ALLAH's Spiritual Violence Toward Saudi General's Proclamation Against His Annointed

"And the kings of the earth, the great men (presidents and senators), the rich men, the commanders, (the generals), the mighty men…hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?" (Last Book of Bible-Revelation 6:15-17).

Immediately, after the General in his Riyadh apartment completed reading from his beautiful Holy Qur'an An-Nisa 4:157 and 158 and making his own false declaration on what he wrongly assumed to be the correct teaching of the two verses he had just read, then KABOOM! At that precise instant that he had completed his false statement; a horribly frightening event suddenly took place that stopped him from saying even one more word. The totally unexpected seemingly violent shaking of the apartment building froze me with fear. The General had just finished authoritatively declaring on the basis of what he said was the only true teaching of AN-Nisa 4:157 and 158 from the Holy Qur'an that:

One – Isa the Messiah had not been killed or crucified so that he definitely had not died.

Two – Since he had not died, ALLAH had not raised him up from death, so there had been no miraculous resurrection.

Three – Rather than his resurrection from death, ALLAH had raised him up to himself while he was still alive.

Four – But on the basis of the verb shubbiiha and its object, lahum, there was the appearance of Isa put on another person who was crucified instead of Isa, while Isa was secretly raised up by ALLAH while he was still alive, without enduring an execution.

Five – Consequently, what the Bible teaches about there being a crucifixion, a death and resurrection of the Messiah is not true because the Bible has been changed. Therefore, it is only the Qur'an which has the only accurate record of what truly occurred to the Messiah.

But at the precise instant that the General had completed his negative summary and cancellation of historical beliefs that he was presenting as the official belief of all of Islam, suddenly, without any warning the totally unexpected happened! KABOOM!

It seemed as though the whole wooden frame apartment building began to violently shake (along with my knees.) And what sounded like nearby explosions or gun fire accompanied the shaking of the apartment. Obviously, the well trained General was much more aware of how to deal with emergencies than I was. So within about a minute and a half he explained to me the natural explanation of what had occurred just as the shaking and noise had stopped as suddenly as it had begun. But neither of us made any attempt to make a spiritual connection of why the frightening turmoil had occurred at the precise second that he had completed his dogmatic statements which totally negated basic historic facts about ALLAH's Risen Messiah. Actually, I did not fully comprehend the spiritual significance of the timing of the sudden interruption of his false statements until months and even years later.

The following is what occurred that day in Riyadh Saudi Arabia at the natural level. With no warning to the two of us sitting in his apartment with the drapes drawn, a very violent desert sand-storm with alarmingly fierce winds suddenly visited that precise neighborhood, shaking the apartment building similar to how an earth quake would. On each window of this temporary wooden frame building there were large wooden shutters that protected the glass windows in case there were such a storm. But either at least one shutter tore loose from its anchor hooks or one or more shutters had not been properly hooked. So there was a loud banging of the loose shutters against the side of the wooden frame building that sounded to me like nearby explosions or gun shots.

It was amazing how quickly total calm returned and we soon resumed our discussion with almost no comment about what had occurred. Actually it was not a true discussion but more of a one way presentation by the very confident General. I was so intimidated by a combination of the Generals rank and my fear of offending him that I barely spoke and sincerely attempted to follow his point of view without ever opening my own Bible. Actually, he had virtually cancelled by his dogmatism the entire Bible because of it supposedly having been changed. I emphasize that the General was an extremely gracious host and even while being quite dogmatic, spoke in a dignified, gentle voice. When I had mostly listened for over an hour, my host closed his beautiful Qur'an and told me how much he had enjoyed and appreciated our discussion.

In fact, I was then thrilled when the General graciously asked my permission to invite several more retired Generals to join our important discussion the following week on the same two verses. Of course I said yes with no desire to rock the boat by suggesting that I be encouraged to open my Bible in order to offer another relevant point of view. But I had already decided that any attempt to present my view would be mostly useless since the General had already emphatically declared that the previous Scriptures had been so radically changed that they were not dependable as a reliable source.

I cannot remember ever being asked in the following four or five weeks by any of the five or six other generals who joined us, for a Biblical point of view from the Bible's accounts of the crucifixion and resurrection etc. Nevertheless, something quite valuable for me did come from this privileged opportunity to sit in on and listen to a variety of different points of view from respected retired Generals. Even though the generals had virtual unanimity in their perspectives about what the verses about the Messiah neither being crucified nor experiencing a resurrection, there was just enough variety in their point of views that they left me with a hopeful impression for the future of Islam, which in a way in now; thirty-three years later. I felt that with the increased access to information that would soon come from the outside world, that progressive, enlighten thinkers wanting truth rather than just anachronistic tradition, would inevitably become more open to what these verses were actually teaching. So I was confident that leaders such as the General would eventually realize that not killed and not crucified implied permanence which was not actually part of the equation in these two verses because the Messiah was obviously raised alive after his temporary death, as 4:158 so eloquently proclaims.

