Messiah Urges Followers to Welcome Muslims

Beware of the Leaven of Christian Hypocrisy

ALLAH's Messiah was one of the most compassionate, welcoming persons who ever lived upon this earth. It seems as though his arms were constantly open wide in order to embrace children, strangers, and foreigners. Yet, it appears that the arch enemy of GOD and man, Shaytan (Satan) himself, has discovered an evil serum to inject into the arteries of many professing Western Christians. This evil serum, when injected into the bloodstream flows directly to the want-to-be Christian's heart. Once any person has allowed himself to be injected with this evil serum, it makes his heart cold, rejecting, suspicious, territorial, calloused, legalistic, arrogant, and self righteous, all negative qualities that have no resemblance to the Messiah's love and compassion for outsiders. This serum wars against GOD's great Shepherd who gently seeks those who in some way could be classified by many as lost or of having gone astray like a sheep having strayed from the flock. But especially does this awful serum get injected into the bloodstream of many Christians when it involves negatively affecting their attitude toward Muslims.

In order to observe the flagrant contrast between our Messiah's love for those Muslims that Christian theology would classify as having strayed from what Christians consider to be the "right" attitude toward GOD, and what the Messiah's compassionate attitude is toward those who many be resistant to his love, we will consider the emphatic teaching of three powerful parables told by the Messiah as recorded by the pen of the Greek Dr. Luke, who wrote both the book of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.

To demonstrate the main teachings that the Messiah intended to seriously impact those who down through the centuries would choose to be in fellowship with him no matter whether they called themselves Christian or some alternate title, he often used the educational tool of a parable. A parable is usually a relatively short story with a very important main point. Dr. Luke was a Greek who was not one of the Messiah's traveling companions while he was still on this earth. Therefore, in order for Dr. Luke to gather his information to write his short account of the Messiah's life, he carefully interviewed many of those who themselves personally knew the Messiah while he was still residing on this earth. As a result of being a physician, he probably knew more about careful research methods than most of the other less educated writers of the New Testament, except for his own traveling companion, the well educated Rasuul/Apostle Paul. Therefore, Dr. Luke included a number of teachings from the Messiah's life such as the account of his virgin birth and several important parables that the other disciples did not include in their writing.

Perhaps, because Dr. Luke did not have a Jewish background, but the cultural heritage of a Greek, he was quite aware of what it meant to be an outsider. Therefore, he seemed to have had a special sensitivity to including in his narrative the Messiah's parables that urged listeners and future readers of the Injeel to understand the sensitivity of GOD and the heart of love and compassion constantly exhibited especially toward outsiders by the now still Living Messiah.

Contrasting the Hostility of Some Christians Toward Muslims with the Messiah's Love

Parable One: The Little Lady's Lost Coin.

There was once a little lady who the Messiah described, who has a mighty large lesson for those in the Christian Church who do not like Muslims. This little woman was so happy that she owned ten silver coins. But she became exceedingly sad even though it was only one of her ten coins that she had lost. Nevertheless, though it was only one coin that this little lady lost so that she still had nine of her coins in her possession, she quickly mobilized her two main resources to find that one lost coin; a bright light and a broom.

Having made her house as bright as she possibly could, she got very busy with her broom until she found that one lost coin that she considered so precious.

But this was not the end of her story. Though it was only one coin that she had lost and then found, and though it was not a precious human being that she had recovered, she still celebrated by inviting her friends and neighbors to a hilarious celebration.

Though we still have two more of the Messiah's valuable parables to consider on this subject, each of them reveal the same precious characteristic about our Messiah's value system. Yes, they each reveal the same wonderful quality of the Messiah's heart. It continues to ache and to be restless as long as there is one lost human being whether they are a Taliban or a terrorist or a self righteous Christian.

Carefully consider the explanation that he gives to us as to why he told this parable about this little lady who finally found her one lost coin.

"Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of GOD over one sinner who repents."

