The Old Testament
“Torah”
The almighty God has revealed many verses in the Old
Testament in various chapters that indicate that there is one more
prophet to come. He explained and stated his character, place of
birth, his journeys, his family, his language, his generation, his
will, his message, and how he will publicize God’s message
among the people. He states that, with force, he will enter
Palestine, and God will fulfill the promise He made with the
prophet Abraham (when God commanded him to drop his son
Ishmael and his mother into the wilderness of the desert).
1: The Lord referred to a prophet yet to come in the Old
Testament in Psalms 14:7: “Oh that the salvation of Israel were
come out of Zion!” This prophecy isn’t referring to Moses,
because Moses is from the house of Israel (see chart on page 28).
In Matthew 21:42-43, it states that God will send a prophet not
from the house of Israel but from their brethren. This isn’t Jesus,
because God, in this text, is talking to Jesus, and no other prophet
came after Jesus from outside the people of Israel, except for the
prophet Mohamed.
Deuteronomy 17:15: “Thou shalt surely set him king over
thee, whom Jehovah thy God shall choose: one from among thy
brethren shalt thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a
foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother.”
2: God said in Deuteronomy 18:18-20 that the new prophet
will be born, raised, and live as Moses, and as Jesus was never
born, raised, nor lived like Moses, this only applies to the prophet
Mohamed.
3: God said in the Book of Psalms 110:1 that this prophet will
not come from “Zion,” the family line of David. Jesus is from
David’s lines (see chart on page 28).
4: God said in the Book of Psalms 45:2-5 that the new
message is the everlasting message — that the new prophet will
fight with a sword to defend God’s message and that many people
will submit to his rule. This verse can’t refer to Jesus, because he
never carried a sword to fight and never forced the people to listen
to his message. In fact, there were not too many people who
submitted to his message besides his apostles, excluding Judas,
who betrayed him to the Jews.
5: God said in the Book of Matthew 5:17, 18 that he (the future
prophet will obligate the previously revealed laws and that his
nation will keep his message pure an d abide by it. This can’t be
referring to Jesus, because his messages were lost and never
documented by him or his apostles or even the generation that
followed the apostles. The messages were not recorded until after
Jesus died, about 323 years later, by the many peoples who started
to write the Bible. There are about 27,000 different versions of the
Bible today and only one copy of the Last Testament (Koran) for
1.6 billion Moslems.
6: God said in the Book of Mark 1:7 that this prophet to come
will be after John and that his message is the strongest and the
most inclusive of them all. No one came after John except for the
prophet Mohamed. Keep in mind that Jesus and John came
together in the same year.
7: God describes that this message will be the final and eternal
message as stated in the Book of John 14:6. No message came
after Jesus for the last 2013 years, other than Islam, and Islam said
this is the last message and the Last Testament (Koran).
8: There comes more detail that this message will be the most
comprehensive message, as indicated in the Book of John
14:16,26 in the King James Version Bible. Jesus says in verse 16:
“I ask the Father to give you (comforter) to stay with you forever.”
In verse 26, Jesus says, “About the comforter, the Father will send
to you by my name. He is going to teach you everything and will
remind you with everything I said.” The same verse in the Coptic
Egyptian Bible exists today, which is considered the most accurate
Bible on Earth because it is the direct translation from Jesus’
Aramaic language to Coptic. From that, it was translated to Greek.
In the Coptic copy, the word “MAHAMAD” is used, which means
“the person who thanks God” in Arabic. The Greek translator did
not use the name itself in the Greek copy; he used the meaning of
the name, which in Greek is the word “parakaleto,” or “the person
who thanks God”. And this word comes from “parakla,” which
means “thanks to God”. The English translator used the word
“comforter,” which is one of the meanings of parakaleto in Greek.
This is a great prophecy that the last prophet’s name will be
Mohammad — “Mahamad”.
9: God explains that the last prophet is to glorify Jesus (not
himself), as shown in John 16:12-14, and the Last Testament has
a chapter named for Jesus’ mother Mary, talking about the
miraculous birth of Jesus and his message. There is also mention
of John the Baptist and his mother becoming pregnant after she
had been infertile all her life with her husband, Zachariah.
10: God mentions that the future prophet will be illiterate, as
said in Isaiah 29:12. Jesus has been thought to have had several
teachers.
11: His response that he cannot read when the Angel Gabriel
comes to him for the first time is explained in the Book of Isaiah
29:12.
