JUDGMENT DAY!
By
DAVE HUNT*
[*From Chapters 1-3, 5, 8, 11, 13-15 in the author’s book: “JUDGMENT DAY!”]
“In what
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Drawing
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appeasement of Hitler (prior to his systematic extermination of more than 6
million Jews) and today’s strategy of the nations united against
In this
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writes, “In the final analysis, the battle over
Why are
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Faith, An Urgent Call to a
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GENERAL
ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES, RETIRED
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‘soldiers’ of a newly organized army (six
months old) crushed 600,000 (a ratio of one to ten) soldiers of four Arab
armies, well trained and heavily armed, reinforced by units from seven
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COLONEL,
USMC, RETIRED
Former
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reader to honestly examine and evaluate almost 1,400 years of Islamic
history. For students of history, JUDGMENT DAY! is refreshingly honest
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today. For those who believe that
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no (ruthless) designs for world domination, or that Muhammad was a man of
peace, this book is required reading.
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USAF,
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One of
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graduation, newly militarily trained women
pilots
began to be assigned to the WAFS.) The
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(WASP). Mrs. Watson is the national
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develops a foundation of the beginnings of the nation of
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GENERAL, USAF, RETIRED
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theological points, one being the role of the nation of
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An
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author to name many of our most highly respected leaders - exposing the truth
of where they have stood regarding Islam and
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OF
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WALID SHOEBAT
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PLO TERRORIST AND AUTHOR OF WHY I LEFT JIHAD
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the darkness of Islam. In his new book, JUDGMENT DAY!, Dave calls a spade a
spade and tells it as it is. He
accurately, and with much historic and biblical evidence, shows beyond any
doubt that the world is on a downward spiral - and is clueless regarding the
significance of the Bible,
THAD HOVER
COLONEL,
USMC, RETIRED
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the radical faith of Islam and the actions of its subscribers. Any military that takes on this perversion of
truth in battle is doomed for defeat unless they con look beyond the current
psyche that all men and their religious beliefs are good, if just
understood. A ‘must-read’ for all U.S.
State and D.O.D. personnel as they execute this current world war. Military chaplains should rend it, as they
have an obligation to prepare their troops concerning the historical and
religious workings of the pending enemy.”
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PRESIDENT
OF THE INTERNATIONAL SAKHAROV COMMITTEE,
AUTHOR
OF 33 BOOKS
“This is the most important book
on the issues of the Middle East and the
RANDALL PRICE, PH.D
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PRESIDENT WORLD OF THE BIBLE MINISTRIES, INC.
Holding
a Th.M. in Old Testament and Semitic Languages,
and a
Ph. D. in Middle Eastern Studies, Dr. Price is a prolific author who
lectures
worldwide about
and
directs archaeological excavations in
“It has been said that there may
be moderate Muslims, but Islam is not moderate.
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today’s terrorism is the Islam of its founder, Mohammed. As such, it is as much a threat to Judaism
and Christianity today as it was when it was first spread by the sword in the
seventh century A.D. Dave’s impassioned
warning, however, goes beyond the political to the prophetic, alerting us of
the judgment that is about to befall this planet and how to prepare an escape
before that day arrives.”
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CHAPTER 1
THE STAGE IS SET
THE CONFLICT BETWEEN TINY ISRAEL and the
vast coalition of Arab/Muslim nations arrayed against her is without question
the most dangerous situation facing the world today. It is also the major subject of the Bible, in
which are recorded in detail, two thousand to three thousand years before they
occurred, the events leading to today’s Middle East debacle. Furthermore (a fact to which political and
religious world leaders surprisingly pay little attention), the Bible not only
foretold the tragedy in detail but declared its outcome. The consequences of this fact are logical and
obvious: if the Bible is in error concerning
Nearly 30 percent of the Bible
is devoted to prophecies. These are not
cheap psychic predictions or the vague French quatrains of a Nostradamus that
seemingly can be made to fit every new event that arises. Biblical prophecies are direct,
straightforward, and fully [Page 6]
verifiable declarations foretelling major events in world history centuries and
even thousands of years in advance.
There are no such prophecies in the Qur’an, in the Hindu Vedas, in the
sayings of Buddha or Confucius - nothing that even comes close in any writings,
religious or secular.
It is to the fulfilment of these
prophecies, witnessed by the world, that the God of the Bible points as proof
that He alone is the true God: “I am God ... there is none like me,
declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient
times the things that are not yet done ...
before it came to pass I showed it thee ... new
things do I declare: before they spring forth I
tell you of them.” 1 The Bible’s many prophecies identify beyond question the one
true God and the Bible as His unique revelation to mankind.
1. Isaiah 42: 9; 46: 9-10; 48: 5, etc.
Who is this God who inspired the
Bible through some forty different prophets over a period of sixteen hundred
years? The Bible says His name is “I AM [Yahweh]” 2
(meaning that He is self-existent, without beginning or end). Nine times He is called “God of Abraham ... Isaac
... and Jacob.” 3
From these patriarchs, the Jews have descended. Yahweh, to whom we just referred, is called “the God of Isaac” 203 times - and it is to
2. Exodus 3: 13-14. 3. Exodus 3: 6,
15, 16; Matthew 22: 3; Mark 12: 26,
etc.
4. Genesis 28:13; 35: 12; Exodus 51; 24: 10; Joshua 7: 13; 1 Samuel 1:
17; 1 Chronicles
16: 15-19,
etc.
Of course, never is He called “the God of the Americans,”
or of the French, the Russians, or anyone else.
And that this God is not Allah of the Muslims is made absolutely
clear. Those who may be offended by
these facts need to take their complaint to the God of the Bible, not to this
writer. My purpose is only to point out
precisely what the Bible says - truth that most ignore and many refuse to
accept, but which we will prove in the following pages from history and current
developments in the
It rankles many people that the
Bible repeatedly declares that the Jews are God’s “chosen people.” 5 That was His choice, whether the rest of us like it or
not. So at the very outset of our study,
the identity of the God of the Bible must be made clear.
5. Leviticus 20: 26; Deuteronomy 7: 6; 1 Chronicles 16: 13; Psalm 105: 6, 43; Isaiah 65: 15; Jeremiah 31: 1, etc.
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Some of the prophecies to which
we will turn are specifically for our day. They
set the stage for severe judgment from God, for which planet earth is rapidly
ripening. This will become clear
as we proceed.
Indisputably,
Prophecies concerning
Remarkably, the prophecies upon
which we will focus in the following pages could apply only to the present
day. Unrecognized by world leaders, who
ignore the warnings in the Bible, God is at work behind the scenes, bringing
about events that He has foretold in His Word.
In the following pages, we will present specific, fulfilled prophecies
for our day-examples of what God says He is presently doing on this earth - and the
punishment He is about to pour out upon all the nations for their mistreatment of His
people, the Jews, and the nation of Israel.
Hundreds of prophecies fulfilled in the past are the guarantee that
biblical warnings that apply to our generation are not empty threats.
A CUP OF TREMBLING, A BURDENSOME STONE
Two thousand five hundred years
ago, the God of the Bible, through His prophet Zechariah, declared, “Behold, I
will make
6. Zechariah 12: 2.
Throughout its history,
God goes on to say, “And in that day will I make
For more than fifty years,
The God of the Bible has
promised to protect
Precisely as foretold,
Sceptics have accused
evangelicals of trying to fit prophecy to current events, claiming that no one
recognized such prophecies in the past but only since Israel was formed in
1948. On the contrary, for centuries
before it happened, most evangelical Christians believed and preached from the
Bible the return of the Jews to their own land.
Even leading Calvinist John Owen, basing his opinion upon Bible prophecy,
wrote in the seventeenth century: “The Jews shall be
gathered from all parts of the earth ... and brought home into their homeland.”
7
7. Cited in
Bridges for Peace website, May 21, 2004.
Martin Luther recognized some of
the prophecies concerning
8. J.
Randall Price, Paper delivered at the Pre-Trib Study Group Conference, December
6, 2004,
available
at http://www.pre-trib.org/article-view.php?id-218.
There would seem to be more than
enough reasons for this tiny and only recently re-birthed nation to tremble
before the enemies surrounding her and before the condemnations of the UN and
European Union. Surely such a small
country could be easily pushed [Page 10]
around. Of course, if that were the
case, she would be a burden to no one.
But
LIKE A FIRE DEVOURING SURROUNDING NATIONS
And that fulfils another
prophecy: “In that day will I make the governors of
9. Zechariah 12: 6.
In October of 1973, in what became
known as the Yom Kippur War, the attacking Arab forces from Egypt (eighty
thousand Egyptians overwhelmed and slaughtered five hundred Israeli defenders
along the Suez) and Syria (fourteen hundred tanks swept down the Golan with
only one Israeli
tank in service to oppose them) caught Israel completely by surprise. The Soviets knew exactly when the attack was
coming (October 6, 1973) and removed the last of the dependents of their staffs
on October 5.
The White House finally gave
Instead of rushing military
supplies to
“The
10. David A.
Rausch, The Middle East Maze:
History Professor David A.
Rausch writes, “
11. Ibid.
A STERN WARNING TO ALL NATIONS
God goes on to say through His
prophet, “All that burden themselves with it [Jerusalem/Israel] shall be cut in pieces, though all the [Page 12] people of the earth be gathered together against it.” Obviously
12. Ezekiel 38: 16-23; Zechariah 12: 9; 14: 2-3.
But why would God bring all
nations against
13. Joel 3: 2.
This is a grim prophecy, precise
in its language, and once again it applies only to our day. For twenty-five hundred years, all nations
have played their role in persecuting and thereby scattering the Jews around
the world. Only within the last eighty
years, however, has the land been divided.
The 1917 Balfour Declaration,
1919 Paris Peace Conference, and 1922 Declaration of Principles of the League
of Nations recognised that the ancient
Instead, to curry Arab favour
because of their oil,
14. Genesis 12: 3.
Every so-called peace proposal
that the Western powers have since attempted to force upon
15. Leviticus 25: 23.
God’s patience is almost
exhausted. His righteous anger is
directed against the nations of today’s world for dividing His land and against
President Bush, who claims to be
a Christian and says that he studies his Bible daily, ought to tremble! So should the other parties to the “road map.”
They are defying the God of Israel and planning to do what He says will
bring His severest judgment, “a destruction from the Almighty.” 16 We will
deal with that awesome reality in the last chapter. It is astonishing how many Christians and
Jews who claim to believe the Bible remain blind to these prophecies, which are
clearly hastening to their fulfilment at the present time.
16. Isaiah 13: 6.
ENTER ISLAM!
The
enemies surrounding
17. Moshe
Ma’oz, The Image of the Jew in Official Arab
Literature and Communications Media
(Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, 1976), 14.
That every Jew on earth must be
killed is not an obscure teaching but part of the very foundation of Islam,
taught to Muslims down through the centuries from their earliest years. It is taught in every Muslim school all over
the world and in the
Why must
That would not be enough,
because it would leave the Jews in possession of part of the land that the
Arabs claim Allah has promised to them as their sole right. The very existence of
The Jewish state of
At a conference of the Islamic
Committee for Palestine, in Chicago, Illinois, December 28-31, 1990, Sheikh
Abdul Aziz Oudeh, one of the leaders in the Islamic Jihad Movement, declared: “Now Allah is bringing the Jews back to Palestine in large
groups from all over the world to their big graveyard where the promise will be
realidsed upon them, and what was destined will be carried out.” 18 Of
course, he was not referring to the many biblical prophecies that
God would, in the last days, restore the scattered Jews back into their own
land, to which the Messiah would return to reign over them and the world [Page 15] from the throne of His father David. He was obviously referring to Muhammad’s
prophecy (in direct opposition to the Bible) that the Muslims would kill all
Jews at the last day.
18. From the
PBS video, Jihad In America, narrated by Steven Emerson, first
aired in the
This was also the prophecy to
which Sheikh Yousef al-Kirdawi referred, when, in 1989 in Kansas City; he told
a group of Muslim men whom he was recruiting for Holy War, “On the Hour of Judgment, Muslims will fight the Jews and
kill them.” 19 Clearly, the battle is not so much between Arab and Jew as it
is between Allah, the God of Islam and the Qur’an, who hates and has sworn to
destroy the Jews, and Yahweh, the God of the Bible, who loves the Jews and has
sworn to protect them. There is no
question that Allah and Yahweh are not the same!
19. Variations
of this statement by Muhammad are given in a number of hadiths and other authoritative places. Sheikh Nadirn A Wisr, Member of the Islamic
Research Academy, cited several versions in his presentation at the Fourth
Conference of the Academy titled, “Good Tidings about
the Decisive Battle Between Muslims and Israel, in the Light of the Holy
Qur’an, the Prophetic Traditions, and the Fundamental Laws of Nature and
History”: Muslim’s Sahih Bulchari’s Sahilt, both on the authority of
lbn’Umar; another version on the authority of Abu Huraira, etc.
The consequences for those who
follow the wrong “God” will be severe. This is the issue that political, military,
and religious leaders are not willing to face.
They are defying the God of the Bible and will be punished. We cannot pick and choose to believe some
parts of the Bible and reject others - but this irrational defiance of God is
popularly adopted today.
THIS IS ISLAM!
There is not an Arab/Muslim map
in the entire world that shows
20. Yossi
Klein Halevi, “A pilgrimage to
Although there are Arabs living in
all of the Middle Eastern countries, and they are collectively referred to as
“the Arab world,” these neighbouring nations seek
Islam is an Arab religion that
originated in the
Were it not for their common
hatred of
This religious unity is not the
ancient heritage of these nations. In
their early histories, they all worshiped different gods and fought one
another. It was the Muslim conquest,
beginning in the seventh century, that united these nations by force under
Allah and Islam. This was the fastest
spreading and largest empire ever seen - and the greatest example of the
imperialism of which these Muslim nations accuse
Arab
leaders have declared repeatedly for more than fifty years, “The struggle with the Zionist enemy is not a struggle about
21. Bassam Abu
Sharif, a top Arafat aide and PLO spokesman, quoted by the Kuwait News Agency, May 31, 1986.
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The
possession of a large part of the world’s major oil deposits allows Muslim
nations to hold a club over the West for Islam and Allah. Aware of that fact, the European Union
continues to remind
The United Nations has
consistently taken the side of the Arabs against Israel, making the allocation
of land to Israel by the UN in 1947 - something the UN would not do today - all the more miraculous,
in fulfilment of Bible prophecy. The UN
is adamantly opposed to
22. Genesis 15: 18.
On March 25, 2004, the
Hamas has not identified Rantisi’s
successor for obvious reasons. It is
rumoured, however, that Khaled Masha’al, who leads Hamas from
Indeed,
suicide bombers (President Bush calls them “homicide
bombers,” i.e., murderers 23) are the most honoured people in PLO territory. The PLO-controlled newspaper has “wedding announcements” and invitations to join in
celebration with families who are rejoicing over the “marriage”
of terrorist sons to be “dark-eyed” virgins in
Paradise through their “martyrdom” by suicide
in
23. From
President Bush’s famous June 24, 2002, speech in which he proposed the “Road Map to Peace”
and
called upon
The very morning of September
11, 2001, in a time zone six hours to the east, an editorial in Arafat’s
controlled newspaper, Al-Hayat al-jadida,
stated, “The suicide bombers of today are the noble
successors of the Lebanese suicide bombers who taught the U.S. Marines a tough
lesson in Lebanon [443 were killed when a barracks was destroyed]. These suicide bombers
are the salt of the earth, the engines of history ... the most honourable people among us.” A few hours later, down came the
Since then, a bewildered
It is shocking but true that the
real question is, “Why have there not been many more
similar attacks throughout
24. Fox
News, July 11, 2005. 25. www.g2builetin.com. 26. www.insights.injesus.com, July 11, 2005. 27. http://theisraelreport.injesus.com.
There are literally many
thousands - if not millions - of young Muslims, men and women, who are both
ready and eager to gain instant entrance to Islam’s “Paradise”
by dying as suicide bombers against the
We are witnessing in our day the
continuing fulfilment of Christ's remarkable prophecy: “
28. Luke 21: 24.
When
[* This is now
questionable. See the writings of
Josephus, who was an eye-witness at the time the
In fact, there are numerous
centuries-old Arab and Muslim [Page 21]
statements acknowledging
29. Eiyahu
Tal, Whose
The 1978 Palestinian
Encyclopedia declared,
“Ever since the destruction of the
30. Palestinian Encyclopedia (
31. Sari
Nusseibeh, “Islam’s
(
The United States Jerusalem Embassy
Act, passed by Congress in 1995, states that “
Section 214 of the Foreign
Relations Authorization Act, 2003, states:
The Congress
maintains its commitment to relocating the United States Embassy in
32. http://www.mideastweb.org/jeruembassy2002.htm.
STILL TRODDEN DOWN
President Bush dismisses this
section as “advisory,” stating that it “impermissibly interferes with the President’s constitutional
authority.” 33 Bush is technically correct.
The U.S. Constitution reserves the conduct of foreign policy to the
President. Therefore, acts of Congress
that make foreign policy are invalid.
But one wonders why, as a professing Christian, President Bush doesn’t
take a step that would honour the Bible and the God of Israel, especially since
Congress urges him to do so.
33. http://www.state.gov/m/mi/rls/rm/2002/13888.htm.
Is Bush fearful of offending
Muslims because they control most [Page 23] of the
world’s oil? Surely he is not
intimidated by the denunciations they periodically pronounce against the very
thought of
34. www.worldnetdaily.com/news/artiele.asp?ARTICLE
ID=42305.
While
visiting
In
mid-February 2000, the
35.
Precisely as Christ foretold
nearly two thousand years ago,
The
God of
36. Nehemah 11: 1, 18; Isaiah 48: 2; 52: 1; Daniel 9: 24; Matthew 4: 5; 27: 53; Revelation 11: 2; 21: 2.
37. Psalms 46: 4; 48: 1, 8; 87: 3; Revelation 3: 12.
In fact,
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CHAPTER 2
HATRED’S “FINAL
SOLUTION”
ONE OF
THE MOST REMARKABLE prophecies in the Bible is found in the many declarations
that Jews would be scattered to all nations, where they would be hated,
persecuted, and killed like no other people.
These prophecies are specific and vivid, describing in detail the plight
of the Jews exactly as it has befallen them through the many centuries of their
dispersion. 1 God pronounced this severe judgment because of
1. Deuteronomy
28: 15-62; 2 Chronicles 7: 20; Jeremiah 29: 18; 44: 8, etc.
What must it be like to be part
of a people group that is hated and maligned worldwide, with so many lies told
about them that it would be impossible to answer them all - and would do little
good to try! It would be maddening, frustrating,
and, yes, frightening. Hitler did not
act alone in the Holocaust by any means, as we shall see, but with the consent
and cooperation of other world powers, including the
More than one hundred official
anti-Semitic documents have been issued by the Roman Catholic Church throughout
its history. The [Page 28] knights and knaves who constituted the First Crusade,
inspired by Pope Urban II (who promised heaven to those who died in this
cause), slaughtered Jews all across
Pope John Paul II tried to woo
the Jews worldwide by his kindly but deceitful rhetoric. He even told them that Catholics “look upon you as our brothers and sisters in the Lord”
2 hardly
compatible with Paul’s desire “that they [Jews] might
be saved” (Romans 10: 1).
There was no way, however, that the Pope could undo centuries of his
Church’s hatred and mistreatment of Jews.
Such sweet phrases are not only inconsistent with history and official
Church doctrine, but they were contradicted by his friendship with Arafat.
2. From
Pope John Paul II’s address to
John Paul II consistently favoured
the “Palestinians” in their false claims. Nor did he ever affirm the Israelis’ biblical
right to the land God gave them. In fact,
like popes and cardinals before him, he openly denied that right: “The existence of the State of Israel and its political
options should be envisaged not in a perspective which is in itself religious,
but in their reference to the common principles of international law.” 3 So the opinion of secular world leaders overrides God’s Word!
3. From Pope John Paul II’s Notes on the “
Catechesis of the Roman Catholic Church,”
Martin Luther never escaped the anti-Semitism of his Roman Catholic past, in spite of
opposing that Church. In his later life,
he advocated burning down the Jews’ homes and giving them the choice between converting
or having their tongues torn out. 4 Luther’s anger against
the Jews was inexcusable, even though it grew out of a deep-seated frustration
that they would not respond to the gospel he had embraced.
4. Will Durant, The Story of
Civilization, vol. VI, The Reformation (Simon and Schuster, 1950), 727.
In an interview on September 25,
2001,
IRRATIONAL JEW HATRED IS PERVASIVE
The frequent condemnations of
Israel by the UN and EU for defending herself against deadly attacks by those
determined to exterminate her, and the refusal to condemn the murderers and
their backers who attack her, are only one part of a continuing fulfilment of
numerous prophecies foretelling worldwide anti-Semitism. This is a major and irrefutable proof of the
existence of the one true God and the fact that the Bible is His infallible
Word. The
hatred did not end with Hitler’s Holocaust but is actually escalating once
again. It is a taunting mocking of six million
exterminated Jews.
That escalation has been in
progress for many years. Desecration of
the graves and even the bodies of Jews has been going on periodically in
5. Alan M. Dershowitz, “Resurgence of
anti-Semitism in
In September 1993, the body of
Nicholas Horthy, Hitler’s friend who allied Hungary with Nazi Germany during
the war and presided over the deportation of four hundred thirty-seven thousand
[Page 30] Jews to Auschwitz, was reburied with high
honours in his hometown eighty miles east of Budapest. About fifty thousand people “gathered as the remains of Horthy, his wife and son were
placed in a family vault.” The
prime minister and his ministers honoured Horthy in speeches and attended the
ceremony, which was broadcast over state television. 6
6. Associated Press, “Former Hitler ally
reburied with honours in
A Eurobarometer opinion poll
late in 2003 questioned five hundred persons from each European Union nation.
Fifty-nine percent overall (74 percent in the
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre in
7. Robin Pomeroy, “
Not only is media coverage of
today’s events distorted, but the history being taught in public schools is
often deficient by design. A poll in
January 2005 revealed that 45 percent of Britons and 60 percent of those under
thirty-five years of age had never heard of Auschwitz, while 34 per cent polled
in
8.
In spite of gross ignorance of
the facts, people develop firm opinions and prejudices based upon the misinformation
they imbibe from the media. It is here
that we see the influence of a pervasive and persistent anti-Semitism. More than two thousand adults across
9. http://www.palestinemonitor.org/new web/britons - rank -
israel-worst country.htm.
During December 2004 and January
2005, the official Iranian news agency, MEHR, published a series of
anti-Semitic articles. The lies were
unbelievably outrageous yet believed in much of the Muslim world. Two leading Holocaust deniers were quoted:
Dr. Fredrick Toben of the Adelaide Institute in
10. www.memri.org/bin/opener
latest.cgi?ID=SDS5405.
HATRED AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS
Unreasonable and persistent
animosity toward Jews and
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The UN Commission on Human
Rights discriminates against
11. Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch,
“How the UN Can Help Fight
Anti-Semitism,” National Post, January 26, 2005.
On a leading Russian TV program,
Vremya,
one of Russia’ s most distinguished mathematicians, Igor R. Shafarevich,
expressed support for Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War. In 1990, a group of anti-Semitic Russian
writers travelled throughout the
12.
Although anti-Semitism is
growing in the
At its annual winter meeting,
January 12, 1993, the American Mathematical Society passed a resolution
condemning “the anti-Semitic [Page 33] writings of I. R. Shafarevich [who] has used his highly respected position as an eminent
mathematician to give special weight to his words of hatred, which are contrary
to fundamental standards of human decency and to the spirit of mathematics and
science.” 13 Such protests, however, are rare and, in fulfilment of Bible
prophecy, have little effect in stemming the rising tide of anti-Semitism.
13. The Scientist, Vol 7,
No 8, April 19, 1993.
A letter dated January 13, 2005,
carrying the Russian parliament’s letterhead, “called
on Russia’s prosecutor general to ‘officially open a legal investigation into
banning all Jewish religious and community groups’ on grounds of ‘defence of
the homeland.’ [Using] some of the most profane
language against Jews publicly published in the post-Soviet era,” the
seven-page letter, which described Jewish beliefs as “nothing
less than satanism,” was signed “by 20 members
of the 450-seat State Duma lower house of parliament.” Andrei Cherkhov, “one
of
14. Agence
A U.S.
State Department report to the Senate and House Foreign Relations committees
(covering the period July 2003 through December 2004) warned that in Europe,
where anti-Semitism is already deeply rooted, “anti-Semitic
acts have increased both in frequency and severity since 2000,” with the
increase in the Muslim population from immigration. There is an increase of anti-Semitic
sentiment across the Muslim world even in places like
15. Barry Schweid, AP Diplomatic Writer.
Although only about one percent
of Japanese have ever had any contact with a Jewish person, anti-Semitism in
16. Leslie
Helm, “
There is no rational explanation
for this continuous animosity toward a particular people. It cannot be justified by saying that Jews,
in contrast to all others, are so despicable that they deserve to be
hated. Yet this irrational and
implacable anti-Semitism is exactly what biblical prophets foretold. That fact provides another major proof that
the Bible is God’s word. And there are
no Jew-haters as vicious as the Muslims, who didn’t even exist when these
prophecies were written.
ISLAMIC PERSECUTIONS
Ever since the Muslim conquest of
the
17. FIX Hirschberg, A History of the
Jews in
The dhimmis were not to be
killed, but often their lives were so unbearable, living under “Protection” of Muslims, that death would have been
preferable. In the early seventeenth
century, Christian visitors to “
18. Samuel
Katz, Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in
The fierce persecution of 1640,
in which even women and children were murdered, was called the “al-Khada.” Under Muslims, Jews suffered “such repression, restriction, and humiliation as to exceed
anything in
19. Andre
Chouraqui, Between East and West: A History of the Jews
of North Africa (
20. Official
British Document, Foreign Office File No. 371/20822 E 7201/33/31.
