2007-May-22

Why these pages,
focusing on ISLAM?



Isaiah 29:15
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
16  Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
17  ¶Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
18  And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
19  The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20  For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
21  That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
22  Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
23  But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.


Isaiah 43:1
¶But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.


Isaiah 62:6
¶I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
7  And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Read all of Isaiah 62, here...
http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Isa/Isa062.html#top





Firstly...

My Jewish bias?

For any muslims who read these pages, and have suspicions, I will state here, that i am not Jewish, and i have no knowledge of any Jewish heritage in my family.

Though i am happy to say, i do feel an affection towards Israel and her people.
And, that i was a Kibbutz visitor, in my youth, during the 1970's.




and now...
Late in 2006, engaged in an email debate with a friend about Middle East politics, i was searching to find an old [online] news report, that would demonstrate my point.
The
news report i was searching for, was an item that i had read some weeks earlier.
And i did find again the particular news report that i was looking for [courtesy of Google].

But [at that time, growing out of that particular debate], i decided to start a personal archive of information relating to the many [online] stories on ISLAM, that i was coming across.
And
i decided to start collating pertinent news reports, opinions, and any other compelling information relating to abuses, by people claiming to be muslims, and claiming to be inspired in their actions by ISLAM.

A few days after i started my archive, my heart seemed to tell me, and it seemed natural that i should also, seek to present some of the the information that i found, to others, through the internet.

Hence the focus of these pages on ISLAM.




Study the problem...
I would suggest that no one can simply  'read'  the Koran [because of its unstructured format].
But the
Koran can be studied, along with the Hadith.

I also believe that many 'nominal' muslims are decent and moral people, but it also seems [to me] that many of them also,
have an ignorant, uneducated, and romantic idea of what ISLAM is.
And i would encourage all who call themselves 'muslims' to open their Koran's, and i would strongly encourage 'nominal' muslims to educate themselves about real ISLAMIC doctrine.
And, to also seek out, and learn about the opinions and the experience of ex-muslims.
some ex-muslim sites....
http://www.islam-watch.org/IW/aboutus.htm
http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/
http://www.apostatesofislam.com/

If i had to choose between being non-muslim or being a muslim...
....if i were born, and brought up as a muslim, and if i learnt the truth about the wanton
violence and falsehood of ISLAM, [then, as a rational person] i would personally be ashamed to present myself to the world as a muslim, and i would choose to become a muslim apostate, or to change my faith.
....as many former muslims
have already done.
Such a course must be initially, very difficult and lonely - and dangerous.

Please my God, bless and keep safe, all muslim apostates, and all people who are seekers after truth.




This is the problem we [non-muslims] face;    ....There is a chasm of credibility, in the 'differences', between muslim and non-muslim values.
And this chasm of credibility, is exasperated by blatant muslim deceit, in their [own] dealings with non-muslims [within non-muslims nations], and their communities.
This following article underscores the  perceptions  of those 'differences' - by some.

July 28, 2006
Islamic Dictionary for Infidels
......The resort to force to disseminate Islam is not war (harb), a word that is used only to describe the use of force by non-Muslims. Islamic wars are not hurub (the plural of harb) but rather futuhat, acts of "opening" the world to Islam and expressing Islamic jihad. Relations between dar al-Islam, the home of peace, and dar al-harb, the world of unbelievers, nevertheless take place in a state of war, according to the Qur'an and to the authoritative commentaries of Islamic jurists. Unbelievers who stand in the way, creating obstacles for the da'wa, are blamed for this state of war, for the da'wa can be pursued peacefully if others submit to it. In other words, those who resist Islam cause wars and are responsible for them.
......It's "oppression" when Muslim immigrants in the West must live by the same, secular laws as the native infidels,
[and] not sharia,
......The Saudi deputy minister of religious endowments, Abd Al-Rahman Al-Matroudi, stated in an interview on Saudi TV in July 2005 that "the definition of terrorism that concerns us is that it is any act or statement that contradicts the Koran or Sunna, whether in thought or action." He also said that Muslims should "impose their culture," and that peaceful ways should be pursued only when they were not strong enough to do this....
.....Aggression is something only infidels do.
.....it is not seen as aggression or war when Muslims attack non-Muslims. On the contrary,
it is seen as aggression when non-Muslims resist the Islamization of their lands and thus "place obstacles in the way" of the spread of Islam. They are defying the will of Allah. Since subjugation to Islam alone can bring peace, Muslims consider themselves to be "spreading peace"...
......[To the muslim mind,] Aggression: [Is...] When non-Muslims do anything to preserve their culture and resist the Islamization of their country. Even when this "aggression" is non-violent, such as publishing a cartoon critical of Islam, this intolerable insult to Islamic supremacy on earth can be answered with violence by Muslims. Since a refusal to submit to sharia is a rebellion against Allah, the very existence of non-Muslim communities can be viewed as an act of aggression.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/012406.php
And, more on the 'oppression' of muslims here