In order to obtain some comparative contrast between the hard hearted attitude of the elders of the Christian Church from which I was twice excommunicated due to my desire to communicate with Muslims, I will contrast their making me leave with the emphatic teaching and attitude of the Messiah regarding what brings so much joy to heaven. So there is heaven's celebration to contrast with what brings satisfaction to these elders who do not want me to emphasize GOD's great love for Muslims.

As background, the theology of this Church is that every one of the one billion five hundred million Muslims in our World are lost. Consequently, since my visions during Communion Service indicted that relatively soon, because of the new way Muslims will understand the Quran's message about the Messiah dying and being raised to new life, a sizeable proportion of the one billion five hundred million Muslims will soon leave the realm of the stereotypical lost and enter the joyful more satisfying realm of the found.

Therefore, since only one person being found had brought so much explosive joy to those in heaven, as illustrated by the women's joy over one found coin and the Messiah's comment about the joyful significance of one coin being found, can you begin to imagine the overwhelming explosion of the joy in heaven over millions and millions and millions of Muslims who have been previously cut off from being united with this compassionate Shepherd, now each embracing him? If one person being found rocked heaven, one billion being found would really, really rock heaven like there was a 10.0 Richter scale earthquake up there that would even rattle windows here on earth. Yet, these poor little dwarfed minds which appear to dwell within these Muslim rejecting elders and quite possibly also dwells in thousands of other Christian elders throughout the U.S., reacted quite differently than heaven. It is as though none of these supposedly parable reading men had ever comprehended what the Messiah's vivid Parable of the Little Lady and the Lost Coin is actually teaching. Of course, neither do they have any comprehension of the harsh exposure of the Prodigal Son's older brother whose despicable attitude vividly mirrors the Muslim rejecting elders. The older brother had a calloused heart of stone. Nor do these elders show any comprehension of Luke's Parable about the unrestrained rejoicing of the celebrating shepherd who had found his precious one lost sheep. Instead of rejoicing about millions upon millions of Muslims soon embracing their beloved Messiah as their loving Shepherd who has found them, they abruptly kicked me out of their Church. Then, after having 12 years to reflect on what they had done, they gave me the boot a second time with no reluctance. (Yet, part of their reason for excluding me from their Church was for my inappropriately experiencing three miraculous supernatural visions during the Communion Service revealing that Muslims would become a vital part of the Kingdom of GOD's Risen Messiah.)

In the Parable of the Prodigal (wasteful) Son, the Messiah could not possibly have composed a story that contained a more pointed and more serious indictment and condemnation of a person or an elder who can only condemn and cannot forgive a people who have made mistakes, but have later sought GOD's forgiveness for those mistakes. The Messiah drove this point into our hearts through his example of a father's generous and enthusiastic forgiveness of one confused son who had gone far, far astray from his father, that revealed GOD's desire and enthusiastic willingness to forgive and celebrate a person or a peoples return to Himself that is far, far beyond any wrong that a person or people have done. The size of the contrast between the depths of the son's misguided and wastefulness in this parable and the fathers amazing willingness to totally forgive is virtually unbelievable. But also it is virtually unfathomable the capacity of the elders that I observed to miss the wonderful instruction that comes from this one powerful parable. As a direct consequence of having missed the main point of the parable, they imitate the calloused, hateful brother who condemned his own father's forgiving attitude as evidence by their self-righteous condemning attitude toward Muslim people. Oh GOD, forgive these unforgiving elders for they do not know what they do and do not comprehend the Risen Messiah's great love for the entire world. And to the extent that these particular elders represent thousands of other Christian elders and leaders throughout the Christian Church in having unforgiving, entrenched, negative attitudes against Muslims, please use the Messiah's powerful Parable of the father's abundant forgiveness of his Prodigal Son to open their eyes. (Luke 15).

