The 12th Imam Rise of the Antichrist: The 12th Imam, #1

By James W Parker

Today the news is filled with accounts of the rising tide of Islamic governments across the Middle East based on Sharia Law leading into an Islamic caliphate. Iran is now closer than ever to developing a nuclear weapon and Muslim terrorism against the United States is increasing as the events in Benghazi have shown.
Against this backdrop, in the not too distant future, Iran has successfully developed several nuclear bombs and decided to use them against Israel and the West.
The attack goes better than planned as the nuclear attacks coincide with the biblical event known as the rapture,which devastates America, but leaves the Muslim world virtually untouched due to the small number of Christians within their borders.
This disparity now leaves the Islamic countries in a perfect situation to continue their move to take over the world and to unite it under Islam. Iran receives unexpected help from the Mahdi, the long awaited Islamic messiah, whose coming was predicted 1,200 years ago.
The 12th Imam is based on actual prophecies found in the Bible, Jewish and Islamic writings that parallel each other, making for an exciting read leaving one to wonder how much is fiction and how much is soon to be reality.

In a story ripped from today's headlines, Iran has launched a nuclear attack on Israel and the Great Satan, the United States. The president of Iran has little idea that his grand plan would initiate a series of events that fulfills prophecies in both Islamic and Christian holy writings. The return of the Islamic Messiah, the one the Bible calls the Antichrist, is imminent. The missiles go astray and destroy the Dome of the Rock. While the Israeli attack fails, Iranian agents succeed in destroying the nation's capital as well as several American cities. At the same time, Christians are removed from the earth in a mass exodus. The 12th Imam, the long awaited Islamic Messiah, returns from the Jamkaran well, from a slumber of nearly 1,200 years. These events unite Jewish, Islamic and the remaining Christian adherents as each of their end-times writings converge on a single individual. The Twelfth Imam: Rise of the Antichrist is a fast-paced thriller that will keep the reader on a roller-coaster ride that never slows down. The book is not your normal work of Christian end-times fiction. Its doomsday premise is based not just on real-world events, but actual threat assessments from national security experts and think tanks regarding scenarios that can plunge America back to the dark ages.

About 1.8 billion live under Islam, the second largest religion.

Islam has been trying to take over the world since Mohamed established it in the 6th century.

Shia Islam, Iran being one of the largest Shiite countries, believes in a coming Islamic Messiah, the 12th Imam, who will come and rule the world for 7 years at the end of time. Antichrist?

Many Shiites believe they can hurry his return by destroying Israel.

Islamic details about the 12th Imam line up with Bible details about the Antichrist.

Could the Religion of the Antichrist be with us already?

James Parker has taken the well-established Bible doctrine of the rapture and presented it with a fresh look by tying it to Islamic end-time prophesies. Parker has shown there is a clear Islamic connection to Christian end-time prophesies regarding the antichrist. His first novel is a fast-paced political action thriller that will appeal to religious and secular lovers of mystery and mayhem. The action takes place mostly in New York City and the Islamic countries of the Middle East. Parker skillfully weaves together end times theology from the three great Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – and explores a maze of ancient prophecies that, if unchecked, might lead to "the end of days."

• Language: English
• Publisher: James W Parker
• Release date: Sep 30, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223072089

James W Parker

James Parker is currently a Pharmacist living in Las Vegas. He has competed in the Church Training Service of First Free Will Baptist Church in Garland, Texas, where he also competed in Music and Arts for singing and songwriting. He has written over 100 songs. He became interested in Islam in 2006, which led him to research the Islamic end-time prophesies and the Islamo-political events in the Middle East which formed the basis for this book. Parker has combined his knowledge of Islamic prophesies with decades of experience studying the bible to produce a compelling look at future events from a fresh and unique perspective. He attends Liberty Baptist Church in Las Vegas with his wife and family, where they are directors in the children's department on Sunday mornings

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About the Author

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James Parker is currently a Pharmacist living in Las Vegas. He has competed in the Church Training Service of First Free Will Baptist Church in Garland, Texas, where he also competed in Music and Arts for singing and song writing. He has written over 100 songs. He became interested in Islam in 2006 which led him to research the Islamic end time prophesies as well as the Islamo- political events in the Middle East which formed the basis for this book.

