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Doug: We are continuing a
series that will probably just
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have about three parts to
it, dealing with the subject
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of Islam and
Christianity in prophecy.
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Last week, we talked
about sibling rivalry and today
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we're gonna be talking
about From Mecca To Rome.
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We explain these two
great religions of the world,
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largest religions of
the world Christianity,
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number one, about 2.2 billion.
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Islam number two, 1.7 billion
and there's varying numbers that
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have been reported, but that's
I'm picking a medium number.
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It's anywhere between
1.5 and 1.8 billion Muslims
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in the world.
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While it is true most Arabs who
are the people that descended
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from Ishmael are Muslims,
not all Arabs are Muslims.
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There are some Arabs that have
been Christians for 2,000 years.
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There's Christianity
when it spread through Egypt
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and right now many of
the Christians in Egypt
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are being persecuted
by the Muslims there.
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And there are Arab Jews, believe
it or not and I met them before.
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And so, I just--and
then also keep in mind that
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of the 1.7 billion Muslims
in the world, most are not Arab,
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most of them are living in
Pakistan, and north Africa,
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and mostly Indonesia.
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So, who are the Arabs?
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If you go back to the Bible
here if you look, for instance,
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in Genesis 25, "Abraham
gave all that he had to Isaac,"
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the son of promise.
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"But Abraham gave gifts to the
sons of the concubines," meaning
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Hagar and Keturah, that he
had; while he was still living."
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So, he separated his substance*
while he was alive like that
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story of the prodigal son.
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And he sent them away
from Isaac, so there'd be no
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confusion about what his plan,
was to the country of the east.
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They were sent to an area
that is southeast of Israel,
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better known as Arabia.
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You can read in Genesis
25:18, speaking of the people
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of Ishmael, "They dwelt
from Havilah as far as Shur,
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which is east of Egypt
as you go toward Assyria."
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I think most of
you in your minds
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have a little bit of geography.
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Can you see the Middle East?
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You know where Egypt is
there by the Nile on the shores
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of the Mediterranean?
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You go east of Egypt,
you end up in Saudi Arabia.
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If you go through Saudi Arabia,
almost no one went to Assyria
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that way, you'd
end up in Assyria.
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This is the
territory where the Arabs,
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often called the
Bedouins, found their home.
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Where did Moses go when
he was looking for refuge?
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He fled to that same territory.
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You can read in Exodus 2,
verse 15, "When Pharaoh heard
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of this matter, he
sought to kill Moses.
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But Moses fled from the face
of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land
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of Midian; and he
sat down by a well."
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The people of
Midian were--they're
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the descendants of Keturah.
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They intermarried 'cause they
were all sent to the same place
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with the children of Ishmael
and so when we're talking
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about Arabs today,
you're talking about the people
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who were the descendants
of Abraham's third wife.
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You got Sarah, Hagar, Keturah,
Midian was one of those sons.
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They are called the
Midianites and sometimes
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they're also called the
Ishmaelites in the same phrase.
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You remember last week, Joseph
was sold to the Midianites
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and it also calls them
the Ishmaelites 'cause they
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intermarried, and Esau
married Ishmael's daughter.
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So, there's a
lot of kind of family
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relationships happening there.
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Those people grew into a great
people, all related to Abraham,
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better known as the
people of the east at that time.
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Here you can look
in 2 Chronicles 9:14,
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"Besides what the traveling
merchants and traders brought.
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All the kings of Arabia
brought gifts to Solomon,
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silver and gold,"
they were very rich.
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Queen of Sheba came down
through the Arabian peninsula,
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brought treasures and there
is--it was a different climate
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then and they had a
lot of natural resources.
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But you could
also see there is war,
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not only in the time of
Gideon, look at Nehemiah.
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Nehemiah 4:7, "This is what
happened when Sanballat, Tobiah,
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the Arabs, the Ammonites,
and the Ashdodites heard that
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the walls of Jerusalem
were being restored and the gaps
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were beginning to be closed,
they were very angry," because
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to the south of Jerusalem, the
Arabs had sort of annexed some
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of that territory and now
if Jerusalem was reestablished,
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they were gonna lose it.
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And so, there was a
confederacy of the Arabs
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that were
fighting against Israel.