Even if most Muslim leaders and followers have committed each of the theological errs that Franklin Graham and other right wing Christians accuse them of, and they have not, the attitude of GOD and His Messiah toward each Muslim is love and compassion, rather than calloused blame and resentment typified and exhibited by the older brother of the forgiven prodigal, wasteful son. Though each Christian elder would be exceedingly familiar with this older brother's example of possibly being the second most disgusting personality in the Messiah's Parables, many Christian's imitate this resentful, unforgiving older brother through their own calloused attitude toward Muslims.

The first most disgusting personality he portrayed was the servant who received abundant forgiveness for a huge debt that he owed his master. But this forgiven servant himself refused to forgive a fellow servant who owed him only a small debt. Instead of forgiving him as he had been forgiven, he ruthlessly choked him and had him thrown into prison even though the humble man promised to pay the small debt and begged for forgiveness and mercy. (Matthew 18:23-37.) Incidentally, when the forgiving master was told how the man he had forgiven would himself not forgive someone else, he turned the wicked man who could not forgive over to the tortures. (We are not told if this unforgiving man survived the torture or not.)

And what indeed does the emphatic teaching of each of these wonderful Parables have to do with the attitude of many, many Christian leaders and followers throughout the U.S. toward the Muslim community which the Risen Messiah clearly and dearly loves? These penetrating Parables told by the Compassionate Messiah individually and collectively reveal that Christian Elders who are unwilling to teach their flocks to love and embrace those who have in some way wandered from GOD's loving, caring Shepherd, are in deep trouble with GOD and with His Risen Messiah. These Church leaders appear to be full of hate, fear, and confusion toward Muslims. Therefore, they should be trembling about whether it is the true Risen Messiah who dwells in their midst and in their hearts whom they have embraced. Or, have they embraced a counterfeit Messiah who actually has been created by some type of Muslim resenting Klu Klux Klan member?

Do they and even Muslim leaders ever consider the following facts about Abraham's first beloved son Ishmael that are very clearly presented in the Genesis Scriptures? These clear facts should motivate all Christians and Muslims to watch in joyful anticipation for what GOD Himself will soon accomplish among His Muslim people and the wonderful rewards He has for them as fulfilled Muslims.

