Israel Still Rejects ALLAH’s Chosen Cornerstone

Also Now Rejects ALLAH’s Chosen Stone

The Greek Dr. Luke could not have made it more clear in his New Testament Book, chapter 20, verses 16-18, that the Jews, for their brutal rejection of their Messiah, would themselves be sternly rejected by ALLAH Himself. Thus, His vineyard would definitely be taken from them and just as definitely given to others for the new tenants to produce good fruit. Consequently, since the founding of the U.S. by many who honored both the owner of the vineyard and the last messenger who was murdered while checking on the vineyard, this nation has had a significant role in caring for ALLAH’s vineyard which are the people who are choosing to respond to ALLAH. However, with the present U.S. leaders’ hysterical over response to 9/11, the U.S.’ responsibility in ALLAH’s vineyard now appears to be greatly modified if not almost eliminated.

In the U.S. election of 2004, a large segment of the U.S. Christian community consciously elected to flagrantly violate important moral principles of both ALLAH and the moral principles of His man of peace from Bethlehem. Consequently, these particular Christians are now heavily complicit in the immorality of the two men they elected to be President and Vice President by their enabling these two deceitful men to initiate and continue the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocents in Iraq. So this large number of U.S. Christians callously stuck by the bloody policies of the two U.S. leaders when they immorally elected them for a second term. Thus, for the foreseeable future a large segment of the U.S. Christian community has relinquished a significant portion of their responsibilities in ALLAH’s vineyard. They simply cannot have it both ways. They either must condemn mass murder of an innocent people that their own elected government chose to set in motion, or they must lose the privilege of serving in the One True GOD’s vineyard. Furthermore, their motivation for stopping their slaughter must not only be to stop the bloody sacrifice of the innocent lives of their own military victims who are being needlessly sacrificed in the unnecessary war these Christians and others chose to initiate in the sovereign nation of Iraq. But these Christians and others also must deeply repent for their involvement in the needless deaths of all the Iraqi people they have caused to be wantonly murdered.

These Christians deliberate relinquishment of their former responsibilities in the world which GOD refers to as His vineyard, obviously has created a major vacuum to be filled by a new committed people who will take seriously their submission to ALLAH and to His Messiah.

Of course the very terms Muslim and Islam have the connotation of submission. So when Islam soon discovers and acknowledges the true meaning of their Quran, that their Messiah who was sent by ALLAH defeated both Jewish rebellion and death, these Muslims will undoubtedly be the ones to now fulfill the responsibilities formerly carried out in Christ’s name by many western Christians. By His resurrection ALLAH’s Messiah received supreme authority from ALLAH. Consequently, the Muslims of the Mid East must be ready to fill the vacuum of serving him created by the European, Canadian and American Christians due to the way that they have de facto rejected some of the main values of both ALLAH and His Risen Messiah.

I am personally convinced that the Muslims of the Mid East are too committed to ALLAH to allow this wonderful opportunity to pass them by. Therefore, it will soon be Muslims who are newly committed to the Risen Messiah who will replace those Christians who have chosen by their callousness and their lust for oil, to lose their privilege of being laborers in ALLAH’s vineyard.

shia, Sunni or Both

My own personal hope is that both Sunni Muslims and shia Muslims will discover the potential forgiveness and reconciliation that can occur due to the death and resurrection of the one man their own Quran proclaims to be eminent both in this world and in the next. However, if either one of these important portions of Islam dig their heals in against accepting ALLAH’s new spiritual life revealed in His Risen, Triumphant Messiah, they put their own group at a devastating disadvantage to the other group. But the disadvantage will not necessarily be a political, religious, economic, military or cultural disadvantage. Rather, the key disadvantage will be the spiritual disadvantage which of course will negatively affect quite significantly all five of the other realms of society.

