OTHER RELIGIONS
Before starting this chapter, it is paramount for the reader to have these basic notions. From time immemorial, God has always abhorred magic. The Hebrew people did not have the right to practice magic. He or she who was caught practicing this divinatory art was punished with death.
9 "When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12 For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you. 13 You shall be blameless before the Lord your God. 14 For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the Lord your God has not appointed such for you.
Deuteronomy 18: 9-14
At the beginning of Christianity, a mischievous magician asked Apostle Peter to transmit the gift of laying of hands to him in exchange for money. Apostle Peter refused; Simon the magician was not open to God by this thought. The gift of God being reserved only for believers of the early church (Acts 8:7-26). Those who were converted threw their magic books in fire (Acts 19:19) and this was a custom. Some obstacles that the apostles experienced were masterminded by magicians (Acts 13:6-9). Magic has always been in opposition to the power of God from the beginning. The power of God is transmitted through the laying of hands in a long chain from one believer to another. From its reception on Pentecost day by the apostles until, no one knows; the unknown church to which the Baptists, Evangelical, Quakers, Mennonites and other non centralized denominations (even though strongly persecuted by another church- Roman Catholic) owe their origin, are believed to have kept this tradition. If it is possible to receive the gifts of God through the laying of hands, I would want someone to write me through my Internet website: www.denisboivin.org.
In the Old Testament, Empires like Egyptian, Persian and Babylonian became very powerful through magic. Just read the seven plagues of Egypt. The first three (3) signs in a lesser proportion were propped up by magicians and charmers. Whatever the case, the first two plagues of Egypt: Water changed into blood or frogs including the staff that changed into a snake earlier. Just like Moses, the charmers, wisemen and magicians of Pharaoh were capable with a lesser power to do same (Exodus 7:11, Exodus 7:22, Exodus 8:3). It was only during the third plague, lice that the magicians said to Pharaoh: "This is the finger of God" (Exodus 8:14). Since the ancient world, magic has always been in opposition with God. Indeed, the man of God becomes a simple tool in His hands. In substance, he pronounces: "In the name of Jesus the HOLY One, I ask God …" If his prayer is answered or if he has received a gift, it shall be fulfilled by the power and the will of God. Man asks and God answers, nothing depends on man, for the requests must be in accordance with the Holy Spirit. It is also for that reason that most prayer topics about money are not granted to men. God gives us enough food, clothes and provide our family needs through our revenue, the strength to work, our health, our energy, our resourcefulness and the ideas that God puts in us as children of God. God would not make you to win a huge sum in lottery because you wrongly spent your money (drug, drinks or material). If you want to have unnecessary things like a house, a ship, a chalet, a journey or others, you must on your own look for means to achieve your dreams, for they are superfluous. Equally, if this is for the church, all its members must contribute financially or morally towards that knowing that the Pastor deserves his salary. (Luke 10:7).
Meanwhile magic works differently. They are rituals, incantations, spell and human sacrifices. Magic, be it black or white all come from the same source satan.
All those who lived in Canaan practiced divinatory arts and were sacrificing human beings to their fake gods. As their thoughts were evil before the Lord and the weight of their sin without any possible repentance, God delivered all the people to be destroyed.
1) JUDAISM
This is why Abraham received this land flowing with milk and honey and which was given to the Children of Israel. From the descendants of Abraham, God made Himself a people among all nations with ordinances, statutes and rules of conduct and instituted a perpetual sacrifice. This was the basis of the Law of Moses or Judaism until the coming of the Saviour. However, the people allowed the survivors of these nations, mainly Jebusites, and that corrupted the children of Israel, God was therefore obliged to purify all Israel.
In several places, the Old Testament talks of the Messiah, to come. To name one, Isaiah 53:1- 12, wrote 600 years before the birth of the saviour.
1 Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. 3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. 4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. 9 And they made His grave with the wicked-- But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. 11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.
Isaiah 53:1-12
So, the Law of Moses and Judaism fall when the HOLY sacrifice of GOD offered once and for all to men was accomplished.
11 Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be called according to the order of Aaron? 12 For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there is also a change of the law. 13 For He of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no man has officiated at the altar. 14 For it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood. 15 And it is yet far more evident if, in the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another priest
16 who has come, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life. 17 For He testifies: "You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek."
18 For on the one hand there is an annulling of the
former commandment because of its weakness and
unprofitableness,
19 for the law made nothing perfect; on the other
hand, there is the bringing in of a better hope,
through which we draw near to God.
20 And inasmuch as He was not made priest without an oath 21 (for they have become priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him who said to Him: "The Lord has sworn And will not relent, 'You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek' "), 22 by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant. 23 Also there were many priests, because they were prevented by death from continuing.
24 But He, because He continues forever, has an
unchangeable priesthood.
25 Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
26 For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is
holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and
has become higher than the heavens;
27 who does not need daily, as those high priests, to
offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for
the people's, for this He did once for all when He
offered up Himself.
28 For the law appoints as high priests men who have
weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after
the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected
forever.
Hebrew 7:11-28
Other different verses like Romans 6:10, Hebrew 9:12, Hebrew 10:10 and several other Bible verses treat this same topic. So, the Law of Moses beyond all doubts announces the advent of a Holy Messiah, offering his life for the redemption of many thereby putting an end to the old covenant, this is exactly what Jesus did.
QUICK REJECTION OF PERTINENT BIBLICAL INFORMATION
It is imperative that the reader understands these essential Biblical teachings very well. In the past, people were under the law of the Old Testament. It took sixty (69) weeks for Christ to come. Then, the New Covenant arrived marking the beginning of the time of grace, but ends with various prophecies like the return of Israel to his country, but mainly through a massive rapture of all believers in the world. I mean those who have accepted the sacrifice of Jesus for themselves and are saved (See 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 1 Corinthians 15:52, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-17). I have said much about this topic in the first three chapters of my book which you can freely access on the Internet "THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH AND THE SHADOW OF THIS WORLD" at www.denisboivin.org. We do not know exactly when that is going to happen, but when that shall happen, we will enter the stage of the Great Tribulation. Then, the last week of Daniel shall be fulfilled with the coming of an Antichrist who will last for seven (7) years. During these seven years, people must not take a mark on their right hand or their forehead, or worship the image of the beast. An angel of God shall move round the whole world to warn people not to take the mark or worship the image of the beast.
