The Qur'an's Now Living Messiah Warmly Embraced Non-Hebrew Foreigners

There are several circumstances which have prevented most Muslims from realizing that the Qur'an's now living Messiah often had more spiritual confidence in ALLAH's ability to miraculously heal through him than did his own people, the Jews. Also, it will come as a surprise to most Muslims that again and again the Qur'an's Messiah when on earth consistently stated that such notoriously wicked, well known cities such as Sodam and Gomorrah would be much better off at the finally judgment than the more severe judgment that the Jews would receive. This was due to some of the Jewish cities extreme rejection of him though ALLAH constantly confirmed his credibility to them as his own unique Messiah by the miracles and healing that ALLAH empowered him to consistently perform.

It is new news to most Muslims that the Qur'an has its own unique Messiah. But the Qur'an not only recognizes its own Isa as anointed Messiah eleven times. Without any exception the Qur'an presents the Messiah with great respect and even reverence. Therefore, it is obvious that the Qur'an recognizes this born of the Virgin Maryam, full of compassion, healer of the sick, raiser of the dead, worker of various miracles, exposer of the Jewish leaders' hardness of heart and condemner of their anti-ALLAH activities, as the Qur'an's own Messiah. And his compassion consistently placed him in total contrast to Jewish leaders extreme callousness toward impoverished people in need. So these unique qualities thrust him into the honored position of being the Qur'an's now Risen Messiah who is now spiritually living among Muslims. It becomes even more apparent that he is indeed the Qur'an now living Messiah, since no less than five different Qur'an Surah's in the Qur'an document that ALLAH victoriously raised him from death to new vibrant eternal life.

Therefore, it is unfair that Muslims everywhere are not yet familiar with the fact that this unique, sinless, born of a virgin messenger of ALLAH, who is the Qur'an's now living Messiah, consistently reached out to non-Hebrew foreigners. Furthermore, he had a great appreciation for the spiritual aspirations of foreign persons. So it will be a matter of great encouragement to Muslims, to Christians, to Hindus, to Sikhs, to Buddhists, to Agnostics, to Atheists and to every other ALLAH loved human being how much the Qur'ans own Messiah on several documented occasions specifically emphasizes his love and appreciation for foreigners. Several times he observes how the spiritual qualities of foreign non-Jews with whom he had had personal contact, possessed far superior spiritual awareness than that of any Hebrew that he had encountered. Additionally, it will be shocking for most Middle Eastern Arab Muslims to find out that the Qur'an's own Messiah made authoritative pronouncements, that due to the Jews consensus rejection of his authority from God, such an extremely wicked city like well-known Sodom, would be treated with much greater leniency at the final judgment than the severe judgment that will visit the people of the Messiah rejecting Israeli cities.

During this, his initial visit to the Mid-East, (he has announced that he will return) his specific assignment from ALLAH was to attempt to refocus the Jewish leaders on both their obligation of obedience to God and their acceptance of his own authority from God as God's anointed Messiah. Part of his role was to compel Jewish leaders to have a much more compassionate relationship with God's people than their overbearing, rigid treatment of them. Though the Prophet Muhammad came to the Middle East after the Messiah, in reality the Messiah attempted to influence the hard hearted Jewish leaders consistently to follow much more of a Muhammad model type of compassionate shepherding than the Israeli type of uncompassionate, uncaring, rigid calloused leadership that the Jewish religious leaders practiced.

Significantly, the present Taliban leadership, the Iranian leadership, and the often hostile, harsh prayer police of Saudi Arabia are practicing the worst of the early Israeli model that was greatly abhorred by the compassionate sensitive Messiah who is now become the Risen Messiah of the Qur'an. He was as a skilled physician attempting to apply a large dose of softener to the Jewish leaders extremely hardened and thickly calloused hearts. But the leaders hearts had received a massive injection of overpowering anti-softener repellent. The injector of the anti-compassion drug had been Shiitan/Satan himself, the arch-enemy of both God and men and the hater of truth. So the hostile Jewish leaders' hearts remained hardened, and their hatred of truth continued. Thus, the final consensus of the Israeli leadership was to forever exterminate him by execution. But since the Romans would not allow the Jews to execute any one, the Jewish leaders were forced to come up with a clever but wicked plan.

So the Jewish Sanhedrin, that day's Knesset, invented a clever Carl rove/Dick Cheney type of manipulation in order to trick the Romans to carry out his illegal execution. This deceptive tactic by the Jews was similar to the tactic by the first Bush and his colleagues to trick the unsuspicious, gullible Saddam Hussein to invade Kuwait. So with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the world would enthusiastically give approval for the U.S and other nations to invade Iraq in order to supposedly liberate Kuwait. But the true reasons for our invasion would be to carry out our covert geopolitical protection of our oil supply and to protect the vulnerability of our stationary Middle East aircraft carrier, The U.S.S. Israel.

