JESUS
OR
MUHAMMAD
BY:
VICTOR OGUNDARE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
CHAPTERS
Pre-Christ Era
The Prophesy about the Manifestation of Christ and prophet Muhammad
The Lives and Missions of Jesus and Muhammad
The Principle of Christianity and Islam
The Greatest Prophet
Who Tells the Truth
The Passion of Osama Bin Laden
The Myth of Religion Unity
Islam or Nothing
Conclusion
INTRODUCTION
“TRUTH” is the universal cornerstone that established the enduring disparity between Jesus (a Jew) and Muhammad (an Arab). There are several teachings of Jesus and Muhammad, that contradicts each other, especially the issues about, Prophecies, Revelations, Revenge, Hatred, Love, Marriage, Salvation and the attitude of God towards sinners to mention but few. In an age of information overload it is a common knowledge that wherever there is the force of truth, the forces of falsehood are also present. Human life emerged from the ashes of the conflict between ‘truth’ and ‘falsehood’ thousands of years ago in the Garden of Eden. History also reverberates with tales of confrontations between the ‘Word’ of ‘Truth’ and the ‘Word’ of ‘Falsehood’, in the Garden of Eden as presented to us by Judaism and later substantiated by Christianity. It is not surprising however that the conflict between truth and falsehood penetrates religion from the family feud between the Jews and the Arabs under the system of monotheism. Truth and travesty of truth will always be around as long as human beings remain on the surface of the earth. The dominating influences of truth and falsehood have fragmented human families into religion segments upon the surface of the earth. Muhammad clearly says: “Surely, the true religion in Allah’s sight is Islam.” Surah 3: 19 The truth of Muhammad is that no other religion in the world contains the truth about the God of monotheism except Islam. He went further to reassert his truth with a warning against other religions in the world with the following declaration: “Whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he will be among the losers.” Surah 3: 85 Jesus on the other hand assured His disciples before ascension that: “I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes unto the father except through Me.” John 14: 6. In many instances Jesus substantiated His truth with authoritative sermons rather than representative preaching’s assuring that there is no alternative or backdoor entrance into heaven than Him. His disciples continue to spread the gospel of Christ with utter effrontery effusing that: “Nor is their salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4: 12 Boldly Christians declared that on Christ the solid rock of ages they stand and that all other religions grounds are sinking sand that leads to the hell beneath. Billions of mankind has left the world with either truth or falsehood. Many people are still holding on to the raw thorns of falsehood tightly locked within their souls. Others are still confused unsure of the real bearer of the lamp of everlasting life passionately sought after by many human families. No matter the amount of books that might be written, high percentage of mankind will continue to bow before the altar of falsehood either under the principle of monotheism or polytheism, rather than the altar of truth. The reasons reside in the fact that modern life from economics to social and politics are driven by religion beliefs and adherence, even though very many people have little time for religion commitment. To find out the obvious truth behind the brutal disparity between Jesus and Muhammad, a scientific research largely based on a methodology of phenomenological paradigm was conducted to acquire more knowledge about the theories already presented to us by the two giant religion icons. Re-visiting the historical evidence of the evolution of monotheism through the Semitic race, and the influence of the (Independent variables) teachings by Jesus and Muhammad on the (dependent variables) of world families, would be the cornerstone of this intuitive undertaken. This open-minded research is designed to reveal the obvious truth, which makes Islam eternal polemics of the Christian faith. The overwhelming contradictions between the teachings of Jesus and Muhammad creates suspicion as to whether these two monotheistic religions claims to have been manifested by the same monotheistic God was really authentic, taken into consideration the scriptural and ideological confrontations that outlined their different philosophies and principles. For centuries Islam disputed the integrity of Christian Bible, but later made use of selected verses to justify its own existence under the pretext that some words were indeed words of God. The fact remains that Judaism laid the foundation for the evolution of monotheism, and the unbiased historical theories under Judaism will provide invaluable knowledge and understanding of the reasons why Jesus and Muhammad teachings are eternally irreconcilable.
Pre-Christ era prophecies and relationship between the Hebrews and the God of monotheism will be analyzed. The principles of Christianity and Islam as well as some controversial and contradictory verses in the Bible and the Quran will be reviewed. The truth of Jesus will be vigorously weighed against the truth of Muhammad, as well as the issue of who was indeed the greatest prophet before delving into the chambers of the passion of Osama Bin Laden in order to find out the driving force behind the worlds most hated man. The myth of religion unity will expose why it is futile to engage in inter-religion dialogues.
The author is determined to critically analyze the teachings of the two perceived men of God from the available ideals of reality. After the preliminary research conducted prior to the writing of this book, no authentic Muslim subscribed to the ideology that Christianity is a true religion that leads people to heaven or paradise as the case may be even though they both co-habit in the same society. Eighty percent of practicing Muslims contacted, believed Christianity does not represent the truth about Allah’s desire for mankind. Islam they agreed is the only true religion available to mankind all over the world as the authentic channel to happy existence after death. Without faith in Allah, the Quran, prophet Muhammad and total observance of all Islamic regulations, a person is perceived as candidate for hell. Five percent Muslims believed the two religions could lead people to heaven, while only fifteen percent were undecided. Christians on the other hand disagreed, that Islam is a true religion. They contested that Jesus is the only gateway to heaven; quoting many references from the Bible. Eighty percent of Christians interviewed believed only Christianity can provide eternal salvation. Ten percent of Christians believed all religions can lead people to heaven while ten percent were undecided. The readers can make final conclusions as to their favored decisions after reading this book theories, since it is not the authors aspiration to devalue any religion as done by 18th century religion apologetic books like: ‘Demonstration of the truth’ published in 1855, by: Uthmani al-kairanawi. Since Christianity and Islam also acceded to the fact that there is only one truth the onus is on every human being to find out which of these two religions actually tells the truth about the God of monotheism. Even the atheist and the polytheist have their own ideology of the truth. Jesus or Muhammad, whom do you think represents the truth that leads to eternal bliss in paradise or heaven as the case may be?