Now I will present my own perspective of the spiritual explanation of why the extraordinary interference from ALLAH'S nature occurred at the precise instant that the General had strongly declared that there was no death and as a consequence there was supposedly no glorious resurrection from the death.

It is Conveniently Forgotten By Most Christians That GOD Loves The Entire Muslin World

I had wrongly assumed for many years that the main disagreement between Muslims and Christians was over the issue of the Messiah being or not being the Son God. Yes, that is the Christian, Muslim manufactured popular hang-up. But I have become convinced that particular issue is not even a minor issue to GOD. But that issue is a big fat excuse for Muslims and Christians to assume that they live on opposite sides of a monstrous valley of irreconcilable disagreement that can never be crossed. And this unfortunate crisis in understanding is probably more the responsibility of the shallowness of Christians regarding the death and resurrection of the Messiah THAN about the theology of Muslims regarding God's Messiah not being the Son of GOD. Also, the Messiah's relationship to a third Century Trinity formula remains a big issue when in my mind it has no business being a major obstacle to understanding. Though Christian Evangelicals spend millions of dollars trying to manipulate, coerce and to lovingly persuade Muslins to become Christians, how many Christian scholars, Christian theologians Christian elders, Christian laymen and to a lesser extent, Christian missionaries to Muslims (I am quite uncomfortable with how condescending the term missionary is) have spent any quality time trying to deeply understand the true purpose of the two profound verses in their context of AN-NISA 4:157 and 158 from the Holy Qur'an. For they only at first appear (Shubbiiha) to teach that Messiah experienced no death at all. Yet, on further probing and looking at other verses which mention the Messiah's death and his resurrection such as AL- Imran 3:55 which uses the Arabic verb mutawafiik which means to cause to die and also clearly refers to the truth of his resurrection. Significantly, AN-Nisa 4:157 and 158 was obviously not intended to mean that the Messiah did not die at all. Rather, it is intended as a severe rebuke and ridicule of the Jews for daring to think that what appeared to them (shubbiiha lahum) was true, that they had accomplished their sinister purpose of permanently, not temporarily, killing their Messiah.

Virtually all of the Muslims in the Mid East and a good share of the Arab Christians can quote from memory in Arabic 4:157 about no death and no crucifixion, casually assuming that the deeper meaning about something so momentous and potentially society impacting, required no deep thought such as the deep thought they give to their man made I-Pods. This is tragic! It reveals a devaluing of ALLAH, a devaluing of the Qur'an and a devaluing the Qur'an's magnificent, Risen Messiah by all of this world's Muslims and Christians. This indifference and amazing superficiality does not go unnoticed by ALLAH.

Two main points that deserve emphasis are these. First of all I don't think GOD is much interested in Muslims announcing that they are no longer Muslims because they may have made a switch over and have become Christians. Secondly, I don't think that GOD is preoccupied with the Messiah Isa/ Jesus being GOD's Son in a so-called Trinity arrangement. So if not, what is GOD's concern regarding Muslims? I sincerely believe His concern is this. He loves each and every Muslim so much that he has a lovely birthday present for each and every Muslim. The birthday present is this lovely present. It is a personal loving relationship with His own Risen Messiah that will endure forever for them even as they remain sincere Muslims.

Here is helpful background for understanding how this birthday present originated. A significant late night secret conversation occurred between an important Pharisee named Nicodemus described in John, Chapter three, about the new birth which is the entry Key which unlocks the door to the Kingdom of GOD.

In order to help this learned man understand how the new birth takes place, the Messiah explained a particularly important event described in the 21st Chapter of the Book of Numbers that occurred near the Red Sea. Significant numbers of Jewish wilderness wanderers staged a serious rebellion against both GOD and Nabi Musa's leadership. In order to put down the rebellion and also to re-establish both GOD and Musa's authority as their leaders, GOD did something scary for the rebellious people. He sent many venomous snakes among the wanderers to give them deadly bites. But GOD has tremendous love and mercy for even those who had rebelled against His authority and against the authority of His Prophet Moses.

So He provided a way for the snake bite victims not to die, but instead to experience total healing and new life. GOD instructed Musa to make a bronze replica of one of the deadly snakes and fasten the bronze snake up on the pole that was erected there in the wilderness. Then when the snake bitten, almost dying victims would follow Musa's instructions and stand and look up at the bronze snake on the pole, only then would the dying person recover from the deadly snake venom and live.

