Up front, I must confess I really don’t know exactly what this might mean, prophetically speaking, with regard to Jesus’ answer to His disciples’ question: “What shall be the sign of your coming and of the end of the world?” But developments are rapidly taking place surrounding Pope Francis’ death concerning the sudden emergence of a Messianic figure from within the Muslim world. I strongly suspect those developments have prophetic significance.

The following news story piqued my attention regarding a matter that’s long been swirling within the Islamic religion, as considered by students within Bible prophecy:

A powerful figure has emerged in the Muslim world, and his newly founded religion is gaining followers worldwide. Shockingly, on Easter Sunday, his followers declared him to be the new pope, and the next day, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had passed away…

Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq, commonly known as Abdullah Hashem, was born in 1983 in Indiana to an Egyptian father and an American mother. He is an Egyptian-American and the founder of the Hamada Religion of Peace and Light (AROPL), not to be confused with the Ahmadiyya community discriminated against in Pakistan. He claims to be the Qa’im Al Muhammad, the reincarnation or second coming of Muhammad and the Mahdi (Messiah). Adherents of the religion believe him to be the second of twelve Mahdis appointed in the will of the Prophet Mohammed.

[The AROPL] group’s central mission is to build the Divine Just State, which a divinely appointed king will rule. This will be a theocratic state with the king appointed by, and a representative of, God rather than through a democratic election process. The AROPL is opposed to the idea of democracy.

He claims to be the “living successor of both Prophet Muhammad and Jesus Christ,” and his sermons bring “a divine message to the global Christian community.” He also claims to be “the successor to Simon Peter, the successor to Jesus Christ, the true and legitimate Pope.” (“The Muslim Messiah Is Here and He Is Coming to Replace the Pope,” Israel365 News, May 1, 2025)

I believe we are witnessing with the story above one of the first signals of the end of the age Jesus gave in answer to that question by His disciples.

“And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many” (Matthew 24:4-5).

A few years ago, I wrote about a report of a young Jewish man who displayed supernatural powers, according to some of the Jewish religious hierarchy. At the time, many were touting him as possibly being Israel’s long-awaited Messiah.

I tried to find that article, but I have so many files that I haven’t been able to locate that commentary yet.

Obviously, that Jewish phenom-man’s seeming supernatural displays faded into the burgeoning milieu engulfing the Jewish people and state.

“Messiah mania” among the Muslim world joins now in pointing to the lateness of the prophetic hour. The news item above tells of the Muslim candidate for Messiah (Mahdi) claiming to be the “living successor” to both Mohammed and Jesus Christ.

This assertion is almost certainly yet another of the end-of-the-age, false-Christ proclamations the Lord warned about.

Hoopla concerning the emergence of an Islamic messiah generates no angst for the world’s mainstream press. Any talk, however, of the Jewish Messiah coming to make Israel the head of all nations, of course, doesn’t sit well with the majority of earth’s powers that be. All but a very few countries object vehemently to Israel’s right to nationhood. Most, by far, believe Israel is an intruder in the Middle East, an imposter that has usurped the Palestinians’ rightful claims to the land. All nations—sadly, including America—still seek to divide the land granted to Israel by the God who created all that exists.

The “Messiah mania” we’re beginning to witness today is yet another end-times indicator for prophecy watchers to take into account.

Israel’s cry for their Messiah will—again, sadly—result in their accepting a false savior, one who will impose upon the Jewish people a holocaust more horrendous than the one with a capital “H” that was accomplished by the Nazi regime.

Antichrist will inflict upon that people a “final solution” that will try yet again to achieve Satan’s ages-long rage to rid the world of the Jew.

Thankfully, that attempt will result in Lucifer and his followers being destroyed in judgment from on high.

Israel will be a nation forever. We have God’s very word on it.

“And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. And I will give to you and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God” (Genesis 17:7-8).

Brethren, we don’t know who is the AC, but this is compelling to say the least!

COME LORD JESUS – COME QUICKLY!!

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