Let’s read the evidences of truth as presented by historical theories and recent earthly events that you may have already known.
Acknowledgement
I give thanks to the Almighty God of creation for His inspiration and support throughout the period I spent to research and to write this book. I therefore dedicate this book to the glory of the true God of the universe who gives breath and life to all the living, and who will eventually separate His true worshippers from the false worshippers who were counterfeit believers that actually worship the devil and his companions.
CHAPTER ONE
PRE-CHRIST ERA
Period of Polytheism
It all began at ‘Babel’, near river Euphrates; the town described in religion history of Judaism as a place where the God of monotheism fragmented the original human language into the many confused pieces we speak today. The ancient species of our kind were notable pagans devoted to the worships of ancestral spirits, angels and gods of woods and stones. Because the physical form of the God of monotheism was unknown, our progenitors paid tribute and obeisance to several pieces of speechless gods and supernatural beings. Various sacrifices were conducted for the vain gods which included slaughtering and burning of animals, birds, reptiles, and most frightening - human beings. Priests were initiated to occupy the shrines and to act as intermediaries between the gods and the people. The world then was devoid of the true knowledge of the God of monotheism as both celestial and terrestrial beings took preeminence in the minds of humankind as true gods of creation; until a young lad named Abram meditated on the validity of the practices at the time. The scarcity of the physical presence of God, which still persists today, was responsible for contradictory beliefs and practices in human mind at the time arguably today as well. People jealously protected their immovable powerless gods and cultural believes with deadly weapons against blasphemers and critics. During inter-clan warfare’s, drums and religious priests led the processions with gods mounted on chariots, horses or physically carried by men for protection and victories against enemies. It was a period of rampant paganism when men stoop too low on earth to the point of offering their souls to Satan for redemption. At the final point of hopelessness when God’s patience with mankind seems to be wearing thin, inquisition gave birth to the search for truth.
The Search for God
Driven by religion zeal, Abram entreated his Pagan parents to show him the creator of man, land and the sea after his initial perception of the sun and the moon as the creator of the terrestrial and celestial inhabitants became invalid. Unfortunately his father was a pagan priest with the collection of idols worshipped as gods. Delighted that his young boy was interested in knowing the truth about the creator, Abram’s father led him to the shrine of the gods he worshipped. Imbued with the spirit of wisdom, Abram refused either to sing the chorus of paganism or to bow before the meaningless insignificant objects of vanity worshipped by his father until after he conducted his independent investigation into the abilities of his father’s gods. After the idol gods are incapable of accepting the sacrifices he offered, he demolished the artifacts his father worshipped as gods of the universe. His resolute and audacity in the face of deadly repercussions and fiery vengeance of the pagans arose the Almighty God of creation to his defense against the pagan Chaldeans. The attitude of young Abram to despise his father’s gods by demoting paganism in an unusual manner was exemplary in a world beset with the cult of group pressure and crowd convictions. Though his effrontery does not totally obliterate paganism from the planet, but it dethroned the devil from his total dominion over the mind and soul of human beings. Today paganism is still alive and well in many communities of the world, where intellectual humans demoted themselves by falling into the valley of insanity where assumptions and myth take precedence over reality and truth. Despite the widespread of paganism in the modern times mostly in Asia, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean, it no longer controls the minds and the lives of all human beings like before due to the heroic discovery of Abram.
God discovered
At the darkest hour of his life when hopes were lost and dreams faded, Abram discovered the presence of the living God in the most unusual place - in the midst of fire. His father had disowned him, the entire world of paganism fervently prayed and asked for his destruction. He was alone rejected and dejected but firm in his belief that the souls that condemned him to death by fire were confused and misplaced. He saw their blindness to the falsehood of their faith, but how could the truth of one man withstood the falsehood of the entire world? Powerless in the midst of unforgiving pagan community, Abram surrendered to fate with strong conviction that idolatry has no link whatsoever to the God of Creation.
The inability of the calved images worshipped at the time to move, speak or to defend themselves against Abram’s attack fortified his reasoning of doing the right thing. He concluded that had the gods of his father created the world, they would have accepted his offerings or at least defended themselves against his attacks when in his fury he converted his people’s gods into a pile of rubbish. However since the gods of the people are mere bunch of powerless artworks, it was mandatory for humans to rise up for the defense of their useless powerless gods. Abram was condemned to die excruciating death for killing the gods that was expected to protect his people. Miraculously the true God he sought finally protected him from the pagans’ death sentence by rendering the fire of judgment powerless over his soul. The process of the miraculous salvation of Abram’s life from the pagan’s death sentence marked his discovery of the true God of creation. When the Chaldeans witnessed the miracle of Abram survival in the fiery furnace they set up to burn him to ashes, they became fearful and even considered him to be a god. Such was the situation of human spiritual sickness in the absence of the true God. Since creation after the fall of Adam and Eve, there was intermittent individual worship of the true God, but the foundation for the permanent global momentum for spiritual revolution was laid by Abram intuition and love for truth.