So this opportunity to live, be healed and be forgiven for disobedience was wholly motivated by GOD's love.

Yet, though the opportunity for healing, new life and forgiveness for rebellion was provided by GOD, it still took a definite step of obedience by each snake bitten person. They were required to stand before the raised bronze serpent on the pole and look up before they would experience any healing. Thus, the Pharisee, Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews was taught by his anointed Messiah that it was not on the basis of any one achieving a high religious position such as Nicodemus had achieved, that he would receive the birthday present of a new birth that would entitle him to membership in GOD's new Kingdom. But rather than his entering GOD's new Kingdom by any achievement of his own, it would be on the basis of his attitude toward what his Messiah accomplished for him. It was the healing and new life that was offered through him. He, himself would be lifted up on the Roman execution pole. This was similar to how the bronze serpent in the wilderness had been lifted up on a pole; this obedient act brought the rebellious persons new life when they looked up in obedience. Similarly, each of us is required to similarly look up to the Son of Man (The Messiah) being lifted up on his execution pole for us. (See John 3:14, 15)

These were the Messiah's personal words to Nicodemus about his own being lifted up in the near future by a combination of the Romans and the Jews. "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." (Not just temporary life as the serpent had given.)

As GOD had healed the people of Musa's time by their willingness to look up to the symbolic serpent on the pole, GOD would similarly heal the people of the time after the Messiah's death and resurrection by our willingness to look up to the Messiah who would bring healing and new life to us. But it would be necessary for us to look up to the Messiah who was representing our deserving to die for our own disobedience to ALLAH. This was similar to how the disobedient, rebellious, snake bitten people of Musa's time, looked up to GOD's provision for them. So the two large pieces of wood the wicked Roman occupiers fastened together to brutally and torturously execute persons was their equivalent to the Moses serpent pole that the Messiah explained would be an instrument to bring healing when the courageous, compassionate, innocent Messiah allowed himself to be brutally murdered on it. No, he definitely had no intention of escaping but was committed to being executed.

But it is totally understandable that though the Merciful used a pole with a bronze serpent on it to be a symbol of healing, that Muslims everywhere would develop after the cruel, inhuman crusades, a deep resentment of the execution symbol, the hated Roman cross. This relates back to thousands of innocent Muslims and Christians being cruelly murdered under the disgraceful banner of that cruel symbol, the cross. This was despite the reality that ALLAH had graciously used the original pole as a symbol of healing. But the brutal, calloused crusaders changed the two pieces of execution wood from a powerful symbol of ALLAH's care, love, and healing into what has become, for so many Muslims and even Christians, a symbol, not of love, but a symbol of hate and murder.

So now it is a psychological necessity for Muslims to focus, not on the two pieces of horrible Roman execution wood that was the cruel banner of the murderer crusaders, but to focus on the person who we are told in An-Nisa 4:158 was gloriously raised by ALLAH's Eternal Wisdom and His Eternal Might. So the majesty of the Resurrection as the Holy Qur'an helps us understand, is to focus on ALLAH's Eternal Wisdom and His Eternal Might which focuses not on a pole, or on a wooden cross, or even on a body in a tomb. Rather the focus is on ALLAH's Eternal Wisdom and His Eternal Might which mutawafeek informs us could cause his Messiah to die. (Al-Imran 3:55) He was caused to die as one single person so He could raise him up to be a gift of life for multitudes. For just as one single grain of wheat before it falls into the ground and dies is only one, but after dying yields a multitude of grain. Similarly after the Messiah died, by ALLAH's Eternal Wisdom and Eternal Might, he rose to heal and bring life to multitudes.

Yes, this was similar to how the one grain of wheat eventually, after dying in the ground, feeds multitudes.

Rebellious wilderness snake bite victims had been required to look up to the serpent symbol in order to receive healing. Similarly, as we look up to our Messiah on the Roman execution wood, we also receive eternal healing. So by our obedience in looking up to GOD's Messiah being unjustly executed, we reveal to GOD, not our own achievements, but our own renewed trust in our ALLAH and His gift to us of His now living Messiah.

Because it was ALLAH in His Eternal Wisdom and Eternal Might (An-Nisa 4:157, 158) who victoriously raised him from death. So ALLAH gave us the present of our Messiah's new Resurrection life becoming our new Resurrection life; our personal birthday present from our Eternal Mighty and Wise ALLAH.

So our new birth will be due to GOD loving the whole world so much that he would give new life to any person who would look up to GOD's only Messiah who was nailed to his symbolic pole as Moses had fastened the bronze serpent on a pole. So when persons such as ourselves as well as Saudi Generals will demonstrate our new attitude toward ALLAH, not by our individual achievements, but by looking up to GOD's love gift to us, we will receive new life. Later, we will ultimately be raised from physical death to spiritual life, by ALLAH's Wisdom and His Might.

