Allah The Great Imitator: “I Will be Like the Most High”
Isaiah 13 and 14 talk about the future destruction of Babylon and the fall of its king who will be the last days opressor of Israel. One of the key characteristics of the king of Babylon is his attempt to imitate the Most High God by exalting himself and his false god when he makes the following statement in Isaiah 14:14:
“I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH.”
This statement is followed by several other statements made by this end times ruler. They are:
- “I will ascend into heaven”
- “I will exalt my throne above the stars of God”
- “I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north”
- “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds.”
Most commentators believe this passage is a reference to Satan trying to usurp the place of God but when read in context, the passage is primarily about a literal geographical place on earth that is ruled by a human being. This place is referred to in Isaiah 13:19 as “Babylon, the beauty of the Chaldean’s pride” and its ruler is referred to in Isaiah 14:4 as the “king of Babylon” and in Isaiah 14:16 as the “man” who “made the earth tremble”, who “shook kingdoms”, who made the “world a wilderness” and who “destroyed cities.” This ruler is later called the “Assyrian” in Isaiah 14:25.
This is not a spiritual being, it’s a literal human being who is the ruler of a future empire to be centered in the land of the Chaldeans, the same place where Abram later called Abraham was called from by God in Genesis 15:7. This is the land we know today as Iraq.
For all those who have completely ignored the literal geographic and human aspects of this passage and have primarily considered it to be a reference to Satan based on the questionable use of the word “Lucifer” in Isaiah 14:12, I refer you to my article titled Forget Lucifer: Isaiah 14 is about Islam and Muhammed linked below.
The Coming Bible Prophecy ReformationIn the article above you will discover how the Hebrew word Heylel translated as Lucifer has a connection to the crescent moon and Islam which is further reinforced by my other article titled How Have You Fallen From Heaven, O Crescent of the Dawn linked below.
I strongly encourage you to read the two articles above before proceeding so this can make sense. Don’t get me wrong. Satan (the red dragon) is the spiritual power behind all of this as seen in Revelation 13 but we can’t ignore the literal human and geographical aspects of this prophecy and try to spiritualize it a many have done..
The first way the king of Babylon tries to imitate God is by “ascending to heaven.” Given to fact that this king of Babylon is connected to the crescent moon symbol of Islam and his geographic territory of Babylon/Chaldea/Iraq has Islam for its national religion, we can conclude he will follow in the footsteps of Muhammed who is believed by Muslims to have ascended to heaven from Jerusalem.
“The night journey and ascension of the [false] Prophet Muhammad was a miraculous occurrence during which he travelled from Makkah (Mecca) to Masjid Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem before ascending to heaven, all in one night. Isra’ is the night journey from Makka to Masjid Al-Aqsa. Mi’raj is the journey from Masjid Al-Aqsa to the heavens.”
This is pure jealousy and a delusional attempt to make Muslims believe that Muhammed was able to imitate the ascension of Jesus Christ to heaven as recorded by eyewitnesses in Acts 1:9-11.
The future king of Babylon will be the final sucessor of Muhammed and when read in context, the ascension to heaven might have more of a symbolic meaning rather than literal due to the fact that this king of Babylon says he will “ascend above the heights of the clouds” and “exalt his throne above the stars of God” and he accomplishes that specifically by sitting on the “the Mount of the Congregation on the sides of the North.”
The Mount of the Congregation on the sides of the north is a direct reference to Mount Zion also known as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in Psalm 48:2 and alluded to in Isaiah 14:13. The idea here is that the future king of Babylon will have a temple or shrine erected to the name of his crescent moon deity the same way the Most High God had two temples erected to His name in the past. This means that the king of Babylon will symbolically ascend to heaven by invading the Temple Mount in Jerusalem where two Israelite temples have existed and those temples were earthly representations of the heavenly temple as seen in Revelation.
When Paul says in 2 Thessalonians 2 that the man of sin will sit in the temple of God and declare that he is god (be like the most high), Paul was referring to Isaiah 14:12-15. Daniel 11:36-38 also says that the Antichrist will exalt himself above the God of gods while honoring a god of war that is strange or foreign to ancient Israel.
The fact that the Temple Mount has two Islamic shrines is no accident or coincidence. Those Islamic structures play a major role in the fulfillment of prophecy in the end times. The imitator wants to exalt himself above God and part of being like the Most High is having temples or shrines of his religion and false god standing on the exact same place where God had His temple.
Another way the imitator wants to be like the Most High is by using an ethnic group of people for his evil purposes. God chose the seed of Abraham through Isaac to be His representatives on earth. The imitator imitates God by also choosing the seed of Abraham through Ishmael first and foremost to imitate God and secondly, to oppose God and His representatives. The Arab-Israeli conflict is not an accident of history. It’s a carefully orchestrated evil plan to oppose God and His kingdom.
The imitator also demands that his followers have the mark and name of the false god of his religious empire on their right arm or forehead just like 144,000 Israelites have their father’s (Yahweh) name on their foreheads.
“Then I looked, and behold, a lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name written on their foreheads.” (Revelation 14:1)
“He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Revelation 13:16-17)
It is also interesting to note that Shia Muslims are waiting for the reappearance of the 12th imam known as Muhammed Al-Mahdi. He will be the last of a total of 12 spiritual and political successors of Muhammed. Why 12? Why not 10, 11 or 13?
In Revelation 21:12-14 we read that the New Jerusalem has 12 gates with the names of the 12 tribes of Israel and has twelve foundations with the names of the 12 Apostles of Christ. The 12th Imam will supposedly conquer earthly Jerusalem for Islam according to Shia end time beliefs. Is this all a coincidence or another carefully orchestrated plan of the imitator to have 12 representatives just like Jesus had 12 apostles or emissaries? Are you following the real God or the imitator? Your eternal destiny depends on your choice.
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