The Islamic Threat To Israel

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For those of you who are ignorant of the facts surrounding the re creation
of Israel and the lies and propaganda put out by Arabs, then read the
following. Most of all, understand that Muslims have been ordained and
have no choice in their future actions towards Israel. Pray that a few of
them will open their eyes and see the course they and their brethern have
been predestined to embark upon.

The Islamic Threat To Israel (Part 1) - Dave Hunt - www.thebereancall.org

That vicious anti-Semitism would pursue the Jews worldwide throughout
history is one of many prophecies about Israel (Dt 28:37; Neh 1:8; 2 Ch
7:20; Jer 24:9; 25:11; 29:18-19; 44:8; Amos 9:9, etc.) that God points to as
proof that He is the one true God, that the Bible is His Word, and that the
Jews are His chosen people (Is 42:8-9; 43:10; 46:9-10; 48:5, etc.). From a
human point of view, there is no rational ground for such persistent,
widespread anti-Semitism; yet this prophecy has come true with a vengeance.
The only explanation is found in the Bible: the Jews are God's chosen people
and under His judgment for their rebellion against Him (Dt 28:15-68;
29:24-28; 30:17-20, etc.).

There is a further obvious reason for this universal anti-Semitism: hatred
of Jews and Israel is inspired of Satan because his only hope to escape
eternal doom is to destroy them. This he must do to save himself from God's
wrath. Had Satan been able to destroy the Jews before Christ came, he would
have prevented the birth of the Messiah, the salvation of mankind, and his
own defeat through the sacrifice of the Son of God for mankind's sins.
Moreover, for promising a Messiah and a salvation that never came, God would
have been proved a liar and thus could not righteously have punished Satan.

Of course, the Messiah came and defeated Satan, "tasting death for every
man" (Heb 2:9) and bearing "our sins in his own body on the tree" (1 Pt
2:24). Countless multitudes have been redeemed and will spend eternity in
the Father's house of "many mansions" because of having received the Lord
Jesus Christ as their Savior. But Christ's defeat of Satan through His death
and resurrection did not end the battle between God and Satan for the
hearts, minds, and eternal destiny of mankind. That battle continues to
rage--and Israel is at its center.

The God of Ishmael?

The God of the Bible is called "the God of Israel" 203 times. Never is He
called the God of any other people--and certainly never is He called the God
of Ishmael or of the Arabs. He further declares, "I AM the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob: this is my name for ever, and this
is my memorial unto all generations" (Ex 3:13-16). Twelve times this name is
given to God. Christ argued the resurrection of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
(and thus of all believers) from this title, declaring that "God is not the
God of the dead but of the living" (Mt 22:31-32).

The entire land of Canaan (which became Israel) was promised to Abraham and
to his seed for ever (Gen 12:7; 13:15, 17:19; Ex 6:8; Lev 25:23). Who can
claim to be this "seed"? Islam teaches that it was Ishmael, not Isaac, who
was the "son of promise" and was offered by Abraham upon the altar. Ishmael
was the firstborn, and thus the Arabs, who claim descent from him, are
adamant that they--not the Jews--are the rightful heirs to God's promise of
the land of Canaan. Of course, Ishmael was not the son God promised, but the
product of Abraham's and Sarah's unbelief. Instead of being born to Sarah,
Abraham's wife, his mother was Hagar, Sarah's maid.

The Bible makes it very clear in many ways that the promised son was Isaac
and that he and his descendants were the rightful heirs to God's promises to
Abraham. Apparently content with Ishmael whom he loved, Abraham desired no
other son (Gen 17:15-18). But God insisted that He would give Abraham a son
through his wife, Sarah, that his name would be Isaac, and that he would be
the heir to the promises and to the land (17:19-21). Furthermore, the true
heirs to the promises would be slaves in a foreign land for 400 years (Gen
15:13). This never happened to the Arabs, but only to the Jews, who, during
this isolation, did not intermarry with non-Jews but became an identifiable
ethnic group, were led en masse into the Promised Land, and we know who
their descendants are today. In contrast, Ishmael's descendants intermarried
at least with Midianites (Jdg 8:1, 12, 22, 24) and with those of Esau (Gn
28:9) who, in turn, intermarried with Hittites (26:34).

In the beginning, the Qur'an called Jews and Christians the "people of the
book" and honored much of the Bible as inspired of the true God. When
Muhammad turned against these people, however, the tone of the Qur'an
changed. The claim is made today that the Bible was perverted in order to
make it seem that the Jews were the heirs. Of course, we have Bible
manuscripts both before and after Muhammad, and they are identical. In fact,
the Qur'an itself repeatedly declares that the Jews are Allah's chosen
people to whom he gave the Promised Land:

"We made a covenant of old with the Children of Israel" (Surah 5:70); "We
brought the Children of Israel across the [Red] sea, and Pharaoh with his
hosts pursued them and we verily did allot unto the Children of Israel a
fixed abode" (10:91, 94); "[Pharaoh] wished to scare them from the land, but
we drowned him and those with him [in the Red Sea] all together. And we said
unto the Children of Israel dwell in the land" (17:103-104); "we delivered
the Children of Israel from Pharaoh. We chose them, purposely, above all
creatures (44:30-32); we favored them above all peoples" (45:16); "Remember
Allah's favor to you. He gave you what he gave no other of his creatures. O
my people, go into the Holy Land which Allah hath ordained for you"
(95:20-21), etc.

"Palestine"?

In spite of such Qur'anic passages, Islam claims that "Palestine" belongs to
the Arab descendants of Ishmael. This is the basis of the hatred Muslims
have toward Israel and of their determination to exterminate its people and
to possess all of Israel for themselves. In fact, "Palestine" is not
mentioned once in the Qur'an--very strange, considering the importance
Muslims attach to it today.

