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Part One: The children of
Abraham
ISLAM IS NO "EVIL
EMPIRE"
Atef al-Ghamri writes in the newspaper Al-Ahram, Cairo, Egypt...
"The Muslims are coming." The cry-- a rewording of the cold-war
formula "the Russians are coming"-- hovers over Western public opinion.
While the warning reverberates to a certain degree throughout the West, it
is particularly strident in the United States. Dan Quayle warned of the
"threat of Islamic Fundamentalist extremism and likened it to Nazism and
Communism. In the press, dozens of articles and analyses, speak of
"Islam's war against the West" and link the words "terrorism" and "Islamic
Fundamentalism" as if they were synonymous.
Confronting the anti-Islam campaign is not easy. There are two ways
to portray Islam. The easy way is to present it as the monolithic
historical enemy of the West. The hard way is to refrain from these
ready-made clichés and to engage in some sound realistic analysis. Only
the second way will reveal the distortion at the core of the Western view
which holds that Islam is nothing more than Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini,
Libya's Muammar Qadaffi, and terrorism.
The anti-Islam campaign has political roots as well. For the West,
particularly the United States, the need for an "enemy" to replace the
Soviet specter is, to a large degree, an economic imperative. The specter
of an enemy incites national passions that support the large defense
budgets, high quotas of arms production, and military intervention abroad.
May I suggest that you set aside all but one of your pre-suppositions
as you read this book. The only one which we cannot set aside is this,
"The Word of God, the Bible, is the only revelation of the Truth which we
can totally trust." What you have been told about man and his behavior,
during your lifetime, is flawed by the motives of the ones who delivered
the information to you.
I invite you to examine all of the statements in this book by God's
Holy Word and the references given. I trust your conclusions far more than
I trust the so-called "scholars" and "experts" who propagandize us through
the media. I am also willing to hear your response if it is supported by
God's Word.
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To see the Arab we are NOT talking about in Chapter One and Two,
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CHAPTER
ONE:
Isaac's Older Brother
Whenever the sky is falling it must be blamed on either a
Fundamentalist Muslim or a Fundamentalist Christian, right? The World
trade center could not have been blown up by the CIA, the IRA, or someone
trying to frighten President Clinton by blowing up the limousine he would
have used on a visit to New York City. But no, it had to be Muslims. God
and history are much gentler with the Arabs than we are, so we open the
Bible to see how Jehovah loved Ishmael, who was one of the biblical
descendants of father Abraham-- the father of the Arab people.
Before we look at the origin of the Arab people I hear a question. You
ask, "why start with the Arabs?" Answer: Islam claims that its roots start
with Abraham and his oldest son, Ishmael, then those roots come down
through Moses and the Old Testament, through the "prophet" Jesus, to
arrive in the last prophet Muhammed and Mecca in 625 AD. Also, the Koran
is an Arabic book in its pure form, and wherever Islam goes the Arab
mystique goes and conquers culturally. One third of the world's Arabs, 247
tribes, live in North Africa alone and speak Arabic and French.
(FOOTNOTE 2: 57 / 56 / 1698; 104 / 5 / 212) Indeed, "Arabia,"
in rather large numbers, extends as far as Dearborn, Michigan and
Birmingham, England.
Who is an Arab?
First, the Arab of the Bible is a descendent of Abraham and Ishmael in
northern Arabia or of Joktan in southern Arabia. Joktan was the
great-great-great granduncle of Abraham. The Arabs briefly ruled Egypt,
but they have never themselves been invaded or diluted since ancient
times. (FOOTNOTE 3: 160 / 90-92 / 1767-1768) So the
Arabs are as Semitic as any Jew, and the southern Arabs are descended from
a line closer to Shem than the Jews. (FOOTNOTE 4: Genesis 10:22-31;
I Chronicles 1:18-27) Arab bashing is as antisemitic as Jew bashing since
both Isaac and his older brother Ishmael descended from Abraham and Shem,
father of all Semitic people! In chapter two we will show that the Arabs
are still largely Ishmaelites.