9 Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10 he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
Revelation 14: 9-10
Christians are advised not to involve themselves in guerilla warfare but to adopt a behaviour that is full of love and compassion. As the early Christians, those who shall be caught will be taken captive and shall be beheaded (Revelation 13:10, Revelation 20: 4).
Under the Age of grace, Christians just have to know that accepting the Holy sacrifice for themselves is sine qua non for salvation. You must accept the Sacrifice of the Saint for yourself, by recognizing that Christ is HOLY - the Son of God, -by repenting of your sins and asking JESUS to SAVE you.
DISCUSSION WITH SCHOLARS IN JUDAISM
Besides, if Judaism experts examine keenly the prophecies of Daniel and Zechariah based on the seventy (70) weeks. Each week will be seven (7) years and every year will be 360 days. They will discover that the SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD came exactly at the time predicted by GOD and revealed by prophecies.
CHRONOLOGY OF THE BIRTH OF JESUS BASED ON PROPHECIES
Knowing the time set by the prophet Daniel, the chief priests and the Council have no excuse for not acknowledging Christ as the Son of God. Here's what Daniel said:
The Sanhedrin of Jesus has no excuse for not acknowledging Christ
Referring to the prophecy of Daniel, the Council in the days of Jesus was perfectly aware that forty nine (49) years had past, being seven (7) weeks between the order given by God to rebuild Jerusalem and the appearance of His servant Nehemiah, knowing that 62 weeks were left between the ministry of the Redeemer and Nehemiah, that is to say four hundred and thirty four (434) years. They have no excuse for having rejected Christ – since the Son of God is born and rejected four hundred and thirty four years (434) later as was stated in the prophecy of Daniel (Daniel 9 :26) and the sins of the world blotted out (Daniel 9 :25). Jesus is the anointed entrenched at the sixty ninth (69) week.
They wanted to kill Christ at birth
They wanted to kill Jesus at birth. Indeed, prophecies were revealing the time and place where the Saint was to be born, such as described by prophet Micah about 700 years BC.
2 "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting." 3 Therefore He shall give them up, Until the time that she who is in labor has given birth; Then the remnant of His brethren Shall return to the children of Israel.
Micah 5: 1-12
A new star appeared in the sky, announcing the birth of the Saint, - and the Magi followed it to Bethlehem. The Magi asked Herod, king of Juda; where the newly born king of the Jews was so that they worship him (Matthew 2:2). Herod, jealous and thinking that his crown was in danger, feigned, and he sent them to Bethlehem. Herod told the Magi, "Go and get accurate information about the child, when you shall have found, please let me know so that I also go and worship him (Matthew 2: 8). There was a census ordered all over the earth by Caesar (Luke 2:1-2). Joseph of the house of Judah came to Bethlehem. When the Magi had found Christ, they were warned in a dream not to return to Herod with the requested information (Matthew 2: 12). Meanwhile God warned Joseph in a dream to leave for Egypt (Matthew 2:13). Herod sought the Child to destroy him. Seeing that the Magi did not return, he ordered that all children from two years downward are killed in Bethlehem during the census. This is called the "Massacre of the Innocents" (Matthew 2: 16) prophesied by Jeremiah in 600 BC (Jeremiah 31: 15). Some thirty years after this event, Christ presented himself to the Sanhedrin, full of wit for the works of God and performed miracles never seen, saying he forgives sins and that He was God. The Sanhedrin knew that this was the Son of God, but in order not to lose their prestige before the people, they rejected Him thereby falling into the most serious sin ever committed. It was known that Christ came out of Judah (Psalms 97: 8). Men of his age from the tribe of Judah would be rare because of the "Massacre of the Innocent saints." The Sanhedrins are inexcusable, for having done so. Since this time, salvation to the Jews had been veiled. Jewish Pastors of our time should reject the mistakes committed two millennia ago.
Let‘s us examine the instructions given by God, in the light of two prophecies, that of Daniel and Zechariah, and we must admit that Christ is truly the Saint awaited first by the Jewish people and then by nations.
Prophecy according to Daniel
God revealed to Daniel the approximate time of Tribulation, the last week completing the seventy weeks of Daniel, that is to say, seven (7) years.
11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Daniel 12:11
This passage makes allusion to Daniel 9: 27. This represents approximately three and a half years. I think the abomination mentioned by God is this: the Antichrist will proclaim himself god, in the Temple of God (2 Thessalonians 2: 4). But reading the New Testament the exact times are revealed. The scholars of that time were very aware that a week was about seven years. Moreover, they had the reference to seven weeks between the start of the order given by God to rebuild Jerusalem and Nehemiah, which is about 49 years.
24 "Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy. 25 "Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times. 26 "And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate." ( Daniel 9:24-27)
The sixty two weeks when an anointed one is cut off and has no successor, refers to Jesus Christ. There are exactly 434 years between Nehemiah and the Redeemer, Jesus Christ. It is Jesus Christ who is rejected by the Jews as God's anointed and atonement for sins. All those who pass through him to go to God are saved. In 70 AD, because of their rejection of the Son of God, the Roman army destroyed Jerusalem, the shrine and scattered the Jewish people across nations. If one calculates correctly, there is one week missing. As long as one remains under the age of grace through Jesus Christ, the missing week will not happen. From the RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH AND THE HOLY SPIRIT on earth, marking thus the end of the era of grace, the week remaining in the prophecy of Daniel will begin. This will complement the seventy weeks prophesied. Here, the Antichrist will arise, will seduce the Jews; and two-thirds of them seduced will perish. Remember, Jews must not enter Jerusalem, or in any city, and those in Judea must flee to the mountains (Luke 21:21, Matthew 24:16). Two third of Jews shall be exterminated (Zechariah 13:8).
I have come in My Father's name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.
John 5:43
Let‘s summarize this important prophecy of Daniel about the seventy (70) weeks. There are seven (7) weeks between the order given by God to rebuild Jerusalem and Nehemiah. There are sixty- two (62) weeks between Nehemiah and the redemption of Jesus Christ, four hundred thirty four (434) years. All this corresponds to sixty-nine (69) weeks. So one week is missing. It begins when the end of the stage of Grace comes, that is to say the RAPTURE OF THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH OF CHRIST AND GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT FROM THE EARTH. There, the seventieth week begins. During this week, an Antichrist will reign on earth for a period of seven years. At the end of the seventieth week, Israel shall find The ANOINTED SAINT OFGOD, THE KING OF JUDAH. The Jews will realize that this is Jesus Christ. He will destroy the Antichrist and his army. Prophet Zechariah explains it differently, but equally compelling chronologically, the restoration of the king of Judah and Israel.
