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Deuteronomy 18:19 from the KJV. “And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. ”
Muslims teach that Muhammad is the prophet that Moses prophesied that God would raise up.
And one of their main arguments is that God says THEIR brethren, which Muslims “interpret” to mean the offspring of Ishmael.
But what does the Bible ITSELF teach us?
Christians believe that Jesus is the fulfillment of Deuteronomy 18:15-19.
So then, which book is teaching the TRUTH, the Bible or the Quran?
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Book 8 Chapter 6.
Following the WRONG Prophet means NO Eternal Life!
This Verse Study is part of Book 8 called “Is Islam the TRUE FAITH?”
In part 1 of this Verse Study on which faith is the TRUE faith, Islam, Judaism, or Christianity, I said that there are SEVEN different points brought forth in the prophecy in Deuteronomy 18:15-19.
And in that Verse Study in chapter 3, we covered the FIRST point, which is that Almighty God would raise up a PROPHET. And in chapter 4, we covered the SECOND point.
Here again are the SEVEN points.
Point #1.
God promised to raise up a PROPHET.
Point #2.
That Prophet will be LIKE Moses.
Point #3.
God would raise up that Prophet from among the BRETHREN of the children of Israel to whom Moses is speaking to, face to face, in Deuteronomy 18:15, and the SAME BRETHREN to whom Yahweh is speaking ABOUT in Deuteronomy 18:17,19.
Point #4.
That Prophet will speak the words of Yahweh that Yahweh Himself will put into his mouth.
Point #5.
All those who do NOT obey THAT Prophet, who will speak the words of Yahweh in the NAME of Yahweh, then it will be REQUIRED of God on the Day of Judgment.
Point #6.
Any prophet that presumes to speak a word in the name of Yahweh, that Yahweh did NOT give him to speak, then those false prophets shall die, as in, die the second death in the lake of fire on the final Day of Judgment.
Point #7.
How to KNOW if a prophet is NOT speaking the truth in the name of Yahweh.
And here in chapter 5 of Book 8 “Is Islam the TRUE FAITH”, we will cover point #3 concerning who the PROPHET is in Deuteronomy 18:15-19 that God said He would raise up a Prophet like Moses from among YOUR BRETHREN.
In other words, What is the God INTENDED meaning of the phrase “YOUR BRETHREN” in verse 19?
Did Almighty God intend His words to mean the offspring of Ishmael as being the brethren of the children of Israel?
Or did Almighty God intend His words to mean the brethren of the children of Israel within the twelve tribes of Israel?
For you see, Deuteronomy 18:19 could be INTERPRETED either way.
So the real question is which “interpretation” is in AGREEMENT with the REST of the Bible?
Let us begin this Verse Study by reading Deuteronomy 18:15-19 before I explain why the argument made by Muslims is not a sound “Biblical” VALID argument to base their ETERNAL LIFE upon.
In other words, there is a fifty-fifty chance of Muslims being wrong. And there is a fifty-fifty chance of Christians being wrong.
So then, the WHOLE matter of ALL of the evidence needs to be weighed, because our very own ETERNAL LIFE is at stake!
I say OUR very own eternal life because some Christians are converting to Islam and some Muslims are converting to Christianity.
So, make absolutely SURE that you are following the TRUE FAITH by TRULY considering ALL of the EVIDENCE!
I will add my comments in parenthesis to explain the passage of Scripture from the Bible.
As you read the context of verse 19 we must truly consider the whole matter.
So, consider that Moses is speaking face to face to the children of Israel.
I point this out, because in the English language, when a person is speaking face to face to a group of people about their “relatives”, then we say YOUR relatives.
But when another person is telling a person “about” the relatives of that SAME group of people, then he will say THEIR relatives.
It is the SAME relatives even though two different pronouns, YOUR and THEIR are being used.
In other words, YOUR brethren and THEIR brethren mean the exact same thing which BOTH pronouns, your and their, are used in the SAME CONTEXT.