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Enter Ishmael
We find that the Bible gives the best account of the beginning of the
Arab people. The following is from Genesis 16:1-16 in the King
James Bible, the only Bible used in this book. Please read carefully, and
refer back to this Bible text during the following discussion. The
alphabetical letters in parenthesis are the outline for the discussion to
follow:
Genesis 16:1-16, Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and
she had an handmaid, [ a ] an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. And Sarai
said unto Abram, (Abram was Abraham's nam before God changed it to
Abraham.) Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray
thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And
Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar
her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of
Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
[ b ] And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw
that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. And Sarai
said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy
bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her
eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee. But Abram said unto Sarai,
Behold, thy maid is in thine hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when
Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face. [ c ] And the
angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by
the fountain in the way to Shur. And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence
camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face
of my mistress Sarai. And the angel of the LORD said unto her, [ d ]
Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
And the angel of the LORD said unto her, [ e ] I will multiply thy
seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. And the
angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child and shalt
bear a son, [ f ] and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath
heard thy affliction. And [ g ] he will be a wild man; [ h ] his hand will
be against every man, [ i ] and every man's hand against him; [ j ] and he
shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. [ k ] And she called the
name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said,
Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? Wherefore the well was
called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
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[ l ] And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name,
which Hagar bare, Ishmael. And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when
Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
Now we discuss the text in detail:
[ a ] "An Egyptian whose name was Hagar" The mother of the
Arabs is an Egyptian. But, according to the Bible, the blood line is
decided by the father, as can be seen in all of the genealogies of the
Bible, and in the blood line of The Lord Jesus Christ, He is Lord. The
modern notion promoted by Zionists, that the mother decides Jewishness, is
a very recent attempt to avoid the lost genealogies of Jewishness through
the father which destroys a Jew's claim to the land or to the priesthood
according to the Old Testament (see the Bible, Ezra). So, Ishmael is
solidly Semitic in father Abraham, and the Arabs have every right to this
distinction.
[ b ] "And he (Abraham) went in unto Hagar, and she
conceived" Abraham did not break the law of the land when he
took Hagar from Sarai. The code of Hammurabi allowed for this, and that
was the civil law under which Abraham lived. Islamic law would permit this
also according to Muhammed's example of using concubines, but God had
instituted a higher law. The first man Adam had verbally given the
doctrine of marriage when God gave Adam his wife named Eve:
Adam said in The Bible, Genesis 2:23-24, ...This is now bone of my
bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was
taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
In Matthew 19:5 Jesus quoted Adam and said that the two (not 11 as with
Muhammed) shall become one flesh. So Abraham violated this doctrine and
had a son by Hagar, and the jealousy which followed was exceeded only by
the jealousy among the wives of Muhammed 2500 years later! (FOOTNOTE 5:
34 / 172 / 35; 133 / 280-283 / 1489-1490; Koran 33:37; also vs.
50-51) God showed mercy on Abraham and did not punish him, but because God
wanted his plan followed, he told Abraham to start over again and have a
son by Sarai, his "one flesh" wife.
[ c ] "The angel of the Lord found her (Hagar)" The
Lord Jesus Christ, He is Lord, is known as the angel of the Lord in the
Old Testament. He appeared to the mother of the Arab race to stop her from
fleeing. Why go back to Abraham's tents?
[ d ] "Return to thy mistress..." Jehovah God wanted
Ishmael to have in his body the same mark of anointing that every Jew
would have-- circumcision:
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Genesis 17:23-26, And Abraham (God changed his name) took
Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were
bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and
circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had
said unto him. And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. And Ishmael his son was thirteen
years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. In the
selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
Since Ishmael was thirteen years old, we could say that he was
circumcised on his Bar-mitzvah. We also know that if Abraham, who was a
righteous man, would circumcise Ishmael, he would certainly tell him who
Jehovah was and how to worship Him. Later in the book you will realize
that Ishmael also left Abraham with God's true name on him and in his
mouth.
