Magic Johnson's Wise Words Applied to Rejecters of Muslims

"They still don't get it!"

Whether Magic Johnson is right or whether the other basket ball star, Isaiah Thomas, is right, I will not even attempt to guess. But I am certain that Magic Johnson's observation in his book that critiques Isaiah Thomas for causing himself to be left off the 1992 U.S. Olympic Team has a wise lesson for some in the Christian Church regarding their predominantly cold if not hostile attitude toward the Muslims whom the Living Messiah dearly loves. Magic Johnson, according to the October 23, 2009 Seattle Times stated rather sadly, "I'm sad for Isaiah. He has alienated so many people in his life and he still doesn't get it."

As far as the Christian Church and Muslims are concerned, for the majority of the Christian Church U.S.A., alienating Muslims as it is said that Isaiah Thomas alienated others, it is not so much individual Muslims who some Christians mainly alienate. Rather, by the cold, indifferent, even hostile way that these Christians disregard Muslims, they are alienating themselves from GOD by disobeying Him.

In the two and a half years pre 9/11 time when GOD gave me the three consecutive break – though vivid visions about a significant portion of Islam coming to have a whole new perspective on the temporary death and being raised from death by GOD of His Messiah, not one Christian from the entire Church where I experienced the visions has asked me one question about the content of any of the three visions about Islam. Rather, I was treated somewhat like I had vomited at Church for having the poor judgment of allowing GOD to cause me to have involuntary visions during His Communion Service.

Yet, according to Samuel 3:1, it was a negative sign of the lack of the blessing of GOD when visions were absent.

"In those days the word of the Lord was rare; there were not many visions."

Nevertheless, though the inspired Scriptures support a wholesome respect for inspired visions, this Church showed zero respect for the three visions GOD unexpectedly revealed at their Communion Service. In fact, the Scriptures predict in both Joel 2:28 and the Acts 2:17 that visions would be an important phenomena inspired by GOD's Spirit in the last days. Nevertheless, I was not only once, but twice, twelve years apart, kicked out of their Church for receiving visions which were favorable to Muslims. Yet, even more preposterous and a self defeating indictment of this Church leadership being so satisfied with their status quo and being so Muslim phobic, not one Church leader had any curiosity about the contents of the visions. Additionally, the two elders did not even ask me one word about their content when I got together with them for lunch 12 years after the visions. Instead, they once again excommunicated me from their Church, but this time for mainly being too radical in the contents of my web site.

Yet, here I am writing papers for my web site that according to the teaching of the inspired Scriptures there is teaching that could positively and constructively impact the hearts of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Yet, not one Church leader has revealed one ounce of curiosity about the content of these former visions. Of course, the one exception was that the one outspoken elder had heard enough about me having hope for Muslims more fully embracing the Messiah that he unilaterally decided that such an outrageous anti-Christ thought was enough to have me barred from his Church forever. And strangely, 12 years after observing me being unceremoniously kicked out of the Church by him without hearing one word of explanation about the content of the visions, there was still no curiosity about their content. This is, even though our U.S. government is in danger of destroying the value of the U.S. dollar by investing in a very, very, very expensive unwinnable war in Afghanistan where Taliban hearts and minds need to be healed by the good news about ALLAH's Risen Messiah rather than Taliban bodies being destroyed. Significantly, I address one entire paper to helping the Taliban replace their desire for revenge against the U.S. foreign invaders with GOD's Risen man from nearby Bethlehem. And I felt tremendous leading from GOD in that strategic writing that could very well be beneficial to both the Taliban, to all of Afghanistan, to the U.S., and to NATO.

Please ponder what our present course of excessive money expenditure in Afghanistan will do for our children and grandchildren regarding our own potentially destroyed economy, according to Clyde Prestowitz, President of the Economic Strategy Institute. (CS Monitor-October 25, 2009.)

"The War's cost and the Weakness of the dollar definitely should influence President Obama's decision on troop levels. We are printing money" warns Prestowitz, and too much of that leads to a currency collapse, as has happened in the past in Argentina, Germany, Russia and Japan."

But the Christian Church, U.S.A., as symbolized by my all too representative rejecting Church experience, fails to factor in what the Christian Church supposedly stands for; the impacting of personal lives, nations and empires. And right in this one Church, GOD gave this limited capability writer three dynamic visions relating to these very international nation impacting issues. So the leaders' response, instead of being curious, due to their being so certain that our Risen Jesus/Isa could not possibly be interested in broadly impacting Islam, they have twice excommunicated me.