A New Culture of Hope

At the present time the majority of the Arab Muslim world has been forced by the West to overcome an unfair culture of humiliation and despair which the West has forced upon the predominantly Muslim Middle East. Obviously a good measure of this humiliation has been due to the West unjustly creating the State of Israel in the midst of Arab land. (Israel symbolically represents the way Europeans formerly interfered with Arabs by their unwelcome colonization.) Furthermore, the West made certain that the Arabs were definitely not able to expel the unwelcome invaders.

To further add insult to injury for both the Muslim Arabs and the Christian Arabs, the West made certain that it was the Arabs and not the predominantly Christian West that was forced to pay the price of the German Christian nation’s barbarism against the Jews. So the ultimate humiliation occurred when the innocent Muslim Middle East was forced to pay for the Germans despicable crimes against the Jews. This occurred when the Christian West forced the Arabs to allow an arrogant and aggressive nation of Israel to prosper in their midst. But while the prosperity for Israel  is occurring, the Palestinians are being humiliated by being so psychologically, politically, economically, and militarily devastated and exploited by their situation. Though it was obviously a Christian Germany which committed the horrendous crimes against the Jews, Britain and the U.N. decided it should be predominantly Muslim Arabs who would pay the cost. So Palestinians were ordered to give Jews their Arab land. Even if the Palestinians win statehood, they are still forced to live in humiliation by their overwhelming loss of land. Therefore they still lose. Whether you agree and with the rejection of Israel by both Hamas and by Hezbollah or not, it is Muslim and Christian Arabs who are being forced to endure humiliation and injustice. For how can you possibly describe the Palestinians receiving only 11.5% of the land that was once 100% theirs previous to the 1947 U.N. mandate, to be anything short of a grave humiliation to especially the Palestinians. But this blatant injustice is also a humiliation to all Arabs?

As only one small evidence of how great the U.S. support is of the complete Arab humiliation of Palestinians, let us take a look at what has happened to a former U.S. President who is a respected humanitarian and a compassionate Christian. Since he released his late 2006 book attempting to give a reasonable perspective of the injustice that has occurred to the Palestinians at the hands of the U.S backed Israelis, he has been brutally portrayed by virtually all U.S. media as an anti-semitic villain who hates Jews and loves Arabs.

Fortunately, there has been one vivid and courageous contrast to the vast majority of the media which attempted to make ground-beef out of Jimmy Carter for daring to criticize Israel for its barbaric, unjust treatment of the Palestinians. An article in the January 8,2007 Nation magazine did just the opposite of the other media. Chris Hedges of the “Nation” states:

“In fact, if there is a failing in Carter’s stance, he is too kind to the Israelis, bending over backward to assert that he is only writing about the occupied territories. Israel itself, he says, is a democracy. This would come as a surprise to the 1.3 million Israeli Arabs who live as second-class citizens in the Jewish state. The poverty rate among Israeli Arabs is more than twice that of the Jewish population…”

Regarding the great psychological harm that Israel has purposely inflicted on Palestinians, the Nation’s Chris Hedges quotes the respected Israeli newspaper, Ha’aretz revealing how it is Israel who is responsible for the bloodshed that is even now occurring within the Palestinian community.

“The experiment was a success. The Palestinians are killing each other. They are behaving as expected at the end of the extended experiment called ‘what happens when you imprison 1.3 million human beings in an enclosed place like battery hens?”

But despite all of the whitewashing of Israel’s post 1948 crimes when the West established Israel as a nation by giving them 55% of Palestinian land, ALLAH, from His perspective is desiring to give Palestinians a precious gift even more special. Yes, their eternal spiritual heritage of their Risen Messiah will be even more precious than land. Nevertheless, I will readily acknowledge that it is difficult for all Arabs and even Iranians to view the situation as being as positive as I am describing it.

