A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following is my answer to a Quora question: “ Do Christian eschatologists believe the Antichrist & the False Prophet will come from the Muslims? ” In “The Power to Make War”, Zane Hodges asserted that the Anti-Christ would be a Muslim due to the reference of the “Assyrian” found in the Book of Isaiah.  That particular reference was cited as discussing the Anti-Christ.  By several leaps of logic, he said that since the Bible was indicating that the Anti-Christ will be an Assyrian, and since the Assyrian Empire was founded in the Middle East, the Assyrian Anti-Christ must also be a Muslim.   In The Assyrian Connection, Philip Goodman also pointed out the reference of “the Assyrian” in Micah 5:5 as evidence for an Assyrian Anti-Christ.   Micah 5:5 5 And they shall feed the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the spears thereof: and He shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he shall come in...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ In “The Power to Make War”, Zane Hodges asserted that the Anti-Christ would be a Muslim due to the reference of the “Assyrian” found in the Book of Isaiah.   That particular reference was cited as discussing the Anti-Christ.   By several leaps of logic, he said that since the Bible was indicating that the Anti-Christ will be an Assyrian, and since the Assyrian Empire was founded in the Middle East, the Assyrian Anti-Christ must also be a Muslim.   In The Assyrian Connection, Philip Goodman also pointed out the reference of “the Assyrian” in Micah 5:5 as evidence for an Assyrian Anti-Christ.   Micah 5:5 5 And they shall feed the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the spears thereof: and He shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he shall come into our land, and when he shall tread in our borders.   5 καὶ ποιμανοῦσιν τὸν Ασσουρ ἐν ῥομφαίᾳ καὶ τὴν γῆν τοῦ Νεβρωδ ἐν τῇ τάφρῳ αὐτῆς καὶ ῥύσεται...