[ e ] Ishmael's "seed (descendants)... shall not be numbered
for multitude" God promised Hagar that Ishmael's Arab race would
multiply beyond counting. This is true to this day, 2500 years later, with
the whole of the Middle East and North Africa being Arabized. In the
Middle East, only Israel is not Arab! If this had not happened, God would
be a liar. Pity the small souls who try to say that the Arabs of today are
some hybrid from elsewhere. These writers have opened debate with God.
They ought to read their Bible instead of Mother Goose. (See Appendix No.
One.)
[ f ] "...thou...shalt call his name Ishmael" Ishmael was
named by God! His name means "God hears." There were only about 20 men in
the Bible who were named by God, and Ishmael is a beautiful name. It is a
name of mercy, and it is NOT "Ishma'allah".
Dear reader, you might as well know where we are headed. Allah was not
the name that was in Abraham's or Ishmael's mouth. "El" was in the first
Arab's name, Ishma-EL, and only a few of the patriarchs of Israel, such as
Eli, Elijah. Elisha, and Samu-el, could boast of that distinction.
So, it is the height of anti-Semitism for an Aryan American or mongrel
Zionist Germanic Jew to attack the Arabs as if they are alien to the
Jewish world. If you get an old book from the library on Palestine, one
with the steel block etchings, you will see that in older times the Jews
and Arabs looked very much alike. This is not so today. Many of the
modern Jews from Europe, or Zionists, look like Aryans and the white race.
More later on them. (FOOTNOTE 6: 157 / 140-152 / 1883-1890; The New Jewish
Encyclopedia, Behrman House, 1962 Browse through this book looking at the
Jews from Europe, then turn to p. 483 and look at the Yemenite Jews. They
look like Arabs. The Jews of Europe are 2500 years [and a lot of mixed
blood] removed from Israel.)
[ g ] "and he (Ishmael) will be a wild man" The
modern Bible versions prefer "wild ass" or "donkey." There is no
justification for this except in the mind of anti-Semitic Bible mutilators
who are really thinking "jack-ass." This is why we only use the King James
Bible. It is the Bible that loves Arabs, Jews, and all men in the name of
Jesus, He is Lord.
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Arabs are "wild" in that they cannot be tamed. To many ancient and
modern Arabs, war and fighting is good recreation. It may be fierce in the
morning, and by evening all participants will sit down to coffee. We in
the white race could learn to get over our wars so quickly.
Arabs even find ways to go to war without really trying to kill anyone.
(FOOTNOTE 7: 103 / 18-19 / 1684) Those who have studied the
Middle East know that an Arab can be very loyal to his friends and show
gracious hospitality in a way unknown in the West, but don't try to
overpower him or subject him. You will suffer for it, even if his grandson
has to even the score many years later. World leaders who wage war on
Arabs must be very careful from then on for double crossing Saddam
Hussein, Ghadaffi, etc. Ishmael was the untamable father of this "wild"
trait that Arabs have guarded for 3000 years. In our judgment of "wild"
Arabs, let us not forget our jolly Anglo Saxon history. Our forefathers
were not always quite as gentle as the Oxford club would have us to
believe!
[ h ] "His hand will be against every man" The Arabs have
a proverb, "I and my brothers and my cousins against the stranger; I and
my brothers against my cousin; I, against my brothers." Living in the
deserts of Arabia for all those years required the Arab to be strong in
self-defense. There were no police, so justice was, and still is, by
revenge. To forgo revenge would mean to be a coward and lose authority in
one's acre, and the whole of Arabia is every Arab's acre to claim if he
can take it. The royal family of Saudi Arabia is simply a 1990s version of
some ordinary wandering Bedhoin, the Bani Saud, who rode out of the past
and who conquered best. Anwar Sadat found out the hard way, as did King
Faisal, that Arabs still don't like to be humbled. This is also why the
Arab always extends the right hand to serve or greet his guests in order
to show that he has no malice.