[link]
I concede that my views are 'biased'.
I concede that my views are 'biased', and that i am expressing a partisan point of view, against ISLAM.
[And i would explain, that this 'bias' is [i feel] due to what i have learned, and come to know about ISLAM!]

How can ISLAM itself [...along with apparently many indifferent individual muslims!], deny responsibility for the actions of those influenced by ISLAM's stated philosophy [
of endorsing violence against NON-muslims, who reject ISLAM] and the revealed opinions of [some of] its clerics [of encouraging violence against those NON-muslims, who reject ISLAM]?
And i state here; That that, was a rhetorical question!
Because I believe i know the answer to the question!

And i agree with the comment at the   http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/   site....


.....Islam will be a peaceful religion when Muslims stop preaching hate, stop killing in the name of Allah, and stop remaining indifferent to the violence.  Until this happens, we will faithfully document each of the reasons why this is anything but a "Religion of Peace."
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/AboutSite.htm




The trouble with Islam.
If you could only come to an opinion about devout muslims, and if you could only come to an opinion about the muslim world, by listening only to what devout muslims had to say about themselves, and about ISLAM, you may well come to the conclusion that almost every muslim man must be a paragon of virtue, and that ISLAM is a perfect system of living, for all mankind.


"The Muslims are required to raise the banner of Jihad in order to make the Word of Allah supreme in this world, to remove all forms of injustice and oppression, and to defend the Muslims. If Muslims do not take up the sword, the evil tyrants of this earth will be able to continue oppressing the weak and [the] helpless…"
Quoting a muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia.
Google
it.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=The+Muslims+are+required+to+raise+the+banner+of+Jihad&btnG=Google+Search

But [in my opinion] the evidence in the world of what ISLAM is, speaks of something very, very, different.

There has been, a huge chasm between   .....the promises of justice for all in an ISLAMIC paradise, and the reality of how powerful ISLAMIC states [for instance, Saudi Arabia, and Iran ** ], today, treat the powerless, the lowly and the societally weak, within their borders [one example, there are many, many, more!].
[** Both of these states became powerful, from the receipt of oil money.
Not from the exercising of any supposed 'moral authority'.
Add lots of money to a theocracy, and W-'Allah', it seems that you get powerful, corrupt, 'religious' thugs!!]

And ISLAM has a dark master, Allah!...
"All shall love me and despair!"
Galadriel - warning of the 'Treacherous Queen'
J. R. R. Tolkien - The Fellowship Of The Ring



The evidence
of ISLAM in the world, is the evidence of muslim deception, denial, and violence, in their dealings with all 'others',     ......again, and again, and again!


You may wish to discount my opinion, and you may wish to discount my comment, and my criticism of ISLAM, and the conclusions i come to, in these pages.
But, please do not discard the evidence   ....out-of-hand.
Please examine the media reports,
the reports by ISLAM's non-muslim critics, and the criticism made sometimes by ex-muslims - in these pages.

In my opinion...

Can 'you' prove this???

There are ONLY two easily determinable things that non-muslims need to learn, and to come to understand,    ....about ISLAMIC 'culture', and about devout muslims.

Two things!

And then an 'understanding', of what ISLAM really   is   will come.
Two questions which non-muslims should answer for themselves...
  1. What is, 'The Cause of Allah'?
  2. What sanction are devout muslims given, from their 'religion', from the Koran, and from their muslim CLERICS, in their actions, in working towards their aim, of 'The Cause of Allah',    ....when dealing with un-ISLAMIC persons who reject and resist the authority of ISLAM, when ISLAM seeks, itself, to come into new lands for the express purpose of spreading its creed?