Returning to why Muslims are less familiar with the Qur'an's Messiah great appreciation of non-Hebrew foreigners, the Qur'an assumes that there is no need to further duplicate what is already in the previous Injeel about the Messiah due to the Qur'an's own statements of respect for the authority of the Injeel. But now that the printing press has made both the Qur'an and the Injeel so available, it is now beneficial for Muslims to realize that the Injeel greatly emphasizes the Messiah's great respect for foreigners.

Because of this lack of familiarity with the Messiah Isa's great respect for and unconditional love for non-Hebrews that is so clearly revealed in the previous Injeel, something occurs in Muslim minds that is quite normal. It is natural for most Muslims to at least subconsciously assume that the Qur'an's Messiah during his time among Jews may have been at least slightly biased in favor of his own people. It seems that this would naturally occur because of the extreme bias in favor of Jews is what Muslims consistently observe the Jews practicing for Jews and against Muslims today.

Therefore, it should be a wonderful and exceptionally pleasant and significant surprise for Muslims that the Messiah would also have a special compassion for non-Jewish Muslims. This was demonstrated by his always showing a great respect for, concern for, appreciation of and love for non-Hebrew people. So this positive attitude would naturally extend to today's Muslims. This unrestrained relentless compassion that is revealed in the Injeel by the Qur'an's Risen Messiah reveals that it virtually cannot be imagined by especially Muslim Middle Eastern Arabs how great is the Qur'an's own Risen Messiah's current desire to personally embrace Muslims and to be embraced by them.

There is a sad factor concerning Jews, and also especially Western Christians that magnifies even more the Messiah's desire to embrace and to be embraced by especially Arab Muslims. That is due to the way that both today's Israeli Jews and so many persons living in the U.S., who consider themselves Western Christians, have disgracefully turned their backs on the Risen Messiah's virtually limitless compassion and love. Because of this turning away by so many in the West, there are many fewer Westerners truly honoring ALLAH's now Risen Messiah than previously. It seems that too often militarism has replaced the Messiah in people's hearts. As for the Jews, they often don't honor GOD, let alone His Messiah. They have traded their belief in GOD for their preferred bloody idol of building their own expanding racist apartheid state on stolen land. And of course they have totally blind eyes to the compassionate Messiah who is spiritually walking among them. And this is the same land where almost 2000 years ago their direct ancestors murdered him. But it is also where ALLAH totally defeated those Jewish ancestors by raising him from death as the Qur'an's own Al-Imran's 3:55 so emphatically declares.

In the West, many right wing Christians led by persons like the infamous weapons loving Sarah Palin have apparently traded the Risen Messiah for more bloody weapons similar to how Jacobs brother Esau foolishly traded his birthright to his younger brother for a pot of hot goat stew in order to temporarily satisfy his physical hunger but not to satisfy the hunger of his empty heart.

I will now attempt to concisely bring to life living examples of the Qur'an's now still living Messiah's numerous compassionate encounters with non-Hebrew persons almost 2000 years ago as revealed in the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, John, and Luke and in the Acts of the Apostles. (The last two books were each recorded by a non-Hebrew, Greek, Doctor Luke.) I have listed and numbered the compassionate, caring encounters mostly in the general order that they occurred in each book for easy reference. But due to my not being a scholar, I will have undoubtedly missed significant references.

Record in the Injeel of the Qur'an's Risen Messiah's Compassionate Encounters with Non-Hebrew Foreigners

Injeel Matthew

1. Chapter 2 – The three persons who were called Magi and were known as the three wise men, were astrologers who had seen a special star in the East that ALLAH used to guide them to the infant child. Actually, it was these three foreign men that ALLAH led to show unusual compassion to the Messiah, to his Virgin Mother and to his mother's husband Yusef. It was undoubtedly Yusef's opportunity to sell the expensive gifts from the three wise men that financed their narrow escape to Egypt which narrowly saved the infant child from the enraged and jealous King Herod's massive massacre of infants in the region. He wickedly hoped that one of the murder victims would be the infant Messiah who he was afraid would grow up to be King of the Jews, thus making him overwhelmingly jealous and potentially challenging his authority as King.

2. Again and again ALLAH's angels are mentioned by Matthew as having direct involvement in the young Messiah's life. Also, when he was an adult, angels were sometimes either encouraging him or protecting him. Therefore, it must be kept in mind that though these angels were not foreigners, neither were they Hebrews. They always showed compassion to the man from Bethlehem who is now the Qur'an's Risen man from now occupied West Bank Bethlehem.

3. Matthew 10:15 – Sodom and Gomorrah are two ancient cities which are renowned for their wickedness. They were foreign small cities as they were not populated by Hebrews. Nevertheless, the Messiah stated that the Hebrew locations that rejected even the messengers that he sent out would endure a much worse punishment on the Day of Judgment than would the very Wicked non-Hebrew cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. This contrast on Judgment day is very significant of how obligated the Qur'an's Risen Messiah felt to expose the wickedness of the Jews for blatantly rejecting their ALLAH sent Messiah.