Prophecies according to Zechariah
Firstly: The scattering of the Jewish people (Zechariah 7:14)
God, because of the obduracy of the Jewish people vis-à-vis the Saviour, scattered the Jews across nations. They did not listen to the Holy Son of God or the prophets.
"But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no one passed through or returned; for they made the pleasant land desolate."
Zechariah 7:14
Secondly: The Recovery of Jerusalem (Zechariah chapter 8, Read)
In 1948, Israel again became a nation, marking the beginning of a restoration. Today, from a desert, God has made this country a garden. The population is growing and has been protected by God during the various attacks by the surrounding nations. One day Israel will be restored because it is God's people. Towards the end of the chapter in Zechariah 8: 23, God gives us an overview of Millennium.
23 "Thus says the Lord of hosts: 'In those days ten men from every language of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, "Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you." ' " Zechariah 8: 23
As long as Israel does not find his king of Judah, he will have no power. But, by the will of God, Israel has been protected since 1948 and will remain so.
Thirdly: The Antichrist defeated by Christ and the Restoration of Juda (Zechariah chapter 9, Read)
A king shall come out of Judah. As long as Israel does not turn to his king, as a nation he shall be reduced to nothing. The first part of the chapter explains how God shall defeat nations. The second part explains how Judah shall find his king in the form of a Saviour and a King. Judah will regain its power vis-à-vis the nations of the earth thanks to his king.
"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey.
Zechariah 9:9
When we look into the Holy Scriptures in the light of Revelation 20: 4, it is Jesus Christ. Also, this Bible verse of Prophet Zechariah is a transposition of John 12: 15, Matthew 21: 5 and Isaiah 62: 11.
14 Then Jesus, when He had found a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written: 15 "Fear not, daughter of Zion; Behold, your King is coming, Sitting on a donkey's colt."
John 12:14-15
Fourthly: The reign of the Lord (Zechariah Chapter10, Read)
During the Millennium, God will bless Israel through the king of Judah. Also, God shows us the blessings which Israel will receive and the power of his king. It is from Judah that the King of kings shall emerge.
Fifthly: God‘s judgment against unfaithful Pastors (Zechariah chapter 11, Read)
God expresses his anger against unfaithful pastors who rejected His only Son, thereby leaving the people without a shepherd for the Jewish sheep. It is a separation between the king from Judah (Jesus Christ) and Israel (Jewish people). Prophetically, we see the union between unfaithful pastors and Judas (who betrayed Jesus) in selling his Holy son on the cross of Calvary.
Pastors‘ betrayal
12 Then I said to them, "If it is agreeable to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain." So they weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver. 13 And the Lord said to me, "Throw it to the potter"--that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord for the potter. (Zechariah 11:12-13, written 525 years BC.) Judas‘ betrayal
15 and said, "What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?" And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver.
(Matthew 26:15)
3 Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to us? You see to it!" 5 Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself. 6 But the chief priests took the silver pieces and said, "It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because they are the price of blood." 7 And they consulted together and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
(Matthew 27:4-7)
Sixthly: Deliverance of Jerusalem (Zechariah Chapter 12, Read)
Jesus will defeat the antichrist at the end of the seven year period called the Great Tribulation. The city of Jerusalem will be restored thanks to the collections of the King of Glory from Judah. This is the restoration by the King of glory of the city abandoned by unfaithful pastors and the Jewish people in Chapter eleven of the book of Zechariah. This King of Glory is Jesus Christ
The next Bible verses are intended to demonstrate that Christ was the expected King of Judah. So initially, I will quote passages from Zechariah, chapter 12, since we are studying this prophecy, I have assembled prophecies of the crucifixion of Christ pronounced by the prophets between 740 and 1000 years BC. Thirdly, I have added the writings of the apostles and evangelists of Jesus' era testifying the crucifixion. The aim is to make readers conversant with the divine will of atonement of sins and the recognition of the redeeming GOD made man.
Israel converts to Christ "And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced . Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn. (Zechariah 12: 10, written 525 years
BC.)
Christ‘s life 1. Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2. For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. 3. He despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrow and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. 4. Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 5. But He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him and by His stripes we are healed
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6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. 9 And they made His grave with the wicked-- But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth. 10 . Yet, it pleased the Lord to bruise Him. He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. 11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many; For He shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.
(Isaiah 53:1-12, written 740 years BC)
Crucifixion of Jesus-Christ 13 They gape at Me with their mouths, Like a raging and roaring lion. 14 I am poured out like water, And all My bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It has melted within Me. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, And My tongue clings to My jaws; You have brought Me to the dust of death. 16 For dogs have surrounded Me; The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and My feet; 17 I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me. 18 They divide My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots 19 But You, O Lord, do not be far from Me; O My Strength, hasten to help Me! 20 Deliver Me from the sword, My precious life from the power of the dog. 21 Save Me from the lion's mouth And from the horns of the wild oxen! You have answered Me.
(Psalms 22 :14-21, David, wrote 1000 years BC)
Jesus crucified 17 And He, bearing His cross, went out to a place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha, 18 where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, one on either side, and Jesus in the center. 19 Now Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross. And the writing was: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. 20 Then many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. 21 Therefore the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'He said, "I am the King of the Jews." ' " 22 Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written." 23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments and made four parts, to each soldier a part, and also the tunic. Now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top in one piece. 24 They said therefore among themselves,
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"Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be," that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says: "They divided My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots." (Psalms 22: 19) Therefore the soldiers did these things. 25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, "Woman, behold your son!" 27 Then He said to the disciple, "Behold your mother!" And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home. 28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I thirst!" 29 Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there; and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to His mouth (Psalms 69: 22). 30 So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. 31 Therefore, because it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 32 Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with Him. 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. 34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. 35 And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you may believe. 36 For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, "Not one of His bones shall be broken." 37 And again another Scripture says, "They shall look on Him whom they pierced." (Exodus 12: 46, written 1300 years BC) None of his bones will be broken. (Numbers 9: 12, written 1240 years BC) And another scripture said: They see him whom they pierced. (Zechariah 12: 10, written 525 years BC)
(John 19 :17-37)
Other passages on crucifixion
44 Now it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. 45 Then the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. Is believed to have God broke his
alliance between Judah and its king, and Israel. A
wandering people without pastors (Zechariah,
chapter 11) .