Deuteronomy 18:15-18.
“The LORD YOUR God (Or Yahweh your God) will raise up unto YOU a Prophet from the midst of YOU, of YOUR brethren, like unto me; unto him YOU shall hearken; (Again, Moses is speaking face to face directly to the children of Israel of the twelve tribes of Israel.
In other words, Moses is NOT speaking to the children of Ishmael. Moses is NOT speaking to the Gentiles.
But rather, Moses is speaking to the children of Israel through the seed or bloodline of Jacob.
Remember that your ETERNAL LIFE is at stake if you hearken to the WRONG prophet)
Deuteronomy 18:16. According to all that YOU desired of the LORD YOUR God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. (According to Deuteronomy 5:1-6, and Deuteronomy 5: 23-27, it was only the children of Israel who were in bondage in Egypt that told Moses, you go up Mount Horeb and hear God’s voice for us.
And then you, Moses, tell us what God said and we will obey your words. Moses was never sent to the children of Israel to deliver them.
And in Deuteronomy 5:3 we read that God did NOT make this covenant with ANY of the fathers of the CHILDREN of Israel.
The words, “according to” mean that the REASON for WHY God told Moses to prophesy that God would raise up a Prophet LIKE Moses was BECAUSE the children of Israel asked for God to speak to a mediator or a Prophet that would hear God’s voice for them.
And then, the children of ISRAEL would obey THAT Prophet)
Deuteronomy 18:17. And the LORD said unto me, THEY have well spoken that which THEY have spoken. (Clearly, the pronoun “they” refers to the children of Israel and NOT to the children of the twelve tribes of Ishmael)
Deuteronomy 18:18. I (The LORD or I, Yahweh) will raise THEM up a Prophet from among THEIR brethren, like unto you, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. (Now, God raised up His Prophet Jesus long before the prophet Muhammad founded the faith of Islam.
And many of the Jews did indeed HEARKEN unto the Prophet, Jesus.
Now notice that Almighty God did NOT say that He would raise up TWO prophets.
All of the pronouns referring to the Prophet are SINGULAR.
Therefore, only ONE prophet between Jesus and Muhammad can be the TRUE Prophet that Yahweh promised to raise up from among the BRETHREN of the children of Israel.
Therefore, if one follows the WRONG Prophet, then they will be cast into the lake of fire on the final Day of Judgment.
For you see, according to the word of Almighty God Himself, there is only ONE WAY to eat from the TREE of LIFE in the world to come!
So again, which FAITH is the TRUE FAITH?)
Deuteronomy 18:19. And it shall come to pass, that WHOSOEVER will NOT hearken unto My words which he shall speak in My name, I will require it of him.”
In other words, in the CONTEXT following verse 19 in Deuteronomy 18:20-22, Almighty God prophesied that their will ALSO be FALSE prophets that PRESUME to speak the words of Almighty God which Yahweh did NOT put in their mouth. And Muhammad came AFTER the Prophet Jesus!
And logically, since only ONE TRUE Prophet was prophesied to come, then only ONE Prophet can be the TRUE Prophet that Almighty God put His words into THAT Prophets mouth.
And the OTHER prophet PRESUMED to speak the words of Almighty God.
But, in TRUTH, he was a FALSE prophet who will die the second death in the lake of fire on the final Day of Judgment.
Again, Almighty God promised to raise up ONE Prophet that we MUST hearken to or we will face the wrath of God on the final Day of Judgment if we are following the WRONG prophet.
In other words, WHOSOEVER follows the WRONG prophet will NOT receive ETERNAL LIFE in the world to come.
But rather, they will be cast into the lake of fire if they DENY the teachings of the TRUE Prophet that Almighty God Himself INTENDED to mean in the Bible.
Now, Muslims argue that because Almighty God Himself said THEIR brethren in Deuteronomy 18:18, then God had intended His words to mean the BRETHREN of the children of Ishmael and NOT the BRETHREN of the twelve tribes of Israel of the seed of Jacob.