The Genesis of Monotheism
Gradually God taught Abram His ways, and they communed from time to time until the very day that the history of mankind was forever changed, and the kingdom of polytheism finally toppled by the covenant of monotheism established with the Patriarch. From the heart of paganism Abram, was detached and given a new identity that remained until this day. He was summoned to the land of the Palestine with the following sentence:
“ … Get out of your country, from your family and your fathers house to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Gen. 12:1-3
This astounding call led to the transformation of the world socio-religion landscape. The land in question has not yet been mentioned, but the separation from the pagan family was preceded with a promised great nation and blessings. The strategic importance of the above divine statement lies in the fact that the great nation in the heart of God of monotheism was later linked to the gift of the land of Canaan (Palestine). Not only did God gave Canaan otherwise known as the land of Palestine to the chosen descendants of Abram, He actually declared the aura of blessedness that will radiate the existence of Abram and his chosen descendants, as well as the ominous threat of divine curse against any human society that chose to curse Abram and his chosen descendants. While at Canaan, Abram was reassured that the land he was resting upon would eventually be giving to his descendants:
“…To your descendants I will give this land…” (Gen. 12:7).
The descendants mentioned here are still obscure unborn and unknown, because Sarah was barren. The subject matter was land divinely giving despite the fact that the Canaanites, the Edomites and the Jebusites were still on the land. But the tribes who occupied the land at the time were pagans who performed all vain worships and abominations detesting to the God who owns the earth. Because Abram believed in God he did not doubt the possibility of having the offspring’s to possess the land divinely allocated despite his knowledge of his wife’s physical limitations. The territory was measured from the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates and beyond. On several occasions whenever he wavered in his mind he often submitted to the ideology that Eliezer his male servant would eventually be his heir. It was evident that the situation from the patriarch human point of view was that of frustration and hopelessness. He could not have imagined from his human perspective that his barren and old wife would under normal circumstances be able to conceive or to carry pregnancy for nine months. He knew that his beloved wife was beyond medical and natural age of childbearing but remained faithful to the promise of God. As years passed by, human nature began to torture the mind of patriarch who again began to suggest that Eliezer of Damascus would eventually become his heir; but as he silently meditated in his heart, the voice of his God rang out to him in the middle of his perplexity:
“This one ‘Eliezer’ shall not be your heir, but the son from your own body shall be your heir” Gen. 15:4.
The above sentence, which rebuffed the idea or imagination that Eliezer will eventually become the heir of Abram, was preceded with the reaffirmation of the birth of a son of Abram not sons. Gods plan from beginning was that Abram would have only one son to inherit the blessings of Abram. Henceforth the chronology of the circumstances that would pervade the existence of Abram’s chosen descendant to propagate the covenant of monotheism was outlined. The four hundred years of servitude in Egypt under humiliating epitome of slavery, was to be followed by a divine arranged exodus to occupy the Promised Land. But it should be understood that Prophet Muhammad changed the above fact and subsequent ones.
The Impatience of Sarah
As Sarah advanced in years her hope and faith of bearing children diminished. She was married to her husband for nearly nine decades and had tried relentlessly to conceive without success. It was a very frustrating experience for women who couldn’t bear children in the world. The impatience common to women under her circumstance finally prevailed over Sarah. Though she knew of God’s promise to Abram her husband concerning his descendants, yet she killed her hope of bearing even a son for her husband by offering her maid Hagar as wife to Abram in violation of Gods plan for Abram and the world. Selflessly she told her husband:
“See now, the Lord has restrained me from bearing children. Please go in to my maid; perhaps I shall obtain children by her.” Gen: 16: 2
Sarah chose to raise up heir for Abram through Hagar contrary to Gods will and plan. God’s plan was to raise up heir for Abram through Sarah. That was the reason why God changed the name of Abram to Abraham and Sarai to Sarah, and called them to be father and mother of many nations of the world. Sarah’s maid Hagar did not feature in God’s program of blessedness regarding the covenant with Abram, but Sarah contrary to Gods program gave Hagar to Abram as wife. Consequentially after Hagar conceived she despised her mistress Sarah as punishment for her wrong decision. Sarah became unhappy and even accused her husband for her own misjudgment and unbelief. She criticized Abram for an obvious sin she committed by saying:
“My wrong be upon you I gave my maid into your embrace; and when she saw that she had conceived, I became despised in her eyes. The Lord judge between you and me.” Genesis 16: 5
The defensive attitude of Sarah after committing a universal error that permanently plant discord in human history is unfortunate. She falsely accused her husband of wrongdoing while obviously she was to blame. Her impatience resulted in her single handedly initiating the existence of her descendant’s enemies. If Sarah had not given Hagar to Abram as wife, this world would have been a better planet. Today the sin of unbelief committed by Sarah is affecting not only the descendants of Isaac, but also the entire world inhabitants. The world today is held captive by the wrong decision of a single woman who refused to believe that with God all things are possible. Sarah lost her maid’s respect and servitude due to impatience and unbelief and planted the seed of commotion into her descendant’s existence. It was an example of the tragic conflict between the choices of man and the choices of God that persist even until this day. Sarah had no relational problem with Hagar until she choose to bring forth Ishmael contrary to the will of God. That was a vivid example of the fact that human lives are in perpetual conflict between our desires and God’s desires, between our wills and Gods will and between our chosen path and God’s chosen ways. The result of man’s unbelief and impatience regarding the plan of God for his or her existence, always leave permanent consequences that are difficult to change.