Dictionary definition:

sanction
· n.
1 a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule. Ø (sanctions) measures taken by a state to coerce another to conform to an international agreement or norms of conduct. Ø Ethics a consideration operating to enforce obedience to any rule of conduct.
2 official permission or approval for an action. Ø official confirmation or ratification of a law. Ø Law, historical a law or decree, especially an ecclesiastical one.
· v.
1 give official sanction for.
2 impose a sanction or penalty on.
– DERIVATIVES sanctionable adj.
– ORIGIN ME: from Fr., from L. sanctio(n-), from sancire ‘ratify’.


Regards the two questions...
You do not know where to start?
Google, and a few well chosen key words, is a good place to start!
I would encourage you to choose key words, for yourself.

But if you are new to this,
see, 'ISLAM, succinctly'
see also,
Google...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Cause+of+Allah%22+explained&btnG=Search
and,
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Cause+of+Allah%22+justified&btnG=Search



An analysis of the aims of ISLAM, by a non-muslim, quoted from a Times Online article,
"...Islamists are driven by a divine mission to ensure the whole earth,
in due course, learns to submit to Islamist rule."



Quoting an Australian [born!] muslim cleric,
"....the highest point....of Islam is jihad,"


 ...in the words of Islamism's most influential thinker, Sayyid Qutb,
"....the death of those who are killed for the Cause of God gives more impetus to the cause,
which continues to thrive on their blood."


  Offensive War to Spread Islam
"Muhammad and his successors initiated offensive wars against peaceful countries
in order to impose Islam by force as well as to seize the abundance of these lands...."

http://www.derafsh-kaviyani.com/english/offensivewartospreadislam.html
an Iranian exiles', ex-muslims site

This next news report explains how,
Devout muslims are sanctified, by the Koran, and by muslim clerics to do 'good works'.
Devout muslims believe that it is OK,    ....muslims can 'justly' kill those who resist ISLAM,    ....so that good may come.
In fact an Islamic utopia will come, if you will just kill all of the 'evil', and un-ISLAMIC people, in the world!
Honest!

3 July 2007
Militant Islam's broad appeal
....The lure of an Islamic utopia, where justice and virtue prevail according to a puritanical version of Islam, is too strong to resist for rich and poor alike. For many it is an end that justifies any means.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6267194.stm

There are a few choice Koran verses, here.




Presentation

I know that the information presented on these pages is not presented as well as it could be.
My ability to produce a good looking WEB page is suspect.
For that i apologise.




Accusations against ISLAM

Where i have made any claims, or accusations against ISLAM, i have almost always tried to provide links to reported incidents, news reports, and clear 'evidence', that i believe a reasonable person could accept as fair support for my stated views/opinion.



[link]
Dealing with, understanding, muslim tactical 'logic',
....Or the unwavering ISLAMIST 'rebuttal', when an ISLAMIST is presented with clear evidence of irrational ISLAMIC 'activity'.

I also know that many ISLAMIST's will simply [and unwaveringly] dismiss any reasonable corroboration of views [
NON-muslim views], about what ISLAMIST's are doing, and categorise critical views of ISLAM [even when corroborated] as, 'yet more!!' anti-ISLAM 'bias' and 'hate'.

There is one thing that i have learned about
ISLAMIST's, and it is this, ISLAMIST's do not care about our concerns.
And ISLAMIST's demonstrate this point, in their response to any criticism of ISLAM by
un-ISLAMIC persons.
[See an example, by someone [an ISLAMIST] known as 'riskyguy', lower on this page.]
Un-ISLAMIC persons concerns, to ISLAMIST's, are a BIG zero!
I'll say this again, for emphasis, ISLAMIST's do not care about our concerns.

ISLAMIST's [just!] want to prevail against NON-muslims, against un-ISLAMIC persons - PERIOD

Dictionary definition:
prevail
· v.
1 prove more powerful; be victorious. Ø be widespread or current.
2 (prevail on/upon) persuade to do something.
– DERIVATIVES prevailing adj. prevailingly adv.
– ORIGIN ME: from L. praevalere, from prae ‘before’ + valere ‘have power’.



