Walid Shoebat is a former Muslim who converted to Christianity and now makes a living peddling his anti-Islam “expertise” to various right-wing groups.
Despite the fact that his tale of having grown up as a Muslim terrorist is highly suspect, Shoebat is regularly welcomed onto shows like the American Family Association’s “Today Issues,” as he was this morning, to explain to AFA president Tim Wildmon that Jesus predicted that Christians would be beheaded by Muslims and that the Antichrist would be a Muslim.
Citing Revelation 20, Shoebat declared that “Jesus prophetically proclaimed that the Christians will be beheaded in the End of Days,” which seems to be an odd misreading of this passage, as it was John, the author of Revelation, not Jesus, who said that “I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God” when he was taken up to Heaven.
Even Wildmon seemed confused by Shoebat’s claim, but Shoebat continued on undaunted, declaring that a key component of the Antichrist will be the denial of the Father and the Son, which must mean that the Antichrist will be a Muslim.
“How hard is it to unravel the Scripture?,” Shoebat asked. “When I read it, I read it as a Muslim – as a Muslim! – and I saw myself in Scripture as the enemy of God and I repented.”
The rise of ISIS and its attacks on Christians, Shoebat predicted, will eventually lead to a Christian revival in America.
“So yes, this is a curse,” he asserted, “but sometimes it’s like the manure: it stinks to high Heaven but it makes sweet fruit in the end. I know, in the end, that America will be victorious. How do I know that? From the Bible”:
