The theory dominates prophecy conferences and social media: the Antichrist will be a Muslim caliph who rides Islam’s current momentum to global power. Israeli Bible teacher Amir Tsarfati rejects that view outright.
“Many prophecy teachers think the Antichrist will be a Muslim,” Tsarfati stated in a teaching released last week. “They point to Islam’s global rise and aggression toward Israel. But this popular theory misses critical biblical truths which I will reveal today.”
Tsarfati does not downplay the present danger. Radical Islam is executing a documented, multi-front strategy against the West and Israel. “Jihad takes many forms,” he said. “Immigration is one. … Islamic leaders use immigration strategically to establish footholds in Western nations. Starting with mosques, then schools, creating parallel societies.”
He cites London’s radical imams, Paris no-go zones, and Germany’s unchecked migrant enclaves as proof that Sharia is already displacing national law in pockets of Europe.
Yet Tsarfati declares with certainty: the final Antichrist cannot emerge from Islam. Three biblical facts make it impossible.
1. The Antichrist will be worshiped by every tribe, tongue and nation (Rev. 13:7-8). “This simply couldn’t happen with an openly Muslim leader,” Tsarfati said.
No non-Muslim population will bow to a figure who demands submission to Allah.
2. The Antichrist will confirm a seven-year covenant with Israel and permit Jewish temple sacrifice on the Temple Mount (Dan. 9:27). “Something no Muslim would ever permit,” Tsarfati stated.
Rebuilding the Jewish temple beside or in place of the Dome of the Rock remains blasphemous to Islamic theology under any circumstance.
3. Islam’s military and religious credibility will be destroyed before the Antichrist appears. Ezekiel 38 details a coalition—Iran (Persia), Turkey (Togarmah), Libya and others, led by Russia—that invades Israel. God annihilates it with earthquake, fire and pestilence.
“When Russia, Iran, Turkey, and others are supernaturally defeated,” Tsarfati said, “Islam as a dominant world religion will be severely weakened. Hundreds of millions of Muslims will be searching for answers.”
That vacuum, not Islamic triumph, is what the Antichrist will exploit. Daniel 11:38 states he will honor “a god which his fathers did not know”—neither Allah nor the God of the Bible.
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Current Islamic aggression, therefore, is not the rise of the final empire. It is the prelude to its public humiliation on the mountains of Israel. Only after that defeat will the man of sin step onto the stage, offering a new religious system to a world whose Islamic hopes have just been shattered by the manifest power of Israel’s God.
Christians who invert this order are reading tomorrow’s headlines into yesterday’s verses. Tsarfati’s conclusion is blunt: “When we see radical Islam rising today, we’re not watching the Antichrist system emerging. We’re watching the stage being set for God to demonstrate his power for Israel.”
The biblical sequence is fixed. Islam will attack. God will answer. Then, and only then, the great deception begins.
James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a background in journalism from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine.
