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11. Judgment not Reconciliation
Zionists –Jewish and Christian- believe that the gathering of the
remnant of Israel in the land of Palestine, is the fulfillment of God's promise
of reconciliation between Him and His chosen people. For this reason, he gave
them victory over the Arabs, and blesses whomever blesses them, and curses
whomever curses them.
The fact is, that the Bible does summon the Jews to reconciliation
with the Lord, but by doing what? It is a summons to repentance and to abandon
their rejection of Allah and His messengers, to give up worshipping of other
besides Allah, to observe Allah's commandments, to care for the poor and
orphans, and to be kind to all people.
This is what we clearly find in most of the books of the Bible,
and along with it comes a severe warning to them if they disobey and break the
covenant. There is no fundamental connection with this and the prophecies and
events of the latter days. Rather, it is a universal summons to repentance and
faith, to individuals and groups in all places and times. As for the gathering
of the wicked remnant after their expulsion, and their return to the Holy Land
so that Allah's wrath may descend upon them, the prophecies concerning it are
clear and particular. Because of the innumerable texts, and their explicitness,
it is best to simply quote examples without attempting to be all-inclusive. We
will begin with those that the Zionists themselves use to support their
beliefs:
Ezekial says:
“Thus, says the Lord God: 'Surely I will take the children of
Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them
from every side and bring them into their own land; and I will make them one
nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be a king
over them all; they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be
divided into two kingdoms again.'” (37:21,22)
This may be the strongest and clearest evidence for Zionism.
Alright, then let's finish what Ezekial has to say, and read the remainder of
the paragraph;
“They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor
with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will
deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will
cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God. David My
servant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they
shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them.”
(37:23,24)
Doubtlessly the mention of 'David' here negates any possibility
that it means the modern Zionist state, even Ezekial himself lived after David.
Because of this we have every right to say that the text has been tampered with,
but the Zionists interpret it as being symbolic of the State of Israel. Let us
agree for the sake of argument, and then ask: “Is this a conditional or an
unconditional promise? Do they not till our own day reject the prophethood of
Jesus and Muhammad –may Allah's blessing and peace be upon them- as well as the
one Faith which they both taught (Islam)? If we grant that the text refers to
the laws of the Torah, then where are the Israelis in relation to its
observance?
The State of Israel is one of the worst areas in the world for
indecency, irreligion and crime. It competes with America in gambling,
homosexuality, usury, and the commission of all the mortal sins. Its founders
were atheistic socialists, and leaders of criminal terrorist gangs. All of the
ten commandments of Moses are openly flouted. The only part of the Bible they
hold to is that they are the God's chosen people and the seed of Abraham.
Therefore, let us do a little research into the true status of
this state which is established by the remnant of the children of Israel, as is
described as clear as day in prophetic books, and let us begin with summary
which the publishers of the Bible provide to explain the word 'remnant' when it
occurs in Isaiah:
“Israel will be punished because of its treachery, but because God
lives His people, there will be a small remnant spared from the sword the
annihilators.”
He then refers to many passages and continues:
“This remnant will continue in Jerusalem and be purified, and
become a trustworthy and powerful nation! After the catastrophe of 587 B.C.
(meaning the captivity) a new idea appeared, which is that the remnant would
exist among the exiles, and would repent in the Diaspora (he then mentions his
sources). Then God will gather them to bring to life the Messianic Kingdom (he
mentions more sources). Then, after their return from exile, the remnant will
once again become untrustworthy, and will be cleansed by the extermination of a
portion of them…”
This is the general idea by which the fundamentalists claim that
the Messianic Kingdom is represented by the establishment of the State of Israel
to which the Messiah will come. As for its becoming untrustworthy, and its being
cleansed by the extermination of a portion from among them, they pass over it as
if it were not there!
As for the powerful nation, they themselves mention only three
pages later that Allah will produce a powerful nation to carry out His vengeance
against the children of Israel. Thus, it is that nation which will exterminate
that portion upon which is the divine wrath and destruction. Therefore, the
means of divine vengeance is the powerful, purified, and trustworthy nation.