12: This prophet will come from the Hijaz area, as shown in
the Book of Habakkuk 3:3, and Jesus came from Jerusalem, which
is in Israel today.
13: He will also come from people to whom no previous
prophets were sent to. As described in the Book of Isaiah 65:1, all
the prophets came from the house of Israel, such as David,
Solomon, Moses, Jesus, and John the Baptist.
14: God promised Abraham that He would make a great
nation from his son Ishmael, as stated in Genesis 21:18, and now
Ishmael’s offspring are the followers of Islam, about 1.6 billion
people. All prior prophets came from Isaac’s line and his son
Jacob, which formed the house of Israel.
15: As stated in the Book of Ezekiel 21:27, through the
overturning of many nations, the prophecy will go to a person who
has the right to it. God promised in many verses in the Bible that
the people of Israel (Isaac’s line) are not entitled to the everlasting
message and will be taking away that of another nation not called
by name. Thus, from Ishmael’s line, the prophet Mohamed comes.
16: God said this prophet is to come after the descendants of
the people of Israel (Isaac’s line) and will come wicked, and the
prophecy will go away from them to other people (Ishmael’s line
is only one), as stated in the Book of Ezekiel 21:25. And the
prophet Mohamed comes from Ishmael’s line.
17: God said in the Book of Isaiah 66:19-21 before Jesus was
born, that the brotherhood of Israel will come to Palestine with
force and power, and they will embrace them, and “I, God, will
declare my glory among the gentiles.” This prophecy cannot refer
to Jesus, because he is from the house of Israel, and not many
people praised him during his life. He never had an army to invade
Palestine as “prophet Mohammad does”.
18: This prophet who will come with a new message will go
to the children of Israel and will speak to them with another
tongue. (The language at this time was Hebrew and Aramaic, the
language of Jesus.) From Hebrew and Aramaic, the Arabic
language evolved. The Arabic people, who lived in the area of
Saudi Arabia at this time, developed this. This is the area where
Abraham dropped off his son Ishmael and Hager, Ishmael’s
mother, as the Lord commanded him. This is clearly stated in the
Book of Isaiah 28:11-13 (see the Bible map on pages 29, 30, and
31).
19: God promised Abraham that the prophet is to be for all
people, not just for the people of Israel, as is explained in the
books of Genesis 15:19-21 and Isaiah 43:9-12. Jesus’ message
was only for the people of Israel, and it was the same with the
prophet Moses and his task to free the Jewish people from slavery
in Egypt.
Obviously, this statement was made many years before Jesus
appeared. This prophecy cannot be applied to Jesus, because Jesus
stated himself many times that he came to the people of Israel. He
emphasized this again by saying to the people of Israel only in the
New Testament that when a Gentile lady asked him to heal her
son, he refused. All of these above descriptions and prophecies are
describing the new messiah, teacher, and prophet to come, as the
Jewish people believe according to their scriptures. They expect
one more prophet to come to humanity. None of the Jewish people
thought this prophecy matched Jesus. This was explained in many
areas of the Old and New Testaments — that this prophecy did not
match the description of Jesus. They knew that there was one more
prophet to come after Jesus, and Jesus himself denied that he was
the one they were waiting for. The same thing occurred when they
asked John the Baptist if he was Elijah or the messiah. He also
claimed that he was not the one.
Therefore, according to the Old and New Testaments, God
stated that there is one more prophet to come after Moses and
David. Per the Old Testament, after John the Baptist, and per the
New Testament, look at the statement that Jesus said that the one
to come after him is the everlasting word. His word is the word of
God, because God will place His word on his tongue. Jesus said,
“I must go away in order for him to come to you.” In other words,
he must come after the disappearance of Jesus. John and Jesus
came together (both being born in the same year); in fact, John
baptized Jesus, and both confirmed that the messiah was not one
of them. It applies further to the statement Jesus made: “If I go
away, the comforter will come to you.” Some people say the
comforter is the Holy Spirit. This can’t be true, because the Holy
Spirit existed before the creation of Jesus. Why didn’t the Holy
Spirit exist while Jesus and John were on Earth with us? Is it
because they interfered with each other? Also, the Holy Spirit is
not a human being. However, the Holy Spirit has a special
message like Jesus, and the Holy Spirit was created and has lived
with us and in us from the time mankind was created. When God
first created Adam from clay, He placed the Holy Spirit in him.
He then turned him into a human being from a pile of mud. He
was made by God’s hand and became a living being by God
placing the Spirit in him. Jesus and John must have meant
something else that is to come after their departure from Earth.
