First, lets read a Psalm, to set the
mood...
Psalms
120:1
¶<<A Song of degrees.>> In my distress I cried unto
the LORD, and he heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from
lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
3 What shall be given unto thee?
or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
4 Sharp arrows of the mighty,
with coals of juniper.
5 ¶Woe is me, that I
sojourn in Mesech,
that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
6 My soul hath long dwelt with
him that hateth peace.
7 I am for peace: but when I
speak, they are for war.
This above, is the whole of
Psalm 120.
This Psalm is
dedicated to
a 'sojourner', who
dwells in
the
tents of Kedar.
In this Psalm...
(1)
Mesech
[Meshech],
which is said to be located in the southern
Caucasus [adjoining
modern day Iran],
Meshech is
also mentioned in
Ezekiel 38.
[The word "Mesech" in Psalm 120, has the same Hebrew
spelling as the "Meshech" in Ezekiel 38]
And Ezekiel
38,
that is a good read too!
Something about Meshech, and "...in the latter
years".
Ezekiel
38:2,8
Something about Magog
making war against Israel "...in the
latter days".
Ezekiel
38:16
(2)
And,
Kedar is the grandson of
Abram [Abraham], and
Kedar is
the 2nd son of
Ishmael.
Genesis 25:11-13
Can you guess who the descendants of
Ishmael are today??
Predominantly, they are those living in Arab / muslim lands in the
Middle East.
Is the use of the name
Kedar
in this Psalm, used
as a
metaphor for ISLAM, and prophetic for our times?
I believe so [but i can not prove this].
It is
dedicated to a
'sojourner' who dwells
with
a person
who hates peace.
The 'sojourner' says,
And the 'sojourner'
asks God
to deliver their soul.
Who
was the Psalmist
'representing'
in Psalm 120 ?
The Psalmist seems to be
'representing'
a person who fears God.
Psalms
25:12
What man is he that feareth
the LORD? him shall he teach in the way
that he shall choose.
Now lets return to the issue of those 'muslims' - WHO ARE NOT
[muslims]!
We have
two groups of
'muslims' - WHO
ARE NOT [muslims]!
We have....
#1
'Kuffar'
muslims [deniers of the truth]
#2 Apostate
muslims [peaceful
muslims]
#1
'Kuffar'
muslims [deniers of the truth]
Many, many, muslims are in fact [by the use of
their own cultural definition],
'Kuffar' muslims!
And believe me,
ISLAM is
truly a
'Kuffar' philosophy.
Many muslims who often
call
themselves Jihadists and muslims,
are not.
Why?
Well here, is working
example 1
, and
example
2 [2 news stories],
of real
practicing
'Kuffar' muslims [
deniers
of the truth].
Job
12:16
With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
Here Job is talking
of
God.
#2 Apostate
muslims [peaceful
muslims]
Most of the remainder of the muslim community are apostates [
'hypocrites'].
These 'muslims' are not apostates by choice [i.e. by their willing
abandonment of
ISLAM].
But by definition [the definition of
Jihadists,
and by the definition ISLAMIC 'scripture' itself].
The
problem for every peace loving 'muslim' is that it is not possible
for
a
muslim to
renounce
Jihad [an obligatory
duty], and remain
a
muslim.
Can a 'muslim' renounce
Jihad [violence]
against non-believers, and
still be defined as
being a
muslim?
ISLAMIC
'scripture' itself
says, no.
As defined by their own 'prophet', in the Koran,
these people, who reject Jihad,
are
'hypocrites'
and worthy of death
[see the last link, above]!
This is in the Koran, as spoken by the 'prophet'
himself, so it must be
true?!?
Now lets return to the words of a
different
prophet!
This
Psalm 120, above, is a
warning to all peace loving people who
'sojourn' in this life, within
the confines of ISLAM.
The Psalmist asserts that these 'peace speaking' people, who are
dwelling within
ISLAM,
know
and recognise very well, the 'nature' of those with whom they 'dwell'.
The 'nature' of those with whom they, associate!
The 'sojourner' says,
"Woe is me, that I
sojourn in Mesech,
that I dwell in the tents of
Kedar!"
"Woe is me"?
Proverbs
12:13
¶The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of
trouble.
So, you who are for peace, come out!
Come out, from among 'them'!
Psalms
84:10
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a
doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of
wickedness.
Proverbs
30:5
Every word of
God is
pure: he is a shield unto them
that put
their trust in him.
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.
See also...
Friday,
December 22, 2006
RECORD NUMBER OF EX-MUSLIMS
CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR: A spiritual revolution underway in
Mideast
More Muslims converted to faith in
Jesus Christ over the past decade than at any other time in human
history. A spiritual revolution is underway throughout North Africa,
the Middle East, and Central Asia. As a result, a record number of
ex-Muslims are celebrating Christmas this year, despite intense
persecution, arrests, assassinations, and widespread church bombings.
.....in 1979, there were only 500 known Muslim converts to
Christianity, but today Iranian pastors and evangelical leaders tell me
there are more than 1 million Iranian believers in Jesus Christ, most
of whom meet in underground house churches.