4. Matthew 11:26 – The same totally unfavorable contrast was again made regarding the severe punishment that day's Jewish cities would receive for rejecting the testimony of his miracles with the much less severe punishment that notoriously wicked non-Hebrews would receive at the Judgment. Again, this is a very big deal that the man who is now the Qur'an's Risen Messiah absolutely did not show the Jews any favoritism whatsoever. In fact it was the opposite. He kept relentlessly reminding the Jews of how terrible the Day of Judgment would be for them for rejecting all the healing miracles that he had performed that made it certain that he was their anointed Messiah sent to them directly from ALLAH.

5. Matthew 11:28 – Two verses later the Qur'an's Risen Messiah pounds the same point home again, not letting up on exposing the wickedness of the Jews for rejecting him. And now the Qur'an's Messiah returns to again making a totally unfavorable comparison of the wickedness of the Jews with, from his perspective, than the much less wicked non-Hebrew city of Sodom.

6. Matthew 12:41 – Now the Messiah turns his attention to the notoriously ancient wicked city, Nineveh, that the Hebrew prophet Jonah had been sent to which was located in today's Iraq. He actually humiliates the Jews by informing them that the extremely wicked men of Nineveh will actually be called to be witnesses against those who liked to pride themselves as the special privileged Sons of Abraham and as God's special chosen people. But the Messiah let these men who had a W. Bush type arrogance, know that their supposed closeness by GOD and chosenness to the Prophet Abraham, would count for absolute zero unless they repented of rejecting him like the wicked men of Nineveh did who were unchosen by GOD. Neither were they descended from the Prophet Abraham. But when the men of Nineveh were told to repent, in contrast to the Jews, they obeyed.

7. Matthew 12.42 Then one verse later the Qur'an's now Risen Messiah once again humiliated the Jewish leaders by informing them that the female ruler of the small Southern Kingdom of what is now Yemen, will suddenly rise up at the Final Judgment and by herself humiliate the Jews by being only one women and yet be able to condemn an entire generation of know-it-all Jews. How could this one woman do this?

Because she was humble enough to admit that she didn't know it all. Therefore, she travelled by camel the long, long journey from Sheba to Israel. And she took that long journey in order to be able to acquire wisdom from Solomon.

But in a ridiculous contrast to her wisdom to visit Solomon in order to learn, the know it all Jewish leaders had ALLAH's wisest servant, Isa, come directly to them. They did not need to ride a camel one inch in order to listen to the Messiah's wisdom. But in contrast to her humble attitude of learning from Solomon, arrogant Jewish leaders put their fat fingers in their ears and would not listen to ALLAH's Messiah. But they will listen during the Judgment when one little lady camel rider rises up to testify against their whole arrogant, know-it-all Messiah rejecting generation.

8. Matthew 15.28 – A Cananite woman from the non-Jewish region of Tyre and Sidon had her demon possessed daughter whom she loved very much, immediately totally healed. His disciples had tried their best to get rid of the woman for her being a nuisance. But she persevered with the Messiah until he said to this foreign woman the extremely compassionate and welcome words: "Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted."

9. Matthew 25:32 The very last Parable that the Qur'an's "Son of Man" told on this earth, (when speaking of himself he often called himself "Son of Man") he spoke about himself coming with angels to judge all the people of all the nations. He stated: "When the son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him. (See Al Fajr 89:22, for the similarity of the Lord Messiah coming with angles to judge.) At that time all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people from one another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

According to this particular last parable, although the Messiah did not say it was a parable, it was symbolic of how all of the people of all the world's generations will be separated from one another on primarily one basis.

This criterion will be whether each person did or did not show compassion to the sick, to prisoners, to those without clothing, to strangers without friends and to the hungry and thirsty. So these are the kind of compassionate values that the Qur'ans Messiah expected all foreigners from each and every nation to have. And this is precisely the values that he did not observe among the leadership in Israel. But, from my observation, this kind of compassion by Muslim leaders toward strangers, towards prisoners, toward the hungry and thirsty, toward those without clothing, toward the sick, is far more likely to now be observed among Muslims by the Qur'an's Risen Messiah than what he observes being practiced by today's Israeli Jewish leaders. If my personal observation is truly consistent about compassion by Muslims, this inclination toward compassion will be very beneficial to Muslim leaders on the final Day of Judgment.