We will lead them to the true reading of the prophecies concerning
this remnant, and enter the texts into the discussion:
This remnant has no covenant with Allah, since Allah has no
permanent covenant with anybody, unless they are steadfast in piety and
obedience:
“And when the Lord of Abraham tried him with certain commands and
he fulfilled them. He said, 'Verily, I shall make you a leader for mankind' He
asked, 'And also my descendents?' He answered: 'My covenant includes not the
evildoers.'”
The history of the children of Israel is a continual cycle of
belief and unbelief. It is distinguished from the history of other nations only
by grossness of their unbelief which is made even worse by the large number of
prophets sent to them, Allah's continual patience with them, and His blessings
upon them so that they might repent.
The period of the judges –who were the chiefs of the tribes- is
only a stark example of this. This stage lasted from after Joshua, the servant
of Moses, until the time of David. Again and again they violate their covenant
and worship Baal, Ashoreth, Tamuz, and other abominations, even sacrificing
their own children to them. Therefore, Allah warns them, and sends prophets to
them. Some of them repent –as Allah wills- and then right away return to their
idolatry and abominations. So Allah sends one of the neighboring nations to
conquer them, and give them a taste of a most-evil chastisement. Thus, it is
again and again!
This is the situation as described by II Kings:
“Yet the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah, by all
of His prophets, every seer, saying, 'Turn away from your evil ways, and keep My
commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your
fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.' Nevertheless,
they would not hear, but stiffened their necks, like the necks of their fathers,
who did not believe in the Lord their God. And they rejected His statutes and
His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He
had testified against them; they followed idols, became idolaters, and went
after the nations who were all around them, concerning whom the Lord had charged
them that they should not do like them.
“So they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, made for
themselves a molded image and two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all
the host of heaven, and served Baal. And they caused their sons and daughters to
pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying… And the Lord
rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into
the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them from His sight.”
(17:13-17,20)
The surviving remnant is only allowed to remain as a trial and
test, if it is true to its covenant then Allah keeps His covenant with them, but
if it breaks the covenant, then Allah punishes them. Its survival is not because
it is trustworthy and pure forever. Rather, this remnant survives to be a lesson
for all nations, and a respite granted by Allah so that they might repent.
Ezekial says after Allah commands him to prophecy against them of terrible
destruction and death, and the cleansing of the land from their
abominations:
“Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape
the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries. Then
those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations where they are
carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has
departed from Me, and by their eyes which play harlot after their idols; they
will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their
abominations. “ (6:8,9)
Jeremiah is even more frank than this; after predicting the
destruction and punishment that they will endure, so that even their dead bodies
are thrown out in the open so that the birds of the sky and the beasts of the
earth may devour them, and so that even the bones of their kings and leaders
will be dug up and spread out like garbage on the face of the earth, he then
says:
“ 'Then death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue
of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I
have driven them,' says the Lord of Hosts.” (8:3)
As for those for those who will repent and turned back to Allah,
they will be few. They are the ones who will embrace Islam and become the holy
remnant, which will be discussed at the end of this chapter. That will be after
Zionism loses the power on which it depends on for support, and will collapse,
losing all its prestige and claims. Isaiah says, after mentioning the terrible
fire that Allah will cause to overcome them:
“And it shall come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel,
and such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, will never again depend on him
who defeated them, but will depend on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in
truth. The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the Mighty God. For
though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them will
return.” (10:20-22)
This explains without the least doubt, that the Jews are not
Allah's sons and beloveds, but are merely humans whom He created. This is
explicitly stated in Amos:
“ 'Are you not like the people of Ethiopia to Me, O children of
Israel?' says the Lord. 'Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, the
Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? Behold, the eyes of the Lord
God are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth;
yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,' says the Lord. 'For surely I
will command, and will sift the house of Israel among all nations, as a grain is
sifted in a sieve; yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground. All the
sinners of My people shall die by the sword, who say, “The calamity shall not
overtake nor confront us.”'” (9:7-10)
We have learned that the sinful kingdom is the abomination of
desolation. It will be destroyed except for those who embrace Islam, or flee. As
for the remnant of the Jews throughout the world, they will be shaken and
sifted.
