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records that when Mohammed was about to receive a revelation from Allah: '...he would often fall
down on the ground, his body would begin to jerk, his eyes would roll backward, and he would
perspire profusely. They would often cover him with a blanket during such episodes' [Morey, The
Islamic Invasion, p. 71]. It was while Mohammed was in this 'trance-like' state that he received
his 'divine' revelations. 'After the trance, he would rise and proclaim what had been handed down
to him' [ibid.]" (The Great Deception: Philistine, p. 43). Most Western and many Arab biogra-
phies of Muhammad believe that he suffered from epilepsy -- but the above clearly indicates that
he was under the influence of demons.

The facts of Islam agree exactly with the meaning of the symbols contained in these visions
from the Book of Revelation. The conclusion we must draw from this is that the fulfillment of a
prophecy is proven -- the divine nature of the prophecy is established by the coming to pass of the
thing prophesied. In light of this, how can commentators, like the one just quoted, recognize and
admit that the things prophesied in Revelation 9 have come to pass -- yet refuse to accept them as
the fulfillment of the prophecy?

The Two Stages of Islam

There is one extraordinary fact in the history of Islam that calls for special attention be-
cause it is a strong proof to the correctness of our interpretation. That fact is that the rise and
spread of Islam has been in TWO DISTINCT STAGES. Its rise was in the Saracenic form and is
dated from the "Hegira" (the flight of Muhammad) in 622 A.D. The Caliph Omar led his conquer-
ing armies of Saracens into Syria in 632. The Roman armies were annihilated and in 637 Jerusa-
lem was captured. However, the spread of Islam was arrested by King Charles Martel of the
Franks at the Battle of Tours in 732 A.D. -- after which followed a long period of stagnation.

The battle of Tours -- sometimes called the battle of Poitiers -- marks the turning point in
the northern advance of the Moors. The victory of the Franks checked once and for all the fast-
moving expansion of Islam into western Europe. In 711 the Arabs had crossed the Straits of Gi-
braltar and conquered the weak Visigothic kingdom of Spain. A few years later they crossed the
Pyrenees and, in 720, captured the city of Narbonne -- which then became the base for their further
progress into Gaul (France). In 720, the year in which the Arab attacks began in earnest, Eudo,
duke of Aquitaine, made peace with Charles Martel and relieved Toulouse from an Arab siege the
following year, winning a decisive victory over the Islamic hordes. But, after a short respite, the
Arabs renewed the attack in 725. A strong army crossed the eastern Pyrenees, captured Carcas-
sonne and Nimes, and occupied the greater part of the province of Septimania. In the same year
they made a raid into Burgundy and destroyed the city of Autun.

With a renewal of war between Eudo and Charles Martel the Arabs, under the leadership
of 'Abd-ar-Rahman, took advantage of the situation and captured Bordeaux -- which they promptly
burnt to the ground. Eudo, who had hastened to check the Islamic advance, was defeated with the
loss of the greater part of his army between the Garonne and the Dordogne. The Arabs pressed for-
ward, plundering as they went, along the line of the old Roman road which ran northward from
Bordeaux through Poitiers to Orleans. At Poitiers they destroyed the basilica of St. Hilary. Their
next objective was Tours, which attracted them because of the immense riches of the famous

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