10. Matthew 27:9 Significantly, it was not those about whom today's Christians speak of as the chosen people who were drawn to the innocent, compassionate Bethlehem man. Rather, those leaders of those known as the chosen people were consistently repelled by him and relentlessly harassed him. In contrast, those who were often drawn to his purity, innocence and compassion were the worldly wise foreign Roman citizens like Governor Pilate and his wife, who quickly recognized both Innocence and quality in the person now recognized as the Qur'an's now Risen Messiah. In contrast, the Jews intended to manipulate Governor Pilate to crucify him. But those leaders who are now known and stereotyped as the chosen people did not respond to the Messiah. But listen to what this Roman Governor's wife, Mrs. Pilate said to her husband Pilate about the Messiah. When Mrs. Pilate knew that Jewish leaders were demanding the Messiah's execution, she courageously ordered her husband what to do in an urgent message: "Have nothing to do with that innocent man because in a dream last night, I suffered much on account of him. So either Mrs. Pilate's sub-conscious was warning her to protect her husband from being guilty of the blood of ALLAH's Messiah for the rest of the Governor's life. Or, possibly it was GOD who was actively working in her sub-conscious.

11. Mark 3:34,35 – Many Muslims do not realize that the Qur'an's Risen Messiah claimed that every Muslim who does GOD's Will as a member of his own personal family. For he said to those who had crowded in to a house to listen to him:

"Here are my mother and brothers! Whoever does GOD's will is my brother and sister and mother."

12. Mark 10:31 "But many who are first will be last, and the last first." I personally feel that this statement has much relevance to Muslims today regarding their embracing of the Qur'an's Messiah. Due to the over emphasis on the significance of Islam not officially recognizing the Qur'an's Messiah as Son of GOD, there is something very important that Muslims and others do not recognize. It is that ALLAH himself stated in Al-Imran 3:55 that he not only was "sovereign over causing his Messiah to die. But he would be the One who would also raise him from death". ALLAH knows that there are four other Surahs in the Qur'an which also testify of ALLAH raising the Qur'an's Messiah up alive. So when that truth moves from ALLAH's awareness to Muslim's awareness, then Muslims will move from not being considered as directly connected to the Risen Messiah, to very possibly considered as being first in their commitment to him, as Mark 10:31 speaks about the last being first.

13. Mark 11:17 The stereotype of Jerusalem today is that Jerusalem is a racist, apartheid city that has no room for non-Jews, especially in the temple area. But this is definitely not the thought pattern that dominates the thinking of the Qur'an's now Risen Messiah. He aggressively confronted the racist attitude of first Century Jews when he quoted from a combination of the Prophet Jeremiah and the Prophet Isaiah and powerfully stated how the Jewish temple is for all nations and not just for Jews.

"As he taught them he said, it is written: My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations. But you have made it a den of thieves."

Therefore, according to Isaiah 56:7, and Mark 11:17 the temple of Jerusalem was not to be a place of prayer for not only Jews but according to these two inspired writers who were separated by eight centuries, the temple in Jerusalem is to be a place of prayer for those from all the nations of the entire world .

Also, according to Mark 11:17 and Jeremiah 11:17, two inspired writers separated by six Centuries, the Jews of both the Prophet Jeremiah's time and Mark's time who was writing during the Messiah's time, the Jews had directly disobeyed GOD by blasphemously turning GOD's sacred temple into a hideout for thieves.

14. Mark 12:9-11 "What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others. Haven't you read the Scripture?"

"The stone which the builders rejected as worthless, has become the cornerstone. The Lord has done this and it is marvelous in our eyes."

The Greek writer Luke adds the following addition: "Everyone who falls on that stone will be cut to pieces and if that stone falls on someone, it will crush him to dust."

Then they looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had told: "this parable against them."

This parable reveals that he who is now the Qur'an's Messiah has removed from that time forward until they repent of their rejection of GOD's Messiah, the Jewish leaders from the responsibility and the opportunity to produce fruit for GOD. This reluctant, last resort removal by the Messiah had been because of the way the Jews had without exception violently treated or murdered each and every Prophet ALLAH has sent to them. But the last straw that broke the camel's back that GOD could no longer tolerate is when they violently murdered his most precious collector of fruit from the vineyard owned by GOD. Yes, because these renters of GOD's vineyard, with great malice, forethought and hatred were planning to murder GOD's own servant/Messiah. Therefore GOD has finally ripped the vineyard from those Jewish renters, to give to others. This includes giving the vineyard to the Gentiles in general and soon to the Muslims for the explicit purpose of producing fruit for GOD since the Israeli renters have violently refused to do so.

Please see the Qur'an's verse An-Nisa 4:155 for a concise summary of this Jewish cycle of their murdering Prophet after Prophet who would be collectors of fruit until they finally decided to murder the last collector, the Virgin born son of Maryam, the now Risen Messiah of the Qur'an.

And make no mistake about the purpose and result of this extremely strategic parable that enraged the Jews and undoubtedly enrages many Jewish religious leaders still today who understand the Messiah's specific purpose of telling this powerful parable against the Jews. It was a confrontive, purposeful, in-your-face parable which was 100% intended to shake them up in order to help them realize how great the short range and long range consequences would be of their soon murder of him which was already in the final stages of planning.

