Part 2
What this portion of scripture means is, the problem lies with them rejecting Israel as a nation and even hating and persecuting the Jews. The Bible says they shall not prosper but be under a curse because they curse the Jews. As God promises, the curse is reversed and actually falls upon them instead of the Jews (as it has and will every nation or group of people who desire to persecute them). Jews are God's chosen people to bring the truth to the world, even though many deny the deity of Jesus Christ and secretly hate Christians, and are instruments of the devil in their ignorance -- until they hunger to know if Jesus was the true Messiah or not.
Anyone who truly hungers to know who Jesus really was and is will come to the full revelation (understanding) of the matter, and will not have to fear. The Holy Spirit will make certain of it, if they desire in their heart to truly be pleasing to God their Creator. This is in accordance to God's written word:
Deut 4:29 (KJV)But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
Remember, Jesus Christ was also a Jew. Jews wrote the Bible (under inspiration of the Holy Spirit). Jesus Christ will establish rule and reign from Israel over all the earth when the Father says it is time for His return. The city that God has chosen for his eternal name is Jerusalem that is where the third temple will be build for the one true God and the whole world will come to know him from this one place.
When I looked at my Muslim background, and myself, I realized that most of the Muslims preached to do good, but did they practice it themselves? Absolutely not! When it came to money matters, money was more a priority to them than the welfare of humanity or godly reasoning. On the one hand, they would tell you to pray five times a day; on the other hand there is hypocrisy everywhere in the Muslim community.
Is it really opposite to religious teaching or was I wrong in what I had been told by my elders?
When we look at Islam, Jihad is part of Islam in Muslim dominated countries; persecution of Christians and Jews, Muslims believe in visiting shrines of Pirs, giving money and food, it's like giving bribes to God. They even persecute and kill their own (For example: the Shi'ites who they claim are not Muslim, they kill them and they also kill the Ahmadis), so why should a Christian expect any better treatment by the Muslims who have been indoctrinated to hate rather then to love, and their uttermost hate is for the Jews.
Muslims are driven by fear, where as we who choose to follow Jesus Christ are driven by love and the acceptance of different spiritual beliefs. However the God of the Bible is a God of Love and he wants to reach you so you can have a personal relationship with him to be in his holy presence. The Lord Jesus is a God of love compassion and mercy whilst Allah is a God of war, hate and torture. Who do you think Allah is? Perhaps Satan maybe! What a contrast! I remember one of my brother-in-laws who solely started to practice Islam and leave his immoral life because he read a book about the punishment that comes at the grave. He was so frightened that he started to pray five times a day to avoid this. There is no love for God or mankind but just selfish desire to get to heaven to drink the wine from rivers and have the seventy two hoors (Virgins with big busoms); the carnal lust that is waiting in the Muslim paradise - things that God would never allow us to do on earth but have the lust orgies in heaven near his holy presence: what confusing and abominable thinking!
I asked myself: how could a holy God become so unholy, allowing the things he forbids on earth?
They believe corruption in Pakistan was taught by the British Raj in India but the reality is that people are greedy by nature. This has been going on since centuries even before the British set foot on Indian soil.
I only needed to look at the founder of this cult to realize how misled the Muslims are. You only have to look at Muhammad’s actions to know what fruits he has produced. If we are following a true religion and a pure religion then it should put love into our hearts, humility and care for fellow persons - not hate and contempt, and this is exactly what Muhammad taught, the very founder of Islam, so we do not even need to look at the followers but look at the founder himself.
Now look at the founder of Christianity, Jesus Christ, and what he taught and you get a 440-volt shock when you look at Jesus’ life -- how pure and holy and what love for fellow humans.If we are not striving to be like Him then something is not quite right here.
The Muslims give the argument: “Can a billion Muslim people be wrong?” If they want to use numbers in an attempt to claim legitimacy, my answer is this:“Can four billion people be right who do not follow God of the Bible?” These four billion primarily being Hindus, Buddhist, Atheists, Animists, and Agnostics, which actually make up the largest population on earth. So can they be right? If the answer is: “Masses are always right!” … then should we not follow them as they are in the majority and not the Muslim faith that is in the minority?
The answer naturally leads to only one conclusion: that if four billion people are not right then why should the one billion Muslims be right because neither one billion or four billion follow what God the Creator taught from the beginning of the world: The way to heaven was always through obedience and faith, not rituals or good works. Read the story of Abraham in the Bible.
1 Sam 15:22 (KJV) reads:Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
People in Islam who have gone and done the Hajj think about themselves as being very pious. They think their sins are forgiven. They think they are better than any other person who hasn't been to Hajj and that they are like a newborn child, but when I look at these people’s morals (they are so bad), they cannot speak for justice. They show a completely different person from the inside. This is not true for every Hajji, but a majority are like this, and again -- this speaks to me about the fallen human nature. We are all sinners who are in need of something (Some ONE) to save us from our sins, because our sin nature stays with us until we die.
What does this tell us? It tell us that man by his very nature is a sinner and needs a Saviour and cannot work out his own salvation because God requires 100% perfection -- not 50%; not 60%, but 100%, and no one can attain 100% sinless perfection in this life. God knows that, and unless we have a Saviour, we are all under the wrath of God, whether we believe God exists or not, or whether we don’t believe God’s Word, God’s Word makes this perfectly clear about our sin nature:
John 3:36 (NAS): He who believes in the Son (Jesus Christ), has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.
Romans 5:8-9 (NAS): But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him
Now most Muslims will make the excuse that the Islamic religion is good, but it is individual Muslims who are bad (and not Islam), and that they don’t practice their religion properly.
Of course this can be said of every faith, including Christianity.
However, when you look at Islamic history, you find out the real truth and that it is really Arab imperialism. It comes from the heart of the religious teachings from where else but Saudi Arabia, the spiritual heart of Islam, I believe, (as many others do as well). Actions speak louder than words indeed and when we examine the Qur'an we see that in fact theseMuslims are good Muslims only trying to follow the Qur'an, which does indeed say to make war against the Christians and Jews who refuse to become Muslims.
Read for yourself: Sura 9:[29] Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth, from among the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
They are instructed to fight the Christians and Jews and to subjugate them; humiliate them until they submit. How noble of Muslims.Jesus Christ said, as is recorded in Matthew 7:15:
“Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits.”