One thing that you may be of unaware of when it comes to ISIS is that they’re obsessed with end times prophecy.

In fact, the terrorists who have come from all over the globe believe their jihad in Syria will help reign in the Apocalypse. To bolster the group’s recruitment efforts, the jihadists promote the idea that a final battlebetween the armies of the Muslims and unbelievers will take place in Dabiq, an area located in northern Syria.

As far as the outcome of the battle goes, ISIS believes that it will emerge victorious over those who oppose them.

Some have even compared the terrorist organization that controls areas in Syria, Iraq and Libya to a doomsday cult. However, there is a big problem with how selective ISIS is when it comes to their apocalyptic vision.

Business Insider reports:

ISIS (also known as the Islamic State) uses Islamic scripture and prophecies to bolster its assertion, but it conveniently ignores one particularly damning prophecy that could inherently challenge the legitimacy of its self-declared “caliphate” — the territory in Iraq and Syria it controls that is central to Islamic doomsday prophecies.

Will McCants, director of the Project on US Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution, mentions it in his new book, “The ISIS Apocalypse.”

“There is one prophecy about the Antichrist that the Islamic State and its fans have studiously avoided, even though it is in a collection of prophecies they revere: The Antichrist will ‘appear in the empty area between Sham [Syria] and Iraq,'” McCants wrote. “That, of course, is precisely where the Islamic State is located.”

Clearly, ISIS doesn’t include the prophecy about where the Antichrist will appear in its teachings is because it would severely damage their appeal to other radical Muslims.

The Hoover Institute revealed how members of the Islamic State are not in Syria to fight Assad, but because of their interpretation of the Qur’an:

ISIS is using apocalyptic expectation as a key part of its appeal. “If you think all these mujahideen came from across the world to fight Assad, you’re mistaken. They are all here as promised by the Prophet. This is the war he promised — it is the Grand Battle,” a Sunni Muslim told Reuters.

With ISIS, we are dealing with a group that strongly believes its carnage-based ideology will help usher in the end of the world, which makes them much more dangerous than a run-of-the-mill terrorist organization.