Joel Richardson

Joel Richardson is an American evangelical author, speaker, filmmaker, and the founder of Joel's Trumpet ministry. He is principally known for articulating the "Islamic Antichrist" eschatological view — that the biblical Antichrist will arise from a Muslim cultural-political-religious framework rather than from a European Roman-Empire-revival framework as classical dispensationalism (Lindsey, Hagee) has typically held. *The Islamic Antichrist: The Shocking Truth about the Real Nature of the Beast* (2006) and *Mideast Beast: The Scriptural Case for an Islamic Antichrist* (2012, NYT bestseller) are the foundational articulations. He has also produced documentary films and continues active ministry on Mid-East-focused eschatological teaching. He is married and has substantial cross-cultural-mission orientation toward Muslim contexts.

• Rapture Timing — Pre-millennial; Richardson holds substantively dispensationalist framework with Mid-East geographic refocus. The 70th week of Daniel and tribulation framework operate within Islamic-Antichrist reading.
• Modern State Prophetic Significance — Pro-Israel; modern Israel is the eschatological-prophetic regathering and central to end-times geographic focus.
• Antichrist Identity — The biblical Antichrist arises from an Islamic / Eastern-Roman-Byzantine successor framework rather than a Western-Roman successor. Islamic eschatological figures (Mahdi) correspond with reversed-identity to biblical end-times figures. Substantive reframing of classical-dispensationalist Antichrist-identity.
• Unreached Peoples Priority — Substantive Muslim-evangelism orientation; the framework's stated intent is Muslim conversion through eschatological dialogue. Contested by Zwemer Center critique on whether the framework's effect actually serves this stated intent.

• Joel's Trumpet