[ i ] "Every man's hand is against him (the Arabs)"
No empire has ever successfully subjected the Arabs. The Persians
had a brief hold on Saba but lost it quickly. Rommel, the German WW II
commander, known as "the desert fox," found out that the Arabs win in the
end. Germany left no trace of their time in North Africa except hulks of
rusting tanks and Duesenburgs.
The British tried to conquer Egypt, and the result was that Arabia
conquered England. How? Emin Pasha was supposed to be German, but he
became so Arabized that no Europeans could be certain of his loyalties.
The Englishman, Lawrence of Arabia, turned Arab to the core, and today
Islam is conquering Great Britain where they have made many converts
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to Islam and built the world's second grandest mosque. I say old man,
who conquers whom?
The crusaders of the Roman Catholic Church learned how it feels to get
whipped by Muslims when the Turks took back what the Pope took from them.
(FOOTNOTE8 : Mediaeval and Modern History, Philip Van Ness Myers,
Ginn & Co, 1885, p. 121-146, 164, 168.) The US Military found out how
silly an Arab can make you look when they bombed 200 of Saddam Hussein's
plastic decoy scud missiles. US intelligence also had quite a time trying
to figure out which of the five Saddams was the real one. (Inside
information from Arab friends)
Islam has also shown us the zeal of the Arab to survive in its doctrine
of Jihad, or holy war. Some have called Jihad the sixth pillar of Islam,
but this trait of the Arabs, which was plagiarized by Muhammed in 625 AD
as a doctrine of Islam, was prophesied by Jehovah in 2500 BC to Hagar.
[ j ] "He shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren"
The "ALL" clearly means that Isaac will be permanently a
neighbor to Ishmael, modern Arab bashers notwithstanding! It is appalling
to hear the slur "sand nigger" coming from those who claimed that they
rescued Kuwait during Desert Storm. One white racist, Pastor N__ in
Detroit, told me that I would have to just get used to this prejudice.
Well, I won't, nor should he, and shame on any Christian who will not
resist this openly.
We mentioned Joktan earlier. It is sometimes hard today to be certain
if an Arab is descended from Joktan or Ishmael, but there is no doubt
about Arabness. Joktan had thirteen sons, Ishmael had twelve, and Jacob
had twelve. It seems that Jehovah was dividing up these families to be
sure they shared the Semitic acres He assigned to them.
I hear you Bible "scholars." Yes, God gave the covenanted land to
Abraham, but God never allowed the Jews to conquer or destroy the
Ishmaelites. The fact is, they lived together very well. When Abraham
died, Isaac and Ishmael had no trouble burying their father in family
unity, (Genesis 25:8-9). David's camel herder was an Ishmaelite, (I
Chronicles 27:39.) Also, Arabs, the Rechabites, who were faithful to the
teachings of their father, Jonadab, refused to drink wine and were used by
Jehovah as a model of faithfulness and as an accusation against Judah
(Jeremiah 35).
In recent centuries Jews and Arabs have lived together and gotten along
very well for long periods. The present history of Israel has
changed this, but in Baghdad, Jews used to pass dishes across the street
to their Arab neighbors on Yom Kippur, while Arab Muslims sent food to
their Jewish neighbors on Eid.
During 700 to 900 AD, the Muslim Sheik of Baghdad and the Jewish
Exilarch would spend long evenings
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drinking coffee and discussing Jewish and Islamic theology. This was
also true in Palestine up to 1947 when real Jews were "convinced" by
Zionist terrorists to drop these courtesies to Arabs.
The Jewish and Arab tolerance for each other is seen in the northern
suburbs of Detroit, Michigan where you find the Arabs in Southfield right
next to the Jews in Royal Oak, and there is a lot more tolerance than the
media portrays. Again, the talking heads of TV give you all of your
pictures from the heat of the intifada struggle in Israel. For many years
a Jew dominated the trade in Taima, a town and Oasis in northern Arabia
which was named for its founder, Tema, a son of Ishmael. But they didn't
have TV back then, so we missed that one!