The kind, gentle and scholarly general was not presenting himself as representing all of the beliefs of Islam. Rather, he authoritatively presented himself as representing only the uncompromising specific belief of the vast majority of Islam about their being no death and resurrection of ALLAH's Messiah. He was authoritatively stating for Islam that ALLAH Himself did not accomplish a magnificent victory over the Jewish system's rebellion against GOD, or over the Roman system's rebellion against GOD, or over man's rebellion against GOD, or over Christianity's rebellion against GOD or over anybody's rebellion against GOD. Rather, the General was representing all of Islam in his straight forward assault against ALLAH by rebelliously proclaiming or implying that the ALMIGHTY ALLAH was apparently unable to defeat the dreadful power of sin and death and the power of Israel through using His own Eternal Wisdom and Eternal Might through triumphantly raising His own anointed Messiah through a glorious resurrection from death.

But in an amazingly vivid demonstration of how impotent man's supposedly clever devices are when up against ALLAH's Eternal Wisdom and His Eternal Might, (An-Nisa 4:157, 158), man's best wisdom could only produce the most ridiculous of myths in a losing attempt to explain away ALLAH's allowing His Messiah to die but triumphantly raising him up to life again. But why do I know that the Saudi General's absolute, dogmatic denial of ALLAH's own Messiah's death and later gloriously being raised alive by ALLAH Himself, was such a significant denial by the Saudi General? It was obvious that the denial was so significant because the ALMIGHTY immediately demonstrated His strong displeasure through violence from nature. So right at that precise second ALLAH prevented any further words of denial from being spoken by the General.

First of all, that meeting between the two of us was, through an amazing set of unusual circumstances, arranged by ALLAH. But it was not a meeting between the beliefs of Christianity and the beliefs of Islam. I have never felt that I was doing anything under the banner of Christianity because I have too many serious concerns with the way Christianity currently presents itself. Rather than representing Christianity, I was meeting with the General in the name of GOD's Risen Messiah who definitely was temporarily killed by an agreement that GOD had allowed to occur between the government of the might Roman Empire Occupiers and the rebellious religious and political leaders of Israel. But, though GOD had allowed the evil of those two entities to unite in order to murder His Messiah, nevertheless, He vividly demonstrated His ultimate power over both of those two ultimately evil entities.

Additionally, He demonstrated His power over death, and over mans state of rebellion against ALLAH. By His magnificent triumph of resurrection, ALLAH entirely transformed what at first had appeared (shubbiiha) to them (lahum) the Jews to be a crushing defeat of a self proclaimed Messiah. But ALLAH turned their apparent Victory into His own wonderful triumph over death and over Israeli plans as proclaimed magnificently in the Holy Qur'an's concise 4:158; by gloriously raising the victorious Messiah from death, to life.

But ridiculously, the leaders of Islam have largely ignored the magnificence of the glorious proclamation contained in the brief 4:158. Also, ridiculously the self proclaimed leaders of Islam have stooped very, very low by being willing to tolerate a silly myth that has been turned into an anti-ALLAH outright lie by making ALLAH complicit in a silly identity transfer.

But ALLAH, when the General made a concise summary of Islam's unanimous belief about ALLAH's Messiah not dying and rising, would no longer silently tolerate all of Islam's united, persistent, prolonged shameless frontal attack against the majesty of His power of Resurrection. So ALLAH suddenly but powerfully revealed through His total command over nature thus, when His command over nature is required to defend His majesty, He will decisively act. He tires of How Islam's leaders audaciously continue their relentless assault on His own Eternal Wisdom, His Eternal Might, His Glory and His Majesty. And that is what the General was doing with his words that day! In my mind he was openly assaulting and insulting ALLAH. But ALLAH, in His patience and in His kindness, gently whispered through a violent storm, "ENOUGH" Mr. General of your arrogant and rebellious insults, against Me and against My Anointed Risen Messiah.

Yes, in a five minute or less dogmatic assault by the General on the truth of the Messiah's having been temporarily killed but victoriously raised to new life by ALLAH, the General in the name of all of Islam had casually wiped out a magnificent demonstration of ALLAH's great love for man. He authoritatively proclaimed that ALLAH had not defeated death or the evil plans of the Jews by victoriously raising His Messiah from death. How did the General accomplish the amazing cancellation of an eternal victory for ALLAH whom the Qur'an describes as possessing both Eternal Wisdom and Eternal Might? By misinterpreting the Qur'an and not allowing that even a temporary death had occurred to the Qur'an's Messiah. Thus, the General's words gave the Eternal Wisdom and the Eternal Might of ALLAH no opportunity to put on display ALLAH's Glory by raising His Messiah from death to life.