Foundational Facts from Genesis Regarding Islam's Importance

1. What woman in the Old Testament was so important to GOD that the Angel of the Lord (considered by many theologians as a pre-incarnation appearance of the Messiah himself) personally communicated with her twice, once personally in the desert, and once from heaven, which was a great, great honor that only one or two Old Testament women experienced? (Genesis 16:7-21:17).
   It was Hagar, the second wife of the Mighty Prophet Abraham.
2. Who do the Scriptures actually state was the second "wife" of Abraham?
   According to Genesis 4:3 Hagar was the second wife who became the mother of Abraham's first born son, Ishmael, who tradition tells us is the forefather of the Arabs. Therefore Abraham's first son, Ishmael was the forefather of Islam.
3. Do the Genesis Scriptures actually speak of Ishmael being Abraham's son since Genesis 22:2 refers to Isaac as his "only son"?
   Yes, Genesis 17:23, 25, and 26 all speak of Ishmael as Abraham's "son". "Abraham took his son, Ishmael…", "his son Ishmael…", "Abraham and his son Ishmael…"
4. Who was it that gave the unborn son Ishmael who is the reputed forefather of Islam, one of the most spiritual and significant names in the entire Bible?
   It was the Angel of the Lord who instructed Hagar to name her son, who would soon be born, Ishmael which means in Hebrew, GOD hears.
5. Since the Covenant of Circumcision is so extremely spiritually significant, who is the first person that the Scriptures state was brought into the Covenant of Circumcision?
   Genesis 17:23 appears to indicate that Ishmael, before Isaac was even born, was the first person to be brought under the Covenant of Circumcision.
6. Does GOD Himself actually promise The Prophet Abraham that he would bless Ishmael? Genesis 17:20
   Yes! "And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will surely bless him… and I will make him into a great nation" which is perhaps an indirect reference to the Nation of Islam.
7. Was GOD's presence removed from Ishmael after his half brother, Isaac, become so important?
   No! GOD's presence remained with Ishmael. "GOD was with the boy as he grew up." Genesis 21:20
8. Did Ishmael's sons, possibly grandsons and nephews have a significant role in preserving the Prophet Jacob's extended family from at least partial starvation and breakup as a family enabling them to grow into the Nation of Israel during their four hundred years in Egypt?
   Yes! Very definitely! Joseph was intensely hated by at least nine of his brothers who were Jacob's older sons. Consequently, they had forcefully put in him in a well with definite plans to later kill him. So these brothers, who were potential murderers, as well as Joseph, were each grandchildren of their grandfather, Isaac. But usually and conveniently overlooked is the fact that each of the children of the Prophet Ishmael (because Muslims considered Ishmael a Prophet) also had grandchildren. So Genesis 37:28 explicitly states that the brothers sold Joseph for twenty shekels of silver to Ishmaelite traders for them to take him to Egypt. Thus, each of these Ishmaelite traders were either the children, or grandchildren of Ishmael or possibly great grandchildren or his nephews.
   Therefore, whether these close descendents of Ishmael who were professional traders made money in Egypt by selling Joseph or not, the Scriptures clearly reveal that it was GOD who chose to use these sons and grandsons etc. of Ishmael to faithfully and safely transport the almost murder victim, Joseph, to Egypt. So these grandsons etc. of Ishmael were used by GOD to safely transport their own relative, Joseph, to Egypt which fulfilled their business arrangement with his murderous brothers who were actually the Israelites close relatives. But the totally overlooked bottom line is this. If it were not for Ishmael's immediate descendants saving Joseph from death and safely transporting him to Egypt, it is extremely likely that Jacobs's extended family would never have been preserved in Egypt so that they were able to grow into a nation. Therefore, the entire Nation of Israel owes its very existence to Ishmael, the forefather of Islam and the Arabs. But instead of today's Arabs receiving any appreciation from Israel for their great service in preserving the Jewish nation, the Jews pay them back by stealing Palestinian land. But that is the heritage that today's Israel has received from their own forefather, Jacob, later named Israel, who himself stole his own older twin brother's birthright.
9. Do these clear evidences of GOD's sovereignty in using the descendents of Ishmael in an extremely significant way to create and preserve Israel as a nation have any relationship today to predictions in the Scriptures by both Moses and the Rasuul/Apostle Paul about how GOD will again use the unnamed descendents of Ishmael to significantly impact the current Nation of Israel?
   Though I may be alone in holding this view, I am personally certain that the answer is an emphatic yes, due to the Prophet Moses' and the Apostle Paul's apparent predictions regarding the unnamed people and virtual nation of Islam.

Moses' Amazing Prediction Regarding Islam

In the Book of Deuteronomy, chapter 32, Moses is giving his final instructions and Spirit inspired predictions to the children of Israel before he himself was told by GOD after these final instructions that he was to go up to Mount Nebo and view the new land from Mt. Nebo and then die. But included in his final comprehensive lecture was an extremely significant statement about the consequences of his people being disobedient to GOD. Although Moses may only appear to be dealing with the different incidents of disobedience that they have previously committed, the Rasuul/Apostle Paul makes it clear in his New Testament letter to the Romans that their rejection of GOD's Risen Messiah would be another reason for them to suffer the same negative consequence that the Prophet Moses had already predicted in his final Deuteronomy lecture before his death. Quite significantly and supernaturally these two great leaders' predictions both most probably concerned the future Muslim people who would in some ways be a nation and in other ways not be a nation.

Moses makes his statement about the people of Islam or the people descending from Ishmael making the people of Israel envious and jealous though Islam did not yet exist. Then the Rasuul Paul over fifteen centuries later in his Letter to the Romans he partially quotes Moses' verse and appears to directly apply it to the envy and anger that the Jews will experience when Muslims do finally acknowledge that the Messiah defeated death and was raised by GOD to new life.

Moses' quote from Deuteronomy 32:21 is:

"I will make them envious by those who are not a people. I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding."

