Muhammad was not interested in just starting a religion. He called all men everywhere to come out of idolatry to the one true god. Unfortunately the one true god of Islam is not the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore not the God of the Bible.

Through the writings of the Koran we understand that Muhammad envisioned a world under Allah's control. That's religious and military control. The goal has not changed. "Allah is greater," is the shout and the passion of true Muslims. Every nation they have conquered has come under Islamic law. Democracy is, as it was for the Romanists who moved to the Western world a few hundred years ago, a means to an end. The end is a Theocracy. An even brief look at the Muslim nations of the world will bear this out.

So do I contrast Jesus here, and say that all He really wants is a spiritual kingdom, a place where freedom of religion prevails, a place of liberty somewhat like the founding fathers of America envisioned? Does Jesus wish for democracy to prevail eternally? Or does He too envision world control? What saith the Word?

God has set Jesus on the holy hill called Zion, in prophecy, not because the view is good up there. Jesus will rule and reign from that place. One day the kingdoms of this world, Islamic and democratic alike, will become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ. And Jesus shall reign forever and ever.

Muhammad and Jesus have nearly identical goals.

We see in Matthew 4 the first intimations of a challenge to the Lordship of Jesus. Satan promises Jesus the kingdoms of the world in exchange for worship. Jesus refuses Him because He knows He shall have that world by conquest one day. Satan, and anyone trying for world power, is a usurper.

Call the roll of the power hungry of the earth. Nebuchadnezzar, Antiochus, Caesar, Hitler, Napoleon. Where are they now? And where is Jesus now? Quietly but powerfully gathering a people. And that people will reign with Him when he comes.