The Trinity of Rejectionists

Israel U.S. Christianity – Islam

When ALLAH and His Risen Messiah look down on the Middle East, they see three major religious groups that have each committed a horrendous, even barbaric crime against ALLAH. Ironically, however, in our world today, crimes against ALLAH and against His Messiah are usually not treated by the media and are considered by others only as religious differences in perspective. So someone who calls attention to what he or she considers crimes against ALLAH is in danger of being considered a religious fanatic and trouble-maker.

Therefore, crimes which undoubtedly have serious eternal consequences, are treated as no big deal. But the crime of Israel, the crime of present day U.S. Christianity and the crime of Islam are extremely serious big deals. So they deserve to be recognized by all of humanity as big deals. Realistically, all of humanity should be shocked at this crime against ALLAH and against His Messiah by each of these three entities.

Rejectionist Trinity Member One – Israel –

Whether someone who deserves enormous respect such as Billy Graham thinks so or not, the historic crime of the Nation of Israel against ALLAH by rejecting His Messiah is still having extremely serious consequences today. In reality, both the summer 06 massacre by Israel of Lebanese civilians and Israel’s shameful treatment of both Arabs in Israel and in the Gaza strip and West Bank as reported in the January 7, 07 “Nation,” have direct links with the calloused arrogance that Israel exhibited in their rejecting and brutally crucifying ALLAH’s Messiah two thousand years ago.

Jesus’ parable of the “Wicked Tenant” as told by him about the extreme wickedness of the leaders of the nation of Israel, is repeated in its entirety in the New Testament no less than three times. So there can be absolutely no doubt that the most unconscionable, brutal parable of the entire Bible was intended by the ALLAH of the Universe to expose a despicable crime against His only Messiah which all the world’s readers of these Holy Scriptures should seriously ponder. They should also relate this shocking parable to today’s desperate circumstances in the Mid. East. (Please see Matthew 21:33-46, Mark 12:1-12, Psalm, 118, 22 in addition to Luke 20:9-18)

As despicable as the historical treatment of ALLAH’s Messiah was by the nation of Israel as revealed by these three New Testament accounts, one important reality must be constantly kept in mind. So despicable (but not unforgivable) was the treatment of ALLAH’s Messiah by Israel’s leaders that it is only ALLAH and not man who has the wisdom to deal with that nation over that shocking crime that Israel still has not repented of or even admitted.

Unfortunately, a man as wise and spiritual as Martin Luther made unwise statements about the Jewish peoples’ responsibility for the Messiahs’ death which the evil Hitler exploited for his own evil purposes. That kind of hateful, destructive, barbaric behavior must never occur again. So it is definitely ALLAH and not man Who will in His time and in His way bring the nation of Israel to repentance. But Israel’s repentance must be for both the way that nation rejected and brutalized their Messiah as well as for the way that they are now brutalizing contemporary Palestinians.

Rejectionist Trinity Member Two – U.S. Christianity –

By President George W. Bush publicly proclaiming himself as a Christian leader and a large section of U.S. Christian voters making certain he continued his despicable and bloody policies in Iraq, U.S. Christianity has inadvertently committed a horrible crime. It has chosen to join the rejectionist duo of Judaism and Islam in rejecting the Messiah as truly being ALLAH’s Risen, victorious Messiah. The U.S., under Bush, Cheney and Neoconservative leadership, for all practical purposes have replaced the morality of ALLAH’s Risen Christ and have committed the soul of America to actively worship a blood soaked Idol of militant militarism. This means that the living Christ is no longer truly honored by the Leaders of America. Now only Secular Christianity is their Lord. But George W. Bush could not have made this tragic transition without the nefarious and often delusional assistance of the consistently deceitful Dick Cheney.

When six different noted authors of books exposing the immorality and chaos in the war in Iraq met together with Time magazine, they unitedly questioned why it took ordinarily skeptical professional writers so long to get suspicious of whether they were getting an honest report regarding WMD in Iraq. They agreed that it was especially the 100% certainty that Dick Cheney expressed about Iraq being ready to use weapons of mass destruction against the U.S., that manipulated these newsmen into taking so long to get suspicious.

