Conjoined Twin Lies by Judaism and Islam

The Twenty-One Century Shelf Life of One Venomous Israeli Lie

Not all lies deeply injure. But there was one First Century Israeli lie that has over the centuries directly or indirectly led to indescribably suffering for hundreds of millions. And these huge numbers of people killed due to this one particular Israeli lie is no exaggeration when it is applied to the horribly extensive, prolonged suffering brought about by that one wicked First Century Israeli lie.

Background

During the time of the Roman occupation of Palestine, Jewish leaders committed a horrible act of gross injustice which they manipulated the Roman governor Pontias Pilate to carry out. The leaders of Israel tricked the Roman governor into sentencing a totally innocent preacher and healer named Isa/Jesus to die by the torturous crucifixion method of execution.

But because this holy man, Isa, was convinced that he had a special calling from ALLAH, he told his followers several times that three days after he was executed, ALLAH had told him that He would lift him up from death to new life.

His amazing prediction that ALLAH would empower him to defeat death, drove the Jewish apparatus absolutely crazy. They greatly feared the trouble that his being raised from death would potentially be to their own monopoly on religious, political and economic power. So immediately after he was executed the Jewish High Priests and elderly leaders charged into Governor Pontias Pilate's office for an urgent official request. They virtually demanded that he assign a group of Roman guards to surround his tomb. Their task was to make certain that his followers did not come and steal his body since the man who claimed to be God's Messiah had confidently predicted that ALLAH would raise him up alive on the third day following his death.

The Roman Governor granted their request and assigned a highly disciplined squad of Roman Soldiers to carefully guard his tomb day and night. They were ordered to make certain that none of his followers would secretly steal his body and then falsely claim that ALLAH had raised him up alive as he himself had publicly predicted would occur. For if his body disappeared from the tomb, the Israeli leaders were painfully aware that this would present them with an unexplainable dilemma.

Miraculously, as both the Holy Quran and the New Testament Scriptures state(which the Quran repeatedly proclaims that it confirms), ALLAH actually did take His Messiah up alive (An Nisa:4:158).

As will be discussed later in this paper, most Muslims at the present time understand that one particular verse in the Quran must be understood to teach that the Messiah escaped from his own execution so that there was no reason to raise him up from death, since he supposedly did not die. But even if his not dying were to be the only way to understand this verse, (An-Nisa 4:157), the amazing fact remains that the next verse of the Quran does clearly teach that ALLAH did indeed take him up alive. Significantly, even this fact agrees with the emphatic teaching of the New Testament Scriptures that ALLAH's Messiah does still remain fully alive today. (An-Nisa 4:158).

But a catastrophic problem occurred for the Jewish leaders, according to the Hebrew author, Matthew, as he revealed in the 27th and 28th chapters of the New Testament Book by his name. (Math. 27:62-68 and 28:1-15).

This former state tax collector, Matthew, explains how on the third day after the Messiah's death by execution, the Roman guards presented terrible news for those same Jewish leaders and Chief Priests who had arranged for the Messiah's execution. Some of the Roman Soldiers came into the city and excitedly explained in detail to these leaders that while they were carefully guarding the Messiah's tomb, there was a great earthquake. Then they elaborated that an angel of GOD descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door of the tomb. They even added the descriptive detail that the angel actually sat on the stone. The angel's countenance was described as being like lightening and his clothing was as white as snow. And the guards further explained how they trembled because of their great fear of the angel and they literally became like dead men.

So at the very time that the Messiah was making himself known to his own frightened follwers, some of the guards who had come into Jerusalem reported to the incredulous chief priests all of these amazing events that had happened.

The Venomous Lie Whose Lethal Evil Remains As High As the Sky

Regrettably, the Jewish leaders were not satisfied with having committed one of the most despicable crimes to have ever occurred in the history of man, the cold blooded murder of ALLAH's totally innocent Messiah. Nevertheless, these corrupt leaders continued to feel compelled to add to their already shameful crime, a venomous, enduring lie that has directly resulted in multiple millions of deaths over the last twenty-one centuries.