The scholarly General was possibly not aware of how he was himself representing all of Islam's leaders in their futile attempt to defeat ALLAH's glorious, glorious power by means of a man invented myth. The main focus of the myth is the notorious identity switch that is so unrealistic and ridiculous in its strategy that it has since many times been successfully imitated by both the far less than trustworthy U.S. CIA and the Israeli Mossad where one man's identity is switched over to another person.

But ALLAH would not allow His great act of supreme love to be cancelled by man, whether or not even a General was being Islam's chosen spokesperson to make the false pronouncement. Nevertheless, I was personally stunned by the dogmatism, certainty and confidence with which he spoke his unequivocal words. Yes, with the General I was overwhelmed and over matched.

But the Almighty ALLAH observed that this one insignificant but stumbling, sometimes faithful, servant of His was way in over his head while being lectured by a General. So ALLAH did not leave the spiritual conflict between truth and untruth to His weak servant. Through His control over nature He figuratively roared like an offended lion. He immediately demonstrated His extreme displeasure with the General's audacious false proclamation. With his quiet words that he was using like a sharp sword, the General was slicing in pieces ALLAH's supreme act of love for His entire world but especially His love for His beloved Muslim world. Think about it. That is quite an enormous undertaking for even a successful General to try to pull off against the Almighty Himself. This was even though the General was spiritually backed by at that time over one billion Muslims.

There was another aspect of GOD's great love for man that was occurring in that small apartment. I was absolutely assured in my heart that it was my Risen Messiah who had sent my family and myself to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. But I also knew that it was definitely not to attempt to persuade or influence Saudi Muslims to change their religion and become Christians. Rather, ALLAH had sent us on order to help both my head and my heart to understand Islam, Muslims and Mecca. And by my being in Saudi Arabia He wanted me to grow to more deeply understand His own great enduring love for Muslims no matter how much Islam and Muslim leaders might relentlessly resist the love He revealed through His Risen Messiah.

But it was not just Tom Griffith as a lone ranger whom he had sent to the Middle East; Lebanon first, Jordan second and then to the Kingdom of Saud. It was a family of seven; an amazing wife and five wonderful but vulnerable children, all under sixteen; four daughters and one son. And even the initial plane trip from Seattle to London to Beirut was no small undertaking. In looking back I realize that if it had not been for the amazing leadership qualities and personal strengths in my wife, this family of seven would not have successfully arrived in Beirut. Yet, I now understand that all of the long trips that I asked of my wife and the many, many moves we made to quite a number of home locations took a health toll on her that undoubtedly contributed to her contracting the often stress related disease of lymphoma which led to her premature joining our Risen Lord in heaven at only 61.

(I find it significant that since stress can contribute to Lymphoma, that this stress related disease also took the life of the dedicated and courageous King Hussein of Jordan, I cannot help but conclude that the deception that my U.S. government used on that peace loving King to manipulate him to make all kinds of useless trips to visit President Saddam Hussein to supposedly prevent the first Gulf War when American leadership was deceitfully committed to causing that war to occur, contributed to his contracting lymphoma which prematurely took his life as it had taken my beloved wife Jean's life.)

But the fact was that in that General's apartment that day my Risen Lord was quite aware of the wear and tear on my wife and family of traveling to various countries in the Middle East. Consequently, when that self assured General was totally willing to wipe out and make useless my entire families sacrifice, my Lord decided to decisively act. He felt obligated out of loyalty to my families' great sacrifice to put on the record his own strong protest through nature that was unmistakably directed against the General's presumption in assuming that he, in the name of Islam, could have the final word. He was presumptuously telling ALLAH what supposedly actually occurred outside Jerusalem in a three day span, two thousand years ago. He certainly did not have the authority to tell ALLAH that His own Eternal Wisdom and His own Eternal Might did not cause a glorious, supernatural resurrection to occur in Jerusalem. And in any major contest between truth and falsehood, truth will finally prevail. And I am assured of this reality even as I add these observations to my web site AlQasas.Net about the victory that ALLAH has already accomplished through His Eternal Wisdom and Eternal Might.

My own hope and prayer for Islam is this: That each Muslim leader and that each Muslim will finally realize that when a Muslim wrongly and even dogmatically insists that ALLAH's now Risen Messiah did not die and was not supernaturally raised from death by ALLAH's own Eternal Wisdom and Might as is expressed so eloquently in the Holy Qur'an's An-Nisa 4:158, that you will realize that you cannot stop, but only slow the relentless and inevitable purposes of ALLAH regarding His Risen Messiah. Thus, you serve no enduring purpose when you uselessly attempt to magnify yourselves against ALLAH's relentless love and against the overwhelming compassion of His anointed, now forever Risen Messiah, who loves each Muslim very much.