But just look at Cheney’s personality profile. If an American teenager wantonly kills innocent birds for a hobby and not for food, he is probably placed in juvenile detention and quite possibly taken away from his parents and put in foster care after his release from detention. But the press and other media doesn’t even question this Vice President’s hobby of killing innocent birds for sport which are supposedly living safely in their natural habitat. Regretfully, it’s a very small step for a powerful man with his predator mentality towards even defenseless birds, to use the vast resources of the U.S. to kill innocent Iraqi Muslims and innocent American military personnel.

Just look at the arrogance that he exhibited with the Christian Iraqi leader who is now the one being tried as a war criminal while the unimpeached Dick Cheney struts around like an innocent, arrogant peacock. When Tariiq Aziz was willing to give the U.S. all the Iraqi oil we needed from Iraq in order to avoid war, Cheney’s reported arrogant reply was, “We don’t negotiate! We dominate and we take what we want!” Other people’s blood seems to be irrelevant to this delusional man.

So the U.S., under the leadership of such thugs as Bush and Cheney, with much of the U.S. Christian Church not being willing to make a public peep of protest about our whole nation needing to repent over the rejectionist and despicable leadership of these two cow-boy gun-slingers, has definitely moved the U .S. away from spiritual Christianity into secular Christianity. If this now evil position is not recognized and repented of by the former spiritual Christian Church U.S.A., any relationship with the Risen Messiah in the U.S. becomes an individual matter with the U.S. pledge of “Under God” having become entirely empty words with absolutely no spiritual reality or substance. Thus, many Christians in the U.S. will have fulfilled their wish to be partners with Israel in rejecting ALLAH’s Messiah. Because so many in the U.S. Christian church have chosen to reject the morality of Jesus by supporting the exaltation of bloodshed, today they have symbolically and spiritually crucified the heart of Christ similar to how Israel manipulated the Romans to crucify and kill his body two thousand years ago. To blatantly reject Jesus’ morality is to reject him. So we have foolishly resigned from any thing that even resembles spiritual Christianity.

Thus, many in the U.S. Christian Church have now joined the Jews and the Muslims in taking a rejectionist stand against ALLAH’s crucified but Risen Messiah.

Rejectionist Trinity Member Three – Islam –

From my perspective, at this time there is much more hope and much less guilt for Islam, rejectionist member three, than there is for either rejectionist Judaism or for Rejectionist Christianity. This is true for especially two reasons.

First of all, the Jews consciously chose to reject ALLAH’s Messiah in a context where it should have been virtually impossible to reject him. The reality in Israel was that ALLAH was empowering His Messiah to do undeniable healing and compassionate miracles before their very eyes, each of which validated ALLAH’s presence with him. But arrogantly Israeli leaders callously shut their eyes to his righteousness and compassion which was dwelling among them. Unexplainably and inexcusably they blatantly rejected all of this compelling evidence. Instead, they viciously manipulated the amoral Roman occupiers to crucify him, thus temporarily snuffing out the brilliant light of his life. Amazingly, with centuries to reflect on their injustice, they stubbornly continue to reject him.

In addition to this foolish rejection of so much overwhelming evidence, their own historic Scripture containing multiple descriptions of the Messiah and his activities has continued to be rejected even after 20 centuries of opportunity to reflect on their accuracy. So Israel’s rejection of their Messiah is still taking place in the context of a steadfast, overwhelming, stubborn, calloused commitment to reject ALLAH’s own anointed Messiah in the face of overwhelming evidence.

For U.S. Christianity’s rejection, it has been more of a case of life style values. After over two centuries of enjoying the benefits of Christianity, the values of the living Christ regarding the respect for human life have been thrown out the window due to the lust to maintain life styles that only the guarantee of abundant Middle Eastern oil will satisfy. So an idol of violent militarism and an idol of distorted Messianic expectations that has included blind support of Israel in its calloused exploitation of Palestinians, have replaced a humble obedience to ALLAH’s Risen Bethlehem man.

But we will now especially contrast the context of the Muslims somewhat reasonable pressures to reject the crucified but Risen Messiah with the context of the Jews pressure not to reject him. For if the Muslims had had similar opportunities as the Jews, there is virtually no chance that the Muslims would have squandered those opportunities the way historical Judaism has. In fact, in stark contrast to both Judaism and U.S. Christianity, the main element or cause for Islam rejecting the crucial truth of the death and resurrection of ALLAH’s Messiah has actually been noble in its original intent. Their rejection has been a realistic result of shock and confusion rather than an out right rebellion such as is involved in Israel’s rejection and in Western Christianity’s rejection.