You know, it was too bad that at the time of the Prophet Daniel, that the Kingdom of Babylonia under Belshazzar degenerated so much that GOD had to interrupt a drunken royal banquet with a solemn warning. The warning suddenly came through a mysterious single finger writing a short message on the banquet hall wall in a secret language. But even though many were intoxicated, at least this unexpected message frightened the drunken party attendees so much that they had appropriate curiosity about what the mysterious message said instead of an elder like mentality that assumed that they had no interest in what the message might mean to them.

But this Church twice excommunicated a servant from their presence without even one person ever asking him one question about what the message was that the visions were bringing. It seems that they are not only Islam-phobic, but that the GOD that they believe in is so small that they could not trust in the possibility of Him being capable of bringing an important message for both their Church and for Christianity through such an unimportant person who they assumed that they knew so well. But though I absolutely am no Daniel, I do take prayer about these issues regarding GOD'd love for Muslims at least half as seriously as Daniel took prayer regarding the issues impacting his time. So that consistent, intensive prayer on my part could be a large part of the reason that GOD entrusted me with the visions that the elders could not care less about. And apparently, they consider these GOD inspired visions as irrelevant, even though the evidence indicates that the Almighty GOD was their source. Or if Magic Johnson's words are applied to this sincere, but self confident Church: "They still don't get it."

Three Gift Visions on Resurrection Sunday

I am not being facetious, but am actually being solemn when I make the following sad observation about the elders of this Church regarding their disrespectful negative attitude toward a Muslim people whom GOD dearly loves and toward despising Prophesy and visions. From how they have unanimously shown no interest or curiosity whatsoever in the content of the three supernatural visions that the Almighty GOD chose to supernaturally reveal at their Communion Service, I sense an obligation from GOD to be sincerely critical of what appears to be irresponsible complacency and calloused, obstructionist bureaucracy.

The three visions occurred on the special Resurrection Sunday that is usually viewed as symbolic of new life. Therefore, it should have been a unique honor to the people of this Church that they were especially chosen to have revealed in their midst that there would soon be a wonderful new relationship for multitudes of Muslims with GOD's Risen Messiah. But instead, among the elders, there was not even interest or curiosity about the actual content of the three unique visions.

At the elders meeting eight or nine days later, one hostile elder with considerable conviction made it clear by implication that even GOD would not be allowed to violate their Church's territorial rights. And certainly He should not allow any revelation about new spiritual life for Muslim people to be revealed in their Church during their Communion Service while they were remembering their Lord's death. This elder may not have used the possessive word 'their' these four times. But it was clearly his implication that the other elders did not disagree with, that there was no room for anything positive to be ever said about GOD's love for Muslims to be stated on any Sundays at their Communion Service whether or not this was revealed in visions which supposedly had GOD as their source or not.

In contrast to his narrow opinion, I have been led to understand from both other believers and from the inspired Scriptures that the purpose of the Communion Service is to remember Jesus' death which has occurred for all the World's people and not just for the people of that Church and not even for only those who use the term Christian to identify themselves. When I read Revelation 5:9, the precious word 'blood' is spoken of, the very blood that the grape juice or wine is symbolic of which we taste at the very Communion Service which this elder so emotionally excluded Muslims from ever being involved in.

Every Language, Every Nation

"And they sang a new song: You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were slain and with your blood you purchased men for GOD from every tribe and every language and every people and every nation."

Please note that since every language and every nation are mentioned, this must include the Arabic Language and Arab nations such as Saudi Arabia, where the word ALLAH is the Arabic word for GOD. Yet, when I used this word on my web site, I was told that this was one of the reasons that Christian's might think that I am a terrorist and thus be a valid reason to exclude me from their Church.