In 1839, a British visitor to
21. Joan Peters, From Time
Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over
(New York: J. KAP Publishing U.S.A., 1984), 191.
22. Ibid.,
154. 23. Ibid.,
191.
Such persecution has continued
against those few thousand Jews who failed to escape Muslim lands. In 1941, hundreds of Jews were viciously
tortured and murdered by Iraqi mobs in anti-British, pro-Nazi riots led by Haj
Amin Mohammed Effendi al-Husseini, appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem by the
British, but who had been forced to flee to Syria for his instigation of riots
that had killed and wounded hundreds of Jews, as well as Arabs who wanted to
live peacefully with Jews. Having moved
on to
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Years later, when Saddam Hussein
became a leader in the Ba’ath Party, he published one of his Jew-hating uncle
Khayrallah’s pamphlets, Three Things Allah
Should Not Have Created: Persians, Jews, and Flies.
In a letter dated July 10, 1974,
to then - UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, United States Attorney General
Ramsey Clark declared, “Jewish people living in
Anti-Semitism is not confined to
Muslims and Catholics. It is
worldwide. The fact that vicious
anti-Semitism would pursue the Jews everywhere throughout history is only one -
but a very important one - of the many prophecies being fulfilled today
concerning
For more than twenty
centuries, the Jewish people, more than any other segment of humanity, have
been persecuted, uprooted, and annihilated.
It is true that many ethnic and religious groups have suffered
grievously at the hands of tyrants, but there is a crucial difference.
More Africans were
killed in the era of slavery, but there was no determined intent to eradicate
the entire Negro race. A higher
percentage of Armenians perished in the Turkish genocide before World War I,
but the main intent was to deport them, not extinguish their genetic pool. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Suharto murdered
millions of their own citizens, but the motive for those crimes was political
power, not racial animus.
In each of these
cases, the genocide was intended to serve a deeper purpose - the conquest of
territory, the acquisition of wealth, the enlargement of political power. ...
In contrast, the [Page 37] genocide of the Jewish people was not intended to be a means to an
end. It was not attempted in order to
achieve a more fundamental purpose. It
was the fundamental purpose. This is
what makes the Nazi Holocaust unique in human history. 24
24. John Lollus and Mark Aarons, The
Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994), 18.
Brilliant as these researchers
are, and as invaluable as the information they have passed along, they have a
blind spot when it comes to Islam.
Nowhere in their monumental work of more than six hundred and fifty
pages do they tell us the vital truth that Islam itself (not some extremists)
requires that every Jew in the world must be killed. Nor do they inform us that Islam has been
responsible for the slaughter and subjugation of far more people, both Jewish
and non-Jewish, than any other evil empire - and that, according to Muhammad,
it must take over the entire world. The
horrible truth about Islam, which these authors completely overlook, is still being denied by religious and political leaders, educators,
and the media today. To fill
that vacuum and to expose the truth about Islam before it is too late is a
major purpose of this volume.
Why must the Jews, this one very
small ethnic group, in contrast to all others, be the universal object of such
relentless hatred? Only the Bible gives
a satisfactory explanation.
HATRED’S “FINAL
SOLUTION”
In fallen creation’s long and
sordid history of man’s inhumanity to man, the Nazi Holocaust was a close
second to Islam. Hitler declared that
the “final objective [of] rational anti-Semitism ... must be the removal of Jews
altogether.” 25 It is no surprise, then, that to most Muslims, especially
those living in Muslim nations, Hitler is one of their greatest heroes.
25. Michael Berenbaum, The World Must
Know: The History of the Holocaust as told in the
(New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1933), 105.
Mein Kampf in Arabic remains a perpetual
bestseller in Muslim countries, especially among “Palestinians.”
Hitler was, in fact, a partner with Haj Amin Mohammed Effendi al-Husseini
(great uncle and mentor of Yasser Arafat and still a hero to Muslims), a
murderous terrorist, appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem by Britain and
personally responsible for the concentration camp slaughter of [Page 38] hundreds of thousands of Jews. 26 On November 21, 1941, Hitler
promised the mufti “a solution to the Jewish problem”
in exchange for al-Husseini’s recruitment of thousands of Arabs to fight with
Hitler. 27 Based
on years of careful investigation, Joan Peters writes:
26. From the Mufti's private diary, cited in Arab
Higher Committee: Its Origins, Personnel and Purposes,
citing captured Nazi records submitted as documentary evidence
to the United Nations, May 1947, 6.
27. Ibid.
According to
documentary records submitted to the United Nations in 1947, al-Husseini was “responsible for the Arab riots in 1920...
[against] Jewish
lives and property. Five Jews were
killed and 211 injured” [on Easter
Sunday alone] ... the Arab police remained passive or
in some instances joined the rioting. ...
British officer R.
Meinertzliagen reported later that Haj Amin had been informed by British
Colonel Waters-Taylor four days before ... that he had a great opportunity at
Easter to show the world that the Arabs of Palestine would not tolerate Jewish
dominance ... that Palestine was unpopular [with the British] and if disturbances of sufficient violence occurred in
Jerusalem at Easter, both General Bols and General Alleriby would advocate the
abandonment of the Jewish home.
Colonel
Meinertzliagen, a senior British officer ... a non-Jew, was charged with being
“pro-Zionist” and sent back to a “desk job” in London, where he later
protested British policy against the Jews: “Much has been written about injustice to Arabs. There is nothing in a
Jewish State which conflicts with Arab rights ... remember that the Arabs are the only nation in the world with at least
three kings and several sovereign states.
The Jews are a nation without a home.”
Hitler and Husseini pledged to
work together to exterminate Jews not only in Europe but in the
28. Joseph B. Schechtman, The Mufti and the
Fuehrer: The Story of the Grand Mufti of
and His Unholy
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Egyptian newspaper columnist
Ahmad Rajab (echoing Anwar Sadat) wrote, “Thanks to
Hitler, blessed memory. ... We do have a complaint ... his revenge [on the
Jews] was not enough.” 29 At the same time, much of the Muslim world attempts to deny
the Holocaust. Dr. Issam Sissalem of the
29. Al-Akhbar (
31. Palestinian
Television, June 8, 2001.
At the Wannsee Conference in
32. Berenbaum,
World, 103-108.
Hitler and his Nazi henchmen did
not act alone. They could not have
carried out the Holocaust without the cooperation of the German people as a
whole. Nor do Hitler and
A GUILT SHARED BY THE WORLD
The
At
meetings with British and American leaders (including the British War Cabinet,
Eden, President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Hull, Secretary of War Stimson,
Attorney General Biddle, and Justice Frankfurter), Jan Karski, who had visited
the Warsaw ghetto an talked with Jewish resistance leaders, offered shocking
statistics of the ongoing efforts to exterminate Europe’s Jews. Karski’s revelations about the systematic slaughter
of Jews by the Nazis appeared in The New York Times and other major
periodicals. He lectured on the subject
diligently all across
In the end, Karski’s
disappointed and frustrated comment was, “The Lord
assigned me a role to speak and write during the war, when - it seemed to me -
it might help. It did not.” And sadly, attempts to warn of today’s even
more destructive Islamic threat to wipe out all Jews in the world and to
conquer the world for Allah seem likewise to fall on deaf ears.
It was not until January 16,
1944, at the urging of a minor official who presented to him once more the
staggering information already known, that Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Moreanthau,
Jr., persuaded Roosevelt to take action.
The motive, however, was not to rescue Jews from Hitler’s ovens, but to
defer political criticism that could hurt him in the upcoming elections and his
bid for an unprecedented fourth term. The War Refugee Board was formed, but its
efforts were too little and too late.
American journalist Dorothy
Thompson wrote in Hitler’s day, “It is a fantastic commentary
on the inhumanity of our times that for thousands and thousands of people a
piece of paper with a stamp on it is the difference between life and death.” And even the proper piece of paper proved
worthless as the bloodlust reached new heights worldwide.
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The
ocean liner
THE BALD HYPOCRISY OF WORLD POWERS
The die
had already been cast a year earlier at the conference held at the luxurious
Hotel Royale in Evian, France, on the shores of Lake Geneva, where delegates from thirty-two countries gathered to
discuss the worsening plight of the Jews.
Though President Roosevelt had called the conference, from the beginning
he made it clear that the
33. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/rnideast/brwhl939.htm.
At the
same time,
The only
conference (other than sailing, riding, summer snow skiing at Chamonix on Mont
Blanc mineral baths, and gambling, which the delegates enjoyed to the fullest)
seemed to be to give the nations a forum to hypocritically profess their great
sympathy for Europe’s Jews, who the whole world knew were facing extinction -
and then to present various excuses for their “inability”
to anything to intervene in their going extermination.
And what
an opportunity the conference gave Hitler, like Pilate, to wash his hands of
guilt and to show that the entire world was his partner in destroying the Jews!
Two days after
When the conference ended as it
began, with nothing for the Jews, Hitler mocked the participants: “Since in many countries it was recently regarded as wholly
incomprehensible why Germany did not wish to preserve in its population an
element like the Jews ... it appears astounding that countries seem in no way
anxious to make use of these elements themselves now that the opportunity
offers.” 34
34. Berenbaurn,
World, 49-50.
No one called Hitler’s bluff, if
that is what it was. No one can blame Hitler alone for the Holocaust - not when he offered to
let the Jews go and no nation was willing to open its arms and receive them!
Later in the war, desperate for
cash, he would offer to sell five hundred thousand Hungarian Jews for two dollars
each, and no one would offer to ransom them from death even at that bargain
price! There was no need for millions of
Jews to perish in Hitler’s ovens; it
happened simply because world leaders did not value Jews as human beings enough
to accept them.
In April 1943, British and
American officials met in
The British Foreign Office and the U.S. State Department were both afraid
that the Third Reich would be quite willing, indeed eager, to stop the gas
chambers, empty the concentration camps, and let hundreds of thousands, if not
millions, of Jewish survivors emigrate to freedom in the West. The Foreign Office “revealed in confidence” to the State Department its fear that
Hitler might permit a mass exodus. If
approaches to
35. Lottus
and Aarons, Secret War, 49; see also David Wyman, The Abandonment of
the Jews
(New
York: Pantheon, 1984), 342.
No less
callous to the plight of the Jews, two months later Pope Pius XII wrote an
urgent letter to President Roosevelt to persuade him that Jews should not be
allowed to return to
We are
able to provide only a small amount of the documentation to demonstrate the
crime of anti-Semitism and the fact that the
whole world is guilty. This should be enough, however,
to reveal the horror of this evil that is still with us and is becoming
uglier. There is no escaping the fact
that this is exactly what the Bible foretold.
Just on the basis of prophesied
anti-Semitism alone, re have sufficient proof that the God of
A RISING TIDE OF JEW HATRED TODAY
Anti-Semitism
did not end with the defeat of Nazi Germany and the death of Hitler. In fulfilment of biblical prophecies, not only
in Muslim countries but worldwide, it is again on the rise, causing a
heightened level of alert in Jewish communities. A brief search of the internet reveals scores
of examples. There is an alarming
increase in the widespread desecration of Jewish cemeteries. Violence against Jews and Jewish property is
rising. In
In polls across the EU, most
Europeans continue to rate
The Jewish synagogue in
36. http://www.today.ucla.edu/2004/040413voices-anti.html.
The rising tide of anti-Semitism
in
Even in
37. www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/030725/rise.shtml.
38. The
The Presbyterian Church USA (it
had a “Palestinian” president in 2002) is
leading a campaign to pressure Caterpillar, Motorola, ITT Industries, and United
Technologies to cease sales of military equipment and supplies to
THE REASON FOR ANTI-SEMITISM
According to the Bible, there
are two reasons for this universal hatred of Jews and
39. Deuteronomy 28: 15-68; 29: 24-28; 30: 17-20, etc. 40. Genesis 12: 3; 2 Samuel 7: 8-16; Isaiah 9: 6-7; Micah 5: 2,
etc.
41. Deuteronomy 7: 6. 42. Hebrews 2: 9.
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The Bible declares that the
Messiah came and defeated Satan by “tast[ing] death for every man” 42 and bearing “our sins in his own body on the
tree.” 43
43. 1 Peter 2: 24.
But that fact did not end the
battle between God and His arch-enemy for the hearts, minds, and eternal
destiny of mankind. That battle
continues to rage - and
Satan could still escape his
eternal doom if he could wipe out
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF
Nothing aroused Satan’s
desperate fury and the wrath of Islam as did the birth of the nation of
44. Zechariah 12: 6.
The wars of 1948, 1956, 1967,
and 1973 have borne eloquent testimony to the truth of Scripture: “If it had not been the LORD who
was on our side, now may Israel say; If it had not been the LORD
who was on our side, when men rose up against us: Then they had
swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was
kindled against us ... Blessed be
the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. ... Our help is in the name of the LORD who made heaven and earth.” 45
45. Psalm 124: 1-8.
The Arabs’ repeated defeat at
the hands of
As long as Israel retains
autonomy over one square yard of land, it is an affront to Islam and declares
to the world that Islam is a false religion, Allah a false god, Muhammad a false prophet, and the Qur’an a
false revelation. This is the issue -
and all the talk of “peace,” without
recognizing and changing this teaching of Islam, is both a fool’s dream and a
fraud.
It has well been said, if Arabs/Muslims
put down their weapons today, that would be the end of Arab-Israeli wars. If
ANOTHER AMAZING PROPHECY
Balaam
is one of the most enigmatic figures in the Bible. He was at one time in touch with God and made
some genuine prophecies as recorded in Scripture, yet he later turned away from
God and is in hell [Hades] now. 46 For example, he foretold the star in the East 47 that the wise men saw and followed to find Christ at His
birth. 48 One of
Balaam’s prophecies recorded in the Bible that has been and is still being
fulfilled in our day is most unusual. He
declared that
46. 2 Peter 2: 15; Jude 11; Revelation 2: 14. 47. Numbers 24: 17. 48. Matthew 2: 1-2. 49. Numbers 23: 9.
This
remarkable utterance does not stand alone.
God has stated it many times and in other ways. For example, “The LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a
special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the
earth”; 50 “I am the LORD your God, which have separated you
from other people ... I the LORD am holy, and have
severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.” 51 Except
for the holiness it was to manifest, this is precisely the situation in which
50. Deuteronomy 7: 6. 51. Leviticus 20: 24-26.
Nor is
Nor is
As we have noted, whether the rest of the world likes it or not, the Jews are God’s
chosen people. That fact
carries not only blessings and privileges but also responsibilities - and
penalties for disobedience.
TEN LOST TRIBES?
There are other ways to get rid of
the Jews than putting them into Hitler’s ovens or killing them by Muslim
terrorism and war. There is the myth of
the “ten lost tribes” that is popularly
believed among Christians today. Yes,
the ten northern tribes were indeed carried into Assyria in about 740 B.C.: “Therefore the LORD was very
angry with
52. 2 Kings 17: 17-23.
Furthermore, it is clear that
many if not most of those who were carried away had returned, even at that
time. There is specific mention of “a
multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim,
and Manasseh, Issachar,
and Zebulon,” who “escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria” and kept the Passover in
53. 2 Chronicles 30: 6, 18, etc. 54. Ibid., 34, 35. 55. Ezekiel 47: 13.
If ten tribes were lost,
Christ’s promise could not be fulfilled to His disciples: “When the Son of man shall sit in the throne of
his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve
tribes of
56. Matthew 19: 28; Luke 22: 30. 57. Acts 26: 7. 58. James 1: 1.
MORE ANTI-SEMITISM AMONG CHRISTIANS
Another idea gaining popularity
among Christians today is the false teaching that the church has replaced
59. Genesis 17: 7,
13, 19; Leviticus 24: 8;
2 Samuel 23: 5;
1 Chronicles 16: 17;
Psalm 105: 8-11, etc. 60. Genesis 17: 8; 48: 4.
There
are scores of promises that God would in the end restore
61. Brian Godawa, “The Promise to
Abraham: Yesterday, Today and Forever,” SCP Journal, 27: 2-27: 3, 53-70.
62. Alan Morrison, “The Two Jerusalems: A
Biblical look at the
SCP Journal, 27: 2-273, 14-51.
Why did
God chose
63. Genesis 6: 8. 64. James 2: 23.
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CHAPTER 3
WHO INHERITS THE PROMISED LAND?
THE PROBLEMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST all
centre upon a dispute over a land that was promised to
Abraham and to his heirs. On that
promise, Jews, Muslims, and Christians basically agree. The dispute concerns the identity of
Abraham’s heirs who were to inherit the Promised Land. We know from the Bible
that Abraham had at least eight sons:: Ishmael, the firstborn, by Hagar, his
wife Sarah’s maid;1 Isaac, the second born,
by his wife Sarah; 2 and six other sons by Keturah, whom he
married after Sarah’s death. 3 Which of these sons’ descendants qualify? Or do they all get a share? The Bible gives a clear answer.
1. Genesis
16: 1-16. 2. Ibid., 17: 15-21; 21: 1-12. 3. Ibid., 25: 1-2.
When reading the Bible, one is
immediately impressed with the fact that this is not the fiction of the
Bhagavad Gita, Hindu Vedas, Qur’an, or Book of Mormon. The Bible presents both history and prophecy
concerning real people, real places, and verifiable events that actually
happened on this earth. That evaluation
must apply as well to the Garden of Eden, the flood, and the
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As we have already seen, the
numerous prophecies found in the Bible (in contrast to the scriptures of the
world’s religions, which contain none) prove beyond question that there is one
almighty God, infinite in knowledge, wisdom, love, and holiness, who created
this universe, and that the Bible is His infallible Word to mankind. Therefore, no matter what any other book says
(whether religious or scientific), if it contradicts the Bible, it is wrong.
BIBLE “SCHOLARS”
TRASHING THE BIBLE AND
Incredibly, growing numbers of
those who still claim to be evangelical Christians are denying the veracity of
Scripture, especially when it comes to
4.
Richard J. Foster, Ed; Gayle Beebe, Lynda L. Graybeal, Thomas C. Oden, and
Dallas Willard, Gen. Eds.,
The Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible (HarperSanFrancisco, 2005).
This new “Bible” includes commentaries by supposed leading Bible
scholars such as Bruce Demarest, Professor of Theology at Denver Seminary;
Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., President of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary;
Tremper Longman III, the Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at
Westmont College; and Earl F. Palmer, on the Board of Trustees of the
long-apostate Princeton Theological Seminary and senior pastor of University
Presbyterian Church in Seattle, Washington.
Its explanatory notes deny the Divine authorship of much of Scripture -
even that Moses wrote the Pentateuch, Isaiah the book of Isaiah, and Daniel the book of Daniel.
Hypocritically declaring, “we read the Bible literally, from cover to cover...
[and] in context,” 5 the
Renovare Bible claims
that Genesis 1-11
is neither historic nor scientific but mythological, 6 and
that the entire book of Genesis, which is
the foundation of the Bible, is merely a collection of hearsay passed down by
word of mouth. This “Bible” attacks true Bible with the long discredited
objections of the “Higher Criticism” movement
in
5. Ibid., General Introduction, xxxi. 6. Ibid., 14-15.
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There is no recognition of the
great prophecies in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, et al., of Israel being brought back into
her own land in the last days and the fact that she must endure forever (Ezekiel 36-37,
etc.).7 For example, the powerful
prophetic promise from God to bring back the Jews scattered around the world in
Jeremiah 31: 8-14 is interpreted as a promise to all homeless
people (nothing about Israel); and God’s promise that Israel can never be
destroyed (31: 35-37) is ignored!
7. Ibid., 987.
CANAAN, NOT “
In the last two verses of Genesis 11, we meet a man named Abram. At the age of seventy-five, in obedience to God,
he leaves his homeland in
8. Genesis
12: 1. 9. Ibid., 12: 2-3. 10. Romans 4: 5.
Surprise! The laud into
which God led Abram was not “
God’s Word declares. “Into the
11. Genesis 12: 5-6; 13: 12, 14-18; 15: 18.
Abram
(whose name God changed to Abraham) settled in
12. Ibid., 13: 18; 23: 2, 19; 35: 27; 37: 14, etc. 13. Surah
11: 42-43. 14. Ibid.,
19: 28.
15. Ibid.,
19: 21-27. 16. Ibid., 20: 85-87,
95-97. 17. Ibid., 4: 157.
ISHMAEL AND ISAAC
As the
years went by, both Abraham and Sarah his wife began to doubt God’s promise
that He would give them a son. Sarah was
sure [Page 57] she could never bear a child and told
Abraham that God would give him the son He had promised through Hagar, her
maid. He accepted the idea (even though
God had promised him a son through Sarah) and Hagar gave birth to Abraham’s first
son, Ishmael, after Abraham had lived in
There are few things on which
the Bible and Qur’an are in complete agreement.
One of them is the fact that God gave the entire Promised Land of Canaan
to Abraham and to his heirs. There is agreement also that Abraham’s firstborn
was Ishmael and that Isaac was born next.
Disagreement comes with Islam’s insistence that the Arabs, who claim to
be descended from Ishmael, are the rightful heirs to the Promised Land, whereas
the Bible clearly states that the
legitimate heir to the promise are the descendants of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In fact,
God declares: “I AM
… the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob: this is my name forever, and this
is my memorial unto all generations.” 18 As noted in Chapter One, nine
times He is referred to in that same way.
Both Jesus 19 and Peter 20 honour God with this title.
Never is He
called the God of Ishmael or of the Arabs - or of any [national] people
group except
18. Exodus 3:13-16. 19. Matthew 22: 32; Mark 12: 26; Luke 20: 37. 20. Acts 3: 13.
That fact does not mean that the
God of the Bible, the true God, does not love and provide salvation for all
mankind. In fact, He does. It only means that the Jews are His people in
a unique way, with special provisions that apply only to them.
Islam claims that, as the
firstborn, Ishmael had the right of inheritance to the Promised Land. Ordinarily that would have been true - but
God had promised Abraham that Sarah, his wife, would bear him, a son who would
be his heir. Ishmael was not the son of
God’s promise but of Abraham’s and Sarah’s unbelief. Nevertheless, Abraham loved Ishmael (now
thirteen years of age) and told God that he was happy with the son he had - as
much as saying that he didn’t want another son.
Here is the fascinating story that authoritatively settles forever any
dispute between the descendants of Ishmael and Isaac concerning the land God
gave to Abraham and his heirs forever:
And God said unto
Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife ... Sarah shall her name be ... I
will bless her, and give thee a son also of her. ...
[Page 58]
Then Abraham fell upon
his face, and laughed. ... And Abraham said unto God, O
that Ishmael might live before thee!
And God said, Sarah
thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou
shalt call his name Isaac: and I will
establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed
after him. And as for Ishmael ... I have
blessed him. ... But my covenant will I
establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear
unto thee. 21
21. Genesis 17: 15-21.
The following year, fourteen
years after Ishmael’s birth by Hagar, Isaac was born in
22. Ibid., 21: 10-20. 23. Ibid., 21: 21.
THE ULTIMATE TEST OF ABRAHAM’S FAITH
Distinguishing Isaac beyond
dispute from the other sons born to Abraham, God called Isaac Abraham’s “only son.” As a test of Abraham’s obedience and faith, God commanded him
to sacrifice Isaac on
24. Ibid., 21: 1-2.
Confident now of God’s promises,
Abraham believed that God would raise Isaac from the dead. 25 God
tested Abraham to the very point where he raised his knife to slay Isaac. At that moment, God intervened and provided a
ram to be offered in Isaac’s place, having proved the complete obedience of
both father and son. 26 This is the testimony of Scripture from the God who “cannot
lie” 27 and whose “gifts and calling ... are without repentance.” 28
25. Hebrews
11: 17-19. 26. Genesis 21: 3-14. 27. 1 Samuel 15: 29;
Psalm 89: 35;
Titus 1: 2,
etc. 28. Romans
11: 29.
The fact that Isaac,
miraculously born to both Abraham and Sarah, was the one through whom God’s
promises of the land and of the Messiah would be fulfilled, and that Ishmael was not the son whose descendants would
possess the Promised Land, is so clearly and repeatedly declared in Scripture
that it cannot be honestly disputed.
[Page 59]
Yet the Arabs, who say they are
descended from Ishmael, lay claim to the promises given by God to Isaac and
through him to the Jews. Islam’s
assertion that Ishmael was the son of promise not only contradicts Scripture
but irrationally gives an illegitimate son priority over the legitimate son, whom
God designated to be the true heir.
IMPORTANCE OF
Thirty-seven years after giving
birth to Isaac, Sarah died at the age of 127. 29 Abraham was still residing in
Hebron of Canaan, where he had lived more than seventy years. He purchased the
29. Genesis
23: 1. 30. Ibid., 23: 1-20.
David was first crowned king in
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their
families lived for more than three hundred years in
31. Ibid., 15: 13-14.
The P.L.O. claims that
THE
On February 25, 1994, a deranged
American-born Israeli, Dr. Baruch Goldstein, acting on his own, walked into the
ll Ibrahimi mosque in
In fact, unlike the
terrorism
[Page 61]
Nor did any of the reports in the
Western media refer to the rumours of an imminent pogrom by the Arabs that had
been circulating in Hebron for days, or that the evening before, Muslims had
threatened Jewish residents, nearby settlers, and worshipers at the Tomb of the
Patriarchs. At Purim services that evening, as Jewish
worshipers, including Goldstein, were reading the Scroll of Esther, local Muslims loudly disrupted the ceremony
with chants of “It-bakh al Yahud” (slaughter the Jews), a cry frequently heard in
Hebron. Though not an excuse for his
actions, these facts reveal the daily threat of terrorism that Dr. Goldstein,
an IDF medical officer, had continually faced in
A pacifist group called the Christian Peacemakers moved into
32.
