Most people aren’t paying any attention. To what is happening. To what is most important. If paying attention, most don’t understand, because most do not have, use, and know the Holy Bible as their foundational source by which to gauge everything. If not using, knowing the lens of the Holy Bible to view the world, a person is seeing a very blurred view, a very mistaken view.

A lot of Christ followers are noticing how mad the world has gotten. Some are having a difficult time of it as they never imagined in their lifetime it would be like this.

While the delusion is great and increasing daily — yes, daily — we haven’t seen anything yet. Just wait. The thing is, the truly born again won’t see the strong delusion mentioned in Scripture that covers the earth as all the born again folks will be removed in the twinkling of an eye, the Rapture, and will not be here for the horrors to come.

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

2 Thessalonians 2:7-12

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

2 Thessalonians 2:7-12

But we’re getting a foretaste. And it is already bitter. 2 Thessalonians 2, Romans 1 are already unfloding right before us, all around us, hopefully not within you personally, friend. While the world, and more and more people professing to be Christian but not seeming to know what that truly means, are trying to make the bitter sweet, and the sweet bitter, the evil righteous, and the righteous evil.

One of the grandest movements of this is the ongoing and ever-growing push to create a one-world religion. Which will happen.

Once the true Christ followers are gone. That group includes any Gentile or Jew who knows Jesus is LORD, who has their faith in Him and Him alone, and obeys His voice, lives their life born anew, saved by His shed blood, His conquering death, His free gift of grace.

We live in the last of the last days. And it’s going to get worse by the day. Oh, there will be a respite or two along the way, more than likely, but do not fall prey to the delusion, the lie that someone is going to come along and make it all better.

The world and its lost people are not like a child who has fallen and bloodied a knee, and mom is going to kiss it and make it better.

Grow up. Grow in understanding of the whole Word of God. Grow in discernment — by faithfully asking the Holy Spirit for such.

That deluded, serving Satan Chicago Cubs fan who walks around in the white robe and pointy hat, pontificating and acting holy is one of the leading proponents of ushering in the strong delusion to come as he erodes language, perverts the Word of God, misleads many, and inches ever closer to achieving Satan’s goal of creating one world religion headed by his chosen one, the Antichrist.

It’s coming.

What are you doing now about your eternal soul’s salvation and place to reside?

What are you doing if you’re already born again and living in a time such as this?

Hummm…

Things to do, I’d say, while the Good Good Gracious Ever Patient [at least for a while longer] Great God blesses with breath, a beating heart, and opportunity. Today.

Because it’s going ot get even more difficult. Ignoring that reality or pretending it isn’t will not prepare a person. Be truly prepared and well-equipped. Not in ammo and emergency food or a $200,000 bunker.

Truly prepared and well-equipped in the Word of God. The whole Holy Bible. Faithful. Perservering. Not yielding to the cunning, the lies of the world. Standing firm. Bold. Discerning well and wisely, rightly dividing the Word.

Islam is the enemy of Christianity. Islam is the enemy of everything Western civilization built and once held dear and vital, understanding the gifts came from God. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of the Jewish and Christian Bible.

Islam is an enemy.

Love them by telling them of Jesus, that He is not merely a prophet, not as they have been lead to believe, but that He is God, He is the Messiah, He is the only way to the Father and eternal life — but do not trust them, think for a minute tha Islam is anything other than what it is — the enemy of God, the enemy of Jesus, the enemy of the Holy Spirit, the enemy of Christ followers, the enemy of the West, the enemy of Truth.

Harsh? No, just the facts. Better come to terms now and deal with them, understand, before being fodder for the false teachers and delusions the world gravitates to.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Saturday, April 18, 2026

 

 

Christians, Muslims, and the Truth About ‘Interfaith Dialogue’

 

Where is Pope Urban II when you need him?

 

April 17, 2026

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Reprinted from Frontpage Magazine

 

In a passionate speech at the Council of Clermont in 1095, Pope Urban II issued a call for the First Crusade to liberate Jerusalem from Muslim occupation. “Deus vult!” the cry went up from the assembled crowd. “God wills it!” And Christendom responded.

That was a different era. Today the West is no longer Christendom but a secular civilization in decline and undergoing an accelerating capitulation to Islamic imperialism. Instead of a Pope Urban II rallying the Church Militant in defense of the faith, we are saddled with a pacifist Pope Leo XIV calling for “interfaith dialogue” and “communion” between Christianity and the Islamic ideology that is, both historically and currently, an existential enemy of Western civilization.

The Church Militant, by the way, refers in Catholic theology to those serving as soldiers (from the Latin milites) of God engaged in spiritual warfare against sin and evil in the world – not only internally against our own broken nature but externally against Satan and his evil agents.

Fresh from declaring that Jesus Christ rejects the prayers of those who wage war, in denial not only of thousands of years of righteous Jewish and Christian warriors appealing to God for victory but also of more than 1600 years of Catholic “just war” theory, Pope Leo is currently on a tour of territories whose Christian populations have been either radically reduced or nearly eradicated by Islamic supremacism. His message is one, frankly, of willful ignorance: that Christians and Muslims can live together in peace, and that anyone who says otherwise is ginning up conflict and hatred for reasons of bigotry and/or politics.