[ k ] "she (Hagar) called the name of the Lord... thou God
seest me" Hagar gave the name of Jehovah to a place in Israel,
Beerlahairoi. Again, this shows that the events of Abraham's life include
the Arabs without any reservations by God. If God was angry at Hagar and
Ishmael He certainly wouldn't tolerate this Egyptian girl using his name
so freely. Get used to it, God has never been mad at the Arabs! Jesus died
for them and delights to see an Arab repent and be converted.
[ l ] "Hagar bare Abram a son (Ishmael)" Ishmael
was the elder brother of Isaac, yet today the Arabs are pictured by
Zionists as the rotten little brats of the Middle East. When the
Euro-Zionists came into Palestine they killed off whole villages of Arabs
who never resisted. Zionists told the Arabs they would be safe if they
abandoned their homes and lived in the hills, then they killed the Arabs
before they got out of town. (FOOTNOTE 9: 19 / 36-53 / shelf )
Today these Zionists tell gullible Baptist preachers who visit Israel
that Zionist Jews planted the 200 year old orchards in Israel. These
preachers come back to their churches in Lynchburg, Virginia with a case
of the warm fuzzies, repeat the lies the Israeli tour guides told them,
and say such stupid things as, "I am a Zionist." Beware of the talking
heads who took a guided tour to Israel.
The explanation for the Zionist brutality, and the Intifada it
inspired, is that Satan is trying to inspire both Jews and Arabs to
self-destruct so that Messiah Jesus Christ cannot restore these two
families in His coming kingdom. More about this later. Satan is also using
the United States to fuel this horror by arming both sides. It was not
always this way in the past.
Before we go on to God's promises to Abraham you might be interested to
learn how an Arab determines if he is a true Arab.
First, he must speak Arabic. This may be classical Arabic or
some clan tongue, but it is essential. The exception would be second
generation Arab children of immigrants living outside of the Middle East.
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Second, a true Arab must have been brought up in an Arab
culture, even if it is transplanted to Dearborn, Michigan or Birmingham,
England.
Third, he must live in an Arab country or enclave in another
country.
Fourth, He must believe in Muhammed's teachings. The exception
is the Arab Catholic, such as Tariq Aziz in the Iraqi government, Coptic
Christians in Egypt, and Palestinian "Christians" who are considered
Arabs.
Fifth, he must cherish the mystique of the Arabia of the past
and the notion of "the Arab Nation" now.
Sixth, he must have a prejudiced preference for members of other
Arab nations. This shows up clearly in the disdain that Arabs have for
Iranians and Black Muslims, in spite of the fact that they are Muslims.
Exceptions to the above rules can be made, but if one falls down in two or
three points, then one is seen by Arabs as not truly an Arab. (FOOTNOTE
10: 121 / 13 / 1708)
There have even been a few whites, like Lawrence of Arabia and Emin
Pasha, who dissolved so well into Arabness that they were considered Arab
by their Arab friends, but they had to be in Arab lands to experience
this.
"O that Ishmael might live before thee"
We now look at God's promises to Abraham for Ishmael. All of us would
do well to notice how Abraham and God loved Ishmael, the father of the
Arabs:
Genesis 17:18-21, And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might
live before thee! [ a ] And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son
indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: [ b ] and I will establish my
covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after
him. [ c ] And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed
him, and [ d ] will make him fruitful, [ e ] and will multiply him
exceedingly; [ f ] twelve princes shall he beget, [ g ] and I will make
him a great nation. But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which
Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
Now, we discuss the text in detail:
[ a ] "And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son..."
The father of the Jews had only one son at this point. He loved
Ishmael, and he hoped that he had gotten the promised son of the covenant.