Yes, both the Quran and the Scriptures are clear that this world will soon pass away. But the spiritual heritage of being the Risen Messiah’s new key representatives, will ultimately compensate for what has been forcefully and unjustly taken from the despised and ripped off Palestinians. Because the Palestinians can now have a much more precious heritage than that now possessed by either the land hungry but Messiah rejecting Israelis or that possessed by the Israeli enabling and Iraqi despising portion of the American Christian Community. For when the entire Muslim and Christian Arab community fully realize the rich eternal heritage they have in their Risen, Victorious, Eternal, Bethlehem man, the 11.5% of Palestinians land, from ALLAH’s perspective, will become like 111.5%. Then those who were once humiliated will be those who in the sight of ALAH, are now His main precious servants. In contrast, the humiliators will become the humiliated until they seriously and sincerely repent. Israel must repent for both rejecting and then murdering ALLAH’s Messiah and also for despising and robbing the Palestinian people. Regarding a large portion of the U.S. Christian Community, this community must first acknowledge the horrible crime in which it has actively been involved while supporting a militarized Bush Administration in unleashing the chaos that has shed the blood of tens of thousands of Iraqis. Then, if especially the part of the Christian Community that is right wing and the large section of the Roman Catholic Christian Community that also has supported the slaughter in Iraq, are ever to find restoration as laborers in ALLAH’s vineyard, they must deeply repent of their part in this extremely despicable crime in Iraq. To support the “shoot instead of negotiate” Bush Administration is not acceptable to ALLAH.

But now there is a wonderful new opportunity for all Muslims who reject terrorism and who are willing to follow the leadership of the Risen man from Bethlehem. They will now be some of the key laborers in ALLAH’s vineyard which is crying out for compassionate laborers who are truly submitted to ALLAH and to the authority of His Risen Messiah.

Significantly, the Greek Dr. Luke and the Jewish tax collector, Matthew, add the same exceptionally ominous warning for any person or entity that is complicit in rejecting ALLAH’s own Cornerstone. For they add immediately after Jesus’ quotation from Psalm 118:22 about the builders rejecting the Cornerstone, their own stern warning that they probably both heard from the Apostle Paul.

“Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces and when it falls on any one it will crush him.” (Luke 20:18, Matt. 22:44)

So, there is added to the warning of being rejected which in itself is extremely grave, being “crushed” which is even worse. Then, with exceptionally great significance for especially today, the Jewish disciple and author of the Gospel of Matthew also inserts this statement of fact before the quotation from Psalms 22 about the rejecters of ALLAH’s cornerstone being crushed. Furthermore, he emphatically addresses his next decisive statement of fact directly to the nation of Israel.

“Therefore, (since you willfully murdered the son of the owner of the vineyard) I tell you the Kingdom of GOD will be taken away from you and will be given to a people producing its fruits.”

According to Matt. 21:41, the Israeli chief priests and elders even accurately predicted severe punishment against themselves by the owner of the vineyard (GOD) after they heard Jesus tell of how they would murder the owner’s son. When Jesus explicitly asked the chief priests and elders what the punishment from the owner of the vineyard (GOD) would be for the tenants shameful treatment of ALLAH’s messengers, they honestly and correctly answered;

“He (GOD) will put those wretches (themselves) to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him (GOD) the fruits in their seasons.”

Yes, it is obvious that at the time of the recording of the wicked tenant account about ALLAH’s vineyard, when Jesus spoke to Israel of taking the Kingdom of GOD from them and giving it to “a people producing its fruits,” Jesus’ meaning was obvious. The Kingdom would be forcefully taken from Jewish Israel and would be given to the Gentiles. And this is precisely what both the Apostle Peter and the Apostle Paul were instructed to do; make their emphasis presenting the good news of the Kingdom of the Risen Christ to the Gentiles instead of to the Jews. Thus, it would be the Gentiles who would bear fruit for ALLAH and it would not be the Jews.

But now let us look at some of the bad fruit that the Western and especially the U.S. gentile Christian Church has recently produced for GOD’s Gentile vineyard which has been led especially by certain vocal segments of the Evangelical Christian Church and by the Roman Catholic Church.

It is not only the Roman Catholic’s bad fruit of materialism where it owns billion’s of dollars of property in the name of the Son of Man who said to his would be followers,

“Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

But leaders of the Roman Catholic Church do not even blush with embarrassment that in the name of the relatively poor and humble Jesus their Church has created a multibillion dollar industry.