The intense Messiah drove home to their hearts and nailed down the importance of this relevant, confrontive story by connecting it to well-known prophetic verses from Psalm 118 that specifically had predicted how the Jews would be foolish builders trying to build a house for GOD while rejecting GOD's own corner-stone which was their Messiah. And for this rejection the Jews would severely pay. For GOD would now abruptly fire the Jewish builders of GOD's house who were foolish enough to reject His main cornerstone.

In the vineyard metaphor used in the same encounter, the Messiah (who has now become the Risen Messiah of the Qur'an), and GOD/ALLAH who is the symbolic owner of the vineyard, fires the Jewish tenants after overwhelming patience in sending to them, servant after servant, prophet after prophet. But the Jewish tenants were too irresponsible to produce fruit for GOD. So they are replaced with other tenants who are the Gentile non-Jews in general and are finally the Muslims, when Muslims realize the Risen and honored Messiah of the Qur'an's is explicitly the Muslims own Risen Messiah.

Significantly, the Messiah uses this one unique encounter with the rebellious Israeli apparatus to use the two metaphors of builders and vineyard renters (tenants) to emphasize that both are kicked out of their former responsibility to produce fruit for ALLAH and to build a house for Him until they totally change their attitude from calloused rejection to warm acceptance.

They are replaced because of their ugly treatment of ALLAH's prophets and finally their rejection and cruel murder of His Messiah. The Qur'an's An-Nisa 4:157 and 158 confirms this when these two verses are not misunderstood. Understanding occurs when Shubiiha lahum and the fairy tale identity transfer myth are no longer allowed to confuse Muslims' minds about ALLAH's great transfer of responsibility away from the Jews to the Gentiles and later to the Muslims. So the Qur'an's Messiah confronts the Jews with all of this bad news for them in this one unique and important strategic encounter that is documented and recorded not only in Mark 12, but is so vitally important in telling about the Jews getting abruptly kicked out of GOD's vineyard and building business and the Gentiles and Muslims replacing them, that this encounter is also recorded in Matthew 21:23-45 and also in the Greek Dr. Luke's Gospel/Injeel in Luke 20:9-19. Each writer describes the same identical confrontive encounter between the Qur'an's now Risen Messiah and the rejecting, murdering Jews, about their being rejected for their rejecting the Messiah who ALLAH Himself sent to them.

15. Mark 15:21- It seems significant that ALLAH Himself controlled the circumstance so it appeared to be a non-Jewish man from Cyrene, who had a son with a Greek name, Alexander, who was the man who had the privilege of carrying the very heavy execution apparatus, the cross, for the physically beaten down and exhausted, Isa-al Messiah.

16. Mark 16:5 – ALLAH chose neither a Jew nor a non Jew to be the first to announce the most amazing event to ever happen to a person next to the now Risen Messiah's own Virgin birth. And that amazing event is announcing his resurrection from death. On both occasions it was an angle who announced those momentous events. His birth was first announced to the amazed Maryam by the Qur'an's most visible Angel, Gabriel. But the resurrection of the Qur'an's Messiah, according to Mark seems to have been announced by a younger appearing angel, who is described as a young man. But the significant thing is that the two events of the resurrection and virgin birth were so important that both events were announced by supernatural angels.

17. Luke 1:13- It is significant that this third Gospel/Injeel was written by a non-Jewish Greek as an accurate account of the Messiah to another Greek named Theophillus, so you would expect this Gospel to have a little more of a non-Jewish slant, having been written by one Greek to another Greek.

18. Luke 1:11- In this verse the person who is emphasized is the father of the man who would be the forerunner of the Messiah named Yahya in the Qur'an and John the Baptist in the Injeel. But the significant point is that once again the Angel Gabriel and another angel were involved with announcing both the Messiah's birth and his ressurrection. The other angel announced his resurrection, and it was the Angel Gabriel again who announced the birth of the man who would be the Messiah's forerunner who would smooth the way for him. Significantly, Gabriel was the famous leading Angel of the Qur'an. So Gabriel stayed busy over many centuries because he gave visions to the Prophet/exile Daniel in Babylonia/Iraq in the 6th century B.C.

19. Luke 2:13,32 – There was a very old man name Simeon who had somehow, we don't know how, had been promised by GOD that he himself would not die until he had seen GOD's anointed Messiah.

So when he took the virgin born baby in his arms when he was presented for circumcision at the temple, said something about the Messiah that was a surprise to many. In his announcement about the Messiah he mentioned the Messiah's blessing to non-Jews before speaking about his blessing Jews. "A light of revelation to the Gentiles and for Glory to your people Israel."

20. Luke 3:14- Roman soldiers who were definitely not Jews asked Yahya for his advice for them and they were told to keep greed and extortion out of their lives by always being content with their pay.