46 And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, "Father, 'into Your hands I commit My spirit.' ―Having said this, He breathed His last. 47 So when the centurion saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous Man!" 48 And the whole crowd who came together to that sight, seeing what had been done, beat their breasts and returned.
(Luke 23:44-48)
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Matthew adds: 52 and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.
(Matthew 27 :52-53)
Put in the grave
38 After this, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took the body of Jesus. 39 And Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. 40 Then they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in strips of linen with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury. 41 Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. (CONTINUATION)
(CONTINUATION) 42 So there they laid Jesus, because of the Jews' Preparation Day, for the tomb was nearby. (Here the Scripture is fulfilled) they made His grave with the wicked-- But with the rich at His death (Isaiah 53: 9)
(John 19:38-42)
NB: The Bible does not confirm that Nicodemus was born again. About the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.
OTHER
16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, 20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. 21 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled 22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight
(Colossians 1: 16-22 )
Seventhly: Prophecy according to Daniel and Zechariah
Daniel's prophecy clearly indicates that from Nehemiah, four hundred and thirty-four (434) years will elapse before an anointed will be cut off. Four hundred and thirty-four (434) years later, the redemptive work of Jesus Christ came. He is the king of Judah; he bought all the sins of men. Those who want eternal life must go through Him. Since that time Zechariah tells us that Israel is without a pastor, they rejected Christ, the King of the Jews. The time of the RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH and of the HOLY SPIRIT on the earth is coming. This will mark the beginning of the seventieth week of Daniel; the Antichrist will arise during a period of seven (7) years. Two-thirds of Jews will die, they should not enter Jerusalem and cities, those in Judea must flee into the mountains. Meanwhile, there will be a spiritual revival and 144,000 Jewish virgins (Revelation 7: 4-8, 14:3-4) and two faithful witnesses (Revelation 11:3-12) will announce the good news. This mass conversion of the Jewish people will be by accepting as Lord and Saviour the one they had pierced, i.e. Jesus Christ. Indeed, He is the King of Judah. Jesus Christ shall defeat the Antichrist at Armageddon (See Revelation 16: 16 and Zechariah 12: 11), King of Judah found, the union of Christ with his people shall begin.
To date, the Jews still observe the priesthood of the Levites which entails the sacrifice of animal‘s blood to cleanse the people from sin. Only the Holy blood of Jesus Christ can blot out sin today. Since they reject Jesus as the Holy Son of God, they are guilty of blasphemy. Given that we have been under the New Covenant for 2000 years today, all those who go without this covenant cannot have their sins forgiven.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Romans 3:20-24
Personally, I love the Jewish people and I am impatiently expecting them to reconcile with the Redeemer who is Jesus Christ. But before that, there will be two antagonisms, one in Christianity and the other in Kabbalists.
KABBALAH
Kabbalah is the religion of fallen angels. It was responsible for the destruction of the earth with flood. The fallen angels saw that daughters of men, were beautiful and they took them for wives. And this brought forth super heroes, giants and wicked beings on earth. God saw that men lived long and all their thoughts were evil.
1 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. 3 And the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years." 4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. 5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7 So the Lord said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them." 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Genesis 6:1-8
After the flood, the sons of Noah and his daughters-in-law repopulated the earth. The first major initiative of the men was to build a tower, the Tower of Babel. It seemed to be an esoteric and occult tower.
God said:
1 Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3 Then they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. 4 And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." 5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6 And the Lord said, "Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. 7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. 9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
Genesis 11:1-9
When we read these verses, we see clearly that the descendants of Noah's children were familiar with the arts of divination. They were ready to openly disobey God. The big question is this: "Will fallen angels appear to men? Or were there books of magic that men of the new world found?‖ Personally, I think that fallen angels observe people and the moment someone is far away from God with a predisposition for evil, the fallen angels facilitate contact.
Also, magic became very powerful in the Kingdoms of the East: Canaan, Persian, Mesopotamian, Babylonian, Egyptian and others. This was to be closer to what we see in movies.
Suddenly, with the collapse of kingdoms, the conquest of Alexander the Great, the Roman Empire multiplied. Later, the rise of Christianity and of Islam, the great thaumaturgists of all the ancient empires, put the knowledge acquired in safety under the guardianship of a Jewish rabbi strongly away from Judaism. They became the 6 HIGH PRIEST of KABBALAH.
HERE THE READER SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED BUT SOULD UNDERSTAND
After the rise of Mohammedanism, there were different crusades to the holy land mainly directed by the papacy which had control over the kingships of the whole earth. The Middle Ages was drastic for Christianity. Indeed, the Roman Catholic Church was enriched by a shameless looting of true Christians from the earth, the Jews and those who traded with the devil. But it must be said that very few of these were killed by the "Inquisition." But the Cathar churches were almost exterminated by the "Catholic league" i.e. Portugal, Spain, France, Austria and in Hungary. A group of workers that was constructing evangelical cathedrals in these countries was the Masonic association.
The brethren of the Cathar Church aroused reformers like Luther, Zwingli and Wycliffe within Catholicism and under the protection of the German king, the gathering of all these weak and persecuted churches was done under the name of Protestantism. Brother Gutenberg invented printing and for half a Century maintained the ownership of this technology. Many Bibles were printed and distributed to European nations, hence the numerous heresies of the Catholic Church were attacked and inquisition was brought to an end. This finally put an end to tyranny of the papacy worldwide.
6 http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/texts/kabbalah.html
The Catholic Church did not support the brethren; consequently, many fortified castles of the Churches like Transylvania, Wallachia, Moldavia, Dalmatia, Moravia, Bohemia, and Serbia fell under the guardianship of Mohammedanism which was practicing a religion of inquisition. One brother, ―Comenius‖, a mason of the 15 th Century, whose real name was Jean Amos Kominsky, born in Moravia in 1592 and died in 1670 produced a document of great value to the Christian education reform, as the "Scheme of the Social Archetype" and forwarded to the Royal Society. This document was intended to introduce in the whole world a system of Christian education according to the Holy Scriptures. It was the forerunner of the UN and UNESCO. But already at that time the CENTRAL BANKERS of the world had embraced Kabbalah, a religion from the ancient world. Under the principles of Masonry and "the social Archetype" of the Moravian Christian Jean Amos Kominsky, they created Freemasonry and the UN, according to visions of their father, Lucifer.