And to me, that is an extremely weak argument to base one’s ETERNAL LIFE upon.
There is a “mountain” of evidence in the Scriptures that prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that Almighty God made a COVENANT with the children of Israel of the seed or offspring of Jacob.
But before we take a look at that huge amount of sound Biblical evidence that God INTENDED His words to mean the BRETHREN among one of the twelve tribes of Israel, let us take a CLOSE look at the promise made to the seed of Ishmael.
Again, I will add my comments in parenthesis to explain the passage of Scripture as you read each verse.
Genesis 16:1-16.
“Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. (Notice that Hagar is an Egyptian and that the Egyptians worshiped FALSE gods)
Genesis 16:2. And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing: I pray you, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
Genesis 16:3. And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. (Notice that, even though Hagar had dwelt with Abram and Sarai for ten years, Hagar is still referred to as an EGYPTIAN)
Genesis 16:4. And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. (In other words, Hagar despised Sarai, Abram’s wife)
Genesis 16:5. And Sarai said unto Abram, my wrong be upon you: I have given my maid into your bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and you.
Genesis 16:6. But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, your maid is in your hand; do to her as it pleases you. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.
Genesis 16:7. And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. (Now, Christians ASSUME that the angel of the LORD here is a GOOD angel.
But in TRUTH, this angel could have very well be the FALLEN angel Lucifer, also called Satan. Just something to TRULY consider as a possibility)
Genesis 16:8. And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, from where did you come? And where will you go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
Genesis 16:9. And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.
Genesis 16:10. And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply your seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. (Again, the FALLEN angel can choose NOT to oppress the seed of Ishmael to be BARREN.
And thus, they would multiply more than and it would APPEAR to be a blessing of Yahweh)
Genesis 16:11. And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, you are with child, and shalt bear a son, and shall call his name Ishmael; because (Or more correctly translated, assuredly) the LORD has heard your affliction.
Genesis 16:12. And he (Referring to Ishmael and his offspring) will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of ALL his brethren. (Meaning that most would dwell among the brethren of the twelve tribe of Ishmael, but some might also dwell among the brethren of the twelve tribes of Israel)
Genesis 16:13. And she called the name of the LORD that spoke unto her, you are a God that sees me: FOR she said, Have I ALSO here looked after him that sees me? (Again, the Egyptians looked after or prayed to FALSE gods who they sincerely believed were the true gods.
In other words, to an Egyptian, their main god or their highest god that they worship, to THEM, he is the TRUE God in THEIR eyes.
But, in TRUTH, they are worshiping the FALSE god, Satan, the Devil, who transforms himself to appear as the angel of light, the angel of the LORD, according to 2 Corinthians 11:13-15)
Genesis 16:14. Wherefore (Or for that very REASON) the well was called Beerlahairoi; (Which means a well of a living one, my SEER. A Seer is a person that can see or predict the future.
Now, the way that this is worded, you have to ask yourself as to whether or not that this particular “angel of the LORD” was a FALLEN angel of Yahweh or a GOOD angel of Yahweh?) behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis 16:15. And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. (The name Ishmael means God will hear. The question is WHEN will God hear the Ishmaelites, the descendents of Ishmael?
And more importantly WHICH “god” will hear the prayers of the Ismaelites?
It is NOT out of the realm of possibility that the Hebrew word “El” was wrongly translated as God, when it might have intended to mean a god, as in, a fallen god or a false Egyptian god that was their highest and strongest god.
It says, she ALSO looked after him.
And quite possibly meaning the Egyptian god Ra whose image is the EYE)
Genesis 16:16. And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.”
Now, the point that I am making is that Yahweh Himself promised Abraham that Abraham’s SEED will be through Isaac.
And if Islam is the true faith through the seed of Ishmael as some Muslims claim, then that would mean that the God of the BIBLE is a LIAR.
