders, that the faithful should not question Allah or the Holy Koran. The Koran cannot be interpreted nor be translated, and should only be CHANTED. This is what kept Muslims in darkness for 1400 years!. But God is the God of LIGHT and KNOWLEDGE, for the Koran commands Muslims to seek knowledge and Light of God. And like in Judaism and Christianity, the Light is catching up with Islam! Muslim Spiritual leaders must step up and THEOLOGICALLY engage in debate and confront extremists such as ISIS and other Jihadist militant groups with the TRUE interpretation of the holy Koran and the SHARIA LAWS or face their own distraction. ISIS is not stopping in Iraq or Syria only, if not stopped, they will be heading for Mecca soon!!! All these three Abrahamic religions are awaiting the End Time. But the End Time is not coming in the literal distraction of the earth, but the end of darkness and ignorance on God and His will. The battle ground of the End Time is THEOLOGY. All these three religions had started crooked from the beginning, but God allowed them to grow and prosper and planned to correct them when the time comes. Since Jesus’ time, God had been bending and reshaping human’s understanding of His purpose for the creation, particularly human purpose of life. The new budding Tree (religion) is the Reverend Sun Myung Moon and His Unification movement. God’s new TRUE theology is in the Divine Principle, the teaching of Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Whether, you are a devout Jew, Christian, Muslim, once you read the Divine Principle you will know the truth and the truth will set you free, and you will be enlightened! The God of LIGHT Allows No Shadows!