The Royal Society introduced freemasonry in military lodges before leaving for the New World mostly populated by the Christian brethren who were seriously persecuted by the "Catholic League", Mohammedanism and the desire to rebuild on new community basis free from political protection. Hence, the following verses make sense:
7 "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write,'These things says He who is holy, He who is true, "He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens": 8 I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name. 9 Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie--indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. 10 Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. 11 Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.
Revelation 3:7-11
The Royal Society belonged to the international bankers who had joined a religion of mystery from the Old World, a religion that provided them with the wealth of the world. Orders came directly from Lucifer through the Great Jewish Luciferian Priest during high religious ceremonies across the centuries. The principle is this: low level freemasonry is used to recruit Coptic members for high level freemasonry which is clearly satanic. Then, the chosen member reaches the various levels of wisdom. Each stage of wisdom renders the more possessed member a slave to Lucifer.
Presently, the Illuminatis control the world, politically, militarily and economically. But not yet religiously, the Church of the Lord needs to be raptured upon the sound of the trumpet. That depends on God. In order to understand their advancement, you can read ―THE RAPTURE OF THE WORLD AND THE SHADOW OF THIS WORLD‖ at WWW.DENISBOIVIN.ORG .
This religion is about to become the religion of the last week of Daniel during the Great Tribulation of seven (7) years on earth. Only the Jews and Christians converted to Christ and who will not be taken by the world government of that time will enter the Millennium with Christ. This is a counterfeiting of the spirit, these people believe that Satan is God and are willing to do whatever he asks through the Great Luciferian priests. They will control the earth when God will RAPTURE HIS UNIVERSAL CHURCH on earth.
ISLAM
This religion is regarded as one of the three (3) great Abrahamic religions. But who was behind it? If not the Martinist thinkers working within UNESCO to better confuse the issue. The truth is that Judaism is unique to the Old Testament announcing the coming of the future Messiah. Yet, they did not recognize him. So, for the Jews, Judaism remains an active religion without a future. Meanwhile Christianity through the redeeming salvation of Christ enables men to be saved as long as this present earth exists.
Jesus, the Son of God, the Messiah, descendant of the lineage of Isaac and David. Some 600 years after the coming of the Messiah, Prophet Mohammed taught by an entity to be Angel Gabriel, descendant of the lineage of Ismael appeared. The latter announced that he is the successor of Christ who failed to accomplish his mission on earth. But according to which authority and teaching? Do you believe that God would have entrusted an angel with the responsibility of creating a religion? Worse still, Angel Gabriel, said to have come in the name of Allah. The God of Abraham has NEVER used this name before. People suppose that Allah means God. The Bible has NEVER made allusion to a Prophet who was to come after the Messiah. Yet, over a billion three hundred people have embraced this religion.
BIOGRAPHY
Mohammed was born in the town of Mecca about the year 570 AD. His father died before his birth, at the age of three (3), with a foster brother who had custody of some animals, the young Mohammed explained to them that two men dressed in white came and pushed him to the ground, opened his chest and extracted something. According to Muslim tradition, the two men dressed in white were two angels sent to purify the heart of the child destined to become a prophet and to affix the seal of prophecy between his shoulders.
At six years, his mother died, his uncle took care of him. A series of deaths caused Mohammed to pass through different hands in his extended family. Until 25 years, we have little information about his life. According to his companions, he was shepherd and a caravanner. He went to work under a very rich merchant and finally married her. Khadija was 40 years old meanwhile Mohammed was about 25 when they got married.
About 610, and for the first time, Angel Gabriel appeared to him in a cave ―Hira‖. There, he used to meditate. Angel Gabriel transmitted by revelation, the word of God to him. Mohammed who was then 40 started to transmit verses which according to him were revealed by Allah and dictated in Arabic by Angel Gabriel. These successive declarations lasted for twenty-three years. The revelations were fulfilled promptly or regularly according to the realities of the prophet‘s life and the community of believers. He formed the Koran and was careful right from the beginning not to teach orally. Frightened by the first visit of Angel Gabriel, Mohammed took refuge beside his wife and narrated to her what had just happened to him. She became the first believer and supported him financially until her death in 619.
In 622, Mohammed reorganized Yathrib which later became Medina. He simultaneously occupied the posts of religious, political and military leader. He relied on the two Arab and three Jewish tribes which lived there. A constitutional Pact (Constitution of Medina) governs the relationship between the various religious communities who lived in the town, guaranteeing all the citizens freedom of conscience. Nevertheless, this new order came to thwart the interests of the notables of the town including `Abd Allah Ibn Ubayy Ibn salvation, the leader of the movement of" hypocrites ", and those of the Jewish tribes of Medina, who lived in arms trafficking.
In 623, as a military leader, he had his first victory at Badr or Jihad. In 628, he got the Pact of Hudaibya. In 629 with an army of 10,000 men, he seized the city of Mecca. Here, he began forced conversion "believe or die" to survive. Excellent for a growing religion, Mohammed died June 8, 632 in Medina.
Military career of Mohammed
Taking a chronological look at the works of Mohammed, we perceive the spirit behind the said angel Gabriel. It is completely the opposite of the Son of God, Jesus.
Year 618: Massacre of the enemy at the battle of Bu'ath;
Year 622: Mohammed receives the verse: "kill the infidels where you find them, make them prisoners ..."
Year 623: Battle of Nakhla, four Bedouin killed by eight Muslims;
Year 623: Elimination of Amru bin Al Hadhrami caravan leader, against the opinion of Mohammed;
Year 623: Mohammed‘s opinion "They are infidels, to which there is no need to observe a sacred ban"
Year 624: Battle of Badr, the first victory over the infidels;
Year 624: Raid of Mecca, looting and taking captives;
Year 624: After the victory of Badr, the beginning of the elimination of the Jews;
Year 624: Decapitation of the poet Kab Ashraf Al-been, Mohammed‘s opponent in Medina;
Year 624: Mohammed in Oqba: "I vow to God that if I find you outside of Mecca, I'll have you beheaded."
Year 624: Battle of Badr, Abu Bakr to Mohammed "infidelity will be wiped out in the world."
Year 624: Battle of Badr, defeat of the infidels, "Muslims killed them with swords and made prisoners;
Year 624: Battle of Badr, Mohammed to his men: "any of you who meets Jahl, cut his head and bring it to me."