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Now, what was happening
with the Arabs religiously?
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What I'm gonna say, I
don't want it to seem unkind,
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but a lot of the early Arabs
were deep into moon worship.
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And I was reading something from
history here and this is a book,
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a short history of
the Arabs by Philip Hitti.
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He said, quote, "Throughout the
entire peninsula, the antiquated
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paganism of the Arabians,
which for the Bedouins centered
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chiefly on the worship of a moon
god as is likely to be the case
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with a pastoral people in hot
climates who find the coolness
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of the night their
friend and the sun their enemy."
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So, it's natural for them to
worship the moon because the sun
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was--they didn't
worship the sun for crops.
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It was an enemy.
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But they had finally reached
a point in the religion where it
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failed any longer to meet the
spiritual demands of the people.
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This was preparing the
way for a new religion.
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The pre Islam pagan
Arabs worshiped the moon god
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they called Allah.
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Now Allah's a generic term for
god so that shouldn't shake you.
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By praying towards Mecca, Mecca
was a holy sight even before
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Muhammed, several times a day,
making the pilgrimage to Mecca,
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running around the temple of
the moon god called the Kabah,
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kissing the black stone that
supposedly fell from heaven.
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Later Muslims said
it was given to Adam
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and later
Abraham built a temple.
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"Killing an animal and
sacrifice to the moon god,
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throwing stones at the
devil, fasting for the month
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which begins and ends
with the crescent moon."
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Ramadan is all
built around the moon.
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"Giving alms to
the poor, et cetera."
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And if you read the
news recently, you know that
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modern-day Muslims practice
many of these same rituals still
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today, but they can be traced
all the way back to the time
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when it was
involved in lunar worship.
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So, this was the state of
things of what had happened to
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Ishmael's descendants, some of
them converted to Christianity
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during the time of Christ.
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They had churches in Egypt.
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Some of them converted
to Judaism in Alexandria.
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They were Arabs that accepted
the Scriptures of the Jews.
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There was a great deal of
Christian and Jewish influence
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among the Arabs
because they lived in,
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they were
neighbors in proximity.
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But then after 5:38
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when the pope
began to be a ruler,
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a political force,
as well as a religion,
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and it seemed like idolatry
had become institutionalized
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and the Muslims had no
respect for that that--they
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were weren't Muslims yet, sorry.
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The Arabs had no respect
for that because many of them
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did not believe in idolatry.
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They became very dissatisfied.
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It was in this
environment that a man was born
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that we know today as Muhammed.
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He was born in 570,
died June 8, 632 in Medina.
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He was born in Mecca.
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He's accepted by Muslims as
the last of the prophets of God.
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Now, Muhammed was
orphaned at an early age
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and he was raised under
the care of his paternal uncle.
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Periodically he would seclude
himself in a mountain cave
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for several nights of prayer.
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At age 25, Muhammed wed
his wealthy employer who was 15
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years older than him.
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She was 40, a merchant Khadija.
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This marriage was
from the most part,
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happy and it was a
monogamist marriage,
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and she helped him in many ways
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because she had some wealth.
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And 25 years later when she
died, he ended up taking several
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wives, one of them as
young as nine years old.
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And it was during this time that
he kind of went from a prophet
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to a little bit of a politician.
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Most of his early
visions were very peaceful.
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Later visions when he
was fighting for power,
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there was a little
more violence involved.
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Something, and this is from the
book written by Ramon Bennett.
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I'm reading a lot
in preparing for this.
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Islam revealed, page 48, as a
young child, Muhammed was nursed
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by a Bedouin woman by the name
of Halimah and in his third and
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fourth year as a child, had
numerous fits which made Halimah
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think he was demon possessed.
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Later at age 40, he reported
being visited by Gabriel
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in a cave where he started
to receive his first revelations
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from God three years later.
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Muhammed started preaching these
revelations publicly proclaiming
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God is one and that complete
surrender--by the way, that what
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the word "Islam" means
connected with the word "Salome"
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or shalom, Salome is how you say
it in Arabic that the only way
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acceptable to God and
that he was the prophet
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of God similar to
other Bible prophets.
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Early Muslim traditions records
that when Muhammed was about
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to receive a revelation
from Allah, he'd often fall down
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on the ground, his
body would begin to jerk.