But at the elders meeting the main evidence that the one elder used against me that supported the need for my exclusion was that Muslims had once mistreated his brother or other relatives (and this somehow made all Muslims bad and beyond forgiveness) and that young people in the Church complained to him about my mentioning Muslims in a positive light, (this was even before 9/11) and was another reason to exclude me. Yet, these charges were strong enough that I did not have one of the elders ask me about the content of those three supernatural visions regarding the future of Islam for 12 and one half years. Nor was there even one question asked about their content in the two meetings that I had with the two elders who once again excluded me from their Church. Yet, the visions were obviously not dreams because they were quite logical, orderly and sequential and occurred in the exact place and at the exact time that it was totally appropriate for GOD to give them to me both for the benefit of the Church and for the benefit of Islam. This was especially true since the two former leading elders of that Church at precisely ten year intervals had virtually prophesied to me that in the relatively near future, GOD would uniquely use me to have a major role in Islam more fully embracing the Risen Jesus as the Risen Messiah for Muslims.

Yet, as a further major contradiction to all of these occurrences that should have triggered their deep thought like the mother of the Messiah often continued to consider the implications of unusual occurrences in her own life and did not just ignore them. Yet these men each had as an integral part of their belief system that all Muslims need the Messiah regarding their future destiny. Still, each one of these men was very comfortable in treating me as if I had leprosy and had the potential to infect their Church if they did not quickly exclude me and show disciplined, unified disinterest in the content of the visions and the positive implications that the three sequential visions might have for the spiritual future of multitudes of Muslims.

The Writing on the Church Wall

Therefore, on the basis of the unanimous disinterest by the elders in these apparent communications from GOD to a formerly respected member of their Church, I consider the following to be a safe assumption. Let us imagine that these elders are having their usual elders meeting in their Church's kitchen. But suddenly the meeting is interrupted by a Book of Daniel type of a short message being written on the kitchen wall with one mysterious finger. If this occurred, I sincerely submit that on the basis of these men's totally absence of interest in the orderly, logical, three visions, I had in their midst, the following would predictably be their response to this unexpected interruption to their meeting by a mysterious finger writing on their wall. They would continue with their meeting while two of the elders would look in the kitchen shelves for a small table cloth to somehow hang over the unwelcome, distracting message. (In fact, two of the more legalistic elders turned their chairs around during the meeting so they would not even be distracted by seeing the table cloth.) Immediately after the meeting they would cooperate together to use soap cleanser to scrub the annoying distraction off their wall.

Significantly, there would be no curiosity about the content of the mysterious writing. Rather, their only discussion would be about how inconsiderate the Source of the writing had been to interrupt their important meeting by sending this finger to write on their wall. Inexcusably, these rigorous status quo elders would have no curiosity about the content of the supernatural writing on the wall whose author, like the author of my own sequential visions about Islam, must have been GOD. Because why should these elders be interested in the message from one finger when they were totally disinterested in the content of three logical, sequential messages not from only one finger, but through one whole human being whom the former leaders of this Church had very much respected? Yet, for 12 and a half years these elders were well aware that each of the three sequential messages in the three visions were each about something positive for the future of the religion of Islam which is significantly considered the world's most rapidly growing religion. Nevertheless, they were not in the least curious about these three messages concerning something positive about a religion that they are quite suspicious of that came by way of a whole human being. So for all these long years they were aware of these visions and as responsible leaders, they should have now been all the more interested in their content due to 9/11, due to the Iraq War primarily against Muslims and due to the War in Afghanistan which is also primarily against Muslims and due to the world-wide "War on Terror" which is also primarily against those who call themselves Muslim. Additionally, it is the world-wide-religion of Islam that U.S. Christianity has the greatest need to be knowledgeable about due to the hostile intent that a small minority of its members have against the U.S.

Other Willful Ignorance

The only other example that I can think of that has ever demonstrated such self inflicted damage by such willful ignorance and lack of responsible curiosity as was and still is exhibited by these unconcerned elders was that similar lack of responsible curiosity that was also exhibited by President George W. Bush. For example, after General Jay Garner was brought back from Iraq after being relieved of his position of Administrator of the U.S. Provisional Government in Iraq, what President Bush did not do, cost both the U.S. and Iraq rivers of Iraqi and American precious blood, plus countless severed arms and severed legs and many needless and preventable U.S. divorces.

The Shock for General Jay Garner

Why did all of this needless human suffering and savagery occur in Iraq? Because, like the Church leaders, the leader of the entire U.S. who started the entire Iraq War had no curiosity whatsoever about something that had extreme importance to a President with his extensive responsibility. The replaced administrator of the U.S. Provisional Government of Iraq, General Jay Garner, could not believe President Bush's bizarre, irresponsible, frivolous attitude when he privately met with him for a vital debriefing in his oval office. Unbelievably, there was absolutely no debriefing because zero questions were asked of General Garner about conditions in Iraq and he was not asked for any recommendations that he would have, to his total astonishment. But our President did have time to joke about what a good job the General had done in Iraq.