All these facts clearly state and prove to us that God is One.
He is the Creator of all beings, angels, and humans. He has
commanded all his prophets throughout history that He is One and
the only One who deserves to be worshipped, not others or any
entity of his own creation. It is clearly stated in the Old Testament
that Adam, the first of human creations, instructed all of his
children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren that they must
worship his creator, the Almighty God. It is the same with his
great-grandson Noah. He also mentioned many times to his people
to worship the Almighty God, who is the Creator of all.
Unfortunately, many of his people did not listen to him, and they
disobeyed his recommendation to worship God. Ultimately, Noah
asked the Lord for His assistance. The Lord ordered him to build
an ark and place his followers and a pair of every animal from
each species onto the ark. Then God would wipe off all the
disbelievers from Earth, and the flood came and covered up the
entire Earth. Nothing was left, except for the righteous people and
a male and female from each animal species on Earth.
At this time, it is clear to us that the God of Adam is the same
God of Noah. He is the One who deserves to be worshipped. Then
after that, the prophet Abraham also stated to all people at this
time to worship God and the only God who was the Creator of his
great-grandfathers, Adam and Noah. Unfortunately, many people
did not believe him in his preaching, even his own father. When
Abraham’s father got upset with him, he threw him into the fire.
With God’s power, the prophet did not burn in his father’s fire.
God defeated Abraham’s father and protected Abraham and his
followers at the time.
God protected Abraham from the pharaoh of Egypt, and He
gave him a servant named Hagar, who became his second wife.
She gave birth to his first son, Ishmael. Then, Abraham had a son
with his first wife, Sarah, and his name was Isaac. Isaac had a son,
and his name was Jacob. Jacob had 12 children, and the most well-
known son of Jacob was named Joseph. All of them believed that
God is One. The God of Adam, Noah, and Abraham is the same
and is the only God, and He is the One to be worshipped.
Jacob’s son Levi had a son named Kohatal, who had a son
named Amran. Amran had a son named Aaron, whose great and
well-known son was named Moses. We know that Moses was
born in Egypt, and he escaped from the pharaoh of Egypt. Ten
years later, he received the revelation, the (Torah) Old Testament
from God directly. God ordered him to tell the people that God is
One. God stated in the Old Testament that “there is no God before
Me, no God after Me. I am the only God, and you should only
worship Me.” The word God is referring to is the Onassis of God,
the 10,077th time in the Old Testament (Torah).
God supported and gave the victory many times to Moses over
the atheist people in Egypt and its unjust ruler, the pharaoh of
Egypt. They were defeated with their own king, Pharaoh Ramses
II, under the great wave in the Red Sea, when God parted the Red
Sea to let his favored prophet Moses and his followers cross the
bottom of the sea safely. Then God closed the Red Sea on the
pharaoh and his troops. The body of Ramses II still remains in the
Cairo Museum in Egypt. All studies conducted in the last decade
prove that he was the one chasing and disbelieving Moses and his
God. He died of asphyxiation in water.
Moses always said that God is One, and the God of Adam,
Abraham, Noah, Jacob, and Isaac is the same one (Exodus 3:15).
We can clearly see through this short brief that God gave the
victory always to his prophets to prove His existence, as well as
His ability and capability to purify the Earth and those on it, both
animals and humans. Whoever does not believe in God will be
destroyed or punished one way or another in this life, whether by
flood, earthquakes, winds, fires, or however God chooses, as He
did to the people of the prophet Lot, who preferred man over
woman. At the end, God destroyed all the disbelievers and sinful
people in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. In addition to the
discomfort, disaster, and total destruction inflicted upon the
disobedient people, God said that, for those people who worship
others besides Him, they will receive the most severe punishment
in the hell fire and will reside in it forever.
Therefore, why even take that chance of thinking about
worshipping someone else besides God as the Creator, Provider
of all our needs, the most powerful, the just, the merciful to us,
who warns us over and over and gives us example after example?
What will happen to the people if they disobey Him? He gave us
many examples in the Old Testament of what will happen to us if
we disobey Him.
One of the 12 sons of the prophet Jacob was named Judah. He
had a son named Pharez, whose son was King David. And King
David’s son was King Solomon. They were preaching to worship
God and that God is One. They all warned people to abide by
God’s recommendations, which are cited in the Holy Scriptures.