Israel

Introduction

According to the Bible, God promised to make Abraham a great nation through his son Isaac. He

restated the promise with Isaac and then again with Jacob, who was later renamed Israel by the Lord. God also promised to give their descendants the land of Canaan for inheritance and that He would send a redeemer; who would come from the nation of Israel, out of the tribe of Judah, who would save the world from their sins.

When God brought the Children of Israel out of Egypt, He told them that they would dwell in the land if they continued to obey Him. Because of their continual idol worship and rebellion, it was prophesied that the nation of Israel would be scattered throughout the earth; but that in the 'Last Days,' God would gather them back together and make them into a nation once more. On May 14, 1948, the nation of Israel was re-established, and during the 'Great Tribulation,' the temple is

supposed to be rebuilt.¹²³

The Rapture

When the Jews rejected Jesus as their Messiah, it gave a chance for the Gentiles, anyone who is not Jewish, to receive Him as their savior. In the 'Last Days,' Jesus will come back for His people and take them back to Heaven to be with Him. Only the Father knows when this will happen, but it will be a time when men blaspheme God and are boastful and proud.

It will also be a time when people are unthankful and disobedient to parents, have unnatural affections, and despise those that are good. It will be a time when men love pleasure more than they love God. Anyone who has accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, whether they are Jew or Gentile, will be taken. It will happen in the blink of an eye, leaving

¹ Gen. 12:1-3, 12:7, 13:15, 15:7&18, 17:19&21, 22:18, 26:3-5,

27:28-9, 28:14, 49:10

² Deut. 29:9-14 & 24-8, 30:1-10

³ Amos 9:14-15

the unsaved to go through the 'Great Tribulation.456789

The Great Tribulation

The Great Tribulation is a seven-year period of time that begins after the rapture has occurred, a time when the 'Antichrist' will appear. At that time, the 'Two Witnesses' will appear and give witness of Jesus Christ as the 'Messiah' for three and one-half years. The 'Antichrist' will make a treaty with the nation of Israel (allowing them to rebuild the temple and re-establish the old sacrificial system), establish a one- world government and rule the world. It will be a time when God will pour out His judgment against the world, and Israel will turn back to Him as their God.10

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⁴ Acts 1:8, 11:18

⁵ Matt. 24:44, 25:13

⁶ Mark 13:32

⁷ Luke 21:24

⁸ Thess. 4:16-8, 5:2

⁹ 2 Tim. 3:1-7

¹⁰ Rev. 7:14, 11, 12:3-4, 13:5-7, 15, 16

Islam

Islam is the second-largest religion in the world.11 It was founded by Muhammad in the sixth century. There are over 1.8 billion Muslims living in more than two hundred countries around the world. They make up about twenty-three percent of the world population. More than three hundred million Muslims live in countries where Islam is not the majority religion. China has more Muslims than Syria, and Russia has more Muslims living in it than there are in Jordan and Libya combined. Europe has about thirty-eight million Muslims, and there are between four and six million Muslims in America. Muslims can be found on all of the inhabited continents of the world. Islam has been trying to take over the world since Mohamed established it in the 6th century.

Exclusive of Pakistan, there are over 10,000 mosques in the world:  Asia, 815;

¹¹ Mapping the Global Muslim Population, by the Pew Research Center. www.pewforum.org

Australia and Pacific Islands, 17; Europe, 54; North America, Central America, and South America, 59; Africa, over 9000.

The Wabash Mosque in Chicago was the first house of Allah built in the United States. It was erected in 1922. Since that time, forty more mosques have been added, with about thirty just since 1982. Although every Khulafaa (Khaleefah: (plural: khulafaa'). Anglicized as caliph.) Steward, vicegerent; successor. Man is referred to as the Khaleefah or steward of God on earth. The word khaleefah was used after the death of the noble Prophet Muhammad to refer to his successor, Abu Bakr, as head of the Muslim community. Later it came to be accepted as the designation for the head of the Muslim state.