But, he used a human rather than holy method, so God could not give
Ishmael the covenant.
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[ b ] "but my covenant will I establish with Isaac" God
agreed to bless Ishmael. Arab revisionist writers have reversed this to
make Ishmael the one to receive the covenant. This is clearly absurd when
we remember that Jesus, who offered the kingdom to Israel, was a Jew, and
there is no Arab Madhi, or Messiah, in the Bible as claimed in the Koran.
So, we all have to learn to live where God has put us, but you Arab
readers, along with your Jewish half-brothers, still have, from God, a
more glorious promise of the future than the rest of the world!
[ c ] "As for Ishmael... I have blessed him." How had God
blessed Ishmael? He speaks in the present perfect tense as though it is
accomplished.
First, in God's sovereignty, He had determined this from
eternity past because He predestined all things.
Second, God had blessed Ishmael for Hagar's sake, as we read
earlier. God elected to respond to Hagar BEFORE he responded to Abraham.
Please read that again-- you who think God hates Arabs.
[ d ] "I... will make him fruitful" The Arabs have given
much to the world. While the white hordes of Europe were heaving up great
blocks of stone at Stonehenge in honor of evil spirits, the Arabs were
developing medicine and a mathematics system which later made an antique
of the Roman system.
This was the math base for the recent industrial and computer
revolution. The Arabs were great artists when the greatest art talent of
the white race was snorting sour beer in Bavaria. The great Jewish writers
of the Middle Ages who lived in Spain wrote in Arabic because it was the
language of culture in Spain, and the Jewish scholar, Moses Maimonides,
did most of his writing in Arabic.
The Arabs brought the world coffee, and God gave them 70% of the
world's oil. Is it not peculiar how the world consumes and begs for their
oil while they gripe about the Arabs getting rich off of them? White
supremacists just cannot bear to enrich these fruitful Ishmaelites.
Dr. Fakouri, Director of the International Institute in Detroit, had
prepared for me a grand tour of the Arab community one day, and what
hospitality her people showed to me! She pointed out that the zero
did not exist in the world until the Arabs developed it. Without the zero,
modern math would be impossible, and the lack of binary math would totally
prevent the use of the computer. We Americans could not all live in debt
if we had no zero to tell us when we had crossed from credit to a debit,
right? Also, we would never get a rocket to the moon.
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1- ??
So, you see, the talking heads had you in fits over the Arabs. In fact,
the Arabs are very much in the interest of Jehovah who fulfills prophecy
in them to this hour. Their fruitfulness has blessed us all. By the way,
when you call the sheriff to rescue you from trouble, remember that his
title came from Arabia.
[ e ] "I... will multiply him (Ishmael) exceedingly."
From this small start in Genesis 17 we see that the Arab world has
expanded to cover twentyone nations today from the Iranian border (Iran is
not Semitic but Aryan or white race)
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to Morocco and from Lebanon to Djibouti in the Horn of Africa. Because
of Islam, Arabization reaches out to the Philippine Islands, Indonesia,
China, Zanzibar, Liverpool, and New York City.
[ f ] Twelve princes shall he beget" The twelve princes of
Ishmael balance the twelve sons of Jacob. Familywise, neither Arab nor Jew
is superior, and it is obvious that God did this on purpose. The covenant
of God for the Jews is not because of them, rather; it is in spite of them
and because they were a small people (Deuteronomy 7:7). Several of
Ishmael's twelve princes are with us to this day in tribal and place names
in northern Arabia.
Let us look at the Arab genealogy found in the Bible, Genesis 25:13
- 16, And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names,
according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and
Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, Hadar,
and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah: These are the sons of Ishmael, and
these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve
princes according to their nations.
