Madrassah of Bahira Omar
MuslimStudy
Promised Land- أرض الميعاد
السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته
Brothers,
We have read with you about the conquest of the Promised Land/Israel.
Let’s continue our study of the Holy Scripture to know our God.
He is God of our father Abraham and the descendants of Abraham Jews.
Israelites had just crossed over the Jordan River into the land of Canaan. This was the land of milk and honey God had promised to Abraham over 500 years earlier.
Why did Jews get the Promised Land?
Let me remind you the answer to this question:
It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity
that you are going in to take possession of their land;
but on account of the wickedness of these nations, the LORD your God will drive them out before you, to accomplish what he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Deuteronomy 9:5 (The holy Torah)
5 إِذْ لَيْسَ بِفَضْلِ صَلاَحِكُمْ وَاسْتِقَامَتِكُمْ تَدْخُلُونَ ِلامْتِلاَكِ أَرْضِهِمْ، إِنَّمَا مِنْ أَجْلِ إِثْمِهِمْ يَطْرُدُهُمُ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمْ مِنْ أَمَامِكُمْ وَفَاءً بِوَعْدِهِ الَّذِي أَقْسَمَ عَلَيْهِ لِآبَائِكُمْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَإِسْحقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ.
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It was the JUDGEMENT of God for the wicked nations lived there.
God poured out His wrath against their wickedness!
That’s why God gave this Land to Israel for everlasting possession!
God chose a leader of Israelites to give them the Promised Land.
His name was Joshua.
Who was Joshua?
Joshua was a faithful man and a worthy successor to Moses.
After spending forty years wandering in the desert of Sinai, Israelites were now on the eastern banks of the Jordan. Their challenge was to take the land of Canaan, the Promised Land given them by God.
How to take what God gave you?
According to God’s instructions.
However, their first obstacle was the city of Jericho,
an unconquerable walled city (Joshua 6).
However, the strategy to conquer the city of Jericho was unique in two ways.
First, the strategy was laid out by God Himself, and, secondly, the strategy was a seemingly foolish plan. God simply told Joshua to have the people to march silently around Jericho for six days, and then after seven circuits on the seventh day to shout.
Funny?
Yes.
Israelites obey God. That’s why even Orthodox Jews look funny.
Better to say, they are extraordinary people because they follow the Supreme Being God.
He is not a human being that’s why even His followers do not do what ordinary people do: they do not worship false gods/idols. There is a deep meaning of Jewish prayers and their worship rituals.
That’s why God chose this Jewish nation to be the LIGHT to gentiles and to reveal them who is the TRUE and living God of Israel.
He said that Jews should not cut hairs.
Have you seen that Orthodox Jewish men have the long side curls in their hair?
Do you know why?
God in the Torah says, You shall not shave around the sides of your head, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard. You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the LORD.
(Leviticus 19:27,28).
The word peyos refers to sideburns - i.e. the hair in front of the ears that extends to underneath the cheekbone which is level with the nose. The Talmud explains that this law only applies to men, not to women. But why? Because (Maimonides) cutting the sidelocks was a heathen practice. That’s why God separated His HOLY people Israel from theathen.
God said even that Jews should OBEY Him and be different from gentiles.
What does Islam say in this regard?
Do Muslims obey the God of Moses who gave this law to Israelites in the Holy Torah?
As always Muhammad and Muslims violated the holy words of God. That’s why they followed the false god created by jinns/demons in the false religion Islam. God of their father Ibrahim was NEVER in the false religion Islam!
(1) Narrated Ubaidullah bin Hafs: that 'Umar bin Nafi' told him that Nafi', Maula 'Abdullah had heard 'Umar saying, "I heard Allah's Apostle forbidding Al-Qaza'." 'Ubaidullah added: I said, "What is Al-Qaza'?" 'Ubaidullah pointed (towards his head) to show us and added, "Nafi' said, 'It is when a boy has his head shaved leaving a tuft of hair here and a tuft of hair there." Ubaidullah pointed towards his forehead and the sides of his head. 'Ubaidullah was asked, "Does this apply to both girls and boys?" He said, "I don't know, but Nafi' said, 'The boy.'" 'Ubaidullah added, "I asked Nafi' again, and he said, 'As for leaving hair on the temples and the back part of the boy's head, there is no harm, but Al-Qaza' is to leave a tuft of hair on his forehead unshaved while there is no hair on the rest of his head, and also to leave hair on either side of his head.'" (Book #72, Hadith #803)
So, Jews looked different from other nations and gentiles because God distinguished them from the followers of the false gods. Because God of Israel was AGAINST madness of other nations!
Their gods do NOT exist! They were created by perverted imagination of people and jinns/demons. God of Israel is the ONLY Supreme Being who created the earth, stars and planets. We know His name. He is Ibn Allah. He is the Eternal Word of God.
