<p>17:12 <i>And the ten horns you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings with the beast, for one hour</i>- These ten kings would correspond with the ten toes of Daniel's image which stand upon the earth / land promised to Abraham just before the &quot;little stone&quot; of the returning Lord Jesus destroys them; the ten nations of the latter day confederacies of Psalm 83 and Ez. 38, the ten Canaanite nations which had to be driven out of the land / earth. The focus here is on the leadership; these ten kings may be located in Jerusalem along with the beast. Their actual possession of power over the land is very brief- just &quot;one hour&quot;. And it is in &quot;one hour&quot; that Babylon is destroyed (18:10,17,19).</p><p>Radical Islam has a lot to say about the land promised to Abraham- what the Bible prophecies refer to as the <i>eretz</i> or land / earth. The Islamic State and al-Nusra Front speak much about it; their definition of the Levant or Sham is pretty much that of the land promised to Abraham. &lsquo;Nusra&rsquo; is an acronym standing for the Front for the Defence of the Levant. They claim to be fighting to prepare the way for the coming of the Mahdi to establish God&rsquo;s Kingdom worldwide; they call the land promised to Abraham &ldquo;Land of <i>Malahim</i>,&rdquo; or &ldquo;epic battles&rdquo;, and they expect there to be the <i>al-Malhamah al-Kubra</i>, the &ldquo;Great Battle of the last hour&rdquo;, at Jerusalem. This is what the Bible calls Armageddon. When the true Jesus appears in Jerusalem, all nations in the earth / land will be gathered together to battle at Jerusalem. And the jihadist theology is preparing them for this. They consciously speak of their caliphate as being extended over the land promised to Abraham, and they are urging people to leave their native lands as Abraham left his, and journey to live in the caliphate, comprised as they wish it to be, of the territory promised to Abraham. They call their caliph or leader &lsquo;Caliph Ibrahim / Abraham&rsquo;, and urge migration or <i>hijrah</i> to the land promised to him. The pieces are all falling into place to fulfil the Biblical pictures of the last days. Jihadist theology makes much of &lsquo;signs of the times&rsquo;, leading up to the coming of the Mahdi and the final battle against the antiChrist. These &lsquo;signs of the times&rsquo; they look for are often the same signs which are to be found in the Bible, e.g. the re-establishment of Israel as a nation before Armageddon. So as they apparently come true, Islamists are the more convinced that antiChrist who they call <i>Dajjal </i>and understand to be a Jew is about to appear in Jerusalem, and they must fight him in the last great battle, in order to enable the Mahdi to return. Who they consider to be the antichrist will in fact be the true Christ. They will rush to fight Him, believing Him to be the antichrist they are expecting. Their destruction by Him will presage the establishment of God&rsquo;s <i>true</i> Kingdom on earth, the revived and restored kingdom of Israel. This would explain why many Biblical terms used about the very last days are also found in Jihadist theology. They speak of the events of the very last days before the Mahdi returns as being &ldquo;the hour&rdquo;; and yet Revelation speaks of how the kings of the earth / land will have power for &ldquo;one hour&rdquo; and be destroyed likewise in &ldquo;one hour&rdquo; (Rev. 17:12; 18:10,17,19). These similarities are unsurprising because Mohammed clearly plagiarized the Bible and Judaism for his teachings.</p>