Year 624: Revelation "It was not given to a prophet to have prisoners, without great slaughter on the earth;
Year 624: Beheading of two anonymous poets after the Battle of Badr;
Year 624: After the battle of Badr, Mohammed to Oqba "your place and that of your children, is in hell, if they do not become believers, I will kill ..."
Year 624: Beheading of poet Abu Afak in Saudi for criticizing Islam;
Year 624: Execution of Asma Bint Marwan, woman who criticized Mohammed;
Year 625: Expulsion of Al Nadir from the Jewish clan;
Year 625: Destruction of the idol Oubal;
Year 626: Massacre of the Jews Beni Khazraj and families and sharing the spoils;
Year 626: Massacre of 700 Jews Beni Qoraïzha, bound for three days and then slaughtered over a pit, with boys;
Year 626: Elimination of the Jewish satiristic poet Kab, leader of the Beni Nadhir and his wife who had made fun of Mohammed;
Year 626: Expedition against the Jews of Kaihbar;
Year 626: Elimination under the order of Mohammed Sallam Abu Rafi the Jew;
Year 626: Attempt to eliminate Abu Sofyan ordered by Mohammed;
Year 626: Mohammed takes among the Beni Qoraizha a beautiful young girl as part of the booty;
Year 627: Elimination of the Jewish clan of Qurayza in Medina;
Year 627: Massacre of the Jews of Medina and sharing of family and property;
Year 627: Beginning of the systematic policy of aggression of other tribes;
Year 627: Attack of the tribe of Bani Moustalik;
Year 628: Attacks of the oasis of Khaybar by Mohammed;
Year 628: Caravan of infidels plundered by Mohammed;
Year 628: Mohammed to the Jew Beni Qainoqa: "If you do not embrace Islam, I will declare war against you"
Year 628: abduction of women and children of the tribe of Moshjarik;
Year 628: Attack of the Jews of Khaibar, and torture of prisoners;
Year 628: Making the Jewish oasis of Fadak as personal property of Mohammed;
Year 628: Submission of the Jews of Wadil Qora;
Year 630: Capture of Mecca 30 executions;
Year 630: The first attack against Persia in Tabuk;
Year 630: Battle of Honain against the pagan Bedouins;
Year 630: Submission of the Jews and Christians of Makni, Eilat, Jarba;
Year 630: Decapitation in Mecca of Abu Abdallah ibn Sahr apostate;
Year 630: Decapitation in Mecca of the satirist poet Abdullah ibn Khatal;
Year 630: Decapitation in the Mecca of Howairith ibn Noqaïd;
Year 630: Death sentence in Mecca for Ikrima, on the run;
Year 630: condemnation of Safwan ibn Mecca Ommayya, on the run;
Year 630: Death sentence in Mecca for Hind, wife of Abu Sofyan, on the run;
Year 630: Execution in Mecca of Sara, freed slave;
Year 630: Execution in Mecca of Qariba, singer;
Year 630: Execution in Mecca of Fartana, a singer who had made fun of Mohammed;
Year 630: Destruction of the idol of Hubal located in the Kaaba;
Year 630: Mohammed to his enemy, Safwan "you have to choose between the sword and Islam"
Year 630: Massacre of the tribe of Beni Djadsimaa;
Year 630: Capture of Taif by Muslims;
Year 630: Battle of Houynan against the Hawazites tribes;
Year 630: Elimination of Al Uzza Dubayya priest;
Year 630: Destruction of female demon Al Uzza by Halid "naked black woman"
Year 630: Destruction of the idol of Al Halasa, the temple, 200 died in the attack;
Year 631: Attack of the Byzantine city of Tabuk;
Year 631: Submission of Tabuk; price for the Christians;
Year 631: Attack against the Christian Adi and abduction of his sister;
Year 631: The Meccans: "those who remain: they become Muslims, otherwise the sword or war decide"
Year 631: Apostasy of the tribe of Abdul Qais, originally Christians, submission or elimination;
Year 631: Submission of Nadjran Christians;
Year 632: Treaty of submission of the Christian tribe of Taghlibites;
Year 632: Treaty of submission of the Christian tribe of Nadjran;
Year 632: Submission of Al Aswad apostate chief Yemenite;
Year 632: Call for the Elimination of Tulaiha, as a false prophet;
Year 632: Call for the Elimination of Aswad, magician in Yemen;
Year 632: On the death of Mohammed, Omar angry "let the tongues of those who say he is dead be cut off"
Miracles
Did Mohammed perform miracles?
Mohammed is believed to have said that "the Koran is a miracle"
According to the Koran and hadiths, Mohammed performed a series of miracles:
The moon was split when the people of Mecca asked Mohammed to perform a miracle. It is believed that the Meccans saw the miracle happen before their eyes. The Koranic verse of Sura of the moon also reported that it was split; Water is believed to have sprung between the fingers of Mohammed, when his companions were thirsty and went to ask Mohammed water to drink and to do ablutions. So, Mohammed is said to have made water to flow out of his hands, for a number of companions estimated at 1500 men; Various patients were cured; The spider web and the pigeon nest at the entrance of the cave, at the coming of Meccan troops who wanted to enter the cave in which Mohammed and his companions hid; A sheep is said to have spoken to Mohammed; A rock is said to have spoken to Mohammed; Mohammed, medicine, witchcraft and demons.
WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN THE SOURCE OF MOHAMMED’S SCIENCE?
The book At-Tib an-Nabawi d'Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya contains almost all the ideas of Prophet Mohammed to treat diseases. This medicine is called ―Prophetic medicine‖. These same authors take a keen look at "Evil eye", witchcraft, and trade with demons or djinns: Another race inhabiting the earth, the spirits who inhabit the desert places, water points, cemeteries and forests. ". The same source indicates that 129 hadiths on medicine are reported in Sahih al-Bukhari. Subsequently, some Muslim doctors have purported to establish clinical trials to prove the claims of Mohammed. The oldest are Abu Nu `aym, Ibn Qayyim al- Jawziyya and Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuti.
STRANGE SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR WITH SPECIAL PRIVILEGE FROM GOD
According to his biographers, "Mohammed" is said to have had in all fifteen wives during his lifetime. In his book The chronicle , the medieval historian Tabari reports that Mohammed is believed to have coveted five women and had two slaves among whom was "Maria daughter of Simeon the Coptic", who gave him a son, Ibrahim, who died at the age of two. "At times, he had eleven wives at the same time, at times nine and sometimes ten. When he died, he left behind nine widows". A little further, Tabari reports that according to other traditions, Mohammed is believed to have married twenty women and that "there are also five women that the prophet coveted, but did not marry them."