So then, for Muslims to even TRY to use the Bible to TRY to prove that their Quran is the very word of Almighty God Himself is to ALSO say that the Quran is yet another LIE of Almighty God.
Let us take a look at what some Muslim scholars are saying.
Some Muslims scholars know full well that they do NOT know which verse in the Torah speaks of Muhammad or which verse in the gospel speaks of Muhammad.
Here is a quote taken from the Muslim website linked here regarding a question from a Muslim asking where in the Bible are the prophecies of Muhammad.
“The short answer.
The Quran tells us:
And remember, Jesus, the son of Mary, said: O Children of Israel! I am the Messenger of Allah (sent) to you, confirming the Torah (which came) before me, and giving glad tidings of a messenger to come after me, whose name shall be Ahmad. But when it came to them with clear signs, they said, “This is evident sorcery.” (Quran 61:6)
What is important here is that Prophet Jesus (peace be upon him) says quite clearly that the Torah given to Prophet Moses mentions the coming of Jesus and the coming of a messenger after Jesus.
This is all that we are told.”
Or more correctly, Quran 61:6 is “interpreted” by Muslims to mean that Jesus clearly says that Moses mentions ANOTHER messenger AFTER Jesus.
But in TRUTH, Moses prophesied of ONE Prophet that Almighty God Himself would raise up AND Moses ALSO prophesied of OTHER messengers that would come with FALSE messages that Almighty God Himself did NOT put His words in their mouth.
So then, Muslims need to ask themselves, is Allah DECEIVING Muslims, seeing that the Quran says that Allah is the BEST of the DECEIVERS, according to Quran 3:54 and several other verses in the Quran.
Here is another quote from that same Muslim website linked here. The emphasis is mine.
“Returning to your question, then, the Quran tells us that Prophet Muhammad’s coming was foretold in the Torah, but it doesn’t tell us what was said.
For us to go to books in the existing Old Testament of the Bible and say that this verse or that verse is a prophecy of the coming of Muhammad seems to me to be going beyond what we have been told.
We have been told of his coming, but not given specific references to where we are told.
In other words, the exact words of such prophesies may no longer exist today.
I do not believe that we can quote from the Bible and say that such and such a quotation is evidence. To do that would be to quote from a source which we believe to be corrupted over time.
It would destroy our argument that the book is corrupted if we quote from it.”
And Christians agree with this Muslim scholar. It is not logical to argue that the Bible is CORRUPTED, and then turn right around and quote from a so-called corrupted book to try and prove that Muhammad’s book is inspired by Almighty God to supposedly correct the so-called corrupted Bible.
So then, let us AGREE that the Bible in its original LANGUAGE of Hebrew and Greek has NOT been corrupted.
And thus, only SOME of the TRANSLATIONS of the Bible have SOME verses that have been incorrectly translated.
Therefore, anyone seeking the truth can simply look the suspected error up and correctly translate the verses that have been incorrectly translated.
The main point that all Muslims need to understand is that it was Almighty God HIMSELF who chose to give His covenant to the children of Israel.
In other words, God is the one who chose the children of Israel to be His people and the children of Ishmael to be a GENTILE nation.
Genesis 17:18-21.
“And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before You!
Genesis 17:19. And God said, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son indeed; and you shall call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
Genesis 17:20. And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
Genesis 17:21. BUT My covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto you at this set time in the next year.”
Then, in Genesis 21:8-21, God tells Abraham that his SEED will be through Isaac.
Genesis 21:8-21.
“And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
Genesis 21:9. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. (In other words, Ishmael was mocking Sarah, a 99 year old woman breast feeding her newborn son, Isaac)
Genesis 21:10. Wherefore (Or for this very REASON of Ishmael mocking her) she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
Genesis 21:11. And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.
Genesis 21:12. And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in your sight because of the lad, and because of your bondwoman; in all that Sarah has said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall your SEED be called.
Genesis 21:13. And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is your seed.