The Word of God who is God/Allah.
He is eternal and immortal.
The Word of God became flesh and lived among us.
He took the sin of the world to make us FREE of our sins, madness, abominations and murders we have committed. He is the almighty God who WILLINGLY accepted death from people and died instead of them to resurrect them at the Last Day. They will not be judged anymore, because He was judged by His Father instead of those who put their trust in Him.
On the cross, He absorbed the wrath of God which should be directed against gentiles, sinners/murderers..against their sins.
Jews should conquer the Promised Land and the city Jericho but not like usually gentiles did it!
God is NOT god of gentiles.
He is different.
In ancient warfare such cities were either taken by gentiles by assault or surrounded and the people starved into submission. Its invaders might try to weaken the stone walls with fire or by tunneling, or they might simply heap up a mountain of earth to serve as a ramp. Each of these methods of assault took weeks or months, and the attacking force usually suffered heavy losses.
God of Israel gave another order: to to march silently around Jericho for six days, and then after seven circuits on the seventh day to shout.
Before this fight, God Jesus appeared to the Jewish Commander Joshua.
Joshua saw a man coming with His sword drawn.
Joshua asked the question,
“Who are you for, us or the enemy.” The man responded with, “No.” “I am the Commander of the Lord’s army.”
As Joshua received that response, he fell on his face and worshiped. Joshua knew that this was Ibn Allah/the Son of God. God met Joshua and gave him His plans for battle with Jericho.
Have you ever wanted to be used by God?
We all should serve the Lord. But maybe you've wondered what qualifications the Lord looks for in the life of a man or woman that He would use.
Principle one: God uses people who realize they are weak.
Principle two: God uses people who are faithful..
Principle three: God uses people who study and live by His Word. God told Joshua, "This Book of the Law (the Torah) shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night . . . " (1:8). If you want to be used by God, then you need to know the Word of God. "Meditate in it day and night," God said to Joshua. The word meditate means, "to ponder, to consider, to contemplate."
Principle four: God uses the person who cares about lost souls. There was a lost soul to be saved before the Israelites entered the Promised Land, and her name was Rahab. God would not judge Jericho by destruction and death until Rahab had been reached and told what to do to avoid this judgment that was coming when the Israelites attacked.
God's heart always is to save people. Every soul is precious to Him. God always cares about individuals, and so should we.
Principle five: God uses the person who sets himself or herself apart or to sanctify yourself. Joshua told the people, "Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you" (3:5). The word sanctify means, "to set yourself apart, to live a holy life." It comes down to this: if you want to be used by God, then you will want to live a life that is right before Him.
But God forbids any compromises with the sin of this world!
Remember it!
A clever group of individuals known as Gibeonites lived in Canaan. God had instructed Joshua not to make any deals with the inhabitants of the land. The Israelites were commanded to destroy all inhabitants of Canaan. The Gibeonites presented themselves as ambassadors from a distant, powerful land. They put on old shoes and clothes and pretended as though they had come from a distant country. They told Joshua they had come to enter into an agreement with him. Joshua unknowingly struck a deal with his enemies because he failed to consult the Lord. Joshua realized he had been deceived, but he kept the letter of his covenant with the Gibeonites to let them live. It was the only agreement of gentiles with Israel and they survived. God’s wrath killed all other nations.
Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel;
none went out, and none came in.
And the LORD said to Joshua:
“See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor.
You shall march around the city, all you men of war; you shall go all around the city once. This you shall do six days. And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. It shall come to pass, when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, that all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the wall of the city will fall down flat.
And the people shall go up every man straight before him.”
Then Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them,
“Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD.”
Joshua 6:1-6
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1 وَكَانَتْ أَرِيحَا قَدْ أَحْكَمَتْ إِغْلاَقَ بَوَّابَاتِهَا خَوْفاً مِنَ الإِسْرَائِيلِيِّينَ، فَلَمْ يَكُنْ يَخْرُجُ مِنْهَا أَوْ يَدْخُلُ إِلَيْهَا أَحَدٌ.
2 فَقَالَ الرَّبُّ لِيَشُوعَ: «هَا أَنَا قَدْ أَخْضَعْتُ لَكَ أَرِيحَا وَمَلِكَهَا وَمُحَارِبِيهَا الأَشِدَّاءَ.
3 فَلْيَدُرْ مُحَارِبُوكُمْ دَوْرَةً وَاحِدَةً كُلَّ يَوْمٍ حَوْلَ الْمَدِينَةِ، مُدَّةَ سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍ.
4 وَلْيَحْمِلْ سَبْعَةُ كَهَنَةٍ أَبْوَاقَ الْهُتَافِ وَيَتَقَدَّمُوا أَمَامَ التَّابُوتِ، وَفِي الْيَوْمِ السَّابِعِ تَدُورُونَ حَوْلَ الْمَدِينَةِ سَبْعَ مَرَّاتٍ بَيْنَمَا يَنْفُخُ الْكَهَنَةُ بِالأَبْوَاقِ.