- This remnant has no right to the inheritance of Abraham. Ezekial
says:
“Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 'Son of man, they
who inhabit those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, “Abraham was only one,
and he inherited the land. But we are many; the land has been given to us as a
possession.” Therefore, say to them, “Thus says the Lord God: 'You eat meat with
blood, you lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood. Should you then
possess the land? You rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and you
defile one another's wives. Should you then possess the land?'”'”
This is a message to the people of the abomination of desolation.
Otherwise, this prophecy came at the time of the exile when the Jews had neither
strength nor power, when it was their blood that was being shed. As for the
modern-day abominations, every thing said here conforms to them.
For this reason, he says immediately after:
“Say thus to them, 'Thus says the Lord God: “As I live, surely
those who are in the ruins shall fall by the sword, and the one who is in the
open field will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the
strongholds and caves shall die of pestilence. For I will make the land most
desolate, her arrogant strength shall cease, and the mountains of Israel shall
be so desolate that no one will pass through. Then they shall know that I am the
Lord, when I have made the land most desolate because of their abominations
which they have committed.”'” (33:23-29)
He even rejects their descent from Abraham, which is the crux of
their claim to his inheritance:
“Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, and say,
'Thus, says the Lord God to Jerusalem: “Your birth and your nativity are from
the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.”'”
(16:2,3)
After continuing in great detail about its uncleanness, adultery,
and immorality, he then says:
“Indeed everyone who quotes proverbs will use this proverb against
you: 'Like mother, like daughter!' You are your mother's daughter, loathing
husband and children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their
husbands and children; your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells with her daughters to the north of you;
and your younger sister, who dwells to the south of you, is Sodom and her
daughters. You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their
abominations; but, as if that were too little, you became more corrupt than they
in all your ways. As I live,” says the Lord God, “neither your sister Sodom nor
her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done.” (16:44-48)
Regardless of whether this is non-literal in the manner of Allah's
saying to Noah about his son, “He is not of your family,”
[Hud 11:45.] or like Christ's
saying to them, “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your
father you want to do,”
[John 8:44.] or whether it is literally true, their connection to
Abraham has been severed.
What is beyond dispute, is that the Jews today are a strange
mixture of the discards of many other peoples, except that most of them are of
Kazar origin. Perhaps his calling them 'Hittites' was a reference to that, since
the Hittites are a people of unknown origin who lived to the north of the Holy
Land –in what is today, Turkey. It would not be farfetched if their original
home was that of the Kazars, or that it is a reference to the direction from
which most of the Jews would come from, especially, at the time of the
establishment of the abomination of desolation, the State of Israel.
All of the trickery of the Zionists has failed to establish the
Semitic origin of the Jews, and no authoritative researchers in the field of
human ethnicity have been able to confirm it. How could they when the Jews
include the Ethiopian Falashas, West Africans, Spaniards, Persians, Yemenis, and
Eastern Europeans!
Because of this, Hosea
[1:1-11.] severs all connections between them and
Allah and His messengers, when he symbolizes them as an adulterous woman who
gives birth to a son, whom the Lord commands her to name Jezreel, the valley in
which the battle of Armageddon will take place. Then she gives birth to a
daughter and He commands her to name her Lo-Ruhamah (no mercy). Then she gives
birth to another son, whom the Lord commands to be named Lo-Ammi (not my
people). It is this last name which the Catholics and others use as a curse for
the Jews. Therefore, their descent is false, their mother will receive no mercy,
and their descendents are not Allah's people.
Allah will return them to the Holy Land for judgment and
punishment, not for reconciliation and reward: Ezekial says:
“As I live,” says the Lord God, “surely with a mighty hand, with
an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out, I will rule over you. I will
bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are
scattered, with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured
out. And I will bring you into a wilderness of the peoples, and there I will
plead My case with you face to face. Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers
in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case with you.”
(20:33-36)
This is a reference to their punishment of wandering in the
wilderness for forty-years, and the series of torments they received there. This
is clarified by Zephaniah:
“Gather yourselves together, yes, gather yourselves together, O
undesirable (or shameless) nation, before the decree is issued, or the day
passes like chaff, before the Lord's fierce anger comes upon you, before the day
of the Lord's fierce anger comes upon you!”
