Radio Interview With "The Islamic Anti-Christ" Author, Joel Richardson

The Islamic Anti-Christ focuses on the striking parallels between the Bible's prophecies about the coming "end times," and Islam's traditions regarding the one called "the Mahdi" - Islam's primary messiah figure. The Mahdi is prophecied as being one that will one day invade the land of Israel and establish a seat of authority on the Temple Mount. Richardson's book is seen by some in the Christian world as being controversial, standing in stark contrast to most other popular prophecy books of the last 40 years.

Richardson says that after decades of leading popular prophecy books, and even best-selling fictional accounts of the Earth's last days like the "Left Behind" series, millions of evangelical Christians around the world are expecting the Antichrist to emerge from a revived Roman Empire, an assumed alliance between the European Union and the Catholic Church.

Joel Richardson argues, "Not so." His book, The Islamic Anti-Christ, makes the case that the biblical antichrist is one and the same as the Quran's Muslim Mahdi.

The Bible indicates that the Antichrist's empire will consist only of nations that are today Islamic. One of the key errors, according to Richardson, is that many previous scholars involves the interpretation of a prediction by Daniel to Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel describes the rise and fall of empires in the future, leading to the end times. Western Christians view one of these empires as Rome, but Rome never actually conquered Babylon, and is thus disqualified as a possibility.

Another empire that rose and fell and rose again that could lead to rule by the Antichrist is the Islamic Empire, which did conquer Babylon and, in fact, rules over it even today.

As with the prediction of the Antichrist, the Islamic Mahdi will rise up to lead the nations, pledging to usher in an era of peace. Richardson makes the case that these two charasmatic leaders are one in the same.

Joel Richardson is also the co-author of Walid Shoebat's "God's War On Terror," and the co-editor of "Why We Left Islam."

Tonight, Joel Richardson joins the Political Pistachio Radio Revolution. Listen live, or catch the archive later, at BlogTalkRadio.com/PoliticalPistachio.