But how did the fact of no questions change anything and cause so much precious, but unnecessary shed blood to flow? Because the main agenda item which the General wanted to share with the President was this. He planned to urge the President, no matter what, to not allow Paul Bremmer to foolishly, counterproductively, irresponsibly, and dangerously disband the important in place Iraqi infrastructure which involved the future allegiance and support of thousands of Iraqis to the U.S. But the extremely irresponsible U.S. leader did not want to hear any news about the conditions for the Iraqis, even though it was their sovereign land that he had illegally invaded.

Bush Planted the Iraqi Insurgency

So the entire Iraqi stabilizing infrastructure was ignorantly and irresponsibly disbanded with the horrible result that most of the thousands of resentful, enraged former government employees, former police, and former military, who were now unemployed, suddenly flooded over to the insurgency to violently oppose the Americans with deadly roadside bombs and every other deadly weapon they could lay their hands upon. So It was mainly George Bush's Church elder-like lack of curiosity that laid the firm foundation for possibly tens of thousands of committed, enraged, mostly Muslim citizens of Iraq, to immediately begin to kill and maim so many innocent human beings whose lives and blood are precious to GOD.

Though it is seldom mentioned, the President's total aversion to having vital information is also largely responsible for the horrible bloody chaos that now exists in Afghanistan. For a bloody mess was created in Iraq when our irresponsible leader would not accept wise counsel from General Garner about what needed to occur in Iraq in order for there not to be bloody chaos there. But that chaos that the lazy President caused needed troops and resources to be diverted from Afghanistan that directly resulted in the situation in Afghanistan to deteriorate so badly which President Obama is now unfairly being blamed for. As proof of all the horrible death and suffering caused by our President's total lack of curiosity and abundant irresponsibility, we can view all of the bloody evidence today and read the grim statistics.

The Blood That Responsible Elders May Have Prevented

In contrast to what we know about what neglect caused to occur in Iraq, we will never know the extent of the suffering and horrible bloodshed that may have been potentially prevented if it had not been for a combination of lack of responsible curiosity by each of the elders as well as the contagious hostility by one elder toward me in particular and toward Muslims in general. For it is quite possible that if those few elders would have responded prayerfully, responsibly, and with Christ's love instead of unjustified suspicion and hostility, the entire world may have been impacted positively. For GOD seeing a few persons in one Church consistently pouring their hearts out in loving intercession for Muslims could have easily influenced Him to intervene to prevent 9/11. (Please see Psalm 106:23 for the significant, world influencing impact of only one praying person.)

Let us say that the elders' response to these three sequential, logical visions would have been respectful in a context of believing the authoritative teaching of the Scriptures that there are definitely unique situations when GOD communicates through visions especially to those who, for whatever reasons, are preoccupied with consistent believing prayer. So let's also say that at the elders meeting, when one of the elders became hostile with me and with Islam for my having those involuntary visions which were positive about the future for Muslims, that instead the elders had taken a calm, responsible approach to the one enraged anti Muslim elder. So they calmly, but firmly and fairly suggested that I be allowed a few minutes to explain the visions and my own vision for Islam, so that each elder could come to a more judicial conclusion on whether GOD might actually have a message for them and possibly also a message for an interested few compassionate members of their praying Church, so that they would faithfully pray rather than being suspicious.

Wonderful Outcomes Instead of Blood and Tragedy

You know, since GOD has a record of answering sincere, believing prayer, the following may actually have been a result of a few in that Church being given enough information to fervently and compassionately pray for Muslims. GOD had uniquely sent those clear, concise messages on Easter Sunday, the day of new beginnings. So even if a few believing persons in that Church had rigorously committed themselves to prayer for Muslims on the basis of the visions instead of allowing one angry man to influence them to suddenly turn on both Muslims and me with suspicion and hostility, what a difference this could have made for our seriously wounded world. Therefore, we cannot rule out this following distinct possibility.

