Messiah Calls Israel Den Of Thieves

When our friend tells us: “I am dying of thirst” of course we do not believe him. This is because he is only using a metaphor in order to tell us that he is quite thirsty. But we do not think that his thirst has put him on the edge of death, even though we hear him use a strong metaphor such as the word dying, we still know that he is not trying to tell us that he is really dying.

Similarly, when the Holy Quran tells us that Isa was not killed or crucified, it is telling us the truth but it is not including all of the truth in this one verse. In this verse as well as in the next verse, the Holy Quran is mainly making one point in a metaphoric way. It is strongly emphasizing that though it appeared to them (the Jews)-(shubbiiha lahum) that they had ended his life forever through an execution by crucifixion, they had been completely unsuccessful. Because the next verse reveals that ALLAH had raised him up alive, to Himself. So this activity by ALLAH of raising him up, vividly demonstrates that as far as what the words kill of crucify truly mean - to end life - he had neither been killed or crucified. It only appeared to them that He had (shubbiiha lahum). According to what the Quran states, it was such a definite fact that in a figurative sense that he had not been killed, that it was not open to conjecture. The matter was closed.

The Reconciling of Three Religion’s Three Different Views

Christians

For millions upon millions of Christians to no longer believe that GOD’s Messiah died and that he did not later rise from death by ALLAH’s empowerment, a major project would have had to occur. Hundreds of verses in millions of Bibles scattered throughout the world, would need to have both their Old and New testaments changes in precisely identical ways. And such a project would have been totally impossible. Then when you add to this already impossible task, the idea of maintaining a coherent narrative, this absurd project becomes far beyond the impossible.

Judaism

For Judaism to come to believe that the Messiah both died and rose, this change in their belief requires absolutely no change of any Scriptures. But it requires major attitudinal adjustments for the vast majority of Jews and especially for Israeli Jews.

For Judaism to come to believe that the Messiah was both murdered by their own leaders through the Romans and was raised by GOD to new life on the third day after his illegal execution, this change of attitude will require a major intervention by GOD. He must be the One to change the minds of a very resistant, often irreligious and often amoral people. Also, for such a change to occur, many Israelis would need to rid themselves of arrogance, even seeming to feel themselves as superior to GOD as well as being convinced of their superiority to other human beings, and to abandon their hate of Palestinians. Also, they have a narrow focus on a virtual worship of a specific piece of land which has become an idol to many and is even more important to them than GOD. But they also seem convinced that they have a GOD given right to not share this land with any other ethnicity. But this ultra-nationalistic focus remains steadfast even though the respected Prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 56:7) and the now Risen Messiah (Mark 1:17) both proclaimed the international character of Jerusalem. They publicly declared that the Jewish temple which they called GOD’s house, would be for all nations. ”my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.”

However, when the disappointed Messiah observed how the Jews of his day had corrupted Jerusalem and the temple as the leaders of Israel have corrupted Zionism today, he added a serious condemnation. When he quoted Isaiah’s words, he added the blistering words of the courageous Prophet Jeremiah, “den of thieves.” So the Messiah’s full observation of his generation’s condition in Jerusalem added the stinging quotation from the observations about Jerusalem from the Prophet Jeremiah:

“Has this house which bears my name become a den of thieves to you? But I have been watching declares the Lord.”

So as GOD’s Messiah was watching the corruption of his day’s Jerusalem, he added Jeremiah’s “den of thieves” observation and he boldly quoted in Mark 11:17: from both the Prophets’ Isaiah and Jeremiah.

“Is it not written that my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of thieves.”

So the Prophet Jeremiah emphasized that GOD was constantly watching the corruption and stealing which was occurring in His special city of Jerusalem. Thus what GOD is observing today is also Jerusalem being led by a gang of thieves under the leadership of a calloused gangster such as Benyamin Netanyahu. And before him was the bulldozer and butcher, Ariel Sharon who President Bush blasphemously labeled as a “man of peace”.

GOD is watching today’s Zionist den of thieves stealing land, farms, fruit trees, food and hope from the terrorized and brutalized Palestinians. This very day, a true man of piece and lover of GOD and His Risen Messiah, President Carter, observed that the Palestinians are being treated like savages. “To me, the most grievous circumstance is the maltreatment of the people in Gaza who are literally starving and have no hope at this time”, Carter told the liberal Haratez newspaper. “They’re being treated like savages.” Jordan Times 6/15/09.