The Prophecy about Ishmael and his (Arab) Descendants
The arrogance and misbehavior of Hagar led Sarah to punish her to the point where Hagar found it difficult to live with her mistress, and she fled into the wilderness with her pregnancy. While Hagar was wandering and lamenting because of thirsty for water in the desert, she encountered an angel of God who counseled her to return in submission to her mistress. The angel further revealed a universal truth about the son Hagar was about to born for Abram:
“Behold you are with child, and you shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your affliction. He shall be a wild man; his hand shall be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. And he shall dwell in the presence of his brothers”. Gen: 16: 11-12.
A fearsome characteristic of Ishmael was predicted while still in the womb: “He shall be a wild man; his hand shall be against every man and every man’s hand against him”. The comportment that shaped the life of Ishmael and his Arab descendants after him was revealed in the above angelic prophecy. A wild and violent disposition, with the propensity to attack or to hurt every man and every man’s hand to retaliate against him was foretold. Ishmael eventually grew up to be an archer. History had it that he was indeed a violent man not a prophet. The eventual reality was the fact that the son born by Hagar was the choice and plan of Sarah not the choice and plan of God. Ishmael and his descendants were not the plan of the God of monotheism. They were products of a woman’s unbelief. If not for Sarah’s doubt of God’s promise and her ability to born, the world today would have been devoid of suicide bombers and large scale religion violence initiated by Islam - the religion founded by the descendant of Ishmael. Though the Arabs have criticized the Jewish manuscripts as been biased against them, but they overlooked the fact that they have the most suppressive, undemocratic and intolerant societies in the world in the fulfillment of the angelic prophesy above. The attributes of violence and disregard for human lives prevalent among the Arabs, might be some of the reasons God foreknew before rejecting Abram’s prayer for the covenant to be fulfilled through Ishmael as later revealed.
The Son of Covenant
While Abram was still obviously elated at the birth of Ishmael with the understanding and belief that the covenant of God would finally be fulfilled through him rather than Eliezer; the reality of God’s plan dispelled his superficial optimism regarding the future of Ishmael; when God told him categorically that Sarah would indeed conceive in her old age. Abram busted into laughter of disbelief imagining how practically difficult it would be for a barren woman of ninety years to conceive or to give birth to a child. Though he pleaded passionately with God saying: “Oh, that Ishmael may live before You.” Genesis 17: 18.God was unperturbed by Abram’s uncertainty and mockery for God reiterated His initial plan for a son that would be born by Sarah rather than Hagar to fulfill His covenant with Abram. In an uncompromising declaration God amazed Abram with the following assertion:
“No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his descendants after him.” Gen. 17: 19.
The diction is very lucid, without any ambiguity. The oracle concerning descendants of Abram surrounded the covenant of monotheism. The wife of Patriarch Sarah was old, fragile and barren, yet required to bear the burden of unexpected pregnancy. Sarah already gave Abram a son through Hagar her Egyptian maid and was confident Ishmael should be sufficient to fulfill Gods plan for mankind. But divine intention overrides the pessimism of man as displayed to Abram. The omnipotent God miraculously extended the period of maternal and paternal abilities for Abram and his wife, in order to fulfill His universal desire for humanity. Honestly, there was no need for Sarah to go through the excruciating episode of childbearing at the age of ninety years if not that the God of monotheism attached great importance to the birth and life of Isaac. Ishmael was also a son of Abram who later in his life had twelve princes through whom the covenant could as well be fulfilled. By reiterating the promise to see Isaac born,
“…Fear not for I am with you; be not dismayed for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes I will help you. I will uphold you with My righteous right hand” God made a distinction between the descendants of Hagar and the descendants of Sarah. He made a choice between the son of unbelief and the son of covenant. God Almighty does not share human’s mode of thinking, and His judgment no man can condemn, because He is the God of justice who knows the attributes of man even before he is conceived in the womb. The evidence of why God desired to fulfill His universal covenant with Abram through the descendant’s of Isaac is exposed in the form of lifestyles the Arabs and their Muslim allies are living in the world today. The birth of Isaac eventually manifested Jesus Christ who salvaged the human race from the cycle of violence and unending bloodshed through His life saving gospel of universal peace. Even at tender age the son of unbelief spiritually detested the son of covenant thousands of years before the birth of Muhammad as the following topic will expose.
The Start of Family feud and hatred
God changed the name of Abram to Abraham and Sarai to Sarah (meaning Princess) to signify that Abraham and his wife Sarah had become the father and mother of many nations, (Meaning the father and mother of all the nations of the world that believe in the covenant God made with Abraham, Isaac and Israel) as confirmation of the significance of the birth of Isaac. Isaac was born in accordance with the promise of God to Abraham, because Ishmael was not the son of Gods covenant with Abraham.
It should be noted that prior to and at the birth of Ishmael God did not change the name of Abram to Abraham, because Ishmael was not in God’s plan for Abraham. Hagar also did not feature in the confirmation of the promise that transformed the lives of Sarah and Abraham, Genesis 17 and 18. Hagar and her son were deliberately isolated by God from the covenant established with Abraham because they lack the spiritual merits desired by God to fulfill His covenant through them. Sarah was later very pleased to have her own child at so late a period in life. Unfortunately one day she discovered Ishmael scoffing infant Isaac, and she pleaded with Abraham to expel Hagar and her son from the family home. The fatherly love expressed toward Ishmael arose sadness in Abraham, until God intervened with the following consolation:
“Do not let it be displeasing in your sight because of the lad or because of your bondwoman. Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice, for in Isaac your seed shall be called. Yet I will also make a nation of the son of the bondwoman, because he is your seed” Genesis 21: 12-13.
