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Adventistische Schriften über: "Islam: The chastising rod of the deeply fallen Christianity in the Orient came from Arabia"
Answer
Islam is described in Adventist writings as a divine judgment and a “rod of chastisement” for the fallen Eastern Christianity, which had become corrupt through idolatry and superstition. This power originated in Arabia and spread with destructive speed to execute God’s judgment upon a church that had lost the purity of the Gospel. The spread of this religion is symbolically often compared to smoke rising from the abyss or a swarm of locusts that swept over the Roman Empire.
God’s Judgment over the Fallen Christianity
»“With hurricane‑like speed this dreadful divine judgment rushes from the southeast over the empire church of the Orient, which had become stagnant and corrupt in barren dogmatism and creature‑worshipping (especially Mariolatrous) superstition… according to God’s counsel as a healing rod of chastisement for the deeply sunk Eastern Christianity.”«
The Origin in the Deserts of Arabia
»“While idolatry and metaphysics spread their harmful influence through the congregation of Christ and the simplicity and purity of the Gospel were almost lost beneath mythology… the seeds of a new kingdom and a new religion were sown in the inaccessible deserts of Arabia.”«
The Scourge of Transgression
»“A false religion was established, which, although it was the scourge of transgressions and idolatry, filled the world with darkness and deception; and swarms of Saracens covered the earth like locusts… the locusts (the fitting symbol of the Arabs) came from Arabia, their native region.”«
Mohammedanism as a Result of Corruption
»“He adds that Mohammedanism owed its rise to the ‘darkness and ignorance that enveloped the Christian world’, and to the ‘corruptions that disfigured the pure religion of Jesus’.”«
God’s Wrath and the Rod of Punishment
»“He truly is a great disaster, God’s scourge and rod. Therefore the punishment must come, may God be merciful to us, and turn His wrath away from us, grant that we may improve… The Turkish power is in our sins and in our apostasy.”«
- Islam as divine judgment
- Fall of Eastern Christianity
- Prophetic interpretation of the Arabs
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