That spurious claim is further "legitimized" through a people who today call
themselves "Palestinians." They claim descent from the "original
Palestinians" and that, therefore, the entire land of "Palestine" is theirs,
but is being unlawfully occupied by Jews. They demand all of this land as
their possession. Such a claim is fraudulent for many well-established
reasons.

The land to which God brought Abraham (at this time called Abram), and which
He gave to him and to his heirs, was called "Canaan" (Gen 12:5, 6-8;
13:7-17, etc.). There was no such land as Palestine and no such people as
Palestinians. Its early inhabitants were Kenites, Kenizites, Kadmonites,
Hittites, Perizites, Rephaims, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and
Jebusites (Gen 15:19-21). God never promised anything called "Palestine" to
Abraham and to his heirs. The only land He promised was Canaan: "And I will
give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee all the land of Canaan, for an
everlasting possession; and I will be their God (Gen 17:8); Be ye mindful
always the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an
everlasting covenant, Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the
lot of your inheritance" (1 Chr 16:15-19).

Even had there been a land of Palestine and "Palestinians," the Arabs could
not possibly be descended from them. They claim descent from Ishmael, who
was certainly not a "Palestinian." His father, Abraham, was from Ur of the
Chaldees, and his mother, Hagar, was an Egyptian. Neither of them was one of
the "original inhabitants of Canaan," nor even remotely related to such a
people. The land was already settled when Abraham with his wife, Sarah, and
her maid, Hagar, arrived there.

Furthermore, as late as the 1950s Arabs refused to be called Palestinians.
To the British Peel Commission in 1937, a local Arab leader testified,
"There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists
invented." Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian, testified to an
Anglo-American Committee of inquiry in 1946, "There is no such thing as
Palestine in history--absolutely not!" To the UN Security Council in 1956,
Ahmed Shukairy declared, "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing
but southern Syria." Eight years later, in 1964, Shukairy became the
founding chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. No
"Palestinian," like Arafat, he was born in Cairo.

Abraham settled in Hebron in the land of Canaan (Gen 13:18; 23:2, 19; 35:27;
37:14, etc.). Everyone knows where Hebron and Canaan were located then and
now--nowhere near Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Yet the Qur'an and Islam claim that
Abraham and Ishmael together built the Ka'aba. This is pure fabrication-as
is the claim in the Qur'an that a Samaritan built the golden calf in the
wilderness, 700 years before Samaritans even existed.

Ishmael was born after Abraham had lived in Hebron for ten years. Fourteen
years later, Isaac was born in Hebron to Abraham and his wife, Sarah.
Ishmael mocked Isaac, and Sarah banished him and his mother, Hagar (Gen
21:10-20). From that time onward, Ishmael was no longer part of Abraham's
household but lived far away "in the wilderness of Paran" (21:21). Indeed,
God did not consider him to be Abraham's son! God told Abraham: "Take now
thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest and offer him [as] a
burnt-offering" (Gen 22:1-2).

Thirty-seven years after giving birth to Isaac, at the age of 127, Sarah
died (23:1). Abraham was still in Hebron of Canaan, where he had lived more
than 70 years. He purchased the cave of Machpelah from Ephron the Hittite
(23:1-20) and there he buried Sarah. Thirty-eight years later, at the age of
175, Abraham died and was buried in Machpelah next to Sarah. After Abraham's
death, Isaac continued to live in Hebron in the land of Canaan another 110
years. One by one, Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob, and Leah all died and were buried
in the family tomb, the cave of Machpelah--but not Ishmael. No Arab or
Muslim was ever buried there.

David was first crowned king in Hebron and ruled there over Judah 712 years
before moving his throne to Jerusalem. Hebron is of great significance to
the Jews. Yet Muslims built a mosque at Machpelah, claim the burial place of
Jewish patriarchs as their own, forbid access to Jews, have periodically
slaughtered and expelled Jews from Hebron, and desire to make it Jew-free
today. They also claim that Jerusalem and the entire land of Israel have
always belonged to them, that no Jews ever lived there, and that the
Israelis are occupying Arab land! Incredibly, the world accepts this lie as
the basis for forcing upon Israel a fraudulent "peace" in the Middle East.

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their families lived for more than 300 years
in the land of Canaan, which God had promised to them and to their
descendants. (Arabs never lived there in any numbers until after the
seventh-century A.D. Muslim invasion of Israel.) Jacob and his family
temporarily moved to Egypt because of a famine in Canaan, but remained there
400 years and became the slaves of the Egyptians, then were brought back to
conquer Canaan as God had foretold, establishing them as the heirs of God's
promises to Abraham (Gen 15:13-14).

Thereafter Canaan was known as the land of Israel, which it is called 31
times in Scripture. Its kings ruled from Jerusalem over a vast empire
stretching from the Sinai to the Euphrates, until they were conquered by the
Babylonians around 600 B.C. and scattered to many nations, as God had
warned. Thus, for 300 years before Egypt and about 1,000 years thereafter--a
total of 1,300 years--the Jews dwelled in their own land, the land of
Israel. It is an insult to the God of Israel and to His chosen people to
call Israel "Palestine"! Please don't encourage this lie!

Ishmael's descendants never lived in Canaan. Most of them settled in the
Arabian Peninsula. It would not be until the seventh century, through the
Islamic invasions, that Arabs would come in any significant numbers into the
land of Israel, which in A.D. 135 the Roman conquerors (after rebuilding
Jerusalem as a pagan city dedicated to Jupiter) had angrily renamed
Provincia Syria-Palestina after Israel's ancient enemies, the Philistines.



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