11.The spirit of Babel in empires of the Bible/The caliphates of Allah

Episode 11: A 2nd Letter to the Tribulation - Comparing End Time Prophecies
K02 The spirit of Babel in the empires of the Old Testament period and the coming tribulation
H02 After the prophet, Allah sends a caliphate, a kingdom, then a caliphate based on prophethood

0:00 Sections K02: :H02
1:15 Revelation: seven empires in John's prophecy
4:06 -the woman of Babylon links back to the tower of Babel
4:58 -the beast belongs to the seventh but will also be an eighth
6:08 Hadiths: prophecy of a succession of caliphates
8:04 -Allah will remove the caliphate when he wishes
10:30 -a final caliphate headed by the Mahdi
12:50 Comparison: how to be saved to internal life? Bible vs Islam
13:39 -what is the seventh empire, cut short, reconstituted as an eighth?
15:14 -the hadiths suggest they are caliphates of the Ottomans & the Mahdi
17:29 -this does not prove that the antichrist will the Mahdi
18:31 -but the God of the Bible may use the Mahdi to bring judgment
19:25 Close

Hadith references
12. Narrated by Ibn Ḥanbal, Musnad Aḥmad, 30:355, no. 18406, https://yaqeeninstitute.org/read/paper/the-prophecies-of-prophet-muhammad, accessed May 13, 2024; also referenced in `Ibn Izzat, Al Mahdi and the End of Time, Dar Al Taqwa Ltd., London, 1997, p.39-40.
17. Narrated by Abu Dawud, Mishkat al-Masabih 247, https://sunnah.com/mishkat:247, accessed July 7, 2024.