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Muhammad in the Bible David Benjamin KeldaniEdited & Annotated by: Prof. Dawud M. R. Alhanbali & Prof, Dr. Kaseb A. Albadran ( 34 )er religion and acknowledged that Allah was not its God? Never! It is extremely unlikely that a Muhammadan Muslim community, so long as it is provided with the Book of Allah, the Mosque and the Mullah, could relapse into idolatry or even into Christianity.However, the true religion of God never took the form of the Kingdom of God as it did under the Quranic régime. Allah in His infinite wisdom had decreed that four great Powers of Darkness should succeed each other before His own Kingdom was to be established. The great ancient civilizations and empires of the Assyro-Chaldeans, of the Medo-Persians, of the Greeks and of the Romans, had to appear and flourish, to persecute and oppress the people of God, and to perpetrate all the evil and wickedness that the Devil could devise. All the glory of these great Powers consisted in their worshipping the Devil; and it was this “glory” that the “Prince of the Darkness” promised to grant to Jesus Christ (pbuh) from the top of a high mountain if he were only to follow him and worship him.2. Christ and his Disciples Preached the Kingdom of GodThey were, it is true, the harbingers of the Kingdom of God upon earth. The soul and the kernel of the Gospel of Jesus(pbuh) is contained in that famous clause in his prayer: “Thy Kingdom come.” For twenty centuries, the Christians of all denominations and shades of belief have been praying and repeating this invocation. “Thy Kingdom come,” and God alone knows how long they will continue to pray for and vainly anticipate its coming. This Christian anticipation of the coming of the Kingdom of God is of the same nature as the anticipation of Judaism for the coming of Messiah.