Colossians 2:3

(…continues from part 4…)

5)            Who, from Scriptural facticity, is the Lord of the Sabbath? Biblical documentation of the Lordship of the Sabbath goes all the way to Genesis 2:2 “And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.” Tied to the creationism, one feels theologically safe giving this Lordship to God the Father. The children of Israel received, from Moses, who the Lord of Sabbath is in Exodus 16:29 “See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.” The name ‘LORD’, from this verse, is the Hebraic yehôvâh (yeh-ho-vaw’): ‘(the) Self-Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.’ When Pharisaical religious idiosyncratic stance would underscore egocentrism of ritualism, the Jewish sect prejudicially accused Jesus for harvesting corn on a Sabbath day. Jesus answered them in Matthew 12:8 “For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.” This is the true unveiling of the Personage of Jesus. Tracing the title ‘Lord’ of Matthew 12:8 to Exodus and Genesis, Jesus is appropriately the Self-Existent Yahweh of the Old Testamentary order. Jesus Christ, uncreated, is very God of very God, the Author of the creationism.

Christ, the Saviour of the world (John 4:42).

                The sole prophethood of Islamism, in all pellucidity, did not know what he was saying when he ascribed the Messianic status to Jesus. Ten times in the Qur’an: Aal-e-Imran 3:45; An-Nisa’ 4:157; An-Nisa’ 4:171; An-Nisa’ 4:172; Al-Ma’idah 5:17; Al-Ma’idah 5:72; Al-Ma’idah 5:75 and At-Taubah 9:30 Muhammad accepted Messianism of Jesus Christ of the Bible. It has its native origin in the Hebraic mâshı̂yach (maw-shee’-akh): ‘anointed one, Messianic prince: of the king of Israel and of the high priest of Israel; consecrated king, priest, or Saviour.’ Muhammad did not know that Messiah is the expected Saviour, King and High Priest of Israel – and by extension, the whole world. Had he known, Prophet Muhammad would never have called Jesus the Messiah or Christ.

                The Messianism of Jesus is essentially soteriological. Muhammad told the Muslim world, “[And mention] when the angels said, “O Mary, indeed Allah gives you good tidings of a word from Him, whose name will be the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary – distinguished in this world and the Hereafter and among those brought near [to Allah]” (Qur’an chapter 3:45). In the chapter of the Qur’an called Al-Ma’idah (i.e. the 5^th) of verse 17, Allah put into the heart of Muhammadanism to declare, “They have certainly disbelieved who say that Allah is Christ, the son of Mary. Say, “Then who could prevent Allah at all if He had intended to destroy Christ, the son of Mary, or his mother or everyone on the earth?” And to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them. He creates what He wills, and Allah is over all things competent.”

Yehoshua: very God of very God. Amen.

                About seventy-five percent of Qur’anic couch comes directly from the Bible. Whatever Muhammad says, ergo, of Jesus Christ, if it falls short of biblically truthfulness, should be jettisoned. If, as the sole prophet of Islam, Muhammad taught that Jesus is the Word of God and a spirit from the Divinity, and we know, from the Bible, that no one actually has celestial preexistence before coming into his maternal matrix, it certainly underscores Christ’s eternality of preexistence. Jesus told Nicodemus in John 3:13 “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.” We have also in 1Corinthians 15:47 “The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.” To have preexistence before the creationism exegetically accentuates the ‘Elôhı̂ym cachet of Jesus Christ.

                Why, Muhammad, will God the Father destroy the Christ, Who says, “I and the Father are one,” where the word, ‘one’, heis in Greek means ‘essence’? Heis tells me that whatever the Father is, Jesus is essentially so. If Christ can or will ever do anything to warrant destruction, will the Christ be the Word of God, owing to omniscience of the Father. Will God not be destroying Himself, should He decide, according to Islamism, to destroy the Holy One of Israel? Is it not sheer stupidity to have dwelling in your mind that God will destroy the Alpha and Omega, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty Jehovah Jesus?

                Can it not only be a religious quackery, solidly backed by the tenets Satanism that will teach the possible destruction of the Messiah, the LORD from heaven? Sound theological reasoning will never allow the crossing of mind that the Person of Jesus could be destroyed by God the Father: for Jesus is the leitmotif of the entire Scriptural essence; Jesus is the only one who did not commit a single sin; the existing love among the Father, Son the Holy Spirit can never come to an end. What sense does it make that God would decide to destroy Jesus in Whom dwells all the treasures of knowledge and wisdom? Does the destruction of Jesus, as Muhammad erroneously put it, not make a huge nonsense of the salvation and the Church, the eternal Woman of Jesus Christ? The Bible says, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” (Hebrews 13:8). Jesus shares eternality of Divinity with God the Father unknown to Islam. Will God kill or destroy the Word of His mouth and mind? It is just as saying, “Then who could prevent Allah at all if He had intended to destroy Himself” of Qur’an 5:17? In the Greek Septuagint, ‘Word’ is Logos, which means, ‘The totality of God’s mind, will and thought.” Every intent of the Godhead comes from the Logos – the Christ. If God should fail to perform any of His spoken Word, it is a dishonour to the Logos. Will God destroy Himself? Selah!

Get born again. 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!”

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