Historically, for Muslims, it has been important to build mosques.1213 The pace started picking up speed after 1982 with the expansion of the Jamaat (Group,

¹² http://www.sacred-destinations.com/sacred-sites/mosques.htm

¹³ http://www.islamicity.com/Culture/MOSQUES/

congregation, community. Example: Jamaat ul-Fuqra (alternatively Jamaat al- Fuqra) (Arabic: جماعة فقراء ال, Community of the Impoverished) is a paramilitary organization of mostly African-American Muslims based in Pakistan and ...).

Building mosques is our priority because the Holy Quran says so.

The promised Messiah of Islam said: if you want Islam to progress, build a mosque.

Mosques will continue to be built in order to see victory for Islam and unification of mankind.

That he may cause it to prevail over all other religions. (48.29)

The 12th Imam

Shia Islam, Iran being one of the largest Shiite countries, believes in a coming Islamic Messiah, the 12th Imam, who will come and rule the world for seven years at the end of time. According to Shiites in Islam, the 12th Imam, or 'The Mahdi' (also known as 'The Guided One), is a descendent of Muhammad who went into hiding around the tenth century in the Jamkaran well.1415 He is said to be in occultation, or suspended animation, and will reappear near the end of time when there are oppression and tyranny. He will set up a perfect government and give people perfect spirituality. Islamic details about the 12th Imam line up with Bible details about the Antichrist.

There are some factions within Islam who believe they can hurry the return of the 12th Imam by attacking Israel and destroying it.

¹⁴ http://www.inplainsite.org/html/imam_mahdi.html

¹⁵ https://www.allaboutpopularissues.org/12th-imam.html

Could the Religion of the Antichrist be with us now?

Chapter 1

So It Begins

Ahmadinejad: Israel dying, Mideast to destroy it when given a chance.

By Reuters Israel is a ‘stinking corpse’ doomed to

disappear

Said in 2005, 'Israel should be wiped off the map.'

Tells west: 'Accept Israel's imminent collapse.'

Iran President: 'Israel flies Satan's flag.'

USA Today

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Sometime in the future ...

Jacques Gilliam, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, called the General Assembly to order, "We are going to start this morning's session with a special

announcement from the president of Iran. After a brief pause, he continued. He has an urgent announcement to make. Please, Mr. President, the floor is yours.

President Zaakir made his way towards the front of the assembly. He almost skipped with delight as he contemplated what he was about to share with other national leaders. Finally, he would make an indelible mark on world history.

To the casual observer, Zaakir did not exude any significant characteristics one would associate with a radical regime such as Iran. He was rather short, around five- and-a-half-feet tall. His hair was cut short on the top and tapered along the sides like a military cut. He wore a pair of round John Lennon-style eyeglasses and sported a mustache and a beard. His rise to power in the Iranian government was unusual and somewhat quick. Unlike previous presidents, he did not come from a wealthy family. There were rumors in intelligence circles that powerful factions had enabled him to assume the office, but there was never any definitive proof of this.

Nevertheless, this did not stop the rumors

from spreading.

When he left Iran for New York City some days before, he had not dared share even the slightest detail of his announcement, not even with his family. He wanted them to be as surprised as the rest of the world. Now, he thought, they would be especially proud of him. He knew they were proud that he had been elected president, but now he would be one of the greatest heroes of Islam and the Iranian people. He knew that he had had a mediocre presidency and accomplished very little during his term. There had been no scientific or otherwise great achievements during his tenure or at any time in his entire career, for that matter.

Next week, his term in office would be over, but he would be remembered as a hero of the state. Statues, he envisaged, would be erected in his honor. People would name buildings and their children after him. Stories would be told about his greatness for generations to come. They would tell of the president who had led the nation of Iran into a new and glorious future.

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As President Zaakir approached the speaker’s platform, somewhere in the Iranian desert in a secret bunker hidden under the ancient sands, General Hamal

Latif watched closely. He had been waiting for this signal. He turned and looked at his men. Earlier that day, he had spoken to the president, and they had finalized all the arrangements for the sinister deed that was about to begin.

The soldiers were busy working at their posts around the bunker, which was hidden almost at the center of the country. Every man there was a hardliner that Latif had handpicked for this assignment, and all of them, like himself, were totally loyal to the Mullahs, the Religious leaders, and the president. They were all willing to follow their orders to the letter without question. These men were all battle-tested, hardened, and willing, at a moment's notice, to kill the enemy or lay down their lives for their country without hesitation.