God consoled Abraham because of his sadness regarding the expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael from the family home. It was made clear to Abraham in the middle of his displeasure that: “for in Isaac his seed shall be called.” Though God later promised to make nations out of Ishmael simply because he also was the son of Abraham. The underlining fact expressed in the verse above enlightens us to the truth of how the God of monotheism distinguished between the Jews (sons of covenant) and the Arabs (sons of unbelief). As divinely arranged, there is nothing any human being can do to God for favoring the Jews above the Arabs, despite the fact that the world despises the truth just as the Arabs despises the Jews. Ishmael grew up with his mother in the wilderness where he established himself. It was the separation between Abraham and Ishmael that deprived the Arabs the opportunity to practice Judaism, which was the original faith, started by Abraham. Though Prophet Muhammad and his followers rewrote the history of Abraham to favor the Arabs against the Jews, but had Abraham practiced Islam, the Jews would have been Muslims and Israel an Islamic nation. Moreover if Arabs were the children of covenant, they would have gone into slavery in Egypt for four hundred years, and have possessed the Land of Canaan. Genesis 15. Obviously that was not the case leading to Abraham’s intercession for Ishmael. When it became apparent Abraham was dissatisfied with God’s arrangement regarding Ishmael and Isaac, God pacified him with this enormous blessed assurance for Ishmael and his descendants:
“And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation” Gen. 17: 20.
The above ancient divine promises made to Abraham have contributed to Arabs acquiring enormous amount of world oil and gas reserves. The Arab nations of the world today are made up of the twelve princes born by Ishmael just as God promised Abraham. But the covenant of God, which carries far more than the wealth of gas and oil, was given to the Israelites. The Jews did not establish many nations like the Arabs; they only possess the tiny territory divinely given to them through Abraham.
After the death of Sarah, Abraham married Keturah who also born six other sons, which were later dispersed to the eastern region of the earth. When Abraham died, Ishmael returned to join his brother Isaac for the funeral of their father who deceased at the age of one hundred and seventy five years. Ishmael and Isaac lived differently with Isaac continuing in the worship of the one true God of Abraham, while Ishmael devoted his life to idolatry, because at the wilderness of Paran and the surroundings where he settled with his mother are territories of pagans. Isaac worshipped the true God of creation in keeping alive the covenant between God and Abraham.
Israel’s acquisition of Esau’s Benediction
The enduring disparity between Semitic races later manifested itself in the lives of Esau and Jacob, the two sons’ of Isaac. Esau sold his birthright and eternal benediction to his younger brother Jacob for food. It was not an accidental or unconscious behavior on the part of Esau to sell his birth right to Jacob as it may ordinarily look - it was a divine arrangement. Esau would not have fulfilled the will of God for the world just as Ishmael also did not possess the spiritual potential required for God to fulfill His purpose for mankind through him. Hence Jacob wouldn’t have acquired his brother’s blessings. The unprecedented benediction originally destined for Esau, was later acquired by Jacob (Israel) from Isaac on his dying bed:
“…Therefore may God give you of the dew of heaven of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine. Let peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. Be master over your brethren and let your mother’s son’s bow down to you. Curse be everyone who curses you, and blessed be those who bless you.” Gen. 27: 28-29.
The important characteristics of the above benediction conferred on Jacob (Israel) lies in the heart of Gods plan for mankind. Jacob was blessed to be master over his brothers, and in so doing obtained the blessings of acquiring the land of Palestine from Esau (Edom) as an eternal possession. Though Esau sold his birthright and possessions to Jacob fairly on the table of hunger, he was embittered and planned to kill Jacob (Israel) for acquiring his father’s last blessings. God saved Jacob from the murderous intention of his brother Esau, because he was the bearer of Abraham’s covenant with God. Even today the descendant of Esau still despises the Israelites for the acquisition of the blessings of Isaac instead of their father Esau. They persistently accuse the Jews of falsification of history and they made alliance with the Arabs through Islam to physically restore the blessings that was spiritually lost to Jacob.
Gods Reaffirmation of the gift of the Palestinian Land and Promises of Salvation to Jacob
While Jacob was fleeing from the murderous conspiracy of his embittered brother Esau on account of his possessed blessings, he had the opportunity to encounter God on the present land of Israel with a substantiated assurance of possessing the Land, as he was unaware that he bore God’s plan for the world. Like any ordinary person he goes about his life in simplicity and humility. He was a young man who wanted to prosper in life like any other young man of his age, but because of the importance attached to his life the God of monotheism appeared to him in a dream for formal introduction. While sleeping with a pillow of rock beneath his head, he saw heaven opened with a ladder occupied by errand angels. God assured bewildered Jacob of the eternal possession of the land he laid his head, as well as perpetual divine protection as follows:
“… I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants. Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth. You shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed. Behold I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.” Gen. 28:13-15.