AND WE NON-MUSLIMS, SHOULD, ALWAYS REMEMBER THIS FOLLOWING POINT...
To the committed ISLAMIST's they are fighting a war, 24 / 7 / 365 , a war in, ...The Cause of Allah!
Radical muslims are seeking a political, and worldwide, supremacy over NON-muslims
- PERIOD
And radical muslims fully expect to achieve their aim!


And to the ISLAMIST, the propaganda war, is an important 'front' in this war.

The Prophet said, "War is deceit."
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/052.sbt.html#004.052.268


TAQIYYAH (CALCULATED DECEPTION)
"Resorting to
taqiyyah is permitted only in some
special situations, like jihad
against those disbelievers who
persecute Muslims. That is part of
the etiquette of war..."   [emphasis is mine]

http://www.amislam.com/khutoot2.htm#TAQIYYAH

N.B. To the Jihadists, ANY infidel who rejects the 'invitation', and then resists the spread of ISLAM into new lands is, by [their] definition, 'persecuting Muslims' !!




[link]
Propaganda, and muslim tactical 'logic'

HERE BELOW, IS ONE EXAMPLE OF THE TYPICAL ISLAMIST 'REBUFF' [muslim tactical 'logic'],
...HOW ISLAMIST's RESPOND, WHEN PRESENTED WITH 'INCONVENIENT' AND UNFLATTERING INFORMATION...


On a WEB forum [titled, Why do you hate Islam? , the forum link is provided below] an argument was made in a 'debate', that muslims are responsible for a lot of unacceptable violence against NON-muslims.
Someone on the forum [not me!] gave a link to information on my homepage, to support the argument about wanton muslim violence against NON-muslims.
The relevant info is here...
http://members.dodo.com.au/~wtt626/enoughhateintheworld.html#Beheaded_Christian_girl
...there is a gruesome image.


Note the dismissive response from the ISLAMIST on the forum...

riskyguy [forum name]
“There is no God, but Allah”
Joined: Wed May 16
Comments: 69
Pakistan

Emily wrote: [another forum participant]
<quoted text>
Gruesome pictures.
I do think people should see these things.
The thinking is so backwards- terrorise people as mohammad said…
They want to shock people, terrorise them but it has had an opposite effect towards them-contempt.


Whats the proof, that she is been killed by Muslims? As soon as anyone find a dead body, he takes the pictures and upload dem to net, And the headlines are the same, gal killed by Muslims, boy murdered, Muslims blows up an hotel... I mean there is no proof at all of all these news... are you guyz so dumb that, u would believe anything, sum1 will tell you?
Allah never said in Quran, to terrorize or kill ppl, and Hazrat Muhammed(pbuh) wudn't say anything which would be against the teachings of Quran.
Read Quran, so that you may get aware of the TRUTH!
May Allah guide us and bless us all...Amin

http://www.topix.net/forum/religion/islam/TLTC6C34J25392PMO#c15



Example concluded.
As an aside...
Here, is a page [on this site] exploring briefly the concept of muslim tactical 'logic'.
[...which in muslim hands, is almost as powerful as a 'tactical' nuclear weapon when dealing with opponents!  :)))) ]

And here, is another example of how muslim tactical 'logic' is deployed...
How do muslims respond, to the ongoing efforts by authorities in the West, to counter 'extremists' within muslim communities [in the West]?
Do muslim leaders ['Foreign ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference'] call for muslims, to assist Western governments, in rooting out extremist radical muslims in the midst of Western communities???
No.
Rather, muslims leaders call all such efforts,






Not respectful?
In these pages i have tried [as much as possible] to avoid expressing any outright abusive remarks about the Jihadists/ISLAM.
But i will admit that in some instances, i have succumbed.
Also, after examining the 'logic' presented by the Jihadists for their violence
, after reading the details, of some incidents, of some news reports, i have been moved to express a caustic sarcasm in some of my comment.
[Example of me 'succumbing',   FLYING PIGS ALERT!!!! ]


I have a message for muslims who are offended...

In the West, we have a long [and healthy] tradition, that respect is earned.
...and that in our culture, it is not a natural product of fear.

That is to say, that in the West, we may fear thugs, but we do not respect them!




LASTLY....



[link]
The road out of Eden - more than this flesh

updated 2007-Jun-23

"What can Men do against such reckless hate?"
Theoden - King of Rohan
J. R. R. Tolkien - The Two Towers


Perhaps you do not believe in God, angels, demons?
We part ways.