When the Roman soldiers reported to the Chief Priests and Jewish Elders about the earthquake and how they personally became paralyzed with fear at the appearance of the terrifying angel, there is no indication in Matthew's account that the soldiers account was not believed by these leaders of the Jewish people. Rather, the indication is that the Chief Priests and Elders hated ALLAH and His Messiah deeply. Furthermore, they themselves were so arrogant, that they thought they could interfere with the plan of the Almighty Creator of the Universe by inventing a particularly wicked lie to cover up the Messiah's being raised by ALLAH from death. Therefore, the Chief Priests told the soldiers that they would give them a large amount of money to guarantee that they told no one else what truly had occurred. Rather, the guards were instructed to lie to others and tell them that they had fallen asleep. And while they were sleeping at night, his disciples had come and had stolen the body of the Messiah.

There are four main things wrong with the Priest's wicked lie. First, if the soldiers were truly sleeping, they could have had no idea what happened to the body of the Messiah since they were supposedly asleep. The second major problem is that the Scriptures speak of some of the soldiers reporting to the Chief Priests about soldiers reporting what had occurred. The term "some of the soldiers" indicates that there were not a small number of guards involved in such an important assignment. So the soldiers were divided into squads to make certain that at least two and probably three or more guards were awake and alert at all items.

The third major problem with the Chief Priest's lie was that the Roman soldiers were well trained and highly disciplined. So the penalty for sleeping on duty and allowing a prisoner to escape was their own execution.

So there is no way that those soldiers had been sleeping during such an important assignment.

The final flaw in the lie was this. The Roman Governor gave his personal orders that the tomb should be made as secure as possible by both the posting of guards and also by placing a Roman seal on the entrance. So the official guarding of the tomb was taken very seriously. But the wealthy Jewish leadership had enough money to keep the right people's mouths shut about the lie. Thus the lethal lie by these unscrupulous professional liars has up until May 2009, been successful. That is, this lie has been successful if causing millions upon millions of innocent deaths can be a legitimate criterion for measuring success.

How can I assert that this one venomous, enduring lie has caused so many deaths? If we were only to use the one example of the extensive deaths and the other pervasive suffering in the Second World War, that would be more than sufficient evidence to make my point. For it is a reality, that if the Chief Priests would have had the love and respect for GOD to motivate them to acknowledge that GOD had actually participated in raising His Messiah from death rather than the High Priest's criminally bribing Roman soldiers to tell a bold faced criminal lie about what happened to GOD's Messiah, that would have had a major historical impact. It can definitely be persuasively asserted that the belief system of the majority of Jewish people would have been much different than their well known rejectionists beliefs about the Messiah which so enraged Adolph Hitler. There can be little doubt that if Jewish leadership had chosen to sincerely repent for their role in his murder, and then had accepted his GOD empowered Resurrection, it would have let the majority of the air out of Hitler's ability to effectively scapegoat the large community of European Jews for the economic problems of Germany.

Admittedly, there were other issues about the Jews that also greatly antagonized Hitler. But a strong case can be made that if the Jewish leadership had not blatantly lied about the resurrection of ALLAH's Messiah, attitudes in Germany would have been much different. If First Century Israeli leaders had rejoiced in his ALLAH empowered victory over death and wickedness, rather than lying about the historical event of his resurrection, the bitter psychological ingredients which provided the rich, poisonous soil of hatred necessary to grow the devastation of World War II, would have been mostly absent. So the First Century Jews enthusiastic acceptance of this glorious triumph would have changed history. At the least, the venomous climate which fed into the world shattering World War II events would not have so potently existed.

Thus there quite likely would not have been the extreme climate for also causing the bloody war involving Japan against the U.S., and Germany and Italy against the U.S., Europe and Russia. Furthermore, it is quite likely that if the Jews had not persisted in their lethal lie about the Messiah's ALLAH empowered victory over death, there would not now be the kind of Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is currently destabilizing the entire Middle East.

Yes, the seemingly insignificant lie of those Jewish leaders about the Messiah's body being deceptively stolen so that ALLAH did not raise him up to his great victory over death, has continued to fester and fester like a wound infected with gangrene, bringing immeasurable suffering in its wake. And all this extensive death and suffering is directly traceable to one exceptionally wicked Israeli lie.

Three Current U.S. Fall-Outs From Israel's First Century Wicked Lie

Yes, if Israeli leaders had had sufficient love for GOD that they would have acknowledge that He, Himself did indeed raise His Messiah up alive, immeasurable suffering would have been avoided. If that honesty had occurred the following three nauseating consequences of the Jews' rejection of the truth of the Messiah's Resurrection quite likely would not now be occurring in the U.S. But in a great contrast to the more just circumstances that honesty would have produced, my own nation consistently and lop-sidedly supports an Israeli nation which has callously displaced Palestinians from Palestinian land and has exploited these vulnerable people in a variety of disgusting, unjust ways.