As he looked around at the technology, he chuckled to himself with delight. The

secret base he was standing in was built underneath the former atomic research facility at Lavizan-Shian. The facility was originally created to enrich uranium for use in the government’s nuclear missile program. The world believed it had been demolished, and the earth around it was scraped clean after it was discovered by the west.

What they didn't know was that the Iranian government had allowed the facility to be discovered in order to carry out a master deception. While satellites watched the site being destroyed, an amazing bit of choreography was going on. During the evenings, and when the satellites were not overhead, a dedicated team excavated a new facility several hundred yards away.

To the casual observer, the construction was simply part of the cleanup process. Once the site of the former facility had been swept clean, western intelligence lost all interest, instead directing its energies into finding out where the new uranium enriching facility had moved. This permitted the military to quietly build a hidden missile base on the graveyard of the

previous facility.

General Latif commanded authority. His military bearing could be felt even if he was dressed as a civilian. The general was a husky man, who, despite his age, maintained a perfect physique. The scars that ran along his right cheekbone revealed that he had seen his share of combat. They were a reminder of his younger days when he was shot by an enemy rifle during the Iran-Iraq war. However, what was most frightening about Latif were his eyes. The blackness in them had a piercing effect on a person, even if they were not looking directly at him. His stare could be felt by those he was looking at. It caused them to get that uneasy feeling that they were being watched.

He cleared his throat, and every man in the bunker quickly stopped everything he was doing, turned around, and snapped to attention.

Men, he said in a clear, strong voice. The time has come for us to claim our rightful place in the world. The signal has been given.

Nodding, the men all returned to complete the jobs that they had previously been working on. The general then turned to Major Jamal Sattar and said, Initiate the final launch sequences.

Yes, sir, replied the major. He turned to the two soldiers who were positioned at the command console. You heard the general. Start the final launch sequence and insert your launch keys.

Sergeants Ahmad Baseer and Imani Luqman both looked up from their positions at the console and replied simultaneously, Yes, sir, then started flipping switches in front of them. Next, they both reached up to remove the launch keys that were hanging around their necks under their uniforms. They each inserted their keys into the console and looked back up at Major Sattar for the command to launch.

On my mark, turn your keys to launch position, he said. Three, two, one, mark. With that, both men turned their keys.

High above the underground bunker on the desert floor, three hidden silos opened, revealing stealth-clad, nuclear-tipped

missiles.

On my mark, launch your missiles, continued the major. Three, two, one, mark.

Both men, without hesitation, pressed their launch buttons. All three missiles ignited, and as the flames rose around them their sleek black bodies rose from their launch pads on their way to their targets.

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President Zaakir and Latiff had perfectly timed the attack against the nation of Israel to coincide with his speech. As a secondary part of the operation, he had also created several terror squads, which nobody outside of his inner circle knew about and designated their target cities in the United States.

These troops had all been specially trained for their particular mission, one that he did not plan to share with his audience at this time. These squads had received their latest instructions, and at this very moment, they were making their final preparations for the strike against the

Great Satan. He was about to accomplish the will of Allah. These attacks were the last tasks that needed to be accomplished in order to bring about the long-anticipated return of the twelfth Imam- the Mahdi, who had long ago disappeared into the Jakaram well and would now soon reappear from that same well.

The well, located in the city of Qom, had been Zaakir’s last stop before beginning his journey to New York and the United Nations building. He had prayed to Allah for the success of his mission and his place in history upon making his announcement to the world. He had removed the cover to the well so the Mahdi would have no difficulty getting out. Initially, the seal had been placed there to keep people out. Upon his return, the Mahdi would finally take his rightful place as the leader of Islam. He would unite the different factions into one invincible force and rule the entire world in the name of Allah.

As he ascended the steps to the

speaker’s platform, his heart pounded wildly. Despite the lump in his throat, he could hardly wait to share his news with

fellow believers.

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"We’re going to destroy the Zionist pigs once and for all," he mused as he topped the platform. When President Zaakir reached the microphone, he turned to the General Assembly and, looking intently at them, and began his speech.

As he spoke his words were translated through the headphones of several ambassadors so that they could understand everything he said.

"Ladies and gentlemen of the world, I am here today to make an announcement that is