My belief includes that...
Yes [clearly], there is an 'apparent'
[this] physical world.
And that there is a spirit world also - do not doubt it. [smile]
And i believe that human physical death is merely a 'doorway'
[for our spirit], not a 'brick wall'.


Numbers 24:9
[Israel] .....Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
10  ¶And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.
11  Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back from honour.
12  And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,
13  If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak?
14  And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
15  ¶And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
16  He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
17  I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there
shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
18  And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
19  Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
20  And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
21  And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
22  Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
23  And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!
24  And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
25  And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.


Psalms 14:1
¶<<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.>> The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

2  The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
3  They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
4  ¶Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
5  There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
6  Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
7  Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.


Ezekiel 35:1
¶Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2  Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
3  And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
4  I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
5  Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6  Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
7  Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
8  And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
9  I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
10  ¶Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
11  Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12  And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13  Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
14  Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
15  As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.


Isaiah 26:8
Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
9  With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10  Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11  LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.


Isaiah 26:17
Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
18  We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19  Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20  ¶Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21  For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.


The Most High God is not a wanton destroyer, but a righteous judge.
...and the LORD his Angel, comes.



".....I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth:
for in these things I delight, saith the LORD." Jeremiah 9:24



We humans, all we humans...
We are all spiritual beings, and we come to this physical existence specifically [i believe], to exercise the 'power' of choice [given to each of us, by God],    ....in this physical existence.
And in this life, by our choices, we demonstrate
to ourselves, to ourselves, to ourselves, that we understand the consequences of our choices.
....well, some of us do!!!


Choice is a   mental   power, a   thought   power
,        ....a   spiritual   power.

Here, here, here, in this 'reality', here on this little planet, our choices have no form, until we   express   them, physically!
[...or so we think! But that is another story!!]

John 4:24
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.


So.......
Do you understand the consequences of [being here, and]   expressing   your choices yet?

......"Allah Akbar!" ?


Wickedness,     ....such a lovely word, such an 'English' word!
So smooth, so descriptive!
.....and do you have any doubt about what 'wickedess' is, when you see it?
.....and
do you have any doubt that there is, "....spiritual wickedness in high places." ? Ephesians 6:12

Romans 6:16
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Proverbs 14:34
¶Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

"Sin is a reproach to any people."?

But surely muslims are sanctified in every-thing that they do.
Even in their murder of 'infidels'.
Right?

Dictionary definition:
sanctify /"saN(k)tIfVI/
· v. (sanctifies, sanctified)
1 consecrate.
2 make legitimate or binding by religious sanction.
3 free from sin.
4 give the appearance of being right or good.
– DERIVATIVES sanctification n. sanctifier n.
– ORIGIN ME: from OFr. saintifier (influenced later by sanctifier), from eccles. L. sanctificare, from L. sanctus ‘holy’.


Not so Abdullah!

We [mankind] are all of one blood.
And we are all sinners in the sight of God.
....even muslims.

And muslims have no sanction from God, to murder their brothers in blood.
Even though many muslim clerics encourage such action [murder], against all who resist the influence of ISLAM.

In the same verse above,
Proverbs 14:34, God says that,

"Righteousness exalteth a nation:"?

OK.
Is there one ISLAMIC nation which has been exalted by God?

Dictionary definition:
exalted
· adj.
1 at a high level.
2 (of an idea) noble; lofty.
3 extremely happy.
– DERIVATIVES exaltedly adv. exaltedness n.


Name one ISLAMIC nation
in our age, which is a byword for justice and righteousness.

Name one.
It is not this nation 1.
And it is not this nation 2.     3a.    3b.   3c.   4a.    4b.   4c.
And it is not this nation 5.................................. there are 1,001 more examples out there.

ISLAMIC
societies are  desolate  societies.

This is why intelligent 'muslims' living in ISLAMIC nations will eagerly move to vibrant, spiritually 'exalted', non-muslim nations.
And it is why
intelligent non-muslim persons, avoid living in ISLAMIC nations, 'like the plague'!

EVERYONE [even muslims] know that ISLAMIC societies are oppressive, and unjust, toward any truly  spiritual  influence, or  spiritual  person, among them.  example1
EVERYONE knows that ISLAMIC societies are  desolate  societies - even muslims know this!
NOTE: I didn't say a muslim would admit this, only that they know this!