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His eyes would roll backward.
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He would perspire
profusely, and they'd cover him
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with a blanket
during such episodes.
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He'd come out of these visions
and he'd say he had a message.
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And this is from the book,
"The Islamic Invasion," page 71.
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Muhammed gained followers, a
lot of followers who--he gained
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a few followers early and
he met with hostility from
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the other Meccan
tribes to escape persecution.
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He had left Mecca,
gradually he built an army
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and he gained
converts in Medina.
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He returned to Mecca with
10,000 soldiers and was met
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with little resistance,
very little bloodshed.
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He basically took the city.
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It later became the center
for the religion and that--the
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Bedouins were spread all over
Saudi Arabia in the Middle East.
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They really didn't
have a national religion.
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Muhammed became
the natural one to sort
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of coalesce them all.
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Some of them leaned
towards the Jews and so he said,
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you know, "I agree
with the Old Testament."
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Some of them leaned towards the
religion of the Christians said,
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"I agree with the
teachings of Jesus."
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But the problem was he said,
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"You cannot trust
their Scriptures."
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The original Scriptures of
the Christians and the Jews
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were true, but they
have been tampered with
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and you can't
believe them anymore.
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And so, Islam teaches,
not just what Muhammed said,
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they still teach today,
"Yes, we agree with the Bible.
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We agree with the
teachings of Jesus.
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But the Bibles that you
have today cannot be trusted.
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There is no copy left of
the Bible and the New Testament
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that really
contains the original.
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It's all been
corrupted so the only Scriptures
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that can be trusted
today are the Qur'an."
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So, they kind of say, "Oh
yes we agree," but they said,
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"We don't agree with
your Scriptures if there's
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any conflict between your
Scriptures and what we say."
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And so, it sort of--he was
trying to find a religion that
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would bring them all together
but not have them go to the
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Scriptures for their truth.
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And so, you'll
find a lot of reference
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to the other
religions in the Qur'an.
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Doug: One of the most common
questions we get here at Amazing
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Facts is regarding the
mysterious identity of this
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enigmatic character
called the Antichrist.
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People around the
world are wondering,
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who is the Antichrist?
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Is it a political party
or is this some evil fiend
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that is the devil incarnate?
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Well, we have a study guide
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It's called "Who
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Doug: So, who wrote the Qur'an?
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Most Muslims
freely agree that Muhammed
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was probably it literate.
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There's no indication
in history that he wrote.
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And so about 19
years after he died,
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the religion continued to grow.
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There was some fight about
who was to be his successor
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and that's where you
get the difference between
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the Sunni and the Shia.
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Now, Sunni Muslims
represent about 80%
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or 85% of the
Muslims in the world.
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The Shia contests the
lineage, and the power, and the
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authority, and there are some
differences in their beliefs
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but they all came
to believe the Qur'an
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would have most
beliefs in common.
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They say the
Qur'an is the Word of God
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around which
their religion is based.
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The Qur'an is 20%
smaller than the New Testament,
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as far as the number of words.
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There are a number
of parallel passages
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between the Old
Testament and the Qur'an.
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There are some places
where the Qur'an actually quotes
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some of the teachings of Jesus.
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You'll find references to
Abraham 70 times in the Qur'an.
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Moses name occurs
40 in 34 chapters.
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You've got references to David,
Solomon, Saul, Elijah, Job.
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Jonah, though it's a
small book in the Old Testament,
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figures prominently in the
Qur'an and the fall of Adam
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is cited five times.
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That is a big difference.
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In the Qur'an they say
the fall happened in a place
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called paradise that was
not on earth and Adam and Eve
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were later consigned
to earth after the fall.
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So, their creation
account is different.
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You'll find some of the
teachings like an eye for an eye
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talks about where Jesus said,
"A house built upon the sand."
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So, it's easy to see that
Muhammed was at least acquainted
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with some of the teachings of
the Old and New Testament from
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listening because a lot
of it is incorporated there.
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Doesn't go through
stories like we do.
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They're just little
soundbites, some are shorter,
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some are longer.
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And I don't know if
you've read the Qur'an.
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I haven't read it all
but I've read a lot of it.