After the death of his first wife Khadija, he married the widow Saouda, respecting the Arabic norms and values of the past and still present today in some countries. At the age of about 50, he married Aicha daughter of Abu Bakr aged 6. Three years later, he consummated the marriage when she was just 9 years old. In 627, he got married to Rayhana, a Jew, and then to Myriam a Christian in 629; the same year, he got married to Safiyya a Jew, according to Islamic rules of marriage.
At the end of his life, Mohammed is said to have had nine wives, including a Coptic Christian slave who was given to him by the King of Egypt. According to the Koran, this special status which authorized Mohammed to have more than four wives is believed to have been revealed to him by arch angel Gabriel:
"O Prophet! You have the right to marry women that you have endowed, captives that God has dropped into your hands, the daughters of your uncles and aunts maternal and paternal who fled with you, and all faithful wife who has given her soul to the Prophet if the Prophet wishes to marry her. It is a privilege that we grant you over the other believers. "
"We know the laws of marriage which we have established for believers. Do not fear that you would make yourself guilty by using your rights. God is forgiving and merciful. "(Surah al Ahzab, verses 49-51)
Who does Mohammed represent to the faithful
Mohammed is the founder of Islam; He is the religious, political and military leader. Muslims consider him to be the last prophet of monotheism. In fact, these are the three main religions that originated from the Abrahamic religion: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Angel Gabriel gave Mohammed the responsibility to transmit the Koran and to make known Allah to people. The Koran is said to have been compiled after the death of Mohammed. Following the death of the Prophet, Abu Bakr, his chosen successor ordered Zaid ibn Thabit to compile all the verses of the Koran. He however accomplished this very difficult task by making two of Mohammed‘s companions to give testimony for each verse. The preservation of the Koran was therefore possible thanks to this project. Then, other generations came with the transmission chain principle and of the assertion of men‘s integrity making up these chains, continued to protect the authenticity of Koranic texts.
Some of the words and actions of Mohammed are the Sunnah which is the second source of Islamic law.
What can we say against Mohammed?
Nothing at all, if indeed he was a prophet, and that all his actions were under the instruction of Allah, we have nothing to say against him.
In fact, the God of Abraham ordered his prophets and kings to do certain things which had heavy consequences on some people and men who were punished with death. Coming from the will of God, these acts were HOLY. However, the God of Abraham has never withdrawn His word by revocation after making a promise, or give preferential treatment. Although God the Father in the Old Testament utterly destroyed the Canaanites, the people were so corrupt that they could not be left alive without them spoiling the Hebrews. Jesus built Christianity on love, meekness, temperance, patience and faith. In all, he leaves man with a free will. He was teaching while the Holy Spirit was doing his work. We see that the spirit of Allah after angel Gabriel is different from that of the Father and the Son in Christianity.
We need to go to the source of Abrahamic religion.
Abrahamic Religion
Sarah, desperate for not having children gave her maid Hagar to her husband Abraham. She conceived and bore a son named Ishmael. Sarah became pregnant and in turn had a son named Isaac. God made his covenant with Isaac, Sarah‘s son. Sarah asked Abraham to expel Hagar and Ishmael. Then God said to Abraham:
20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
21 But My covenant I will establish with Isaac,
whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time next
year."
Genesis 17:20-21
Ishmael bore a great nation, that of the Arab people. But the alliance was made with Isaac hence the Shiloh (Gen. 49: 10) or Messiah was to come out. On the death of Abraham, his two sons buried him (Genesis 19: 19). The Messiah or Saviour or prophet does not come from Ishmael; the Saviour comes from Isaac. Muslims accuse Jesus of not having fulfilled his ministry. Also, they see Paul as a triumph
of opportunism by the death Christ.
All this was written in advance - that the death of Christ would be the price charged by God to reconcile men to Himself.
1 Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. 3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. 4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off
from the land of the living; For the transgressions
of My people He was stricken.
9 And they made His grave with the wicked-- But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.
Isaiah 53:1-11 (600 BC)
Jesus on several occasions openly revealed his atoning work when he was alive.
31 And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. Mark 8:31
And
45 And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. 46 Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 And you are witnesses of these things. 49 Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high."
Luke 24:45-49
The purpose and redemptive ministry of Christ by his Holy Blood, and His resurrection after three days have been known from time immemorial. Nothing was hidden from men. Apostle Paul revealed nothing new that the people did not know in advance. He simply fulfilled his ministry, that of preaching the Gospel to men and reminding them of the scriptures, as well as probing mysteries.
Did Jesus accomplish His ministry?
The Biblical answer to this question is YES.
So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
JOHN 19:30
The will of God was that His only Son bears the sins of all men on the cross. So whoever wants to come to God through Christ has a passage to eternal life of holiness. This is
SALVATION BY GRACE.
God does NOT weigh good and bad deeds in the life of a man who did not accept the sacrifice of his SON. Those who go to heaven will be men who accepted the HOLY GIFT OF CHRIST for themselves. This is the only way to be saved.
Is there a prophet to come after Christ?
The Biblical answer is NO.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Hebrews 13:8
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But He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.
Hebrews 7:24
Jesus being the Son of God and the holy and everlasting sacrifice for the ransom of the sin of all men will never have a successor.
Who is this Angel Gabriel that Mohammed is said to have seen?
Archangel Gabriel is mentioned many times in the Bible (Daniel 8: 16, 9: 21), (Luke 1: 19, 1: 26). The question to ask is this. Does the message received by Mohammed alter the teachings of Christianity? The Biblical answer is YES.
Apostle Paul before leaving for the world beyond made a serious warning against anyone who would like to change or divert the Bible in his favour.
And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
2 Corinthians 11:14
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8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.
Galatians 1:8-9
For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,
1Timothy 2:5
satan can disguise himself as an angel of light and take the form he wants. The only person he cannot claim to be is God. This includes individuals making up the Holy Trinity. But the wisdom of God warns men. Under no circumstances can the message of the gospel and the PLAN OF SALVATION OF GOD be deflected. Meanwhile Jesus Christ will remain the only mediator between God and men until Judgment Day.
So, it is very likely that the angel who appeared to Mohammed and contrasting the Bible of God, is none other than the father of lies. Biblically, the message of Mohammed is in contradiction with that Christ and the sacrifice that sets men free.