Solomon’s line comes to us from the prophet Zachariah and
his infertile wife, Elizabeth. God gave Zachariah a miracle in the
end, and his infertile wife became pregnant. She gave birth to his
son, John the Baptist. In the same year, the Virgin Mary, who is
the niece of Zachariah, gave birth by miraculous conception to the
baby Jesus. The birth of Jesus is unique, and it is a totally different
miracle performed by God. It reminds us of the great miracles God
performed when He made the first man, Adam, from the soil. God
chose the name “Adam” himself, because he was the first man
made from the elements of the soil. It means “in hipro adem”
(which now in Arabic is “Adem el ard”). In this miracle, God had
no need for a female or a male to make the first baby, and then he
took a living part of Adam (a rib from his left rib cage) and created
a woman. God called her “Hawaa,” which is translated to “Eve”.
The meaning of “Hawaa” is “something live,” and this is
obviously because she was created from the living part of man.
This is to demonstrate to us that God made a man out of dead
material, namely soil, and made woman out of the living part of
man. God does not need a male or a female to reproduce another
human; whatever God wants to be, it will be.
Now, we look into the miracle of the creation of Jesus, which
was making a man from the female part only. The creation of Jesus
is just another of many miracles God has performed and continues
to perform. If we look deeply into the creation of the universe
itself, it’s the most amazing of miracles, and it’s more complex by
far than the creation of a human being. The human mind can’t ever
comprehend it. The large mass of the sun and the amount of heat
and light provided to us every day from the time of the creation of
the universe (15 billion years ago) until now is a great miracle.
The sun will continue giving us light and heat until the end of life.
It is a great and continuing miracle, and this is more complex by
far than the creation of the first human being, Adam, or the
creation of Jesus in the Virgin Mary without the presence of a
man.
The prophet Zachariah’s wife knew that she was infertile. Her
reproductive system was not able to produce children (as it was
not fully developed). By God’s choice, however, He elected to
place life into her reproductive system and gave a child to
Zachariah’s wife. God chose the child’s name to be Yahiya, which
means “to give life” in Hebrew or Arabic today. This name has
been translated to “John the Baptist”.
However, the New Testament states about 64 times that Jesus
was sent by God or that Jesus is the prophet of God or that Jesus
is the messiah. In Luke 4:23-24, Jesus says, “I am the prophet of
God.” Jesus never quoted himself clearly by saying in red-colored
words in the Bible, “I am God.” On the night of his arrest, when
he was hiding from the Roman Jewish soldiers, he was weeping
and saying, “Oh, God, let this cup pass by.” If he was God, why
did he cry, and why did he ask God for help? Jesus and God must
be two different characters and different identities. If he was God,
he could do whatever he wanted. He did not need to ask someone
else or himself. It’s a known fact about God that whatever He
wants to be will be spontaneously as He wants it.
Hundreds of years later after Jesus time, from the offspring of
Ishmael, there was a son called Kedar, and he lived in the
wilderness of the desert, where his great-grandfather Abraham
had dropped off his son, Ishmael, and Ishmael’s mother. This is
the desert area (known as Saudi Arabia today) in the Old
Testament (see the Bible map on page 31, particularly the city of
Mecca). That is where Abraham and his son Ishmael had been
commanded by God to build the first house of worship for God
called “Baca,” which means “crying” in Hebrew. It is called
“Kabba” today.
From the grandchildren of Kedar (“Korish” in Arabic), the
new prophet was born, and his name was Mohamed, who, at the
age of 40, had been appointed by God. The Last Testament had
been revealed to him by the Angel Gabriel. The prophet Mohamed
sent the message to the people to believe that God is One and to
worship the only God, the Creator. His message was that the God
of Mohamed is the same God of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Jacob,
Moses, David, Solomon, and Jesus. God called the Last Testament
the “Koran,” which means “to differentiate the truth from the
false”. God called the new religion “Islam”. This name was
derived from one of the 99 descriptive names of God, which is
“Salam,” meaning peace. God called the people who praise Islam
as a religion “Moslem”. In order for someone to become Moslem,
he or she has to believe that God, “the Creator,” is One and that
He is the only One who deserves to be worshipped. There is no
other God besides Him. Also, a Moslem must believe that He
created and sent all other prophets including Adam, Noah,
Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, Jesus, etc., as well as
Mohamed, who is just another prophet like those before him. In
order to be saved, you have to believe in God and all His
messengers, abide by the Holy Scriptures, and follow the
recommendations of all His prophets. It was clearly explained in
detail to all the prophets from all the different generations that it
is necessary to worship only one God. When God sent his
revelation to Moses, He clearly stated that “God is One, there is
no God before Me, and there is no God besides Me”. He then
revealed the Ten Commandments, which most of the Jewish
people at the time failed to believe in. This revelation is called the
“Torah” (the “Old Testament”).