The land on which Jacob laid, and which God promised to Abraham, Isaac and now to Jacob (Israel), is the present land claimed by the Palestinians. Not only did God promised the land, He made a stunning declaration that by the seed of Jacob all the families of the earth would be blessed meaning prosperity to mankind either spiritual or economical would radiate from the Jews. He did not make the same promise to any descendant of Ishmael or Edom. The hypocritical world system that exists today continues to join the Arabs and Edomites in singing the chorus of blame against Britain and America as the founder of the state of Israel. The time has come for the Palestinians to cease their illusion of ever going to occupy Israel as their own. Jerusalem will never be the capital of any Palestinian state, because the Palestinians own no land irrespective of the hypocrisy of world political system. God is the only legitimate owner of every land on earth, with the sole responsibility to allocate it to whomever He wishes. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were given the land Palestinians are claiming by the authentic owner – God. America Europe or the United Nations has no jurisdiction over the land divinely given to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as an eternal possession. It is ridiculous that the successive American governments are designing a roadmap to divide the land of Israel to appease the Arabs and the Muslim world. Unfortunately, the division of the land of Israel will eventually spell doom for all the nations and people who sanctions such universal evil. Though the Kadima party and some misinformed Israelites also vigorously pursue the two state solution for the Israeli and the Palestinians conflicts; the fact is that the two state solution will drag Israel into the valley of unimaginable calamity, because the fate of Israel is sealed by the Koran. Tzipi Livni who is the Kadima party leader stressed that: “Israel is still fighting for its existence” on the CNN GPS in May 2009. She erroneously believed that for Israel to secure the world and the Arabs approval of its right to exist, the Promised Land divinely given must be carnally partitioned to appease the evil world. If voted as the Israeli next Prime Minister, would she divide Jerusalem between Israel and the Palestinians or be so generous to give Jerusalem away on a platter of gold so that Arabs and Muslims accepts Israel’s existence on the God given land? The Arabs and the Muslims don’t only want the two pieces (Gaza and West Bank) from the Land of Israel they want the entire territory of the Israeli land including an undivided Jerusalem as their state capital, as well as the opportunity to exterminate the Jews in an Islamic initiated holocaust, since Hitler failed to accomplish the total removal of Jews from the earth during the Second World War. The following images testify to a fragment of the plan of Muslims toward Israel if America and Europe succeed in stealing the land of Israel to create a Palestinian state. The issue between the Arabs and the Jews is greater than the illegitimate land division, because the Allah that Muslims worship sees Jews and Christians as his enemies that deserve nothing than death and sufferings.
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Muslim women praise Hitler
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Muslims call on their Allah to destroy Israel
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Muslim Students uses Hitler’s trademark
Source: Faith Freedom International
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A notice of Muslims desire for Israel
Those who understand the characteristics and the nature of the true God of creation will concur to the fact that Muslims don’t serve the same God as Jews and Christians, because the Muslim Allah condemns the Jews unfairly in Islamic literatures and holy books. No truly Muslim nation of the world can truly maintain a true relation with Israel. The hypocritical attitude of the Prime Minister of Turkey Mr. Erdogan towards Israel in favor of Palestinians and Iran underlined the inherent truth that Islam is a perpetual antagonist of the survival of the Jews. Despite the fact that Israeli military trained Turkish air force and sells military hardware to Turkey, the Islamic nation of Turkey deliberately drowns its alliance with the Jewish nation in favor of suicidal Islamic republic of Iran which seeks the annihilation of Israel from the surface of the earth. Turks just like Iranians will eventually have to swallow their pride when Israel through the hands of the living God will severely punish them both militarily for their evil machinations against the nation founded by God.
God established a Nation
The foundation of the nation of Israel was laid with Abraham when God made the covenant with him, but Jacob at Bethel laid the stone. Abraham died, so was Isaac and the nation was still in progress. When Jacob became adult he reconciled with his brother Esau who lived his life-embittered man of revenge for losing his blessings. When the time was right for God to create Israel, He ordered Jacob back to Bethel where he laid the stone at the spot God first appeared to him in a dream. At Bethel God reiterated Jacob blessedness and pronounced the establishment of the state of Israel:
“Your name is Jacob; your name shall not be called Jacob anymore but Israel shall be your name. I am the God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body. The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac I give to you; and to your descendants after you I give the land.” Gen. 35: 10-12.
The magnificence of God’s plan for Israel is embodied in the acquisition of the land promised to Abraham and Isaac as part of the contract of covenant. Israel gave birth to twelve princes, which formed the confederation state of Israel existing today. But God further promised that out of that little nation a company of nations would emerge. It is now not surprising that the nations of Israel do not occupy mainly the tiny territory in the Middle East, but a conglomeration of nations and people engrafted into the global community of Israelites. It is miraculous to note from this point of view that God intentionally established Israel in every society and language of the world. At the most unusual places on earth like Saudi-Arabia, Iran, Yemen and so on, Israelites flourish like the plants by the riverbanks. Most part of the western world where the truth about Israel is accepted, God automatically endorse their Israeli citizenship. It is not a citizenship acquired through perishable human efforts, it is a citizenship freely conferred by the God of monotheism on those who believe in His words concerning Abraham, Isaac and Israel. There are many conflicting ideologies falsely spread about Israel today concerning their land (not the land of the Palestinians). It is further insulting to accuse the Israelites of land occupation and illegal settlement enlargement on a land divinely given to them by God. International laws has no jurisdiction over Israeli land and Benjamin Netanyahu is a virtuous brave leader with integrity by ignoring international injustice that demand freeze to the right of the Jews