Three Current U.S. Examples of the Israeli Lie Fallout

• If not for the First Century Israeli Lie, the U.S. would not now be a nation in which both Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates must be publicly pro-Israeli and publically anti-Palestinian in order to win these powerful offices.
• If the lie about the supposedly sleeping Roman soldiers had not been immorally propogated, the following major injustice to the Palestinians would not now be occurring. The U.S. would not be paying the exorbitant amount of ten million dollars per day to the relatively prosperous Israelis. These lavish foreign policy contributions are in order to insure that this highly militarized and nuclear nation has sufficient funds in order to carry out extensive military operations. These include the recent bloody massacre of civilians in Lebanon and the even more bloody one sided assault on the bludgeoned people of Gaza.
• If the despicable lie that has blatantly denied the Messiah's victorious triumph over both death and his victory over the Jews' calloused illegal execution of a totally innocent preacher, teacher, healer of the sick, and messenger of ALLAH, had not been told, the following shame in the U.S. Congress would not now be occurring. (The virtual circus of enormous favoritism and tilt toward Israel's interests was vividly described in the May 2, 2009, Seattle Times under the title of: "Justice Department wants to drop lobbyists spy case."

In this horribly ridiculous and unjust circumstance, U.S. officials have already sentenced one of their own Pentagon officials to twelve (12) long years in federal prison for the serious crime of giving classified defense information to two Israeli spies who were acting as Israeli Lobbyists, Rosen and Eisman. Yet, these two Israeli spies are now not likely to be found guilty of any crime against the faithful friend of Israel, the U.S.

The question must be asked: "Why is it so easy to severely punish a U.S. citizen who was a Pentagon official and simultaneously set the two Israeli perpetrators of the actual crime against U.S. interests, totally free?" The answer that was revealed in the May 2, 2009, article was this. In order to prosecute the two Israelis, defense witnesses such as former Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice and other top Bush officials would need to be subpoenaed as witnesses to testify in support of Israel's interests. Also, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee – AIPAC, has close relationships with numerous ranking members of Congress and other important officials in all sectors of the U.S. government who consistently support Israeli interests, so that it would not be in our own nation's best interests for the Israeli spies to serve prison time.

Ironically, the U.S. Pentagon official, a non-Israeli with a non-Jewish name, Lawrence Franklin, who has already been sentenced to 12 long years in prison, unfortunately for him, did not have similar American connections that the two Israeli spies had. So those significant U.S. connections will prevent the two spies from serving prison time for their obvious crimes against the U.S. as the U.S. citizen sits in prison while the two Israeli Criminals go free. Thus, the absurdity of Israeli authorities blatantly lying 1,980 years ago about the supposedly stolen, deceased body of not only ALLAH's only Messiah, but also is the Messiah of the New Testament Scriptures and is the Holy Quran's Messiah, still defies justice. His supposedly not being raised up alive by ALLAH is remarkably still paying off even today for the benefit of the rebellious nation which callously murdered such a significant victim as ALLAH's only Messiah.

Islam's Twin Sky High Lie Against ALLAH

Please note that I am not alleging that when the Holy Quran states that "They Killed him not nor crucified him" that the Quran is in any way misrepresenting the Messiah not triumphing over death which of course could not have occurred if he had not experienced his temporary death from his illegal execution.

But the tragedy is that contemporary Muslim leaders fail to make the effort to intellectually grasp this one relatively complex reality. The Quran has the absolute right to employ a common literary technique when it is discussing the triumph of ALLAH's Messiah over the evil intent of the Israeli leaders to totally end the Messiah's life forever. Consequently, Muslim leaders end up not realizing that the Quran did not intend for the leaders to take the "not killed and not crucified" words in a literal, word for word way.

Thus, when the Quran emphatically states one time out of the thousands of verses in the Quran and once out of the more than 100 verses in the Holy Quran about the Messiah, that he "was neither killed nor crucified", from a technical literary perspective, this shocking counter-intuitive statement is absolutely true. The son of Maryam, the Messiah, and ALLAH's Messenger was neither killed nor crucified.

The terms "killed or crucified" as used in this verse, are actually intended to convey that it only appeared to the Jews (shubbiiha lahum) that the Messiah's life had been ended forever. Therefore, the next verse states emphatically that ALLAH had raised him up (alive). So he truly had not been killed or crucified. Because it is a recognized fact that truly killed or truly crucified persons are not three days later alive and walking among people and even enjoying a breakfast of fresh fried fish with them.