Rosemary Radford Ruether, “Jewish settlers as pushy
‘chosen people’ -
Christian Peacemakers have thankless task,” National
Catholic Reporter, April
26, 1996, 12.
Began moving into
In the vicious pogrom of 1929,
sixty-seven Jews were murdered [Page 62] in
“On hearing screams ... I went up a sort of tunnel passage and saw an Arab in the act of cutting off a child’s head with a
sword. Seeing me, he tried to aim the
stroke at me but missed. ... I shot him. ... Behind him was a Jewish woman smothered in blood with a man
I recognized as an Arab police constable named Issa Sheril from
33. Cited in Alan
Dershowitz, The Case for
As a result of that pogrom,
BLINDED BY PREJUDICE?
In its zeal to depict the four
hundred Israelis in
The “Peacemakers”
seem to be completely ignorant of the history of
34. Ruether, “Peacemakers,” 21.
35. Moshe Ma’oz, ed., Studies on
In 1851, the British Consulate in
Under the influence of the Grand
Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini (whose terrorist followers killed Jews
and Arabs alike that stood in his way), “The mayor of
Hebron, Nasr el Din Nasr, was murdered August 4, 1936; the wife and daughter of
the mayor of Bethlehem were wounded July 1937; the mayor of Nablus, Suleiman
Bey Toukan, who publicly warned the government of chaos if terrorism was not
squelched, fled after an attempted assassination in December of 1937. No fewer than eleven [Arab] mukhtars [heads of villages]
were slain [for living peacefully with Jews],
along with family members, between February 1937 and November 1938.” 36 The
same is true today. The number of “Palestinian” Arabs killed for political reasons by
Palestinian death squads far exceeds the number killed in clashes with Israeli
troops.
36. Peters, Immemorial.,
314.
The misinformation today is
nothing new, and just as frustrating as it has always been. In 1937, angry at the pro-Arab lies being
reported in British newspapers, one British Foreign Office correspondent
complained that terrorists “were viewed by an
increasing number of British officials and observers as ‘sincere Arab patriots’
whose violence was justified.’”
He went on to report:
“The
Arabs [Muslims] hate civilization and would
like to keep the country in its present backward state. ... The goats are allowed to eat off all the young plants and
the women take what is left for fuel.
Fortunately, the Jews are enclosing their land and they are the one hope.
... The Arabs ... talk big about their country but what have
they done for it? They tread down the poor and take backshish [bribes]
and that is all
they care for.” [Emphasis in original]” 37
37. Joan
Peters, From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the
Arab-Jewish Conflict Over
(New York:
J. KAP Publishing U.S.A., 1984), 315.
[Page 65]
AMAZING AGREEMENT IN THE QUR’AN!
Thoroughly established history,
along with the verses cited above from the Bible, prove beyond question that the
land God promised to Abraham and his heirs belongs to the Israelis. Their tide deed was signed by God four
thousand years ago. How can today’s
Arabs reject biblical passages supported by prophecy, a multitude of ancient
manuscripts, and indisputable history?
Muhammad’s early “revelations” in the
Qur’an called Jews and Christians the “people of the
book” 38 and honoured the Books of Moses as inspired of the true
God. But when Christians and Jews
refused to accept him as a prophet of God, Muhammad turned against them and the
tone of the Qur’an changed. Muslims
claim that between the early parts of the Qur’an, which honoured the Bible, and
later parts that contradict it, the Bible was perverted in order to make it
seem that the Jews were the rightful heirs to the Promised Land.
38. Surah 3: 18-20, 64-71,
72-80; 4: 171; 5: 15-19, 59, 77-80, etc.
However, there are manuscripts
of the Old Testament dating back nearly nine hundred years before the Qur’an,
and they are identical to the Bible we have today. The Bible wasn’t “changed”! The Greek Septuagint of the Old Testament,
for example, was translated in about 275 B.C. from even earlier Hebrew
manuscripts and is identical to today’s text.
Furthermore, the Qur’an itself agrees with the Bible that the Jews are
the rightful heirs to the land:
We made a covenant of
old with the Children of Israel (Surah 5: 70); We brought the Children of
Israel across the [Red] sea, and Pharaoh with his hosts
pursued them ... and we verily did allot unto
the Children of Israel a fixed abode (10: 91, 94); [Pharaoh] wished to scare them from the land, but we drowned him and
those with him [in the Red Sea] all
together. And we said unto the Children
of Israel ... dwell in the land...” (17: 103-104); we delivered the Children of Israel ...
from Pharaoh. ... We
chose them, purposely, above all creatures (44: 30-32); we favoured them above
all peoples (45: 16); Remember Allah’s favour to you. ... He ... gave you what he
gave no other of his creatures. O my
people, go into the
[Page 66]
In spite of the undeniable fact
that the Qur’an declares repeatedly and in the clearest language that the Jews are
God’s chosen people, unique among all nations, and that the Promised Land was
given by God to them alone, Muslims insist that the land belongs to Arab “Palestinians.”
This is only one of many similar contradictions found in Islam. For example, the Qur’an even declares that
the God of the Jews is the true God and the one Muslims should worship: “Pharaoh ... when the fate of
drowning overtook him [in pursuing the Israelites through the Red Sea]
... exclaimed: I
believe that there is no God save him in
whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am of those who surrender unto him.”
39
39. Ibid., 10: 91.
Despite such passages scattered
throughout the Qur’an, and a profusion of other proofs, Islam declares that “
FURTHER PROOF THAT THE LAND IS
Though
it is hardly needed, we are given additional conclusive evidence that the Jews
and Israelis are the heirs of Abraham to whom God gave the land. God made an everlasting covenant with
Abraham, saying, “Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the
40. Genesis
15: 18.
God could not have stated the
fact more clearly that the true heirs were to be slaves in a foreign land for
four hundred years before being led back into the Promised Land. Never did this happen to the Arabs. In fact, they were not even an identifiable
people at this time but scattered nomads who would only take on their identity
centuries later - and not in Canaan but in
the
Ishmael’s
descendants, on the other hand, intermarried with those of Abraham’s son Midian (by his second wife, Keturah), so that
the term “Midianite” was used interchangeably
with “Ishmaelite.” 41 The Ishmaelites also
intermarried with the Edomites (descendants of Esau), 42 who
intermarried with the Hittites. 43 The Arabs were a nomadic people who tended to intermarry with
the nations among whom they travelled and traded and whom they later conquered.
41. Judges 8: 8, 12, 22, 24. 42. Genesis 28: 9. 43. Ibid., 26: 34.
Secondly,
God told Abraham, “The iniquity of the Amorites is not
yet full.” 44 God was not going to wipe out the Canaanites simply to give
their land to the Jews. He would do so
only because of the wickedness of these people.
In four hundred years, they would be so evil that the Lord would
righteously be forced to destroy them as He had the people of
44. Ibid., 15: 16.
Thereafter, Canaan was known
as the
[Page 68]
A FINAL PROOF
As an
important part of their deliverance from
45. Exodus 12: 1-13.
Furthermore,
in another amazing and confirming prophecy, God declared that, in spite of
breaking the Ten Commandments, and in spite of breaking and even abandoning the
many other ordinances that He would give them, they would keep the Passover
forever: “Ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD ... by an ordinance for ever.” 46 Only
one people on earth, the Jews, keep the Passover. And do exactly as God foretold, in spite of
the fact that most Jews today do not take the Scriptures seriously. Here is the final proof that they are the
heirs whose ancestors were slaves in
46. Ibid., 12: 14.
More
than 90 percent of Jews worldwide keep the Passover every year. This same percentage holds true among those
living in
[Page 69]
But how
do we know that the Passover story is true?
The proof is contained in the Passover itself and the fact that the Jews
still keep it and have one so continuously. When an event is witnessed by many
people and is immediately commemorated by some special rite, which then
continues ever after, we have absolute proof that the event actually
occurred.
No one
could invent such a story and start the tradition of keeping the Passover if it
had never really happened. Jews would
immediately protest, “But we didn’t do this last year!”
The very fact that it was done last year, and the year before, and the year
before - as far back as one can trace - is proof that an original Passover
marked Israel’s deliverance from Egypt and passage into the Promised Land was
given. In fact, such proof was God’s
intent. He commanded Moses to tell the
Israelites:
And it shall come to pass, when your children
shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’S
Passover, who passed through the houses of the
children of
47. Ibid., 12: 26-27.
The
promise of the land and of the Messiah was renewed by God to Isaac: “Unto thee,
and unto thy
seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto
Abraham thy father ... in thy seed shall
all the nations of the earth be blessed.” 48 God
confirmed the same promise to Isaac’s son Jacob (
48. Genesis 26: 3, 4. 49. Ibid., 28: 13-14.
Islam can produce no evidence (either
from the Qur’an or from history) that the land was ever promised to Ishmael,
that all of his descendants together were ever slaves for four hundred years
anywhere, or that upon their deliverance they were led en masse into the Promised Land. In fact,
Ishmael’s descendants never lived in
Sadly, the Israelites eventually
came under God’s judgment for practicing the idolatrous ways of the nations
they had displaced. Pleading with them
to repent, God had warned, “[Y]e shall be plucked from off the land ... and the LORD
shall scatter thee among all people, from the
one end of the earth even unto the other.” 50
Stubbornly,
50. Deuteronomy 28: 63-64.
In spite of their disobedience
and being under divine judgment, the Jews are consistently identified as the
chosen people belonging to the God of the Bible. As already noted, He is
called “the God of
“Therefore
say unto the house of Israel,
Thus saith the Lord
GOD; I do not this for your
sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy
name’s sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. And
I will sanctify my great name ... and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith
the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among the heathen,
and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own
land.” 51
51. Ezekiel 36: 22-24.
THE “GOD OF
Chased out of their land under
God’s judgment in the Babylonian dispersion, and later twice by the Romans
(A.D. 70 and 135), Jews always returned to their ancient homeland. This despised people have lived in
God is angry with the nations of
today’s world for having robbed
God is also angry with
present-day Israel for going along with this fraud, even though under heavy
pressure from the United Nations, European Union, and the United States. God’s judgment will come upon
Our right to this land in its entirety is steadfast, inalienable and eternal. ... This right ... cannot be forfeited under
any circumstance ... [Israelis] have neither the power nor the jurisdiction to negate it for future
generations. ... And until the coming of the Great Redemption, we shall never
yield this historic right. 52
52. “BETRAYAL,” American Friends of Women For Israel’s
Tomorrow,
Yes, but the land is called “
* * *
[Page 93]
CHAPTER 5
THE TRUTH ABOUT “REFUGEES”
IN ALL OF THE CONCERN for Arab refugees who fled
1. David A
Rausch, The Middle East Maze:
In spite of its mandate to see
that “Palestine” became a national home for the
Jews, Britain was adamantly opposed to the fleeing Jews returning there and was
doing everything it could to stop them. Frustrated
and angry, a Jewish extremist right-wing underground group founded in
[Page 94]
If anyone deserved to be called
refugees, surely it was the survivors of Hitler’s attempt at their extermination. Yet when they came, in half-sinking ships,
within sight of the Promised Land they had been longing to reach, they were
driven back by the British navy and put into detainee camps! Many of those few who had managed to get
ashore in hope of starting a new life in the land God had given their ancestors
were rounded up by the ever-alert British and deported to the same camps - all
in violation of the mandate
The Jews were still waiting for
their promised state while Muslim terrorists daily attacked and murdered
them. Without settling the Jews in their
own homeland as promised, and claiming that the situation had gotten beyond its
control,
[*NOTE: The “heritage,” shown in this context,
should be understood as lasting for as long as this present earth will
remain, (2 Pet. 10-13).]
In a 1964 interview, Nasser had
stated that
2. Interview published in Deutsche National
Zeitung, April 1,
1964.
On November 29, 1947, UN
Resolution 181 partitioned the remaining 23 percent of
ARAB REACTION
Muslims intensified their
rioting in
3. Cited in Joan Peters, From Time
Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over
(New York: J. KAP Publishing USA, 1984), 360.
It is tragic that
many of the present casualties comprise innocent and harmless people. ... They are picked off while riding in buses, walking along
the streets, and stray shots even find them while sleeping in their beds. A
Jewish woman, mother of five children, was shot in
4. Foreign Relations of the
With the demise of Hitler and
his Nazi regime, and with a price still on his head if he reappeared in
5. Joseph
B. Schechtman, The Mufti and The Fuehrer (New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1965), 220.
Between November 29, 1947, and
March 3, 1948, more than five thousand Arabs invaded
6. Schechtman, The Mufti, 221.
History puts today’s terrorism
in perspective - its methods, goals and financing are nothing new but have been
the modus
operandi of Arab/Muslims
against
[Page 97]
Within a week after the UN
partitioned
Unashamedly, the Arabs boasted
to the entire world of their intentions.
Jamal Husseini, speaking for the Arab Higher Committee, had told the
Security Council on April 16, 1948: “The ... Jewish Agency [said] that the Arabs had begun the fighting. We did not deny this. We told the whole world that we were going to
fight.” This was a month before
ISRAELI OVERTURES OF PEACE AND THE ARAB RESPONSE
On May 14, 1948, re-born
The world was unwittingly
participating in the fulfilment of another remarkable prophecy. Looking forward to
7. Isaiah 66: 8.
[Page
98]
Truman’s brave recognition of
trampled
by the regular armies of at least five Arab nations.
The next morning, the fledgling
State of Israel found itself at war in earnest, under heavy attack on several
fronts. The Arab armies had begun their
coordinated invasion: the Lebanese from the north, the Syrian armies down the
Golan from the northeast, the Arab Legion and the Iraqi forces attacking in the
centre, and the Egyptians from the south assisted by bombers - in what they
unashamedly announced to the world would be a war of extermination.
Yes, annihilation was their
avowed intention, but by God’s grace it was an empty boast. Israelis who have defended the country have
told this author, “I was an atheist. But in the war [it could be any, one
of the five] I saw things happen that could
only be described as miracles, and I came to believe that the God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob was fulfilling His promises to His ancient people.” One retired general, who carries the Bible
with him everywhere he goes, claims that at least 30 percent of
[Page 99]
THE FIRST CEASE-FIRE
Fearing that the Arabs, with
their overwhelming superiority numerically and in weaponry, could make good
their boast, the
Consistent with their history of
favouring Arabs and opposing Jews,
The first truce with a
cease-fire went into effect on June 11, 1948.
It left the Arabs in control of about one-third of the minimal territory
that had been allotted to
THE REFUGEE PROBLEM
War is cruel and costly in every
way. The five full-scale wars that
The most tragic part about these
abused and misused people is that most of them didn’t need to flee. Such a necessity (though imaginary) was a
direct result of the Arab nations’ refusal to accept the UN partition
plan. As already noted, the Arabs now
want to go back to the borders set by UN Resolution 181.
In the midst of wanton aggression [Arab military units,
with the tacit approval and sometimes help of the British “peace keepers,” had been attacking Israeli
settlements for months], we yet call upon the Arab inhabitants of the
State of Israel to preserve the ways of peace and play their part in the
development of the State, on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due
representation in all its bodies and institutions. We extend our hand in peace and
neighbourliness to all the neighbouring states and their peoples. ...
The Arabs who remained in
Every Knesset, since
the founding of the State in 1948, has had Arab and Druze members. All transactions in the Knesset are
simultaneously translated into Arabic, and Arab members may address the Knesset
in Arabic. ... Arabic is an official language in
8. “The Arabs of Israel: Are they a
‘persecuted minority?’” ... FLAME, Facts and Logic About the
In contrast, no Jew has such
rights in any Arab or Muslim country. In
fact, a Jew isn’t allowed to set foot in
ENEMIES OF TRUTH
Truth is not easy to find. One must be careful of the source of
information and check it out, especially when it comes to the subject of
Palestinian refugees and their alleged mistreatment at the hands of Israelis. Professor David A. Rausch has said it well in
his excellent book:
Hatred by Christian
Arabs for Jews and the Jewish state runs as deep as it does among Muslim Arabs.
Periodicals and analysts who believe they are receiving an unbiased “Christian”
perspective on the problems of the
9. Rausch, Middle East,
79-80.
A number of books have been
written expressly to whitewash the Arabs, Palestinians, and Islam, and to paint
10. Noam
Chomsky, Fateful Triangle: The
There
are even books written by Jews that are in the same category. For example, Image
and Reality of the
Middle East Journal says it
“calls into question many of the accepted ‘truths’ associated with the Israel-Palestine conflict.” Yet there is not the slightest hint in the
entire volume of any culpability at all on the part of Arabs, no mention of
anti-Semitism or of sworn vows to annihilate
11. Norman
G. Finkelstein, Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine
Conflict (London:
Verso, 1995).
WHO DROVE THE ARABS OUT OF
The accusation has been widely
publicized and believed that the Israelis drove nearly a million Arabs out of
It was the Arab
military that warned Arab civilians to “get
out” and declared that those who remained would be considered traitors
to the Arab cause. Nevertheless, they
are the only “refugees” in the
On April 22, 1948 (three weeks
before
12. Foreign Relations of the
Unquestionably,
“… the Arab
Higher Committee encouraged the refugees’ flight from their homes in
14. Near
East Broadcasting Station of
Samuel
Katz, Battleground-Fact and Fantasy in
15. Filastin, February 19,
1949. 16. Ad Diofaa,
September 6, 1954. 17. Al Hoda, June 8, 1951.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Said
declared: “We will smash the country with our guns and
obliterate every place where the Jews seek shelter. The Arabs should conduct their wives and
children to [Page 104] safe areas until the fighting has died down.” 18 Syrian
Prime Minister, Khaled al Am later admitted, “Since
1948 we have been demanding the return of the refugees. ... But we ourselves
are the ones who encouraged them to leave.” 19
18. Myron
Kaufrnan, The Coming Destruction of
19. Khaled AI-Azrn,
Memoirs [Arabic], 3 volumes (AI-Dar al Muttahida lil-Nashr, 1972),
vol. 1,
386-87, cited in Peters, Immemorial, 16.
In his 1972 memoirs, Khaled
al-Azm deplored what Arab leaders had done:
Since 1948 it is we
who demanded the return of the refugees ... while it is we who made them leave.
... We brought disaster upon ... Arab refugees, by inviting them and bringing
pressure to bear upon them to leave. ... We have rendered them dispossessed.
... We have accustomed them to begging. ... We have participated in lowering
their moral and social level, … then we exploited them in executing crimes of
murder, arson, and throwing bombs upon ... men, women and children - and this
in the service of political purposes. ... 20
20. AI-Azm, Memoirs,
cited in Peters.
OVERWHELMING TESTIMONY
The New York
Times reported that “The mass
evacuation, prompted partly by fear, partly by orders of Arab leaders, left the
Arab quarter of Haifa a ghost city. ...” 21 The Arab National Committee in
21. The New York Times, May
3, 1948. 22. Middle Eastern
Studies, January 1986.
Emil Ghory, secretary of the
Palestine Arab Higher Committee, admitted, “The fact that there are those
refugees is the direct consequence of the action of the Arab states in opposing
partition and the Jewish state. The Arab states agreed upon this policy
unanimously...” 23 Arafat’s successor, the Palestinian Authority’s current prime
minister, Mahmoud Abbas, admitted in writing, “The
Arab armies, who [Page 105] invaded the country in ’48, forced the Palestinians to
emigrate and leave their homeland and forced a political and ideological siege
on them.” 24 According to a British
report, “Of the 62,000 Arabs who formerly lived in
Haifa not more than 5,000 or 6,000 remained ... the most potent [factors in the
Arab flight] ... were the announcements made over the air by the Higher Arab
Executive urging all Arabs to leave ... [and]
that those Arabs who remained in Haifa and accepted Jewish protection would be
regarded as renegades.” 25
23. The
While visiting Palestinian Arab
refugee camps in
26. Rausch, Middle East, 75-76.
Having failed to exterminate
Israelis by military attack, the Arabs are now trying to do it by playing on
world sympathy for “abused refugees.” In the summer of 2000, Palestinian
negotiators submitted an official document at
The PLO continues its attempt to
rewrite history. In spite of the Arabs’
outright rejection of UN Resolution 181 and their failed attempts to destroy
ISLAM’S RECORD OF OPPRESSION AND SLAUGHTER
The
hatred against all Jews, which comes not from being an Arab but specifically
from Islamic teaching, was reflected in the inhumane treatment of Jews in Arab
countries ever since Islam took over.
Prior to the seventh century and the advent of the prophet Muhammad and
Islam, as investigative reporter Joan Peters (in her monumental book, From Time Immemorial), points out from her exhaustive research, “Jews
and Arabs did have harmonious relations, and words of praise regarding the
noble virtues of the Jews may be found in ancient Arab literature. Indeed, Muhammad himself in the early years,
as he was seeking recognition as a prophet, looked with favour upon both Jews and
Christians and cultivated their friendship.” But that turned to hatred when they rejected
him as “the prophet of Allah.”
Though
Muhammad continued to call Christians and Jews “the
people of the book,” the fierce hatred that had begun when they rejected
him continued to grow. The Qur’an declares,
“O ye who believe!
Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends.” 27
Muhammad’s dying words were, “May Allah curse the
Christians and Jews!” What a
contrast to Christ’s teaching that we are to love all mankind as ourselves, 28 and to
His dying words spoken specifically of those who had tortured and crucified Him
- but also of all mankind: “Father, forgive them; for they know
not what they do.” 29
27. Surah 5:
51. 28. Matthew 22: 39. 29. Luke 23: 34.
As we
noted in Chapter Two, the oppression of Jews
and Christians in Arab countries throughout the centuries after the birth of
Islam was at times almost beyond description.
Hundreds of books have been written about this evil, but thousands could
not contain the full record. The following
is a sample of what Bat Ye’or reports in a fully documented volume:
[Page 107]
The religious
oppression ... in the period ... regarded as the “Golden Age” began under Abd
al-Malik (685-705). ... The destruction of churches and convents [and
synagogues] was perpetrated on such a scale in the whole Arab Empire that in
830 Ma’mun forbade further destruction without his permission. Yet during the Caliphate of al-Mutawakkil
(847-61) a wave of religious persecution, forced conversions, and the
elimination of churches and synagogues plagued the whole Abbasid Empire. ...
During their 1268
expedition, the Mamluks put all the men of
30. Bat Ye’or, The Decline of
Eastern Christianity under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude
(London: Associated University Presses, 1996), 84, 85, 110,
etc.
In A.D. 1012, one Caliph in
31. Saul
Friedman, “The Myth of Arab Toleration,” Midstream,
January 1970, 58.
Nevertheless, in early
nineteenth-century Egypt, Jews were “held in the utmost
contempt and abhorrence by the Muslims in general ... detested by the Muslims
far more than Christians ... jostled in the streets of Cairo ... beaten merely
for passing on the right hand of a Muslim ... dared not utter a word of abuse
when reviled or beaten unjustly by the meanest Arab or Turk; for many a Jew has
been put to death upon a false and malicious accusation of uttering
disrespectful words against the Qur’an or the Prophet ... [or] sacrificed to save a Muslim. ...” 32 In
1926, it was made a national law that immigrants desiring to become citizens
had to belong “racially to the majority of the
population of a country whose language is Arabic or whose religion is Islam.”33
32.
33. Article
10 (4) of Egyptian Nationality Code.
[Page 108]
In the 1940s, organized
anti-Jewish riots injured or killed many Jews in
34. Peters, Immemorial, 48, see comments in footnotes 120 and
121.
THE FORGOTTEN JEWISH REFUGEES
In 1948, as soon as a national
Jewish homeland was created, more than eight hundred fifty thousand Jews fled
(most of them to
This has not been due to
ignorance. On many occasions, the Israeli
government, the World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries (WOJAC), and
other agencies, have brought to the attention of the UN and its affiliates the
numbers of and circumstances creating the far larger number of Jewish refugees,
and have appealed for help. Numerous
times, the mistreatment of Jews in Muslim countries, in gross violation of the
UN [Page 109] Charter and of its Declaration of Human
Rights, has been brought to the attention of the UN: by Golda Meir on November
27 and 30, 1956; on December 21, 1956, by Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., as U.S.
Representative to the UN; on December 2, 1968, to then UN Secretary General
U-Thant by the International League for the Rights of Man (non-Jewish), and on
many other occasions. The appeals fell
on deaf ears.
UN Resolution 237, adopted
during the 1967 Six-Day War, called upon all parties to “respect scrupulously the humanitarian principles governing
the protection of civilian persons in time of War” as set forth in the fourth
Geneva Convention of 1949. Though there
was no specific mention of Jewish refugees, one could by implication include
them. Yet a year later, the UN passed
Resolution 259 clarifying the intent of 237 and expressing concern for “the safety, welfare and security of the inhabitants of the
Arab territories under military occupation by
Here are a few examples
revealing the origins of the Jewish refugees whose existence the UN and world
community refuse to acknowledge. In
1948, there were about two hundred sixty-five thousand Jews in
How could more than eight
hundred fifty thousand refugees
be overlooked by the United Nations and the world? Yet these Jewish refugees who fled the
unbelievably inhumane persecution and slaughter they and their forebears had
endured for centuries are ignored at the UN and in the media. In her report, after investigating the
refugee problem, Joan Peters writes:
[Page 110]
Though I read through
stacks of documents concerning the refugees, looking for official consideration
of these “other” Jewish “
35. Ibid.,
4.