to develop their nation. If the international law cannot prevent North Korea and Iran from developing atomic weapons, or the Muslims from wrecking havoc around the world, would it then have power over a nation that goes about its legitimate development? The world indeed is sick and the politicians insane. Many Internet web pages are contaminated with various poisonous articles, and premeditated falsehood about the Jews and the Palestinians. Satan motivated journalists pretending to be objective continue to propagate and to promote the global conspiracy to steal the Jewish land to compensate for peace against the Palestinian invaders. God is uncompromising about the land of Canaan as eternal inheritance of Israel, irrespective of human judgment and confrontations, because the wisdom of this world is always foolishness to God. The Palestinians society today have largely forgotten or wittingly ignored the reality of the fact that their so-called land was given to Israel by God of monotheism whom perhaps they also referred to as Allah. The wrong accusations of responsibility for the loss of their so-called land leveled against America and Britain is nothing but total insanity. Their vain hope as declared in the following propaganda is total display of mere desperation:
"Who is responsible for the loss of Palestine... and [for] deceitfully labeling it Israel...? The Prophet [Mohammed] soothes us with many Hadiths that Palestine shall return to its former days... We must prepare a foothold, for the coming army of Allah, by divine predetermination. May it be Allah's will [that] this oppressing state shall pass Israel shall pass. This oppressing state, America, shall pass. The oppressing state Britain, shall pass, [those] that brought this catastrophe [nakba] of this nation..." Dr. Mohammed Ibrahim Maadi Friday sermon on Palestinian TV (May 4, 2001):
The Palestinians must know that the rightful owner of the land (God) allocated it to the Israelites through Abraham Isaac and Jacob. Muhammad of Islam is not greater than the God who gave the land in question to Abraham and Israel. It is a hard truth the world will eventually have to swallow. All the vain hopes given by the prophet will never come to pass unless Israel acquires the land of Canaan through America and Britain as claimed. The Palestinian society must stop feeding their children with the poison of hate and false hope that Allah’s army will destroy Israel. The times have come for Palestinians both Muslims and Christians alike to free their minds from the sweet taste of false belief and their hearts from the choking thorns of anger, bitterness and death wishes. They should start replanting their lives with little seeds of love toward the Jews, and learn to accept that their own survival and prosperity is perpetually linked to the prosperity and survival of the Jewish people. Israel is a nation God single handedly established, not even demons from hell can destroy it. The former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat died with the vain hope and belief that one day, the state of Israel would be completely uprooted from the Palestinian land. The Palestinian media continued propagation of the destruction of Israel with the Islamic verses will only deepen the suffering of the Palestinian people. Such outcry like the following will end in self-destruction:
“…Oh, our Moslem brethren... do not leave the Palestinians alone in the war against the Jews... it has been decreed upon us to be the vanguard... of Jerusalem, Palestine and Al Aksa, are the land that Allah blessed and its surrounding areas will remain at the center of the struggle between truth and falsehood, between the Jews and the non-Jews on this sacred land, regardless of how many agreements are signed, irrespective of how many treaties and covenants are ratified. For the truth is in the Koran, as verified by the words of the prophet Mohammed that the decisive battle will be in Jerusalem and its surroundings: ‘The resurrection of the dead will not occur until you make war on the Jews...’” (Palestinian TV, August 11, 2000)
The painful question is who decreed that the Palestinians should be the vanguard of Jerusalem? Was He the God of Abraham who gave the land to Abraham, Isaac and Israel or another god or a prophet who despises the Jews? The Palestinians and the world Muslims with the entire Arab nations will never destroy or defeat Israel even if they possess the nuclear bombs. Though Israel is regarded as the bottleneck of the Ishmaelite and the Edomite, they infact supposed to be grateful to Israelites ancestors who disobeyed God’s commandment of utter removal of their pagan fore parents who left the Palestinians and the Jebusites and Canaanites of today as horrible thorns in the flesh of the Jews Judges 1: 20-26; 2: 1-5. But the God of monotheistic ideologies seems not to share the same sentiment with the aggrieved Palestinians and resentful Arabs. Instead, Israelites were promised eternal relationship with God irrespective of the draconian plans of the enemies that surround them. When God established Israel He knew it wouldn’t be easy for them to survive in a hostile territory where the Arabs and the Edomites are dominant and in a world replete with anti-Semitic hatred and resentments. God is also not unmindful of the existence of Satan whose eternal opposition to His wishes often results in the mobilization of human foes against His wishes. God made contingency plan for Israel protection in advance. The unholy alliance between Hitler and the Arabs through Amin Al Hussein, and Arab league, from 1915 ended in several humiliating defeat and subsequent unprecedented destruction of Hitler, Germany, and many other nations. Despite the six million Jews cowardly murdered in the holocaust, it was a total failure for the Arabs and the Edomites who planned the total destruction of the Jews with the help of mighty Nazi army and Islamic warriors during the World War II. The astonishing reality is the invincible ability of Israel to flourish in the midst of its enemies. Today Jews have spread across Germany in unprecedented manner building Synagogue after Synagogue from Bavaria, to Munich, and to the last territory on earth, despite the continued murderous attacks of Muslims and other agents of Satan. Even in Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia, God eternally plants the Jews in the midst of their foes. The covenant and blessings of God to the Jews are irrevocable. In spite of all the sinister attacks of her enemies, Israel has developed into a strong and vibrant nation promised to Abraham. The 1967 Arab Israeli war was a vivid reminder that Israel is beyond human destruction. The rhetoric’s by the president of Iran Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against the nation founded by God are nothing but the babbling of an ignorant. The combined military forces of all Arab nations the Russia, China, Europe, Asia and Africa will not unseat the state of Israel, unless it was founded by the power of mankind. The amazing discovery lies in the fact that even Israelites have no choice over their destiny as arranged by God through Abraham. A nation truly founded by divine will, may face many challenges but she is divinely protected.
