Richard Hollerman

We know that the Middle East is in a mess right now. We wonder if it can continue, as is, or if there will be some sort of downfall and whether this is imminent. This is what I mean.

We know that the Muslims (and there are many different kinds of them, with many different names, belonging to various sects) do not permit their membership to believe in or practice infant salvation. They would say that unless one believes in God as manifested in a singular fashion, and contents for a belief in “Allah” (a false god), and promotes the idea that Muhammad (or Mohammad) is the way to reach that “God,” then the person cannot be saved.

On the other hand, some would oppose this and say that this is false teaching and one must believe in God as manifested in three ways and that Mohammad was a false prophet. As you can see, there is no way that both of these positions can be true.

With perhaps 1.9 billion adherents, we know that Muslims exert a powerful influence in the world. Although they are divided into two main groups, and each of them are further divided into other sects. We know that so-called Christianity would be the same. Although this grouping would be divided into several different groups (such as Roman Catholic, the various “Orthodox” groups, and several thousand different Protestant sects), we think that they all are wrong, very wrong.

Of course, the remainder of the world would be further divided into various groups (Hindu, Buddhist, Taoism, Confucianism, Shintoism, Agnosticism, Atheism, Communism, and others), we think that they are all dreadfully wrong and sinful.

So even if we are to speak of Muslims, with their tens of millions or hundreds of millions of different sects and groups, we know that they all are dreadfully wrong. Just a few days ago we learned of the Iranian killing of one of their chief leaders, and we know that this was wrong. Of course, they blamed Israel (whether this was correct or not, we don’t know, and they retaliated by killing some of their enemies) by in God sight (and this is what really matters), they both were wrong. Both were evil and deserve to be slain by a wrathful God.

We began our words by saying that this all is a “dreadful state of affairs” and this is right. We are living in an evil world, of perhaps nine billion people, and they all deserve to be killed and sent to Hades by a rightful Judge. Where are you, personally, in all of this? How do you stand before God?