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Muhammad in the Bible David Benjamin KeldaniEdited & Annotated by: Prof. Dawud M. R. Alhanbali & Prof, Dr. Kaseb A. Albadran ( 76 )Nazareth to “catch the kings in the midst of their voluptuous life and hurl them down into the Hell;”27 lack every bit of authenticity, and the distance separating him from “the Son of Man” marching with the legions of angels upon the clouds towards the Throne of the Eternal is more than that of our globe from the planet of Jupiter. He may be a “son of man” and a “messiah,” as every Jewish king, prophet, and high priest was, but he was not “the Son of Man” nor “the Messiah” whom the Hebrew prophets and apocalyptists foretold. In addition, the Jews were perfectly right to refuse him that title and office.Here are, then the principal reasons why Jesus (pbuh) was not “the Son of Man” nor the Apocalyptic Messiah:a) A messenger of God is not commissioned to prophesy abouthimself as a personage of some future epoch, or to foretell his own reincarnation and thus present himself as the hero in some great future drama of the world. Jacob prophesied about “the Apostle of Allah,”28 Moses (pbuh) about a prophet who would come after him with the Law, and Israel was exhorted to “obey him;29 Haggai foretold Ahmad (pbuh);30 Malachi predicted the coming of the “Messenger of the Covenant” and of Elijah;31 but none of the prophets ever did prophesy about his own second coming into the world.b) Jesus (pbuh) knew better than everybody else did in Israel who “the Son of Man” was and what his mission was. He was to de27 Enoch x1vi. 4-8.28 Gen. xlix. 10.29 Deut. xviii. 1530 Hag. ii. 7.31 Mal. iii. 1, iv. 5.