Rasuul Paul's similar quote from Moses in the New Testament Greek in Romans 10:19 is:

"I will make you envious by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation that has no understanding.

(Please notice how Moses uses the personal pronoun, "them", in speaking of the Jews being envious and angry. But Paul, whishing to stimulate even more envy and jealousy among his brother Jews, twice uses the personal pronoun, you.)

From the perspective of pre-Islam statements, it could not be said that Islam was a nation. But yet it was like a nation, though they were not one people. And it could be said that Islam had no understanding from the perspective that at the time of both men's writing, Islam did not yet exist and did not yet have an understanding about GOD's Risen Messiah. But when Islam would finally gain that understanding of ALLAH's Messiah temporarily dying and then being raised from death by ALLAH's Wisdom and Might (Quran 4:158), this would result in the people of Israel having a tremendous envy of what the people of Ishmael had evolved into in Islam through the leadership of the Prophet of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad.

There are Christian scholars who earn income through their scholarly writing and lecturing revealing all the theologically errs that they perceive to be in Islam when they evaluate Islam from their traditional Christian perspective. And let us for the sake of argument say that these Christian scholars are often more or less theologically correct from a biblical perspective in at least 75% of their conclusions. But there is a giant issue which these writers and lecturers miss even though they may have many of their Biblical theological points lined up correctly.

When GOD looks down from heaven upon Muslims and Christians, He is much more concerned about men and women's hearts' toward Himself and His Messiah than in the content of these critics' lecture notes. When Muslims' hearts' toward GOD are open and sensitive, He can slowly straighten out any incorrect concepts that may be in their heads about GOD and even about his Risen Messiah. So even when Scholars' heads may be correct, but acts of compassion and brotherhood is not an outcome of their scholarly writings while acts of cruelty dominate some of the effects of their writings and teachings such as cruelty dominated in the Roman Catholic Church among priests for so many long centuries, so GOD was not pleased even when their beliefs were correct. Furthermore, the effects of scholars' recent teaching appear to have facilitated, condoned and supported one Super Power being involved in monstrous massacres of innocent human beings in Vietnam, Iraq, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki.

And please show me in recent Islam wicked behavior that would come close to how the Roman Catholic professional caretakers of orphans, etc. in Ireland recently who have cruelly abused hundreds of children in their care. And is there anything similar in Islam to the abuse by Catholic Priests for so many long centuries except for Muslims' abuse of girls and women in relation to female genital mutilation and also massive rape by the Taliban and massive rape in Sudan as well as forced child marriage in several Muslim countries and the miserable treatment of women in some of the countries as second class citizens. But, does this compare with the systematic secret sexual abuse that has been carried on for years by well educated official priests educated in the Roman Catholic Church? The main difference between the extensive child abuse by hundreds of theologically well trained Catholic Priests throughout the recent past decades in the U.S. with the massive rapes by these isolated Muslim groups is this significant difference. The rape that is rampant among the Taliban in Afghanistan and in the Pakistan border area and in Sudan is that the rapes by the Taliban and the Sudanese is taking place in the midst of societal chaos and instability. But the men and women well trained Roman Catholic caretakers of children in Ireland and the male priests in the U.S. committed their rampant sexual and physical abuse in the midst of societal stability.

A Vital Lesson from Angry Jonah

One of the self-righteous foundational complaints that you will often encounter from self proclaimed sophisticated Christian authors and lecturers is this. It is not possible for Muslims to have a correct understanding about the Risen Messiah because Muslims worship a false GOD, whether they call Him GOD or ALLAH. Actually, this accusation is blatantly false because GOD is GOD. Therefore, it is GOD who in Arabic is ALLAH, whom Muslims worship and serve. They do not worship and serve a different GOD.

The question is: who among us humans can be so certain that our concept of the majestic GOD is so correct that we can point our fingers at Muslims and say that you are less able to worship GOD because you understand Him wrong?