For when Islam encounters the calloused truths contained in the Messiah’s own Parable of the wicked tenant, their main response is shock and unbelief. Islam is simply unable to comprehend that the people of Israel would be so rebellious and calloused toward ALLAH, whom the owner of the vineyard symbolically represents, that ALLAH would have allowed such an overwhelming, hideous miscarriage of justice to occur. But now, with the new understanding of the true intent of the verb, preposition and pronoun contained in the Arabic term in the Quran of Shubbihalahum (it appeared so unto them), the Muslims now have the wonderful opportunity to cast off the chains of bondage to a false concept that Israel’s calloused, unjust, savage execution of the Christ, has placed on them. So up until now this unfortunate misunderstanding of historical reality has restrained Islam from the truth of realizing that even a savage execution was not sufficient to permanently defeat ALLAH’s Messiah. Instead, what appeared to be only a horrible injustice turned out to be a magnificent triumph. He victoriously returned to life despite his savage, unjust execution at the guilty, bloody, and unrepentant hands of his own people. (John 1:11)

“He came unto his own and his own did not receive him”

But an amazing transformation is about to take place in the Middle East in these early years of the 21^st century. It will indeed occur because ALLAH is able to do all things. In a beautiful contrast to the ugly rejection by the Jews of ALLAH’s only Messiah, their virtual cousins through Ishmael, the Muslims, will soon obey ALLAH by embracing him. Yes, there is about to occur a wonderful new birth in the now fractured and wounded Middle East which will usher in much needed healing.

In fact, these modified words of an old song partially capture what ALLAH will do for this region through Muslims who are submitted to Him.

“And the Darkness will turn to the dawning, and the dawning to noon day light, and the Messiah’s great Kingdom will permeate the Middle East, a Kingdom of love and light.”

This new love and light that the Risen Messiah will bring will be a pure contrast to the crimson/blood red of the Bush-Cheney type sectarian Democracy that the two of them have tried to force on Iraq through U.S. military might. But ALLAH will accomplish through His Risen West Bank Bethlehem man what the mighty U.S. military-Industrial establishment could never even conceive of accomplishing.

The Marvelous Islamic Contribution

In conclusion it cannot be overly emphasized how hard the leaders of Israel forced themselves to work two thousand years ago in order to deny all the overwhelming evidence that Jesus was indeed both Israel’s and the world’s Messiah sent from GOD. But equally amazing is how difficult it is for reasonable Jews and today’s Israelis to continue to ignore the compelling evidence that he is indeed ALLAH’s Risen Messiah. Nevertheless, it must be acknowledged by U.S. Christianity that the selfish addiction to an affluent life style by so many Christians in this supposedly Christian nation cannot be sending much of a positive message to Jews about how a relationship with the Risen Messiah results in U.S. Christians taking the high road in human values rather than the materialistic and militaristic low road.

A major case in point is how the new Democratic Senator Jim Webb, pointed out the exceptional greed of so many of the CEOs (Chief Executive Officers) of today’s major U.S. corporations he mentioned in his rebuttal of our oil thirsty and bloodthirsty President’s 2007 State of the Union speech. The bold Senator pointed out that these CEOs (he did not mention that many of them claim to be Christians) often have yearly incomes of 400 times what the employees in their companies receive. Undeniably this kind of gross greed by confessing Christians does not give a very attractive message about what Christianity does for a person’s values. This point is driven home all the more strongly when you realize that it is the coercion, and killing that often occurs due to our pervasive military-industrial complex that guarantees these “Christian” CEOs and even all the “Christian” professional athletes their obscene contracts.

In contrast to the small degree of thirst that the sorry state of much of contemporary Christianity has caused other nations such as India, China and Israel to have for ALLAH’s true Risen Messiah, I personally am quite willing to make a bold prediction.

I predict that when possibly a majority of the well over one billion two hundred million Muslims enthusiastically embrace ALLAH’s Messiah as their own Messiah, a positive explosion of hope, zeal and personal commitment will occur that will inspire a new thirst for him throughout the entire world. In fact, I am personally convinced that when the New Testament book of Romans speaks of the Jews being jealous of followers of the Messiah and being compelled to envy them, it is the new Muslim believers in the Messiah who will be mainly the ones to cause that envy and jealousy by the Jews to finally occur.