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There's a lot of
conflict between the Qur'an
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and the Bible.
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You cannot
reconcile the religion
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of the Qur'an with Scripture.
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And I say this very gently
because I know there's a lot of
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my friends in ministry and
other Christians that are saying
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there's really no difference
between Christians and Muslims,
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that we all come from Abraham
and we all worship the same God.
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I respectfully disagree.
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I think that, you know, you
don't--you could believe there
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are good people in
many different churches
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but you don't compromise your
convictions about, is it true?
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And so, let me just
give you a little list here
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of what some of
the differences are.
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You've got Qur'an and the
Bible portray different gods.
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The Bible says salvation
comes only through Jesus Christ.
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John 14:6 while the
Qur'an says only through Islam
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and the obedience through Allah
and to his prophet Muhammed
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can one be
avoiding the blazing fire.
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That's from the Qur'an 385.
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The Qur'an denies
Jesus's death and resurrection.
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That's pretty
fundamental to Christian faith.
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They say that our Bible's been
corrupted, it never happened.
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It was changed.
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The Jews didn't really
crucify him, and you find that
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in the Qur'an 4:155 through 159.
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They say Allah just
made it appear to the Jews
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as if Jesus was crucified.
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The Qur'an denies the Triune God
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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And, you know,
you can understand
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their confusion on that.
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I've talked to some of my
Muslim friends about this.
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I said, "You guys
believe in many gods."
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They said, "No, we
believe in one God."
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"Hear O Israel, the
Lord our God is one."
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There's no one God,
no question about that.
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But the word "one"
biblically means united.
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It's not a numerical quantify.
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Our God, Father,
Son, and spirit is united,
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he's one, not like all
these--this pantheon of gods
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the Greeks had always
fighting with each other.
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The Bible says we are saved
by grace, that we can be saved
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through faith alone, not
by works, lest any man should
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boast, of course,
in Ephesians 2:8 and 9.
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The Qur'an states, and that's in
23:102 that in the judgment, God
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will kind of balance, he'll put
your good deeds in one side of
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the balance, your bad deeds on
the other and you need to have
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more good deeds than bad
deeds and you'll make it.
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My dad sort of believed that,
the Qur'an version, God was
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gonna add everything up like
that's--it's not based on how
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many good works we do
that we're saved, amen?
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The Bible says to make
disciples of all nations
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and do it with
gentleness and respect.
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But for Muslims, there's a very
different approach prescribed
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in the Qur'an.
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It says quote,
"Fight and slay the pagans
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wherever you find them.
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Seize them, beleaguer them.
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Lie in wait for them
in every stratagem of war.
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But if they repent and establish
regular prayers and practice
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and regular charity,
then open the way for them
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and I will instill terror into
the hearts of the unbelievers.
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"Smite thee above the neck,
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smite their
fingertips off of them."
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It's interesting that a few
years ago, we would have thought
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when you read in the Bible
about those who are beheaded
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for their faith in
Jesus, that was just a metaphor.
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We thought that with the French
Revolution and the guillotine
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beheading was pretty much
gone as a means of execution
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and we've all seen that's been
revived in pretty grizzly ways
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in some of these
terrorist activities
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makes you wonder again.
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And I could go on.
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There's just so many differences
that just there's really
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not time to cite them
between the two religions.
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And so, the Bible and the
Qur'an are very different books
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and the religions
are very different.
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Is Allah and Jehovah,
are they the same God?
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Now, you gotta be careful.
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This is a loaded question.
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Let me see if I can
answer this carefully.
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You cannot deny that the
Arabs and the Jews spring
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from the same
ancestor of Abraham,
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that there are trappings
and treats that are similar.
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I mentioned, you know,
they practice circumcision.
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They say there's one God,
and you can find similar roots
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but you cannot
reconcile the picture of God
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that is worshiped by the
Muslims with the picture of God
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that is worshiped
by Bible Christians.
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For example, 1 John 2:22, "Who
was a liar but he that denies
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that Jesus is the Christ?"
00:21:10.13\00:21:12.17
Well, they deny
that Jesus is the Christ.
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He is Antichrist.
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"Who denies the
Father and the Son?
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Whoever denies the Son
does not have the Father either;
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he who acknowledges the
Son has the Father also."