Gods wrath against the nations that divides Israel Land
The world today is preoccupied with concern for the so-called Palestinian land and well-being while it totally digresses from the truth about the land itself and the well-being of the victimized Jews. Malicious propagandas and despiteful falsehood spread like wild fire on the tongues of uninformed humans, hypocrites and enemies of the Jewish people who condemned the innocent and vindicated the guilty. Surprisingly America, Europe and the Catholic Pope Benedict xvi who is more a politician than spiritual leader are also dancing to the drumbeats of the Arabs and Islam to provide unrealistic peace for the Jewish people with the unjust division of the Promised Land to compensate for evil and falsehood. Perhaps it is because of the following pathetic cry of the Palestinians supported with illegitimate claims of the following Hadith quotes:
“The battle with the Jews will surely come... the decisive Muslim victory is coming without a doubt, and the prophet spoke about it in more than one Hadith. The day of resurrection will not come without the victory of the believers [the Moslems] over the descendents of the monkeys and pigs [the Jews] and with their annihilation.” (The Official Palestinian. Authority Newspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 18, 2001).
History has shown that most world political leaders including the Catholic Popes are hypocrites and evil laden monsters controlled by political barbarism and demonic spirits. Instead of being sympathetic to the victimized Jews referred to by Islam as monkeys and pigs in Islamic books, they applaud Islam and Arabs condemnation of the Jews by veiling their corrupt understanding of the truth with useless peace efforts. The above verse and subsequent ones systematically revealed the mission of Prophet Muhammad who condemned the Israelites to the status of pigs and monkeys. The argument is, did he speak for the same God who gave the land to Abraham Isaac and Israel, or he spoke for a different god who opposes the plans and arrangement of the God of creation? Further evidence that will surface in the progression of this book will enlighten the naïve and the ignorant that loves falsehood like honey and drinks distortions like water. If God in His infinite wisdom and righteousness gave the land in question to Israel through Abraham as eternal possession, would He be associated with the above words of hatred and vendetta? Well, to provide an answer, let’s read the response of the God of mankind in the following verses:
‘Thus says the Lord God: “Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha’! The ancient heights have become our possession,’” “therefore prophecy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and slandered by people” ‘therefore O mountains of Israel hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, the valleys, the desolate wastes, and the cities that have been forsaken, which became plunder and mockery to the rest of the nations all around-‘
‘Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Surely I have spoken in My burning jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom (Palestine), who gave My land to themselves as a possession, with wholehearted joy and spiteful minds, in order to plunder its open country.”’ “Therefore prophecy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, and the valleys, ‘thus says the Lord God: “Behold I have spoken in My jealousy and My fury because you have borne the shame of the nations.” ‘Therefore thus says the lord God: “I have raised My hand in an oath that surely the nations that are around you shall bear their shame.’ Ezekiel 36: 2-7.
The world is in constant battle between falsehood and truth, and human life is vigorously pulled on either side. The battle of truth against falsehood continues in the lives of each and every human being, regarding what is believed and what is not. It is unfortunate that human senses are very defective and most human beings are prone to rely on it, especially when the echoes of deceptive majority sound louder than the whispers of the honest minority. In the Ezekiel prophecy above God exposed the Palestinians plan to plunder the entire land of Israel not only the West Bank and the Gaza strip as the world believe. Thus it was prophesied: “…in order to plunder its open country.” Unbiased investigations and open minded research helps to free man from over reliance on the senses, but ultimately only the Spirit of the God of creation can truly liberate man from the confusing programming of the human senses. Jesus once said: ‘If the Son sets you free, you are free indeed.’ The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians provides the framework to differentiate between the percentage of human beings who love the truth, and the percentage that love and adore falsehood. One of the interesting discoveries between truth and falsehood is the ability of one to keep human mind in perpetual bondage, and the strength of the other to free human mind from that bondage. The President of Iran Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad exposed the hypocrisy of the United Nations Human Rights commission when a conference on racism at Geneva in April 2009 was used as an echelon to promote anti-Semitic hatred and racism against the Jewish people. Though some delegates walked out of the conference which resolution was rapidly endorsed, yet the attitude of Ahmadinejad once again revealed that the fate of the Jews is sealed in the Muslim Quran, even if all the land of Israel is stolen for the Palestinians the Muslims will desire nothing less than the total annihilation of the Jewish people. Ariel Sharon was an honest peace loving Jewish Prime Minister who erroneously thought giving Gaza to the Palestinians would provide peace for Israel in violation of Gods warnings but the surrender of Gaza to the Palestinians failed to yield the desired result of peace and Ariel Sharon was shortly afterward stricken by mysterious illness that got him bedridden until today. God may be quiet, but He will never accept human’s peace process for Israel, because only He can give real peace to Israel. The fact that humans have failed to establish peace in all other societies of the world underline man inability to impose unjust peace ideologies on a nation established by the God of monotheism who declared that: ‘When the world say peace and security, suddenly destruction will fall upon the world.” I am not surprised that the Catholic Pope Benedict who often apologizes to Muslims for saying the truth about the religion eventually ignored history and Biblical truths to support world politician’s insanity to create a Palestinian state out of the state of Israel. The history of the world revealed that billions of human beings have perished for lack of knowledge and billions more are at the edge of their perils for having false knowledge. Though the world and some hypocrite Jews think that a Palestinian state will provide peace for Israel, well history will prove me right that a Palestinian state would be Israel’s worst nightmare. There is only one truth in the world; it is either a person is on the side of the truth or on the side of falsehood. Unfortunately most human beings bow daily before the tragic gods of falsehood every second every minute and every hour. Human emotions, wisdom and perception do not consider the fact that humans are incompetent to resolve even ten percent of earthly conflicts not to mention a spiritual conflict that exist between Israel, the Palestinians and the Muslims. The above Biblical verse is a reminder that irrespective of human perception and judgment of the Jews regarding the Promised Land, God will put the Muslims and their supporters to shame.