One would think that
the larger number of Jewish refugees from Muslim countries who were given refuge
in
The persistence of
world leaders in pursuing such gross injustice in the face of the mountains of
evidence that have been presented over the years is maddening. Such blatant anti-Semitism, which violates
everything the United Nations is supposed to stand for, has no rational
explanation. It can only be a continuing
manifestation of the Satanic hatred against God’s chosen people foretold by His
prophets - a hatred and persecution that would dog the steps of Jews worldwide
until
An Arab researcher, author, and
member of the Palestinian National Council admitted: “The
Jews of the Arab states were driven out of their ancient homes ... shamefully
deported after their property had been commandeered or taken over at the lowest
possible valuation. ... This is true for the majority of the Jews in question.” He was concerned that
36. Sabri
Jiryis, AI Nahor (
[Page 111]
TREATMENT OF “PALESTINIAN”
AND JEWISH REFUGEES CONTRASTED
On June 7-8, 2004, delegates
from more than ninety countries, “addressing the
humanitarian needs of the Palestinian refugees ... made a solemn declaration on
behalf of the international community – ‘you will not be abandoned. ...’ They
committed the international community, UNRWA, and the host countries to the
continuing support of the four million refugees scattered across the
Of course, by “refugees” the UN meant “Palestinian”
- but not Jewish. Sadly, “live in peace” in Islam’s vocabulary does not exclude
terrorist attacks against neighbours.
Surely the United Nations would not accept such a definition - or would
it? During the years of continual
international pressure upon
[Page 112]
PRETENSE AND ROAD BLOCKS
Officially, the UN covers up the
axiomatic fact (acknowledged in rare instances at lower levels) that Jewish
refugees from Arab lands must be taken into account in any equation dealing
with the
At Camp David II in July 2000,
President Clinton declared that the rights of Jewish refugees would have to be
taken into account. On July 28, 2000, in
an interview on Israeli television,
There will have to be
some sort of international fund set up for the refugees. There is, I think, some interest ... on both
sides, in also having a fund which compensates the Israelis who were made refugees
by the war, which occurred after the birth of the State of Israel.
Other leaders (with the exception
of President George W. Bush) have not echoed
The High Commissioner has
attempted to obtain permission from Arab governments for Jewish refugees to
transfer the assets they left behind when they fled from Arab countries. Such efforts have [Page 113] met
with no cooperation from the Arabs.
Although the UNHCR has gone on record that Jewish refugees fled from
Arab lands because they were suffering serious human rights violations, nothing
has happened to redress that wrong. In spite of such efforts at lower levels,
at the higher levels Jewish refugees are treated as though they never existed.
NEEDLESS SUFFERING, HATRED, AND HYPOCRISY
It should be infuriating to
anyone with even a minimal sense of fairness - and it should cause a worldwide
outcry of protest - that in the continuing concern expressed in repeated
international conferences that discuss the plight of the Palestinian refugees,
no concern is expressed, nor is any mention made, regarding the far greater
number of Jewish refugees from Muslim lands.
Of course, they are no longer refugees, having been absorbed into normal
life in
From 1967 to 1985, income from
oil for
In June 1977, during
interviews in
[Page 114]
I asked various
Syrian officials, “Why not give the land to those Palestinian Arabs who would
choose to accept your offer?” The answer was always the same ... : “We will
give the land to anyone - the lbos, the Koreans, Americans ... anyone who comes
- anyone but the Palestinians! We must
keep their hatred directed against
38. Peters, Immemorial, 406.
Popularly accepted propaganda
gives the average person the impression that it was the Israelis who forced
these exploited people into refugee camps.
On the contrary, as we have seen, it was not
In 1951
Near East Arabic
Radio reported that
39. AI-Misri, October 1, 1949,
cited in Peters, Immemorial, 23.
United Nations
Secretary-General Dag Hammerskjold reiterated that there were ample means for
absorbing the Arab refugees into the economy of the Arab region [and] that the refugees would be beneficial to their host countries, by adding
needed manpower to assist in [their] development. ... 40
40. Peters, Immemorial, 21-23.
[Page 115]
Thousands of Arab refugees did
return to their homes and businesses in
THE ONE EXCEPTION!
In the last one hundred years, there
have been about one hundred million displaced persons who have fled from
violence in their former homelands to be taken in as refugees by neighbouring
countries. For example, when
Ah, but
there is one exception
- the “Palestinians.” In March 1976, Matthew Mitchell, then
director of the
41. Ibid.,
27. 42. Ibid., 29. 43. Al-Qubs, January 1949, quoted in az-Sameer
(
If justice demands that the “Palestinians” return to
* * *
[Page 181]
CHAPTER 8
FACING HARD FACTS
MIDDLE
EAST ANALYSTS and authors, A. J. Abraham and George M. Haddad, have stated
the Islamic view very clearly: “Islam is God’s plan
for the world, every inch of it, not only the Islamic regions. Islam is for everyone, whether one wants it
or not. It is the duty of every Muslim
to help expand the borders of Islam until every being on this planet
acknowledges that ‘There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his Messenger.’”
1 No
honest Muslim would deny this.
1. A. J. Abraham and George Haddad, The
Warriors of God (Bristol,
IN: Wyndham Hall Press, 1989).
Omar Bakri Muhammad (belatedly
banned from England since he fled to Lebanon in early August 2005), has long
claimed to be “Bin Laden’s man in Britain,”
which makes it all the more puzzling why he was so long allowed to openly
preach, in London and elsewhere, hatred of the West and an Islamic take-over of
the world. International political
intrigue is a tangled rats’ nest of double-dealing. John Loftus claims that Haroon Rashid Aswat
(who has been linked to Omar Bakri), suspected mastermind of the July 7, 2005,
2. FOX News, Day Side Program,
July 29, 2005.
[Page 182]
While still in
The aim of the
Khilifah [Caliphate] - the ideal Islamic
State, which does not presently exist - is to conquer the world. ... There can
be no end to jihad ... until the Muslims conquer the White House. ... 3
3. Anthony McRoy, “There Can Be No
End to Jihad,” interview with Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad in late January
2005,
Christianity Today, January 31, 2005.
Compromisers call Bakri an
extremist. In fact, he represents true
Islam, which is gaining strength.
Nothing less can be justified by the Qur’an, by Muhammad’s words and
deeds as recorded in the hadith, and by the history of Islam as practiced
consistently by Muhammad’s immediate successors and through the centuries that
followed.
Although
Muslims insist (apparently in
all sincerity) that the only true freedom comes through submission to
Islam. How could they honestly believe
that? Could it merely be a semantic
problem that centers upon differing interpretations of the meaning of
words? Or must the difference in
thinking go deeper?
In the previous chapter, we
noted that on December 10, 1948, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was
adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations at its third session
after coming into existence on October 24, 1945. There were fifty-six members at that time and
fifty-four present. The vote for the
Declaration as a whole was forty-eight in favour (including, surprisingly, a
number of Muslim countries:
This Declaration remains one of
the most important ever adopted [Page 183] by the
UN. Article One of the Charter, upon
which the UN was founded, declares that one of the principal purposes of the
United Nations is: “To achieve international co-operation in promoting and
encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all
without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion. 4
4.TheUnitedNationsYearbookSummary,1948,http://www.udhr.org/history/yearbook.htm#
(2%20Provisions%20of%20the%United%20Nations%20Charter.
In the process of composing the
entire Declaration, votes were cast by the members for and against each
proposed article. Of particular interest
is the fact that Article 18 was adopted by all fifty-six members. It reads:
Everyone has the right to
freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to
change his religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with
others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in
teaching, practice, worship and observance.
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
Although it abstained from
voting for or against the Declaration as a whole,
How can the undeniable
difference between what
[Page 184]
The Bible provides the uncomfortable
answer: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who
can know it? I the LORD
search the heart. ...” 5 Quoting Isaiah 29: 13, Christ
rebuked the rabbis of His day with these words: “Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias [i.e., Elijah] prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth
nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me
with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for
doctrines the commandments of men.” 6 It is a common human failing to
profess one thing with the lips while
denying it in practice.
5. Jeremiah 17: 9-10. 6. Matthew 15: 7-9.
Those who call themselves
Christians are as prone to such hypocrisy as anyone else. The Bible declares that the hearts of all
people are the same. But some cultures
encourage the natural evil and dishonesty of the heart. Such was the situation in the pagan Arab
culture from which Islam sprang and in which it is still deeply rooted. It is one thing for an individual Christian
to profess to love Christ and his neighbour as himself and yet to fail to live
up to this in daily life. It is
something else altogether, however, for one’s
religion itself to teach its followers to lie, commit violence, plunder, and
murder, in order to advance its cause in the world. As we have seen, this is the case with Islam - and the hypocritical denial of that fact
is practiced daily throughout the Muslim world and in its dealings with the
West. And Western leaders
seem content to accept and even encourage this deadly deception.
A POLICY BASED UPON DECEIT
How long
can we continue to ignore the past and present persecution and slaughter of
Jews and Christians by Muslims worldwide and to persist in defining Islam as
peace? As one historian states: “Thirteen centuries of religious discrimination, causing
suffering and death of countless millions, have been covered by the myth of
Islamic ‘tolerance’. …” 7 The West overlooks (as though nonexistent) the outright
denial of basic human rights and support of terrorism by Saudi Arabia and other
Muslim countries - and, incredibly, favours and sometimes even arms Islamic
terrorists, as in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Cyprus, Bosnia, [Page 185] Kashmir, Kosovo, Macedonia, Sudan, and East Timor.
7. SergeTrifkovic, The Sword of the
Prophet: Islam, history, theology, impact on the world
(
Repeatedly,
The world court has condemned
WHY THIS DOUBLE STANDARD?
We have quoted statements from
many Muslim leaders declaring in the clearest language possible that
8. Newsweek, November
17, 1975 and March 14, 1977.
If
The Iron Curtain was rightly
condemned by the non-Communist world.
Stiff pressure in the form of world opinion and various sanctions was
laid upon the
Even during the most oppressive
times under Stalin and Mao, at least a few churches were allowed to remain
open. In today’s
Is it not time for the West to
bring serious pressure to bear upon Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries
for their violations of human rights professed by UN members, just as it did
with the Soviet Union and continues to do with China? How can the
Although the EU, UN, and Western
powers have been slow to put public pressure on Muslim countries, there has
been behind-the-scenes arm-twisting, especially by the
9. http://www.arabnews.com/?page=
1 §ion=0&article=52314&d=3&m=10&Y=2004
The Saudis are attempting to cover
up the truth, as Anqari’s speech revealed: “We will
work with our friends in the world to highlight the true picture of
In trying to protect what it
calls its “true image,”
REMEMBER, THIS IS ISLAM!
Most of today’s Muslims
(whatever their origin, including
In the early centuries of Islam,
its forces nearly conquered
Foundational to Islam is the
declaration Muhammad made: “Allah has commanded me to
fight against all people until all people confess that Allah is the true God
and Muhammad is his prophet.”
Islam divides the entire world into Dar al-Islam. (the house of peace) and Dar al-Harb (the
house of war) and demands perpetual jihad everywhere against Dar al-Harb, i.e.,
non-Muslims. There can never be “peace” until Islam has subjected the entire world to
Allah. Everywhere, with the complicity
of those who are cooperating in their own eventual subjugation, Islam marches
on!
Terrorists are playing out their
special role in that conquest.
Unquestionably, Islam is behind most terrorism. Yet the spread of Islam’s mosques is allowed
throughout the Western world and accelerates even while Islam denies the same
liberty for other religions in territories it controls. Most mosques are funded by
10. Available
at www.amazon.com.
In July 2002, “a RAND Corporation analyst told the Pentagon’s Defence
Policy Board that
11. Dore
Gold,
(
12. Fareed Zakaria, “The Allies Who Made
Our Foes - How Arab states we call our friends sow seeds of terror
– and what we should do about it,” Newsweek,
October 1, 2001, 34.
13. Gold, Hatred.
There is no explaining away
today’s suicide bombers and terrorists as “extremists.” In Muslim countries, terrorists are treated
with the same hero worship that matadors receive in
[Page 189]
A NEW AND MORE SUBTLE JIHAD
In A.D. 732, in perhaps the most
important battle in European history, Charles Martel, at
That was nearly thirteen hundred
years ago. And now, through another and
more successful invasion, Islam has become the second largest religion in
14. “AI Qaeda’s New Front,” produced by FRONTLINE and aired January 24-25, 2005
on PBS.
The major international threat
is still Al Qaeda but in a new and even more deadly version. A new breed of recruits is swelling its ranks
worldwide, no longer exclusively from Muslim countries in the
With its founding
fathers in hiding, and dozens of key operatives under watch, Al Qaeda has
changed [and] is taking advantage of people
who don’t have to cross borders, receive cash from abroad or engage in other
international transactions that might alert authorities. ... “We are now dealing with many little Al
Qaedas,” with the potential of neighbourhood Al Qaedas,” said Brian
Jenkins, senior advisor to the president of the Rand Corp. “They
may not be able to carry out specialized operations ... but they can still
operate at a lethal level.”
The diffuse nature of
the shape - shifting AI Qaeda is one reason it’s hard to fight. Security services may crack one cell but find
little connecting it to others. Police
in
The new Al Qaeda is
finding fertile ground for recruits ... among the children of
15. Fox
News, August 8, 2005.
An eye-opening documentary aired
on PBS in late January 2005 explained, “It might come
as a surprise to many Americans, but the most pressing threat to the
16. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/press/2306.html.
In
“European police have thwarted
dozens of Islamist terrorist plots set to be launched following the
17. “New Front,” PBS.
[Page 191]
Areas in
AN IMPASSABLE BARRIER?
It is nearly impossible for
Muslims to be integrated into society as other immigrants have been, because
Islam does not allow any distinction between religion and the state. Islam must rule not only in the mosque but in
daily life and commerce, in the legal system, courts, and government. Thus, for genuine democracy to be established
in
In contrast, Western
civilization follows the clear distinction Jesus made between church and state when He said, “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.” (Matthew 22: 21;
Luke 20: 25). This fundamental difference in political philosophy
(recognizing that Muslims will attempt to use lawful democratic means in order
to establish shari’a) must be confronted if the West is to survive the internal
threat posed by the flood of immigrants.
Omar Ahmad of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations) has bluntly
said:
Islam isn’t in
Texans used to cry, “Remember the
Instead, many leading Christians
promote “peaceful” opposition to terrorism as
though terrorists would be persuaded by kindness. The liberal Christian (allegedly evangelical)
organization, Sojourners, placed a full-page ad in a national newspaper that
naively assumed that violence could be stopped by non-violence. 18 By
implication, blame for terrorism that operates by force was placed upon
18.
Although most Christians would
be uncomfortable with Falwell’s rhetoric, the ad denouncing him made no
criticism of the terrorists, much less of Islam’s promotion of murder in the
name of Allah. We have documented
Islam’s role. As
20. Gold, Hatred,
6.
[* NOTE: Taken
out of context, the words - “the merits of
martyrdom and its rewards in the afterlife”… “such teaching
comes from Islam alone,” – are
not true! See Matthew 16: 18;
Luke 16: 23;
23: 43; 2 Thess. 1: 4-5; 4: 6-8; Rev. 6: 9-11, R.V. ]
Islam itself is the root of the terrorist
problem that plagues the world. Western
leaders must begin there if we are to win the war against terror! But that is almost impossible, given the
climate of tolerant acceptance of virtually everything in
21. The
Associated Press, August 23, 2005.
“Hate-filled
words”? They are the trademark of
Islam - but they amazingly are transformed into “peace”
in Western minds when Muslims speak them.
And never forget that Muslim vows to exterminate
TERRORISM IS ISLAM’S PATH TO “PEACE”
To bring “peace,” Allah commands, “I
shall cast terror into the hearts of the infidels. Strike off their heads!; 22 Slay the idolaters wherever you find them ... ; 23 O Prophet, struggle with the unbelievers and hypocrites and
be thou harsh with them ...; 24 Believers, make war on the infidels
that dwell around you. …” 25 More than one hundred
other verses in the Qur’an advocate fighting to bring Islam’s peace to the
world. 26
22. Surah
8:12. 23. Ibid., 9: 5. 24. Ibid., 9: 73. 25. Ibid.,
9: 123.
26. Ibid., 2:190-193,
210, 224; 4: 74-76, 89, 101; 5: 36, 54; 8: 12, 17, 59-60, 65; 9: 5, 14, 29, 41,
123; 47A, etc.
Remember, Muhammad’s dying words
were, “May Allah curse the Christians and Jews!” Muhammad Atta, Egyptian leader of the
9/11 terrorists, attended a mosque in
27. The New York Times, July 16,
2002.
The same
violence is preached in many other mosques world-wide. This is genuine Islam according to Muhammad
and the Qur’an in spite of denials by Muslim propagandists such as CAIR.
Throughout
its history, as we have documented, Islam unquestionably has been responsible
for the slaughter of many millions of innocent victims, including Muslims
themselves by rival factions. Islam
doesn’t bring peace even among its most devoted followers. In the last chapter, we made brief mention of
the eight-year war between
We have seen the slaughter of
Muslim citizens by Muslim rulers, such as the murder of thousands by Saddam
Hussein in
The vast Al Qaeda terrorist
network began in the early 1990s. It was
composed of a loose amalgam of groups in
28. Zakaria,
Newsweek,
October 1, 2001, 34.
ARAFAT AND THE PLO
Dangerous as Al Qaeda is, it ranks
far below Arafat’s Islamic PLO networks, which today, in spite of his death,
still hold the record for the largest number of hostages taken at one time
(three hundred), the largest number of people shot at an airport, the largest
ransom collected ($5 million paid by Lufthansa), the greatest number and
variety of targets (forty civilian passenger aircraft, five passenger ships,
thirty embassies or diplomatic missions plus innumerable fuel depots and
factories), plus assassinations by the thousands, etc. 29 Jordan
had given these fellow Muslims shelter.
But their heinous crimes against his people, and Arafat’s attempt to
take over the country, became so unbearable that King Hussein I finally turned
his Bedouin troops on them and, with the help of the Israelis, drove them out
of his country and into
29. John
Laffin, The PLO Connections
(Transworld, 1982), 18.
[Page 195]
There the PLO (all devout
Muslims, sincerely believing they were acting in the name of, and to the
greater glory of, Allah and in obedience to the Qur’an) created an unequalled
legacy of torture and death, killing tens of thousands and leaving about one
hundred thousand young girls pregnant when the PLO was driven out. Often the bodies of PLO victims, some of them
small children, were mutilated and dismembered.
Life for Israelis became
intolerable in Galilee, where there were constant massive artillery and mortar
attacks launched by the PLO from within
30.
On June 6, 1982, under the
direction of then Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, Israel invaded Lebanon,
determined to drive the PLO out of that country as King Hussein I had driven
them out of Jordan. There was a further
reason: to remove huge hidden caches of arms known to be stashed in
As the battle raged and the
Israelis tightened the noose, the PLO retreated toward
Arafat was given shelter in
Instead of being tried by an
international tribunal and treated like the Nazi, Serbian, Taliban, and Iraqi
leadership, as justice would require, Arafat was given the status of a highly
honoured world statesman. His bloody
exploits gained for him international acceptance as a leader for peace and the
Nobel Peace Prize! The United Nations,
European Union, and countless world political and religious leaders sided with
Arafat in his unjust demands and terrorism against
31.
Arafat was cheered by the United
Nations general assembly, received at the Clinton White House and Camp David, was
received warmly at least ten times by Pope John Paul II - and the Pope visited
him in his palace in PLO-occupied Israel and supported Arafat’s opposition to
Israel. In spite of murdering eleven
members of
[Page 197]
TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION FOR “PEACE”
That
every Jew on earth must be killed and the entire world subjected to Islam to
the glory of Allah is not an obscure teaching.
One does not have to search in dark corners of a library to find
it. This ambition is taught in today’s
textbooks in Islamic schools worldwide, including, for example, the
32. Meyrav Wurinser, The Schools of
Ba’athism: a Study of Syrian Textbooks (MEMRI, 2000), xii.
33. Anthony Browne, “The triumph of the
East,” The Sunday Mail (
And yet Islam
continues successfully to sell itself to the world as a religion of peace. This fact remains one of the mysteries of our
day. There ought to be an international
cry of outrage raised against Islam.
This volume is not the first or only one by any means to sound the alarm
in an attempt to awaken the world to the awful truth. Perhaps readers will be moved to demand the
truth from Western leaders. That is the
only hope for the West’s survival!
Captured documents have revealed
that “at the graduation ceremonies for the [Hamas]
Islamic Society’s network of kindergartens [funded by
34. Gold, Hatred,
246. 35. World Net Daily, January 14, 2003.
[Page 198]
Could the innocence of such
children ever be restored? Can that
generation ever be convinced of what a normal conscience knows for sure - that the
true God would never condone murder, much less give murderers a special reward
in Paradise? If so, millions of lives
might be saved. Former PLO terrorist
Walid Shoebat writes:
I was born and raised
in Beit Sahour,
My lullabies and many
of the poems we memorized were about flying body parts and rolling heads.
I was initiated into
Yasser Arafat’s Fatah terror group and recruited by a well‑known bomb
maker named Mahmoud Al- Mughrabi from
My life was turned
upside down when I discovered that everything I had been taught about the Jews
was a lie.” 36
36. Walid Shoebat, Why I Left Jihad:
The Root of Terrorism and the Return of Radical Islam,
(Top Executive Media, 2005), 13-14, 20.
To die as a martyr in jihad was
always the only sure way (maybe) to
37. Bernard
Lewis, A Middle East Mosaic (
Hatred for
[Page 199]
In
In his testimony before the Senate
subcommittee referred to earlier, David A. Harris pointed out that “Saudi Arabian schoolbooks, even grammar books, are full of
phrases exalting war, jihad, and martyrdom.
And though all forms of terror are rejected by the Saudi Arabian
schoolbooks, it appears that such prohibitions do not apply to cases that fall
in the categories of jihad and martyrdom” 38 - especially against Jews. Harris elaborated further in a newsletter:
38. From
testimony of David A. Harris before Senate subcommittee hearing.
Saudi schoolbooks are a hate-filled portrait of a bizarre and fictitious
world - a place where the Protocols of the [Learned] Elders of Zion is a history text ... where Israel does
not exist on a map ... where organizations such as the Freemasons, the Lions,
and Rotary clubs are bound together in a global Zionist conspiracy.
The textbooks are not
the product of renegade religious fanatics.
They are official publications of the Saudi Education Ministry - the
work of a monarchy that passes itself off as a moderate regime and American
ally. ...
Recently we joined
with the Centre for Monitoring the Impact of Peace to conduct an investigation
into Saudi schoolbooks. What we found
was - to put it plainly - chilling. Practically every lesson - from grammar, to
geography, to history - was bent and twisted to transform it into a vehicle for
teaching hate. ...
“You will hardly find
any sedition without the Jews having a part in it,” one schoolbook says ...
blaming Jews for ... World War I and the French and Russian Revolutions.
Students are challenged to fill in this blank: “Those who have incurred
Allah’s wrath are -.” You will not be
surprised to learn the correct answer: “the Jews.”
Nor is bigotry [aimed
at] Jews alone. Saudi textbooks teach
youth to despise all that is Western as well. ...
Our work on this
report was instrumental in the introduction of a resolution in the U.S. House
and Senate condemning [Page 200] the bigotry in Saudi textbooks, calling on the
Saudi monarchy to change its curricula and expressing “extreme disappointment”
with the slow pace of education reform. ...” 39
39. http://www.ajeadvocacy.net/saudi.htm.
AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION
This is not to criticize
fundamentalism or fundamentalists. Every
person who stands firmly upon his convictions is a fundamentalist. All Christians ought to be
fundamentalists. That simply means
teaching and practicing the fundamentals of the faith as set forth in the Bible
and as taught and exemplified by Jesus Christ.
All Muslims, too, ought to be fundamentalists. The problem is that the fundamentals set
forth in the Qur’an and as taught and exemplified by Muhammad involve force,
violence, and murder in order to spread Islam.
But a true Christian is called to spread his faith by love, by
charitable example, and by appealing to reason - helping people face the fact
that the penalty for sin was paid in full by Jesus Christ on the Cross and
salvation is offered as a free gift to “whosoever will.” There is a vast distinction between Islamic
and Christian fundamentals - a distinction that any honest person ought to
recognize.
Everyone is free to make up his
own religion if he so desires. But no
one is free to make up a religion and call it “Islam,”
because that religion is already established, with its founder, scriptures,
traditions, and lengthy history of the example set by Muhammad and devout
Muslims. So it is with those who make up
their own religion, then call it “Christianity”
and claim to be “Christians.” They have no right to do so. Christianity, like Islam, has its founder,
Scriptures, and lengthy history of those who practiced it biblically. It is deceitful for anyone to call himself a
Christian who does not follow the teachings and example of Jesus Christ - just
as it is deceitful for anyone to call himself a Muslim who doesn’t follow the
teachings of the Qur’an and the example of Muhammad as recorded in the
hadith. That much is axiomatic.
No one can excuse Islamic
violence and murder by saying that the same thing (though on a much smaller
scale) was practiced [Page 201] by the
Crusaders. Though they waved crosses and
obeyed the Roman Catholic Church and her popes in doing so, their slaughter of
Jews and Muslims was in violation of the teachings of the Bible and of the life
and teachings of Jesus Christ, proving that they were not Christians. But what the Muslims did in slaughtering
millions in spreading Islam from
FACING THE AWFUL TRUTH
Every child in the Palestinian
Authority’s schools reads the textbook, Our Country
Palestine. Its title page declares, “There is no alternative to destroying
Bosnian Muslim leader Alija
Izetbegovic declared, “There can be no peace or
coexistence between the Islamic fait and non-Islamic societies.