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And you might say,
"But there's many things
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that he said that
are good and true."
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That's true of every religion.
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I find wonderful
things in Hinduism.
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I love it when I go to India
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because I can find
good vegetarian food.
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There's wonderful
things in every religion.
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There's wonderful
things in Buddhism.
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There are truths in
Buddhism about peace.
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There are truths in all
kinds of different religions,
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that doesn't mean
they are the truth.
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Matter of fact, if you're the
devil, the way that you deceive
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people is by mingling elements
of truth that resonate with
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people and then you bring
in the deception that's deadly
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and this is what I
believe is the case.
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Does that mean they'll be no
Buddhists in heaven or Muslims
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in heaven?
00:22:06.86\00:22:08.16
Or--no, I think God
is reaching out to hearts
00:22:08.19\00:22:11.13
all over the world.
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And there are good
people in many religions,
00:22:12.89\00:22:14.60
and we got some nasty
people in our religion
00:22:14.63\00:22:17.67
so we're not
talking about people, right?
00:22:17.70\00:22:19.77
We're talking
about, what is the truth?
00:22:19.80\00:22:22.47
Revelation is dealing with the
battle in the last days about
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what is the truth,
amen, are we together on that?
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All right, I talked
about the Qur'an a little bit,
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but I want to just
give you an overview,
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and this is not
an exhaustive list.
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I took a list of--it was
much longer and shortened it.
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The word "Islam" means
surrender or submission.
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Again, it comes
from the word "Salome,"
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Salome which is
similar to peace.
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I've been in some countries
00:22:48.46\00:22:49.76
where the way you
say hello is that.
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And by the way, the way you say
God, a Christian in Indonesia
00:22:51.70\00:22:56.50
in church calls God Allah.
00:22:56.54\00:23:00.64
So that's why I said
it's a trick question.
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The word "Allah" just means God.
00:23:02.14\00:23:04.61
So if you're in a
Christian church in Indonesia,
00:23:04.65\00:23:08.85
you will be praising
and singing to Allah.
00:23:08.88\00:23:11.29
Now, that might make
you squirm a little bit,
00:23:11.32\00:23:13.39
but that is their word for God.
00:23:13.42\00:23:14.89
There's nothing wrong with that.
00:23:14.92\00:23:17.09
The word "Muslim," you
might wonder what the difference
00:23:17.13\00:23:19.19
between Islam and Muslim?
00:23:19.23\00:23:20.63
Muslim technically means anyone
or anything that surrenders
00:23:20.66\00:23:23.73
itself to God, which
means by definition even a tree
00:23:23.77\00:23:27.00
or an animal can be a
Muslim in that it surrenders
00:23:27.04\00:23:30.54
to the will of God.
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That's from their
writings, not from mine.
00:23:31.91\00:23:34.24
Studies show, I
already mentioned that about
00:23:34.28\00:23:35.98
1.7 billion people in the
world identify with Islam.
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There are five
pillars of practice in Islam
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and here they are,
A, declaration of faith
00:23:44.49\00:23:47.59
in one God and that
Muhammed is the prophet of God.
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Two, formal
prayer five times a day.
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C, there's a poor
tax that is due, 2.5%.
00:23:55.73\00:23:59.77
They're getting discounted
on our tithe, actually.
00:23:59.80\00:24:02.70
Two point five percent of one's
excess wealth is given to the
00:24:02.74\00:24:06.11
needy once a year.
00:24:06.14\00:24:08.28
Fasting during the daylight
hours in the month of Ramadan.
00:24:08.31\00:24:11.55
They fast all day and then
they eat quite a bit after dark,
00:24:11.58\00:24:14.28
which isn't that
healthy, I think.
00:24:14.32\00:24:16.95
Pilgrimage to Mecca at least
once if you're physically and
00:24:16.99\00:24:21.22
financially able to.
00:24:21.26\00:24:23.46
And I don't know if you've ever
heard about if you go to Mecca,
00:24:23.49\00:24:27.13
there's a grand mosque there.
00:24:27.13\00:24:28.53
They just did a
bunch of renovation work.
00:24:28.56\00:24:30.33
I don't know if you heard.
00:24:30.37\00:24:31.67
They made two layers.