Even within
non-muslim nations, wherever a large group of muslims gather to live together, their community quickly becomes intolerant of any non-muslim influence close to them.
And these ISLAMIC communities quickly become  desolate  communities! example1, example2example3
Muslims communities [those within non-muslim communities] that grow in influence, quickly  'discover'  that everything which is non-muslim is 'unacceptable', unclean, or haraam.
How totally ISLAMIC!
[Smile]

ISLAM is "...the abomination that maketh desolate...", spoken of by Daniel!

See, "...the abomination that maketh desolate..."










In this life...

Micah 6:8
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

In this life, men should do good, 'for goodness sake'.
God has told each one of us as much.

God has put this understanding, into our hearts.
No?

Do you love, your own children?
How much?

And in your eyes, is 'your child', the only 'child' worthy of life, worthy of mercy?


Terror - is the objective!
Terror - is the 'method'!
'Submit to our philosophy, or die!'



Psalms 7:11
God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

Psalms 11:4

¶The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
5  The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.



What is in the heart of all men [to some degree]?
Darkness.

All men have been corrupted by their 'power' of choice [i.e. by the exercising of their choices, in this physical world!].

"....The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one."
    Psalms 14

Some men [some 'muslims' and some non-muslims] will come to acknowledge this truth, while some others will always deny the truth,
[link]
"......throughout the trial he denied he had intended to incite people to violence."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6692243.stm


John 8:38
¶I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.

39  They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
40  But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
41  Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
42  Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
43  Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.


Romans 8:5
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

6  For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8  So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.


Above Paul say's...
"...if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his."

The 'Spirit of Christ' here, refers to the spirit of the messiah - come into the world.
And God's messiah, is mankind's spiritual redeemer.

You say that you do not need a spiritual redeemer?
I ask you to take another look at what mankind is doing,    ....this world, 2007.

Who's  choices  have had this consequence,    ....for our world?
Was it the tooth fairy did it?

We do it, day by day.

Choices
, day by day.

Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:




[link]
Mankind, and that Genesis garden story in the Bible [featuring you!]...

"Home is behind. The world ahead.
And there are many paths to tred..."

    song of Peregrin Took, for Lord Denethor - ROTK

In the context [stated above] that we are more than this flesh...
All mankind
has inhabited
"a garden eastward in Eden"
.
And all mankind, individually, has taken "of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil".

Genesis 2:8
¶And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:16
¶And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

This Genesis garden story, is our personal story.
We are Adam, we are Eve!

This Genesis story is allegorical [at the very least!].
[link]
Dictionary definition:
        allegory
        · n. (pl. allegories) a story, poem, or picture which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning.
        – DERIVATIVES allegorist n. allegorization (also allegorisation) n. allegorize (also allegorise) v.
        – ORIGIN ME: from OFr. allegorie, via L. from Gk allUgoria, from allos ‘other’ + -agoria ‘speaking’.


Matthew 13:10
And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
11  He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
12  For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
13  Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14  And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15  For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
16  But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

Open your eyes!

If you are a son [or daughter] of God, then claim your birthright.

Romans 3:19
¶Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20  Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21  But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22  Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;


Isaiah 8:16
¶Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17  And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18  Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
19  And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
20  To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
21  And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
22  And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Isaiah 9:1
¶Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
2  The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.


Matthew 4:12
¶Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;
13  And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:
14  That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
15  The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;
16  The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
17  From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.


1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4  But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5  Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.




Through inspiration from the Holy Spirit, the apostle Paul revealed that the messiah [the spiritual redeemer] of Israel will not return until after SATAN's agent is revealed in the world, the Antichrist.
It seems that a lot of 'hard things' are yet to come, to this world, and to those who call themselves 'Christians'.


2 Thessalonians 2:3
¶Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.






It will get a little confusing now.
Returning to ISLAMIC doctrine more specifically...

ISLAM has a 'messiah' too, the Mahdi [who comes to destroy the state of Israel, and to kill the Jews,     ....and, the Christians, don't forget the Christians!].
And, muslims also have their own 'Jesus' too, the muslim 'Jesus', who is a 'Prophet', and he is a subordinate of the Mahdi.
And he [the muslim 'Jesus'] comes to destroy Christianity [the muslim 'Jesus' is a 'destroyer',    ....he is not the Jewish / Christian messiah].

