The Collapse of Britannica
February 2010 Bible Believers’ Bulletin
In our last article, we introduced you to a piece of literature put out by the Moslems in England. I’ll read it for you. This is a typical tract that has gone all over England for more than fifteen years now. Copies of it, and tracts like it, are all over the United States right now, especially in College groups, among chaplains in prisons, and among Senators and Congressmen. Here’s what it says: “Introduction to Islam. Islam and the Moslems.”
Now, he didn’t say Mohammedans, did he? Isn’t that strange? Who founded that religion? Mohammed did.
Do you know how they get around that? They pretend that he didn’t. They pretend that there were always Moslems around and that Abraham was a Moslem. In the Holy Hadith, Jesus Christ was presented as a Moslem. Can you imagine that? Do you know what the Koran says about Jesus Christ? It declares He’s a liar in all four Gospels. He never died on a cross.
Do you know what all Mohammedans believe, every one of them—I mean every Moslem in Islam? He believes that Peter, James, John, Matthew, Mark, and Luke were all lying eyewitnesses and blasphemers and are in Hell right now. If you don’t believe it, buy you a copy of the Koran and read it. Allah had no son, and if you believe he did, you’re a polygamist. If you believe God had a Son, you’re an infidel and the fires of Hell are awaiting you. Do you know who believed God had a Son? Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (Christ’s eyewitness biographers), 500 people who saw Christ come up from the dead, and all the apostles.
“Introduction to Islam.” That’s a funny introduction, isn’t it? It’s the name of the religion, the roots of which are what he’s about to tell you.
“Islam and Moslems, the roots of which are silm and salam meaning ‘peace.’” Isn’t that a flip? “Salam is also used to greet one another with peace: ‘Peace be unto thee.’”
“One of the beautiful attributes of Allah [not his name, Allah simply means “the god”] is that he (god) is the peace.”
That isn’t his name; that’s an attribute. You say, what’s strange about that? That’s easy: their god has no name.
The word Allah, the tract says, means “the god” in English. That’s what it means. Now, he says, “Well that is the one and only god.” Too bad he doesn’t have a name. The one god has no name, and the only god has no name. His name is “the god.” That isn’t a name. Amazing what this tract might do to the College outfit who never learned third-grade English, isn’t it?
The writer confesses, “Allah has 99 beautiful attributes.” Not one of them is his name. They’re attributes. He lists them: “The Gracious.” The gracious what? Nothing. “The Creator, the Merciful, the All-wise, the Beneficent, the All-knowing.” There isn’t a single name in the lot. Those are all attributes ascribed to a god who has no name.
“Allah is the creator of all beings. He is the god of the Christians, the Jews, the Moslems, Buddhists, Hindus, Atheists, and others.”
He’s the god of the atheists? Why, my dear, stupid jackass, the word atheist means “no god.” When a Greek puts an “a” before a thing like “theist,” it negates the word: “atheist”—no god. If he puts an “a” before gnostic (a knower), it’s “agnostic”—non-knower. Don’t you know that?
The people who get this tract must not know that because this thing is said to acquaint you and give you information to improve your understanding. Isn’t that a wild understanding?
Imagine this fellow saying Allah’s the God of the Christians. Why, my God has a name. He isn’t just called the Merciful, the All-wise, and the Most High, although He is. He is called “the way, the truth, and the life” and “the Almighty,” “the Alpha and Omega”; but those are attributes.
My God said, “Do you know what my name is?” Moses said, “What’s that?” God said, “My name is Jehovah.”
Jehovah is your English translation. You say, “What does Jehovah mean?” It means “I AM THAT I AM.” That’s the name that Jehovah gave to Moses. It was not an attribute; it was His name. What’s the name of Allah? He has no name. He was only given attributes by somebody.
- And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
You say, “It was Mohammed.” Well, Mohammed didn’t write anything. The writing you’ve got in your Bible, the Lord said He wrote that stuff on tables of stone: His Ten Commandments. He Himself wrote something.
Allah never touched anything written in the Koran. You say, “How do you know?” Ask any Moslem who wrote it, and if he says Allah, say, “Well, where is it?” He’ll show you a book that a bunch of Arabs wrote, and not one of them was Mohammed.
Mohammed never wrote anything in the Koran. You say, “Who wrote what you read in the Koran?” What you read in the Koran is written by Arabians. Allah never touched it. They just pretend he did.