The Important Truth For Islam

ALLAH's extremely strong displeasure with one sincere Saudi General's dogmatic pronouncement for all of Islam that His Messiah did not die so that he was not later raised from death, resulted in ALLAH's immediate violent response by means of nature: This sudden response occurred in the presence of the General and myself. Now it is 33 years later that I am writing these reflections on the unmistakable strong response by GOD to the General's emphatic rejection of the historical reality of His Messiah's triumphant resurrection.

Though I have previously written on this web site about the kind General's abrupt rejection of the Qur'an's true teaching regarding these historical events, this very morning I was sadly reminded once again of death's certainty even as I was writing on these events while still in my bed. I received a phone call here in Amman notifying me about the sudden death by heart attack of my beloved older brother Bob in San Jose, California. Although the news grieved me deeply, it also reminded me about a serious reality concerning myself. Due to the fact that my own artificial cow heart valve may wear out in about three years, I probably only have about three additional years to keep urging leaders of Islam to wake up from their deep sleep regarding what the Qur'an truly teaches about the Messiah's death and his being gloriously raised by ALLAH. Thus, as a wonderful direct result of his being raised from death he has meaningful accessibility to all Muslims when they will recognize his presence. And I am so thankful that my beloved older brother Bob is now with our Risen Lord because he placed his own hand in the hand of the man that calmed troubled waters and also who can send violent sand storms in order to stop blasphemy.

Quite relevant to the continuing negative consequences of Muslim leaders rejection of the practical presence of the Risen Messiah in their midst, was another evidence of the harm caused by Muslim leaders counter productive commitment to further injuring American attitudes toward Muslims living in the West. The sad front page headlines in the Jordan Times stated: "Muslim States Seek U.N. Action on West's Islamophobia."

But there is another side to the story about the West's Islamophobia. Here are you, the Muslim States desperately crying "foul!" to the supposedly U.N. Referee to solve a problem that you could mostly solve yourselves. But the solution requires that you be the ones who take responsibility for the root of the problem rather than conveniently laying the majority of the blame on the Islamophobic attitudes of the West for what you yourselves can mostly prevent.

Oh Muslim leaders of Islamic States! There is really no legitimate basis for you to consider yourselves the victims and blame the West since Islamophobia is a problem you have mostly brought upon yourselves by your refusal to reconsider your unwise interpretation of one verse in the Qur'an. Yes, you could quite likely eliminate 75% of the West's Islamaphobia against Islam by finally acknowledging that Israel did indeed murder ALLAH's Messiah. When that occurs, the whole man-made and elaborately absurd identity switch myth is no longer required. And when this new recognition and appreciation by Muslims of GOD's Risen Messiah being spritually alive and present in Arab Muslims midst, that will help alleviate many racist Americans' undeserved phobic reactions to Muslims. (Of course, Muslims do not deserve this phobic reaction no matter what their understanding of the Risen Messiah is.)

Yes, Muslim Head's of State and other leaders of the Islamic States, you will gain a great deal of additional respect from the predominantly Christian West and especially from the U.S. if you as leaders would have the courage to make the modification in understanding of only one verse out of the several hundred verses in the Holy Qur'an. You have been excusing the Jews of actually being responsible for the death of ALLAH's Messiah. Shamefully the manipulative and powerful Zionist lobby has even successfully influenced the Roman Catholic Church to back off holding the ancient Jews responsible for our Messiah's brutal death. So it would be truly refreshing if some nation in addition to Turkey would hold the Jews to a standard which at least resembles truth. Thus, it is high time for the Islamic States to finally have the courage to leap from your anachronistic, counter-productive prevarication that ALLAH's Messiah was not truly murdered by the murderous Jews two thousand years ago. And this tragic theological and public relations blunder on Muslims' part prevents you from having ALLAH's vital approval and additional approval and support from even nominal Christian nations.

When ALLAH is able to observe that multitudes of Muslims have finally made a stand for the truth of His Messiah's resurrection, ALLAH's Risen Messiah then will become truly accessible to Muslims. Thus, the Messiah will become much more helpful to Muslims than either the anemic, Islamophobic U.S. or the U.S. controlled U.N., in helping to end Islamophobia in the predominantly Islamophobic U.S.