As GOD is observing these horrendous 21^st Century vicious assaults on justice openly occurring before the international T.V. cameras, he is also observing the strongly influenced by Zionism U.S. Congress pouring 10 million dollars per day into supporting Israel in its inhumane policies. Yet the U.S. forbids talking to Hamas because Hamas is attempting to shine a search light on Israel to expose some of its inhumane behavior as a state while the U.S. politicians deceptively boast that everything would be sweet and rosy in the Israeli crime machine if it were not for the terrorist rejectionists in Hezbollah and Hamas. But it would be very interesting to see who GOD views as the present day terrorists and how the Risen Messiah views the present day den of thieves who the U.S. is supporting to run Israel. Yet you, the U.S. President, have publicly pledged to never abandon Israel while you have made no mention of even cutting back on our immoral complicity in the Zionist crimes by our sponsoring the Israeli crime machine to the tune of ten million dollars per day.

So what else are today’s den of thieves in Israel stealing? They are not only stealing many, many innocent Palestinian lives. But they are also stealing the future psychological stability of today’s children who will be tomorrow adults. They have already stolen the Palestinian economy, their jobs, their blown off arms and legs, their blinded eyes, their hope and even their self respect.

Is it any wonder that Hamas and also Iran's President Ahmedinejad is reluctant to recognize Israel as a legitimate state when their policies are so barbaric and their consciences are so calloused.

Yet, the main supporter of these depraved Israeli policies, the U.S, has refused to even talk with Hamas and officially discuss their possible legitimate grievances. This was even though Hamas was democratically elected as the U.S. demanded. So how can you encourage Hamas to trust the U.S., Mr. President? You condemn the violence of Hamas but refuse to condemn the extreme violence of the illegal occupiers of the Palestinian victims; Israel, who blew multiple arms and legs off Gazan children as pay back for mostly symbolic, inconsequential rocket fire? (There were 2 Israelis killed in six years. In comparison, how many innocent Palestinians were killed by Israel in six years?)

Have you not read, Mr. President, how the ancient Hebrew Prophet, Obadiah, defined violence? He described it as being when the nation of Edom was totally calloused and passive to the victimization of their Israelite brothers. They callously stood aloof when they desperately needed aid. So even for that passive violence where they themselves injured no one, GOD promised them total destruction.(Obadiah 1:10,11) So what should GOD do to Israel for their active, not passive, cruel violence toward Gazans?

Yes, Mr. President, it may be politically expedient, yet it is shameful and hypocritical, for the U.S. to openly condemn the Palestinians for violence but deliberately and conveniently refuse to condemn Israel for their aggressive violence against a people who have already had their past, present and future stolen from them. And this exploitation of Palestinian is supposedly justified in order to rescue Jews from a holocaust in Europe that the victimized Palestinians had nothing to do with.

No! Israel has for too much present day evil to clean up before they are ready to welcome a just, Risen Compassionate Messiah into their midst. He would cause them too many existential problems because of their perpetuation of pervasive injustice against Palestinians with the support of many U.S. Christians.

Islam

For Muslims to begin sharing GOD’s Risen Messiah with authentic believers in him (not Christians who use a supposed commitment to the now living man as an excuse to hate, murder and exploit Arab Muslims in Iraq for their oil and to exploit Palestinian Muslims for their land), Islam will not need to change even one verse in their Holy Quran. Rather, they will only need to modify their fierce resistance to the truth of one verse in the Quran and only force themselves to more logically and less superficially understand the combination of two wonderfully profound verses, AN NISA 4:157 and 158.

I sincerely ask you oh Muslims, which is in the best interest of 21^st Century Islam? To continue to say to yourselves that because a statement is written once in the Quran (out of several thousand verses in the Quran) that it must be true on first impression without even examining whether it might be a metaphor and was not intended to be understood, word for word, literally, without considering its potential deeper meaning? And you are also fully committed to this more superficial meaning thta contradicts other Quranic verses so that you can have more distance from the Christian belief in the fact that ALLAH used His Wisdom and Might to raise His Messiah up alive as the Quran actually states.(AN NISA 1:158) Also, by your refusal to believe that the two verses together do teach that ALLAH's Messiah died and rose from death, you can maintain a closer belief with Judaism that totally rejects the Messiah’s powerful resurrection. So the Jews totally marginalize ALLAH’s now living Messiah man from West Bank Bethlehem where as Muslims only half marginalize him.