GOD was quite possibly looking for some loving, praying people, not condemning suspicious people, whose faithful prayers would prevent 9/11, would prevent the Iraq War, would prevent the Afghanistan War, would prevent the stock market crash, and would prevent unimaginable bloodshed and suffering. But as the Prophet Ezekiel succinctly states in Ezekiel 22:30, with great disappointment, GOD was unable to find those men and women when He was looking for a person or persons to stand in the gap for the land to prevent Him from destroying it. But tragically He found none. Consequently, due to the absence of praying, pleading intercessory people whom GOD could not find, the whole land reaped the horrible consequences of GOD not being able to find even one person to stand in the gap with His Prophet Ezekiel/Hezekiel. Consequently, the whole land horribly suffered.

To once again modify the wise and sad observation of Magic Johnson and apply this observation to the leaders of this Church: "They still don't get it!"

They totally failed to believe that GOD sometimes communicated in special situations in special ways. But if they would have cared and not have been so coldly hostile and rejecting to a Muslim people whom GOD dearly loves, they would have understood; they would have forgiven; and they would have compassionately prayed. But instead they resorted to a decidedly unchristian knee jerk rejection, seasoned with suspicion and hostility.

Don't Ridicule but Pray and Tremble

Even believing Christians may ridicule my suggestion that the prayers of faith from sincere believers at this one Church could have had such a positive, preventative impact on world affairs. But such skeptics must have never taken seriously the Scriptures written by the brother of our Risen Messiah; James. He pleads for believers to take very seriously how world impacting events are intended to be influenced by earnest prayer when he gives the example of a very human, human being like us who at times became very tired, extremely afraid and quite discouraged; GOD's Prophet Elijah. Listen to James' plea to us who are living in this war torn 21^st Century. He uses this very human Prophet Elijah as our model so that we will pray fervently and not avoid serious prayer even when an angry Church Elder attempts to divert our attention away from the prayer that our all powerful GOD may have called our Church to through the information from three visions and information from one of His unworthy servants.

The Mighty Prayer of Weak Elijah

"The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed and the heavens gave rain and the earth produced crops."

Lesson from a Coaching Staff

The coaching staff of a Junior High basketball team would not allow one of their own resentful coaches to take control of their planning meeting and even use the concerns of children to intimidate the other coaches so that they would remain silent. But this is what happened in this Church of the Risen Messiah even after visions had been given in their midst in order to facilitate the content and fervency of their prayers for Muslims. One angry man was able to easily divert the responsible administration of one of GOD's Churches in a manner that Jr. High basketball coaches would never allow to occur. So in Magic Johnson's words: "They Still Don't Get It"

And even after 12 more years, 9/11, two wars and rivers of blood, "they still don't get it." What will it take for them to get it? A depression like 1928 to 1933? Or a possible U.S. invasion by China? Or will it only take China calling for all of their money back that they have loaned to the U.S. to support our economy and thus China will destroy our economy? Then will these Church leaders get it and finally understand?

Whether or not Christian leaders are even concerned, it seems like it would be more responsible to use the power of prayer now rather than later about who will educate our great, great grandchildren. The prospect of these great, great grandchildren learning the Chinese language before they learn English and be taught by Marxist Chinese instructors in Chinese occupied U.S. schools seems like it should be a topic deserving sincere preventative prayer. Complacency, arrogance and a status quo mentality are serious contagious diseases. Unless the status quo is replaced with vigilance about the good news of GOD's Risen man from Bethlehem, the status quo will most certainly be replaced by bad extremely bad news.

Even now, according to the November/December 2009 Foreign Affairs, China has rapidly expanding diplomatic and commercial presence in our nearby neighbors, Latin America and the Caribbean. Although at this time "China's motives may be primarily commercial, the implications of its incursions are geopolitical: visiting Chinese leaders have declared Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela to be strategic partners."

Or is the function of a responsible Church leader to not pray preventative prayers, but instead to close his eyes and passively declare "Whatever happens is GOD's will". Is it actually insignificant that according to The Acts 6:4, that early Church leaders placed an emphasis on prayer before even their ministry of the word?

Do Such Leaders Need Forgiveness? Yes

Do these leaders realize that they need forgiveness? Apparently not. What are the seven main reasons they need His forgiveness?