So Islam will receive much more support, especially from the U.S., if you will ask ALLAH for the courage needed to distance yourselves from your own counter productive, self destructive denial that His Messiah was supposedly not murdered by the Jews two thousand years ago. Your present false claim is that he was not temporarily killed, so that he was not raised from death by ALLAH, even though this is what the Qur'an so gloriously proclaims. (An-Nisa 4:158 and Al-Imran 3:55) So your false claims have separated you from your Messiah so that you assume that he is not accessible to you.

But this is what appears to be the painful truth about the Islamic States! You far prefer to complain to whomever will listen about the persecution of Muslim's by the West rather than by you, yourselves being innovative enough to solve most of that persecution by responsibly interpreting certain verses in your own Holy Qur'an correctly. Therefore, you must finally acknowledge that the Qur'an truly does teach that ALLAH's Messiah was indeed murdered by Israeli leaders. But the Qur'an also is emphatic that the Messiah was raised alive by ALLAH's Eternal Wisdom and Eternal Might which would certainly not have been used for an amateur identity switch.

But you Muslims have been stuck in the negative consequences of your own proclamation that he was not temporarily killed. So this leaves you asserting that he was not raised alive by ALLAH's Eternal Wisdom and Might. Thus, you continue to resist the real truth of what the Qur'an truly does teach when An-Nisa 4:157 and 158 are seriously considered in combination rather than superficially considered. The challenge facing Islam is for Islam to now be able to acknowledge the truth about the Qur'an's risen Messiah--the truth which is now being rejected by resistant Muslims. As far as I am aware, it appears that I, alone am the only servant of ALLAH in the Arab Middle East who has received numerous signs from ALLAH which have confirmed that ALLAH has specifically anointed me to be an envoy for Him to Islam. And my assignment is to clarify the supremely important truth of His only Messiah's death and glorious resurrection and his present availability to encourage Muslims.

But despite the fact of a strong sign having occurred to myself and a Muslim Saudi General through a serious rebuke through nature of his blatant direct denial of the Messiah's death and resurrection, my needed warnings are consistently being ignored. And despite subsequent virtually annual demonstrations by Israel of their murderous patterns of often murdering Muslims such as the recent innocent families massacre in Gaza and the aid ship massacre of Turkish citizens, Muslims' rigid resistance to truth about ALLAH's Risen Messiah having been murdered remain firm. So Islam, in resistance to ALLAH, remains resolute in always clearing Israel of all guilt for the unjust, brutal execution of all mankind's compassionate, innocent, now Risen Messiah. Yet, both the Qur'an and the earlier Scriptures which the Qur'an repeatedly states that the Qur'an confirms, consistently hold ancient Israel responsible for that brutal murder of all humanity's innocent Messiah. Therefore, if Islam remains steadfast in ignoring the evidence of the Messiah's death and resurrection, combined with my own artificial heart valve soon wearing out, that may result in my own imminent death so that the following reality will soon present a serious disadvantage for Islam.

Islam will probably be forced to wait for an additional generation for ALLAH to raise up and train another dedicated envoy like myself to plead and persevere in prayer and persistent communication for Islam to acknowledge the truth from the Muslims' own Qur'an about their Risen Messiah.

In the event of my potential death, Muslim people may continue to lose out on a comprehensive solution to helping Islam as a whole to leave behind its comprehensive rejection of ALLAH's Risen Messiah who defeated both the rejecting Jews and through ALLAH's Wisdom and Might, defeated death itself. So his comprehensive victory makes him available to all Muslims. I am not boasting but only stating my view of reality when I observe that I seem to be the only person whom GOD has specifically assigned to work on this dilemma of Islam's rejection of the Risen Messiah in a comprehensive way.

So I ask, will the exploited Muslims of the Middle East benefit from waiting an additional generation for a new envoy to be trained by ALLAH so Muslims will have opportunity to be blessed by each of the Spiritual benefits that come from fellowship with ALLAH's only Messiah? But this generational delay will quite possibly be the reality if Muslims continue to blatantly reject ALLAH's compassionate, accessible Risen Messiah.

The Rotten Fruit of Wickedness

The infamy of a wicked act is infinitely greater than mere man is able to imagine. It is indeed a wicked act, although an unintended act against ALLAH Himself for a Muslim of status to boldly assert in behalf of all of Islam that the Creator of the Universe did not victoriously raise His own Anointed Messiah from death. But that is precisely what the General did do. Therefore, it must be considered an act of ALLAH's great undeserved Mercy that instead of shaking only one small apartment building in Riyadh Saudi Arabia, He did not also shake Holy Mecca or even shake all of the cities and towns of all of Saudi Arabia, as far North as Sakakah.