21. Luke 4:24-27 – Contains two Old Testament true stories that the Qur'an's Messiah told about Jewish racism that almost resulted in his being murdered before he barely got started in his public service to the Jews. Significantly, both of the objectionable stories he told were about choices ALLAH Himself made to instruct His two well-known Old Testament Prophets to help a Sidonese woman and to heal a Syrian military officer who were both not Hebrew. The Messiah pointed out that there were many similar needy Jews in the same circumstances. But the two Prophets, Elijah and Elisha had no similar instructions from GOD to meet the Jewish persons needs, only the needs of the non-Jews. When Isa emphasized this strange circumstance to his home town synagogue listeners, it appeared to them to be favoritism toward non-Jews over those who were reputed to be GOD's chosen people, which greatly offended them.

As a result, his synogue listeners were so enraged that they spontaneously decided to murder him by pushing him off a Nazareth cliff. But they did not succeed. It is not surprising that only the non-Jewish writer who was Luke is the only writer who mentions these two incidents that can appear to be GOD's favoritism toward non-Jews.

22. Luke 7:1 – A Roman Centurion who was a Centurion officer for a hundred Romans, had a servant who was near death. But instead of this non-Jewish Roman man asking Jesus to come to his home to do the healing, he asked him to just say the word and that he knew his servant would be healed. So that is what Isa did and his dying servant was immediately healed. With that amazing demonstration of faith which was set in motion by a Roman and not a Jew, the Messiah made an observation that was definitely not a complement for his own Jewish people. But it was a great complement for those who are not Jewish. The Messiah said to the foreign Roman officer:

"I have not found such a great faith, not even in Israel."

So it apparently took a non-Jew to demonstrate great faith.

23. Luke 9:52 – The Messiah made it clear that he considered the Samaritans as non-Jewish foreigners. But he wanted to get to Jerusalem quickly and the shortest way was through Samaria. But the Samaritans did not welcome him because he was on his way to Jewish dominated Jerusalem. This rejection by the supposed inferior Samaritans made James and his brother John angry. So they wanted fire called down upon the Samaritan rejecters. But even though these foreigners had rejected him, the Messiah refused to disrespect them. But instead of rebuking the rejecting foreign Samaritans as you might expect, it was his own two Jewish disciples who received a stern rebuke from him for wanting to rebuke the foreign Samaritans.

24. Luke 10:8-16 – As the Messiah had announced in Matthew, there would be more severe judgment for Jews who rejected him at the final judgment than for notoriously wicked cities such as Sodom. But there was a slightly different emphasis by the Greek writer, Luke. For Luke it was not the rejecters of him, the Messiah, who would receive far worse judgment than very wicked Gentile cities. Luke emphasized that Jewish cities who rejected even his disciples would receive far worse final judgment than even those Gentile cities who were wicked.

25. Luke 10:25-37 – The famous parable known as the Parable of the Good Samaritan but I call it the "Parable of the Hard Hearted Jewish Leaders."

Even though this parable emphasizes the super compassion of a foreign Samaritan, the contrast with the horrible hardness of heart of Jewish leadership as portrayed by the Qur'an's Risen Messiah in this Parable is absolutely shocking. This Parable was an extremely severe rebuke by the Messiah of the heavily calloused Jewish religious leadership. It exposed two levels of Jewish leadership as excessively calloused; the Priests and the Priestly Levites. They totally ignored a badly beaten up Jewish travelling merchant while the Samaritan foreigner showed him amazing compassion and paid out of his own pocket for his needed medical treatment.

26. Luke 11:29-32 – Luke here emphasizes the same dreadful reality of the deserved judgment that the Jews will receive when they are being testified against by the woman leader from what was the far off Sheba that is now Yemen, He also emphasized the way the former notoriously wicked people of Nineveh (a region now in Iraq) will testify against the proud Jews who will be very humbled, frightened, and condemned at the final Judgment by these now reformed Ninevite men.

27. Luke 13:28-30 – The Messiah describes a terribly frightening scene for the Jews at the Final Judgment. He describes a scene where disobedient Jews are surrounded by Gentiles from throughout the entire world; from the east and the west, from the north and the south. According to what the Qur'an's now Risen Messiah stated there will be much weeping and many of the Jews will be so stressed that they will be grinding their teeth. And the Messiah finalized his comments by observing that those who have been considered as the first, like those referred to as the chosen people, will be last unless they radically change their ways. And those rejecters of GOD's Messiah who do change their attitude to him will finally be rewarded when they find themselves as first, which I assume will be many Muslims when they embrace the Qur'an's Risen Messiah.

28. Luke 17:11-19- This is not a parable but is an exposing disturbing and exceptionally disappointing historical event which occurred when the Messiah compassionately and graciously healed nine Jewish lepers and one foreign Samaritan leper. Even though the foreign Samaritans had a very strained and often hostile relationship with the Jews, after the ten lepers were each healed, it was only the one Samaritan foreigner who appropriately returned to the Messiah and humbly thanked him. Luke's account states "when he saw that he was healed, he came back praising GOD in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him - and he was a Samaritan".

Jesus asked, "Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to GOD except this foreigner?"