00:24:31.70\00:24:33.00
So many people who were
there, they're getting killed
00:24:33.03\00:24:34.70
in the crush 'cause
there's so many Muslims,
00:24:34.74\00:24:36.94
used to be a
smaller group would come,
00:24:36.97\00:24:38.87
they'd walk seven times
around this simple cube.
00:24:38.91\00:24:42.01
It's about 45 feet by 45 feet
by 50 feet in the eastern corner
00:24:42.04\00:24:46.51
of this cube.
00:24:46.55\00:24:47.85
The cube has four sides going to
the four corners of the globe.
00:24:47.88\00:24:51.99
The eastern corner has a big
silver plaque and in the plaque
00:24:52.02\00:24:56.56
is the black stone and every
Muslim wants to kiss that stone
00:24:56.59\00:24:59.69
after you walk around it
seven times counterclockwise,
00:24:59.73\00:25:03.06
to kiss the stone and that will
help absolve you of your sins.
00:25:03.10\00:25:07.74
It sounds a little bit like, you
know, idolatry and you kind of
00:25:07.77\00:25:13.31
salvation by works in any event,
but they had an accident a few
00:25:13.34\00:25:18.55
years ago while they
were building two layers.
00:25:18.58\00:25:20.38
They couldn't get
all the people around.
00:25:20.42\00:25:22.15
They've had several crushes
where people have been crushed
00:25:22.18\00:25:24.15
trying to get to kiss teaching
stone 'cause millions of people
00:25:24.19\00:25:26.76
have gone thousands
of miles and thought,
00:25:26.79\00:25:28.59
"Am I gonna get close enough?"
00:25:28.62\00:25:30.03
They're all fighting
their way in, and I don't know
00:25:30.06\00:25:31.96
if I'd want to kiss
the stone after a thousands
00:25:31.99\00:25:33.63
other people kissed it.
00:25:33.66\00:25:34.93
And so, a crane fell
a couple of years ago.
00:25:34.96\00:25:37.53
They were building two or three
layers so people could go around
00:25:37.57\00:25:40.54
the cube like a cake and many
layers and a crane fell on them,
00:25:40.57\00:25:45.11
I think over a hundred of
people were killed in Mecca
00:25:45.14\00:25:47.68
from that terrible
accident a few years ago.
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But so, it's
the holy city there.
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Six articles of faith
and this is the one God.
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I've mentioned this already,
the six articles of faith
00:25:56.65\00:26:01.66
are different
from the five beliefs.
00:26:01.69\00:26:04.43
One God, all of the
prophets of God are true.
00:26:04.46\00:26:07.40
The original
Scriptures revealed to Moses,
00:26:07.46\00:26:09.86
David and
Jeremiah, you know what?
00:26:09.90\00:26:12.10
Or to Jesus, the
original Scriptures.
00:26:12.13\00:26:14.10
Since we don't have
any original Scriptures,
00:26:14.14\00:26:15.74
you can't trust your Bibles
so that's sort of a moot point.
00:26:15.77\00:26:19.81
They believe in angels,
the day of judgment hereafter,
00:26:19.84\00:26:22.08
and destiny.
00:26:22.11\00:26:24.35
They believe in the concept of
vicarious atonement that Jesus
00:26:24.38\00:26:28.35
died for the sins of humanity,
but they believe you're
00:26:28.38\00:26:32.25
responsible really for your
works in the day of judgment but
00:26:32.29\00:26:36.52
they don't look to Jesus for
the forgiveness of their sins.
00:26:36.56\00:26:39.13
So, they don't really have
a redeemer in that religion,
00:26:39.16\00:26:43.80
but what's gonna save people
is a relationship with Jesus.
00:26:43.83\00:26:49.74
That's why I hope you're close
to the Lord and while all these
00:26:49.77\00:26:53.31
different voices are
saying, "We've got the truth
00:26:53.34\00:26:55.04
and we've got the
Scriptures," you've gotta know
00:26:55.08\00:26:56.64
who only has the truth.
00:26:56.68\00:26:58.75
Jesus said, "Thy Word is truth."
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announcer: Did you
know that Noah was present
00:27:01.78\00:27:03.25
at the birth of Abraham?
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