For those individual Muslims who are falsely convinced that ALLAH will not hold them personally responsible for rejecting what ALLAH has done for them through His Risen Messiah, that is not the case. They mistakenly think that because most all Muslims also reject ALLAH's Risen Messiah, that it is no big deal that they personally reject him. Believe me that is not an excuse that ALLAH will accept. Each individual Muslim will be personally responsible for his or her own decision.

For those Muslims who continue to hide behind the fact that they wrongly think that the Qur'an teaches that the Messiah was not even temporarily killed or crucified, they are completely wrong. For what the Qur'an does teach is that it appeared to them (the Jews) (shubbiiha lahum) that they had permanently killed him. But he could not have been permanently killed since the next verse eloquently proclaims that ALLAH raised him up alive. So of course he could not have been permanently killed or crucified as 4:157 only appears to tell us but does not actually teach us that. But it does teach us that it did indeed appear to the Jews that he had been killed permanently.

For those Muslims who will attempt to hide behind the false assumption that all Muslims are obligated and required by the strong wording of 4:157 that you must continue to cancel the Messiah's death and resurrection because you assume that is what 4:157 commands that you do, you are wrong.

If you make that one set of words in Nisa 4:157 become your excuse for your personal rejection of historical truth, this is what you will ultimately experience. Your excuse that you confidently hide behind for your rejection of your now Risen Messiah will be blown away as one breath of wind blows away a desert tumbleweed.

Oh leaders of Islam, regarding your declaration of War against ALLAH regarding whether His Messiah was raised alive by Him. This is not a mere theological dispute. Rather, you are staging an uprising against ALLAH's Authority. The reality is this. The arrogance of your denial in the light of the overwhelming opposing evidence in the Holy Qur'an has not only budded but your arrogance has already blossomed.

Please be aware that ALLAH does not for long tolerate the evil odor of arrogance. In fact, the Qur'an states explicitly in AL-Qasas 28:39 and 40 that it was the arrogance of Fir'aun and his hosts that was the final cause of Pharaoh's mighty army being thrown into the (Red) Sea. And that total destruction of Pharaoh and his army that occurred in the sea that was caused by arrogance is mentioned in the Qur'an ten times. Yes, the total annihilation occurring in the sea is spoken of ten different times in ten different surahs with the despicable term "arrogance" used to characterize Fir'aun four times in four different chapters.

I will be emphatic. It is no longer a polite theological disagreement that exists between ALLAH and the leaders of Islam about whether the Messiah actually was indeed murdered by the Israelis and was later raised from death by ALLAH's Eternal Wisdom and Might as the Qur'an declares. (4:157, 158). There are numerous compelling reasons that I have discussed in my writing why the following explanation is the most reasonable way to understand AN-Nisa 4:157 and 158. It appeared to the Jews (shubbiiha lahum) that they had permanently killed the Messiah but they were totally wrong about his permanent death. Because the next verse is emphatic that ALLAH took him up alive. However, if Muslim leaders insist on rejecting the meaning of mutawafiik (caused to die), used in 3:55 and if they also reject the explanation of why the verse does mean that ALLAH did raise him up after he was temporarily killed but not permanently killed, there is an alternative unacceptable explanation about what the verse 4:157 states.

Many Muslim leaders believe that the verse as it is worded needs no attempt to further understand what it means other than to take it absolutely literally as it is worded. So that approach means that there is one verse in the Qur'an which truly does teach that the previous Scriptures were comprehensively changed. But such a verse does not exist. The Qur'an does not teach that the previous Scriptures were changed, Rather the Qur'an emphatically teaches that the Qur'an does emphatically confirm these Scriptures comprehensive teaching on the Messiah's death and resurrection. So that line of illogical reasoning that 4:157 must be taken literally leaves Muslim leaders with emphatically insisting that AN-Nisa 4:157 is emphatically wrong in its statement about the Messiah being not killed, not crucified and not raised alive by ALLAH'S Eternal Wisdom and Eternal Might. And I don't think Muslims want to take the position that the Qur'an is definitely and emphatically wrong.

Since the Jews truly did manipulate the Romans to kill and crucify him, this servant of ALLAH flat out rejects the conclusion that the Qur'an is wrong in the verse 4:157. Rather, I totally accept the conclusion that the verse is correct as it is worded when understood reasonably instead of understood superficially. And this is the line of reasoning I will die proclaiming; that the Messiah both died and was raised alive by ALLAH's Eternal Wisdom and Might. And that that is what the Quran teaches when understood correctly rather than superficially.

But if I am tortured, because I am so weak I may change what I say. But what I may say under torture will never change the facts of ALLAH's Messiah's torturous death and glorious, triumphant being raised alive by ALLAH's Eternal Wisdom and by ALLAH's Eternal Might.