When Jesus arrived and God revealed to him the New
Testament, people followed him and praised the new religion
called “Christianity”. They abided by the Old Testament as well
as the New Testament, and the Bible today consists of both the
New and Old Testaments. That is why Jesus said, “I did not come
here to change the law of the land or come here to change the Law
of Moses.” The Jewish people don’t recognize the New Testament
at all as a Holy Book, nor do they believe that God sent Jesus to
the people in any form. To them, Jesus is just a teacher. They also
believe there is one more prophet to come, and he is not
Mohamed.
About 600 years after Jesus, when God chose to appoint
another prophet as he promised in the Old Testament and as
described in the New Testament, God named him “Mohamed” and
revealed another Holy Book called the Koran. This was
considered to be the “Last Testament”. Why do many people not
believe in Mohamed as a prophet like the other prophets in the
Bible? According to the prophet Mohamed’s recommendation,
God is commanding all in the scriptures. If you are going to
worship someone besides God, the Creator, and call him your god,
He will not be there on the Day of Judgment to help, assist, or
protect you from the punishment of the Almighty and Supreme
Judge, who is God or “Allah” in Arabic (or “Alloheem” in
Hebrew, “Theo” in Greek, or “Dios” in Spanish). Whatever name
you choose to call the Almighty God — who is the most Supreme
Creating Power of the universe, the Creator of all beings, the
Judge of all people, Owner of the hell fire and heavens, and the
Master of the Day of Judgment — it is He to whom we seek
assistance, and from Him, we obtain fulfillment of all our needs
on Earth. We all live on His land, and it’s His air that we breathe.
From Him, we obtain our soul. Then why would we seek someone
else and look up to one of his creations, forgetting the Creator
Himself?
Nevermind those people who worship idols and the people
who worship animals, like some in India. Some worship cows. Is
this because the cow gives milk, and milk is important to their
lives? What about the God who created this cow and us? He gave
us all our lives, as well as all the convenience items in our lives,
which include the cows and horses. Is it right to forget about God
Himself and worship someone below His level, power, capability,
and qualifications? If we do that, we are not being fair with
ourselves. We are only hurting us alone if we do not believe in the
true God, the Creator, knowing that He is the Creator of the Earth,
the sun, the stars, the skies, and all that is in between. God, by a
simple command, is able to stop the sun from shining and the
Earth from turning when He chooses, and He can make all the
stars in the sky vanish. I believe God is the only One who deserves
to be recognized, glorified, and worshipped to the highest degree.
We must extend to Him only our gratitude, appreciation, and
admiration. This will be the pure and true worshipping of our
Almighty God.
All of the above mentioned is the clear message that the
prophet Mohamed propagated all his life, and this is the message
he left for us after his death. He urges us all to glorify only God,
not himself personally. He never claimed that he was the son of
God or God Himself. He never left us with any doubt or
misunderstanding to worship others besides the one God for the
whole universe. He left with us the greatest gift for mankind --
the pure and unaltered scripture, which is the Koran.
The Koran states clearly that we have to believe in God and
all His messengers. We should love them all and not discriminate
between one prophet and another. This is the same for all the Holy
Books He revealed to them. And if anyone believes in that, then
we are considered to be submitting to God, which means we
believe in God. In the Arabic language, this person is considered
to be a Moslem in the religion of Islam.
With all of this, you believe in all the Holy Books — the Old
Testament (“Torah”), the New Testament (“Injeel”), and the Last
Testament (“Koran”) — and you become a God-believer and
believe in all of His prophets. If the Jewish people claim that they
are God’s chosen people, then you are from them, because you
believe in the Torah, and if the Christian people say they are the
only ones to be saved, you are among them, because you believe
in the Bible’s “Injeel” (or the New Testament). With Islam, you
can accomplish all of that in one Holy Book called the Koran. It’s
the Last Testament, and there is one God to be worshipped. If this
is the way you choose to be, then you must have in your mind as
well as in your heart the following statement: I do believe there is
no God but God, and I do believe in all his prophets as well as that
Mohamed was the last of His messengers. (This can be
summarized in a few words in Arabic: Ashahada ana la Illaha Illa
Allah, we Ashahado ana Mahmaden Rasoul Allah.)