The message of Mohammed is in contradiction with that of the God of Abraham and His Holy Son Jesus Christ. Men can only be saved because a HOLY blood washed away their sins. The message of Mohammed is that by our works we can be saved without Christ. The Bible says:
10 let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. 11 This is the 'stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.' 12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
(Acts 4:11-12)
The angel Gabriel who appeared to Mohammed established a religion that is not approved according to God's plan. He succeeded this usurpation due to the people‘s ignorance of the holy writings. His followers should get in touch with biblical Christianity to see the large deviation and return to the Saviour Jesus Christ. Otherwise, they walk in the path of perdition. Remember!
22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
(Romans 3:22-24)
Judaism and Christianity based on the Holy Bible are not expecting a successor for the
Messiah. Only the HOLY BLOOD of Christ saves. This SALVATION is accessible only
through Christ by FAITH.
Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. ( Jude 1:3 )
Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism, Krishna, the Baha'i
All these religions are based on reincarnation, karma, or both. According to the Word of God, can we believe in reincarnation? Reincarnation is the rebirth of the soul in order to revive it or relive different karmas, until the soul is finally accepted to Nirvana.
The Bible tells us:
And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
Hebrews 9:27
Death is a stage that each person must go through as an individual. We are born alone and naked with a carnal body given to us to help us move and live in this environment. No one knows where we come from and how we were formed. Thus, when we die, our carnal bodies stop functioning, while our souls go through an invisible world.
After death comes eternal judgment based on a single life . There is no second chance. In our lifetime, we must sit down quietly and consider the SALVATION BY GRACE offered to men through JESUS CHRIST . This is the will of God for men.
And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:40
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7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, 9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, 10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth--in Him. 11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, 12 that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. 13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
Ephesians 1:7-14
Those who will not go through the Son of God in their lifetime to be SAVED will go down in death alone with the weight of their sins. Everlasting destruction will meet them. The Son of God, God the Father and God the HOLY SPIRIT in their love for us, have designed a RESTORATION PLAN . The Son of GOD walked on earth HOLY , ALONE WITHOUT SINS bore all the sins of the world on HIMSELF . Yet, all those who agree to give him their sins on the cross, are justified before God. When death comes, they die in Christ. They will be resurrected and shall live forever in HOLINESS in the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN .
Conversely those who descend into the pit without Christ will carry the weight of their sins forever. The KINGDOM OF HEAVEN is HOLINESS . That of death is hell.
Taoism, Zoroastrianism
These two are considered religions or philosophical thoughts.
Taoism
A System of religious and philosophical thought, Taoism is a complex syncretism that developed in China in the sixth century BC. Born alongside Confucianism, but different from it, Taoism has become, with Buddhism, one of two major Chinese religions.
Most of this primitive religion was based on the supposed intimate relationship between nature and rational society, both of them obeyed the principles of balance and rules of alternation. To respect natural rhythms while offering them to the society would be ideal for an agricultural society. The good conduct of men demanded that offerings and sacrifices be made to chthonic deities, celestial or aquatic. During peasant feasts, farm work and soil fertility were usually celebrated. Sometimes with licentious events while incantatory, propitiatory or deprecatory rites were intended to welcome the New Year or to cast away epidemic diseases. Then, in course of the centuries this religion evolved with the introduction of a dynasty of spirit and admission of Yin and Yang and the powerful elements of nature.
Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism preaches Ahura Mazda the only god responsible for ordering the initial chaos, the creator of heaven and earth. Zoroastrianism is a reform prophesied by Zarathustra, whose name was transcribed Zoroaster by the Greeks. This reform, founded during the first millennium BC in the current Iranian Kurdistan (western Iran), became the official religion of Persia under the Sassanian dynasty (224-651), until Islam arrived, even if that religion has succeeded to blend into the Iranian Cultural Heritage. Indeed, the Iranians regardless of religion, place great importance on Zoroastrian festivals.
Zoroastrians respect fire as a divine symbol. Zoroaster preached dualism based on the battle between Good and Evil, Light and Darkness, this dualism present in the Twelver Shiite Islam. The principle of Zoroaster is that there is a Holy Spirit ( Spenta Mainyu ), son of Ahura Mazda and an evil spirit ( Angra Mainyu ) (Pahlavi Ahriman), uncreated spirit, opposed as representing the day and night, life and death. These two spirits co-exist in each living organism. Presumably, Zoroastrianism is the religion that mostly resembles the worship practiced by the patriarchs of the Old Testament. But with the saving work of the Messiah under the new covenant, this religion is of no use.
Taoism, the Talmud, Gnosticism, can lead to the mystery religions or even esoteric where the enemy is hidden and ruthlessly waits for a co-optic member.
BIBLICAL TRUTH
In reality, God has not hidden anything from men. It is rather men who are not interested in their ETERNAL SALVATION . The word of God is open to all. It is not hidden. It is accessible. GOD has placed no obligation on man like other religions. All that God expects from us is to do good, once we are saved and sealed with the HOLY SPIRIT .
Is the Bible difficult to understand? Here is what the Bible says:
15 and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:15-17
The daughter of a Great friend was about five (5) years old when I started reading the Bible with her. Now she is eighteen (18) years and says it was the best inheritance that she ever received.
There are promises related to reading the Bible.
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Joshua 1:8
SALVATION is reserved for men only in the WORD OF GOD . These words were spoken by Jesus Christ Himself.
He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him—the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.
John 12:48
The God of all eternity is the only One who does not differentiate between sexes in their heavenly reward.
Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
1 Peter 3: 7
The GOD of Christians is the true GOD. He loves man and woman His creatures. From a garden which was the earth during the Age of innocence, men have transformed it into a trash can. We have polluted the air and oceans; destroyed animal species and established an economic system wherein two-third of the earth population lacks basic commodities. The greed of rich men keeps on crushing mankind. People keep on chasing money which has become a rare commodity and even forget life.
Perhaps it would be high time we reconsidered our way of thinking. What would become of the world, if at school everybody learns to construct with his own greenhouse? If, instead of subsidizing polluters who enrich themselves on our genetic patrimony, our governments provide companies with free building materials for all, with a reasonable and balanced workforce in return. If the technologies of Nikolas Tesla were allowed to emerge as a continuous renewable movement, electricity and communication would have been free for all. If a car could have the same electric engine throughout its existence, life would be more pleasant and pollution will be reduced to nothing. Finally, we would have all the good time to live. The elects shall see that during the MILLENIUM.