Nebajoth, father of the Nabataeans, settled in northern Arabia. Arabs
conquered Egypt as the "Shepherd Kings," where God used them to sustain
Jacob and the Jews in Goshen, and they have remained in northern Arabia
ever since. In the next chapter we see how Nebajoth shows up at Messiah's
altar in the future kingdom with his brother Kedar. Dumah has been a
town or settled area for all these centuries. Tema settled in the biggest
oasis in Arabia, now called Taima. It is still thriving, and it figures
very importantly in the Great Tribulation and in the plans of the coming
of Messiah. Bible study reveals much more about these twelve sons and
their place in history.
[ g ] "I will make him a great nation." As the Jews are a
nation of twelve tribes, the Arabs are also a nation of twelve tribes, in
the Old Testament, today, and in Messiah's Kingdom. Are Ishmael's people
still a "nation?" If not, God lied. Anyone who has studied the Arab mind
and politics knows that all of the Arab national leaders expound on and on
about "The Arab Nation." No other group of nations talks this way. Shut
off from the outside world by the sea and the peril of the desert around
them, the Arabs are the purest race in the world, even purer than the
Jews, many of whom have blond hair and blue eyes. (FOOTNOTE 11: 160
/ 90 / 1768)
To illustrate their retention of national heritage from ancient roots
and customs, Arab hospitality resembles father Abraham's hospitality much
better than that of the Jews of today. Why? The Arabs did not spend 2500
years living with war loving Germans like the Zionist Jews did. (FOOTNOTE
12: 63 / 7698 / 763; Genesis 18)
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This prophecy that Ishmael would be a nation explains the obsession
Arabs have today for unity as "the Arab nation." (FOOTNOTE 13: 121 /
204-206 / shelf) There are always two or three Arab leaders who are
convinced that they are Allah's choice to lead the "Arab nation." Whether
the Caliph or Saladin in the past along with the great Sultan of Oman, or,
more recently, Nasser, Arafat, Ghadaffi, the Ayatollah (a white man),
Assad, or Saddam Hussein, it never quite seems to happen.
The Arabs dream of one big nation from Baghdad to Morocco and Khartoum
to Beirut. The presence of Israel now adds focus to this, but "the Arab
nation" is not based in Jew hatred as promoted by modern propaganda. Long
ago, God told Abraham that Ishmael would think this way. Prophecy
fulfilled is so encouraging to the Bible believer. Does this help you to
believe Jehovah loves the Arabs, and that He keeps His promises for
thousands of years? Dear Arab and Muslim friend, Al Koran has no such
encouragement for you. Only the God of Abraham and his true Bible
believers are the friends of the Arabs and the Jews without prejudice.
In conclusion:
It is peculiar how people both love and hate the Arabs. These wild
people from Arabia put a theatre patron into a swoon when the plot
involves Arab sheiks on swift camels rescuing fair damsels. The riderless
camel goes from ugly to romantic if an Arab is perched on top. So, there
is something very uncivilized about two Massachusetts Liberals discussing
how to control the Middle East while they sip Arab coffee and stand on an
imported Arab rug.
We note that certain alleged scholars make claims in their books that
God is finished with the Arabs and that the modern Arabs are not the
descendants of Ishmael. This shows that these scholars are misguided
dunces, and I say that charitably. This is discussed in Appendix No.
One.
I now invite you to learn the promise of the future to any Arab who
will repent of his sin and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, Yitha, He is
Lord. (FOOTNOTE 14: I use "Yitha" as the Arab name of Jesus because
"Isa" is a pagan name from Syria which Muhammed picked up in his travels.
Isa had also become the name of the primal Hindu cult, the Isa Upanishads
in about 700 BC. We will discuss this more in Chapter Twenty
Two. "Yitha" is spiritual and Arabic equivalent of "Yeshua", the
Hebrew. ) Muhammed gave no prophecies or hope in the Koran concerning the
future of Arabs with their Messiah. Muhammed's Madhi, the Islamic Messiah,
would come back as an Arab and die. Rather; the Lord Jesus Christ is
coming back to restore both of Abraham's sons, Ishmael and Isaac, to their
ancient family heritage just as He promised.
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