I don't believe the claims of the religion of Islam. I will share a little in God's word in terms of the religion of Islam. Many of us had home bible studies and are very acquainted with Ishmael.
And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.15And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a
foolish shepherd.
16For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor
heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
17Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
travel to the middle east and see the sword and the men that have eyes cut out. Also as I posted yesterday, Mohammad is a false profit and is unwilling and unable to call on the LORD and bring healing. Now if you know the culture in the middle east, the spiritual meaning of the "right eye" being cut out is related to the right hand being the favorable one and the left hand used for non human contact. The right eye refers to favorable insight and vision and upon removal is spiritual blindness.
Zechariah 11
Good Shepherd, Jesus, and the false Shepherd, Muhammad.
Notice what history says, "The Muslims began raiding caravans for financial gain...An important battle for the prophet occurred at Badr in March 624.
Muhammad had led three hundred men against a large caravan of merchants enroute to Mecca. The booty won by raiders was said to be worth the equivalent of 50, 000 dollars today-a needed infusion of wealth to carry forward their military task" (Unveiling Islam, Caner, pp.47. 49).
During these attacks on caravans he persecuted the Jews, "...the Jews continued to reject his claims of prophet hood and began criticizing him...he [Muhammad] realized that the Jews posed a real danger...Muhammad decided to attack the Jewish tribe of Nadir...The Prophet had been well aware of the wealth of the departing [Jewish tribe of] Nadir, whose land was divided between Muslims; Muhammad's share made him financially independent" (Warraq, pp.93, 95). Eventually all the Jews were expelled from the Land of Arabia. Their wealth and lands were gone thus fulfilling the first and second part of Zechariah's prophecy. This campaign continued against the Jews and Christians from Muhammad's time, through the expansion of the Islamic empire right down til today. Many verses in the Koran show the commands to kill Christians and the Jews (see below).
This will not stop. The pirates in Somallia are ouit of the same wild men.
I realize you all never saw the template for the prophesy of the Muslim religion in Zechariah.
"Woe to the idol ["Idolatrous" Darby's Translation] shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened." (v.17). Muhammad since he preached to obey Allah who is Baal and told his followers to go and worship at an idolatrous shrine for Baal can be considered an "idolatrous shepherd.
He "leaveth the flock." Muhammad at first joined in the worship of the Jews trying to convert them to Islam and have them accept his prophet hood. Then , when it was obvious that the Jewish merchants were not going to become his disciples Muhammad decided to drop the observance of Jewish rites. He changed the direction of prayer from Jerusalem to Mecca, dropped the Saturday Sabbath and adopted the pagan Friday Sabbath. He once again adopted the pagan religious rites in which he had been raised by his family" (Morey, p.82).
Muslim tried to convert Jews hundreds of years after Christ as did Christians.
The Islamic Sharia laws has proved to be
totally inefficient, especially in these Modern Times. Warraq in his book, Why I Am Not A Muslim dedicates a whole chapter on Islam, Democracy and Human Rights to show its inefficiency in today's world. When we look at the Muslim countries today, if there is wealth it come mostly from the Christian West, and that poverty, discrimination, persecution against non-Muslims, and war plagues these nations that are still locked in the "dark ages."
If you noticed my international economic commentary on another thread. Tommorrow I will post some on machmad in the Hebrew which is written of in Hosea. Machmad translates to Mohamad.
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