For us to receive a strong antidote to this self-righteous disease we need help from the rebellious Hebrew Prophet Jonah. Whether GOD did a great miracle to keep Jonah alive in a giant fish for three days or whether a brilliant insightful Hebrew writer composed a powerful lesson against human hypocrisy, callousness, feelings of superiority, xenophobia and lack of compassion in the Book of Jonah is not the issue. But whether Jonah was swallowed or he was not truly swallowed, all of the negative qualities I have just listed are insightfully exposed and vividly condemned in the short book of Jonah.

Of course the people of Nineveh had a somewhat different concept of GOD than did the Hebrew people. But wickedness is wickedness. So GOD, because he was the GOD of His Ninivites, sent Jonah to strongly inform the Ninevites that if they did not stop their wickedness in forty days, GOD would bring heavy Judgment on their entire city of Nineveh. Wonderfully, the people obeyed Jonah's preaching even though Jonah hoped that they would not. Therefore, by the end of forty days the partially theologically confused Ninevites had radically cleaned up their ways and Judgment was averted. As a result of their sudden changed ways saving themselves from GOD's Judgment, Jonah was angry.

Why was Jonah angry? Because GOD is a GOD of mercy and compassion in contrast to Jonah who was selfish and cared much more about getting dizzy from the heat of the sun than he did about the lives and souls of a hundred and twenty thousand precious, but uneducated people being saved along with their cattle. So GOD was totally concerned about every one of those precious persons even if His calloused servant Jonah was not. So GOD succinctly lectured Jonah about his calloused inhumane attitude toward the people of Nineveh. So emphatically, GOD is also concerned about every one of one billion, five hundred million Muslims including the Taliban and extremists, even if many, many Christian elders don't care at all about them and believe, as Franklin Graham believes, that all Muslims are members of an "evil religion".

ALLAH Faces a Serious Human Problem

The bottom line theologically and morally in this. When GOD/ALLAH is observing this world now or whether having observed this world since Islam began Centuries ago, the three Monotheistic religions including the division in Christianity into Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, GOD has observed both moral and theological weakness by each of us. Therefore, every person now living under the three Monotheistic religions or who have lived in the past under these three religions, can only survive on the basis of GOD's mercy and forgiveness. Therefore, no one of us is able to point our fingers at anyone else and say that I am totally right and you are totally wrong.

The one partial exception I see to this conclusion is Israel's uncompromising opposition to being at all open to welcoming GOD's Risen Messiah into Judaism. This is along with another additional side to their rejectionist theme. This second area of their rejection regards the idol which Israel now worships. This is their idol of the expansion of the Israeli State at the horrible expense of the exploited, murdered, displaced, and abused Palestinians.

The Barriers between Muslims and Christian, Which GOD Will Soon Overcome

There are a number of teachings and attitudes that the Messiah hammered on in his teaching again and again that now receive almost no emphasis by Western Christianity that would strongly encourage Christians to have an excited welcoming heart to outsiders such as Muslims. The following are only a few of the many various barriers to the Messiah's gracious love which either Christians, Muslims, and or Shayton (Satan) have erected to hinder Muslims from enjoying the Messiah's love and which hinders and prevents Muslims from enjoying wonderful brotherhood with Christians and with GOD's Risen Messiah.

