The book pictured here was released in June 2016. Chapter 12 included interesting information that helps explain many of the things that are occurring around the world.
Perhaps most interesting is the insight concerning the changing WorldViews of Christians!.
If these facts are true -- and there is no reason to believe they are not -- then this opens the possiblity of massive deception by and acceptance of the Antichrist by Christians, who should know better, but probably will not because of their changing WorldViews.
So with that by way of introduction, here are excerpts written by Derek Gilbert on pages 297-298 from Chapter 12 of the book titled The Final Roman Emperor, The Islamic Antichrist and the Vatican's Last Crusade by Thomas Horn and Chris Putnam.
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"... While Christianity is the largest religion on earth, with an estimated 2.2 billion believers,
it represents less than a third of the world's population.
"Muslims number about 1.6 billion, or 22 percent of the global population.
"(Jews, surprisingly, don't even make the top ten, placing eleventh with about fourteen million
adherents, only 0.22percent of the world's population.)
"It must also be noted that Protestant Christians, especially those holding a premillenial, pre-Tribulation view of end-times prophecy, are a minority within world Christianity.
"Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christians, who are generally amillennial (rejecting the belief that Jesus will have a literal thousand-year reign on earth) comprise 62 percent of global Christianity.
"Among Protestants, it is safe to say that most of the mainline denominations (Lutheran, Methodist, Anglican, Presbyterian, etc.) place little emphasis on teaching prophecy.
"Biblical illiteracy in America, even among Christians who describe themselves as "born again," is rampant.
"The Barna Group's 2009 study on the state of American Christianity revealed that only 9 percent of American adults possess a biblical worldview, and among "born-again" believers, only 19 percent were found to hold a biblical worldview.
"It is no surprise, then, that Christians, especially in the West, know little about Bible prophecy, and what we do know may have been absorbed from movies or popular fiction rather than the Bible itself.
"And therein lies the seed of a great deception, possibly the greatest in all of history -- one that may lead millions to destruction and lures an untold number of Jews and Christias into welcoming the Antichrist when he appears on the world stage. .... ... ..."
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Hmmmmm. Interesting. And Scary !
The above quotations are from Chapter 12 (pages 297-298) of the book: The Final Roman Emperor, The Islamic Antichrist and the Vatican's Last Crusade by Thomas Horn and Chris Putnam.
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