Gethsemane: an olive-yard where Jesus was arrested.

(…continues from part one…)

2)            Did they go to the residential abode of Jesus to make His arrest as the commentary on Qur’an chapter 4 verse 157 indoctrinates? Let us read from Bible account. John 18:1-4, 12-13. “When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples. 2) And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples. 3) Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. 4) Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye? 12) Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him, 13) And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.” Mark 14:32 gives the name of the place as Gethsēmanē (gheth-say-man-ay’): ‘an oil press’.

                How so germane: for the Roman world power focus of arrest is none other than the Christ, the Anointed One. The unguent of salvation needs to be pressed; but it must come from the Messiah! “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out” (Romans 11:33)!

In the Qur’an Muhammad taught that Jesus went to heaven sleeping. Does it have biblical truth?

                “Muhammad” – in G.J.O. Moshay’s admittance of him, in his book, ‘Who Is This Allah?’ – “is at best a philosopher.” The prophet of Allah, wanting at all cost to discredit Christianity, resorted to horrid regurgitation of the casuist that he was, when in An-Ni’sa, the fourth chapter, verse 157, the commentary says, “Allah made the young man look exactly like `Isa, while a hole opened in the roof of the house, and `Isa was made to sleep and ascended to heaven while asleep.” This is egregiousness of speciousness. Acts 1:9 “And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.” Verses 7 and 8 document what He was telling them. Do these verses show any sign of Muhammadan calumnious somnambulistic ascension? This is the account of the writer of one of the gospels, “And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven” (Luke 24:51). Does a sleeping person bless? Jesus was not asleep, when He went to heaven. Muhammadan Qur’an is fraught with errors terribly antithetical to theological inspiration of the Bible.

                Before Jesus went to the cross He said, “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again” (John 10:17). He must do it for His sheep; Muhammad was not a follower of the Truth of all truths – Jesus – ergo, not one of the salvaging sheep of the Lamb of God. Verse 18 is more ponderous, “No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father” I am truly happy that Muhammad chose to denigrate Christological facts. Little did he know that Lucifer gave him an active role of an antichrist. To have power to enter into death and retrieve oneself from the same death is typicality of Divinity. Selah!

The cave where Muhammad received the words of Allah through Gabriel.

                Why would Muhammad decide to use a cave as the rendezvous of Divine connectivity? The answer is very simple. He wanted to replicate the Mount Sinai phenomenon. The deception, I believe, is calculated to tell the world of religiosity that the God of the Bible had rejected Israel, Jewry and Christianity. How does one challenge the last prophet of the Most High? He needed to add that angle to make Islam God’s choice of religious worship. That is the reason for another cavernous rendezvous. The Qur’an contains 75% of the Bible. Unfortunately, the Bible is never up for any replication.

                Al-Ma’idah 5:110 [The Day] when Allah will say, “O Jesus, Son of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Pure Spirit [i.e., the angel Gabriel] and you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and [remember] when I taught you writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and when you designed from clay [what was] like the form of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission; and you healed the blind [from birth] and the leper with My permission; and when you brought forth the dead with My permission; and when I restrained the Children of Israel from [killing] you when you came to them with clear proofs and those who disbelieved among them said, “This is not but obvious magic.”

                Most certainly, I know that God can and will do any miracle to prove His Omnipotence. But how does it make sense that a Muhammadan vaticination will run thus: “O Jesus, the son of Mary, remember my favours…when I supported you with the Pure Spirit [i.e., the angel Gabriel] ….” In what Scriptural way did angel Gabriel aid Jesus as the Infant of days or in His older missionary days of three and a half years? Muhammad, know thee not that God’s protocol, the Bible, does not support this teaching of your religious lean? Gabriel can never accent to being older than the Christ; the archangel knows that Jesus Christ is their Creator. “In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the same Word was God.” The word ‘with’ is the Greek pro, meaning: ‘face to face’ – when nothing of creationism was in existence. This is the proof of the eternality of Jesus Christ with the Father.

Crucifixion of Jesus brought salvation to the world.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. You were born in sin. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

(…to be continued…)

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