He then speaks to the oppressed people of Palestine:
“Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth, who have upheld His
justice. Seek righteousness, seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in
the day of the Lord's anger.” (2:1-3)
Thus, they gather together only so that the Lord's anger can be
poured out on them. At that time they will be cast out and driven away from the
Holy Land like chaff in the wind, which carries it in every direction, and the
pious and oppressed who adhered to Allah's covenant will be saved.
But the fact that they will be driven out does not mean that they
can escape. Some of them will seek refuge in their former countries or in other
places, but most of them will end up as Ezekial says:
“Therefore thus says the Lord God: 'Because you have all become
dross to Me; therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. As
men gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin in the midst of a furnace, to
blow fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury,
and I will leave you there and melt you. Yes, I will gather you and blow on you
with the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst. As silver is
melted in the midst of a furnace, so shall you be melted in its midst; then you
shall know that I, the Lord, have poured out My fury on you.'” (22:19-22)
This is what will happen on the Day of Wrath, which we will
shortly discuss.
At this point there is a question: What will happen to the remnant
of the children of Israel who will remain in the land after the Day of Wrath?
What will be the fate of the Zionists after that day?
The prophecies describe the fate of the people of Israel when the
Day of Wrath arrives, in the following manner:
Isaiah says that most of them will be exterminated and punished,
except for a small number of them:
“Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it a waste,
distorts its surface and scatters abroad its inhabitants. And it shall be: as
with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master…the
earth is defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws,
changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore the curse has
devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore the
inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.” (24:1,5,6)
Zechariah is more specific, he divides them into thirds:
“ 'And it shall come to pass in all the land,' says the Lord,
'that two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die, but one-third shall be left in
it: I will bring the one-third through the fire, will refine them as silver is
refined, and test them as gold is tested.'” (13:8,9)
According to Ezekial:
“You shall burn with fire one-third…then you shall take one-third
and strike around it with the sword, and one third you shall scatter to the
wind.”
He then says:
“You shall also take a small number of them and bind them in the
edge of your garment. Then take some of them again [the third which was
scattered] and throw them into the midst of fire, and burn them in the fire.
From there a fire will go out into all the house of Israel.” (5:2-4)
Zephaniah says concerning the surviving remnant in Jerusalem:
“I will leave in your midst a meek and humble people, and they
shall trust in the name of the Lord. The remnant of Israel shall do no
unrighteousness and speak no lies, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in
their mouth; for they shall feed their flocks and lie down, and no one shall
make them afraid.” (3:12,13)
This faithful remnant is also described by Isaiah:
“Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, the
houses are without a man, the land is utterly desolate…but yet a tenth will be
in it, and will return for the consuming, as a terebinth tree or as an oak,
whose stump remains when it is cut down. So the holy seed shall be as a stump.”
(6:11-13)
There is no dispute between us and the fundamentalists that the
Jews of Israel today are unbelievers, none of them are pious or holy. However,
the fundamentalists say that in accordance with these prophecies, the Jews will
believe in Christ at the time of his Second Coming, so that the remnant will
become holy.
But we say that when the Muslims take back Jerusalem and destroy
the abomination, these prophecies will be fulfilled. Some of the Jews will be
killed, some of them will flee and be scattered throughout the world, and some
of them will remain and enter into our covenant of security
[As ahl al-dhimma or dhimmis who agree to pay a tax (jizya) in exchange for their security and protection of their rights.] and be protected. No
one will make them afraid. Some of them will submit themselves to Allah and be
guided to Islam, and they will be the holy remnant.
Those Jews who flee and those who never came to Palestine in the
first place will be another remnant, which will follow the Anti-Christ in the
end times. At the time of Christ's Second Coming there will not be three thirds,
but two halves: one half who will be killed along with the army of the
Anti-Christ, and on half who will become Muslims with Jesus –peace be upon him-
since according to the authentic Islamic prophecy, he will set aside the
jizya and allow them to choose either Islam or the sword.
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