...” Could have explained Islam more
plainly and doesn’t that statement include the entire non-Muslim world? How can anyone who denies this basic Islamic
teaching honestly call himself a Muslim?
And isn’t it dishonest in view of such foundational Islamic teaching for
Islamic diplomats from
Islam has created a culture of hatred
and murder that has devalued human life.
On March 22, 2004, eleven-year-old Abdullah Quran was stopped at an IDF
checkpoint outside
40. International
Speaking
at the United Nations on September 23, 2003, President Bush said that the
Palestinian Arab cause “is being betrayed by lead ers who cling to power but are feeding old
hatreds and destroying the good will of others.” The reprehensible necessity of being
politically correct prevents Bush from stating the truth that not only certain
of today’s leaders but Islam itself is
the direct cause of Palestinian hatred motivation for terrorism of Israel and
of the West and provides the and suicide attacks worldwide. Morton A Klein, National President
of the
Zionist Oreanization of America (ZOA), stated that truth clearly: “In fact, the central obstacle to peace between
41. www.middleeastinfo.org/modules.php?op=modload&
name=XForum&file=viewthread&tid=1276.
WHATS WRONG WITH MULTICULTURALISM?
It has
become popular in the
[Page 203]
This brought an invasion of
Eastern gurus to the West, and resulted in the New Age movement, where anything
is okay except saying that something isn’t okay. To celebrate the new
broadmindedness, public schools (especially universities) began to glorify
anything African or “native,” no matter from
where. White skin was out and colour was
in. White was ugly and wicked, black was
beautiful and could do no wrong.
Business and commerce, which had built our civilization, were damned for
destroying the earth. Environmentalism, no matter how extreme and destructive
in its own peculiar way, was the new darling.
It is in this context that Islam and Muslims have gained an admiration
that they do not deserve. In an article titled,
“Cultures Aren’t Equal,” Michael Barone shared
some wisdom:
Anyone who has been
keeping up with British opinion since the July 7 bombings will have noticed
that “multiculturalism” is under sharp attack.
Multiculturalism preaches that ... society should be not a melting pot but,
in the phrase of former New York Mayor David Dinkins, “a gorgeous mosaic.” That mosaic, of course, looked less gorgeous
as people surveyed the work of the British-born-and-raised bombers.
In the past, Tony
Blair has spoken favourably about multiculturalism. But on July 7, he struck a different
note. “It is important, however, that
the terrorists realize that our determination to defend our values and our way of
life is greater than their determination to cause the death and
destruction of innocent people and impose their extremism on the world”
(Italics added). Sadly, the
multi-culturist policies of Blair’s Labour government and its Conservative
predecessors gave refuge to preachers of Islamist hate in what some have called
“Londonistan. ...”
Now the Blair
government has moved to expel Muslim clerics who preach hatred and terrorism,
and the left-wing Guardian fired a writer who was a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a
radical group that advocates a “clash of civilizations” and urges Muslims to
kill Jews. ...
The Dutch novelist
Leon de Winter wrote that as traditional Calvinist discipline frayed and Muslim
immigrants rejected Dutch tolerance, “the delicate mechanism of
Multiculturalism is
based on the lie that all cultures are morally equal. ... But all cultures are
not equal in respecting representative government, guaranteed liberties, and
the rule of law. ... In
Multiculturalist
intellectuals do not think our kind of society is worth defending. But millions here and increasing numbers in
42. Michael Barone, “Cultures Aren’t
Equal,” US. News & World Report, August 15/August 22, 2005, 26.
Obviously, Nazism created a
culture in
43. Al-Akbar, April
18, 2001.
ARE ISLAMIC VALUES CHANGING WESTERN CULTURE?
Islam destroys the essential
sense of right and wrong that God has implanted in every human conscience - so
that murder is rewarded [Page 205] with
This is the atmosphere Islam has
created and in which not a few fanatics but the average follower of Islam is
immersed from earliest childhood.
Muslims in the West may attempt to be aloof from such evil, but in the long
run they cannot be. Is it not time for
them to admit the truth about the religion to which they still cling in denial
of its established teachings and many centuries of violent history?
But even Western governments
have rewarded terrorists. The rewards
heaped on Arafat are not the only example.
Arrested by the French police in 1977, Daoud was released from custody
for fear of PLO reprisals against
When I present the undeniable
truth about Islam to audiences around the world, I see reactions ranging from
discomfort to outright disbelief - and even accusations that I am lying. It is extremely painful for a normal person
to acknowledge that a religion in our day literally calls for the extermination
of an entire people and the subjugation of the world by force. Islam itself is
Why is there such a migration of
Muslims to the West? Obviously, they
prefer living in freedom under a democracy to living under the totalitarian
regimes in Muslim countries. Speaking
frankly, with rare courage, and calling upon Muslims living in the United
States to face the awful truth of what Islam does to a country, Dr. M. A.
Mtiqtedar Khan, Director of International Studies, Adrian College, [Page 296] Michigan, put it succinctly: “It is
time that we Muslims acknowledge that the freedoms we enjoy in the U.S. are
more desirable to us than superficial solidarity with the Muslim World. If you disagree, then prove it by packing
your bags and going to whichever Muslim country you identify with.” He is among a growing number of scholarly
Muslims who are raising their voices against terrorism by Muslims in the name
of Allah. Of course, in doing so they
are criticizing Muhammad himself.
A WAKE-UP CALL
The Western world prides itself
on freedom, democracy, and liberality.
There is no better proof of the genuineness of this boast than the
openness, generosity, and opportunities with which it greets emigrants - and
especially Muslims. That the latter are
particularly favoured above all others, including Christians, apparently
reflects the fact that Muslims control most of the world’s oil deposits and the
West is afraid to offend them. They are
allowed to build their mosques by the thousands, to have special prayer rooms
in public places such as schools and airports.
They are given equal freedom to become citizens and to express their
opinions, desires, and complaints with their votes in elections and in every
forum offered in an open and free society that practices the human rights
denied in Muslim countries: freedom of conscience, of speech, of the press, and
of religion.
Nor do we deny that such
freedoms ought to be granted equally to all without regard to race or
religion. But there is no justification
for suppressing (and even denying) the truth about Islam’s aggressiveness unto
the death of all who oppose it. As a
result, tens of thousands of deluded Westerners have converted to Islam, which
they have been assured is “peace” - and its
influence is steadily increasing so that both political parties in the United
States wooed Muslims in the 2004 elections.
In stark and shameful contrast,
no such freedoms are offered in Muslim countries to non-Muslims - and generally
not even to Muslims themselves. Yet no
voice is raised at the UN in objection, nor do Western political leaders speak
out.
The West has stood up for civil
rights in the face of Communism, bringing pressure upon
Would it not be best, instead of
deluding ourselves further, to insist right now upon a just and fair equality
with Muslims - an equality without which no lasting peace can ever be
established among free peoples? Rather
than continuing to promote the grossest of inequities that can only lead
ultimately to a loss of basic liberties, should not the same pressures that
brought down the Iron Curtain be applied to Muslim countries to bring down the
even more vicious and impenetrable Islamic Curtain?
An honest look at the
demographics is all it takes to realize how deeply we are sinking into what
could become a hopeless situation unless the truth is faced now. Pat Buchanan has predicted that “Europe will be inundated by an Islamic-Arab-African invasion
[and
44. Drudge Report, January
2, 2002.
[Page 208]
WHAT SHOULD THE WEST DO?
The “World
Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Jews and the Crusaders,” over the
signatures of Osama bin Laden and various leaders of militant Islamic groups in
The
45. Al-Quas-al-Arabi, February 23, 1998; quoted in The Bulletin (
This infamous organization was
co-founded by bin Laden and his personal physician, Dr. Ayman Zawahiri, in
February 1998. Zawahiri comes from one
of the most aristocratic families in
Zawahiri is a talented
physician. He was raised among the
wealthy in a luxurious villa in
These were not poor
people from refugee camps on the West Bank or in
46. Stephen Schwartz, “Radical Islam in
A LONG OVERDUE AWAKENING IN
Nor are the many acts of
terrorism occurring in
In
Wilders’ own life has been
threatened many times for speaking out about the danger that Islam poses to his
country and to all of
If in a mosque there
is recruitment for jihad, it's not a house of prayer, it's a house of war [and]
should be closed down ... its [Page 210] imams, or preachers, arrested and deported.
Without swift, bold action, Islamic fundamentalism will topple the
country’s democratic system.
The
If we don’t do
anything ... we will lose the country that we have known for centuries ... this
is something that I get angry about and I am going to fight for, to keep the
country Dutch! 47
47. Anthony Deutsch, “Popular Dutch
lawmaker urges halt to non-Western immigrants, shutting down radical mosques,”
November 19, 2004.
In
48. Constant Brand, “EU officials implore
new immigrants to learn ‘European values,’”
Associated Press,
This is a good start for Europe
(
MUSLIMS DESPERATELY NEED TO BE FREED FROM ISLAM
This naiveté was not even
dispelled by the November 2005 Muslim riots in
Undeniably, the rioters were “young men from
49. Mark Steyrt, “Wake up,
Muslims’ refusal to be assimilated
into the community around them causes their lack of qualification for jobs.
They attempt to create eventually a Muslim state as Islam requires. Until each Western country demands that
immigrants conform to its national rules, the situation not only in
Ernest Renan once praised
Islam. Now he declares, “Muslims are the first victims of Islam ... to liberate the
Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him.”
The words of Serge Trikovic may sound harsh, but they are the truth - and the
sooner the West faces that uncomfortable reality the better:
Islam is a collective
psychosis seeking to become global, and any attempt to compromise with such
madness is to become part of the madness oneself. No one who believes that jihad is the right
or duty of all Muslims, or who promotes adoption of Shari’a law or
reestablishment of the Caliphate, should be allowed to settle in any Western
country, and every applicant should be asked.
The passport of anyone preaching jihad should be revoked. This may be called discrimination but the
quarrel is not of our choosing.
[Page 212]
Islam, in Muhammad’s
texts and its codification, discriminates against us. It is extremely offensive. Those who submit to that faith must solve the
problem they set themselves. Islam
discriminates against all “unbelievers.”
Until the petrodollars support a Kuranic revisionism that does not, we
should go for it with whips and scorpions, hammer and tongs. Secularists and believers of all other faiths
must act together before it is too late. 50
50. Trifkovic,
Sword, 173.
We need a series of
international debates to expose Islam to the world for what it really is. Muslims themselves (especially those being recruited
for “Paradise Operations”), must understand
that terrorism exposes Islam’s moral bankruptcy. The fact that it takes terrorism and murder
to maintain it proves that Islam has no appeal to truth, honesty, and love from
the heart.
Incredibly, yet predictably, the
vital words the French steadfastly refused to use in describing the November
2005 riots were Islam, Muslim, and terrorism.
The true God pleads, “Come now, and let us reason
together. ...” Allah demands submission without any reason except that
to refuse means death. The fact that
Muslims have always had to use the threat of death to enlist and keep converts
proves that Islam has nothing to offer to the person of goodwill. As Netanyahu has well said, “It is the terrorists who are in fact weak, resorting to
bombs only because they can get no one to listen to them in any other fashion.”
51
51. Benjamin Netanyahu, Fighting Terrorism:
How Democracies Can Defeat the International Terrorists Network
(
The determination of the
terrorists to take the world for Allah and Islam must be opposed with even
greater determination to protect the freedoms we hold dear and which every
conscience knows have been bequeathed to mankind by the true God, who created
us all. As anti-terrorist expert John
Giduck writes:
To an
52. John
Giduck, Terror at Beslan: A Russian Tragedy with
Lessons for America’s Schools,
(n.p.: Archangel Group Publishing), 38.
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CHAPTER 11
REBELLION AND JUDGMENT
PROPHECIES
IN THE BIBLE refer often to “the
last days,” “the latter days,” or “the latter times.” 1 The first use of that phrase is
found in Genesis 49: 1, where
Jacob declares to his sons: “Gather yourselves
together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the
last days.” In addition to foretelling what will happen at that time,
Jacob’s prophecy clearly declares that in the “last
days,”
1. Numbers 24: 14; Deuteronomy 4: 30; 31: 29; Isaiah 2: 2; Hosea 3: 5; Micah 4: 1;
Acts 2: 17; 1 Timothy 4: 1;
2 Timothy 3: 1; James 5: 3; 2 Peter 3: 3,
etc.
[*A-millennialists’
teaching and replacement theology.]
Nor can
2. Genesis 17: 7, 13, 19; 2 Samuel 23: 5; 1 Chronicles 16: 17;
Psalm 105: 8-11; Isaiah 55: 3; 61: 8, etc.
[Page 262]
THE REAL ISSUE
The
Satanic goal of
Obviously,
Of the
hundreds of prophecies about
What
could be more foolish than for mere men to judge God? If the Bible is God’s Word, it is all true;
if not, then let’s stop honouring it, the
God who claims to have written it, and the Christ it tells us about, and let’s
honestly admit that Christianity is a dangerous delusion.
The climax of all prophecy
involves
3. Zechariah 14: 1-2.
God
says, “I will gather all nations.” But
Satan the one who hates
Nor does God even encourage,
much less cause, anyone to seek to destroy
It was
The entire history of the Jewish
people and of the nation of
How astonishing that “the people of God,” 4 in spite of all the miracles they had witnessed coming out of
Egypt, would rebel against God, turn to idolatry and immorality (these two
always go [Page 264] together), and as a result be
cast out of their land in God’s wrath!
That fact, however, could not have been stated more plainly than in the
many declarations concerning the future by
4. Judges 20: 2; Hebrews 11: 25, etc.
The following prophecies are not
the pronouncements of anti-Semites, but of God himself speaking through His
chosen prophets. And no one pronounced
God’s judgment upon rebellious
5. Exodus 33: 11; Deuteronomy 34: 10,
etc.
But it shall come to
pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the
voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which
I command thee this day; that all these curses
shall come upon thee, and overtake thee. ...
The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten
before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against
them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
... And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. ... Moreover
all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall
pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed;
because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee: And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder,
and upon thy seed for ever ... if thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law
that are written in this book, that thou mayest
fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD ... ye shall be left few in number ...
And it shall come to
pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy
you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest
to possess it.
And the LORD shall scatter
thee among all people, from the one end of the earth
even unto the other ... among these nations
shalt thou find no ease ... the LORD shall give thee there a trembling
heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: And thy
life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou
shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none
assurance of thy life: In the morning thou shalt
say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say,
Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine
heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the
sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 6
6. Deuteronomy 28: 15-68.
Surely the millions of Jews who
throughout history endured exactly what Moses foretold (at the hands of the
Roman Catholic crusaders, in Muslim lands for centuries, in the pogroms on
Russia, in the hatred and persecution on Europe, and, finally, in the
Holocaust) did not know their own Scriptures or they would have recognized the
fulfilment and repented, crying out to God for mercy. And what of today? Do the Israelis understand their situation in
light of what their prophets have said?
Amazingly, millions of Christians claim not to see any connection
between the Bible and modern
JUDGMENT CONTINUING TO THIS DAY
That theme of judgment pursuing
a scattered people was taken up by many other Hebrew prophets as God reiterated
His warnings. The fulfilment of these
judgments upon Israelis scattered everywhere is one more proof that they are
the people of God to whom the Promised Land was given. No other people have experienced through history
this continuing specific judgment. There
are hundreds more such passages in Scripture.
We can only cite short excerpts of a very few:
If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations. ... 7 “I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth. ... 8 I will sift the house of
7. Nehemiah 1: 8. 8. Jeremiah 15: 4. 9. Amos 9: 9. 10. Ezekiel 33: 29.
And the LORD hath sent unto you all his
servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened,
nor inclined your ear to hear. They said, Turn
ye again now every one from his evil way, and
from the evil of your doings. ... Yet ye have
not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that
ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt. 11 As I live, [Page 266] saith the Lord GOD, I have
no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that
the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye,
turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house
of
11. Jeremiah 25: 4-5, 7. 12. Ezekiel 33: 11.
In spite of the unbelief of most
Jews around the world, there has always been a nucleus through the centuries
who believed God’s promises - and who even recognized and admitted that the
dispersion of Jews all over the world was God’s judgment because of their sin. Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides), the famous
Jewish physician and philosopher, whose family had fled from Islamic
persecution in
It is ... one of the fundamental
articles of the faith of
On account of the vast
number of our sins, God has hurled us in the midst of this people, the Arabs,
who have persecuted us severely … as Scripture has forewarned us. ... Never did
a nation molest, degrade, debase, and hate us as much as they. ... 13
13. Isadore Twersky, ed., A Maimonides Reader (New York, 1972), 456-457.
AN INCREDIBLE EVENT!
Both God’s blessings and
judgments upon Israel throughout her history reveal His character: He is
loving, kind, faithful, and true, but He will not leave rebellion unpunished
and He will not go back on His promises, whether for blessing or for
judgment.
As they well might, the people
trembled before this awesome display of God’s presence and power. No fiction writer would have [Page 267] imagined, much less dared to write, the unbelievable
rebellion that Scripture tells us occurred next. One of the many evidences that the Bible is
the true Word of God lies in the fact that, in giving us man’s history from the
Garden of Eden through the flood and onward, it spells out the evil in the
heart even of those whom God graciously blesses - and nowhere more clearly than
at Mount Sinai.
Astonishing though it seems, in
spite of this audible and visible proof of exactly who the true God was - the
God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Israel, who had delivered them
miraculously from
And when the people
saw that Moses delayed to come down [they
said] unto Aaron ... make us gods, which shall go before us. ... And all the people brake off the golden earrings ... in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. And he ... made it a molten calf:
and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the
And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people [have] turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto ... a stiffnecked people: Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath
may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
And Moses besought the
LORD his God. ... Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them ... all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for [Page 268] ever. ... And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand
... the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. 14
14. Exodus 32: 1-14.
God was testing Moses with the
offer of having his descendants replace the twelve tribes of
The same holds true today. The God of the Bible must fulfil His promises
of ultimately restoring
We well know the tragic story. When Moses returned to the camp of
GOD’S COMPASSIONATE LOVE - AND JUSTICE
It was in the midst of this
awesome scene that Moses begged of God, “I
beseech thee, show me thy glory.” 15 The
Mount was ablaze, the earth was quaking, and the [redeemed,
disobedient and deceived] people [of God] were being punished for this grievous, almost unbelievable
sin. It was the perfect setting for God to
thunder, “I will show you what a harsh judge I am!” Instead, He invited Moses to come once more
up the Mount into His presence, where He would write the law on tables of stone
again - the law that
15. Ibid., 33: 18.
In response to the request of
Moses, God replied, “I will make all my goodness pass
before thee.” 16 Up on the mount once again, “the LORD passed by before him, and
proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD [Page 269] God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands,
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and
that will by no means clear the guilty. ...”17
16. Ibid., 33: 19. 17. Ibid., 34: 6-7.
God seems to add “will by no means clear the guilty” almost reluctantly. Repeatedly the God of the Bible tells the
Jews that He loves them: “The LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself … because the LORD
loved you. ...” 18 The Apostle John,
inspired of the Holy Spirit, declares, “God is
love.” 19 He cannot but love not only
18. Deuteronomy 7: 6-8. 19. 1 John 4: 8, 16.
Yet God is also perfectly just.
He cannot “clear the guilty,” for
that would condone sin and corrupt His justice.
The penalty He has pronounced must be paid. And, wonder of wonders, God would Himself come as a man to pay that penalty in full (as He
alone could) so that all who would believe could righteously be forgiven.
Generation after generation, as
they continued to rebel against Him, God sent His prophets to plead with His
chosen people: “Come now, and
let us reason together, saith the LORD:
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as
white as snow. ... If ye be willing
and obedient, ye
shall eat the good of the [promised] land: but if ye refuse and
rebel, ye
shall be devoured with the sword: for the
mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.” 20 God did
not want to punish His people (nor does He want to pour out His wrath upon this
world), but He cannot condone evil. His
pleadings with
20. Isaiah 1: 18-20.
I sent unto you all my
servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate. But they hearkened
not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their
wickedness. ... Wherefore my fury and mine anger
was poured forth. 21
21. Jeremiah 44: 4-6.
Sadly, in spite of God’s
pleadings for His people to return to Him with their whole heart,
[* The “full blessing” is their millennial
inheritance - after the “First Resurrection,”
and after
the Lord Jesus returns to this earth to establish His messianic Kingdom
- the inheritance promised to Him by His Father, (Psa.
2: 8,
R.V.).
Hence, the warnings against Christian
disbelief and apostasy today; which the Holy Spirit and the Apostles
John and Paul addressed in their epistles to the churches. See for example, - Rev. 3: 14- 22. cf. Acts
7: 2-7; 1 Cor. 6: 9; 10: 1-15; Gal. 5: 21; Eph. 5: 5; 2 Tim. 4: 1-4, R.V. etc.]
The LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a
special people unto himself, above all people
that are upon the face of the earth ... because
the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto
your fathers. ... I do not this for your sakes, O house of
22. Deuteronomy
7: 6-8;
Ezekiel 36: 22,
32, etc.
THE PROMISE OF THE MESSIAH
It was God’s purpose to include,
from all eternity, the entire world in His mercy toward
23. Genesis 12: 1. 24. Ibid.,
22: 18. 25. Ibid., 26: 4. 26. Ibid., 28: 14.
The Messiah would not suddenly
appear on earth out of thin air. Nor
would He step out of a UFO and declare, “Voila! Here I
am, the long-awaited Messiah!” He
required a genealogy of human ancestors in order to be a genuine man.
He had to be God in order to be
without sin and capable of paying the infinite penalty His own justice demanded
for the sins of mankind. Yet He had to
be a genuine flesh-and-blood man in order to pay the penalty on behalf of all
mankind. God chose Abraham, and through
him, Isaac, Jacob, and King David (and revealing His grace [Page 271] and forgiveness, even the harlot Rahab and Ruth the
Moabitess), to be the ancestors of the Messiah.
The Messiah had to be, and is, a Jew - another reason why God has a
special place in His heart for
There is no escaping the
prophecy of the great Hebrew prophet, Isaiah:
For unto us a child is
born [the baby born in Bethlehem], unto us a son is given [the eternal Son of God come as
a man]: and the government shall be upon his shoulder [so this
promised One is the Messiah]: and his name shall
be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The
everlasting Father [so God is a Father and has a Son whom He
gives to be the Messiah, and they are one], the
Prince of Peace [this is the one who will bring everlasting peace]. 27
27. Isaiah 9: 6.
To be God’s chosen people is a
great honour, but it holds
responsibilities as well as blessings.
That the Jews would be scattered all over the world, hated, persecuted,
and killed was more than prophecy - it was God’s judgment upon them for
rebellion and for the worst rebellion of
all: rejecting their Messiah. Yet through that rejection would come the
crucifixion - and through that the salvation of all who would believe.
Many centuries after God’s
promise of the Messiah to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the prophet Isaiah would
not only foretell His coming, as quoted above, but His rejection by His own
people and, through that, the redemption of mankind:
He is despised and rejected
of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:
and we hid as it were our faces from him ... and
we esteemed him not. ... But he was wounded for
our transgressions, he was bruised for our
iniquities ... with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep
have gone astray; we have turned every one to
his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. ...
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief …
mak[ing] his soul an offering for sin. ... 28
28. Ibid., 53: 3-10.
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RESTORATION PROMISED
In spite of their being under
God’s severe discipline for unbelief, and in spite of the prophesied fact that
for centuries they would reject their Messiah, nevertheless, dozens of times in
His Word Yahweh has promised to preserve the Jews from total destruction. 29 He
would finally establish them back in their own land as an identifiable ethnic
people (though in unbelief), after which Messiah would return to rescue them at
Armageddon and take the throne of His father David. 30 God’s integrity is tied to the ultimate restoration of
29. Jeremiah 30: 10-17; 46: 27-28,
etc. 30. Jeremiah 31; Ezekiel 34, 36, 37, etc.
But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be
not dismayed, O
31. Jeremiah 46: 27-28.
We have been able to refer to
only a few of the many biblical prophecies concerning
Only since 1948, as He declared,
has God begun to restore
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I will ... gather you out of all countries,
and will bring you into your own land. 32 I will multiply them, and set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. … 33 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it
in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd
doth his flock.
For the LORD hath redeemed
Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him
that was stronger than he. Therefore they shall come and sing in the
height of
32. Ezekiel 36: 24. 33. Ibid., 37: 26. 34. Jeremiah 31: 10-14.
As a shepherd seeketh
out his flock ... so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been
scattered ... and I will ... gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land. … 35
35. Ezekiel 34: 12-13.
Behold I will gather them out of all countries whither I have driven them
in mine anger ... and I will bring them again unto
this place, and I will cause them to dwell
safely: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. ...
And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them ... that they shall not depart from me ... so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised
them. 36 And I will bring again the captivity of my people
of
36. Jeremiah 32: 37-42. 37. Amos 9: 14-15.
AN UNBUILICAL, IRRATIONAL THEORY
There are Christians today who
claim that these prophecies refer not to the last days in which we live but to
The precise language of
Scripture utterly refutes the idea that prophecies of the Jews returning to
their land refer to the long past exodus out of
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth
that brought up the children of
But The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of
Behold, I will send for many fishers,
saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and
after will I send for many hunters, and they
shall hunt them. ...
For mine eyes are upon
all their ways ... neither is their iniquity hid from
mine eyes.