Now who’s Allah? He’s “the god.” Do you know who my Bible says “the god” is? My Bible says “the god of this world” is Satan (2 Cor. 4:4), and it gives his name (Isa. 14:12). It then tells you that the way you spot an Antichrist who is against Christ and against God is the fact that if he denies that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, he’s an Antichrist (1 John 4:3). His name is given in Zechariah 3:1–2 and Job 1:6–9 and 1 Chronicles 21:1 and Psalm 109:6 and the New Testament (Matt. 4:10; Luke 4:8, 22:3; John 13:27; 2 Thess. 2:9; etc.). He’s simply called “the god” in 2 Corinthians 4:4.
- In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
- How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
- And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
- And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
- And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
- Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
- And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
- And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
- Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
- And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
- Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
- Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
- And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
- Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
- And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
- Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
So here, Allah is the one and only god. Allah has 99 beautiful ATTRIBUTES but no name. When my God shows up in the flesh as a man (1 Tim. 3:16), He calls Himself “Jehovah Saves.” The “Je” on Jesus is an abbreviation for “Jah,” which is an abbreviation for “Jehovah.” Didn’t you hear about Jeconiah in the Old Testament? The “Je” on the front of the name is Jehovah attached to the name. The Lord said of Jeconiah, “Take my ‘Je’ off there; I don’t want to have him bear my name. Just call him Coniah.” That’s in Jeremiah 22:24–30.
- And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
- As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
- And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
- And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
- But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
- Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
- O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
- Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
Now isn’t it strange that the God of the Christians has a name and gives you His name in both Testaments? Old Testament—Jehovah; New Testament—Jehovah Saves. What does Jehovah mean? It means “I AM THAT I AM.” That’s not His attribute; that is His name.
What’s Allah’s name? He hasn’t got any name. That’s why the writer of this tract makes him god of everybody, so if you say “the god” you’ve got to be referring to Mohammed’s god, but you are not referring to the God of the Christians. That’s ridiculous. Mohammed said Allah never had a son, Christ didn’t die on the cross, He didn’t die for anybody’s sins, and He was born under a palm tree. That’s the God of the Christians? The God of the Jews? Are you trying to be funny?
The God of the Jews had Abraham offer up Isaac as a sacrifice; Mohammed taught that it was Ishmael. Whoever wrote Genesis lied. Why, the Koran said the angels bowed down and worshipped Adam when he was made. They didn’t do anything of the kind. Adam was said to be made “a little lower than the angels” in both Testaments (Psa. 8:4–6; Heb. 2:6–8).
- What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
- For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
- Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
- But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
- Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
- Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.
So when the author of this tract starts out to get this better understanding of Islam, he says Allah is the creator of all things. He is “THE God” of the Christians (he’s a liar), the Jews (he’s a liar), the Buddhists (he’s a liar), the Hindus (he’s a liar), and the atheists (he’s a liar).
Moslems worship Allah. Who is he? He’s a nameless god. Moslems worship “the god.” “The god” in 2 Corinthians 4:4 is Satan.
“Moslems put their trust in him.” What is his name? It isn’t given. “And his guidance in all matters.” Where do you see it? You seek it in the Koran and the Hadith. Those are the two “holy books” of Islam—the Noble Koran and the Holy Hadith. The god presented in the Holy Hadith and the Koran has nothing to do with the God of the Christians or the Jews at all.
The god presented in the Holy Hadith— and I’ve got quotation after quotation here from the best Hadith, the one by Bukhari which is said to be the best one—that say that Satan sleeps in your nose at night, that if you look up to heaven and open your eyes when you pray, your eyes come out of their sockets, that you shouldn’t have a dog in your house, that it’s a sin to play chess, that it’s healthy to drink camels’ urine, that Adam was ninety feet tall, that the Gabriel who announced the Virgin Birth to Mary had 600 wings, and that there were more women in Hell than there were men (see Mohammed’s Believe It or Else: CL-3099 @ $3.95).
That’s the God of the Christians? That’s the god of the Buddhists? Are you trying to be funny? He’s not trying to be funny, he’s trying to follow true Moslem practice, which is being just as crooked as a dog’s hind leg.
This is a tract that goes out in England. What’s it for? Why, it’s absolutely positive. It’s to improve the understanding of Islam among non-Moslems, and it begins by telling you the non-Moslems all worship the god that Mohammed worshipped. It’s right there. Allah is the creator of all things; he’s “the god” of the Christians, the Jews, and the Moslems. Not any god in the Bible except Satan, and his name wasn’t given in 2 Corinthians 4. It just said “the god” [“Allah”] of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not.”
This is a tract I’m reading. It is supported with tax exempt donations to a non-profit organization in England. It’s been going in England now for nearly 20 years. This non-profit organization was set up back in 1992. That’s seventeen years this godless, depraved trash has been going out to give you non-Moslems a better understanding of Islam.
(Part 3 next month)