[
The muslim  'Jesus' , comes to  destroy,      ....Christianity???
Duh?
Yes.
Non-muslims are  'evil-livers'. Christians are non-muslims, therefore....
This is just more  beautiful  'muslim logic'.      Don't bother questioning this muslim logic.    You are only a dumb Kuffar!
]



This is where it gets disturbing [if you give any credence to the pronouncements of the ISLAMIC clerics]!
The real Jesus [spoken of in Mathew, Mark, Luke and John, the messiah, the spiritual redeemer of Israel] is the muslim Antichrist [yes, ISLAM has an 'Antichrist' too!].
And it seems very likely that the Biblical God of Israel, is the ISLAMIC SATAN.

It is likely that in all those places where their authority extends, the Mahdi, and the muslim 'Jesus', will set about to kill all those who will not submit to ISLAM, nor bow down to Allah.
[So, the Mahdi, and the muslim 'Jesus', are just full-on Jihadists then?   Yes!
It is just more of the same,     .....ISLAM, more criminal psychosis being  portrayed  as a 'messianic' religion.
Which is basically, exactly what the devout muslims engage in today.
Why am i not surprised? ]

John 16:2
.....the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

Revelation 20:4
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.


The form of execution described in this verse above, is mentioned sparsely in the Bible.
John the Baptist, was one of those to suffer this type of execution.

If you would like to explore these conflicting 'end-time' traditions [differing Biblical, and ISLAMIC versions] a little further, this site [book] gives a good 'revelation' of these contradictory views...
Will Islam Be Our Future?
A Study of Biblical and Islamic Eschatology ['end-time' beliefs]
Joel Richardson
http://answering-islam.org/Authors/JR/Future/index.htm

see also...
Table of comparison, between the traditional characterisation of Biblical characters, and the ISLAMIC / Koranic characterisation of Biblical characters.



Personally i do not believe in the accuracy of any of the pronounced muslim
eschatology ['end-time' beliefs].
Not one word of it.
Why not?

Consider...

The combined Jewish & Christian Bible consists of 66 books, by multiple 'authors', yet the underlying theme [redemption of mankind] in its pages, is a [persistent and] consistent
'message'.
And there is also a substantial amount of archaeology which backs up at least some of the 'facts', and accounts, which are claimed in these combined pages.

Whereas, the whole of ISLAM is based, is built upon, the the words [and i will say this again, the words] which passed through the lips of one man.

[link]
Debating muslims, ...gets you a debate in 'circular reasoning',

"Mohammed was a prophet of God."

Q. Who said so?
A. Well, God told Mohammed.    And then Mohammed told us. [....that's how we muslims got the Koran too,   ....straight from Allah!]

Q. Why should we believe what Mohammed said to us?
A. Because Mohammed was a prophet of God.

see also....   ISLAM is immune to external criticism


To believe in ISLAM, you are compelled to accept as true, the utterances of ONE single man, a self professed warlord, a murderer, a pirate, a brigand, a deceiver, a thief.
ISLAM in its entirety, is based upon the utterances of one man, Muhammad.
The cult of ISLAM is a false 'religion', ISLAM is entirely an edifice of falsehood and lies.

Can any muslim prove that all of the words of the Koran are not 'Satanic verses', and that the ummah are not deceived by their clerics?
I know that this is a difficult ask.

And yet, it still pleases many, to believe those words of [one man], Muhammad.
Again....

Romans 6:16
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

2 Thessalonians 2:7
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9  Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:





Know what it is to be a child...
To see a world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake, Auguries of Innocence




[link]
The Genesis garden story in the Bible, was [i believe] a symbolic account of mankind being ejected from 'heaven'.

[I believe that we are more than this flesh]

Heaven? 
['heaven', the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven.]
Where is, what is, 'heaven'?
Essentially,
[being in] 'heaven', is being in the presence of God [i believe].
If you are in the presence of God, then you are in 'heaven'.


In my experience, [i believe that] there are 4 kinds of people walking this earth...
  1. There are people who believe that there is no God.
  2. There are people who believe that there may be a God. But hey, they don't know.
  3. There are people who believe that there is a God, and they pray to him.
  4. There are people who know there is a God.
For many years, i was a #3.