.....One of the most dramatic developments is that many Muslims --
including Shiites in Iran and Iraq -- are seeing dreams and visions of
Jesus and thus coming into churches explaining that they have already
converted and now need a Bible and guidance on how to follow Jesus.
http://joelrosenberg.blogspot.com/2006/12/record-number-of-ex-muslims-celebrate.html
http://ezekielsgap.vox.com/library/post/record-number-of-exmuslims-celebrate-christmas-this-year.html
And will these people in groups
#1 &
#2 above,
really
go to Allah's paradise???
I think not!
And i am fairly certain that even those in the next group won't make it
to
Allah's
paradise!
#3 Real muslims [the remainder
of the
'muslim'
community]
These are the ones
which worry me [and yet i know that they
should not].
They are [still, at the moment] few in number.
But these are the 'good' muslims, who are not afraid to tell it like it
is - to anyone who will listen!
The 'good' muslims
were put here on this earth for The Cause of Allah,
and [when the circumstance is favourable
they will endeavour, as always] to subdue [enslave] or kill, all
non-believers who get in
their way!
This is the lust of Jihad!
...for blood [terror]!
James
4:1
¶From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not
hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2 Ye lust, and have not:
ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet
ye have not, because ye ask
not.
3 Ye ask, and receive not,
because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4 Ye adulterers and
adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity
with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the
enemy of God.
and...
A link to a YOUTUBE video, a short [1
min, 44 sec] debate...
Listen to
Anjem Choudray's
'compelling' argument, that those in the UK should live under Sharia
Law.
His contention is that
muslims
should
have
all [
worldly]
authority
in our Western
societies,
and also that we should
all live
under [muslim authority] Sharia law.
Muslims debate Sharia (Islam laws)
over England - Sky News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOfU7wskFdg
another YOUTUBE video...
two quotes from this clip...
"...when we
say innocent people, we mean muslims."
"...as a
muslim....i must have hatred towards everything which is non-ISLAM."
Anjem Choudhury of the Omar Bakri group of jihadists in Britain
here
appears on the BBC's Hard Talk.....
He is entirely
ready to condemn attacks on innocent civilians,
but
he notes that
because non-Muslims have rejected Islam, none of them
are innocent.
Therefore
attacks like 9/11 and 7/7 are perfectly
justified.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maHSOB2RFm4
this item above, sighted from here...
[link]
REDEMPTION
for those muslims, 'who are not' [muslims]
A testimony to The Truth,
from Walid Shoebat, an EX-Jihadi
......"Many times my mother would take me
on
trips to several museums in Israel, and I fell in love with archeology,
and was fascinated with it. In many arguments with her I would bluntly tell her that the
Jews and Christians corrupted the Bible. She responded by taking me to the
scroll museum in Jerusalem and showed me the scroll of Isaiah, still
intact, but there was no one taking pictures of any Bible errors
to prove of any corruption and I could not respond to my mother...."
......"The struggle began, I was puzzled; how could the Bible be a fake and
corrupted by the Jews if the land I grew in spoke and cried out, as
thousands of pieces of archeological evidence surfaced from the land of
Israel, confirming the Bible? And the book of Isaiah was
discovered in the Qumran caves by a Muslim next town from
Bethlehem by the name of Muhammad Deib, who was looking for a lost
sheep. From that discovery they
found the rest of the Old Testament which confirmed the Old Testament
Bible in our hands today with hundreds of verses predicting the coming
of Jesus Christ!
I had to read the Bible to know who Jesus really is to find out for
myself - and God finally led me to get to the bottom line...."
......"What also helped me is that God led me to
discover through my study of
the Bible, hundreds of detailed and unique verses concerning
prophecies fulfilled to the letter. No man has ever presented such
detailed predictions of future events without having more errors than
truth. God is the only one that holds the key to future events, and only the Bible has the key;
not the Koran which lacks that most important elements: "Salvation and
Redemption". I knew at that moment I would have to be a fool knowing
all of this and continue worshipping a different God than the God of the Bible - as I
really thought with my prayer that God will lead me to the Koran - but
that was not the case with me; in fact it was the other way around - I had to give up my pride and be
open minded to truth...."
......"I was blind, but with
the
Bible only I began to see, I mean really SEE!!! With so much
Biblical prophecy fulfilled, showing the return of Israel from the
grave, the attitudes of Muslims and the world towards Jews that the end
time is near.
Man has never changed; he
still kills his brother as Cain killed his brother Abel...."
......"Knowing the truth transferred my way of thinking from believing
in
Hitler to believing in Christ; from believing lies to knowing the
truth; from being spiritually sick to being healed; from living
in darkness to seeing the light; from being damned to being saved; from
doubt to faith; from hate to love; and from evil works to God's grace
through Christ. This transformation taught me that without the (true)
word of God things could look good on the surface but in the core lays
deception. I accepted Jesus the Messiah, as my Lord and Savior, who
died for all of our sins; to him I submit."
http://www.therefinersfire.org/walids_testimony.htm