Muslims Overwhelming Value to ALLAH

It is both revealing and instructive to reflect on the message of the last sentence in the above personal message to the angry Prophet Jonah that mentions both the 120,000 innocent people in the city of Nineveh, "as well as many animals."

In addition to GOD mentioning the 120,000 innocent people, who though they were innocent from the standpoint of being like children in not realizing the consequences of their wrong activities, the first verse of the book of Jonah speaks of their wickedness, ascending up to GOD. But why did GOD also mention His being concerned for their many animals in addition to His concern for the 120,000 innocent people? I think the Messiah will help us to understand why the animals are also mentioned, by the way centuries later, he himself was forced to expose the severe callousness of his persistent antagonists, the malicious Pharisees. Though they had no compassion for human beings, they did have compassion for their own sheep. Similar to the Pharisees, the Jewish Prophet Jonah was deeply calloused and prejudiced against the people of Nineveh, but his heart had a compassion for their animals. Though Jonah did not have any thankfulness to GOD for Him saving the Ninevite people from Judgment, he was thankful for GOD saving their animals from Judgment. So GOD was depending on Jonah to finally realize that since he did have a compassion for animals, he should also finally realize that though his own heart did not like the foreign Ninevites, GOD Himself had a warm compassion for all the people of the great city of Nineveh and His mercy was even for their animals also.

Is a Human of Less Value Than a Sheep?

The Messiah Centuries later makes this same regrettable observation about how the Pharisees' sympathy for animals was much greater than their sympathy for their brother and sister human beings. In Matthew 12:9-14, in a Synagogue the compassionate Messiah healed a man's disfigured and unusable hand. So immediately the hard hearted legalist Pharisees harshly questioned his right to heal on the Sabbath. Therefore, he pointed out to the legalistic, rigid uncompassionate Pharisees that even they themselves would pull one of their own sheep out of a pit on the Sabbath. Therefore, he further explained that he obviously had done the right and compassionate thing by healing an actual man on the Sabbath because "of how much more value is a man than a sheep!"

But when the cold hearted Pharisees heard the Messiah emphasize that people were much more important than sheep, they could not even force themselves to agree with him. Instead, for them the Messiah had committed what they considered to be a horrible crime against GOD for healing a suffering man on the Sabbath day. So they immediately began making their plans to "destroy" the compassionate Messiah as soon as they left the synagogue.

In light of the sad examples of both the Prophet Jonah's strong compassion for a two day old vine and for his concern for animals more than his concern for humans, and the Pharisees having compassion for animals while having no compassion for a suffering man, there is a regrettable 21st Century point that I feel compelled to make. While I readily acknowledge that the Pharisee like elders have no desire to destroy this servant of GOD as the First Century Pharisees successfully planned to destroy Jesus/Isa, the fact that I had three against-the-rules visions during the Easter LORD's Supper Communion Service, which I had no control over, seems to have broken the rules of what GOD's Spirit is allowed to have occur during that worship service. Since the three visions had involuntarily occurred during the Communion Service, this caused me to assume that it was appropriate to briefly explain the visions at the following weeks' Communion Service. But this timing also apparently broke an unwritten Church rule. Apparently my most serious infraction was the fact that the content of the Visions that GOD had caused to occur during his own Messiah's Communion Service, had a favorable message about the future of multitudes of Muslims in their new relationship to their Risen Messiah. So this good news for Muslims was the final unwelcome news for the leaders of the Church that they were unable to tolerate. So GOD's favorable good news about the mostly disliked Muslims was the final cause of my hurtful excommunication from the Risen Messiah's Church which they thought belonged to them and not to GOD. (During my recent second excommunication one elder actually said that some in the church might consider me a terrorist.) But that unwelcome news to all but one elderly member of this Church about favor to the Muslims was undoubtedly wonderful news, according to the teachings of Luke 15, to all the rejoicing angels of Heaven. Yet, multitudes of Muslims are not yet ready to understand the happy, joyous content of the three visions I surprisingly received about Muslims when I briefly fell asleep during the Communion Service.

Possible Terrorist for Considering Muslims Valuable

So I did learn from this sad personal experience that valuable Muslim human beings are not apparently of any appreciable value to certain Christian Elders though these Elders themselves have been forgiven by GOD. Nevertheless, despite feeling forgiven themselves, they are reluctant to have GOD forgive Muslims for rejecting His Messiah's death and resurrection, and other inappropriate doctrine unless Muslims become virtual replicas of western Christians.

Though these Elders definitely do not plan to physically destroy me, GOD's servant who finds Muslims valuable, the way that the Pharisees planned to physically destroy the Messiah because on the Sabbath Day he found a partially deformed man attending the Synagogue on that day to be a valuable human being who needed healing. So he healed him then and there even though he knew that healing him on the Sabbath would arouse the wrath of the Pharisees so that they would immediately begin making plans for his death. Because to the confused Pharisees, this flesh and blood human being whom he had healed on the Sabbath was of much less value than a sheep who could be helped on the Sabbath Day. Yet, ignoring this precious lesson taught by the Messiah himself about how valuable all human beings are to GOD, including Muslims, the elders not once, but twice made it clear that this servant of GOD, due to the value that I am fully convinced that GOD places on Muslims, they do not want me to attend (their) Church.

(Whether the Elders had only concern for potentially destroying or damaging me psychologically through the pain that can be caused by spiritual and social isolation, is another matter. Significantly, there has not been even one telephone inquiry about my welfare since my sudden second excommunication from (their) church. This is even though I had personally reached out to the two Elders who informed me of the church's rejection decision by having invited them each out to what I thought had been enjoyable lunches. Yet, perhaps my alleged infraction of reaching out to Middle Eastern Arab Muslims with the love of the Risen Messiah through my Website, www.AlQasas.net, is a more serious violation of acceptable Christian conduct than I am able to imagine. Therefore, due to the apparent severity of my actions, perhaps the church leadership feels that even telephone contact with me might endanger them or expose them to catching whatever it is that they think I may be inflicted with!)

Wonderfully, indicated by the last two verses of the Book of Jonah, GOD was able to teach the slow learning Prophet Jonah that in GOD's value system, Ninevite human beings were of much more value to Him than either a two day old green vine or many animals. Consequently, GOD's compassion and concern compelled Him to literally force Jonah to reach out in redemptive preaching to the 120,000 Ninevites. So if GOD was able to teach his reluctant and stubborn Prophet Jonah the value of Ninevites, He is also able to teach reluctant resistant Christian elders and many millions of other suspicious Christians, the overwhelming value of 1 billion, 500 million of GOD's beloved Muslims.