5 وَمَا إِنْ يَسْمَعْ جَمِيعُ الشَّعْبِ صَوْتَ نَفْخِ بُوقٍ مُمْتَدّاً حَتَّى يُطْلِقُوا دَوِيَّ هُتَافٍ عَظِيمٍ، فَيَنْهَارُ سُورُ الْمَدِينَةِ فِي مَوْضِعِهِ، فَيَنْدَفِعُ الشَّعْبُ نَحْوَهَا، كُلُّ رَجُلٍ حَسَبَ وِجْهَتِهِ».
6 فَاسْتَدْعَى يَشُوعُ بْنُ نُونٍ الْكَهَنَةَ وَقَالَ لَهُمْ: «احْمِلُوا تَابُوتَ الْعَهْدِ، وَلْيَتَقَدَّمْهُ سَبْعَةُ كَهَنَةٍ حَامِلِينَ سَبْعَةَ أَبْوَاقِ هُتَافٍ».
Do you remember what is the Ark of the Covenant?
There was the presence of God.
Actually the wall was destroyed by God.
The presence of God from the Ark of the Covenant destroyed the wall after Israelites completely OBEYED God and were ready to get victory.
Though it seemed foolish, Joshua followed God’s instructions.
The presence of God is not a foolishness.
God expects our obedience and faith. Then He will act in our lives and we will enjoy His victory.
It was a foolishness only to those who did not know God!
But God expected the completely implementation of His words and faith. Then after the signal - trumpet blow- walls fell down. Most important is that obedience, even when God's commands seem foolish, brings victory.
It was God’s war.
The power of God is supernatural because He is not a man. He is the Supreme Being.
God gave victory to Israel over an enemy that was trying to keep them out of the Promised Land. So it is with us today: if we have true faith, we are compelled to obey God, and God gives us victory over the enemies that we face throughout life. Obedience is the clear evidence of faith.
We do not see this obedience to God of Israel in Islam!
Muhammad and Muslims BOLDLY disobeyed God and His 10 Holy laws.
Jews kept these laws written on the tablets of stone inside of the Ark of the Covenant!
This Ark destroyed enemies of God/the wicked nations.
God’s presence in His words, written on the tablets of stone and placed in the Ark of the Covenant, was so powerful that even priests could not touch the Ark of the Covenant if they had any sin! When they touched it, they immediately died! If God’s words from the Ark of the Covenant killed nations and destructed walls, then HOW you DARE Muslims to ignore these holy words! Why do you dare to commit a sins of Muhammad. Muhammad is in the hell right now! Now it is your turn to be judged for the worship of the false god in Islam! Because God of Israel was NEVER in the false religion Islam! He COMMANDED in one of these HOLY laws kept in the Ark of the Covenant: YOU SHOULD NOT KILL. You SHALL NOT worship false gods and bow down before them.
Why do you Muslims dare to bow down before your demons/false god in Islam?!
Demons created Islam.
Demons kill you.
Why do you kill with them your brothers?
Jews and Muslims!
60% of Qur’an calls you to behead them and kill them.
How do you dare to kill people if God of Israel gave His HOLY WORDS over 1,600 years before the existence of Islam and He said that He forbids any killing!!!?
The same word….the HOLY word of God, which destructed nations in God’s wrath, is going to JUDGE you too.
The name of this Word is Ibn Allah.
God is absolutely Holy. He demands absolute moral perfection from His creation, and you are part of that creation. Since you have already sinned against Him thousands of times, you sins will not be erased by following the Law of God, because for one you cannot follow it perfectly, and two, because you have already broken His law.
To escape the wrath of God that is coming, and to be forgiven and made right with God, you have to repent and abandon your sins. You cannot be right with God by following rules.
Trust completely in the Word of God Jesus, and what He did on the cross, as payment for your sins.
You should know:
You have a court date already set, and God is the Judge.
He is infinitely Holy, and His standard is perfect righteousness.
You will have to give an account of every idle word, every deed and thought for your entire life.
You can stand there and be sentenced for all eternity for every one of your sins, or you can be declared not guilty and perfectly righteous because you are covered by the blood of Jesus.
You can be forgiven ONLY through FAITH in God Jesus.
All your sins are paid for.
Jesus took the sin of the world on the cross.
And you can be declared perfectly righteous in the eyes of God. You can be adopted as God's child, and your suffering in life will have real meaning, and when Christ returns, your nature will be perfected both physically, and spiritually, and you will live forever in God’s Kingdom with God, in a world that was perfectly constructed for you since the creation of the world.
أشهد أن لا إله إلاَّ الله و أن محمد هو النبي الكذاب و
لهذا السبب محمد الآن في الجحيم
Bahira Omar
بهيرة عمر
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Promised Land