Who can know, that there is a God?

People like Yasmin can.
Read the full 'Muslim apostates cast out' Timesonline article, to learn Yasmin's story.
Myself, and many others, have had a similar experience to Yasmin [in one respect].
Why us?
I can't answer that,    ...but.

But i believe that there are many people alive today, who have known and have experienced the joy, the bliss [of being in the presence of God], while 'awake'-in-a-'dream', or in a night vision.


Psalms 16:11
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Psalms 63:1
¶<<A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.>> O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

2  To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

Jeremiah 33:14
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
15  In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
16  In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.


After the rebellion against God, mankind was, 'sent down the road', ejected from Eden
.
This resulted in our spiritual separation from God, a
separation from our 'life' giver.


Job 33:4
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

Deuteronomy 30:19
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
20  That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days......



Through our rebellion we were separated from our 'father'.
And without a reconciliation with our [spirit] father, a spiritual death sentence would be our fate.


Can we, mankind, get back?
What is, where is, 'the road back to Eden'?
And how can we find
'the road back to Eden'?


I firmly believe that '
the road back to Eden', can be found, by reading, by meditating upon, the words of, the stories of, the wisdom contained in, the Jewish and Christian Bible.
If you are willing to read this spiritual 'source' [the Bible], and meditate upon it, doing so will  awaken within  you a knowledge of, that [spirit] for which you seek, and inwardly yearn.


Revelation 18:1
¶And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

2  And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3  For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.


Our rebellion against our God, was gained through our being [at once, 'innocent', gullible, greedy, vain, and] deceived.
And now, all
we 'here' [in these mortal bodies], have 'tasted' the domain of the serpent.
And now we, all
mankind, have the  knowledge  of 'good and evil'.
And we now, know the full extent of his [SATAN's] 'promise', to us.
And now, know that it was a [spiritual] lie, totally bereft of any love and truth.

But now we [all mankind], through our 'knowledge'
of good and evil, stand accused [by SATAN], as being now spiritually 'unworthy'.
SATAN was able to say to God
[something like],
'These spiritual beings [mankind] now have 'knowledge' of good and evil, they are defiled, they are [spiritually] unclean, and they are now mine. I claim them!'

SATAN deceived mankind, and
SATAN was determined to establish his dominion over us, as his creatures [as his 'creation'].
[
SATAN wants our 'submission', and our worship, of himself.    SATAN promised us that we would be as God, but it was an empty promise - a lie.]
And after our deception, SATAN was hoping that God would decide to abandon us, as a lost cause [as spiritually unworthy of his presence].

But, there is 'a way back'
for us [into the presence of God].

God has a plan to redeem mankind from the clutches of SATAN.
It was a plan that involved
a people who were 'chosen' by God, and who came to be known in this world as 'Israel'.


Deuteronomy 32:8
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

9  For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
10  He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Deuteronomy 32:43
Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.



A plan to redeem mankind, perhaps not all, but....
".....as many as are led by the Spirit of God,"


Genesis 22:15
¶And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,

16  And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:
17  That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
18  And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

Romans 8:14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God
[redeemed].
15  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
16  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

1 John 4:1
¶Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2  Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3  And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4  ¶Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5  They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
6  We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
7  ¶Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9  In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live
[be redeemed] through him.
10  Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.


It is now time for us to choose.



Isaiah 8:16
¶Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

17  And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18  Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

Revelation 7:2
And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
3  Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.


If you love this world, you will suffer the fate of the deceiver, the 'destroyer', the god of this world.

It is up to you.

Choose.


Ezekiel 33:11
Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Amos 5:4
¶For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:


In
Ezekiel and Amos here, who is 'Israel' here?

In scripture it is the physical nation of Israel which is 'redeemed' from their 'bondage' in Egypt.

In scripture the physical nation of Israel are a 'type', an example for all of us [for all mankind].
And for that purpose [to portray a story of redemption], the particular people of Israel were 'chosen' by God.

And we are the 'witnesses' to their 'journey' through our history.

But today, whether 'Jew' or 'Gentile', it makes no difference.
I believe that in this world, all who accept God's offer of spiritual redemption are deemed to be, are spoken of as a 'type' of the, 'house of Israel'.
And they are redeemed by God.

In the 'end' [