Also, another spoiled fruit of the Roman Catholic Church which has brought great displeasure to ALLAH is the fact that until recently it has cultivated and protected within the supposed protective sanctuary of the Church, a virtual secret squadron of sexual predators on the vulnerable children that these supposed priests had the responsibility to nurture and protect.

Then, under the 1998 leadership of the man who would soon become Pope Benedict, the Catholic Church brazenly put out an official paper that openly contradicts what the New Testament and especially the Book of Acts emphatically proclaims, that it is through the name of ALLAH’s Risen Messiah and not through the name of the Roman Catholic Church, that ALLAH bestows forgiveness and salvation. But the scholarly Pope Benedict seems to think differently. For his 1998 paper teaches that anyone who is not in the Roman Catholic Church is at a distinct disadvantage for experiencing salvation.

There were possibly as many Roman Catholics as there were Christian Evangelicals who overwhelmingly violated ALLAH’s standards of morality for the Gentile people who He expected to produce worthy fruit in his vineyard. Because there is no way that fruit can be considered worthy fruit if the vineyard workers are encouraging mass bloodshed in Iraq. Emphatically, that kind of fruit cannot be considered worthy fruit. But the Catholic Church has produced good fruit in its active advocacy for the poor.

But all in all, it is not at all difficult to realize that now is the time for Muslims who will love and serve ALLAH’s Risen Messiah, to become the ones who will produce much worthy fruit from His vineyard for which He has been longing.

There are Christians who will protest that what I predict cannot possibly take place. They will say that there is no possibility that Muslims will imminently replace many Christians in being the main laborers in ALLAH’s vineyard due to Muslims having the wrong set of beliefs regarding the Trinity and Jesus being the Son of GOD. They will further say that even if Muslims do accept the Messiah’s death and resurrection, GOD will not allow a people who do not have all the correct beliefs (as defined by them) to be allowed by Him to have such an important part of producing fruit for His vineyard which is His Kingdom.

My reply is that such reasoning seriously devalues the priorities of ALLAH. If any person seriously reads either the Old Testament or the New Testament, it can be clearly seen that it was not the technicality of correct belief that has the priority with ALLAH. Rather, His first and great commandment concerned the Oneness of GOD and love and the second commandment concerned the love of our neighbors who are our fellow man.

Please, in Mark twelve, hear how Jesus answered the question: “Which commandment is the most important of all?

“The most important is, Hear O Israel: The Lord our GOD, The Lord is One. And you shall love the Lord your GOD will all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: you shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Therefore, in view of this teaching with which most Muslims will fully agree, lets examine the following circumstances.

Let us assume that Muslims come to agree that ALLAH raised the wise and innocent person from death who made these significant statements about ALLAH being One and that love of GOD and love of man are of supreme importance. But let’s also say that these Muslims still hold serious objections to Jesus being ALLAH’s Son and still have objections to a Trinity being the best way to describe GOD.

Now let us further say only for the sake of discussion, that we knew that the Muslims were actually incorrect on their two objections and that the Christians are totally correct on those two points.

But let us further say that these certain Muslims are now exceptionally zealous in their love for GOD and in their love for their neighbor. But let us now observe a crucial contrast. A significantly large group of Christians loudly and publicly proclaim that they love GOD with all their heart, soul, mind and strength and that they also love their neighbors as themselves. But can GOD truly trust their loud proclamation if there is a glaring contradiction to what they loudly proclaim? Because they also say that they firmly believe that it is their national duty to give their support and allegiance to a certain President and Vice President who invent excuses to pursue policies which maximize bloodshed. Also, tragically those two elected leaders have provided considerable evidence that they manipulate truth in order to fit their own perspective. Thus, their manipulation of truth has resulted in a horrible blood bath for a largely innocent people. Now, who do you truly think a compassionate and wise GOD would actually trust with His vineyard? Would it be Muslims who may not use the preferred vocabulary? Or would it be those particular Christians who supposedly use the proper vocabulary but who consistently support their own chosen policies which maximize bloodshed?