The annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia began with more than two million Muslims going to Mount Arafat to perform the central rite of the Hajj as they traced the journey of the Islamic prophet Mohammad.
Muslims from all over the world including more than 1.5 million foreign pilgrims from 177 different nationalities had made their way to Saudi Arabia and into Mecca where Saudi officials said the kingdom had prepared itself to deal with major potential emergencies during the Hajj including fires, stampedes, torrential rains, food poisoning, terror attacks, and even chemical attacks. The Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam and a once-in-a-lifetime obligation for all devout, able bodied Muslims with the means for the journey.
Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News
The annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia by millions of Muslims is only one of the doctrines of the Islamic faith that has prophetic implications for the End Times, that is according to Bible prophecy. As one of the five pillars of the Islamic faith, the Hajj, a trip to Mecca, Islam's most holy site, is a dream and almost always becomes a reality for every Muslim of the world.
Other key factors of the Islamic faith is that Allah is the only true god, that Mohammad is Allah's sent prophet and his representative to the Muslim people and that the Koran is the book that Allah has given to the Muslim people, their holy book. Let me remind you that Allah is not the same god as the God of the Christians and the Jews and that conclusion is reached by Allah's statement in the Koran that he has no son, while the Christian God has a Son and His name is Jesus Christ.
As the Hajj is a pillar of the Islamic faith, so is the eschatology of Islam a key factor to the ultimate goal of Islam: that a messiah will come to convert all of humankind to Islam and setup a world dominion all under the theocracy of Allah. Of course, the conflict is that God's prophetic Word reveals that Jesus Christ will be the Messiah who comes to setup His Kingdom on earth to rule and reign from Jerusalem as the Supreme Being that will not be Allah, the Islamic god.
The annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca by more than two million Muslims is evidence that this world is on a collision course. Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.