So even then, leprous Jews appeared to have a sense of entitlement as it appears that Israeli leaders still have now. Those nine Jewish lepers each thought that GOD was obligated to heal them. But that they did not think that they had an obligation to be thankful. And that lousy, unthankful attitude by so many Jews of his day was extremely disappointing to the Messiah. In vivid contrast to the Jews ungrateful attitude, the thankful attitude that so many foreigners often had was exceptionally encouraging to him. This was especially true since he was so disappointed by the calloused, hostile treatment he consistently received from so many Jewish leaders.

John

29. John: 4:1-42- The Qur'an's Messiah Isa would not allow the Jewish hostility toward all Samaritans to prevent him from having friendly relationships with Samaritans. Therefore, when he was sitting resting near the town well in the Samaritan town of Sychar, he did not hesitate to ask a Samaritan women who came to get water from the well, for a drink of water. (He himself had nothing with which to draw the water out of the well) But the women was very surprised that he would break the understood unwritten rule that Jews and Samaritans must not even be polite to one another.

But the point is this. When the Messiah was sent by ALLAH to bring peace to this world as the chorus of singing angles who announced his birth to humble shepherds had said that he would, he did not come to follow the silly rules and sometimes hostile traditions of people. Because, for many people like Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants or Shiia Muslims and Sunni Muslims, it is important to them to allow historic grievances to be of higher value then warm human relationships. But the Messiah came to break down barriers between different hostile groups and to stop historic misunderstandings from interfering with caring for valuable brother and sister human beings who were also created by ALLAH.

Without going into detail about the wonderful human relationship improvements that occurred between both himself and his own Jewish disciples and a whole foreign Samaritan village in the two days he and his disciples were welcome among these former enemies, I will make this one point. Because of his friendliness to this one Samaritan women who had been hurtfully rejected by five different husbands, probably for not being able to get pregnant, and was apparently now being exploited by yet another man at that time, an amazing breakthrough occurred. By the time that he and his disciples left that former hostile Samaritan village of Sychar, both this bruised woman and many other emotionally scarred persons, both women and men in that village and his own rigid disciples had been emotionally healed.

Emotional healing is often more difficult than physical healing. Just as important, the Messiah's own Jewish disciples made friends over drinking tea with Samaritans for two days. So they learned from Isa's friendliness. Over the years ahead his disciples would teach many Jews to be friendly with those who were supposedly enemies as he had taught them in those two days in that one Samaritan Village. And this valuable lesson in healing all began when he broke down an evil barrier by asking one bruised and kicked around like a soccer ball Samaritan woman for a drink of water.

30. John 10:14-16 – He who has become the Messiah of the Noble Qur'an was a thoughtful observer of the simple things occurring in nature, quite similar to the way the Prophet of Isalm had been an observer, the consistently kind Prophet Muhammad. One of the main things to be observed in the country side throughout the Middle East is the responsible interaction that a good shepherd has with his sheep or an irresponsible shepherd has with his sheep. It is evident from the compelling stories that the Messiah often told about good and bad shepherds with their sheep, is that he had great respect for good shepherds. It seems that he himself learned valuable lessons from good shepherds about how to treat people from the way that good shepherds treated sheep. And it is significant that the man who has become the Qur'an's loving, living Messiah never spoke of bad sheep. But he did speak of sheep that sometimes strayed away from their good shepherd. And the Messiah, without being boastful in any way, characterized himself as a good shepherd who was willing to look out for his sheeps' needs rather than his own needs, He would not only compassionately go after a wandering sheep. But he also felt personally compelled by love and compassion to give his own life for his sheep. He made it clear that the sheep that he deeply cared for were not limited to the people of Israel but extended to all people.

John 10:16 "There are other sheep that are not of this sheep fold. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice." The Messiah had compelling love for these sheep who were considered foreign by Jews but to the Messiah they were overwhelmingly important and were not considered as foreigners.

The Book of Acts

There are many encounters between the Qur'an's Risen Messiah and those who were not Jews in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles. But I will limit my observations to four such interactions.

31. Acts 10 – The famous fisherman Peter, even though he had participated in the Messiah's break-through friendliness with the supposed foreign Samaritan enemies, Peter still had a huge hang-up with interacting with foreigners. His traditional rigid Jewish background caused him to consider non-Jews unclean. His ingrained feelings were that non Jews were inferior.

So the Risen Messiah used shock therapy on Peter by giving him three rapid fire visions on all the different things he could now eat with the intention of shocking him into realizing that no people were unclean to GOD. Therefore Peter had no right whatsoever to consider any human being or any nationality as being inferior or unclean.

The moment the shock therapy visions had ended, there were three Romans calling out at the gate of the house where Peter was a guest. They wanted to know if Peter was there so they could take him back to a nearby town to give a talk to a house full of Romans. Before the shock therapy visions, Peter would not have gone with them because of his bad attitude towards Roman foreigners. But due to the three rapidfire visions showing that all people are clean, he was willing to go to meet more Romans.