However, regarding the Messiah, Al-Imran 3:55 uses the Arabic word mutawafik, meaning to cause to die before he was raised up. Therefore, for the Quran to be consistent, it is necessary to realize that An-Nisa 4:157 about the Messiah not being killed or crucified must be understood thoughtfully, but definitely not superficially or literally. So from the fact that the evil intention of the Jews had been to end the Messiah's life forever, since he was indeed often seen alive three days after his execution, it was quite legitimate for the Quran to somewhat mock the Jews for failing in their intended purpose of forever ending his life.

So this deserved mocking of certain Jews by the Quran for the total failure of their futile attempt to permanently end the precious life of ALLAH's Messenger and Messiah was accomplished in this manner. These two key verses (4:157, 158) were virtually rubbing the noses of the guilty Jews in their own muddy lie of his body being stolen, by exposing the obvious reality that by his later being alive, that they had totally failed to forever kill or forever crucify him. Why had they failed? Because ALLAH had used His own Wisdom and Might to raise him up alive as the next verse 4:158, so eloquently and enthusiastically declares.

As for the verb phrase, "shubbiiha lahum", meaning "it appeared so unto them," it is totally inappropriate to use this verb phrase to impose the popular CIA type identity switch on this Arabic phrase. For to do so is to actually mock the majesty of ALLAH by suggesting that His own glorious Majesty would become involved in such a superficial CIA type of mistaken identity switch. Rather, the Arabic verb phrase "shubbiiha lahum" must be understood just as the English translation implies. That is, "it appeared unto them (the Jews) that they had permanently ended the life of the Messiah Isa, Son of Maryam, the very messenger of ALLAH". But, because as the next verse so vividly states, that ALLAH used "His great Might and great Wisdom" to raise him up alive, one wonderful reality became abundantly clear. Though it had appeared to them, the Jews, that they had forever killed ALLAH's Messiah and Messenger whom they hated, this was only wishful thinking or conjecture on their part. Why was it only conjecture? Because the Wise and Mighty ALLAH followed His own plan and not their plan. And His precious plan was to raise him up alive after his torturous, illegal execution.

The Regrettable Lie

Many powerful Muslim leaders strongly resist having the Quran's Messiah who is ALLAH's only Messiah, actively involved in Islam. This is because they are excessively threatened by their great fear of him. They fear that they will lose some of their rigid control of Islam if he is more directly involved with Islam. Especially do they fear that they will lose their tight control of 700,000,000 often downtrodden and not sufficiently respected Muslim women and girls if they allow ALLAH's only Risen Messiah to have a more decisive role in Islam.

Therefore, these jealous, powerful, frightened leaders have selfishly subordinated the will of the all-powerful ALLAH to be less important than their own selfish wills. Consequently they foolishly insist on interpreting An-Nisa: 4:157 and 158 in the most superficial, simplistic and silly way possible in order to lock ALLAH's Risen Messiah out of Islam. These men just don't realize that they are warring against the will of the ALMIGHTY ALLAH by preventing His Risen Messiah from being compassionately involved in Islam. Tragically, in their ultimately unwinnable war against ALLAH and against his anointed Messiah, they are punishing every woman and girl in Islam; especially those who are unfortunate enough to be under the control of the Saudi prayer police or are being viciously harassed by the cruel Afghani and Pakistani Taliban. Thus, these calloused, backward men will not allow this one verse to be understood in an enlightened way. So their hearts and minds are like two tightened fists which will not let go of the awful lie that falsely proclaims that Isa did not die and then rise again. But these calloused resisters of ALLAH's Mercy will finally receive their punishment from ALLAH for especially the way they have not allowed ALLAH's Risen Man from Bethlehem to bring his compassion and healing to precious but captive multitudes of Muslim women and girls. Instead of mercifully allowing him to aid them, they keep insisting upon an Israeli type of destructive, harmful lie that is as high as the highest sky. But as certain as it is that there will eventually be punishment for the calloused George Bush and the rabid Dick Cheney, so will those who pretend to be Muslims but instead are resisters of truth, will finally receive whatever penalty from a Just ALLAH that is their due.

Did The Prophet Muhammad Know The Correct Interpretation?