President Barack Obama who, though now a Christian, was partly educated in Muslim Indonesia. In view of how he has partly opened the door for the Palestinian Muslims in their unfair uphill struggle against U.S. supported Israeli Zionism, right now is a make or break time for victory or defeat for Islam’s Palestinians against Israeli Zionists. So now is the strategic time for wise Muslims to make a similar choice as a certain young man once made who had a Muslim father and probably a Muslim stepfather and a broadminded humanitarian mother. And this progressive young man named Barack eventually became a respected international leader. But he truly grew as a person after he believed his Messiah actually died but was empowered by ALLAH to victoriously rise from death.

This thoughtful person chose to believe that ALLAH’s Messiah courageously faced death and with ALLAH’s help defeated death. But Barack could have easily made another choice. He could have chosen to believe that with ALLAH’s complicity, the Messiah chose to flee from death while a sort of CIA look-alike was cruelly executed instead of him.

Or perhaps you are a gullible person who thinks that metaphors always represent facts. So you choose to believe that when a friend complains to you that he is dying of thirst, you feel obligated to think that he means that he is actually quite near death. So when you hear him use the powerful word “dying”, you urgently call the hospital to come to the aid of your friend whom you assumed was nearly dead. For you reasoned that he must certainly not have used the strong word dying if he was not indeed near death.

But then just before the ambulance arrives, your mind suddenly gives you a revolutionary thought. With a fresh insight you realize that there could have been a deeper, hidden metaphoric meaning in his words about dying of thirst. So perhaps his use of the vivid word dying did not actually mean that he was dying of thirst. Perhaps he really did not intend to mean that he was almost dead.

So then you finally realize that AN NISA 4:157 and 158 did indeed possibly carry a deeper meaning about how it appeared to them (the Jews) (shubbiiha lahum) that they had ended the Messiah’s life forever. But because ALLAH used His Wisdom and Might to raise him up alive, it was the Jews and death that were defeated. It was not ALLAH’s triumphant Messiah, who would have actually been defeated and humiliated by flying away.

So you finally realize that it is totally appropriate for the Holy Quran to state figuratively and metaphorically that the son of the virgin Maryam was not killed or crucified even though he was actually physically executed. So you now finally understand that the Quran has the right to not be simplistic in this one verse, not to be straight forward but it can be profound and complex. So when the Quran is speaking in a profound way, it is not fair for you to read it superficially and make a quick assumption about what it is actually teaching. And you finally reach these conclusions with your own thinking mind even though you have consistently been surrounded by others who influenced you to once believe that this profound verse is only a simple verse and is not profound.

So you now finally realize that the entire world of Islam should definitely hold the Jews responsible for their horrible crime of murder at a time when even the mighty Roman Catholic church has surrendered to the propaganda pressure of the Zionist’s and is no longer holding the ancient Jews responsible for the murder of GOD’s innocent Messiah. So for obvious political expediency even the Catholic Church is virtually saying that it was no big deal for the Jews to have murdered the Creator GOD’s only Messiah. So according to Catholic leadership, the Jews were not responsible for their Messiah's death similar to how they were supposedly also not responsible for any of the innocent children’s death in Gaza. Israel continues to insist that it was only Hamas that was responsible for all these wicked deaths even though the findings of Amnesty International totally contradicts Israel's false claim of no responsibility.

So now that President Obama has opened the door, it is definitely the time to remind those who always think that Israel’s leaders can do no wrong and that it is only Palestinian victims who are always responsible for wrong. So will Islam finally belatedly realize this truth? That the present day Israeli leaders, when they murder, are only building on a foundation that Israel laid two thousand years ago. At that time they made careful plans described in the New Testament Scriptures (Injeel) to murder their own Messiah. (Please see the last two or three chapters of the Injeel's Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.)