When Peter arrived at the house full of Romans, due to his shock therapy visions directly from the Risen Messiah, this is what the new Peter said: "I now realize how true it is that GOD does not show favoritism but accepts persons from every nation who fear Him and do what is right." But one more extremely important phenomenon occurred before Peter left that group of Romans in order to make certain that other racist leaning Jews believed him when he spread the message that GOD accepted all non-Jews such as Romans. As a sign of this acceptance by GOD being true, the new Roman believers all started supernaturally speaking in other languages that they did not know as tangible proof of GOD's presence in them through His Spirit.

32. Acts 8:4- Only months before that breakthrough event, the whole Jewish Sanhedrin had gone completely berserk. They had ground their teeth and unanimously murdered by stoning to death a brilliant, courageous follower of the Risen Bethlehem man named Stephen. Then, due to a great persecution, believers went all over the region preaching. And this is what Greek Dr. Luke said happened to the foreigners in Samaria: "Philip went down to a city of Samaria and proclaimed the Christ there?" (Christ is the Greek word for both anointed and Messiah.) When the crowds heard Philip and saw the miraculous signs which he did, they all paid close attention to what he said. With shrieks, unclean spirits come out of many and many paralytics and cripples were healed. So there was great joy in the city."

33. Acts 8:27 – With the fast moving Philip having had the joyous excitement with so many foreigners in Samaria, the Risen Messiah sent him on another foreign assignment. He caught up with an Ethiopian government officials in a chariot on the desert road near Gaza. By coincidence he was reading a prophecy from about the eighth Century B.C from the Book of Isaiah about the future Messiah who was Isa. But the official was having trouble understanding the prophecy. So the official invited Philip to sit next to him in the chariot in order to explain to him the meaning of Isaiah 53:7, and 8. Philip explained that it was about the trial and the unjust execution of GOD's Messiah. Therefore, the Ethiopian official wanted to personally receive the Risen Messiah into his life. As soon as the official saw some water near the road, he asked Philip to baptize him in the water. Then the official happily returned to Ethiopia to tell the people of Ethiopia what had happened to him while he was travelling on the Jerusalem-Gaza road.

34. Acts 17:16-34 – The radical former Rabbi from Tarsus, later the Apostle Paul, got emotionally shook up when he was visiting Athens Greece. He really was distressed when he saw that this whole educated city of supposedly wise Greeks, intellectually and emotionally given over to worshipping a broad variety of various idols. His distress must have been similar to the strong distress that Prophet Muhammad had with the idol worshippers of Mecca before he was able to convince them through ALLAH's empowerment to throw out thier idols and worship and serve only the One True ALLAH.

So Paul preached a powerful message to the self-satisfied proud Greeks. He explained that in the past GOD somewhat overlooked man's ignorant worship of idols. But not anymore. For now He commands everyone to change and to realize that GOD has set a Day of Judgment when He will Judge the entire world with Justice. And He has given proof of this Coming Judgment by raising His appointed Judge from the dead. But the majority of the Greeks had a naive Bush type self-confidence and most would not believe GOD's message delivered through His own messenger, Paul.

But Paul himself had not believed until the Risen Messiah had made him blind for three days. (GOD has his unique ways of getting people's attention.) So a believer in the Messiah was sent to pray for Paul (who was then Saul) to get back his sight. Then Paul was wanted by the Bush type Jews, Dead or Alive, like Bush arrogantly promised to get Osama Bin Laden, Dead or Alive. The frightened Jews did finally capture him. But the former radical Rabbi from Tarsus ultimately defeated them because he spent the last years of his life under house arrest in the foreign city of Rome. There he wrote powerful and valuable letters about the Injeel's Risen Messiah who is more recently the Nobel Qur'an's courageous Risen Messiah.

A Hope, Skip and a Jump

It's been a real joy to take a hop, skip, and a jump through some verses in the Injeel with those readers whom I think have been mostly Muslims. I hope you have enjoyed as much as I have observing that, though the U.S. Congress, Sarah Palin, and the Neo Cons may make a big deal about the Israelis being both GOD's Chosen People and the Chosen People of the U.S. Government. But that is not at all the practical focus of what the encounters that the Risen Messiah had with non-Jews has revealed in the Injeel. So the true reality of the Messiah's enjoyment of non-Jews has been refreshing to me as I observed this in the Injeel. And I hope, encouraging to you. But I would think that this good news was not a surprise. Because you would have expected that the Risen Messiah of the Qur'an would not constantly have his compassionate eyes focused only on the Jews who consistently have mostly rejected him. So I really think that it is no surprise to you that he enjoys embracing foreigners who will warmly return his embrace. The Qur'an's Risen Messiah delights in the mentality of Muslims when you stress "Ahlan Wa Sahlan" and "My House Is Your House!"

May ALLAH Be With You,
Abu Toma