I am certain that the wise Prophet of Islam knew how An-Nisa 4:157 and 158 were to be understood. But the over zealous Catholic Church's regretful teaching that the One ALLAH had a mother placed the Prophet in a temporary no win situation. For if he openly acknowledged the truth of the Messiah being raised from death, this could have brought the new vulnerable Islamic Faith to too close an association with a partly polytheistic teaching which appears to proclaim that ALLAH had a mother. Therefore, rather than risking that the new vulnerable religion of Islam would be infected with near polytheism and ALLAH's Oneness might therefore be compromised, he was forced by circumstances to make a painful decision. But he also trusted that later Muslim leaders would have the wisdom to make certain that truth ultimately triumphed and that the Messiah's ALLAH empowered resurrection would finally be blessed by being recognized by Islam. However, this would occur only after Islam became stronger and beyond the risk of being pulled into a partial polytheism and potential compromises on ALLAH's Oneness. So the legacy of truth in Islam is now dependent upon whether leaders in Islam will value Muslim women enough to open the gates of Islam to the Compassion of ALLAH's Risen Messiah. When that occurs a horrible lie about the Messiah not defeating death will finally fall to the ground from the highest sky.

Then the One True ALLAH will indeed rejoice. Also there will eventually be much rejoicing and appreciation expressed from women and girls toward those courageous Muslim men and probably many brave Muslim women who have opened wide the gates for ALLAH's Risen Messiah man from nearby Bethlehem to at last be welcomed into Islam.

A Vicious Assault on ALLAH's Eternal Wisdom and Might

Yes, this exciting transformational process for all of Islam will occur when the following courageous step is decisively taken. When at least a few outspoken Muslims will insist that ALLAH's time has arrived for Islam to definitely unyoke its own religion from the venomous influence of Israel's First Century slanderous lie that the Messiah's faithful but frightened followers stole his body. This was a purposeful destructive lie that these disciples who were carefully taught by their beloved Messiah to be honorable, would have suddenly turned into thieves. They definitely would not secretly steal his beaten and bruised body as it was being guarded by a squad of fearfully weaponized soldiers of the dreaded Roman occupying force.

Furthermore, this false information that spewed forth from the lips of these GOD rejecting amoral High Priests was a direct assault on ALLAH's own eternal Wisdom and Might which is emphasized in An-Nisa 4:158.

"But ALLAH raised him up unto Himself. And ALLAH is ever Mighty, Wise."

Since it was ALLAH Himself who raised up his eminent/Wajih man (Al-Imran 3:45) from now occupied West Bank Bethlehem, it is incumbent upon Islam to now make one vital issue crystal clear to all Muslims everywhere. From this day forward Islam no longer desires any continued association with an originally Israeli conceived lie which even suggests a vicious attack on ALLAH's Eternal Might and Wisdom which raised His Messiah. Consequently, Islam must totally disassociate itself from any confused teaching which attacks that which was accomplished by ALLAH's Eternal Might and Wisdom For the crucial fact that must never be forgotten is that it was the Israeli High Priests' degenerate lie which shamefully gave birth to the following exceptionally evil deception. That it was not the Eternal Might and Wisdom of ALLAH which raised the Eminent/Wajih man who was miraculously born of the Virgin Maryam/Mary in Bethlehem from the wicked clutches of eternal death to new life.

The Many Echoes of Judaism's Foundational Lie

The bottom line is that Islam cannot continue to overlook this ominous reality. Islam has inadvertently allowed Judaism's foundational lie to virtually dictate Islam's own chosen theological position that rejects the historical reality that ALLAH raised his own Messiah up from death to life. As a direct consequence of this wrong course which has been influenced by the older monotheistic religion of Judaism totally rejecting GOD's Messiah's resurrection, Islam is seriously jeopardizing its own relationship with the ALMIGHTY.

To put it bluntly, in order for Islam to mend its own relationship with ALLAH, it must no longer in any way continue to mimic the rebellious lie of post Messiah Judaism which belligerently rejects the authority that ALLAH has awarded His Messiah which He powerfully confirmed by His raising him up from death. Therefore, the overwhelming historical evidence indicates that Islam's wise choice must now be to fully repudiate its current self-defeating and even masochistic false theological position of rejecting GOD's Messiah's resurrection. Significantly, this rejection inevitably inflicts serious injury on the rejecter. However, due to ALLAH's abundant grace, self-inflicted wounds will be healed when Islam turns to ALLAH with the sincere acknowledgment of being wrong for rejecting His Risen Messiah which Islam seems much more prepared to do than contemporary Judaism is willing to do.