1. They have totally and unanimously ignored the context of three visions given to them about Islam by GOD through an envoy to Islam. This occurred Resurrection Sunday Morning during their Communion Service twelve and one half years ago.
2. They insulted and rejected a sincere servant of GOD to whom they had extended an invitation to their Elder's meeting. This was in order for him to share with them his prayer concerns for encouraging Muslim persons to be more aware of GOD's great desire for them to know the importance of His Own Messiah's temporary death and his being raised to new life.
3. They need GOD's forgiveness for casually allowing one angry elder to speak officially for all the Church elders and strongly imply that the death and resurrection of GOD's Messiah is for Christians only and is not for Muslims. Yet, GOD also happens to dearly love Muslims and His Messiah died for them just as certainly as he died for Christians.
4. They need GOD's forgiveness for not allowing GOD's servant whom they had invited to share prayer for Islam concerns and to potentially involve other members of the Church in prayer for Muslims. This strident and cold rejection of involving others in prayer was despite the fact that it was very apparent that the Almighty GOD desired also for other persons in this Church to be involved in such prayer. Otherwise, GOD could have easily caused the visions to have occurred in his home. But it was in their Church where he chose to reveal the unique three symbolic visual messages about the future of Islam.
5. The one out spoken elder stridently condemned all of Islam for the harsh way that a few Muslims had apparently treated his own brother or relative, implying that all Muslims would treat all Christians in a similar harsh manner and so did not deserve being concerned about because in his mind they were sinners and not righteous like Christians. (He conveniently failed to mention the thousands of peaceful Muslims whose blood was mercilessly shed by the Christian crusaders during the horrible Crusades.) For the other official elders of the Church to have allowed one elder representing them to severely demean all Muslims without correcting him is something that does not please GOD. For GOD gave the life of His Messiah for all Muslims and even for Communists as well as for Christians.
6. The elders not only did not keep their promise for this unworthy servant to share his prayer concerns for Islam, but crudely and rudely through the one elder ordered their invited guest to never open his mouth in their Church again, sending him to his car in tears. (Significantly never, no never, would Muslim officials ever treat an invited Christian guest in such a disrespectful, harsh way.)
7. The issue is not whether the elders ever apologized for the crude behavior and anti-Muslim attitude of the one elder. Actually two of the elders in the parking lot almost apologized for his hostile attitude toward me, but not for his hostile attitude toward Islam. But the issue is, whether these elders have ever sensed the need for serious forgiveness from GOD for being so committed to staying uniformed about the content of His visual messages to them in the visions; for being cold and complacent about GOD's desire for Muslims to know more about the Messiah since His now Risen Messiah also died for all Muslims and not just for all Christians; and for forgiveness from GOD for the way they have again rejected a weak servant to Muslims about whom two former now deceased leaders of this Church unreservedly, and enthusiastically encouraged him to reach out to descendents of Ishmael, just as that servant is continuing to follow their instructions to do.

A Very Low Status Servant

I am definitely one of the lowest servants of the Messiah, far, far below a servant like Stephen who was murdered by the Jewish Sanhedrin. Nevertheless, I would remind these Christian elders that just because they are faithfully and sincerely remembering our Risen Messiah's death each week, they must be very careful to protect both themselves and their Church from seriously sinning against GOD by closing their hearts and their doors to one unworthy servant who, despite his unworthiness, has been specifically called to lift especially truth about the world's Messiah's death and resurrection, up to Islam. And I happen to be personally convinced, but am open to being incorrect about the following:

I think that twelve and one half years after your Church totally rejected GOD's message about Islam through one of his servants, and did not even want to know the content of the visions to your church, (for He could have given the visions to him at his home and not in your Church,) God is testing the openness of your hearts to the future Muslims who will soon embrace our Risen Messiah. But very sadly, after more than twelve years, GOD once again found that large, heavy locks have not yet been removed from either your own hearts or your own Church doors.

Yet, by GOD's help and His grace, locked doors and locked hearts can be unlocked. Now is the time for each of us to look to the inspired examples of the Praying Prophet Elijah and the ancient elders of Issachar spoken of in I Chronicles 12:32 who understood the times in which they were living. Because no one could say of those GOD preoccupied and aware persons that they didn't get it. "Because they did get it." And because they understood the times, GOD constructively impacted the world due to their wise, informed prayers.

Note: This paper will make more sense if the paper: "My Anguish and My Hypocrisy Toward Islam" is also read.