And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have
defiled my land ... mine inheritance... [and] cause them to know my hand and my might: and
they shall know that my name is The LORD
[Yahweh]. 38
38. Jeremiah 16: 14-21.
Obviously it is appropriate
today, for the first time in history, to affirm the words of this amazing and
accurate prophecy: “The LORD liveth, that brought up the
children of
Certainly, “they shall build the waste cities” could
not describe
39. Exodus 3: 8, 17; 13: 15; Leviticus 20: 24; Numbers 13: 27; Deuteronomy 31: 20; Joshua 5: 6, etc.
Unequivocal as these statements
are, however, and in spite of the clarity of their language, they have not been
believed by most Jews, either in the past or today, whether in
OPPOSITION OF MANY CHRISTIANS [both
nominal and regenerate] TO
We have
seen from the scriptures cited above (and there are literally hundreds more
like them) that God has promised a full and final restoration of Israel, both
physically in relation to her land and spiritually in relation to God himself. Of that final restoration, Paul declares:
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should
fall? God
forbid: but rather through their fall salvation
is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them
to jealousy. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the [Page 276] Gentiles; how
much more their fulness? ... For if the casting
away of them be the reconciling of the world, what
shall the receiving of them be, but life from
the dead? ... [B]lindness in part has happened to
40. Romans 11: 11-16, 25-26.
It is
astonishing how many who claim to be Christians apparently have no fear of the
God of the Bible. They are not afraid to
flaunt their denigration of
41. Deuteronomy 3: 19-10. 42. Lamentations 2: 18; Zechariah 2: 8.
Yet most
Calvinists and many of those who call themselves “Reformed”
insist that
This
document declares:
Section VI.. The inheritance
promises that God gave to Abraham ... do not apply to any particular ethnic
group, but to the
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Section A. The entitlement of
any one ethnic or religious group to territory in the Middle East called the “
Fulfilled under Joshua? Yet this refers to the church? Can they be serious? The church [of today] didn’t even exist in
Joshua’s day!
The
error of that statement should be plain to any serious student of the
Bible. We have seen that the land was
given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their physical descendants by an
“everlasting covenant.” Certainly the
“everlasting” possession of that land could not have been fulfilled under
Joshua, because he died at the age of 110 – a far cry from “everlasting.” The “land promises
specific to
Nor could the prophecies
possibly have been fulfilled under Joshua that the Messiah would come to that
land as a man to redeem Israel, that Israel would reject and crucify Him in
that land, or that Israel, having returned to her land after being scattered
worldwide, would be attacked by all the nations of the world in the battle of
Armageddon and that the Messiah would intervene to rescue her. Behold the power of prejudice
against the Jews to blind even Christian leaders to the plain teaching of God’s
Word!
That the vast majority of Jews
today (including most rabbis) either ignore or deny these clear prophecies is
no less astonishing.
For Satan to be defeated, it is
not enough for individual Jews to survive.
Israel must exist as a nation in her own land: “Thus saith the LORD,
which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light
by night, which divideth the sea when the waves
thereof roar ... if those ordinances depart from
before me ... then the seed of Israel also shall
cease from being a nation before me for ever.” 43
43. Jeremiah 31: 35-36.
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Many
Jews worldwide reject the Bible and deny the existence of the God of
Israel. Their Jewishness is purely
cultural and traditional. As a
consequence, they denounce what the world calls “Zionism.”
Norman G. Finkelstein, already mentioned, is an example of this idea. He rejects the very existence of a nation
called
It’s apparently acceptable that
everyone else, from American Indians to Finns to Zulus, claims a “historical
homeland” - but not for Jews. He even
supports Arab imperialism that claims the entire Middle East for the “great Arab nation,” with no room in it for
This
same opposition to
The church is not a nation, but
is made up of people from every nation, and therefore could not have replaced
Certainly, the Promised Land was
never given to the church, nor did she ever occupy it as a “nation.”
The church was never, for [Page 279] her
rebellion against God, cast out of a Promised Land. Nor was the church ever promised a return to
be established again as a nation in that land.
But all of that and more was prophesied of and fulfilled in
A CLEAR DISTINCTION
God
declares through Jeremiah 44 (as quoted above) that if a distinct nation known as
44 Norman G. Finkelstem, Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (London: Verso, 1995),10. 45 Ibid., 14.
Romans Chapters 9 and 10 make as clear a distinction between the church and the
physical people known as Jews constituting the nation of
46. Romans 9: 3-5.
Moreover, there are Germans,
French, Spanish, Australian aborigines, Zulus - in fact, people from every
tribe and nation on earth in the church.
How could this variety of races all be called “Israelites,” the “kinsmen
according to the flesh” of Paul and Christ?
Impossible! He goes on to say
that his “heart’s desire and prayer to God for
47. Ibid., 10: 1.
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Indeed,
so perverse is this teaching that many who espouse it claim that Christ’s
promise to return has already been fulfilled - that back in A.D. 70 in the
person of the Roman armies to destroy
48. 1 Corinthians 15:
51-57; 1
Thessalonians 4: 13-18.
Even
more astonishing, some of those who teach the “
49. Isaiah 11: 1-9; 65: 24-25. 50. Revelation 20: 1-3, 7-9. 51. 1 Peter 5: 8.
Tragically,
from the days of Moses to the present time,
52. Luke 21: 24; Romans 11: 25.
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CHAPTER 13
SIGNS OF HOPE
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SOME
MUSLIMS HAVE EXPRESSED SURPRISE and anger that Islam is linked with
terrorism. Such a state of denial is not
helpful. Thankfully, however, there are
signs of a growing embarrassment over the continuing murder of innocent people
by Muslims. Imams across
In 2004, the Turkish government
ordered the mosques in that nation to deliver an anti-terrorism message as
authorities pieced together evidence to determine who was behind a string of
suicide bombings (a trademark of Islam) that killed fifty-seven people and
wounded hundreds more. There is a
growing movement within mosques in the
1. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103872,00.html.
That terminology, however, could
be misleading. In the Muslim mind,
Islamic terrorists are obeying Allah, Muhammad, and the Qur’an and thus are not
lawbreakers. That they are murderers of
innocent women and children, according to man’s laws, is of no concern. They are not looked upon as lawbreakers but
admired as heroic martyrs in Islam’s jihad against the world of
unbelievers. There are, [Page 310] however serious conflicts of opinion when the terrorism is by
one faction of Islam against another faction.
Surprising to most Westerners,
who imagine that non-Muslims are the only targets of Islamic terrorism, is the
fact that most terrorist acts are by Muslims against Muslims. We have seen that scenario being played out
in
2. http://www.shaheedfoundation.org/foundationnews.asp?ld=292&Type=News.
Who is right? This is a serious question!
TERRORISM AND MOSQUES
The fact cannot be denied that
many mosques are training and support centers for terrorists. In some of them, even in the West, terrorism
is openly preached, as it is in every mosque in Muslim countries. We have already seen that this is not
extremism but true Islam as Muhammad established it and as his successors
practiced it for centuries, all the way from
Of course, all Muslims of every faction are united in their hatred of
3. http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/sib/mpa 11_03/alein‑12‑03.htm.
The IDF found a Hamas operative
rolled up in a prayer rug in the Abd al-Nasser mosque in Ramallah. Ahmad Odeh, another wanted Hamas terrorist,
was discovered hiding in the Zeid mosque near the entrance to the city of
Nor is the relationship of
mosques to terrorism confined to the East.
Many mosques in the West, including some in
4. The Christian Science Monitor, August 12, 2004.
Unfortunately, the mistake
continues to be made of calling true Muslims “extremists.”
Was Muhammad an “extremist”? That would be
absurd. How can the founder of Islam be
an extremist? Surely of all Muslims, he
would be the exemplification of true Islam if ever there was one! Yet Muhammad plundered and murdered in the
name of Allah to the glory of Islam.
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This refusal by the Western
leaders to face the truth that Islam itself is the enemy is costing us
dearly. Yet, at the same time, there are
hopeful signs that opinions are changing.
A RELIGION OF DEATH
5.
The place of one’s burial is
extremely important to a Muslim’s hope for the next life. Najaf, another of
For the world’s 150
million Muslim Shias, Najaf is the ideal burial place. Proximity to Ali is supposed to improve
chances of avoiding Gehenna, the abode of the fallen, according to the Koran. [Improve
chances? What assurance is
that?] Believers spend a lifetime’s savings to have
their corpses transported to Najaf for burial close to Ali’s mausoleum. Five generations of my family are buried
there thanks to a tradition that began in the 17th century. [What does
this have to do with justice and truth? It sounds like Catholicism!]
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Death is at the
centre of life here. Tens of thousands
of grave-diggers, undertakers, masters of funeral ceremonies, tomb watchers,
givers of prayers for the dead, intercessors, Koran reciters, mediums for
communication with the departed, and so on make up the bulk of the workforce.
While Najaf’s chief
import is corpses, its major export is mullahs.
The city hosts the most eminent of Shia seminaries which, at the height
of its theological boom in the 1950’s, boasted 124 madrassahs with 40,000
trainee mullahs. All the grand
ayatollahs of the past 150 years either studied or taught there. 6
6. Amir Taheri, Times, August 28, 2004,
http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/6890.
Muhammad’s son-in-law, All, is
to the Shi’ite what Catholic “saints” are to
their devotees. However, neither praying
to a Catholic saint nor being buried near Ali's remains will ever pay the
penalty for sin. Not even earthly
justice - and surely not God’s - works that way. Certainly, being buried in the same tomb with
Ali would not help. Muslims are all
being deceived! How can the true God
remain just and holy and yet forgive sins?
This is the issue.
And right here, we encounter a
major difference between the Qur’an and the Bible - between Islam and
Christianity - that cannot be swept under the rug of wishful ecumenism. Islam really offers no hope that satisfies
the conscience concerning God’s justice.
The penalty for sin must be paid - and that certainly
can’t be done by being buried near Ali, dying in jihad, or offering good deeds
to counter-balance evil.
The question is how a just God
could forgive sinners. Inspired of the
Holy Spirit, Paul declared:
But now the
righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the
righteousness of God ... by faith of Jesus Christ unto ... them that believe: for there is no
difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely
by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus ... for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God ... that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in
Jesus. 7
7. Romans 3: 21-26.
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Here, as elsewhere, the Bible
declares that Christ paid the penalty
for our sins and that we merely need to accept His payment in our place. If that is true, the conscience has
legitimate basis for peace - and if not true, then we must spend eternity paying
that penalty ourselves in hell. There is
no other alternative.
The jihad “martyr,” however, believes that his blood pays for
his sins, even though in his death he sent others to hell. His shattered remains are not washed or dressed
but buried just as he died. His blood
will thus presumably testify to Allah that he is worthy of entering
SUPPOSED WAYS TO
Islam has
one thing in common with every other religion, which separates them all from
true Christianity: attempting to appease
God with works and sacrifices. And
for a Muslim, that even includes giving up one’s own life to gain
Of all terrorists, suicide
bombers are the most difficult to detect and stop. There are literally millions of young men and
boys in training in
In Iran alone, as already noted,
in just one appeal, forty thousand were signed up for suicide missions in Iraq,
where thousands of foreign fighters have infiltrated to confront the coalition
and Iraqi [Page 315] troops. For many, this is a lifetime ambition. The greater the number of innocent people the
bomber kills, the greater the reward from Allah. The families of a successful shaheed (i.e.,
who kills others in his suicide) will receive a large monetary reward, once
paid by Saddam Hussein, but now by the Saudi royal family and from
contributions collected from Saudi citizens.
The shaheed is promised instant
entrance into
For most Muslims, martyrdom is
the best hope for reaching Paradise - but
The disastrous fact is that the
first thing the jihad “martyr” discovers after
his suicide is that he is not in heaven but in hell (as his own conscience must
have told him) and that instead of being rewarded, he is being punished for the
death and destruction he caused in this final act of his life. What a tragedy that so many are being
deceived in this way.
What “god”
rewards murderers with heaven? The conscience
God has given each person cries out in protest! Those under this immoral delusion are victims as well as those they
murder. The fact that the
United Nations, world leaders, and billions
of citizens around the world do not rise up in outrage against this barbaric [Page 316] practice is as clear an indictment of the
world of our day as was the thunderous silence in the face of the Holocaust in
Nazi times!
JUSTICE MUST BE SATISFIED
Let us
think clearly for a moment. How can
anyone’ s sins, committed over a lifetime, be expunged by one final “good deed,” much less by the sin of mass murder? What court of law would accept that? The murderer would, in fact, be punished for
this additional crime. And imagine the
hundreds of thousands of trusting Muslims whose surviving relatives pay dearly
to have them buried as close to Ali’s tomb as possible under the hope that they
will thereby gain some greater measure of mercy from Allah. Amir Taheri is an intelligent man. Can he really believe that his family’s sins
have been forgiven because of their being buried in the vicinity of Ali’s
remains? What “justice”
is that?
Nor is this the only deadly
delusion that grips Muslims. We have noted
that only by killing every Jew on earth can Muslims bring to pass the “last day.” And
what is that day’s significance? That is
when one’s deeds will supposedly be weighed by Allah in the balance, and if the
good outweighs the bad, then one is admitted to
Every
conscience rejects such reasoning. What
judge would excuse the guilty, party from paying a speeding ticket who pleads
that he or she had driven more within the speed limit than exceeding it? Or what judge would declare innocent a man
who had committed murder, because he had once saved the lives of two (or even a
dozen) people from drowning or from a
burning building. To the person who
promises never to break the law again if the judge will let him off this time,
the judge would surely reply, “If you never break the law again, you are only
doing what the law requires. You don’t
get extra credit for keeping the law in the future with which to pay the
penalty for past sins.
The human race, individually and
collectively, is guilty of rebellion against God. Living by its own rules and for its own ends,
[Page 317] mankind is collectively defying the Creator
of the universe! That rebellion will not
go unpunished.
God pronounced eternal death
(i.e., separation from Him in conscious pain and remorse) as the penalty for
breaking His law in even the smallest way.
In fact, there is no “small” breach of
the law. To break the law in any respect
is rebellion against God. That mankind
would act selfishly rather than for God was inevitable. Obviously, then, God
needed to have a means of forgiving and restoring man. But to
forgive man without the penalty being paid would mean that God condoned evil
and was even a partner in sin.
THE PENALTY MUST BE PAID IN FULL
Conscience teaches every man
that it is wrong to lie, steal, murder, commit adultery, to fornicate, to covet
what belongs to someone else, to be proud, self-serving, etc. 8 Everyone
also knows that justice demands a penalty for breaking God’s laws. We
can’t buy God off. He doesn’t negotiate
or offer a special deal to anyone. His
perfect, holy justice must be satisfied.
The penalty must be paid. Yet
God loves every person deeply enough to find a way to forgive man
righteously. The only way was for God himself to come to this
earth as a man and pay that penalty for the entire human race - which,
according to the Bible, He did in Jesus Christ:
8. Ibid., 2: 14-16.
For God so loved the
world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to
condemn the world; but that the world through
him might be saved. 9
9. John 3: 16-17.
He that believeth on the son
hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life;
but the wrath of God abideth on him. 10
10. Ibid., 3: 36.
This is the message of the Bible
from Genesis to Revelation
- the promise of the Messiah by God’s prophets.
If this is not true (in fact, we can prove that it is), then there is no
hope. Buddha certainly didn’t provide a
way for anyone to be forgiven by God (in [Page 318] whom he
didn’t even believe) - nor did Muhammad or any other religious leader. Nor is any rational hope of just forgiveness
from God found in the Qur’an or the scriptures of any other religion. It is
the Hebrew prophets alone who infallibly foretold
As we have already noted, the
great Hebrew prophet, Isaiah, declared concerning the Messiah, whose coming and
rejection by His own people he foretold: “All we like sheep have
gone astray; we have turned every one to his own
way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity
of us all.” 11 True Christianity simply believes and teaches that the
Messiah, promised by the prophets to Israel and through her to the world, did
indeed come to earth in the manner and precise time foretold, was rejected by
the Roman authorities, the Jewish religious hierarchy, and His own people, was
crucified for the sins of the world, and was resurrected the third day, as the
prophets declared and as history records.
11. Isaiah 53: 6.
History
verifies the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ? Of course it does. Even the resurrection? Can any educated person today believe that? The
evidence is overwhelming. Lord Lyndhurst,
one of the greatest legal minds in British history, declared, “I know pretty well what evidence is; and I tell you such
evidence as that for the Resurrection has never broken down yet.” 12 Simon
Greerileaf, co-founder of Harvard’s Graduate School of Law, as an agnostic came
to the same conclusion after careful examination and became a fervent
Christian. He wrote a book, The Testimony of the Evangelists, addressed
to his colleagues in the legal profession, challenging them to face the
evidence. Sir Robert Anderson, head of
the Criminal Investigation Division of Scotland Yard, addressed his testimony
to the truth of the resurrection, as did many eminent scientists and historians
too numerous to quote here. Professor
Thomas Arnold, who held the chair of Modern History at
12. Wilbur M. Smith, Therefore Stand:
Christian Apologetics (Baker
Book House, 1965), 425, 584.
I have been used for
many years to study the histories of other times, and to examine and weigh the evidence
of those who have written about them, and 1 know of no one fact in the history
of [Page 319] mankind which is proved by
better and fuller evidence of every sort, to the understanding of a fair
inquirer, than the great sign which God hath given us that Christ died and rose
again from the dead. 13
13. Professor
Thomas Arnold, Sermons on the Christian Life (Simon and Schuster, 1944), 324.
Many a sincere person has been
swept into skepticism and even atheism by the contemptuous declarations of
liberal clergy or university professors, delivered with the finality of
superior wisdom, that “no intelligent, educated person
any longer believes in the miracles in the Bible, much less in the Resurrection!” Nothing could be further from the truth. However, this is not the forum to pursue the
overwhelming proofs any further.
True Christianity, then, is
separated from every religion in the world by an impassable gulf - and the
difference rings true to the conscience.
All religions propose that man do good works, engage in ritual, make
sacrifices, or do something to somehow appease God; the Bible teaches that
it is a matter of Justice, not of appeasement.
The penalty must be paid in full. God’s justice and the penalty for breaking His
law are infinite because God is infinite, and thus God is the only one who can
pay it - which He did, by becoming a man, in Christ. All
anyone can do is accept the substitutionary death of Christ in His enduring the
full penalty for the sins of all mankind and thereby be forgiven. This
is good news that every Christian is obliged to share with the world,
persuasively, in love and reason - and
without being dissuaded from doing so by threats or force.
INTIMIDATION OF CHRISTIANS BY MUSLIMS
What a tragedy that the Muslim
knows nothing of the assurance of sins forgiven. And that tragedy is exacerbated by the
reluctance of Christians to tell that good news to Muslims for fear of
retaliation. Mark A. Gabriel (a
pseudonym for obvious reasons) was a staunch Muslim and professor of Islamic
history at
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“I
could see Christians wherever I went in my country [but] not one Christian
person tried to talk to me about his Jesus Christ ... except the wonderful
pharmacist who gave me the Bible ... Fundamentalists tried to burn down her
pharmacy, and she ultimately left Egypt and went to Canada. Christians living in
I was required to
spend one year in the Egyptian military.
I shared a room with one other soldier, who happened to be a Christian.
... I questioned him constantly about his faith. I asked him how he could believe in ... the
Trinity ... how he could believe that God has a son. ‘Does God have a wife?’ I mocked. All these concepts were blasphemous according
to Islam. Whenever I questioned him, he
refused to answer. He would say to me,
‘Let us just be friends. Leave religion
to God, please. ...’ He was very fearful
of me and of the Muslims in our military group ... this was one of the most
difficult years in his life.
After I met the Lord
Jesus Christ, I remembered this man ... sorry for how he allowed the spirit of
fear to control his life ... [and how he]
refused to share the true Jesus Christ with others. ... When I went back to the
Christian pharmacist who had given me the Bible and declared my faith in Jesus
Christ ... she arranged to go with me to meet the leader of an Egyptian
church. She hoped this man would ...
baptize me [and] help me in biblical study and
receive me as a new member. ... We sat down together in his office, and he
basically told me, ‘My son, you can go back to your home. We do not need to add a number to our
congregation. And if you go home, we
will not lose any number of our congregation.
We are not interested.” Later [he
told] my pharmacist friend that he didn’t want other
Muslims to hear that he had opened up his church to a [former] Muslim because he was afraid they would come and burn down
the building.” 14
14. Mark A Gabriel, Ph.D., Islam and Terrorism: What the Qur’an really teaches about Christianity,
violence and the goals of the Islamic jihad (
Yet Christ commanded His early
disciples (and every Christian today is included) to “go
ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to
every creature.” 15 Millions
of Muslims have come to the West, so we cannot excuse ourselves by saying that
we aren’t able to go [Page 321] to
them. They have come to us. True Christians must, in love
and compassion and without fear, share the good news of the gospel of the Lord
Jesus Christ with Muslims and Jews - and with the whole world. The greatest challenge we face is how to
bring this message of God’s love not only to Muslims in the West, but to those
remaining in their own countries.
15. Mark 16: 15.
This author has prayed for many
years that the Islamic Curtain, which is more impenetrable than the Iron or
Bamboo Curtains ever were, could somehow be brought down. The Muslim world desperately needs to hear
the good news of salvation through Christ’s payment for their sins. They need to have the opportunity to make a
free choice without intimidation. For
that to become possible, some major changes would have to take place. At this time, even to question Islam, or to
consider alternate beliefs (much less to turn away from Islam to another
religion), would bring persecution and even death. This is the frightening situation even for
those living in Muslim communities within the Western world. The long arm of zealous enforcers can reach
anywhere.
SOME HOPEFUL SIGNS
One indication that events are
moving in a better direction has been a new willingness on the part of
university students (usually nearly unanimous in their opposition to
Shoebat (not his real name)
writes and lectures against the PLO, an organization he once served as a
terrorist. He has written a book titled, Why I Left jihad. Security
was heavy. There was a minimum of
heckling, but lively challenges from opponents during the question [Page 322] time. One young woman,
who said that her family also came from
“Are
you saying that Palestinians lynching civilians in the streets of Ramallah or
“I’ve
never seen that before,” she responded.
Shoebat replied, “I’m flabbergasted that you say you have never seen anything of
that sort. This ... is exactly how I
used to be ... I denied the Holocaust ever existed.” 16
16. The Daily Aztec (
Encouraging, too, is the evident
awakening on the part of some Western leaders and certain segments of the media
to the truth about Islam - and, what is most important, the courage to express
it. For months after 9/11, the lie that
Islam is peace was sounded by almost every public voice in the West. Honesty, however, cannot forever turn a blind
eye to the truth. Eventually, the
realization can no longer be stifled that those responsible for the vast
majority of terrorism in the world today (and it is spreading like a virus) are
devout Muslims - and that the terrorism they inflict upon the world is for the
purpose of spreading Islam by bringing all mankind into submission to Allah and
Muhammad as his prophet.
Consequently, there has been a
growing boldness not only to speak out against terror but also to expose its
connection to Islam itself. One of the
leaders in this new honesty, as we have noted, has been Mortimer B. Zuckerman,
Editor-in-Chief of US. News & World
Report. In mid-2004, in an editorial titled, “Looking evil right in the eye,” he wrote:
The grotesque cruelties
... leave no doubt about the enemy we’re up against. News of their horrific abductions and
beheadings fly around the globe on ... technologies, in their twisted minds,
invented by the infidel. ... The masked cowards pose with their helpless captives
while presenting demands they know cannot, and will not, be met. Their purpose is manipulation: to increase
the pain of the victim’s family and friends; to force western governments to
moderate their [Page 323] opposition to the terrorist networks; to panic
foreigners into leaving Muslim lands. ... We are in their way as these
misguided men seek to restore a new unified Muslim umma (community) ruled by a new Caliphate, governed by Islamic law, and
organized to wage jihad against the rest of the world.
As for the Muslim
world, which has bred this plague, it will have to decide who is the enemy... [it
can’t] have it both ways, the indulgence of deriding
the West while tolerating the evil in their midst. It is outrageous that ...
17. Mortimer B. Zuckerman, Editor-in-Chief, “Looking evil right in the eye,”
US. News & World
Report, July 19-26,
2004, 84.
A NEW SELF-CRITICISM AMONG MUSLIMS
There are hopeful signs within
the Muslim community as well. A growing number
not only of intellectuals but also of Islamic clergy are expressing increasing
embarrassment and displeasure at the deeds of those they refer to as “Islamic extremists.”
By their definition, however, as we have documented, Islam’s founding
prophet, Muhammad himself, would have to be labelled an extremist and even a
terrorist. So would most of his
followers over the past thirteen hundred years.
But we needn’t press Muslim leaders to admit the obvious. That admission will come with time, and with
it, we can hope and pray, a new willingness to engage in open discussion
without the sword of Islam poised over the necks of those who may decide on the
basis of the facts to leave this destructive religion for a new life.
There has been an attempt to root
out “extremist” ideas from some Muslim public
schools. “On
September 5, 2004, Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abd AI’ Aziz told senior education
officials: ‘Watch your teachers. We want
to serve the religion and the homeland, not terrorism. ...’ Saudi Education Minister Muhammad Ahmad
Al-Rashid said ... ‘the Education Minister will in no way accept a teacher who
holds misguided views that influence the younger generation’ and that ‘any
element implementing an extremist policy will be uprooted from the education
system.’” There’s the misnomer “extremist” again, betraying the unwillingness to admit the horrible truth.
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“Tabouk
District Governor Prince Fahd bin Sultan said in a September 12, 2004, speech
to members of the Tabouk Educational Council: ‘It is unacceptable for one of us
to disseminate extremism, fanaticism, terrorism, and apostasy. We must not allow anyone who identifies with
the group holding a dangerous and deviant view to [remain] among us....’ The
Mecca Education Administration organized information campaigns in all the
city’s schools, with the aim of ‘increasing awareness regarding the danger of
terrorism and the extremist view, and [for encouraging] the middle path in
Islam.’” 18 Although there is still an unwillingness to admit the truth
about Islam, which is being swept under the rug of “extremism,”
at least some steps, no matter how small and groping, are being made in the
right direction. For these the world can
be thankful.