1. The professional Christian Pastor and speaker is usually paid by those who each Sunday listen to his sermons. So if he would speak openly about his people demonstrating more of the Risen Messiah's compassion toward Muslims, many people would leave the Church. And with each person leaving, part of the pastor's salary would leave with them.
2. Since Christians realize that Muslims believe theological concepts about the Messiah, which differ from what Christian's believe, this immediately gives Christians a strong negative bias and a tremendous negative suspicion toward Muslims in addition to many evilly generalizing that since all Muslims are each members of an "evil religion", they are all at least potentially evil and thus are all potential terrorists such as some elders wonder if I am for using the Arabic word ALLAH on my Website.
3. Since the Prophet Muhammad came from a cultural background where he was forced to battle against the concept of polytheism which emphasized the existence of families of GODS, the Muslims' holy book known as the Holy Quran naturally contains teachings that appear to emphasize two teachings to which Christians have exceptionally strong opposition. In fact, a much stronger emphasis is made against these two teachings by Christians than can be justified from especially Doctor Luke's book, The Acts of the Apostles, which contains the beliefs and the activities of the early Church. The first of the two teachings which especially slam the Church door in the face of any Muslim who might be interested in the Messiah, is the Christian emphasis on the Messiah being the Son of GOD. Thus, Muslims have been led to believe that they immediately must give their 100% stamp of approval of that title for the Messiah or they will be immediately excluded from ever being considered as becoming potential followers of the exceptionally compassionate and loving Risen Messiah.
4. The second main barrier is what I consider to be an over emphasized third century man made formula for explaining the relationship between GOD, the Risen Messiah, and the pervasive Spirit of GOD, which the First Century wise Apostle Paul described as a mystery. But in the Third Century of the Christian era, the former pagan, but later Christian emperor of Rome, in order to being more unity to his empire invited many arguing Bishops to Nicea, Greece to essentially remove the mystery of what the wise Apostle had considered to be a mystery. So these various disagreeing Bishops supposedly solved the mystery and solved their arguments with a man made formula and called the result of their contentious negotiations the Trinity.
   Therefore, since the Emperor Constantine convened his conference in 325 A.D. in Greece, the Trinity formula has been a requirement for orthodox Christians understanding of GOD and His Risen Messiah. It also has been a standard requirement for those who wish to become followers of GOD's Risen Messiah although it has been seventeen centuries since these many arguing Bishops decided what all Christians are now required to believe.
5. Another major barrier to any Muslim establishing a mutually caring relationship with the Risen, available Messiah concerns whether he truly is Risen and available to Muslims. (This barrier which has been erected by Muslims is more fully discussed in number six.) For if he was only raised up in his physical body by ALLAH without having actually experiencing death, his physical body could not have undergone a transformation to a supernatural spiritual body so that he could be spiritually available to observe, communicate with and interact simultaneously with every human on this earth. So not accepting the defeating of death by the Messiah has prevented Muslims from being considered a Risen Messiah follower down through the centuries.
6. Another major obstacle to any Muslim becoming a follower of the Risen Messiah, yet still definitely remaining a Muslim, is one exceptionally controversial verse in the Holy Quran. This is a verse that initially appears to authoritatively teach that the Messiah did not die so that he had no opportunity or reason to rise from death since his body supposedly was not for a minute without physical life.

Admittedly, I may be the only person in this world who considers the agreed upon meaning of this one verse to be totally misleading. Yet, I can confidently state that the meaning of this verse is extremely problematic because I absolutely know in my heart that ALLAH and I happen to agree on this verses' true meaning. He Himself knows that the two verses from the Quran, An Nisa 4:157 and 4:158, truly do mean that the Messiah most certainly did temporarily die, but was raised to new life by His own Might and by His own Wisdom. (An Nisa 4:158). Thus, because ALLAH knows the truth that the Messiah temporarily died and then was raised by Him from death, both He and I knowing that this is true, making an absolute majority. This is because GOD by Himself is a majority. However, ALLAH and at least one person make His majority into in an overwhelming majority.

I will not go into detail in this paper about how I can be so certain that these two verses in combination should definitely be understood to refer to the Messiah's temporarily death and his being raised from death because I have many times before explained how this is the obvious truth as explained in several papers on this website.

So the bottom line is this. The barriers that I have spoken of can each with patience and understanding be resolved. But what is even much more difficult to resolve is the calloused, hardened hearts of many, many Christians toward most Muslims which leads us to a key warning made by the Messiah as is concisely and sternly stated in Luke 12:1.

"Beware of the leaven (influence) of the Pharisees (religious leaders) which is hypocrisy."

So we must transport that First Century warning of the Messiah and apply it to this 21^st Century regarding today's Christian leaders attitude of hypocrisy toward Islam in general and Muslims in particular.