APOCALYPSE COUNTDOWN 666: Places in Time...

PART I

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PLACES IN TIME

(If TIME TRAVEL is not possible; the second coming of Jesus will remain to be a myth that will never happen. Cheers…Time Travel is no myth.)

            It is admirable for a man of high positions even considered by many to be almost divine and infallible at that to speak his mind. He struck the last of the coffin’s nail that will bury Catholicism in the next millennium. He preferred Darwin to Adam and Eve and consigned the Garden of Eden to the land of fairies and fables. His name is John Paul II.

            Once upon a time, a boy was born in Arabia. He was descended from Kedar, one of the 12 sons of Prophet Ishmael who lived in the desert of Paran. It is now known as Hijjas from where the word Hajj (Pilgrimage) was derived. His name was Muhammad, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. His heart was weak. He was orphaned at a very early age. He was frail and sickly. A good-hearted family took him to a village where the climate was tender to his heart. The angels came and repaired his failing heart. The surgical scar on his back was interpreted as the mark of prophethood by Muslims.

            A Christian monk named Al Bahira (the real name was Georges) was known to have told the story of how while traveling from the Sinai to Damascus; he saw a strange cloud from a distance. He followed it to satisfy his curiosity and in doing so, he caught up with the caravan the cloud was shielding from the heat of the sun. This was how he met the 12-year old Muhammad with a lump or mole or scar on his back just below the left scapula. Georges told Abu Talib, the boy’s uncle to look after the boy because he was going to be a great leader of men.

            In another version, Abu Talib asked the monk how he knew about this and he replied: “While I was following your caravan, I noticed the trees on both sides of the route were bending or bowing in your direction. The trees will only do that in the presence of a prophet. You must protect the boy from the Jews in Syria. It is better if you send him back to Mecca.” The uncle did with few of his men.

            Muhammad grew up to be a man of wisdom. The people called him ‘Al Ameen Al Sadik’ (faithful and true). Friends described him as extremely generous, tender, kind and loving. At about the age of forty, the angel Gabriel spoke to him in one of the mountains of Paran. He was given a mission for God, made a prophet and the Holy Qur’an was revealed to him in parts.

            Bible Habakkuk 3:3 “God came from Timan (Sinai) and the Holy one from Paran (Hijjas)…” and in Isaiah 42:1 “Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one whom I delight; I will put my spirit on him and he will bring justice to the nation. He will not shout or cry out, or raise his voice in the street. A bruised reed he will not break and smoldering wick he will not snuff out. In faithfulness he will bring forth justice; he will not falter or be discouraged till he establishes justice on Earth. In his law, the Islands will put their hope…Let the desert and its towns raise their voices; Let the settlements where Kedar lives rejoice. Let the people of Selah sing for joy. Let them shout from the mountaintops; let them give glory to the Lord and proclaim his praise in the Islands. The Lord will march out like a mighty man, like a warrior he will stir up his zeal, with a shout, he will raise the battle cry and will triumph over his enemies.”

            Isaiah 42 above is a very brief prophecy that foretold the coming of the prophet from Arabia.

Early Muslims were persecuted in Mecca but the prophet was a non-violent man. He endured the cruelties of the unbelievers. Friends and relatives were murdered. He was stoned in another place but he endured it all. He sent his followers to Abyssinia to seek protection under a Christian king. Thirteen years later, he had to escape to Medina. Only after he received a word from God to fight back and proclaim justice to the world did he marshal the Muslim armies from one victory to another.

The great empires of the time succumbed one after another exactly as foretold by Isaiah in 42:13 - “The Lord will march out like a mighty man, like a warrior he will stir up his zeal, with a shout he will raise the battle cry and will triumph over his enemies.” The shouts at the mountaintops where the sons of Kedar live echoed through all the corners of the planet. In the standard version of the Bible, Isaiah 42 is entitled; “a new song for the Lord” which is the recitation of the Holy Qur’an that was revealed to the prophet.

[Christians believe that Isaiah 42 is referring to Jesus which is ridiculous because this prophecy refers to the generations of Kedar; Ishmael’s second son from whom the prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was descended.]

KEDAR: (COPY PASTE FROM THE BIBLE DICTIONARY)

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Dark-skinned, the second son of Ishmael (Genesis 25:13).
It is the name for the nomadic tribes of Arabs, the Bedouins generally (Isaiah 21:16; 42:11; 60:7; Jeremiah 2:10; Ezek. 27:21), who dwelt in the north-west of Arabia. They lived in black hair-tents (Cant. 1:5). To "dwell in the tents of Kedar" was to be cut off from the worship of the true God (Psalm 120:5). The Kedarites suffered at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar (Jeremiah 49:28, 29).

Some years after he received the word of prophethood, God summoned him to heaven. All the prophets from Adam (first) to Muhammad (last), May peace and blessings of Allah be upon them all, were summoned before God. They came from different places in time.

To be continued…