Page 81 - Demo

Muhammad in the Bible David Benjamin KeldaniEdited & Annotated by: Prof. Dawud M. R. Alhanbali & Prof, Dr. Kaseb A. Albadran ( 81 )The Jewish Apocalypses ascribe the titles “the Messiah” and “the Son of Man” exclusively to the Last Prophet, who will fight with the Powers of Darkness and vanquish them, and then will establish the Kingdom of Peace and of Light on earth. Thus, the two titles are synonymous; to disown either of them is to disown altogether the claim to being the Last Prophet. Now we read in the Synoptics that Jesus(pbuh)categorically denied his being the Christ and forbade his disciples to declare him “the Messiah”. Again, if he were the Messiah, or the Barnasha, he would have at once struck his enemies with terror, and by the aid of his invisible angels destroyed the Roman and Persian powers, then dominant over the civilized world. But he did nothing of the sort; or, like Muhammad (pbuh), he would have recruited some valiant warriorslike “Alī, Omar, Khālid, etc., and not like Zebedees and Jonahs, who vanished, like a frightened spectre when the Roman police came to arrest them.There are two irreconcilable statements made by Matthew (or corrupted by hisinterpolator), which logically destroy each other. Within an hour Peter is “the Rock of Faith,” as Catholicism will boast, and, “the Satan of Infidelity,” as Protestantism willscout him! Why so? Because when he believed Jesus(pbuh) to be the Messiah he was rewarded; but when he refused to admitthat his master was notthe Messiah he was convicted! There are no two “Sons of Man,” the one to be the Commander of the Faithful, fightsword in hand the wars of God, and uproot idolatry and its empires and kingdoms; the other to be an Abbot of the poor Anchorites on the summit of Calvary, fightthe wars of God cross in hand, and be martyred ignominiously by idolatrous Romans and unbelieving Jewish Pontiffs and Rabbis! “The Son of Man,” whose hands were seen under the wings of the Cherubs by the Prophet Ezekiel (ii), and before the throne of the Almighty by the Prophet Daniel (vii), and