18. memri@memri.org, “Public Debate in
Special Dispatch - Saudi Arabia/Reform, January 5, 2005.
The fact that democratic
elections have been carried out in
AN AWAKENING IN THE MUSLIM WORLD?
Some of the lies that have been used
to justify suicide bombings are being exposed by Muslim leaders themselves, who
oppose such tactics. One of the first to
speak out was Hamza Yusuf, who declared that the obligation of opposing
terrorists falls upon “Muslims to root them out. And I think it is a jihad now for the Muslims
in the Muslim countries to rid themselves of this element.” 19
19. CBS’s 60 Minutes,
September 30, 2001.
“Several
Arab columnists have recently published articles critical of the [common
excuse] that the main motivation behind terrorism is poverty or despair. They instead cite the role of cultural and
religious factors in motivating terrorism, and particularly the incitement by
sheikhs who encourage young men to conduct terror operations.”
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For years, and not only in
Palestinian territory but throughout the Muslim world, to be a suicide bomber
has been held up to millions of Muslim youths from their earliest childhood as
the loftiest ideal. That scam is now
being openly and widely challenged in the Islamic world itself with new courage
and vigour.
For example, Saudi columnist
Muhammad Mahfouz courageously wrote recently in the Saudi
Gazette, “The phenomenon of terrorism and violence we are facing [is]
carried out by a group of brain-washed youth influenced by glamorous slogans.
... In my opinion. ... [any] delay in fighting
this ideological cultural battle against terrorism will drag our country into
the abyss of instability. ... Our determination will pave the way for
successfully dismantling the ideological and cultural structure that offers
fertile ground for the proliferation of this phenomenon.” 20
20. “Arab Columnists,”
memri@memri.org.
Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, the
Grand Sheikh of the Al-Azhar mosque of
21. BBC
News, 11 July, 2003.
Riding the crest of this new
wave,
22. “Arab Columnists,”
memri@rnemri.org.
Another Saudi columnist,
Abdallah Nasser Al-Fawzan, pointed out the same hypocrisy of these
rabble-rousing imams in the Saudi daily, Al-Watan,
with the perceptive and embarrassing title, “Why Don’t
the Sheikhs Who Encourage the Youth to Fight Jihad Do So Themselves?” He appealed to the youths who were aspiring
to martyrdom in jihad to think carefully for themselves:
If there is a worthy
deed that endangers one’s life, but guarantees paradise, like jihad for the
sake of Allah, are we to suppose that young teenagers in the early stages of life
should aspire to carry it out? Or should
it rather be the elderly, nearing death ... to aspire to end their lives
through an honourable deed that will guarantee them paradise ... ?
A youth travelled to
another country in order to kill a man accused of atheism, in order to get
closer to Allah ... and thus reach paradise.
Fate had it that the [intended
victim] was the first one to meet the youth in a cafe [and] welcomed him. They had a friendly talk, and got to like one
another. ... When the youth mentioned him by name, the man was startled and
asked, “Why are you inquiring about this
man?” The youth said that the man was an evil atheist, and he intended to
kill him to get closer to Allah and to reach paradise. Amazed, the man asked the youth, “How are you so certain that this man is an
atheist deserving of death, and that killing him will bring you to paradise?”
The youth responded, “Some sheikhs told
me so.” The man said, “Why don’t these sheikhs aspire to reach
paradise themselves, and why are they giving up for your sake carrying out this
honourable deed which brings one to paradise?” The youth was embarrassed
and said, “I don’t know.”
Today, the same question that the man asked the paradise-seeking youth
could be addressed to the youth who blow [Page 327] themselves up ... in order to reach paradise ... influenced by the Fatwas
... and instructions of men who have gained their trust.... These people who
hold sway over the minds of the youth have deceived them into thinking that
what they are doing is an act of jihad that will bring them to paradise....
Oh youth ... who seek
paradise, where are your sheikhs [when it comes to] this honourable deed ...
? Why are your sheikhs shirking [jihad] and
not participating in your “honourable” mission?” 23
23. Al-Watan (
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ARE ENCOURAGING
Such articles as these being
published in popular magazines and newspapers in Muslim countries are bound to
have an effect. And as Muslims begin to
rethink some of the dogma they have been taught in the mosques and public
schools, perhaps they will also begin to question why converts must be
threatened with death in order to force them into Islam, and why that same threat
of death is necessary to prevent a mass exodus from this religion, and why any
religion should be violent at all. If
there is the possibility of thinking for oneself, simple logic would denounce a
religion that kills in order to maintain itself - and any god who rewards
murderers with paradise ought to be renounced.
A recent report in US. News & World Report revealed that public opinion is heading
in the right direction within the Muslim world. It was based upon a 2005 Pew Global
Attitudes Project survey of opinion in six Muslim countries, which indicated
that “minds are being changed and in the right
direction ... support for terrorism in defence of Islam has ‘declined
dramatically...’ in Muslim countries, except in Jordan (which has a Palestinian
majority) and Turkey, where support has remained a low 14 percent.”
It has fallen in
Similarly, when asked
whether democracy was a western way of doing things or could work well in their
own country, between [Page 238] 77 and
83 percent in Lebanon, Morocco, Jordan, and Indonesia say it could work in
their country - in each case a significant increase. ...
Two generations ago
Americans, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of deaths, changed minds in
24. Michael
Barone, “Of Minds and Metrics,” US. News & World Report, August 29, 2005, 42.
What will it be? An escalation of a centuries-long hatred that
could engulf the world in flames? Or
will it be sincere submission (jihad redefined in truly peaceful terms) to the
God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? If the
latter, He will embrace all mankind in a relationship of justice and peace.
* * *
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CHAPTER 14
THE WORLD NEEDS A MESSIAH
THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT between
Israel and her Arab neighbours, a conflict that more and more pits this tiny nation
against the entire world is only symptomatic of the battle against God that
rages in the human heart - and that includes Jews and Gentiles, Muslims, and
non-Muslims. There is a passion within
each of us to live for ourselves, to command our own destiny. But we did not bring ourselves into
existence, and that simple fact proves, from the very beginning of life to its
end in death, that we are not in control of ourselves and our destiny. The first step toward reality is to admit
this simple truth. Until we do so, we
are only deceiving ourselves with grandiose delusions.
Mankind did not create planet
earth, much less the universe of which it is a minute part, nor did we evolve
by chance. Each one of us begins life as
a single cell the size of a period at the end of this sentence. How does that cell know how to build an
integrated body composed of trillions of cells of many different kinds? And to operate the multitude of incredibly
complex chemical nano-machines of which it is composed? The construction and
operating instructions for the entire body are written in words encoded on the
DNA on every
cell. We call these detailed, intelligent
instructions “information.”
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ONLY AN INTELLIGENCE CAN CONCEIVE
INFORMATION
Einstein
acknowledged that matter cannot arrange itself into information and thus cannot
think. It is, therefore, not the
physical brain that originates thoughts but the nonphysical mind, or spirit. Matter can only express information that has
been impressed on it. In today’s world,
information can be communicated by many means: the human voice, audio or video
cassette, radio waves, television, diskettes, CDs, DVDs, etc. Printed books are the most common way. Never does the means of communication (such
as ink and paper) originate the information.
Information irrefutably points beyond itself to a purposeful
intelligence, which conceived of the thoughts and expressed them in a
meaningful form.
All
information can only originate from a conscious intelligence and can only be
communicated in conceptual ideas. Ideas
are themselves non-physical constructs,
even though they may describe physical things and processes and be c conveyed by physical means such as
audiotapes and books. Neither the
physical medium of communication, nor the physical thing or process being
described, originates the information being expressed. Obviously, any intelligence originating
non-physical, conceptual ideas must itself be non-physical. Thus, the mind of man, though during this
brief life connected in some amazing way with a physical body, is also
non-physical like the God in whose image it is created.
Clearly
the non-physical mind (not being subject to physical laws) continues to exist
and think after the death of the body, making intimacy with God in heaven or
separation from God in hell conscious experiences of either transcendent joy or
unspeakable torment. This spirit being
living inside the physical body is responsible to the Creator for thoughts,
choices, and actions. The Bible says, “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews
9: 27).
DNA is a
means of communicating information to the cells. If the information in an amount of DNA the
size of a pinhead were put into print, it would take a stack of books five
hundred times the distance
from earth to the moon to contain it.
Obviously, the “intelligence” [Page 333] that put that information on the DNA of untold “zillions” of cells is beyond any human capacity. Only God could have done so.
The
search for fossils and missing links (of which there ought to be billions) in
the hope of verifying the theory of evolution is a waste of time. The information contained in DNA could
neither originate with matter nor evolve.
This evidence alone proves evolution to be the wishful dream of those
determined to deny the Creator in order to escape moral responsibility to Him.
WE HAVE ALL BROKEN GOD’S RULES
As long as a cell follows the DNA’s
original instructions, it is healthy. Some cells do not. We call that cancer. It must be destroyed to
cure the patient. God said, “What I command … do ...
that ye may live” (Deuteronomy
4: 1; 5:
33; 6: 1-2; 8: 1, etc.).
Man is like a cancer on this
earth, refusing to follow God’s instructions for life - His law, which He has
impressed in every human conscience.
Those who adopt the belief that we are the products of chance are denying
their Creator and have thus ruled out any purpose or meaning to life. They have decided to make up their own
rules. They can’t impose their will on
the cells in their bodies or on the physical universe around them but insist
that they can go by their own rules for their souls and spirits. That decision, of course, puts them in
conflict with others who think the same way and want to “do their own thing” as well.
One can’t even play a game
without rules. If each of the players
makes up his own rules, there is no game.
Chaos results. Who is to make the
rules for the “game of life”? That is the question! Someone must be in charge.
Thus, the history of mankind is all about wars between nations, between
rival factions within the nations, between families, between husbands and
wives, between parents and children, between brothers and sisters - and
religions - to see who can make and impose the rules that everyone else must
follow.
Those who want no rules have
themselves made a rule that there are not to be rules - and they expect
everyone else to obey [Page 334] that
dictum. Those who say that there are no
absolutes insist upon “absolutely no absolutes!” The anarchist
himself has a goal in life - to live by his own rules. Buddha proposed that the motivation creating
all of the problems and unhappiness of the human race was “desire.” He
tried to deliver himself from desire and thereby to reach nirvana. But to escape desire became his all-consuming
desire.
The problem between man and God
is a matter of justice. We have broken
God’s laws. God cannot pardon us justly
without compromising His integrity unless the penalty He has pronounced is paid
in full. Only God could pay that penalty.
We needed God to come to this earth as a man in order to pay that
penalty for mankind. We have seen
that this was the promise God made to
HOW MANY CANDIDATES FOR MESSIAH?
The Bible, and it alone,
contains literally hundreds of prophecies concerning a coming Messiah -
prophecies that are so definite that His identity would be established beyond
any question. These prophecies are found
throughout the Old Testament, uttered by different Hebrew prophets, most of
whom never knew one another and lived at different times in history, yet among
whom there is no contradiction on the specific details.
The
coming Saviour would be born of a virgin in Bethlehem, 1 do
miracles, 2 be
hailed as the Messiah, be betrayed for thirty pieces of silver 3 that
would be cast down in the temple and used to purchase a field 4 for
burying strangers, be rejected by His own people, 5 and be crucified, 6 rising
from the dead the third day. 7 This author and many others have fully documented from the
Bible these and other messianic prophesies in detail elsewhere.
1. Micah 5: 2; Luke 2: 4-7. 2. Isaiah 61: 1, 2; Luke 4: 18-19. 3. Zechariah 11: 12; Matthew 26: 15.
4. Zechariah 11: 12; Matthew 27: 5; Acts 1: 18. 5. Isaiah 53: 3; John 1: 11; John 19: 15.
6. Psalm 22; Zechariah 12: 10; John 19. 7. Psalms 16: 10; 49: 15; Mark 16: 2-14; 1 Corinthians 15: 4.
If
anyone fulfilled all of these prophecies, that would be absolute proof both of
the supernatural validity of the prophecies and that He [Page 335] was the prophesied Messiah.
This would be the only reliable identification. From the list of criteria in the paragraph
above, one Person immediately stands out, and He alone, having fulfilled them
all.
There is no denying the fact
that Jesus Christ alone (not Buddha, not Muhammad, et al.) qualifies as the
Messiah, having fulfilled all of the Messianic prophecies. That still leaves one theoretical objection:
who is to say that some other person may not also meet all of these criteria -
next year or one hundred or even one thousand years in the future? That remote possibility is easily eliminated.
The prophet Daniel presents a
definitive prophecy that had to be fulfilled on a certain date nearly two
thousand years ago. He was told by the
angel Gabriel, “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people [the
Jews] and upon thy holy city [Jerusalem], to finish the transgression,
and to make an end of sins, and to make
reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in
everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the
vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy [i.e.,
to complete all the Messianic prophecies].” 8 The Hebrew actually says “seventy sevens.” These are known as “Daniel’s seventy weeks.” These are not weeks of days but weeks of
years. Both this author and others have
established that fact so thoroughly in other writings that we won’t do so again
here.
8. Daniel 9: 24.
The very day on which the
Messiah would present Himself to Israel was foretold: “Know therefore and understand, that
from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem [not to
be confused with rebuilding of the Temple, which would already have been
accomplished] unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks. ...” 9
9. Ibid., 9: 25.
Thus it would be 7 plus 62, or
69, sevens (i.e., 483 years) after the command to rebuild
10. Zechariah 9: 9.
The Messiah coming to liberate
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THE DATE OF MESSIAH’S FIRST COMING FORETOLD
The Bible gives the precise date
that the true Messiah would be hailed upon entering
11. Nehemiah 2: 1-8.
Today, those few Jews who believe
in a Messiah are still awaiting His first appearance. Yet according to the Jewish prophets
themselves, it is nearly two thousand years too late for Him to come - the
first time. Israel will know at His Second
Coming that He is the One they rejected when He came precisely as foretold -
and will mourn and repent as never before in history (Zechariah
12: 11-14).
Jesus was enthusiastically
hailed as the Messiah by crowds lining the road. When the Pharisees demanded that He rebuke
His disciples [Page 337] for
calling Him the Messiah, Christ reminded them that this was the very day the
Messiah was to ride into
And when he was come
nigh, even now at the descent of the mount
of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples
began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that
they had seen; Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in
the highest.
And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples. And he answered and
said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out. 12
12. Luke 19: 37-40.
STRANGER THAN FICTION
In a seemingly impossible twist,
Daniel declared that the Messiah, having just been received with great joy into
13. Daniel 9: 26. 14. Ibid.
Christ, of course, knew that the
acclaim He was receiving would be short-lived.
He also knew the terrible consequences that would follow. The same ones who were hailing Him as the
Messiah would four days later be in that crowd clamouring for His crucifixion -
bringing God’s judgment, as
And when he was come
near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known ... in
this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace! But now they are hid
from thine eyes.
For the days shall
come upon thee, that thine enemies shall ... compass thee round ... and
shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy
children within thee ... because thou knewest
not the time of thy visitation. 15
15. Luke 19: 41-44.
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And so it was that in A.D. 70
this prophecy was fulfilled, when the Roman armies destroyed
For they that dwell at
Beware therefore, lest that come upon you,
which is spoken of in the prophets; Behold, ye despisers, and wonder,
and perish: for I work a
work in your days, a work which ye shall in no
wise believe. ...16
16. Acts 13: 27, 40-41.
The crucifixion of the Messiah
was prophesied centuries before that torturous means of execution was even
known on earth. Nor is crucifixion
officially practiced any more - another reason why it is too late for a first
coming. Those who follow Antichrist as
the Messiah will have to deliberately ignore the obvious fact that he was never
crucified nor did he rise from the dead.
King David foretold His crucifixion:
... [All] my bones are out of joint ... they pierced my
hands and my feet. ... They part my garments
among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
... All the ends of the world shall remember and turn
unto the LORD. ... 17
17. Psalm 22: 14-18, 27.
How many candidates meet the
prophetic criteria and thus qualify as Messiah?
There are literally no competitors with Jesus of Nazareth! He is the only One who rode into Jerusalem on
that exact day, in the manner foretold, was hailed as the Messiah, and was four
days later rejected by those who had just welcomed Him, crucified as the
prophets had declared would happen, and rose from the dead the third day.
MORE IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE
In Chapter
Eleven, we also saw that, according to the Hebrew prophets, the Messiah
would be one who had been living and active “from
everlasting,” God himself come to earth as a man through a virgin birth, 18 that He
would be rejected by His own people and be [Page 339] crucified.
19 His death would be in fulfilment of the Passover and Levitical
sacrifices in payment of man’s sins - then He would rise from the dead the
third day.
18. Micah 5: 2; Isaiah 9: 6-7. 19. Isaiah 53: 1-12.
It was foretold that Messiah’s
crucifiers would do to Him what was never done, and would not do to Him what
was always done in crucifixion. The
major purpose of crucifixion was to exact a slow torture upon the victim. Only
when he had suffered long enough would his legs be broken to prevent him from
supporting himself, and, unable to breathe, he would die. He would never be prematurely killed by
thrusting a spear into his side, for that would end the intended excruciating
agony.
But Scripture said of the
Passover lamb, a type of the Messiah, “neither
shall ye break a bone thereof.” 20 David prophesied of the
Messiah, “He [God] keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.” 21 There
was no need to break his legs. Christ
was already dead, a fact that Pilate found hard to believe. 22 Jesus
had said, “No man taketh it [my
life] from me, but I
lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.” 23
20. Exodus 12: 46. 21. Psalm 34: 20. 22. Mark 15: 44. 23. John 10: 18.
The Hebrew word in David’s
prophecy quoted above, “They pierced my hands and my feet,” is aryeh,
descriptive of what occurs in crucifixion.
Referring to His Second Coming to rescue
24. Zechariah
12: 10. 25. John 19: 34-35.
Why did
the soldier use the spear? Perhaps he
acted in angry frustration that they had been cheated from watching this man’s
full agony. Crucified with Him, the thieves were still
alive, but He was dead already. He had
not died from weakness, but had shouted in triumph, “It is finished [the payment for our sins]!” The Greek word He used was tetelestai. It meant, “Paid in
full,” and was marked in that day on invoices and promissory notes when totally
paid: “And when Jesus had cried with a loud
voice, he said,
Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave
up the ghost.” 26
26. Luke 23: 46.
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These prophecies and the
biblical record of their fulfilment are unacceptable to most Jews and non-Jews
alike. Muslims reject them because they are specifically denied in the Qur’an:
“They slew him not nor crucified, but it appeared so
unto them ... they slew him not for certain.
But Allah took him up unto Himself.” 27 Evangelical Christians reject
the Qur’an’s contradiction of the Bible and accept what the Bible says because
it is backed by numerous prophecies and eyewitness accounts of their fulfilment
and irrefutable evidence that, according to some of the greatest legal experts
in history, would constitute proof in any court of law today.
27. Surah 4: 157-58.
THE CRUX OF THE CONFLICT
At the very heart of the gospel of
Jesus Christ, and proving it to be true, are the numerous prophecies concerning
Israel, her land, and her Messiah. Christ’s genealogy, first advent, Second Coming, an future reign on
earth are intertwined with
There is no compromise in this
conflict between Christianity and Islam, between Yahweh and Allah. To “dialogue”
over mutually exclusive and hopelessly irreconcilable teachings in order to
arrive at an ecumenical “understanding” would
be absurd and a denial of both.
Imams worldwide preach that
victory over
WILL THE DOME OF THE ROCK BE MOVED*?
[*See “HOW COULD THE
RABBIS FORGET?” from “the
and Robert Cornuk’s book, “
Though
the idea was unknown in Islam’s early centuries, Muslims today claim that the
Dome of the Rock marks the sacred site to which Muhammad went, riding on Buraq,
his magic beast (a creature that was a cross between an ass and a mule), during
his Night Journey (Isra’) from the Al-Haram mosque in Mecca to Al-Aqsa [literally,
the most distant mosque]. From there, by
Muhammad’s own account, Gabrie1 lifted him to heaven, where he met, conversed
with, and was honoured as the final prophet by Adam, Abraham, Joseph, Moses,
Jesus, and other biblical greats (all of them Muslims, according to Muhammad). There were, however, no witnesses to this
important event, so we have only the word of Muhammad - and it conflicts with
what the Bible teaches and what we know to be true both from, prophecies
fulfilled and eyewitnesses.*
[* See Josephus’s writings (an eye-witness historian’s
observations) concerning the destruction of the
In contrast to Muhammad’s
alleged but un-witnessed ascension to heaven, the eleven apostles (Judas, the
twelfth and false [covetous] disciple, had “hanged himself”) 28 all
witnessed Christ’s ascension from
28. Matthew 27: 5. 29. Acts 1: 9-13. 30. 1 Corinthians 15: 6. 31. See
Surah 4: 157-58. 32. 1 Corinthians 15: 14-19.
In further contrast, Muhammad’s
successors fought among themselves, killed one another, and spread Islam by the
sword. But Christ’s disciples all died
at the hands of others as true martyrs, who
did not take the life of a single person with them. And they died not only as martyrs, out of
devotion to Christ, but as witnesses to the life, miracles, sinless character,
death, and resurrection of Christ. No
one is fool enough to die for what he knows is a lie. The fact that none of the disciples saved his
own life by promising his would-be [Page 342]
executioners that he would expose the miracles and resurrection as lies is
proof of the validity of their testimony - testimony that stands as irrefutable
proof today.
Neither Islam nor any other
religion has even one such witness to its validity. Christianity is opposed not only by Islam but
by all of the world’s religions. There is a choice that every person must
make. We pray that Muslims will have the
courage to face the truth and make this choice on the basis of the evidence,
not of emotion nor of human persuasion.
In the case of Muslims, the choice is between a cult of death and
despair, and the gospel of life and joy eternal.
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DOME OF THE ROCK
Here is
a simple test of the truth of two opposing beliefs. Surah 17:1 is the only verse in the Qur’an
that mentions Al-Aqsa, which means “the most distant
place of worship [i.e., mosque].”
There is nothing in this verse, however, that even suggests
The Egyptian Ministry of Culture
recently published an interpretation of Surah 17:1 that turns the focus from
Jerusalem back to Medina: “This text tells us that
Allah took His prophet from the Al- Haram [sacred] mosque [in Mecca] to the Al-Aqsa Mosque. ... But in [Page 343]
33. Ahmad Muhammad ’Arafa, Al-Qahira
(
Declarations such as that from
authoritative Muslim sources would make it easy for the Antichrist to order the
Dome of the Rock to be moved to
GOD’S INTEGRITY IS AT STAKE
The everlasting covenant by
which God gave Israel the Promised Land calls for David’s heir, the promised Messiah,
ruling an eternal [millennial] kingdom
on his re-established throne over the twelve tribes of Israel and the entire
world from Jerusalem. 34 Nor is it any less clear that this One, as we have seen, must
be “The mighty God, The
everlasting Father” if He is to be “The Prince of Peace” and
reign forever over the world from David’s throne. 35 That fact, however, is
unpalatable to Jews and Gentiles alike, who want the Messiah to be a good man
who sets an example for us to follow, but surely not God come as a man, much
less that the depths of man’s sin will be revealed in his crucifying the
Creator. The Qur’an, while admitting
that Jesus was without sin, specifically denies that He is either God or the
Son of God.
34. 2 Samuel 7: 4-17. 35. Isaiah 9: 6-7.
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In spite of
36. Exodus 3: 15.
The nations of the world are
openly defying what God has plainly and repeatedly declared in His Word concerning the land that He gave to
A CHOICE TO MAKE
“God is
love” (1 John 4: 8), but He is also just.
Love cannot condone rebellion
against the Creator. Only because the Messiah paid the penalty
in full can God justly forgive anyone.
In denying that Jesus is God and
that He died for our sins, both Jew and Muslim (like most of the rest of
mankind) reject man’s only hope.
Muslims,
like everyone else, ought to have the freedom to consider the facts of life,
death, and salvation carefully without fear that they will be killed if they decide
for their own reasons to abandon Islam.
Yet that right is not allowed under Islam. In two of many examples that could be given,
Taliban guerrillas publicly slit the throat of Muslim cleric Maulawi
Assadullah, June 30, 2004, for allegedly “propagating Christianity in the
remote Awdand District of Ghazni province. ...” 37
“In
37. Reported
by Barnabas
Fund, July 2, 2004. 38. Ibid.,
June 16, 2004.
The United Nations condones
Islam’s destruction of the very human rights that it claims to uphold - and
honours Muslim member nations that deny these rights in spite of having agreed
to uphold them. This
attitude is also a rebellion against the very conscience God has given every
man.
The real
issue is whether or not the Bible is God’s infallible Word. If it isn’t, then nothing has any meaning,
the universe happened by chance, and
all mankind, along with it, is headed for oblivion. One day it will all be as though it had never
been, and nothing we have said or done will have been of any significance. But if the Bible is the Word of
the Creator of this universe (we have sufficiently proved that to be true
through a multitude of prophecies fulfilled concerning Israel and the Messiah),
then the United Nations, United States, European Union, Russia, and entire
world (including the Muslim world and Israel) are all heading for judgment from
God.
If one denies that the God of
the Bible exists - the One who has proved Himself with hundreds of prophecies
fulfilled - then indeed there is no hope. If the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is not
the true God, we are left without purpose or meaning to life. To deny that God chose a man
named Abraham through whom He would bring mankind back to Himself; to deny the
true history of this chosen people and the land given to them, to which the
Messiah came as prophesied and to which He will return to rule the world; to
deny the hundreds of prophecies fulfilled in Jesus Christ alone - is to deny
the only hope for mankind.