Genesis 21:14. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Genesis 21:15. And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
Genesis 21:16. And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept. (Now, it does not specifically say that she prayed to Yahweh.
Nor does it say that she looked after an Egyptian god. But the following verses make it clear that Yahweh heard Ishmael cry or weeping)
Genesis 21:17. And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What ails you, Hagar? Fear not; for God has heard the voice of the lad, where he is.
Genesis 21:18. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in your hand; for I will make him a great nation.
Genesis 21:19. And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
Genesis 21:20. And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
Genesis 21:21. And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.”
So then, Ishmael, the son of an Egyptian woman married an Egyptian woman and dwelt in the land wilderness of Paran.
Now, the generations of Ishmael are listed separately from the generations of Isaac.
And the only two sons of Ishmael that the Bible gives ANY prophecies concerning them are Tema and Dumah.
And those prophecies are NOT good prophecies of blessings.
But rather, they are prophecies of their DESTRUCTION.
If you are a Muslim, did you know that the Quran ITSELF says that your Isa, referring to our Jesus, DIED and was dead for three days in the tomb.
Do you know that God raised Jesus from the DEAD and received him up into heaven.
Do you know that Jesus was then received up into heaven to be SEATED at the right hand of God.
I implore all of my Muslim readers to watch the following three videos.
The Quran says that Jesus is the word of God!
Muslim Scholar shocks Christians saying that Jesus was CRUCIFIED and RESURRECTED!
So then, now you know that some Muslim scholars “interpret” the Quran differently than other Muslim scholars.
And like Christians who have to decide WHICH pastor, teacher, and church denomination to believe, you Muslims have to decide WHICH Muslim scholars to believe concerning whether or not Jesus suffered and died on the cross.
I have already shown my Muslim readers that the Bible ITSELF clearly teaches us that Jesus is THAT Prophet that Moses prophesied that God would raise up.
And thus, to us as Christians, ANY and every prophet that CLAIMS that he is the LAST prophet is a FALSE prophet that Jesus WARNED us about that would come in sheep’s clothing.
So then, to us as Christians, we have to judge any and every book written AFTER the Book of Revelation, the LAST book in the Bible, as being a book written by MAN.
In other words, to us as Christians, the Quran is NOT inspired by Almighty God because the Quran CONTRADICTS what the Bible ITSELF teaches.
And when we as Christians read the Quran, we see that your god Allah is NOT LIKE our God Yahweh in the Bible.
So, in the next chapter, I will cover the NAME of our God.
And then, we will compare Yahweh to your god Allah so that you can see that they are NOT the SAME God.
To read chapter 7, click on the link B-8 Ch7 Is God’s TRUE Name Allah?
And below is a Table of Contents with links to all of the chapters to Book 8 called Which FAITH is the TRUE Faith?
Thanks for reading, and may God bless you richly as you continue to seek the TRUTH of the WHOLE word of Almighty God.
And to me, the truth concerning who Jesus TRULY is, according to the Bible ITSELF, is the Biblical Unitarian view of Jesus.
Once Christians, Jews, Muslims, and even atheists understand the REASON that Yahweh CREATED the Son of MAN, Jesus, was to have DOMINION over the work of Yahweh’s hands.
And after you understand that the REASON that Yahweh did that is to STILL His ENEMIES, Satan and the fallen angels.
Then you can understand that God made His human Son to become “a” Lord, “a” King, and “a” God, under and subject to his God and Father in order to JUDGE Satan and the fallen angels.
For a deeper understanding of this WAR that Lucifer and one third of the angels waged against the throne of Almighty God, please read the studies under the subject category called Q-0 Why Are We Here? Is God at WAR?
More studies are coming in this SHORTER Biblical Unitarian view of who Jesus is according to the WHOLE word of God.
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And to me, the truth concerning who Jesus TRULY is, according to the Bible ITSELF, is the Biblical Unitarian view of Jesus.
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