“I know that in Europe,” Leo begins in the video clip above,

there are many times fears that are present but oftentimes generated by people who are against immigration and trying to keep out people who, maybe from another country or religion another race. In that sense, I would say that we all need work together.

Leo glossed right over the real reason why “many times fears are present” in Europe: the presence of millions of Muslim migrants, a flood of whom is still ongoing, is forcing a fundamental and unsustainable transformation of those Christian countries into increasingly Islamized colonies in which sharia law, no-go zones, terrorism, streets blocked by masses of praying Muslims, soaring knife crime and a literal rape culture, and open hostility toward Jewish and Christian infidels are now part of the new normal for all indigenous Europeans, who oftentimes are treated by their own globalist elites – like Pope Leo – as the real threat to civil society.

“One of the values of this trip,” Leo added about his tour, “is precisely to raise the world’s attention to the possibility that dialogue and friendship between Muslims and Christians is possible.”

Possible? Well, yes, but almost anything is within the realm of possibility. Unicorns are possible. Dialogue and friendship are certainly possible, but by definition, they are two-way streets. Christians are perfectly willing to live in peace and friendship; this is not in question. The issue is, are Muslims willing to reciprocate?

I understand that as Pope, the Chicago-born Leo is in the business of promoting peace on earth for men of goodwill. But Christians and Muslims have different understandings of what the word “peace” entails. For Christians, the word is defined as the absence of conflict; for devout Muslims, peace means a world in which all have submitted to Allah and live under sharia. Hence, their view is that the world is divided into Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb – the world of Islam and the world of war. This is not a worldview conducive to tolerance and inclusion. And yet it is always Christians, never Muslims, who are expected to concede, to defer, to change, and to be “welcoming,” even at the cost of our traditions, our values, even our churches themselves, and too often even our lives.

Pope Leo and his ilk seem unable or unwilling to grasp that “interfaith dialogue” between Christians and Muslims is always, in reality, a monologue in which we are expected to listen and accommodate the latter accordingly. Sayyid Qutb, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, argued that interfaith dialogue with the West should be undertaken only to draw infidels over to Islam, bringing concessions with them.

The willful blindness of Pope Leo and multicultural fantasists aside, there are no historic or contemporary examples in which Islam and Christianity live perpetually side-by-side as equals in peaceful harmony. Individual Christians and thoroughly Westernized Muslims, yes, but not the two cultures as a whole. The demonstrable reality is that wherever Islam gets a foothold in Christian countries, it leverages that foothold and exploits Western freedoms, rights, and pluralism in order to expand its political and social power. It wields deception, coercion, demographic jihad, and ultimately violence in order to subvert the host culture and begin seizing control, once its population has become a significant enough minority (this could be as low as a single-digit percentage of the population; Muslims make up an estimated 4-7% of the Belgian population, 6.6% of Germany, perhaps 7% of England, and 10% of France). Eventually, Christians and Jews flee, are expelled, or are reduced to scant dhimmi minorities in their own countries.

As my Freedom Center colleague Daniel Greenfield put it recently, after the Pope visited Algeria and paid his respects at a monument celebrating genocidal jihad,

In 1955, Algeria had over 1 million Catholics and 140,000 Jews. Today, as Pope Leo visits Algeria, there are some 8,000 Catholics in Algeria and there are fewer than 200 Jews.

99% of the population of what was one of the old territories of Christianity are Sunni Muslims.

Subsequently, when Leo visited Lebanon, he praised the country as a model of Christian-Muslim coexistence: “I think one of the great lessons that Lebanon can teach to the world is precisely showing a land where Islam and Christianity are both present and are respected, and that there is an opportunity to live together, to be friends.”

In fact, Lebanon was a Christian-majority country from the first century A.D. onward until as recently as the 1980s. In a few short decades Christians went from a 60+ percent majority to a minority of perhaps 30 percent. To gain an understanding of how that came about, read the autobiography of Act for America activist Brigitte Gabriel about her childhood experience as a Lebanese Christian.

As one poster on X wrote,

Celebrating Lebanon as a model of coexistence, without naming the very real persecution, demographic collapse, and Hezbollah-driven hostility that has decimated the Christian population, risks producing a romanticized narrative that does not serve the truth — or the Christians still living there.

As went the Middle East, now goes Europe, where Islam has asserted itself with the complicity of the continent’s globalist leaders as the “strong horse” over a Christianity in decline. Other Western societies, such as Australia, are soon to follow – even the United States is not immune – unless dramatic, perhaps even illiberal, steps are taken to turn the tide and reclaim the West’s predominantly Christian identity. This will require a Church Militant willing to stand in defense of our faith and push back against Islamic persecution and hostility. At the very least, the entire West needs to undertake a new, lawful Reconquista through remigration. If such steps are not taken, the demise of Christianity and the dominance of Islam will be accelerated and assured.

Follow Mark Tapson at Culture Warrior.

Photo credit: painting of Pope Urban II calling for the First Crusade by 19th century Italian painter Francesco Hayez (public domain)