The choice is open to all - but
it must be a free choice. The true God
does not coerce anyone. The purpose of
this volume is simply to present the facts so that the reader will have an
intelligent basis for making a vital choice for [both
Messiah’s millennial kingdom (Lk. 1: 32; Rev. 3: 21, R.V.); and afterwards, for all] eternity.
In the final analysis the battle
over
No
matter what happens from day to day in the
Clearly,
where we will spend eternity when we leave this earth and all of its positions,
possessions, ambitions, and honours behind ought to be our primary focus. And it is on this very point, the most
important of all, that we find the greatest difference between the uncertain
hope of the Muslim, who can’t be sure of his destiny, and the Christian, who
has absolute confidence that he will be eternally with Christ in [“a new”] heaven [“and a new earth” (Rev. 21: 1, R.V.)]. Such is the beauty and promise of the gospel
of Jesus Christ - and it is based upon many infallible proofs given to us in
prophecy and verified by history. God
offers salvation to all who will believe on Christ by their own free choice
based upon all the evidence. No one is
forced into anything. The true God wants
our hearts.
There is a choice to make. “Choose
you this day whom ye will serve.” 39 And do not forget God’s
command to “Pray for the peace of
39. Joshua 24: 15. 40. Psalm 122: 6.
* * *
CHAPTER 12
SOME IMPORTANT DISTINCTIONS
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CHAPTER 15
DESTRUCTION FROM THE ALMIGHTY -
AND DELIVERANCE
IN THE
INEVITABLE ATTACK, against her, as prophesied, from all the world’s armed
forces united under Antichrist, Israel will not go down to destruction without
using its ultimate weapons. The Israeli Defence
Forces (IDF) can deliver atomic missiles with multiple warheads from
submarines.
Though
necessary in the present dispute with Palestinian Arabs, atomic weapons will
almost certainly be called upon when the armies [Page 350] of all
nations attack
ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
Since they were last defeated
more than thirty years ago in the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Muslim nations have spent
billions of dollars for the latest military equipment, with top priority for
missiles carrying a variety of deadly warheads.
In self-defence, the Israelis (in cooperation with American technology
and more than half of it funded by the
Since
Jointly developed with the
United States, the best defence against [Page 351] these
low-level weapons is Israel’s Theatre High Energy Laser (THEL), which is
capable of intercepting and destroying incoming artillery shells. How
operational this system is at this time is unknown.
THE SPECTER OF
As President Bush has been
saying for some time,
Of course,
1. David Lamb, The Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage (New York: Vintage Books, 1988), 87.
On January 20, 2005, Vice
President Dick Cheney said, “You look around the world
at potential trouble spots, and
We know that
The whole world knows that not
only
These evil intentions of all
ANTICHRIST:
SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS RULER OF THE WORLD
The Bible foretells a coming
world ruler, whom it calls the Antichrist: “And in
the latter time ... a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and
he shall destroy ... the mighty and the holy
people 2 ... ye have heard
that antichrist shall come.” 3 He will
bring peace to the Middle East and to the entire world, which is a major reason
why
2. Daniel 8: 23-24. 3. 1 John 2: 18.
When Christ came the first time,
He warned
4. John 5: 43.
Confusion is created by the word
“Antichrist.” It seems to imply that this “man of sin” 5 will declare himself openly to be opposed to Christ. On the contrary, “anti”
is a Greek prefix with two meanings: [Page 353] “opposed to,” or “against”;
but also, “in the place of,” or “a substitute for.”
In fact, he will pretend to be the Christ. All of Satan’s
power, no longer restrained after the Rapture of the church to heaven, will
manifest itself through him:
5. 2 Thessalonians 2: 3.
And then shall that
Wicked [one] be revealed ... whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power
and signs and lying wonders. ... And for this
cause God shall send them strong delusion, that
they should believe a lie: That they all might
be damned who believed not the truth, but had
pleasure in unrighteousness. 6
6. Ibid., 8-12.
And they worshipped ... the beast [Antichrist], saying ... who is able to
make war with him? And ... power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell
upon the earth shall worship him, whose names
are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of
the world. 7
7. Revelation 13: 4-8.
ANTICHRIST AND THE REBUILT
[* See CHAPTER 35 from “the
Unquestionably, the Jewish
Temple will be rebuilt on its ancient site.
This is the clear teaching of Scripture. Daniel declares that the
Antichrist will enforce upon the world a seven-year “covenant” that will entail the rebuilding of the temple and
re-institution of animal sacrifices: “... and in the midst of
the week [i.e., final seven-year period marking ‘Daniel’s seventieth week’] he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.” 8 He could
hardly cause sacrifices to cease that hadn’t been resumed, and sacrifices could
only be offered in the
8. Daniel 9: 27.
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Antichrist will control the
world, force everyone to accept the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple, and pose
as
9. Revelation 13: 8-9.
Many Christians enjoy
speculating about Antichrist’s possible identity and when he will appear. It is wasted effort. He can only be “revealed
in his time.” 10 That phrase clearly indicates that no one can discover the identity of Antichrist; it
must be revealed - and that will not occur except at a special time. Paul
tells us that the Antichrist, pretending to be God, will sit “in the
10. 2
Thessalonians 2: 6. 11. Ibid., 4.
In spite of the many prophecies
concerning Antichrist setting up a kingdom that Christ will destroy at His
Second Coming, there are professing Christians who reject the Rapture [of Lk. 21: 36 and Rev. 3: 10] and are
convinced that the church must take over the schools, media, government, and
entire world. They [i.e., post-Tribulationists] teach
that the church must set up the
The
response to that error is simple: those who are waiting for Christ to catch
them up to meet Him in the air and to take them to heaven could never be
deceived into accepting a “Christ” who
meets them with his and their feet planted on earth. Tragically, those who deny the
Rapture and are working to establish an earthly kingdom to present to Christ
will find that they have been preparing a false church and the world for Antichrist. His kingdom must be established first,
because only after Christ has destroyed that kingdom will He sit on David’s
throne to rule the world:
And then shall that
Wicked [i.e., antichrist] be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him whose [Page 355] coming is after the working of Satan ... with
all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ... 12
12. Ibid., 8-10.
A GLIMPSE OF THINGS TO COME
God gave Nebuchadnezzar, emperor
of
Thou, O king, art a king of kings ... thou art this head of gold. And after thee shall arise another kingdom [Medo-Persian] inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass [Greek], which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom
shall be strong as iron [Roman]. ...
And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of
potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it the strength of iron. ... 13
13. Daniel 2: 31-43.
As the
image foretold (by its two legs), the
What
about the other great kingdoms: the Ming and other dynasties in
And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a
kingdom, which
shall never be destroyed [“Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no
end.” - Isaiah 9: 7] ...: it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and [a
disjunction] it shall stand for ever.
Thou sawest ... a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet ... and brake them to pieces.
Then ... the iron, the clay, the brass, the Silver, and the gold ... became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away ... and the stone that smote the image ... filled the whole earth. 14
14. Ibid., 34-35, 44.
The ten toes/kings clearly
represent a revival in the “1ast days” of the
15. Psalm 9: 17.
Yes,
there is much talk of “god.” Any god will do, except the God of the
Bible. He alone has proved His identity
with hundreds of prophecies fulfilled. No
one is offended by references to a “Higher Power,”
or “Mother Nature,” or even “Allah.” But
the God of Israel is still denied - even by most of His “chosen people.”
[Page 357]
The leaders of today’s world
will not allow the true God to interfere in their affairs. One cannot help remembering the Columbine (
Dear God, Why didn’t you save the school children in
Sincerely, Concerned Student.
Dear Concerned Student: I am not allowed in schools.
Sincerely, God.
THE COMING WORLD GOVERNMENT AND RELIGION
It is only
a matter of time until, as the Bible declares, the entire world, persisting in
its rejection of God, of Christ, and of His Word, will be united both
politically and religiously under Antichrist.
Multinational corporations have put the entire international structure
for Antichrist in place. The remarkable
prophecy in Revelation 13 of one evil man controlling
mankind with a number could not have come true without today’s technology. To past generations, it didn’t make
sense. There is no question that we are
moving in the direction of a cashless
society, and there are many sound reasons why personal business will be
transacted through a computer chip just under the skin in the forehead or in
the hand, as Scripture implies. 16
16. Revelation 13: 15-18.
Christ foretold today’s weapons
of mass destruction (WMD) when He declared, “And
except those days should be shortened, there
should no flesh be saved. …” 17 There was no danger of all
flesh being wiped out with bows, arrows, swords, and spears during the
destruction of
17. Matthew 24: 22.
[Page 358]
Those who teach this
Preterist/Reconstructionist view even dare to say that Christ returned in A.D.
70 in the person of the Roman armies to destroy
18. John 14: 3. 19. Ibid., 2.
THE KEY TO THE PUZZLE
It will
take more than mere technology however, to unite Muslims and atheistic Communists
and the whole world (Saudi Arabia, North
20. Ibid., 14: 1.
The Apostle Paul describes what
could only be the same catching away of believers from earth to heaven. Christ himself comes, bringing with Him from
heaven the souls and spirits of those who had died believing in Him as their
Saviour, to be reunited with their resurrected bodies.* The
living believers are transformed and all true followers of Christ are caught up
together with Him into heaven before God’s judgment is poured out upon earth:
[* This is
a common error, regarding what Scripture says, will take place at the time of
Death and at the “Resurrection from the dead”!
No
disembodied “soul” can ascend from “Hades” into heaven (John 3:
13), before being reunited to a resurrected
and immortal
body! Christ’s body did not leave Joseph’s tomb
at any time before His soul was reunited to it!
For more a detailed
exposition
on the
www.themillennialkingdom.org.uk]
For the Lord himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel, and with the trump of God:
and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds, to meet the [Page 359] Lord in the air: and so
shall we ever be with the Lord. 21
21. 1
Thessalonians 4: 13-18.
Behold, I show you a mystery; We
shall not all sleep [i.e., die] but we shall
all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at
the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 22
22. 1
Corinthians 15: 51-53.
We don’t
know how many true Christians there are on earth. There may be more than 100 million. For even half that many individuals to suddenly
vanish would terrify those left behind far beyond anything we could
imagine. The fearsome questions on
everyone’s mind would be, “Where did they go? Who took them? Why didn’t they take me? Are they coming back to get me, too?”
The United
Nations and governments of every nation would be meeting in emergency
session. No one will believe that this
event was the Rapture. Those who “refused to receive the love of the truth” will be given “a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be
damned who believed not the truth. ...” 23 In the
midst of this chaos, a man steps forward who claims to know where the missing
have been taken and promises to recover them.
Perhaps he says they have been snatched by some space-travelling, rogue
civilization and taken to a slave planet and he is negotiating with an
intergalactic council to recover them.
Such a lie would be very believable in light of the movies, books, and
TV shows concerning UFOs and extraterrestrial civilizations that are popular
today.
23. 2
Thessalonians 2: 10-12.
Whatever explanation Antichrist
offers, the entire world realizes that it is facing, a common enemy
capable of snatching people at will from earth.
Driven by desperation, the world unites behind the one man who seems to
hold the only hope for survival.
Furthermore, he comes with “the working of Satan
with all power and signs and lying wonders, and
with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish. ...” 24 The world is convinced of Satan’s lie, having rejected God’s
truth.
24. Ibid.
We are told that “the dragon [Satan] gave him his power, and his seat [as world ruler], and great
authority.” The world will not
know [Page 360] this fact, but it wouldn’t matter if they
did. They will be ready at that time to
follow Satan himself. Indeed, the whole
world will worship “the dragon which gave power unto the beast [Antichrist].” 25
25. Revelation
13: 4.
SATAN IN CONTROL
Without any Christians left on
earth* to
influence society morally, evil (posing as good) will take over to an extent
that is beyond present imagination.
Those not raptured who never heard the gospel of Christ will be given
the opportunity to believe. Many will
receive Christ, reject Antichrist, and be put to death for their new-found
faith. They will be resurrected at Christ’s Second Coming at the end of the
Great Tribulation. John saw it all in
the vision he was given:
[* NOTE: This
statement fails to make any distinction in Christian behaviour! 1 Thess. 2: 10; 2 Thess.1: 11, 12, R.V.
Christ
will judge those “worthy” to escape the end-time tribulations! See Rev. 2: 23; 3: 2-4, 10, R.V.]
I saw under the altar [in “Hades”]* [under heaven] the souls of them that were
slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they
held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou
not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And ... it was said unto them, that they
should rest yet for a little season, until their ... brethren, that should be
killed as they were, should be fulfilled. 26.
26. Ibid., 6: 9-11.
[* See Acts 2: 27, 31, 34. cf. Luke 16: 23, 30, R.V. The
souls of the dead, are presently held in “Hades”
until the time of their Resurrection. Matt. 16: 18, R.V. cf.
Psa. 16: 10, Septuagint (LXX).]
These are they which
came out of great tribulation, and have washed
their robes, and made them white in the blood of
the Lamb. 27
27. Ibid., 7: 14.
And they overcame him
by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony;
and they loved not their lives unto the death. 28
28. Ibid., 12: 11.
And I saw the souls of
them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus,
and for the word of God, and which had not
worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they
lived [i.e., were resurrected] and reigned with Christ
a thousand years.
But the rest of the dead [who had not believed in Christ
but had followed the Antichrist] lived not again until
the thousand years were finished. 29
29. Ibid., 20: 4-5.
Following and worshiping
Antichrist, the world will be in complete rebellion and God will begin to
execute judgment upon the rampant evil.
Christ foretold this period of time with these words: “For then shall [Page 361] be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to
this time, no,
nor ever shall be.” 30 The Book
of Revelation gives the details of God’s wrath
being poured out upon this earth. It
will be a terrifying time for earths inhabitants, yet they will not back down
from their defiance of the Creator: “[They] blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and
repented not of their deeds.” 31
30. Matthew 24: 21. 31. Revelation 16: 11.
TWO-THIRDS OF ALL JEWS WORLDWIDE KILLED
When God judged the gods of
32. Exodus 8: 22; 9: 26.
Most Jews today still live
outside of
33. Zechariah
13: 8-9. 34. Jeremiah 30: 7.
The history of
In what Christ described as “great tribulation,” 35 God’s judgment will fall from heaven upon this earth in His
final attempt to bring the world to repentance.
Antichrist will double-cross
35. Matthew 24: 21.
God is finally going to prove
Himself to
Mankind is proud and
rebellious. God is going to reveal
Himself in terrifying demonstration of His power to the entire world. The Great Tribulation will reach its climax
in an event called Armageddon. Though it
has been exploited in
FALSE PEACE, THEN DESTRUCTION
Many
prophecies in the Old Testament have two applications. There was a fulfilment near at hand, and one
that was deferred to the last days. Here
are the words of two different Hebrew prophets who never knew one another. They each referred to a destruction that came
in their day; but their separate prophecies also agreed concerning a
destruction from the Lord that would be worldwide [Page 363] and
that was not fulfilled in the past but could come to pass only in the last
days:
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD
is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from
the Almighty.
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and
every man’s heart shall melt: And they shall be
afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of
them; they shall be in pain as a woman that
travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. Behold, the day of the LORD
cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger,
to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
For the stars of
heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. I will make a man
more precious than fine gold; even a man than
the golden wedge of Ophir. Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD
of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. 36
36. Isaiah 13: 6-13.
Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD
is at hand, and as a destruction from the
Almighty shall it come. 37
37. Joel 1: 15.
Two of
the most electrifying prophecies in the Bible are found in Ezekiel Chapters 38 and 39. They concern a people who are attacked by the
armies of the world and rescued by God’s intervention. Their identity and the delusion that has
overtaken them are clear. They “dwell safely ... without walls ... bars nor gates ...[a] people that are gathered out of the nations. ...” 38 This
can only be
38. Ezekiel 38: 11-12.
We can thus say on the authority
of God’s Word that
39. Daniel 8: 25.
40. January 11, 2005 edition
of http://www.csmonitor.com.
The
Israeli withdrawal from the settlements has caused a particular T-shirt to be
the most popular in
In
contrast toArafat, with whom he would not negotiate nor receive into the White
House, President Bush has opened his arms to Abbas and welcomed him to
41.
Abbas
campaigned in Jenin with members of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. Before the elections, Abbas met in
42. http://www.jewishworldreview.com/jeff/Jacoby
abbas.php3
EZEKIEL CHAPTERS 38 AND 39
The majority of Christians do
not believe that Ezekiel 38 and 39 describe Armageddon but that they refer to some lesser
war. Most Bible commentators interpret
this passage as a preliminary attack by
Referring to Antichrist and the
armies of the world attacking
43. Ezekiel 38: 16-18.
God declares, “Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land
of Israel; so that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and
the beasts of the field, and all creeping things
... and all the men that are upon the face of
the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down ... and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD” (Ezekiel 38: 19-23).
[Page 365]
My presence? Yes! God himself is coming to this earth and
everything - animate and inanimate, and every person - will tremble like leaves
on a tree, shaking in a violent storm!
What the Bible describes as “judgment from the
Almighty” is going to fall upon those who
have attacked
44. Zechariah 12: 10.
ARMAGEDDON!
The language in Ezekiel 38 is apocalyptic. This
war will be Satan’s most vicious and final attempt to destroy
45. Matthew 24: 22.
As we have seen, God has two
purposes at Armageddon: He is going to demonstrate His power by punishing the
world in righteousness; and He will prove Himself to His people, the Jews,
worldwide, breaking their stubborn hearts once and for all. Thereafter they will never rebel against Him
again. This is the Day of the Lord
referred to in Chapter Eleven - the day of
If I whet my
glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. I will make mine
arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall
devour flesh. ... 46 For, behold, the LORD will ... render his anger with fury,
and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all [Page 367] flesh: and
the slain of the LORD shall be many.
... For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will
gather all nations and tongues; and they shall
come, and
see my glory. 47
46. Deuteronomy
32: 41-42. 47. Isaiah 66: 15-18.
Therefore prophesy
thou against them all these words, and
say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and
utter his voice from his holy habitation; he
shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he
shall give a shout, as they that tread the
grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath
a controversy with the nations, he will plead
with all flesh; he will give them that are
wicked to the sword, saith the LORD. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of
the earth.
And the slain of the LORD
shall be at that day from one end of the earth even, unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither
gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground. 48
48. Jeremiah 25: 30-33.
There are many similar
prophecies. Some of the language is
derisive in describing man’s rebellion: “The
kings of the earth set themselves, and the
rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and
against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.” 49 The
scene turns to heaven: “He that sitteth in the heavens shall
laugh: the LORD
shall have them in derision.” 50 The fact that a derisive laugh will
come from God is terrifying evidence that His patience is exhausted. Judgment will fall!
49. Psalm 2: 2-3. 50. Ibid., 4.
This prophetic Psalm is about
The
architects of the road-map to peace (and the world that supports it, including
Muslim nations and
SALVATION OF
There are no chapter divisions
in the original Bible manuscripts. Ezekiel 39 is a continuation of chapter 38. Again the language is clear: “So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people
51. Ezekiel 39: 7, 22.
Israel
has obviously at last been driven to repentance by the terrifying judgment of
God, cries out for the Messiah to rescue her, and is transformed by His
appearance in response to her desperate plea for help, never to be in God’s
disfavor again: “Neither will I hide my face any more
from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the LORD GOD.” 52 Only Armageddon could have brought
52. Ibid., 29.
God
declares: “Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.” 53 Not one
Jew will be left anywhere on earth outside of
53. Ibid., 28. 54. Matthew 24: 30-31.
NOW MUCH TIME TO JUDGMENT DAY?
As
already mentioned, President Bush has Christian friends and advisors (such as
Condoleezza Rice) who tell him that
I will do better unto
you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD ... I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. ... A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ... so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD. 55
55. Ezekiel 36: 11, 24, 26, 38.
How far in the future are these
prophesied events? Isaiah’s prophecies
end with
Who hath heard such a
thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be
made to bring forth in one day? or shall a
nation be born at once? for as soon as
56. Isaiah 66: 8-10.
Surely a nation “born in a day” can refer only to the
rebirth of
As soon as
There are eyewitness reports
that many Jews went to their deaths in Nazi gas chambers singing psalms of
faith in God. Surely, in their distress,
many must have believed in God’s promise of the Messiah and understood what it
meant to them personally for eternity.
No doubt many cried out to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and
found mercy according to His promise: “For whosoever shall
call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” 57 There
was no miraculous intervention for the victims of the Holocaust - but there will be at Armageddon.
57. Romans 10: 13.
Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to
bring forth? ... shall I cause to
bring forth, and shut the womb?
This is language of assurance. We have come a long way in history.
THE END
HOW COULD THE RABBIS FORGET?
“There is a closing
comment on the matters of the
The
consideration is needed because it does not make sense to most reasonable
people that the whole nation of
Perhaps
Professor George Adam Smith can sum up the primary problem that all historians
have faced in this matter. Paraphrasing
him in regard to this article concerning the Temple in the Encyclopedia Biblica, he
stated that it was inconceivable to him, and to all other scholars, that the location of such a majestic and
important building as the Holy Temple of God (revered and loved by all
Israelites in the world since the time it was built by Solomon) could have been
lost to their knowledge.
The earlier
It truly seems incredible to anyone with
common sense that a few years of captivity within the Babylonian period, or the
three years of desecration in the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, or any other
periods of time when the Temples were not operating normally, would have
allowed the whole nation of Israel (including every man, woman and child) to go
into a state of complete ignorance and to forget where the original Temples
had been located for almost 800 years of time.
There is hardly a person in the world that would not think it to be inconceivable
that
But
strange as it may seem, the
whole nation did in fact forget! That’s right.
All of them forgot - whether it is their scholars and educators, their
leaders and elders, and it includes all their distinguished Rabbis for the past
800 years. All of them forgot. But wait a moment. Not only did all
One of the main reasons why this forgetfulness
is rampant among both Jews and Arabs is the universal penchant for
Jewish scholars to call Herod’s Temple the “Second
Temple” - as though it were a mere adaptation of the same Temple that
was built by Zerubbabel after the Babylonian Captivity. This
is manifestly wrong. In fact, it
could be reasonably argued that Herod’s
Strangely, the Jewish authorities over the past 1600 have been
accustomed to call Herod’s
How
Quickly People Forget
What we have seen in this book is clear
historical proof that people can forget very easily and quite quickly, even
forgetting things dealing with the most sacred parts of their religions. While it is almost impossible to believe that
the Jewish people (especially the Rabbis) could forget such a significant site
as the
Firstly, I have clear historical documentation
which I will soon post on the ASK Web
Page on the Internet (www.askelm.com),
that shows that every Jewish person in the world was fully aware a generation before
the time of Maimonides (1134-1205 C.E.) that the holy site of their
former Temples was over the Gihon Spring in south-western Jerusalem. But, a
generation after the time of
Maimonides there was NOT a Jew in the world who remembered this
historical fact. Indeed it was Maimonides (the great rational
philosopher) who turned the whole Jewish nation to falsehood regarding the site
of their holy
Secondly, I will also reveal on the ASK Web Page on the internet how (and
why)
the Jewish people in the 16th century followed the advice of Rabbi
Isaac Luria (the Ari) and wrongly selected the ‘western wall’ of the Haram esh-Sharif (formerly Fort
Antonia) as the ‘Western Wall’ of Herod’s
Temple. Truly, there was NOT a
Jew in the world who paid the slightest respect to that ‘Western (Wailing) Wall’ before
the 16th century. By following the false advice of Rabbi
Isaac Luria, the whole of the Jewish nation has selected a wall to revere that
was formerly a part of the Roman fortress that their ancestors in the first
century held in highest contempt and disdain.
Thirdly, I will also soon reveal on the ASK Web Page the full relationship of the true location of the site of the
Now in the
Time for the Truth to be Restored to
Though I am by race a Gentile and have no
religious or emotional attachment to Judaism (or even to the ‘sacred sites’ in
Jerusalem), it is a privilege for me to have this opportunity in this book - [‘The
TENPLES that JERUSALEM forgot’] - to bring to the attention
of my Jewish and Muslim friends that their earlier and original Temples have
been found once again. This
historical and geographical research should be able to help those in Israel and
Palestine to realise that they are fighting over (and now negotiating over)
regions of Jerusalem that have no relevance whatever to the sacred occurrences
once associated with Abraham, Jacob, David, Ezra and Nehemiah, or any other
biblical personage. Perhaps this new
knowledge may help negotiators to re-evaluate their religious and political
positions regarding these important geographical matters. This information may be helpful in getting
the antagonists to put down their weapons and turn them into plowshares.
I hope so.
The truth is, it is time that
the Jewish and Islamic authorities abandon their erroneous designation of the
Dome of the Rock as the site of the ‘Second Temple’
and establish an identification of the various Temples (all six of them) to accord with the
historical facts. This
teaching of the Rabbis that their ‘Wailing Wall’
is a wall of Herod’s
Now is the time to remove this profound
ignorance and forgetfulness. It is now
time to remember - to remember what the
newly discovered
[* NOTE. Chapters 24 - (“Critical Problems
Facing Simon The Hasmonean”); chapter 25
- (“A New Temple Had To Be Built”); chapter 26 –
“The Dead Sea Scrolls And The New Jerusalem of Simon”);
chapter 27 - (“Resistance
To Simon’s Rule”); chapter 28 - (“Simon’s Building Projects”); chapter
29 - (“The Temple In The Book Of Enoch”);
and chapter 30 - (“Rebuilding
The Temple”) as proof. All of the
above chapters need to be studied to obtain a fuller understanding of the author’s writing shown above.]
SEE the D.V.D’s which accompany this writing.